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PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE by Randell Major NMCGA President

Randell Major President Magdalena Loren Patterson, President-Elect Corona Dustin Johnson NW Vice President Farmington Cliff Copeland NE Vice President Nara Visa Jeff Decker SE Vice President Lovington Roy Farr Vice President at Large Datil Shacey Sullivan Secretary/Treasurer Peralta Tom Sidwell Immediate Past President Quay Pat Boone Past President Elida

would like to thank our committees for getting involved. Dave Kenneke, chairman of the Wildlife committee, has meetings on the 2nd of every month. They recently worked on a plan concerning recent cuts in landowner Elk Authorizations and other issues. John Richardson, chairman of the Federal and Trust Land sub-committee, is planning meetings for his committee. We also had the sub-committee chairs and co-chairs from Energy, Federal and Trust Lands, Private Lands, Water, and Wildlife to review the paragraph in the new lease concerning access over private lands to State Trust Land. If you are a committee chairman and would like to start meeting on issues that pertain to your committee, let Jonas know and he will get you set up. NCBA, as a national leader, should be more attentive to the hardships of its producers and not the packing companies who have their own representation. There is no doubt the necessity of the packing companies. Covid-19 has definitely shown us that and the lack there of. We the producers just ask for a level playing field. America does not need to import lean trim beef to meet consumer demand. We already have the lean trim beef in the United States. At present, while importing lean trim beef, they are practically stealing our old cows- $600-$900 per head. I’m not sure who’s imported meat figures are correct; NCBA’s 12 percent or R-Calf’s 18 percent-20 percent. Any figure over 8 percent of anything has a tremendous effect on the price. If you use the low figure of NCBA’s 12 percent and put it on top of way over one million head of ripe, overfed, backed up fat cattle, you create a market problem. Even if you take 12 percent and tack it on a normal slaughter market, there is significant influence on prices. Covid-19 did not start this financial disaster that we are in, it was three years in the making before the virus even arrived. We have barely been making enough money to stay in business, meet our obligations, take care of our dependents, and in the process, raise another calf for the packers to make their enormous profits. If we want a future for our business, we need to establish cash trade. So far, no news from the Department of Justice concerning the investigation of the big 4 packers. We have been told there will be no updates until this is all over. There is concern that the DOJ is focusing their investigation too closely on just the Anti-Trust violation, which is hard to prove. If we had transparency on what they are investigating, then we could get President Trump and Secretary of Agriculture Purdue to investigate specifically the Packers and Stockyards Act that the big 4 packers violated. This quote from a scene on the mini-series, Yellowstone sums it up; “Who’s going to feed the world when we are gone? Nobody, the world is just gonna go hungry”. I believe this is true. The recent pandemic has shown us how vulnerable our food system really is. Stay safe,

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men’s Beef Association (NCBA) didn’t have of another subsidiary, Godfather’s Pizza. On any readily available information on his arrival on April 1, 1986, Cain told employthis subject. ees, “I’m Herman Cain and this ain’t no April The word is that Burger King is now con- Fool’s joke. We are not dead. Our objective sulting the cooperative extension service is to prove to Pillsbury and everyone else for their future information on agriculture that we will survive.” Godfather’s Pizza was subjects… what a novel idea. performing poorly, having slipped in ranks Burger King didn’t make these blunders of pizza chains from third in 1985 to fifth in under the leadership of Herman Cain. Bet 1988. Under Cain’s leadership, Godfather’s they miss him as we all will. closed approximately 200 restaurants and According to Wikipedia, at age 36, Cain eliminated several thousand jobs, and by was assigned to analyze and manage 400 doing so returned to profitability. In a levBurger King stores in the Philadelphia area. eraged buyout in 1988, Cain, executive vice At the time, Burger King was a Pillsbury president and COO Ronald B. Gartlan, and subsidiary. Under Cain, his region posted a group of investors bought Godfather’s strong improvement in three years. Accord- from Pillsbury. ing to a 1987 account in the Minneapolis Star Tribune, Pillsbury’s then-president Win Back on the subject of NCBA… Wallin said, “He was an excellent bet. According to Corbett Wall and his Feeder Herman always seemed to have his act Flash on July 29 and 30, 2020 (https://www. together.” At Burger King, Cain “established nationalbeefwire.com/channels/8015-feedthe BEAMER program, which taught our er-flash ) another generation learned the employees, mostly teenagers, how to make hard lesson that cow-calf producers have our patrons smile” by smiling themselves. It no voice in that “national” organization. was a success: “Within three months of the Another battle was lost in the fight to program’s initiation, the sales trend was achieve fairness and transparency in beef moving steadily higher.” pricing in the face of the current packer Cain’s success at Burger King prompted concentration and foreign ownership. This Pillsbury to appoint him president and CEO latest effort was to pass NCBA policy that

