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TABLE OF CONTENTS NEW MEXICO STOCKMAN Write or call: P.O. Box 7127 Albuquerque, New Mexico 87194 505/243-9515 Fax: 505/998-6236 E-mail: caren@aaalivestock.com Official publication of: n

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F E A T U R E S 11 The Last ... & Next 100 Years by Callie Gnatkowski Gibson 20 New Mexico Cattle Growers Association Past Presidents 24 Why Daylight Saving Time Isn’t About Ag & Doesn’t Help the Economy by Damine Mason, Dalorosa Farm 26 National Animal Disease Tracebility Now in Full Effect 38 Who Will Lead Us and Where? by Claudia Trueblood, Director, New Mexico Agricultural Leadership Program 40 Active Year-End Bodes Well for Dairy Industry 41 Dairy Producers of New Mexico Annual Convention 42 Producer Input Critical for FSA Programs by Callie Gnatkowski Gibson 53 What You Need to Know Before Selling Your Farm or Ranch by Sharon Niederman 55 New Mexico Youth Ranch Management Camp application deadline May 1 58 Looking Forward: What Does the Cattle Market Have in Store for 2015 by Brett Crosby, Custom Ag Solutions 59 NMSU Professor Receives Friend of Safety Award 64 NMSU’s Indian Livestock Days Early Registration

D E P A R T M E N T S 10 N.M. Cattle Growers’ Association President’s Letter by Pat Boone 28 N.M. CowBelles Jingle Jangle 36 News Update 44 Farm Bureau Minute by Mike White, New Mexico Farm & Livestock Bureau President 46 In Memoriam 48 New Mexico’s Old Times & Old Timers by Don Bullis 56 Aggie Notes by Doug Cram, NMSU Extension Fire Specialist 62 My Cowboy Heroes by Jim Olson 65 NMBC Bullhorn 67 N.M. Federal Lands Council News by Frank DuBois 69 Seedstock Guide 72 Market Place 74 Real Estate Guide 84 To The Point by Caren Cowan 87 The View From the Backside by Barry Denton 92 On The Edge of Common Sense by Baxter Black 96 Ad Index

ON T HE C OV E R . . . ‘Calendar’ by Joel Phillips. “This painting is reflective of my ultimate goal to express old, eternal truths inherent in ranching. There is a rhythm to the cowboy life that is pretty ancient, one that is profoundly tied to the seasons, years, months, weeks, and days, that provide a contour for the time we are given,” says Phillips. Joel was born in Midland, Texas and grew up drawing horses and cowboys. At an early age he announced to his parents that he was going to become an artist, and painting has remained his passion to this day. Later his family moved to California where he was introduced to a lineage of beautiful horsemanship. Today’s practitioners of this old California tradition, and their horses, continue to play a major role in his imagery. “The American west embodies a spirit and mystery that not only intrigues and inspires me, but always seems to require a response.” APRIL 2015

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NMCGA PRESIDENT-ELECT

‘’His grace is sufficient.........’’

Dear fellow NMCGA members and friends of agriculture,

t this writing it is four days before Easter. The grass is green and the cattle are working it pretty hard. It’s been a while since we had a winter and spring this wet in our country. The cattle market is good and our product is worth a lot of money. I pray it’s this good for all of you, and if it’s not soon will be.

We just wrapped up the 60 day legislative session in Santa Fe. After a slow start, with everyone getting adjusted to the leadership change in the House from Democrat to Republican, (the first in 60 years) they settled down and got to work. When the dust settled and the smoke cleared, not a whole lot of legislation made it through the whole process. In fact, out of 1,365 bills introduced, only 191 made it to the governor’s desk. Our ag group worked on several issues affecting our industry. SB 226 sought to define ownership of the stream beds under public waters, and to provide protection from the AG’s opinion of 2014. I have not heard if the governor has signed it or not. Bills to ban coyote calling contests, ban trapping, and bills to stop transport of horses to slaughter were stopped in committee. Two things I came out of this session absolutely sure of: there are a lot of people out there who don’t understand our way of life, and have no great concern for our private property rights, or our ability to make a living, pay our taxes, or provide food and fiber for a hungry world. Mark Twain once said, ‘’No man’s life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.’’ So true. We MUST remain diligent and continue the fight. As always, Caren and Michelle’s knowledge and leadership, and ability to navigate the difficult waters of New Mexico politics was most evident and impressive. Alicia Briggs did an outstanding job in her first year at the Legislature. A great big ‘thank you’ to them for always being there. Give them a hug and a word of thanks for all they do. We are blessed to have them on our side. Also, thanks to Phil, Bert, and Jose for filling in for me at times. I look forward to seeing you all in Ruidoso June 14-16 for our Mid-Year meeting. I am humbled and proud to be serving this great organization.

Until we meet again,

Pat Boone

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John Conniff Vice-President At Large, Las Cruces

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he changes that have taken place in the cattle business in New Mexico over the past 100 years are mindboggling. We’ve gone from people camped out with their cattle, struggling to stay alive; to electricity in almost every home and a cell phone that makes a world of information available in every pocket.

Producers have always done the best they could with what they had, but their range of options has grown – from the best bull they or their neighbors could raise to EPDs, artificial insemination and embryo transfer; from driving their cattle miles to ship them via train to online cattle auctions; and nutritional research that helps producers maximize their resources for a more efficient and profitable calf crop. Over the past century, too, the trade organization representing New Mexico’s cattle ranchers, the New Mexico Cattle Growers’ Association (NMCGA) has become a force to be reckoned with, working in the legislative, regulatory and legal arenas to preserve ranchers’ ability to stay on the land, run their operations as they see fit, and pass their traditions on to the next generation – in addition to keeping producers informed and promoting beef. The NMCGA celebrated its centennial in 2014. While proud of what has gotten them this far, the association has its eyes on the future – and according to Jeff Witte, New Mexico Secretary of Agriculture – there’s a lot to look forward to. A world market for beef, growing populations, and technology that’s making the world smaller all the time, make the possibilities almost endless for New Mexico’s cattle producers. “Cattle producers, like all agricultural people, play a vital role in feeding the world,” Witte said. “As the population grows, and the desire for a higher grade of protein grows, there will be more demand for beef. New Mexico, with its wide open spaces, is in a great position to fill that need.” Growing economies and increasing incomes worldwide will create opportunities for other countries to increase their beef production, and Witte has no doubt

that the United States cattle industry will thrive. “When you consider that most of the world doesn’t eat beef, there is a huge potential for growth. The world of today has a tremendous capacity to produce. As the population grows, we will have to meet increasing demand for beef on the world scale.” People are starting to want to know where their food comes from, and that’s not something that is likely to change,

Witte said. “It seems to be a data-driven society. I think the buy-local movement will continue, but at some point that might mean a consumer in China or Korea knowing which ranch in central New Mexico produced their steak.” As the demand for beef increases worldwide, domestic consumers may also see some changes. “For so long, the United continued on page 12

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Cattle Growers bolo tie circa 1950. Found in a shop in Lemitar, New Mexico.

States has been the world leader in producing the highest quality, most abundant food in the world, but at the lowest cost to consumers. This has been good for the consumer, but as the world market continues to evolve there may be upward pressure at home.” For the livestock industry to remain strong into the future, strong leaders are needed, said Dr. Clay Mathis, Director of the King Ranch Institute for Ranch Management in Kingsville, Texas. “The industry needs to deliberately develop the next generation of leaders who are ready and equipped to lead the industry in the ever

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more complex agricultural business environment.” Today, perception is everything, “Individually and collectively, we have to commit to and accept responsibility for building consumer trust,” he said. “The issue is now social responsibility. We want our consumers to trust that we are not only producing a wholesome, safe product, but that it’s raised in a way that is acceptable to them. We have to help them understand how we manage our livestock, and why we do it the way that we do.” Ranchers’ individuality and independence helped build the industry, but there is value in working out differences behind the scenes. Mathis also stressed the importance of livestock producers speaking with a unified political voice. “We need to avoid mixed signals from the industry to lawmakers and state and national officials.” To get these things done, the NMCGA will need to focus on what has always made it strong – its people. The men, women and families who make up the NMCGA are hard-working, strong-minded, independent people. While each one may do things a little differently, they share a love for the land, their livestock and their way of life that is as strong today as when the Association was founded. “Probably the number one thing that has made the organization such a strong force for the past 100 years is the character and quality of the people involved,” said NMCGA President-elect Pat Boone. “Since the beginning, they cared not only about what happened to them, but what hap-

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pened to their neighbors, to the whole of the industry.” Today’s ranchers owe a big debt to those past leaders, said the Elida rancher. “You think about those men – Albert Mitchell, Bob Jones, Charlie Lee, Bud Eppers, Don Hofman – all those guys and more who saw the problems and were willing to engage, were willing to do what needed to be done to protect the industry.” “The primary thing that has helped us is that our members are part of the fabric of their communities,” agreed NMCGA President José Varela López. “As such, they are willing to dedicate a lot of time to building up those communities and building and advocating for the industry.” He also gives the staff a lot of credit. I have been a member for about 15 years, and during that time we have certainly been blessed with our Executive Director and other staff. They have all been part of the industry, so they understand what it is all about and give more time and effort than anyone else on our behalf,” he noted. “They make sure that the Association is out at the forefront letting people know how the cattle industry and the NMCGA help New Mexico, how ranchers care for the land and that beef is a healthy part of continued on page 14

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our diet.” “To stay strong,” he continued, “we need to be even more proactive in the future.” There is no shortage of issues to work on, but for him, making it possible for the next generation of ranchers to stay on the land is a priority. “We need to focus on the things that inhibit agricultural progression from one generation to the next,” Varela Lopez said. “We want to make sure we can keep young people in agriculture, and even attract new producers.” Historically, our members have not been good at letting the general public know how what we do benefits them, their food and their environment and that’s something that needs to change in the coming years. “We need to make that connection,” noted the La Cieneguilla rancher. “We’re not hard on land like they have been led to believe.” As consumers change, their perceptions and needs often change. “As consumers become more affluent, some are interested in grass-fed, organic beef, but the rest of the population wants cheap food, because that is what we have given

them. We have to help them understand that even if it is inexpensive, that doesn’t mean it is bad. It is something we take a lot of pride in producing.” To meet future demand, agriculture will need to feed even more people, he continued. “We will need to become even more efficient and productive than we are, and we have made huge progress in the past 100 years. We need to continue to embrace the technology and science that comes along, and help consumers see the need for those advances.” So many issues – wilderness, ESA, national monument designations, and forest management just to name a few – come down to conflicts over multiple use. Varela Lopez would also like to find a way for the NMCGA to work more productively with the environmental community on land management issues. “On some level, we need to figure out how to convince them that it is necessary to manage the land. They think you can preserve a landscape by protecting it, by keeping people and grazing off. We need to help them appreciate that management keeps land healthy, and that a growing, renewable resource needs to be harvested, that without any management it goes downhill and there’s

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nothing left to protect.” For Boone, fresh from New Mexico’s recent legislative session, the number one issue is private property rights. “Our property rights are under attack every single minute of every single day. These groups don’t care about our private property, they only care about their agenda. We have to be diligent – more than that we have to be on the offensive.” The Endangered Species Act (ESA) is another issue that ranchers and the NMCGA will have to deal with in the years continued on page 16

The Corn Family came to Roswell in 1878 from Kerrville, Texas. We’re proud of our family’s long and productive relationship with the New Mexico Cattle Growers’ Association.

Happy 100 th Anniversary New Mexico Cattle Growers As we look to the next hundred years and future generations of New Mexico ranchers, we can be confident that we are effectively represented by an association that understands the needs and goals of our industry and our families. Our sincere thanks to all who have sacrificed their time and energies to make the NMCGA a great and respected industry organization.

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Martin Van Buren Corn and his 12 sons. Top row, l to r: Martin, Robert, Waid, Lee, George, Jesse. Front row, l to r: Clarence, Poe, Martin V. Corn, Herbert and Roe. Insets: John, left & Charlie, right. Photograph circa 1914.

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to come. “They never let up, they just keep pushing,” Boone noted. “It seems like as soon as we get one species resolved, there are a dozen more staring us in the face, all with the potential to impact how our peo-

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ple make a living.” One of the most important things people can do for their own family ranches, and for the industry as a whole, is to get involved. “People have to step up,” he said. “If there was any time in history that people needed to get involved, it is now.” In addition to staying on top of the issues, it’s also important for producers to remember the role agriculture has played in our country’s history, said New Mexico State University student Klayton Bearup. “Agriculture is the reason we as a country have been able to do the things we do,” he said. “People have not had to worry about feeding themselves and their families, American farmers and ranchers have done that for them. So, they have been able to go out and become an astronaut or an engineer.” Bearup is a partner in Cameron Creek Show Calves, a past State FFA President and active in Collegiate Farm Bureau. The first step in encouraging young producers like himself, he said, is to reach out and emphasize the pride of being part of agriculture. “We need to showcase what we do, and educate young people who don’t know,” he said. “The majority of production agriculture started small. We need to

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of agriculture and the prosperity of our country intact.” Local groups, like CowBelles and in production.” county Farm Bureaus and Cattle GrowWorking together – both within trade ers, also have a big role to play, by suporganizations and across the industry – is porting producers, improving agriculthe key to keeping agriculture strong into ture’s public image, and preventing bad the next century, he said. “It’s not just us practices, Bearup explained. “If we can as individual farmers and ranchers, we police ourselves, and make sure people are need to bind together to keep the tradition doing things they way they should, we might be able to slow down the constant regulatory growth. Plus, when members of the public see producers doing something they shouldn’t, it’s not good for any of us.” Educating the public is also becoming increasingly important, he noted. “As producers, we need to work on our transparency with the public.” Agriculture has been part of New Mexico for hundreds of years, and maintaining that history and tradition for future generations is very important, The National Cattlemen’s Association honored NMCGA for Varela López explained.

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“Whether it’s someone like my family that came up 400 years ago, or those who came from the East many generations ago, we are all very tied to the land and our customs. We want to hand that down to our children.” More than anything else, ranchers are in the business because they love what they do and where they do it. Regardless of how things change in the cattle business, that connection to family and the land is something that will remain strong into the next century and beyond, as long as there are kids that love to help work cows and parents and grandparents willing to show n them how it’s done.