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Some of those concerns were laid out and addressed in a September 2019 article that appeared in The Epoch Times (EPT) https://www.theepochtimes.com/howdodd-frank-made-it-legal-for-banks-toconfiscate-funds-during-a-banking-crisis_3097779.html . It should be noted that the article was written and sponsored by the GIS Exchange, a business to sell gold and silver. References to any benefits buying gold and/or silver have been omitted. The EPT reads, “Should another financial crisis befall us, rendering a number of too-bigto-fail banks insolvent, the good news is that taxpayers will no longer be forced to bail them out. The bad news is that these large Wall Street banks can now legally bail themselves out internally (referred to as “bail-ins”) using depositor funds. “Thanks to Dodd-Frank, if you happen to hold your money in a savings or checking account at a bank, and that bank collapses, it can legally freeze and confiscate your funds for purposes of maintaining its solvency. So instead of relying on government

funds (taxpayer money) to save itself from going bankrupt, a bank can simply dip into your deposit accounts to stabilize itself. “To compensate you, the bank will exchange your money for its equivalent value in company shares. In other words, if a bank fails, it takes your money and hands you an equivalent amount of shares in its failing operation. Ethical? No. Legal? Yes. “Let’s look at it from a big-picture perspective: a bank takes on reckless risks, achieves near-bankruptcy, crashes the economy in the process (as what happened in 2008), and retains the privilege of seizing your money to save itself? “Where’s the accountability in all this? How is this even legally permissible? Well, thanks to Dodd-Frank, banks can legally activate orderly liquidation authority, as stated in Title II of the act. “When you open a checking and savings account, the money you then deposit legally belongs to the bank. “So if you don’t technically “own” your own money, then what do you

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ooooooo, what are y’all doing? Are we there yet? While the country is in turmoil all around us, as ag producers, nothing much has changed. I’m still upset at how people acted over toilet paper, true story. What do we think about all the awful things we’re seeing? I can tell you what I think. I think we’re dang lucky to be in the ag industry that allows us to live further out and away from all that hateful mess. I have never, in my life, appreciated how I was brought up to respect other people and their property, as much as I do now. I like cows because...people. Are we safe? I don’t know. We can still provide food at this moment. As long as we can do that, we’re probably okay. Million dollar question: What happens when we can’t? We’ll be fine, we’re going to continue to eat and live sparsely like we do now. It won’t kill us. Here’s where the disconnect with the public comes in – they don’t know anything about where their food comes from other than it’s supposed to be at the stores. That uncertainty for them will cause dangerous panic. How many of you were happy as heck to see people start small gardens this year? That’s a small step in the right direction. I’m seeing many, many posts and articles on home canning and seeing a revival of those skills. This is great! It’s about time; too bad it took a political crisis to get people to turn the lights on. Another industry doing well right now is real estate of all things. Urban residents are selling out and moving to more rural areas. That opens up some new opportunities for teaching the newcomers how we do this and survive. The virus: ALL of our CowBelles events for the year have been placed on hold indefinitely. As most of them were to have 30 or more people, that does not meet the guidelines set forth by the governor. Elections have consequences and apparently, voting for governors is 100 percent as important as who you vote for as President. Stay Safe, –Charity Ann Saulsberry NM State CowBelles President