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Calvin Glenn Piños Altos Wm. Ray Morely Datil Victor Culberson Silver City T.E. Mitchell Albert Hugh L. Hodge Silver City C.M. O’Donel Bell Ranch Tom P. Talle Las Vegas

1914-1916 Calvin Glenn

1930-1932 Robert H. Royall

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1922-1924 Hugh L. Hodge

T.A. Spencer Carrizozo Robert H. Royall Tyrone Albert K. Mitchell Albert Lee S. Evans Marquez A.D. Brownfield Deming Oliver M. Lee Alamogordo Con W. Jackson Las Vegas

1938-1939 Oliver M. Lee

1946-1948 George A. Godfrey

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Many people mistakenly believe DST was instituted for farmers. But that’s not true. Farmers understand there’s only 24 hours in a day and, despite the gimmick, you can’t make it 25. In fact, agriculture has the only organized lobby against Daylight Saving Time. DST is particularly bad for livestock because animals get in a routine for such things as feeding and milking. Cows don’t understand human time — heck, they don’t even wear watches. Economy

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Time marches on, regardless of how we monitor it. That said, monkeying with the clocks every March to pretend it’s a time it’s not is akin to those people you know who purposely set their watches on the wrong time, telling you “I do this because I always run late.” There are 24 hours in a day. Period. Changing the clock every Spring is just a confusing encumbrance. Wanna save energy? Insulate your house. Wanna help Agriculture? Increase trade with booming Asian countries such as India and China — where, by the way, they don’t observe Daylight Saving Time. Wanna boost the economy? End welfare and unemployment so all those people who get paid to not work can finally buy a watch, set an alarm clock, and devote 40 hours to doing something productive. Without the burden of paying for those folks, the rest of us might get a few more hours per week to enjoy some n daylight. 24

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ssue Fatigue iSHoo/ fəˈ'teg/ (noun) extreme tiredness of a particular topic. I know it’s exhausting. Between your children, ailing parents, and 4-H/FFA/Church responsibilities, and oh ya – the ranch, it’s hard to find time to be politically involved. Plus is feels like your one comment, presentation, post, letter to the editor, or tweet couldn’t possibly make a difference. It’s easy to get cynical and decide that it’s all pre-determined by the powers that be and we just throw our hands in the air and say “Forget It!” But that’s defeatist thinking and defeatists didn’t win the West, or raise good chil-

dren, so let’s get busy. Let’s be encouraged by the “wins” we’ve been a part of. Remember when the Labor Department wanted to regulate how many hours our kids could work on the ranch and which chores they could do? We raised a fuss and got that proposal killed in a hurry. Your comments and calls to lawmakers make all the difference in the world. Or, last year when the New Mexico Legislature wanted to outlaw trapping including barn mice? You quickly shot that down. And more recently when you mounted an effective campaign against the EPA’s proposed “Waters of the U.S” rule that checked the federal govern-

ment’s overreach? Your activism is making a difference. But let’s say you are tired of constantly being on top of the issues, here’s a suggestion I heard from a law maker I admire (really!). Pick an issue. Just one issue that affects your family, ranch or farm, and then become an expert in it. Make it your cause célèbre. Post about it on your Facebook page, create a Google alert about it (www. google.com/alerts) so you are instantly notified anytime something happens with “your” issue. Become the go-to-gal for that issue. Local reporters will know who to call when it comes up. You can give updates on it at CowBelle meetings. Your county commissioner will call you to come testify at the county council meeting. You will own it! And too, you’ll make a valuable contribution to our agricultural community while not being overwhelmed. Speaking of owning an issue, how many of you have become Dietary Guidelines experts? Then you’ll know that the deadline for comment has been extended to May 8th. Please go here www.health.gov/ dietaryguidelines/dga2015/comments/ writeComments.aspx and explain why BEEF is part of a healthy diet and should be included in USDA’s nutrition recommendations. While you’re online you can jog over to www.newmexicocowbelles.org and take a look at our new website. It could use some tender loving care so if you’re a web design kind of person looking for an issue, feel free to volunteer! Thank you ladies, and I’m looking forward to seeing you at the District workshops where we’ll continue to Make a Difference for BEEF! – Dalene 575-649-0917 dalene.hodnett@gmailcom

Chamiza CowBelles March 5, 2015 – Before meeting, a short session to work on a project for upcoming district meeting occurred. The meeting was called to order at 11:40 a.m. by President Gloria Petersen at the home of Jodell Downs. There were nine members present. Minutes from the previous meeting were read and the treasurer’s report was given; both approved. Cathy reported Bank of the Southwest said group can avoid being charged a monthly service fee if sign up to have statement sent via email. The recipient has to be a signer on the accounts. Gloria agreed to receive the e-statements. Robbie and Cathy will audit the treasurer’s books on March 9. continued on page 29

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Cathy read a letter she sent to all locals’ presidents inviting them to district meeting. The remainder of the meeting was spent deciding on a menu and other details for the district meeting. A number of items have been gathered for goody bags. It was decided to bring all the items to next meeting, pack the goody bags, and leave them at Jodell’s. Therefore next meeting, April 2, will also be held at Jodell’s. Bring finger foods and/or desserts. Meeting adjourned at 12:50 p.m. Submitted by Cathy Pierce The Frisco CowBelles February meeting was held on the 16th. Group continued working on the plans for the Fourth of July Barbecue; Brisket dinner and dance. The group had a discussion on the Scholarship. The applications will be sent out to the schools soon. The Father’s Day picnic will be on Sunday, June 21. Bring own beef dish and a pot luck dish. Respectfully submitted by Martha A. Stewart, Secretary Frisco CowBelles Grant County Copper CowBelles March 10, 2015 – The regular monthly meeting was called to order by first Vice President, Courtney Sewell. The February minutes were approved as well as the Treasurer’s report. There was discussion and planning of the upcoming Shindig dinner dance. Lori and Kathy are finalizing the table decorations, the decorated hat contest and derby race contest were outlined and committee chairs appointed. Kim had the tickets ready for distribution to the members for sale along with posters. Pat announced that the Gierharts have framed and donated Shoofly prints for the scholarship part of the silent auction again this year. She will prepare a press release with a picture of the print. Registration forms were passed out for the District III meeting to be held in Lordsburg in April and McKeen Ranch Days dates were announced as April 21-22. Volunteers are needed for those two days. It was decided to make a donation to the Pat Nowlin Scholarship in memory of two members that passed recently, Dee Johnson and Helen Paterson. It was decided to hold the next meeting in April on Tuesday, the 7th instead of the 14th to give more time for last minute Shindig changes. Submitted by Pat Hunt. President Carolyn Chance convened the March 10, 2015 meeting of the Chuckwagon CowBelles at 10:30 a.m. Carolyn Chance asked Lindsey Hovden to serve as Secretary for the March meeting. The group welcomed Joyce Shaw’s guest, Carol Schwenn. The group also welcomed

Welda Grider as a new member, bringing members in attendance to 21 . . . BLACKJACK! Minutes of the February 10, 2015 meeting were approved as read. Vera Gibson served as Secretary for that meeting. Treasurer Vera Gibson gave a report and it was approved. It was decided to have “pass the hat” donations split chronologically with the amount collected from March 2015 through August of this year earmarked for FFA, and the amount from September 2015 through February 2016 to be donated to Horses for Heroes. Contact Carolyn Chance if would like further information on either. The District I meeting is April 16, 2015 in Elephant Butte. Registration is due by April 10, 2015. The Pat Nowlin Scholarship Application is due by April 15, 2015. Information was sent by Anne Ferguson, Chairman. Information sent was passed around to all members. Lyn Greene distributed new pages for the 2015 member’s information to all attending. She will mail copies to members who were not there. Chuckwagon CowBelles April 14, 2015 meeting will be held at the Farm Credit of NM Office: 5651 Balloon Fiesta Parkway NE, Albuquerque. Phone number is 505/884.1048, at 10:30 a.m. Max Wade, founder of Pumpkin Patch will be the speaker. Lunch will follow at the Sandia Casino Buffet – cost $10.95 each. Following adjournment the group enjoyed a program on tin work given by local artist Ann Ravenstone. Donations of were collected at this meeting to support FFA. Respectfully submitted, Lindsey Hovden Acting Secretary The meeting of the Otero CowBelles was held on March 5, 2015, at 11:40 a.m., at Pepper’s Grill, the President (Linda Lee) and Secretary (Kelly Knight) present. There were 17 members present and four guests, Grant, Rafe, Cord, and Cal Wold. The report of the Treasurer was received and placed on file. Estelle reported that two receipts for bills were received including a bill for the bags for the District IV CowBelles Workshop and a bill for $32.82 from Debi Rupe for expenses of the cooking demo at Mountain View Middle School. It was decided “to pay the $32.82 bill received from Debi”. It was decided to proceed to change bank institutions from Bank ’34 to Western Bank. The birthdays for the month of March were announced, the nomination deadline for Man of the Year is March 15, Roundhouse Feed March 19, and National Ag Day is March 18 and Debi suggested a group from Otero Cow-

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The New Mexico Cattle Growers’ Association has long been a big part of our family’s life. We offer our heartfelt appreciation to each of you for your involvement and your friendship over these many years. As the Association launches the second century of its history, we would like to say Thank You for all the joyful and meaningful memories you have given us.

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Conflict Experts Dispute Impact of Global Climate Change on National Security by DAVID O. WILLIAMS, WWW.REALVAIL.COM

lobal conflict experts say the Obama administration’s recent focus on climate change as a national security threat may be misguided. “The link between global warming and national security needs is tenuous at best, though the Arctic might be an exception, if [Russian President Vladimir] Putin continues his revanchist ways,” Harvard psychology professor and best-selling author Steven Pinker said in a recent e-mail interview. “Most wars have nothing to do with climate, and vice versa.” The Obama administration’s 2015 National Security Strategy emphasizes climate change as a long-term national security threat that must be balanced with more immediate concerns such as terrorism. In aninterview last month with Vox, Obama added that media tend to overstate terrorism as a threat compared to climate change. Joshua Goldstein, professor emeritus at American University and a political science research scholar at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, said in an e-mail interview said there’s a dubious connection between global climate change and armed conflict. “Climate change is a terrible crisis that needs all our attention, but it’s not really war that will be the problem we’ll have to deal with,” Goldstein wrote in an e-mail. “As for the U.S. government, it’s always going to be on the lookout for threats that justify ongoing high military budgets, even when violence is declining historically — though of course increasing modestly in the past five years [due to Syria]. “I think the officials genuinely think this is a threat they must prepare for, but I also suspect that if it wasn’t this, it would be something else.” A study released recently linked the ongoing war in Syria to a drought precipitated by climate change, but Goldstein says most extreme weather events and natural disasters — which are not all linked to climate effects — do not result in armed conflicts. “There is some evidence that drought was a factor in Syria and some other scattered cases,” Goldstein said. “But the 2004 tsunami actually seems to have helped end the war in Aceh [Indonesia] and didn’t create a new war. “The typhoon in the Philippines a year ago didn’t cause the war there to restart,” Goldstein added. “The terrible flooding in Eastern Europe a couple of years ago doesn’t seem to be connected to the Ukraine violence. In Somalia a few years ago there was a terrible drought and start of a famine, but it didn’t make the war worse — if anything, the opposite.” continued on page 37

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Pinker, whose 2012 bestselling book Better Angels of Our Nature concludes armed conflict around the globe is on the decline, has consistently rejected climate change and any resulting scarcity of natural resources as likely causes of major wars in the future. “Physical resources can be divided or traded, so compromises are always available; not so for psychological motives such as glory, fear, revenge, or ideology,” Pinker wrote in 2013. “There are many reasons to worry about climate change, but major war is probably not among them.” The Department of Defense in October released its Climate Change Adaption Roadmap, with then Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel writing, “Rising global temperatures, changing precipitation patterns, climbing sea levels, and more extreme weather events will intensify the challenges of global instability, hunger, poverty, and conflict.” Pinker, however, points to several studies by the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) that undermine the theory that climate change will lead to more armed conflicts.

“While population growth and density are associated with increased risks, the effects of land degradation and water scarcity are weak, negligible or insignificant,” one such PRIO report concludes. “The results indicate that the effects of political and economic factors far outweigh those

between local level demographic/environmental factors and conflict.” Nevertheless, a rising chorus of both active-duty and retired U.S. generals and admirals have sounded the global climate continued on page 38

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oil under there. “You think everyone will be out there with their warships fighting each other over the oil, but they didn’t,” Goldstein said. “You can’t pump oil when you’re fighting a war, so they yelled at each other for a couple of years and then they started drawing these lines on maps and pumping out the oil. It can be an impetus to conflict. It can also be an impetus for cooperation.” The author of Winning the War on War: The Decline of Armed Conflict Worldwide and the bestselling text book in its field, International Relations, Goldstein does acknowledge the significance of climate change — just not as a primary reason for increased conflict. “I think climate change is the big issue,” Goldstein said. “I may literally now stop studying war and try to go into climate change, because I just think it’s the big moral and practical issue of our generation — or my kids’ generation really. But not because it’s going to kill a lot of people in conflicts. People will starve, people will drown, but less so in conflict.”

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change alarm as it relates to military readiness. In a report last year (pdf) entitled National Security and the Accelerating Risks of Climate Change, 11 retired generals and admirals found that, “Fresh water, food, and energy are inextricably linked, and the choices made over how these finite resources will be produced, distributed, and used will have increasing security implications.” The former military experts also discussed the “melting of ‘old ice’ in the Arctic,” and wrote that the “United States and the international community are not prepared for the pace of change in the Arctic.” On the subject of major war over dwindling resources, Goldstein echoed Pinker at an event both attended in Denver last fall, hosted by the Colorado-based One Earth Future Foundation. “Fighting over resources is not necessarily the big driver of conflict in the 21st century,” Goldstein said, pointing to the example of the Caspian Sea soon after the breakup of the Soviet Union in early 1990s. “Suddenly, a bunch of countries were there bordering it, and they discovered a huge amount of

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to members for milk marketed were $10.9 billion in 2014, compared with $7.9 billion in 2013. The average 2014 price paid to members per hundredweight of milk was $24.17, compared with $20.15 in 2013. Cash distributed to members in 2014 totaled $28 million, with $8 million of allocated patronage dividends and $20 million in equity retirements. DFA continued to expand its commercial investments in 2014. The Cooperative’s Fluid Milk and Ice Cream Division acquired Oakhurst Dairy, a Portland, Maine-based company that processes milk, juice and fruit drinks. In 2014, DFA opened two new dairy ingredients plants. A facility in Fallon, Nev., is the first plant in the United States built to meet the specific needs of the global marketplace. In Linwood, N.Y., DFA opened its first facility built and operated in partnership with a group of individual farmer-members. DFA grew as a result of the merger in early 2014 with Dairylea Cooperative, a Northeast-based milk marketing cooperative with 1,200 members. The two cooperatives have enjoyed a successful partner relationship since DFA was formed in 1998.

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Consumers want to purchase food from sources they know will take care of animals, and operate in a way that is consistent with their values and expectations. Dairy farmers have a longstanding commitment to doing what is right. The National Dairy FARM Program: Farmers Assuring Responsible Management™ provides consistency and uniformity to best practices in animal care and quality assurance in the dairy industry. Third-Party Verification of the program’s content and execution helps ensure its validity and integrity to our customers and consumers. In 2014, FARM Program participation expanded with additional enrollment of cooperatives, proprietary processors and individual producers, which proactively demonstrates the dairy industry’s continued commitment to providing high-level care to dairy animals. Participation increased to more than 75 percent of the U.S. milk supply. National Dairy FARM Program: TM 2014 Year in Review The strength, scope and science-basis of the animal care program has been critical to help shape international initiatives on anicontinued on page 41

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tion (IDF). As of October 1, 2014 the FARM Program has 61 cooperatives and proprietary processors, and dozens of individual dairy producer participants. Select Milk Producers Inc. Accomplishes Merger

ing one unified co-op to the market, said CEO Mike McCloskey in a statement. The combined Select will continue to develop organic dairy products and support its customers’ needs. McCloskey says the merger will also increase their borrowing capacity, decrease financing costs, provide access to new markets and potentially expand the customer base. The two co-ops have their principal administrative offices in Artesia, New Mexico, and are managed by the same executive team. cows producing about 2 billion pounds of milk per year in Ohio, Indiana and Michigan. The merger will simplify Select’s marketing and branding by presenting one unified co-op to the market, said CEO Mike McCloskey in a statement. The combined Select will continue to develop organic dairy products and support its customers’ needs. McCloskey says the merger will also increase their borrowing capacity, decrease financing costs, provide access to new markets and potentially expand the customer base. The two co-ops have their principal administrative offices in Artesia, New Mexico, and are managed by the same execun tive team.