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The Chamiza CowBelles’ meeting was called to order at 12:13 p.m. July 2 in the Albert Lyon Event Center by President, Jeni Neely with six members present. All recited

the Pledge. The previous meeting minutes March meeting were read and approved. in March, 2020 were read along with the Treasurer’s report was given for the month Treasurer’s report. Both were approved as of June and sent for audit respectively. presented. The local had submitted two Under Committee reports, the scholarship names as nominees for Man of the Year. recipients were Shawn Agar, Santa Rosa., Nancy reported that a decision had been and Tiegan Copeland, Ft Sumner. Shawn reached by the State Man of the Year com- also received the Pat Nowlin Scholarship mittee. Nominations for CowBelle of the and the group is extremely proud of him. Year are due by October 15. Because circum- Courtesy cards were sent to the sweet stances warranted, this spring the group members who are unable to attend meetwas able to award two $4000 scholarships ings. Under Old Business, the annual B-B-Q locally. The winners were Buddy Neely and at Old Fort Days was cancelled due to Covid Shandi Treadwell. Deadline for the State CB shutdown which is where the scholarship Pat Nowlin scholarships was May 1. The monies comes from. Group is now looking collegiate scholarship was awarded to Cade for ideas for money making project and Hopkins from the local. Jeni received a further discussion will follow at next meetletter from Suzanne Hopkins requesting aid ings. Next meeting will be on September for her last college semester. She has a 3.4 10 at Karen Kellings home in Cuervo. Joan average GPA and is a current CowBelle. It Key, Secretary was decided to award Suzanne $500 for her Silver Spur CowBelles met June 25 at last semester. The Adam Petersen Memorial a CowBelle home. The meeting was called Ranch Rodeo will be held July 31, and Aug. to order by President Rachel with members 1 and 2 this year. If the organization requests present. The minutes were read and a donation to purchase beef for the cookoff, approved and the members recorded their the group voted to donate the same volunteer hours. The Treasurer’s report was amount ($500) as in previous years. There given and filed for audit. The group is curwill be a Sierra County Fair this fall in rently searching for a Treasurer. The June October; however, there will be modifica- Beef Supplement in the Union County tions which are still in the planning stages. Leader will feature the Ojo Feliz Ranch. Also, The “pickup party” which is the main fund- Rachel will email the information about the raiser for the fair, will be a virtual party. ads available for brands. The large one will There appear to be 26 steers being prepped cost $35, and the cost of the smaller one is for the fair so group is certain to have a beef $17.50. Information was passed along conavailable for the raffle. The processor has cerning the Union County Leader. They have been overwhelmed this summer so the local agriculture news as well as legislative group was informed it will be necessary to news. The Colfax County Fair was a topic of reserve a space for the raffle beef. Jeni will discussion. No one is completely sure what contact the processor and make the reser- the fair will look like this year due to the vation. Nancy has been distributing beef Covid-19 pandemic. The group will plan to raffle tickets but there remain several continue with cookies and water like as members who have not yet received their always. This year two cookies will be placed tickets. She is making every effort to deliver in a zip lock bag. No one will be touching them in person to avoid the increasing the cookies. Each participating member costs of mailing. Next meeting will be should bring two dozen cookies packaged August 6. The group will plan to conduct this way. The man of the year was also disthe meeting at the event center again cussed. Larry Lopez was nominated and unless the covid rules have changed. unanimously chosen to be Man of the Year Meeting adjourned at 1:11 p.m. Submitted 2020. Rachel will be in charge of getting a by Cathy Pierce plaque for him. She will have the trophy Powderhorn Cattlewomen met at the place in Cimarron create this plaque. Also, beautiful and historic home of Sondra Jacks the 5 States Meeting in Clayton was menon July 9 with Mary McClain serving as tioned. It was scheduled to be around co-host. Sondras home is located on the September 24th. Around 100 people usually “cap” above Taiban and part of the home has attend. Due to the pandemic, it is questionbeen there since 1919. Sondra and her able if it will take place. DATES TO husband, Bob, remodeled the original bunk REMEMBER: Jackie Shaw will be the hostess house and two rooms are that bunk house. for the meeting on Thursday, July 23 in Ute It has a wonderful family history and the Park. This will be an outdoor meeting. group enjoyed the tour. Brenda Copeland, Picnic food will be on the menu, and it will President, opened the meeting with invocontinued on page 23 >> cation, pledge and creed. Minutes from AUGUST 2020