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programs, drought programs and other types of payments are tied to NASS data. In many cases, the triggers for payment come from the rates, yields and prices that producers are getting, and all of that comes from the NASS data. It also impacts and can limit where the agency can work and who qualifies for the program. “The whole deal with these Federal programs is, if you’re eligible, you ought to be eligible, not eliminated because of inaccurate information. A quick, off the cuff answer that may or may not be accurate can have a big impact,” he said. Last year, Bostwick pointed out, New Mexico took almost a 20 percent cut in Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) rates, which will end up costing producers between $1 million and $2 million each year for the next ten years, because the NASS data did not match what New Mexico submitted. “We sent in what we knew to be correct, but our numbers didn’t match up exactly with what producers reported to NASS. On the national level, they fell back on the NASS data. We do have some discretion, but if we can’t substantiate our data, we can’t do much.” “That’s why it’s important, why getting the right information to NASS is critical,” he continued. “It does make a difference, and can be pretty serious as far as the economy of the state of New Mexico.” It’s not just farmers who are impacted by these programs. NASS data is also collected on livestock operations, and is used to help set grazing rates and grazing periods. Entitlement programs, where the government paid just because you were there, are a thing of the past – you have to qualify. “Everything has to qualify, and

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ive of the most elite cattle producers and Brangus breeders were honored by the International Brangus Breeders Association (IBBA) for their outstanding achievements and contributions to the Brangus breed and the beef cattle industry. Year after year someone that personally knows the winner of the award presents it to them and addresses their contributions to the Brangus breed. The Pioneer Award recognizes an IBBA member, past or present, for his/her service, loyalty and contributions to the Brangus breed. Mr. Vern Suhn presented this award to the late David Schubert. There to accept the award on Mr. Schubert’s behalf was his nephew and his wife, Gordon and

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eral drainages, agricultural ponds, and isolated wetlands found in and near farms and ranches across the nation. The proposed rule defines terms like “tributary” and “adjacent” in ways that make it impossible for a typical farmer or ranchers to know whether the specific ditches or low areas at his or her farm will be deemed “waters of the U.S.” These definitions are certainly broad enough, however, to give regulators (and citizen plaintiffs) plenty of room to assert that such areas are subject to CWA jurisdiction. The proposed rule will give the agencies sweeping new authority to regulate land use, which they may exercise at will, or at the whim of a citizen plaintiff.

The Endangered Species Act (ESA) – provides a set of protections for species that have been listed as endangered or threatened and is administered by the Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) and the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS). Originally enacted in 1973, Congress envisioned a law which would protect species believed to be on the brink of extinction. When the law was enacted, there were 109 species listed for protection. Today, there are nearly 1,600 domestic species on the list, with 125 species considered as “candidates” for listing. Unfortunately, the ESA has failed at recovering and delisting species since its inception. Less than two percent of all listed species have been removed from ESA protection since 1973, and many of those are due to extinction or

“data error.” Immigration – U.S. agriculture faces a critical shortage of workers every year, as citizens are largely unwilling to engage in these rigorous activities and guestworker programs are unable to respond to the marketplace. This situation makes our farms and ranches less competitive with foreign farmers and less reliable for the American consumer. Securing a reliable and competent workforce for our nation’s farms and ranches is essential to agriculture and the U.S. economy. How can we as a state organization help to advance these priorities? By becoming actively involved. Call your local, state and national lawmaker. Write a letter to continued on page 57

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Horse Expo & Sale: April 18, 2015 • The Expo will consist of an open house, seminars, horsemanship clinics and presentations from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. followed by Horse sale • Continuing the tradition of selling high quality ranch-type Quarter Horses • Horse preview will start at 1:00 p.m. and sale will begin at 2:30 p.m. ~ Both the Cattle and Horse Expo will be held at the NMSU Horse Center, 400 W. Union Mesilla Park, NM ~ FOR CATTLE INFO CONTACT: L. Neil Burcham 575/646-2309 or Eric Scholljegerdes 575/646-1750 / ejs@nmsu.edu

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inMemoriam Dee Delk Johnson, 91, passed away at Gila Regional Medical Center on March 9, 2015, after a brief illness. Dee was born to George Delk and Annie Flury Delk at the family ranch near Santa Rita, New Mexico on July 23, 1923. She attended both New Mexico Western State Teachers College and New Mexico A&M (now NMSU) where she was a cheerleader. Dee married her husband Clint Johnson Jr. after his return from WWII and had one daughter. She ranched throughout her life in Silver City which was her passion to the last. She was dedicated to family history, local archeology, and enjoyed knitting. She was a founding member and once president of the Copper Cowbelles and was involved in other local organizations and was a friend to many. Dee is survived by her daughter, D’Aun West (Bert) of Silver City, NM, granddaughter Wendy Crisp (Brandon) and great-granddaughter Maggie Crisp of Silver City, NM. She is also survived by sister-in-law Betty McKinley of Albuquerque, NM and numerous nieces and nephews. Dee was preceded in death by her parents, her husband Clint Johnson Jr., as well as brother Forrest Delk, and his wife Gertrude of Santa Rita, and sister Aloha Burris and her husband Howard of Silver City, NM. There is no planned memorial service, yet donations can be made to Shriner’s Hospitals for Children. K’dyn Ross Brewer, 7, Roswell, passed to be with his Lord on March 9, 2015. He was born on June 22, 2007 to Chandra and Roper Brewer in Roswell. K’dyn grew up

outdoors and loved being outside with his mom, dad, sisters and many friends and relatives. K’dyn took to the life of a cowboy at a young age and planned on helping his dad on the cattle ranch when he grew up. In fact, he was quite a bit of help already at the age of 7. K’dyn was involved in many “play-day” events at local arenas. Everyone at those events couldn’t help but notice him in the crowd. Someone said recently, “Little K’dyn was so strong, so fearless and full of life. He was just so full of spunk and laughter. His skills in the saddle would put most men to shame.” K’dyn accepted Jesus into his life at a really young age and was very sensitive to the things of God. K’dyn was honored at Valley Christian Academy in 2014 for a character award for his love and compassion for others and the Lord. He is survived by his mother and father, Chandra and Roper Brewer , his loving sisters Kelsey and Makenzzye Brewer, his grandmother Jackye Brewer and his grandparents Stan and Cyndi Cogdill all of Roswell, NM. He was preceded in death by his grandfather S. Dean Brewer of Roswell. He is also survived by his aunt Tracye Brewer Burge, his cousins Shaye Nelson and Dallye Brewer Burge, his aunt and uncle April and Cory Cogdill and cousins Kiley, Elijah and Judah Cogdill all of Roswell. Those that knew him couldn’t help but love him. We will miss you good buddy! Bruce “Vonnie” Fields, 77, Canyon, Texas passed away on March 6, 2015. He was born on July 14, 1937 in Potter County to Bruce and Mildred Mashburn Fields. He graduated from Happy High

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he Albuquerque Indian School (AIS) served the educational needs of Southwestern Native Americans for just a bit more than 100 years; from 1881 to 1982. While much about the institution was controversial, it seems to have benefitted the Indian people much more that it harmed them. Major B. M. Thomas, United States Pueblo Indian Agent stationed in Santa Fe, proposed an Indian boarding school in 1878. There was much debate about where such a facility should be constructed, who should run it, and so forth. From the beginning, it should be noted, the Roman Catholic and the Presbyterian churches were at loggerheads over the matter. The latter group won out when the school opened on January 1, 1881, with the Presbyterian Reverend Sheldon Jackson in charge. AIS was housed in temporary quarters for about three years before it moved into a permanent facility located about a mile north of Albuquerque’s

Old Town (on what would become, and remain, Indian School Road). The superintendent by then was Professor R. W. D. Bryan, a native of New York. In his report of 1885, he wrote this: “The ultimate object of the Indian schools is … not so much the improvement of individuals as the gradual uplifting of the race. To this end it is important to guard against the formation of a wide gulf between parent and child, and to prevent the child from acquiring notions inconsistent with proper filial respect and duty. I am, therefore, anxious to have a local and neighborhood day school maintained; to have boarding schools multiplied within easy reach of their homes, so that the parents may often visit their homes.” One writer noted that in 1885, “The school was very popular with the Indians.” In May 1889, William B. Creager was appointed superintendent, and with him came the first major dust-up in school history. Creager complained that he had

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Creager. It was suggested, however, that because of the bad publicity that attended the scandal, AIS was seriously embarrassed. Creager resigned on March 31, 1894. Another flap came along in 1929 when a writer for Good Housekeeping magazine, Vera L. Connolly, published an item entitled “The Cry of a Broken People.” In it she alleged ill treatment of Indian children at government boarding schools, including AIS. United States Senator Sam Bratton of New Mexico, much concerned about the allegations, empanelled a committee to study the matter. Members included such notables as Albuquerque Mayor Clyde Tingley, District Court Judge M. E. Hickey, Child Welfare Association president Mrs. Max Nordhaus, among others. The committee interviewed leaders from Laguna, Acoma, San Felipe, Santa Ana, Zia, Jemez, Sandia and Isleta pueblos. “Nothing but praise was elicited from the representatives of the Pueblos concerning the school.” Teachers and other employees of AIS were interviewed along with outsiders and students. Nothing of a substantially negative nature was discovered.

Once again the school survived. The school was finally closed in 1982, but in the years afterwards, many writers and historians continued to disparage the institution. It was not all negative, however. In October 2013, Dr. Theodore “Ted” Jojola, University of New Mexico Distinguished Professor and Regents Professor

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aking a first in New Mexico history, Klayton Bearup, a New Mexico State University Collegiate Farm Bureau member and treasurer, advanced to the final four of the National Collegiate Discussion Meet held during the American Farm Bureau Federation’s 2015 FUSION conference in Nashville, Tennessee. NMSU student Klayton Bearup, treasurer of the New Mexico Collegiate Farm Bureau, was one of three runners-up in the American Farm Bureau Young Farmers and Ranchers Collegiate Discussion Meet held at the American Farm Bureau Federation FUSION conference in Nashville, Tennessee. Forty-seven competitors from 34 states participated in this year’s AFBF Collegiate Discussion Meet. (NMSU photo by Joel Alderete) Bearup beat out more than 40 students of the nation’s top competitors, proceed-

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he decision to sell a farm or ranch that has been in the family for several generations is momentous. Very few other life events, outside of marriage, birth and death, have the potential to impact the participants as greatly. The life of the family is tied to the land: no one knows how the sale of the family’s most tangible legacy will affect that family’s future. Still, there may come a time – as it often does – when the younger generations are no longer willing or able to carry on the business of ranching. Those who have persevered over the decades to keep the ranch together for the sake of the family may no longer have the strength or ability to continue their stewardship. The standard unpredictable factors of weather, rising costs of equipment, feed, and fuel, and market conditions may spell the end of an era. Despite the emotional challenges, these realities must be faced, and when they are, drastic change, welcome or not, is inevitable. Denial of the need for change may be a common reaction, but to make that necessary change from a stance of denial is to fail to take a position of strength. Not only change, but chronic distrust of outsiders, legal and accounting professionals, may all have to be first overcome. Bill W. McCoy III, a seasoned New Mexico Real Estate Broker, Qualified Intermediary for 1031 Exchanges and Real Estate Instructor emphasizes the need to plan ahead, mustering a trusted brokerage, legal and accounting team. Just hanging out a “For Sale” sign is not the way to preserve the hard-earned value of a family farm or ranch, nor is simply buying a residential property with the proceeds of a sale. “A seller needs to understand his income tax situation. A good attorney can put in place an estate plan to minimize tax expense and maximize property values. Without a thorough estate plan, a seller can give up one-third or more of their sale in taxes. “Most tax and estate planning strategies must be completed within 180 days of disposing of the ranch, which is not a lot of time, so early planning is crucial” he says. When a ranch property is handed down over the generations, it is disposed of at current market value, leaving a potentially sizable tax liability. This tax liability

can be potentially be dealt with through “1031 like kind exchanges,” necessitating the acquisition of another property, or by diversifying into investment property that meets the tax law’s requirements. Finding a proper broker is also a critical issue, McCoy says. “It’s not just finding a buyer for the property,” he says. The broker must also be familiar with financing for the purchaser as well as know how to work through complex issues of leases, easements, mineral and water rights, as well as many government agency issues such as the BLM, State Land Office, Bureau of Reclamation, Army Corps of Engineers

and many others. Proportionately, he says, there are very few qualified farm and ranch brokers. The business is predominated by a “good old boy” network. Still, he suggests the way to find a reliable, competent and knowledgeable broker is to network through the Realtors® Land Institute (RLI), to check those who advertise in New Mexico Stockman, and to share information with neighbors. Always check references, he cautions, making note of the Realtor’s® track record. “Word gets around very continued on page 54

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offering more attractive to the seller, yet it may not represent a realistic sales price. Ranch and farm sales differ from residential sales in that comparable sales are not readily available through a “MLS” system, and many sales are not reported through a Multiple Listing Service such as exists for residential properties; Many factors determine pricing, including, but not limited to: comparable sale prices of similar farms or ranches, size of the ranch; how much land is owned, now much is leased; what equipment and improvements are there; and, elk permits available; Competition drives brokerage fees. There is no set fee to which a broker is entitled. A range between 5 and 10 percent is not unreasonable; Everything is negotiable. You will need to negotiate the percentage your broker is paid. A commission of between 5-10 percent is usual; Ask: What are ranches selling for around the state? What are values such as elk permits and water rights bringing? While the prices may be disclosed, the owners are not typically required to disclose the sale price of a farm or ranch. Ask for and expect to receive a Comparable Market Analysis from your Broker to establish a realistic sales price; Have a specific written listing agreement for the property being offered; Always hire a licensed New Mexico Real Estate Broker, preferably a member of the National Association of Realtors. Realtors have pledged to abide by a Code of Ethics. All New Mexico brokers are regulated and have ten duties to the consumer that must be performed and properly disclosed to buyers and sellers. A form is provided by the Realtors® Association of New Mexico. To have access to this form your Broker must be a Realtor®, a member of the Realtors® Association of New Mexico (RANM) and the national association (NAR) as well. These duties include issues such as honesty, reasonable care, and disclosure of adverse material facts actually known about the property and the transaction. The New Mexico Real Estate Broker is also required to keep current with changes in the law by taking 30 hours of continuing education every three years. Richard Randals, a Licensed New Mexico Real Estate Broker in Tucumcari says, “People living in rural New Mexico are vulnerable. What we are seeing is that those without complete licensing credentials may not be complying with all the legal requirements and disclosure of brokers’ n duties to protect sellers.”

New Mexico Youth Ranch Management Camp application deadline May 1

he New Mexico Youth Ranch Management Camp is an once-in-a-lifetime experience. An enthusiastic group of instructors from New Mexico State University’s Cooperative Extension Service, and the picturesque landscape of the Valles Caldera National Preserve in northern New Mexico created a unique event for the future ranch managers. “We are proud to offer this one-of-a-kind program for the future cattle producers of our state,” said Jon Boren, Cooperative Extension Service director. “The collaboration between our Extension specialists, county Extension agents and members of the ranching industry has provided an opportunity for the youth to see the many aspects of managing a ranch.” The youth ranch management program

focuses on providing hands-on training for future ranch managers and stewards of New Mexico’s natural resources. The program is an expansion of the research and education contractual agreement between NMSU and the Valles Caldera Trust. Camp participants, ages 15-19, selected for the program 2014 Ranch Camp winners were presented their awards and came from across spoke at the 2014 Joint Stockmen’s Convention. the state to learn sciThe participants are challenged 12 ence-based skills used successfully on modern-day ranches to hours a day with a college-level curricuimprove beef production, natural resource lum of hands-on activities and lectures. stewardship, wildlife management and fis- The camp culminated with the youth presenting their ranch plan to a panel of cal management. “We challenged these young peo- judges made up of successful New Mexico ple with a rigorous program for five full ranch managers, and an audience that days,” said camp director Jack Blandford, included dignitaries and parents. This year’s camp will be from May Luna County Extension program director. “They never seemed to weaken. They 31-June 5. Deadline for on-line applicaare like sponges absorbing knowledge all tions is May 1. For more information, visit n nmyrm.nmsu.edu. week.”

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in Tucson, Arizaon under the same title as this column. As the title indicates, the principal focus of the workshop was identifying how the West, with particular help from the Cooperative Extension Service, can move away from allowing wildfires to wreak havoc across landscapes and in our personal lives and move toward a more predictable and prepared environment before, during and after fire. The workshop targeted Cooperative Extension educators from across the West, but also encouraged and welcomed attendance from potential collaborative partners, such as county emergency planners, fire chiefs, and stakeholder groups (e.g. fire safe councils) to name just a few. Insightful and engaged discussion characterized the three day event. Where is the ‘opportunity’ in wildfire? Let us ‘peel back the onion.’ First, from the academic side, we live on a fire planet. In fact, earth alone (probably) supports fire. For example, there are 8.5 million lightning flashes across the globe each day. If one tenth of one percent of those started a wildfire, that would amount to 8500 wildfires each day. Since fuel and oxygen are also readily available on this planet, the Smokey Bear philosophy of prevent-

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owners on how to ‘Firewise’ their yards. Living with fire is an iterative process that is achieved through multiple steps over a number of years. For example, although the individual can prepare relatively quickly as noted above, preparing one’s home, yard, neighborhood, and community takes time, and is best achieved through a local, organized, and persistent effort. This is where the stability, trust, and consistency of Cooperative Extension can have measurable impacts. Time and resources are limited especially when considering the prospect of adding a ‘new’ program. Contact Doug Cram to discuss opportunities to help NM live with wildfire. dcram@nmsu.edu; 575/646-8130

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the editor explaining how these are not just national issues, but concerns that affect the day-to-day management of your farm or ranch. Get active on social media. Every Facebook post and Tweet counts. Case in point, the EPA counted tweets such as “I like clean water” as a ‘comment’ in support of the proposed Clean Water Act. Social media is having a huge impact in the world of policy making. Remember, in the words of Dwight D. Eisenhower “Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you’re a thousand miles from the corn field.” Let’s remind our lawmakers that their pencils affect our lives. ■

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he USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) cattle inventory report for January 2015 confirms that beef herd expansion is underway. The number of beef cows that have calved increased over 600,000 head in 2014 to 29.7 million head. The increase in beef cow numbers is the largest since 1994 and the second largest increase in over 30 years. The herd expansion was impressive by any measure, but especially remarkable given the cost of replacement animals

and the smaller number of replacement females available compared to 1994, when there were 34.6 million beef cows in the U.S. While increased herd numbers have been expected by many, the new inventory statistics and rapid growth leave many producers wondering what this means for cattle prices going forward. While a 600,000 head increase is sizeable, the U.S. beef cow herd is still small by historical measures and has decreased by over 3.9 million since 1996. Nearly half of that decrease, 1.7 million head, came in 2012 and 2013 alone, when a drought ravaged the Southwest and forced massive herd liquidations. Even if cattle numbers continue to increase at the 2014 rate, it will take several years just to get the U.S.

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ennis Hallford, New Mexico State University’s Animal and Range Sciences interim department head, past chair of the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee and current chair of the University Radiation Safety Committee, received this year’s annual Friend of Safety Award for his contributions to the longstanding improvement of safety in these areas. During a recent College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences department head meeting, Katrina Doolitle, executive director for NMSU’s Environmental Health & Safety, presented the golden globe award to Hallford. The Friend of Safety distinction and award is given to an NMSU employee who has implemented safety programs or policies that have positively and significantly impacted their department or college and resulted in improved safety culture overall. “The safety achievements that are recognized by this award must be more than what the person is responsible for in their day-to-day work,” Doolittle said. “We only recognize those who go above and beyond what is required, and do it in such a way that it persist over time. The accomplishments must be far-reaching and considered a permanent improvement in the safety program that they are responsible for creating.” Hallford received the award because of his commitment to research oversight committees at NMSU for 30 years, adding elements of safety that did not previously exist. “With his leadership and the support of the committee, we now have strong safety programs for all animal workers and all who use ionizing radiation at NMSU. He not only ensured compliance, he took it to the next level with the safety components of these programs,” Doolittle said. “I have watched the safety culture of the workers improve in these areas of research where there is animal handling risks, potential disease and radiation hazards. Dr. Hallford kept the safety of the individual and good safe science at the forefront, and he is also responsible for the compliance improvements that are now core safety programs in both areas.” ■

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do you have what it takes? Have you kept your tools oiled and sharpened? Do you know everything you need to know about NM, and its various industries, especially food, agriculture, and natural resources? Are you a skillful communicator? Can you effectively work with various types of people? Do you know how to propose a new piece of legislation and with whom do you need to speak for support? If you answer to more than one of these questions with a “mmm . . . well . . .,” then maybe it is time to consider looking into the New Mexico Agricultural Leadership Program. What do we have to offer? The NM Ag Leadership program (NMAL) was founded in 2001 with the purpose of identifying and supporting effective leadership within the food, agriculture, and natural resource industries of New Mexico. This is, individuals who were then, and are now, interested in heightening their leadership potential for their future and continuing careers. With this in mind, the program facilitates visits to various types of businesses and industries, and meetings with public functionaries and leaders at local, state, national, and international levels.

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he first recognized champion of the world in the “Trick and Fancy Roping” event belonged to Vicente Oropeza (sometimes spelled as Vincente Oropeso) of Puebla, Mexico. The year was 1900. It has long been accepted that the American Cowboy first learned his trade from the Mexican Vaquero. The Vaquero had been “cowboying” in what is now the American Southwest and Northern Mexico since the 1500s. From gear, techniques, and language, to cowboy sporting events, origins can be traced back to the Vaquero, in one form or another. Trick roping is no exception. From about 1900 till the 1930s, trick or “fancy” (as it was sometimes called) roping was a rodeo event much like bull or bronc riding is today. It was a judged event, not a specialty act. The man given credit for taking trick roping to that level was Vicente Oropeza. Born in Puebla, Mexico in 1858, Oropeza was raised on a large Hacienda (ranch) where the skills of a Vaquero were prac-

ticed daily (the elaborate Vaqueros from that part of the world are often referred to as Charros). The Vaquero prided himself on his horsemanship and roping skills. Vicente was no exception. At an early age, he learned the basics of heading and heeling cattle and catching horses with his reata (rope). The next challenge was to learn to do it with style. The old-time Vaquero would commonly incorporate trick roping into the every day task of roping livestock. Doing it this way took more skill in his book. He would also entertain and show off with his “Floreada de reata” skills (basically rope tricks, literally translated it is to make flower designs with a reata). Vicente soon mastered this skill. In his younger days Oropeza toured Mexico with Ponciano Diaz, a famous Bull Fighter who also put on shows. It was during one of these shows he made contact with Buffalo Bill Cody who then invited Vicente and several other Charro performers to preform in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West. That was in 1893 (some sources

claim 1894). In an article about Will Rogers, written by Jesse Mullins for American Cowboy Magazine, Jesse wrote, “Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show played the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair. Clem Rogers, Will’s father, shipped a trainload of cattle to Chicago then took Will, 13, along and they attended both the fair and Wild West Show. “At that show, a Mexican trick roper, Vicente Oropeza, bedazzled the boy. Will had already learned to handle the lariat for practical, workday purposes. Oropeza, at the end of many horseback tricks and others done afoot, wrote his name—one letter at a time—with his lariat. This moment became the clincher for Will.” Will Rogers has been quoted many times as giving Oropeza credit for inspiring his trick roping. On several occasions, he also credits Vicente as being the greatest trick roper—ever. Oropeza traveled with Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show until about 1907. According to information given on the Buffalo Bill Museum and Grave website, “Many of the cowboys’ skills originated with the Mexican vaqueros. Exhibitions of riding by brothers Antonio and Jose Esquivel and rope tricks by Vicente Oropeza were a very popular part of the Wild West. Oropeza inspired Will Rogers to begin his career as a roper.” According to the Hyatt Verrill autobiography (who performed with the show for a time), “Vicente Oropeza was a remarkable man. He had been a bullfighter and bandit before he turned Rurale (in the show) and as he often said, ‘A most excellent bandit.’ He was an enormously tall, heavily built Mexican but as light on his feet as a cat. He was the first man ever to spin a rope and in some ways was the best rope-spinner I ever have seen—and I knew Will Rogers, personally. “On one occasion, Oropeza leaped onto the long dining-tent table and spun his rope back and forth over the dishes, never more than an inch or two above them, continued on page 63

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but never touching them, regardless of their various heights. Another of his feats was to stand blindfolded with his back to a horse and rider and call out by which foot he would loop the horse. Judging only by the sound of the oncoming horse, he would spin his reata backward and never missed his throw.” – Hyatt Verrill The oldest trick and fancy roping contest of record was held in New York in 1900. This was the first time it was a judged (contested) event and just not a part of a Wild West Show performance. Ropers from all over the world came to compete. It was won by Vicente Oropeza, who was then given the title of the first World Champion Trick and Fancy Roper. Trick and fancy roping soon became a standard event at Rodeos and Wild West Shows and many men, Will Rogers included, not only followed in Oropeza’s footsteps, but looked up to him as a legend. He could make a rope “talk” with style and grace. What he did soon became the benchmark to shoot for in this event. During the sixteen years Oropeza spent with Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show, he was

usually headlined as “The Premier Charro Mexicano of the World!” He was described as a very charismatic showman (even rivaling Cody himself). In Mexico, Vicente is a hero as well. Regarded as one of the legendary Charros, there are volumes of research written in the Spanish language about Oropeza and his accomplishment both in the United States and Mexico. According to a Spanish website dedicated to the history of the Charro, “Un grupo de 12 Charros capitaneados por Vicente Oropeza que salieron por primera vez a Nueva York. A Vicente Oropeza los norteamericanos le dieron el calificativo de Campeón de Lazo en el mundo.” (Basically saying that Vicente led a group of twelve Charros to New York where the North Americans gave Vicente the title of World Champion Roper.) At the time of his retirement, he was definitely regarded as the finest trick roper in the world. He retired to his ranch at Puebla, where he died in 1923. In 1975, the first World Champion Trick or Fancy Roper of the World was posthumously inducted into the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum Hall of Fame. ■

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he Beef Checkoff Program has a unique opportunity to encourage checkoff investors to share how they personally benefit from checkoff efforts, thanks to a generous donation from Yamaha of a 3-passenger VikingTM EPS 4x4 with specialized accessories valued at $21,728.07. Starting March 16, beef and dairy producers can enter the “Rev It Up” My ROI Checkoff Challenge by visiting the MyBeefCheckoff Facebook page to share how the beef checkoff has impacted their operations. The Rev It Up contest will have two rounds: The first stretches eight weeks, with responses to weekly questions about how the Beef Checkoff Program has affected their cattle operations. On Monday of each week during Round 1, the checkoff will post a new question on the MyBeefCheckoff Facebook page. Participants are asked to simply answer the checkoff question in 250 words or less for a chance to be selected as one of eight finalists and win a weekly prize. After all weekly winners/finalists

have been chosen, Round 2 involves each of the winners from Round 1 producing a two- to three-minute video testimonial about a topic provided to them on May 13. All finalists will have the same amount of time — about a week — to create their video. Visitors to the Facebook page then will vote to select the grand-prize winner. The grand-prize winner will be announced Monday, June 8. “As beef producers, we have an exciting story to share about what the checkoff means to us individually. A recent Return on Investment (ROI) study showed that every dollar invested in our Beef Checkoff Program returns $11.20,” says Jeanne Harland, chairman of the Producer Communications Working Group. “That’s great news for our industry, and this challenge will enable us to share original, unique checkoff-related stories with other beef producers. So ‘rev up’ the good news, get your video camera or phone ready, and enter today!” For more information about your beef checkoff investment, visit MyBeefCheckoff.com

New Value Record for U.S. Beef Exports

xport value for U.S. beef set a new record in 2014, posting double-digit gains over the previous year’s totals, according to statistics released by USDA and compiled by the U.S. Meat Export Federation, a contractor to the beef checkoff. Beef export value was $7.13 billion – up of 16 percent (and nearly $1 billion) over the previous record, set in 2013. Export volume also increased 2 percent year-on-year to nearly 2.65 billion pounds, which was just short of the 2011 record. Exports overcame significant challenges to reach these milestones, including market access restrictions in Russia and China, an appreciating U.S. dollar and, most recently, shipping difficulties related to a labor dispute in the West Coast ports. For the month of December, beef export volume slipped 2 percent yearover-year to 221 million pounds, though value still increased 17 percent to $643.2 million. “It was an outstanding year for redmeat exports, but headwinds continued to mount late in the year,” said USMEF President and CEO Philip Seng. “The West Coast port congestion is extremely troubling, because the delays faced by exporters in December have become even more severe in 2015. If this dispute is not resolved soon, the meat industry will have to win back long-term customers who still want our product, but have no choice but to seek alternative suppliers.” The situation is especially critical because Asian markets take a large volume of chilled U.S. beef and pork, valued at more than $2 billion in 2014. continued on page 66

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The strength in international demand was showcased in 2014, as customers paid record prices for U.S. beef, while still purchasing larger volumes. This is especially noteworthy because U.S. cattle prices were significantly higher than prices in Australia and all other major beef-exporting countries. Exports continue to generate strong returns for producers, as beef-export value per head of fed slaughter averaged a record $297.68 in 2014, up $52.72 from the previous year. For the month of December, export value reached $340.69 per head, up $61.53 from a year ago. “These exceptional results illustrate the strength of the international markets,” Seng said. “In the past five years, per-head export value has more than doubled for beef producers.” Beef exports in 2014 equated to 14 percent of total production (muscle cuts plus variety meat) and 11 percent of muscle cuts alone, up from 13 percent and 10 percent, respectively, a year ago.

Asian markets propel beef export results U.S. beef performed exceptionally well in key Asian markets in 2014, including: n Exports to Japan increased 3 percent in volume to 531.6 million pounds and 14 percent in value to $1.58 billion. Value eclipsed the 2003 (pre-BSE) mark of $1.39

billion for the first time, though volume was still below the 2003 total. n Hong Kong set new annual records as export volume increased 19 percent to 340.7 million pounds and value surged 40 percent to $1.15 billion. n Exports to South Korea set a new annual value record of $847.4 million, up 39 percent from 2013, while volume increased 12 percent to 259.2 million pounds. n Taiwan also set a new annual value record of $293.6 million – up 15 percent from 2013 – while volume increased 5 percent to 74.5 million pounds. In Mexico, exports increased 12 percent in volume to 534.8 million pounds and 26 percent in value to $1.17 billion. As USMEF has previously noted, however, issues with the 2013 data suggest these year-over-year increases in exports to Mexico may be overstated. For more information about U.S. beef exports, visit www.usmef.org.

American Heart Association® Certifies Extra Lean Ground Beef as Part of a Heart-Healthy Diet DENVER (Feb. 10, 2015) - The Beef Checkoff Program announced today that Extra Lean Ground Beef (Ground Beef that is at least 96% lean, 4% fat) is now certified by the American Heart Association® to display its recognized and respected Heart-Check mark. Retailers now have the opportunity to help identify eight different extra lean beef items as options for part of an overall healthy diet to their shoppers using one of the most trusted nutrition icons on food packaging today.

The extra lean beef cuts that meet the American Heart Association’s® requirements for heart-healthy foods as part of an overall healthy dietary pattern, and are certified to display the Heart-Check mark, include: n Extra Lean Ground Beef (96% lean, 4% fat) n Bottom Round Steak (USDA Select grade) n Sirloin Tip Steak (USDA Select grade) n Top Sirloin Petite Roast, Boneless (USDA Select grade) n Top Sirloin Strips (USDA Select grade) n Top Sirloin Filet (USDA Select grade) n Top Sirloin Kabob (USDA Select grade) n Top Sirloin Steak, Boneless, Center Cut (USDA Select grade) The Heart-Check mark makes it easy to spot heart-healthy foods in the grocery store or when dining out. Simply look for the name of the American Heart Association along with our familiar red heart with a white check mark on the package or menu. But not all red hearts you see are from the American Heart Association; look for the AHA name to be sure. Before putting its Heart-Check mark on any food, the American Heart Association® evaluates it against nutrition requirements based on sound science regarding healthy dietary recommendations, food categories, specific product ingredients and nutrient values. Multiple retailers with hundreds of stores across the U.S. currently display the Heart-Check mark on certified beef items in the meat case. Retailers and processors can work with the Beef Checkoff Program to receive a discount on the certification fee for the American Heart Association® Food Certification Program. Resources such as on-pack labels, posters and recipes are available for retailers to use in store and in shopper communications to promote the certified beef cuts. To learn more about participating in the American Heart Association® Food Certification Program, please visit www.BeefRetail.org.

2014 – 2015 DIRECTORS — CHAIRMAN, Darrell Brown (Producer); VICE-CHAIRMAN, Bernarr Treat (Producer); SECRETARY, Alicia Sanchez (Purebred Producer). NMBC DIRECTORS: Bruce Davis (Producer); David McSherry (Feeder); Mark McCollum (Feeder); Milford Denetclaw (Producer); Jonathan Vander Dussen (Dairy Producer); Tamara Hurt (Producer).