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ot to be deterred by world events, the National High School Rodeo Association (NMSRA) didn’t disappoint the young people who had competed all year long for a chance to take their place at the 2020 Finals at the Lazy E Arena in Guthrie, Oklahoma, July 17 through 23. Peralta’s Quincey Sullivan made history when she became the first female to win the team roping. Quincey is the daughter of Russell and Shacey Sullivan.

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Bareback Riding

r. D. J. Harrison began breeding Quarter Horses in the 1930s on his ranch in Sonora, Texas, and began registering his Quarter Horses with the AQHA in 1941. The horses were raised primarily to work cattle. Mr. Dan J. Harrison, Jr. followed his father, raising Quarter Horses on his ranches in South Texas. His ranch outside Fulshear, Texas, served as the main breeding operation – as it still does today. In 1997, the American Quarter Horse Association honored both men with the Legacy Award, a recognition for their 56 continuous years of registering Quarter Horses. Horses like King Moore by King, Old Sorrel grandson, Little Huero, Les Glo, Skipa Star and Colonel Freckles heavily influenced the Harrison breeding program. If you visit Memorial Hall at the Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, you will see the niche which honors and perpetuates the memory of D. J. Harrison and Dan J. Harrison, Jr. In Western Horseman’s Legends, Volume 5, which features outstanding stallions and mares that have had a significant impact on the Quarter Horse breed, Skipa Star is featured. Our deceased stallion Skipastarsky, an own son of Skipa Star, was the 1983 AQHA High Point Jr. Heeling Horse, among many other accomplishments and sired 151 foals.

1. (OR) Mason Stuller, Veneta, Ore. 2. (MT) Sam Petersen, Helena, Mont. 3. (TX) Kolt Dement, Rusk, Texas 4. (TX) Kade Berry, Poolville, Texas 5. (CA) Jacek Frost, Browns Valley, Calif. 6. (KS) Ty Pope, Garnett, Kan. 7. (NE) Gauge McBride, Kearney, Neb. 8. (CO) Keenan Hayes, Hayden, Colo. 9. (UT) Dean Thompson, Altamont, Utah 10. (ID) Kelby Schneiter, Rexburg, Idaho

Barrel Racing

1. (UT) Jade Rindlisbacher, Lakeshore, Utah 2. (AR) Taycie Matthews, Wynne, Ark. 3. (NV) Wylee Mitchell, Pioche, Nev. 4. (LA) Kylie Conner, Welsh, La. 5. (MT) Lacey Lawrence, Jordan, Mont. 6. (NM) Avery Ledesma, Las Cruces, N.M. 7. (NM) Shacie Marr, Tularosa, N.M. 8. (MN) Austyn Tobey, Bemidji, Minn. 9. (OK) Paige Jones, Wayne, Okla. 10. (TX) Sally Love, Crawford, Texas