FEDERATION DIRECTOR, Darrell Brown (Producer) U.S.M.E.F. DIRECTOR, David McSherry BEEF BOARD DIRECTOR, Tammy Ogilvie (Producer)

For more information contact: New Mexico Beef Council, Dina Chacón-Reitzel, Executive Director 1209 Mountain Rd. Pl. NE, Suite C, Albuquerque, NM 87110 505/841-9407 • 505/841-9409 fax • www.nmbeef.com

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Lands News We have the Bundy Ranch, Smokey’s declining badges and the War on Meat…

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he confrontation on the Bundy Ranch is back in the news, with enviro groups and a key Congresswoman pushing the BLM to file charges and remove the cattle. At a recent budget hearing, Rep. Betty McCollum (D-Minn.) grilled BLM’s Director. “Mr. Bundy and his band of armed thugs are dangerous. They have committed acts that are criminal by threatening federal employees,” said McCollum. “They should be held accountable. They should be prosecuted”, she continued and then asked, “What steps have been taken to stop this misuse of grazing without a permit and threatening federal employees who are just doing their jobs?” The BLM can’t directly respond because

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the current investigation is being handled by the FBI and the Justice Department. Elsewhere, the Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) has written to the Secretary Of Interior and the U.S. Attorney General saying the fed’s silence has been “both deafening and deeply troubling.” The letter further states, “Bundy has violated the laws of the legislative branch, ignored the orders of the judicial branch to enforce those laws, and defied efforts by the executive branch to enforce three court orders.” They requested a public update by April 5, the one-year anniversary of the confrontation. The Las Vegas Review-Journal is also expressing frustration with BLM’s lack of response to their FOIA requests. In a recent editorial the paper said they had “submitted multiple public records requests to the BLM under the Freedom of Information Act, but the agency has stalled and stone-

walled the newspaper.” The paper also says, “The longer a government refuses to answer basic questions about public business, the more suspicious taxpayers become.” It has also been reported that PEER has filed suit because of the non-response to their FOIA requests. All of this does make one wonder. Or, as the Nevada paper editorializes, “What is the BLM trying to hide?”

Blue Smokey LEOs

Forest Service law enforcement officers are crying the blues over budget cuts. As wildfire suppression consumes more of the budget less is left for the non-fire employees. The Forest Service budget justification for 2016 says the number of LEOs will decline from 813 in 2015 to 680 in 2016. The documents says the Forest continued on page 68

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Service will prioritize for life-threatening emergencies with an emphasis on drug trafficking, “particularly in California and along the Southwest and northern borders.” “We’re basically the police in the woods,” says Matthew Valenta, a union spokesman for the group. “Our primary focus is resource protection, but we also do vehicle stops, DUIs…recreation vehicle enforcement and crimes against persons,” said Valenta. In a letter to the U.S. Senate he said the budget issue is affecting their ability to conduct investigations, “from minor infractions to serious felonies such as homicide, rape, assaults, domestic disputes, robbery, gang activity.” We find ourselves in a situation where poor management by the Forest Service results in more, larger and hotter fires, which results in more spending for wild fires and less funds for non-fire programs. One causes the other. The poor management is not all the Forest Service’s fault. Congress passes the laws, enviros file the lawsuits and judges (appointed by the President and approved by the Senate)

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issue the decisions. The whole thing is a mess and instead of fixing the real problems they want to change how fire fighting is funded. And why is Forest Service law enforcement placing such an emphasis on the Southwest border? It appears the whole border has or is being designated as Wilderness, Wildlife Refuges or National Monuments where they can’t go at all or have limited access. Why place an emphasis on policing the border with Mexico when the administration says it’s “safer than ever”? What does the Forest Service know that the President and his Secretary of Homeland Security either don’t know or aren’t telling us? The spokesman says their top priority is “resource protection” yet they are involved in all kinds of non-resource infractions both on and off federal property. Instead they’ve built a bureaucracy with their own chain of command at USDA. And of course the copycats at Interior are doing the same. Greenhouse gas from federal land

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I’ve written before about the War on Meat, primarily through the dietary guidelines and the school lunch program. Whether you are producing meat animals on federal, state or private lands, these programs affect you. Now comes EPA to the battle. Joe Roybal at BEEF magazine has discovered an EPA grant for $15,000 to the University of California at Riverside. The purpose of the grant is to develop “Technology for the Reduction of Particulate Matter Emissions for Residential BBQs” and is part of the nationwide “National Student Design Competition for Sustainability Focusing on People, Prosperity and the Planet.” Got that? Actually they are to develop a system for your grill that will prevent fat from catching on fire. Burning fat causes air pollution don’t you know. I was gonna suggest you not invite any EPA employees to your barbeque. But that’s probably not enough protection. I’ll bet they’ve got a whole fleet of EPA Drones outfitted to detect illegal sizzling and if caught you will be fined for the first offense and lose your government permit to cook on your own property for any subsequent violations. Talk about your Cruel and Unusual Punishment, that would be it. USDA weighing your babies

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It’s not our calves or lambs they’ll be weighing, it’s our children. Is this some evil study concocted by a team of bored bureaucrats? Nope, it’s Michelle Obama who pushed this, along with your friendly Congressmen. The study is required by section 223 of Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act, which was championed by Mrs. Obama and passed in 2010. U.S.D.A. will be measuring and weighing children in professional and home childcare facilities. According to a Federal Register notice, they will also collect data on the “nutritional quality of foods offered, continued on page 69

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physical activity, sedentary activity, and barriers to” healthy food and exercise in childcare. All of this fits under the War on Obesity, and based on the government’s own figures, it’s not working. The Center for Disease Control reports that obesity among adults is 27.7 percent, up from 25.5 percent in 2008. The percentage of children aged 6–11 years in the United States who were obese increased from 7 percent in 1980 to nearly 18 percent in 2012. Similarly, the percentage of adolescents aged 12–19 years who were obese increased from 5 percent to nearly 21 percent over the same period. Who were the only ones who made progress? Those under six who hadn’t entered the government’s clutches yet. The rate of obesity among 2 to 5 yearolds decreased from 13.9 percent to 8.4 percent. They are attacking our industry and invading family privacy, but its all for naught as their hectoring our citizens with their centrally planned dietary dictates is simply not working. Till next time, be a nuisance to the devil and don’t forget to check that cinch.

2015

BRAND BOOKS NOW AVAILABLE The New Mexico Livestock Board (NMLB) is pleased to announce the availability of the new 2015 New Mexico Brand Book, which contains all current brand registrations in the State of New Mexico. Paintings in Ancient Egypt document the use of branding oxen, and Hernando Cortez brought branded cattle to the New World in 1541, said William Bunce, NMLB Director; and Ray Baca, NMLB Deputy Director. “To this day, the Brand serves as a definitive mark of ownership and as a deterrent to theft. We take great pride in both offering this Brand Book to you and also in dedicating it to the livestock industry of the Great State of New Mexico.” Copies are available for purchase over the counter for $45 at the NMLB’s main office, 300 San Mateo N.E., Suite 1000, in Albuquerque. Books can also be ordered online, through the agency’s website at www.nmlbonline.com by clicking the button ‘Order a 2015 Brand Book’ on the right side of the home page. The order price online is $52.75 which includes shipping and a credit card convenience fee. Orders can also be made by mail, by sending a check for $50, along with a valid shipping address, and a request for a Brand Book to the NMLB’s Albuquerque office.

Frank DuBois was the NM Secretary of Agriculture from 1988 to 2003, is the author of a blog: The Westerner (www.thewesterner.blogspot.com) and is the founder of The DuBois Rodeo Scholarship.

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RANCHES/FARMS *SOLD* 400 Head Ranch, adjoining Leslie Canyon, Cochise Co., AZ – Highly improved & maintained w/4 homes; horse barn; hay barn; equipment sheds; workshop; roping arena; excellent shipping corrals w/scales; extensive water distribution w/wells, storage & pipelines. Scenic w/rolling grasslands and mountains. Easy country. +/-7,346 deeded acres, State lease & USFS permit. This is a top quality ranch & a rare opportunity. $3,900,000 253 Head Andrada Ranch, Vail, AZ 271+/- deeded ac & 16,237+/ac State Grazing Lease. Historic HQ w/3 homes, bunk house, horse barn, hay barn, equipment shed, tack rooms, extensive corrals, scale, arenas, round pen and, spring and well at HQ. Scenic desert ranch with good mix of grass and browse, great location close to Tucson, airport and interstate. $1,858,500 90 Head, Agua Fria Ranch, Quemado, NM – This is a scenic mid-size ranch with great prospects. Operating as a private hunting retreat, & a purebred Angus & Paint horse ranch. +/-1200 deeded acres, +/-80 acres of NM lease, & +/-5220 acres BLM. 4BR, 2BA, mfg. home. Trophy elk, antelope, deer. Elk & mule deer permits. Candidate for a conservation easement or land exchange with the BLM. $1.65M $1.55M *REDUCED*112 Head, Bar 11 Ranch, Lake Roosevelt, AZ – 83 deeded acres, 36,000 acres of US Forest Grazing Permit (possible increase of 112 head). 6 corrals, 13 stock tanks, 6 steel tanks, 9 wells. 9 acre feet of water rights from a spring to deeded, home, restaurant, shop, barns, corrals. $1,100,000 $700,000 52 Head Ranch, San Simon, AZ – Indian Springs Ranch, pristine & private, only 12 miles from I-10. Bighorn

sheep, ruins, pictographs. 1480 acres of deeded, 52 head, BLM lease, historic rock house, new cabin, springs, wells. $1,300,000 $975,000, Terms. *REDUCED* 99+/- Acre Farm, Marana, AZ – 76.4 acre-feet of ground water allotment. Irrigated pasture, Pecan orchard. Large executive style home, pool, nicely landscaped yard, two large workshops, equipment sheds. $900,000 $825,000 *NEW* La Palomarosa Farm, near Truth or Consequences, NM – 688+/deeded acres with 11 irrigated acres adjoining 15 head BLM lease. 2 Bedroom, 2 Bath home, equipment shed, pond. $750,000 *PENDING* 335 Head Ranch, Greenlee County, AZ – +/- 20 Deeded acres, w/two homes, barn & outbuildings. 58 Sections USFS grazing permit. Good vehicular access to the ranch – otherwise this is a horseback ranch. Scenic, great outfitters prospect. $720,000 *NEW* 100 Head Scenic Ranch, Benson, AZ – +/-40 Acre deeded forest inholding, USFS Middle Canyon Allotment, 3 corrals, 5 wells, 3 dirt tanks, 8 springs 8 water storages, 8 pastures. Abundant feed! Don’t miss this incredibly scenic ranch. $699,000 Virden, NM – +/-78 Acre Farm, with 49+ acres of irrigation rights. Pastures recently planted in Bermuda. 3 BR, 2 Bath site built home, shop, hay barn, 8 stall horse barn, unique round pen with adjoining shaded pens, roping arena. Scenic setting along the Gila River. Great set up for raising horses also suitable for cattle, hay, pecans, or pistachios, $550,000 Terms. *PENDING* 90 Head Cattle Ranch, Safford, AZ – 40 Deeded Acres, Good Corrals, excellent water, BLM and State

Jesse Aldridge 520-251-2735 Rye Hart 520-455-0633 Tobe Haught 505-264-3368 Harry Owens 602-526-4965 Sandy Ruppel 520-444-1745 Tamra Kelly 928-830-9127

of AZ Grazing Leases. $425,500 Young, AZ, 65+ Acres – Under the Mogollon Rim, small town charm & mountain views. 2100 s.f., 3 BR, 2 Bath home, 2 BR cabin, historic rock home currently a museum, shop, & barn. Excellent opportunity for horse farm, bed & breakfast, or land development. +/- 65 acres for $1,070,000; home & other improvements. $424,500 *REDUCED* 240 Acres with Irrigation Rights, Elfrida, AZ – Suitable for hay, crops, pecans, irrigated pasture, homesite or future development. Includes 130 acres of irrigation rights, partially fenced, with corrals, & 1200 gpm well. $336,000 Reduced to $279,800. Terms. 128+/- Acre Farm near Duncan, AZ – Two properties combined, +/- 45 acres farmable. Terraced farm fields, shared well, 12” irrigation pipe with alfalfa valves, recently leveled. 29+/Acres for $80,800,+/- 99 Acres for $195,000. All for $275,800. *SOLD* 990+/- Acre Farm Bowie AZ – 21 registered shallow wells and 4 deep wells. Good supply of quality ground water. Potential pistachio, pecan, or organic farm. Rested for some time and as such qualifies for “organic” status. $2,900/acre. HORSE PROPERTIES/LAND San Rafael Valley, AZ – Own a slice of heaven in the pristine San Rafael Valley, 152 Acres for $380,150 & 77 Acres with well for $217,000. 480 Acres Oracle, AZ – One of the last remaining large parcels of land in the area. On the northern slope of Santa Catalina Mtns. Small ranching, development or granite mining potential. $6,500/acre.

Stockmen’s Realty is pleased to welcome Tamra Kelly to our team! Tamra is currently involved in ranching and is from Prescott, AZ. She can br reached at 928-830-9127.

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up doing chores. A tomboy, she preferred work in the barn and the fields rather than in the house. The second of nine children, she grew up speaking Finnish. She attended the Gunnary School, a oneroom school that had eight grades. She was a voracious reader, spending her spare time reading the encyclopedia, and won the state of Minnesota Spelling Bee. She read her Bible daily and was an active member of the Silver City Methodist Church and the Alpine, Arizona, Community Church. Each morning when she got her first cup of coffee, she would turn on the TV to get the latest weather reports, a habit that went back to her childhood. Upon graduation from high school in 1945, her older sister, Phyllis, encouraged her to move to Rochester, Minnesota, to work in the Mayo Clinic. Soon, she was accepted in the last class of Army nurses to be trained for World War II, a service commitment that was later waived. She graduated from the Kahler School of Nursing in Rochester, and worked at the Mayo Clinic before moving to Morenci, Arizona, where she worked at the Phelps Dodge Hospital. For

ber 25, 1936 to Marion H. Keith and Virginia L. Gibbs Keith. Daisy Mae has spent her entire life in Arizona. She attended school in Benson and married Joe Blayne Cannon on June 3, 1953 in Pomerene. Daisy Mae was a lifelong rancher and was a member of the Greenlee County Cattle Growers, Cochise-Graham Cattle Growers, Arizona Cattle Growers’ Association, National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, Greenlee Cowbelles, Arizona State Cowbelles, National Cattle Women Association, ACWA and SWPCA. She enjoyed helping family, neighbors and friends. Daisy Mae loved cooking, crocheting, knitting, sewing, working cows and was a 4-H leader. She is survived by her husband of 61 years, Joe Blayne Cannon, and her daughter, Marian Jo “Sissy” (husband, Claude) Walker, York Valley, Arizona, and her son, Keith G. “Bopper” (wife, Robin) Cannon, Rimrock, Arizona, four grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. Willis Harvey “Wart” Walter, Jr., 86, Animas, passed away on December 5, 2014. Wart was born on September 2, 1928 to

many years she was a school nurse for the Clifton Public Schools as well as Cobre Consolidated Schools. In addition to her nursing degree, she also received a bachelor of arts degree from Western New Mexico University. Helen and Alex Paterson have owned the 9/6 Ranch on Centerfire Creek, north of Luna, New Mexico, in Catron County for over 60 years. She is survived by her husband, Alex, and three children, John (wife, Diana), a beef cattle nutritionist, Bozeman, Montana; Mary (husband, Paul) Curry, Las Cruces; and Tom (wife, Callie), a Houston trial lawyer and cattle rancher near Luna and Alma. She had eight grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren. She also leaves her five surviving siblings, Phyllis, Celia, Jo (husband, Sid), Wally (wife, Barb), and Teddy (husband, Dave); her beloved nieces and nephews; and the dedicated staff at Milli’s Adult Care Facility, where she resided for the past two years. She also leaves many, many cherished friends in Silver City, Bayard, Luna and Alpine. Daisy Mae Cannon, 78, Clifton, Arizona, died at home on January 13, 2015 after a valiant battle with cancer. She was born in Amarillo, Texas on Decem-

Apache Mesa Ranch – 5,144 total acres located on Hwy 84 near Las Vegas, NM. Mostly deeded, cedar & ponderosa tree cover, rim rocks & mesas, canyons & meadows. Comfortable HQ w/bunk house, caretakers quarters on 5 acres plus barn & corrals & long drink of water views. Priced to sell & Owners will finance. Little Cayuse Ranch – Here is a horse or cow operation north of Corona. +- 2,025 acres. There are 2 homes, hay barn, sheds, tack room, 3 excellent wells, 4 pastures & 80 acre irrigation pivot with water rights. Good fences & views. Priced reduced. Sombrero Ranch near Tremintina, NM – 1,442 deeded acres, 3 pastures, 1 solar well and 1 windmill well. Traditionally has carried 30+ mother cows year round. Located 44 miles east of Las Vegas on Hwy 104. Owner will finance, terms negotiable! La Cueva Canyon Ranch – 1,595 secluded acres w/240 acres of BLM lease land. Located SW of Las Vegas off Hwy 84 on Apache Mesa. This parcel has tall pines, canyon springs, stock tanks, new fence on NE corner. Off the grid and pristine. Owners will finance.

Trigg Ranches – 720 deeded acres lies near the La Cueva Canyon Ranch on Apache Mesa off Hwy 84. Off the grid in the tall pines & power is close by! 720 acres priced at $288,900 & smaller 200 acre parcel available for $124,000! Other parcels available &

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Ledoux, NM – Perimeter fenced 60 acre dry land terraced farm has overhead electric, sub-irrigated pasture and good all weather county road access! Located 1⁄2 mile north of Ledoux. Price reduced $228,000 & Owner will finance... Anton Chico – Historic 65 acre irrigated farm w/ditch rights. Adobe home, bunkhouse, storage shed, shop + irrigation & some farm equipment go w/sale. Priced below appraisal

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Dilia Loop Road – Fenced 20+ acre parcel is planted in alfalfa & grass, has 4 irrigated sections plus ditch rights and Pecos River frontage. Excellent farming opportunity for organic vegetable gardens. Price is $231,500 Upper Anton Chico – This parcel has outstanding alfalfa production for a small parcel, 7.5 acres are irrigated with under ground pipes, perimeter fenced, easy farm to work and water. Makes 375 bales per cutting! Asking $82,500 Come see this money maker!

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SP Pipeline station at Road Forks. Wart has always had a way with horses and through the years has broke and trained many for different people. He rode horses for Benny Snure, Ed Hitson, Hugh Peterson, Ted Robb, Bill Cowan, Fred Darnell and Sherwood Culberson, to name a few. He was a member of the Hidalgo County Sheriff’s Posse in the early 5O’s, a past member of the Hidalgo County Fairboard where he supervised the Western Pleasure and Horse Showing competitions, a member of Farm Bureau and the NM Cattle Growers’ Association. He was inducted into the Hidalgo County Hall of Fame in 2003. Wart leaves behind his wife, Sylvia, and his sons, Randy (wife, Duti), Bill (wife, Beth) and Warren (wife, Dolly), eight grandchildren, and ten great-grandchildren. Diana (Dinah) Long Culberson, 73, Lordsburg, on February 15, 2015, surrounded by her husband and their three sons as she stepped into His loving arms. Dinah, as she was known by nearly everyone, was born to Norvel A. Long and Lillian Bomar Long on August 11, 1941 continued on page 78

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NEW MEXICO PROPERTIES 2,532.5 ACRE RANCH ~ with home, hunters cabin, 8 storage tanks, 12 drinkers, good turf, private, no thru traffic, good deer, barbary sheep, elk. HORSE PROPERTY– ~ 15 acre irrigated farm in the valley with 4 br home, 2 metal barns for shop & hay storage, horse stalls, tack room, pipe fences, more. 1,356 DEEDED PLUS 2,000 ACRES FOREST LEASE ~ 2with awesome elk, mule deer, & other wildlife. 3 Live springs, 2 wells. Can run cows or yearlings on lease land. John Stallard, Broker 575-760-1899 cell • 575-355-4454 office • 866-781-2093 toll free 26230 US Highway 60-84 East • Ft. Sumner, NM 88119 realestate@plateautel.net • www.RanchEtc.com

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n ALTO/CAPITAN, NM – Choice grama grass ranch w/ fresh air & mountain scenery! 1,500 ac. +/- deeded, 6,400 ac. +/- forest lease, 160 ac. +/- State lease, beautiful areas for a home sight. Adjoins major hwys. on two sides, excellent access. CLOSE PROXIMITY TO THE ALTO/CAPITAN RANCH –

Minutes from Ruidoso. A multi-purpose property w/15.6434 ac. +/-laboratory/office, covered pens, home. Ideal for use for horse or cattle breeding, embryo transfer facility, vet clinic or many other uses in a beautiful area of NM. PRICEOWNER MOTIVATED! QUAY CO. / TUCUMCARI VALLEY – Choice 960 ac. irr. farm, 5 circles, 3 phase power, 2 large hay barns enclosed on three sides, 755.5 ac. of Arch Hurley dist. water rights, on pvmt. & all weather road. CUCHARAS RIVER RANCH – Please call for details on super nice combination hunting/recreational/cattle 12,088 acre Colorado all deeded ranch w/excellent hunting, river frontage, excellent livestock & game watering facilities for a year-round grama/western wheat grass operation, on pvmt. (addtl. 33,000 +/- deeded acres across the hwy. available for sale w/this property). SPRINGER, NM – amazing improvements, see our website for photographs of 5,000 sq. ft. + home, two guest houses, huge two bay shop, state-of-the-art horse stalls & runs, roping arena w/air-operated release chute, nice employee home + more horse stalls & runs, large set of working pens w/camp house (old-west style w/state-of-the-art outhouses), 9,200 ac. +/- deeded, 193 ac. +/- state lease, yearling or cow/calf country just E. of Springer on Hwy. 56 w/frontage on the I25 access road on the West. SAN MIGUEL CO., NM – New Mexico All Deeded Ranch – approx. 53 sections (all deeded), river frontage w/ vegas (meadows), a very good year-round ranch w/good improvements, all weather access & minerals. CIMARRON RANCH – Colfax Co., NM – 1,854 ac. +/-, 5 pivots, ditch water rights, elk hunting, on pvmt. CIMARRON CO., OK. – 1382 ac. +/- native grass northwest of Dalhart, Texas, large draw through south part of property affords good hunting & winter protection for livestock & wildlife, watered by a mill & a sub, good set of steel pens, irr. potential on north portion. WALKER CANYON RANCH / MOTLEY CO., TX. – Buy one pasture or all (pastures run in size fr. 7-900 ac. each up to 3,300 ac. w/lake) pick the size of ranch that you want w/a total of 10,432 ac. +/-, ranchland w/a large, permitted dam providing a huge, beautiful lake w/water backed up in a number of smaller canyons for boating, fishing & other recreation together w/good hunting on the ranch. On pvmt.! DO YOU REALLY WANT A MINI RANCH IN THE COUNTRY–

just out of Amarillo city limits, 640 ac. +/- of rough, rugged, very scenic ranchland w/cute cabin, domestic well w/sub. electric motor & pump w/pond. SINCERE CREEK RANCH / PONTOTOC CO., OK. – 779.02 ac. +/-, pvmt. on 4 sides, on rural water, brick home w/large set of steel pens, w/excellent improvements & location. ADA OK. AREA – 3,120 ac. +/- of choice grassland w/ houses, barns & steel pens, lays in 3 tracts, will divide! Please view our websites for details on these properties, choice NM ranches (large & small), choice ranches in the high rainfall areas of OK, irr./dryland/CRP & commercial properties. We need your listings on any types of ag properties in TX., NM, OK or CO.

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Lela Mae White and Willis Harvey Walter, Sr. (Curly) in Hachita. He, along with his brother, Russell and sister, Betty, lived and worked on the ranch homesteaded by his father in Animas. After graduating from Animas High School, Wart stayed on the ranch to help his Dad. During this time, he met and married Sylvia Ann Springer, May 17,1952. He worked for George Godfrey at the XT and for Ace Robinson at the Cloverdale Ranch. In December 1952 he was drafted into the army, serving two years during the Korean War. After returning home from the war, he worked for the Bar Y Ranch near Santa Rosa,NM and then back home at the ranch. Drought forced him to get a job with the Southern Pacific Pipeline. In 1965, Wart bought his father’s cattle and leased the ranch. He made improvements and expanded by buying the Atkinson place just south of the homeplace. Over the years, they also leased many ranches for breeding stock and to relieve the ranch. Wart and Sylvia also bought two school buses from T.B. Strickland, Sylvia drove the bus for 38 years. Wart worked for Benny Snure, Brown & Root, Columbus Electric, K.W.Loomix and the

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in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. Her family moved to Carlsbad, New Mexico when she was 11. Dinah loved music and was an accomplished pianist at a young age. Upon graduation from high school, she matriculated into Eastern New Mexico University where she attained a Bachelors’ of Science in Musical Arts. She met and married Jim Culberson while they were both students at Eastern. They moved to Lordsburg following their graduation from college. Dinah was active in numerous community and civic groups including the Order of the Eastern Star, Rainbow Girls, Beta Sigma Phi, and the Lordsburg Centennial Committee. She played the piano for countless weddings, school programs and other special events for members of the community. Even though she was the volunteer pianist and organist at First United Methodist Church since the mid-1960s, she blessed congregations all over Lordsburg and in numerous states with her musical offerings. She taught piano to people of all ages in Lordsburg. She was active in

Doll Baby Ranch, Payson AZ 175 head, 148 acres deeded w/36,000 forest allotment. Grandfathered Water Rights off of live water, 1½ hour north of Phoenix, AZ. Price Reduced to $2,750,000 Slash TL Ranch, Tombstone AZ. 14,000 acres, 300 head yearlong, improvements need attention. Priced @$1,500,000 Lazy NJ Ranch, Gleeson AZ. 7060 acres, 150 head yearlong, strong grass country. Priced @$1,350,000 Hunt Ranch Douglas AZ. 2462 acres with 2500 state lease, 103 head yearlong, well watered, easy to operate, paved access. Priced @$1,245,500

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her local church where she accompanied the adult and children’s choirs, served as youth leader and Sunday School teacher, and served on countless boards and committees. She served on many teams for the Walk to Emmaus and Kairos Outside ministry. She also toured internationally with the Continental Singers and later with Loaves & Fishes International which ministered specifically to the Ukraine Challenge. Dinah is survived by her husband of 52 years, Jim; her sons and their wives, Vic (wife, GiGi) Culberson, Dave (wife, Holly) Culberson, and Brian (wife, Michelle) Culberson; her five grandchildren; and her brother and his wife, Ernie and Xiu Long. David George Farr, 83, Datil, passed away on January 12, 2015. He was born on October 10, 1931 in Albuquerque, New Mexico to George David Farr and Edith Funk Farr. He spent his boyhood summers on the San Augustine Plains and during the school year attended in Albuquerque, while living with his grandmother, Ida Mae Farr. He graduated from Albuquerque High School in 1949. After graduation, he moved back

out to the ranch where he worked for two years before joining the Marine Corps in the early 1950s. He then returned to the ranch in 1953 where he went back to work and roped and went to rodeos whenever he could. Dave met Karen Sybil Moen at a rodeo in August in Los Alamos in the summer of 1956, and they married on February 26, 1957. They moved back to the ranch where they had two children and worked together as a team for over 57 years. Dave did what he loved, raising good Hereford Cattle and always improving the Ranch. He was a lot more progressive than most people realized when it came to ranching – dividing pastures and running pipelines – anything to make things better for the cattle and more efficient for the ranch. He even thought the “damned Angus Bulls” would improve the bottom line and allowed them to be brought out in 1999! Dave enjoyed good horses and was lucky enough to ride quite a few in his time. He loved to rope and there was no telling how far he could have gone with more chances to get out to more rodeos. But he also loved the ranch, and continued on page 79

Southwest New Mexico Farms & Ranches 27.50 Acre Farm – Consists of 3 tracts – 8 Acres, 8 Acres, & 11.5 Acres – will sell separately. Full EBID & shared irrigation well. Community water, electric, telephone & gas on Camunez Road to adjoining property. Beautiful farm land, great mountain & valley views. Take Highway 28 south to San Miguel, east or left on Highway 192, first right or south on Las Colmenas, then left or east on Camunez to end of pavement. Priced at $467,000 DAN DELANEY REAL ESTATE, LLC

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worked his hardest to make it the best he could. He was a man of few words, but he always gave a straight answer when asked, and you always knew his opinion without a doubt! Dave was no stranger to hard work, and he enjoyed playing just as hard, just maybe not as often. He liked to take a day or two for roping, and one of his favorite sports besides roping cattle was getting some friends together to rope burros out on the ranch. He always gave them plenty of advice to stay safe, watch for holes, etc, but once the race was on, he wouldn’t hold to any of it! He is survived by his wife Karen, their son Roy, (wife, Elena); their daughter Amy Williams (husband, Mickey); four grandchildren and one great-grandson, and his nieces Marie and Mary Farr. Kimberly M. Mitchell, 53, Albert, passed peacefully into the hands of the Lord on February 13, 2015. She was born in Raymondville, Texas on March 26, 1961 to Harvey Kurt Mutz and Billie Nell Mutz. A graduate of Sharyland High School (Mission, Texas), class of 1979,

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Kim earned a Bachelor of Science in Agricultural Economics at Texas A&M University in 1984. She met the love of her life, Terry Robert Mitchell, at TAMU in August 1979 and they married on July 27, 1985. Married for 29 years, the two lived in Albert on the Tequesquite Ranch. All those who encountered Kim were drawn to her vibrant, magnetic personality as evidenced by the countless friendships she created throughout her life. She was a loving rancher’s wife and stern but nurturing mother who acted as executive assistant to her husband. With the grit of a cowgirl and the grace of a lady, she loved working cattle and conserving the land and heritage with Terry. Kim was actively involved with the Mesa Soil and Water Conservation District; New Mexico Association of Conservation Districts; El Llano Estacado Resource Conservation & Development Council; and New Mexico Association of Resource Conservation and Development. She was a member of the Mosquero Community Church as a devout Christian and prayer warrior who placed her faith and family in God’s hands. She made it a point to pray every day for

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her three children as well as their future spouses and their lives together. Her enthusiasm for life was evident and her love of family foremost. Kim is survived by her loving husband, Terry R. Mitchell, Albert; her children, Tanner Mitchell, Albert, Ashleigh Mitchell, Grants, and Zachary Mitchell, United States Navy; mother, Billie Mutz, Mission; her father and step-mother, Harvey and Minerva Mutz, Mission; sisters and brothers-inlaw, Tracy (husband, Brannon) Brooke, New Braunfels, Texas, Pamela (husband, Paul) Kemp, Gatesville, Texas, and Tricia Brown, Mission; her step-brother, Alex Mutz, Corpus Christi; her half-brother, Kurt Mutz of Lubbock, TX; and many beloved nieces and nephews. Editor’s Note: Email caren@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. The NM Stockman runs memorials as a courtesy to its readers. If families & friends would like to see more detail, verbatim pieces must be emailed to us, & may be printed at 10¢ per word.

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Lazy EH: Western AZ, 122.5 ac deeded, 260,000 ac BLM/ State Lease. 11,500 AUM ephemeral/500 AU yearlong. 17 wells, 2 pumps on CAP canal. $875,000. Con Englehorn

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C6 Ranch: Sonoita/Patagonia AZ. 165 head, 45 acres deeded, 8700 acres forest lease great water, good improvements. $725,000. Sam Hubbell-Tom Hardesty Stockton Pass: Beautiful SE AZ Ranch North of Willcox, Mountain Ranch 145 head AU, Deeded Surrounded by forest. Reduced to $975,000. Walter Lane Red Top Ranch: 3,800 deeded acres in SE AZ. Priced at $197 per deeded acre. Walter Lane Wildhorse Basin Ranch: Yavapai county, 864 deeded, 6701 State Lease, $3,900,000. Con Englehorn

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he 2015 New Mexico State Legislature is history. Governor Susana Martinez has 20 days from the close of the Legislature, March 21, to sign, veto, or pocket veto the less than 200 bills that made it to her desk. The Session was unique as they all are. It seemed to take awhile to get rolling but there were enough early morning and late night committee meetings to wear a person out. Some have been critical of the perceived lack of action by the body during the 60 days. Undoubtedly there was some important legislation that should have been addressed but wasn’t. But there have been many wiser than me that have said we have enough laws on the books… maybe we should start taking some laws off the books one of these years.

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state as a whole. The New Mexico Cattle Growers’ Association (NMCGA) followed numerous bills, some to support, some to oppose. Here is a list of those bills NMCGA supported that made it to the Governor’s desk: HB 38 Forest & Watershed Restoration Act – This bill creates a fund for large scale collaborative watershed restoration. SB/HB 112 Define Agricultural Use for Property Tax – This bill provides guidance to county assessors in times of drought. SB 123 Clarify Livestock Definition – There were conflicting definitions of livestock in livestock code preventing prosecution of some thefts. This measure standardizes the definitions. (A sheep thief avoided prosecution because sheep were not in one of the definitions.) SB 226 Use of Public Water & Landowner Protection – This measure codifies current practices of the Game Commission in terms of stream access, clarifying the confusion created by the former Attorney General’s opinion on the subject. SB 398 Running at Large of Livestock – This bill addresses antiquated language in the livestock code changing the word “shall” to “may” when county commissions are considering petitions. The most notable of those the Association opposed were the anti-coyote hunting contest and anti-trapping bills. (See last month’s “Point” for details on these measures.) Among the disappointments during the Session were the demise of the Federal Lands Study Commission (also see last month), the enhanced Right to Farm Bill and the video-ing of animal cruelty without timely reporting enhancement to the animal cruelty statute. I cannot help reiterating some of last month’s column on the animal cruelty topic. I remain astounded that a group call Animal Protection of New Mexico (APNM) could stand up and support animal cruelty and go on to state that 72 percent of the continued on page 85

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American public supports it too. The theory is that undercover videos are necessary “to build a case” against cruelty perpetrators; one must takes weeks and months of video. Then they must be held and edited for weeks and months before being turned over to appropriate authorities, often in concert with a media blitz. All the while, the purported animal cruelty continues. I really doubt that that 72 percent of the American public totally gets the process of these undercover videos they are supporting.

Foiling the plan…

This wasn’t the only crossing of horns with APNM during the 2015 Legislature. The group generally comes forward with something to make the animal cruelty statute more aggressive and invasive. This year they took a different tact. Their first bill, HB 147, was aimed at moving the Animal Sheltering Board from under the Regulation & Licensing Department Board to the Environment Department. Seemed like an odd fit especially considering that the Animal Sheltering Board was created under the livestock code. The Board was created in 2007 and began taking actions in 2009, although the body is supposed to have nine (9) members from the following: (1) one euthanasia agency employee with training and education in euthanasia; (2) one veterinarian who has provided paid or unpaid services to an animal shelter; (3) one representative from a nonprofit animal advocacy group; (4) one member of the public; (5) a manager or director of a New Mexico facility that provides shelter to animals on a regular basis, provided that the manager or director selected is trained in animal shelter standards; (6) one representative of the New Mexico association of counties; (7) one representative of the New Mexico municipal league; (8) one member of a rescue organization; and (9) one member of the domestic pet breeder community. No more than two board members shall be appointed from any one county within the state. Appointments shall be made in such manner that the terms of no more than three board members expire on July 1 of each year. Currently there are only three (3)

members. We are unsure of there ever has been a full Board but the small group has been taking actions since 2009. According to its website, the function of the Animal Sheltering Board is to license euthanasia technicians and euthanasia agencies (animal shelters that perform euthanasia) and will certify euthanasia instructors who teach euthanasia technician training courses. The Board’s rules set requirements for obtaining a license or certificate and set forth duties of the licensees and certificate holders. The Board will inspect licensed euthanasia agencies, investigate complaints filed about the provision of euthanasia services at a euthanasia agency, hold hearings on complaints as needed, and take disciplinary action as appropriate for violations of the Animal Sheltering Act or the rules under the Act. In July 2009 the Animal Sheltering Board adopted rules to regulate the provision of euthanasia services at animal shelters in New Mexico. Other functions of the Board are to develop recommended shelter standards for infrastructure and operations and to address companion animal overpopulation and spay/neuter programs. Note that the standards for shelters will be rec-

ommended, not mandatory. The Board will not, unless its enabling legislation is changed, have the authority to enforce the recommended standards. The Board doesn’t have authority to investigate complaints about shelter standards. The Environment Department didn’t take a position on the move. Although the NMCGA quietly worked against the bill, it sailed through the House. Then the plot thickened. About the same time as the transfer bill started through Senate, HB 415, Statewide Dog & Cat Spay & Neuter Program, popped up on the radar. It had been called to our attention during the coyote/trapping wars and we didn’t pay enough attention. This little gem started out with “new material” of an optional designation of tax refund contribution and looked benign enough. It become more sinister as it created a sub account and fund to carry out a statewide spay and neuter program. But remember, the Animal Sheltering Board can only recommend. The killer came at the end where it took the Animal Sheltering Board’s duties from recommending spay and neuter plans to implementing a statewide spay and neucontinued on page 86

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ter program. The diabolical plan came to light. The Regulation & Licensing Department doesn’t really have enforcement powers. The Environment Department does. If the Statewide Spay & Neuter bill, with its funding, passed AND the Animal Sheltering Board was moved to the Environment Department, that Board would be in a much more powerful position in terms of enforcement.

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Then came the final Tuesday of the Legislature and the final meetings of the Senate Conservation Committee and the Senate Public Affairs Committee. HB 147, the transfer to Environment Department bill showed up on the Consent Calendar for the Conservation Committee. A bill can move by consent, with no need for a hearing, when there is no one in the room opposed to the bill. Michelle was in Albuquerque working and recovering from a bad bout of the flu. I was in Albuquerque taking my FBI Citizens Academy Class (more on this topic later). President-Elect Pat Boone was in Stephenville, Texas, watching his son, Cinco, coach the

Angelo State Rams in the NCAA Division II Sweet 16. Alicia was in Santa Fe with NMCGA Director Alfredo Roybal. When Alicia saw the Consent Calendar, she texted Michelle for direction. The answer was at least get HB 147 pulled off of consent and get a hearing. Sweet, innocent looking, demure Alicia and Alfredo stood up to oppose the bill on consent. That led to a Committee discussion and the realization that the Animal Sheltering Board was agency shopping – a practice generally frowned upon by the Legislature without a valid reason for a move. That led to the bill being tabled and effectively dying. A bit later in the evening the Senate Public Affairs Committee took up HB 415, the statewide spay and neuter program bill. The National Animal Interest Alliance (NAIA) Albuquerque Kennel Club’s Robert DeYoung arrived with an amendment in hand to at least make the program a voluntary program, taking away the teeth of the bill. The Kennel Club and many other dog and cat owners had primed the Committee with the problems in the bill. Alicia and Alfredo arrived on the scene and took up the cause. The result was the bill was amended to require the Animal Sheltering Board to develop criteria for

individuals, groups, animal shelters, and euthanasia agencies to receive assistance for dog and cat sterilization. The amendment also required the Board to develop a voluntary statewide dog and cat spay and neuter program. To say APNM was livid with rage would be an understatement. The group’s executive director attempted to keep Alicia from leaving the hearing room and berated her. If there is a badge of honor at the Legislature, Alicia earned it in her first year! I am sorry I missed it. One might wonder why NMCGA would spend time on dog and cat specific legislation. There are many reasons. The most successful folks in the Legislature are those who can build broad coalitions on a wide variety of issues. Bob DeYoung has his hands full with his full time job and his dogs. But he took time out of his schedule to support NMCGA, all of agriculture, and the hunting and trapping folks, in the fight against anti-coyote and anti-trapping. He showed up for Right to Farm and made calls and emails on most of our issues. Additionally, the assault against pets is one that is coming to animal agriculture faster than anyone thinks. If you can tell people whether or not they can own intact animals or require a fee to own and possess such animals and the principle will remain with dogs and cats, you might think again.

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In retaliation, APNM openly joined forces with the trial lawyers, conservation voters, the Sierra Club and other opponents of the Right to Farm Bill. While it was disappointing that this bill didn’t make it through its last committee in the Senate, it wasn’t because of opposition. It just ran out of time and didn’t get heard.

The Process

Some may wonder why Right to Farm was an issue for yet another year. It is because there is a long way to go until agriculture is protected against those who want animal agriculture stopped. This was the third or fourth year there has been a right to farm bill. The first year(s) the measure died. Last year we were successful in get only one word, yes, just a single word was changed. It generally takes at least five (5) years to get a measure passed. So, we have a few years to go.

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Clones and Groans by BARRY DENTON

f you are so inclined you can get up this morning and order a clone of your favorite horse, mule, cow, or sheep. I am sure we are not far off from ordering an extra you! On the high side of this idea you could get much more done if you multiplied yourself. However, if you succeeded in multiplying yourself, now you would have to multiply the people that are capable of putting up with you. This is where it would get tricky. I have often wondered why God did not give us guidelines for this in the Bible. He should have known that if you give humans free will then they would try to come up with a way to get out of work. Look at how many people we have on the public dole. If we get too many clones of ourselves working all the time will we have to have civil clones movement on our hands? Let’s say that you want to clone your most talented horse. We should probably jump ahead 50 years until cloning is perfected. You will be able to end up with an exact replica of your good horse. Now you have two great horses. In my book it spells financial disaster as it just made your good horse worth half as much because there are now twice as many. How do you justify what it cost you to clone him? Perhaps in 50 years the price of cloning will have gone down as it will be so commonplace. Now let’s say you wanted all

in 2015, in reality a clone will not be good enough in 2019 as all your fellow competitors have had four years to get that much better, but your horse is still stuck at the 2015 level. It might work on a ranch horse where things do not change very quickly. However, if it costs $50,000 to clone, then that is a very expensive ranch horse. Many people will not even talk about cloning because they say it is messing with God. That is an interesting point, but God knows we are experimenting with cloning. If he made us, then what would he expect us to do? The human race needs to move progressively forward and figure out for itself whether it is good or not. We humans have never been short on trying odd things. Not too long ago I sat through a seminar on cloning horses. However, I was not convinced it was anything great. One avenue where it might become great is if they could clone body parts and not the entire human. Just think if you needed a new kidney and they could go and get one out of the cooler. What if they could clone Secretariat’s huge heart? Someday you could literally meet yourself n coming and going!

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your cowboys mounted well so you clone ten of your good horse. If all the horses are exactly the same I guess you will find out who the best cowboy is. If you had ten of the clones in a corral you would have to number them? Well, maybe not if they are all the same it wouldn’t matter which one you rode each day. It would make shoeing much easier as all the feet would be the same. You would only have to keep one size horseshoe at the ranch. You may want to take this one step further and clone your good cowhand and cowdog. The cloning will allow us to cut down on the number of the people in the world and make hiring so much easier. Clones would eat the same so you could clone the cowhand that works the hardest and is the cheapest to feed. I think it is quite clear that cloning is the answer to most of the rancher’s problems. I will not get into cloning the ranch wife. I will let you fellows create your own domestic bliss. On a serious note, if you are cloning a great rope horse then it will be at least three or four years before you start using him. Keep in mind that as time goes on all competitions become tougher. So just because you had the champion rope horse

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Here’s what cowcalf producers can learn from grain farmers by TROY MARSHALL, IN MY VIEW FROM THE COUNTRY, BEEF MAGAZINE

he cow-calf industry has always had one significant advantage, which conversely can also be a disadvantage, compared to other agricultural segments. Whether you’re talking farming or our pork and poultry competitors, the genetic interval doesn’t allow the beef industry to adjust supply as quickly, or correspondingly, prices. The result is that the bad times for cow-calf producers tend to last longer than in the other sectors, and so do the good times. The upside is that this provides cow-calf producers with a longer planning horizon and, often, more opportunity to manage risk. With that said, there are, however, some valuable lessons that beef producers can take from the grain production side. Grain producers – corn producers, in particular – had a very good and extended period of profitability, as the advent of ethanol subsidies overnight changed the demand structure for corn. Farmers responded to these good times as expected by setting new records for production. Despite this unprecedented growth in demand, farmers quickly raised production levels to the point that prices today are near or below production cost levels. Diversity seemed like a wonderful thing, but 14 billion bushels of corn coupled with $40 oil prices isn’t exactly the diversity they were looking for. If you throw in the fact that the livestock industry extremely curtailed the use of their product and downsized considerably as a result of higher grain prices, and the grain industry is facing a reality that seemed unimaginable just a few years ago. The cattle industry’s scenario differs in that, while demand has been showing improvement, the real push behind the current boom has been related to supply. Our industry can’t increase production like the grain industry, but with the cooperation of Mother Nature, expansion will occur on the beef side as well. It’s important to remember that these “good” times are almost by definition temporal in nature. Eventually, prices will come back closer to breakeven levels.

While the time horizon for grain farmers is more compressed than it is for cattlemen, the risks are similar. In our community, for instance, we’re already hearing stories – and witnessing the scheduling of sales – of producers who overextended themselves and didn’t prepare for the return of more normal margins. I have been and remain extremely bullish in terms of cattle prices and the beef industry in general. I can think of no worse advice than that given the last four years that has urged caution, but we do know

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e the people love beef. Don’t believe me? Listen to the late Robert Mitchum, or whiskey-voiced cowboy star Sam Elliott: “Beef. It’s what’s for dinner.” Did you see Uncle Sam’s lips moving? The “what’s for dinner” campaign was the creation of an obscure federal panel called the Cattlemen’s Beef Promotion and Research Board, which uses a $1-per-head tax on beef cattle to encourage Americans to eat lots of cow products. The spirit of the Beef Board hovered over the Supreme Court recently as the justices considered the Texas license-plate case, Walker v. Texas Division, Sons of Confederate Veterans.

Many people see Walker as a case about the Confederate Battle Flag; but Walker has little to do with the flag, and much to do with a recent invention of the Court, the doctrine of “government speech.” The Limits of Free Speech

It’s worth understanding that idea for two reasons. First, whatever the Court decides, we are going to hear more, perhaps a great deal more, about government speech again soon. And, second, the Court’s venture into this area seems to follow a long-established pattern of First Amendment growth. At first, the Court announces that a certain kind of speech—defamation, say, or obscenity—is outside the First Amendment; next, government bodies begin restricting that kind of speech; finally, the Court narrows the exception to Free Speech to manageable size. Government speaks to the people all the time: E pluribus unum; No Smoking; Only You Can Prevent Forest Fires. No one has ever seriously suggested that, having posted a sign or sponsored an ad, the government has to also sponsor the opposing view—What the hell? Go Ahead and Smoke Here; or Forest Fires are Fun

for the Whole Family. But that said, there’s something odd about the idea of the government as “speaker” like any other speaker in the marketplace of ideas. Government is Hobbes’s Leviathan with the biggest bullhorn in the world; can it be true that citizens have no more right to intervene in government speech than the government has in theirs? The idea of government as a speaker with a viewpoint first came into focus in a 1991 case called Rust v. Sullivan. That case concerned a federal program, Title X, which funds family-planning and reproductive health services. Title X clinics have never performed abortions. The authorizing statute, passed in 1970, does not fund programs where “abortion is a method of family planning,” but the original regulations allowed program doctors to tell patients when health conditions made abortion a prudent choice, and to refer them to clinics that offered it. In 1988, however, the Reagan Administration announced what came to be called the “gag rule.” Under the new rule, Title X-funded providers could not recommend continued on page 93

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“How did you and your mother get along?” “Same as any cow-calf pair, I guess. Although she was pretty high in the peckin’ order. It put a lot of pressure on me to achieve.” “Like at the branding. I had to be first! Unfortunately, they let the local banker and the vet rope first. Took forever! “I remember when I first got my horns. A lot of other heifers hadn’t started growing horns yet. They were jealous, It wasn’t my fault the bull calves thought I was attractive. “But everything turned sour when they ear tagged me! Yellow! Can you believe it, yellow! I’ve never been so embarrassed! “Then I got a 104 temperature! I felt so left out. I was hospitalized, intravenous

injections and everything! “Finally last spring I met this bull. We made plans. He had a future, had cute rounds, too! I was blind to what was going on around me. I didn’t believe the rumors that he’d been seen with other heifers. Then it was too late! “I had a tough gestation, morning sickness, strange cravings for mint silage and bone meal. Then I had little Billy. “I don’t know, I guess, I’m just depressed. Is this all there is to life...eat grass, have a calf?” “Char,” I said, “You’re a cow. You’ve got to accept it. You’ll never run in the Kentucky Derby or hunt pheasant. You’ll never dance on stage or sing like Miranda. “Be satisfied with the bovine things you do well.” She looked at me and nodded, “Yeah, I guess you’re right, Doctor,” And she left. As I reflected on Char and my unique veterinary specialty, I realized how lucky I was to have a job that was so satisfying and so easy. Yup, the world would be a kinder, gentler place is everyone had the IQ of a n cow.

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abortion, discuss it as an option, or refer patients to doctors who performed abortions. If a patient inquired, the provider was limited to saying, “this program does not consider abortion a method of family planning”—even if the patient had an underlying health problem that made abortion medically advisable. The Court, 5-4, brushed aside a freespeech challenge by a group of providers and patients. Chief Justice William Rehnquist wrote: To hold that the Government unconstitutionally discriminates on the basis of viewpoint when it chooses to fund a program dedicated to advance certain permissible goals because the program, in advancing those goals, necessarily discourages alternate goals would render numerous government programs constitutionally suspect. When Congress established a National Endowment for Democracy to encourage other countries to adopt democratic principles, it was not constitutionally required to fund a program to encourage competing lines of political philosophy such as Communism and Fascism. Two days after his inauguration, President Bill Clinton rescinded the Title X “gag rule.” But the idea of government as a player in the marketplace of ideas had begun to take on solid form. Enter the Beef Board. Some ranchers challenged the check-off as a violation of their First Amendment right not to speak. The Court’s precedents seemed to support them—just four years earlier, it had struck down a similar program to promote mushroom sales. But in 2005, Justice Scalia, supported by five justices, belittled the challengers’ qualms. “Compelled support of government, even those programs of government one does not approve, is of course perfectly constitutional, as every taxpayer must attest,” Scalia wrote. Because the beef program was designed and run by the government, the First Amendment did not even apply. “[C] ompelled funding of government speech does not alone raise First Amendment concerns.” The Beef Board rule was, as scholar Robert Post later wrote, “a blunt ipse dixit,” which is lawyer talk for “do it because I’m the daddy.” The lack of a real explanation left the “government speech” doctrine dangerously adrift, like a loose barge on a swollen river. The doctrine next appeared in 2009 in a

dispute over monuments in Pioneer Park in the metropolis of Pleasant Grove, Utah. Pleasant Grove allowed the Benevolent and Protective Order of Eagles to erect a large stone monument to the Ten Commandments. In 2003, a New Age religion, Summum, requested permission to erect a similar monument to the Seven Summum Principles(here’s one of the less obscure ones: “As above, so below; as below, so above”), which its members believe were on the original stone tablets handed down by God to Moses. (Moses got cheesed at the Israelites and broke the first set,remember?) The city rejected the gift and Summum sued, claiming that accepting the Ten Commandments created a “public forum” in the park, which they were entitled to use as well. Writing for eight of the nine justices, Samuel Alito rejected the argument. “The Free Speech Clause restricts government regulation of private speech; it does not regulate government speech,” Alito wrote. The government could choose to “say” the Ten Commandments and not to “say” the Summum Principles. Government is usually the loudest voice in the room; we need rules on how much attention it has to pay to citizens when it decides to shout. That brings us to the license-plate case. A license plate is not an occasional ad for beef and it’s certainly not a monument. It’s a sign, property of the state, that every motorist is required to display visibly at all times on his or her property. A lot of states, like Texas, have decided to cash in on this requirement by letting private groups pay to display messages on “specialized plates.” Is the license plate a First Amendment-free zone where the state can decide what to require each person to “say”—and what to forbid? In 1977 the Court held that the state of New Hampshire couldn’t arrest a religious objector who covered over the state motto (“Live Free or Die”) on his plate; in the Texas case, the state wants the same “right”—it objects to the Battle Flag, and wants to cover it up. Because the plates are government speech, Scott Keller, the Solicitor General of Texas, told the justices, the state could use them to encourage some messages and groups, and to silence others, for any reason it chose, aesthetic or political—or indeed, for no reason except whim. The justices didn’t like that answer; they also didn’t like the idea, proposed by continued on page 94

What could the beef industry do differently? The beef industry has several key subjects that are relevant to the industry. They are growth, maintenance, reproduction, and carcass. I differ with two of the subjects and they are growth and carcass. There are a couple of things they could do differently. With growth, first time heifers exceed milk production and it creates open cows and heifers. Cows should have less milk and a higher butter fat and protein. Less milk would also get cows to breed in a 60- or 90-day breeding schedule. With a higher butter fat and protein test you will achieve a higher weight on a 7-month-old calf. Growth milk should be tested for 4-5% or above on butter fat and protein. If you were able to test a set of same sex twin calves you would see the difference. Given you could put one calf (the smaller calf) on a cow with a higher butter fat and protein test you would clearly see the difference. The smaller calf on the higher butter fat and protein milk will catch and even surpass the other calf in growth. For the best meat, a cow should be butchered at 12 to 15 months. In my lifetime of 78 years I have processed a lot of meat including many different breeds. Even lots of other types of meat such as pig, horse, goat, wild game, and some others I’ve tasted. There is too much fat marbling that goes into a prime carcass. Higher marbling is used for beef meat tenderness and taste which is a visual appraisal. How many times have you gone to the store and bought a nice piece of meat with great marbling and after you cook it you bite into it and its tougher than leather? Tenderness and tastes are acquired through genes. A higher marbling content creates cholesterol. Every cow herd has lean tenderness and taste bred for them. There are breeders and breed associations that know this and they are not touting marbling as a cure all for taste and tenderness. There are meat services from colleges that go with conventional thinking. Fifty years ago I graduated from college, and the beef mortality was high. The tools we have today help some but they are not enough. People fib about their calf mortality rate and breeding time schedule. With all the tools modern herdsmen have at their disposal, why can’t they do as well as other cloven hoof creatures? They deliver an offspring that stands as soon as it hits the ground and begins to suckle right away. All cloven hooved animals have no trouble with weak offspring except for western cattle. Take the following test: 1. How many calves did you wean? 70% - 80% - 90% - 101%? 2. How many of your cows have been sold because they didn’t conceive during a sixty or ninety day breeding schedule? 3. How many calves were treated with medicine in the first two weeks of life? 4. How many calves have you given colostrum? 5. How many breech births, retained afterbirth, or prolapsed uterus’ have you had? 6. Have you had to treat for uterine infections? 7. How many calves did you have to sell because they were underweight or did not fit the 60- or 90-day breeding schedule? 8. Wouldn’t you like to have calves born in a 60- or 90day period or less? 9. Does your calving schedule leave you exhausted? If you are using a bull with a weak loin and he’s posed up on a hill or a mound of soil, you are canceling out calving ease. There is more to calving ease than a large pelvis and a small birth weight because that is just a band aid fix for calving. There is much to learn about calving ease, read William B. Tegtmeier’s book to acquire more knowledge. What a disaster it has become for the western world of cattle! 209-840-1449 • 209-840-1805 APRIL 2015

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the lawyer for the Sons of Confederate Veterans, that a state that sells “specialized” plates must provide one containing any word or symbol, no matter how foul. Government is usually the loudest voice in the room; we need rules on how much attention it has to pay to citizens when it decides to shout. A workable rule will balance citizens’ speech rights against government necessity. A number of the justices don’t care much for balancing. But there’s really no escaping it in an area this delicate. The Texas case seems like a good chance for this Court to start settling n this beef.

Measuring the impact of changing antibiotic rules by JOHN MADAY, EDITOR, BOVINE VETERINARIAN

ver since the FDA issued its Draft Guidance 213 and the proposed Veterinary Feed Directive (VFD) rules in 2013, veterinarians and industry stakeholders have wondered about measurement. The FDA rules of course, are intended to encourage judicious use of antimicrobials and thus reduce the risk of development of antimicrobial resistance in pathogens, and the industry generally has supported this effort. But, many have asked, how will we know whether the rules, once implemented, have any positive impact? Will the industry be able to measure and report significant reductions in antibiotic use or lower prevalence of resistant pathogens? During the recent National Institute for Animal Agriculture (NIAA) conference in Indianapolis, the NIAA Antibiotics Council discussed program goals and metrics with officials from the FDA and USDA. Craig Lewis, DVM, MPH, DACVPM, from FDA’s Center for Veterinary Medicine (CVM), says the agency sees a need for collecting more on-farm data on antibiotic use and resistance trends, and is currently developing a plan for collecting, analyzing and applying that data. Currently, FDA cooperates with the USDA and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in the National Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring System (NARMS), and also collects data on total sales of antimicrobials for use in animals. More data will be needed to augment those efforts and determine the effectiveness of FDA’s strategy for judicious use of antimicrobials. That strategy focuses on two primary policies. First, Guidance 213 aims to eliminate use of medically important antimicrobials for production or performance purposes in livestock. In addition, FDA intends to require veterinary oversight of the use of antimicrobials in feed and water through the proposed VFD rule. In 2014, Lewis says, CVM substantially enhanced its annual survey on the quantity of antimicrobials sold for use in animal agriculture. Addition of on-farm use and resistance data, coupled with data currently collected through NARMS, will provide information for assessment of the impacts of the judicious use strategy. continued on page 95

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The FDA initiated their strategy in December 2013, with a three-year timeline for implementation. They have indicated they will finalize the proposed VFDrule early this year. Also early this year, Lewis says CVM plans to hold a public meeting to discuss the on-farm data-collection strategy to support the judicious use strategy. By later this year, CVM hopes to have the data-collection plan in place and begin collecting baseline data, prior to full implementation of Guidance 213 and the VFD rule in December 2016. By late 2016 and into 2017, with the changes in antimicrobial use fully implemented, CVM plans to implement its data collection and comprehensive assessment of antimicrobial use and resistance trends. Lewis says CVM intends to publish its first assessment report showing changes in antimicrobial use in 2018. USDA also will play a role in assessing progress in fighting antimicrobial resistance, and Larry Granger, DVM, senior leader for Veterinary Services (VS) at the USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), outlined his agency’s perspectives during the conference. Granger noted that antimicrobial resistance is a high priority for the Obama administration, which recently introduced a report on Combating Antibiotic Resistance, along with an executive order, based on the recommendations of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST). Among stakeholders outside of agriculture, Granger says, many believe the health risks associated with antimicrobial resistance are best resolved by reducing use. However, he says, data on antimicrobial sales alone are a poor indicator of actual use across production types and livestock species. Also, Granger points out, the VFD rule is not designed to limit appropriate use of antimicrobials. Instead, by increasing veterinary oversight, the rule should help ensure the right drugs are targeted toward appropriate pathogens at the correct dosages, with treatment records and results recorded. Granger says USDA, like FDA, advocates collection and dissemination of more science-based, actionable, quantitative antimicrobial use data coupled with information on resistance trends. His agency’s National Animal Health Monitoring System (NAHMS) could be enhanced to conduct more epidemiological work to

correlate use patterns with resistance. And he adds, the cooperative NARMS program could be enhanced to conduct biological sampling on farms or slaughter plants, with tests for antimicrobial sensitivity n then related back to farm practices.

App being developed for cattle producers

Technology to help track & submit data by ROXANNE BLACKWELL, WWW.WESTERNWHEEL.COM ave you ever been driving through a field, found a newborn calf and needed to write down its weight? There’s going to be an app for that. For cattle producers across the country, this is just one of the few pieces of information they need to track on a daily basis. Information like cattle records, supply logs and breeding dates all need to accounted for, and sometimes it’s just done by a rancher in a field scribbling something in a notebook. Beef industry organizations are looking to take this work high-tech by developing a smartphone app to help keep track of information as well as seamlessly share it with the various organizations and systems required. The Canadian Hereford, Simmental and Angus Associations were recently awarded a grant from the Alberta Livestock and Meat Agency to fund the first step to develop the app. Okotoks-based Integration Traceability Solutions Global (ITS Global) has been working on researching the tools breeders may want by collecting feedback through an online survey. ITS Global strategic initiatives associate Erin Hussey said they’re hoping to have a good idea of which direction they might like to go with an app after the online survey closes at the end of the month. “A big part of the survey was trying to gauge kind of what people like about the management software or management programs that they’re using now and what they didn’t like so we could work on identifying what was important and what wasn’t,” Hussey said. “And, equally as important is what they were using not just in terms of a smartphone or no smartphone, but which smartphone because, if we develop an app we need to learn to make sure that we develop it on a platform that people are using.”

In terms of what the app will be able to do for producers, she said they’re trying to figure out what is most needed. “We’ve asked which events they’re interested in tracking, whether it’s calving, breeding, health records, performance data, pedigree information or non livestock inventory like treatment products or feed or things like that,” Hussey said. Hussey said the ultimate goal with a potential app is simply to make life easier for cattle producers and hopefully improve efficiency in the industry as a whole. “I think as ranchers and cow calf producers and feedlots become more complex with their daily activities, if they can spend a little less time managing those day to day activities electronically and a little bit more doing them and then that’s where we see our role is making things easier for them and improving their efficiencies,” she said. Canadian Hereford Association executive director Steven Scott said he thinks developing an app will definitely help streamline the process. “Technology seems to be a growing part of the industry and I think for breeders alike, entering data only once into one system is key for them,” he said. “I think it’s the role of the software companies to ensure that all this data is easily transferrable from the producers’ on-farm software system to the breed associations, to BIXS to all of those different platforms, the breeders want their information to flow to.” Scott said this information is essential to their association as they use it to create generate Expected Progeny Differences, or EPDs, which are numbers that predict the genetic quality of future offspring. Scott said the more they know, the more they can improve the industry, so it’s essential that the breeders have a seamless way of transferring that information to them. “Our breeders will go and report data to us because they want to generate on their animals so those are like breeding numbers that they can use and market their animals or use the EPDs in their own breeding program to make breeding decisions,” he said. “So, it’s very important we get that information back because if the industry wants to better itself…we need to track it from the farm of origin to slaughter so it’s important that all that data comes back to the breed associations to be properly calculated into EPD.” He’s looking forward to hopefully working together with other organizations to find a solution that makes it easier for n breeders to share that information. APRIL 2015

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DICKINSON IMPLEMENT

Carlsbad, NM • Walley Menuey 800-386-1235

Tucumcari, NM • Luke Haller 575-461-2740

CORTESE FEED & SUPPLY

HORSE ‘N HOUND FEED ‘N SUPPLY

Fort Sumner, NM • Aaron Cortese 575-355-2271

COWBOYS CORNER

Lovington, NM • Wayne Banks 575-396-5663

Las Cruces, NM • Curtis Creighton 575-523-8790

OLD MILL FARM & RANCH

Belen, NM • Corky Morrison 505-865-5432

ONE STOP FEED INC

Clovis, NM • Austin Hale 575-762-3997

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ROSWELL LIVESTOCK & FARM SUPPLY Roswell, NM • Kyle Kaufman 575-622-9164

STEVE SWIFT

Account Manager • Portales, NM 575-760-3112

GARY CREIGHTON

Cattle Specialist • Portales, NM 800-834-3198 or 575-760-5373

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