Boys Cutting

1. (TX) Carson Ray, Groveton, Texas 2. (OK) Kooper Branum, Marlow, Okla. 3. (TX) Mason Rust, Gordon, Texas 4. (OK) Cooper Mendenhall, Edmond, Okla. 5. (CO) Regan Wheatley, Calhan, Colo. 6. (TX) Russell Bushaw, Weatherford, Texas 7. (MS) Colby Moore, Kosciusko, Miss. 8. (NM) Trey Mitchell, Lamy, N.M. 9. (WA) Tice Hiner, Walla Walla, Wash. 10. (TX) Rance Peebles, Alpine, Texas

Breakaway Roping

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1. (LA) Hooter Murphy, Keachi, La. 2. (TX) Josie Conner, Iowa, La. 3. (LA) Kylie Conner, Welsh, La. 4. (NV) Grace Felton, Fernley, Nev. 5. (AR) Kenlie Raby, Mt. Vernon, Ark. continued on page 20 >>

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6. (NM) Evann Segura, Stanley, N.M. 7. (SC) Gracie Griffin, Pickens, S.C. 8. (MT) Haven Wolstein, Helena, Mont. 9. (CO) Amanda Terrell, LaSalle, Colo. 10. (NE) Jace Hurlburt, Arcadia, Neb.

Bull Riding

1. (LA) Kolby Stelly, Sulphur, La. 2. (NM) Clay Garley, Los Lunas, N.M. 3. (MO) Koltin Hevalow, Smithville, Mo. 4. (TX) Canyon Bass, Wimberley, Texas 5. (AL) Casey Roberts, Munford, Ala. 6. (KS) Lane Berkenmeier, Maple Hill, Kan. 7. (NE) Conner Halverson, Gordon, Neb. 8. (UT) Stran Nielson, Leamington, Utah 9. (HI) Ekolu Ribordy, Waianae, Hawaii 10. (OK) Lukasey Morris, Union City, Okla.

Tie-Down Roping

1. (TX) Riley Webb, Denton, Texas 2. (TX) Connor Atkinson, Needville, Texas 3. (TX) Kincade Henry, Mt. Pleasant, Texas 4. (OK) Blake Tatham, Pryor, Okla. 5. (ID) Waid Dalton, Richfield, Idaho 6. (OK) Ryon Neathery, Klondike, Okla. 7. (LA) Jacques Trahan, Hackberry, La. 8. (MS) Matt Watt, Emelle, Ala. 9. (KS) Trey Adams, Junction City, Kan.

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10. (MS) Jeb Stewart, Lucedale, Miss.

Girls Cutting

1. (TN) Jaycee Lowery, Gardendale, Ala. 2. (HI) Laura Coflin, Pukalani, Hawaii 3. (OK) Sadie Mendenhall, Edmond, Okla. 4. (IA) Emma Ricke, Lawton, Iowa 5. (TX) Robbin Rice, Sealy, Texas 6. (KS) Faith Miller, Allen, Kan. 7. (LA) Millie Frey, Eunice, La. 8. (UT) Sommer Amos, Loma, Colo. 9. (MS) Makenzie Moore, Kosciusko, Miss. 10. (TX) Ryann Packard, Mineral Wells, Texas

Goat Tying

1. (TX) Madalyn Richards, Hereford, Texas 2. (NE) Jessica Stevens, Creighton, Neb. 3. (AB) Kyla Kelly, Red Deer County, Alberta, Can. 4. (WY) Kadra Clark, Yoder, Wyo. 5. (OK) Jessie Ishmael, Miami, Okla. 6. (MO) Karsyn Fuchs, Marshall, Mo. 7. (OK) Hannah Giger, Wilburton, Okla. 8. (OR) Chloe Jo May, Junction City, Ore. 9. (FL) Courtney Grace Stalvey, Valdosta, Ga. 10. (NM) Shacie Marr, Tularosa, N.M.

Pole Bending

1. (TX) Rylee Hardin, Newcastle, Texas 2. (UT) MaRynn Moody, Delta, Utah

3. (CA) Brianna Sharp, Brentwood, Calif. 4. (TX) Chase McBee, Madisonville, Texas 5. (NE) Madison Mills, Eddyville, Neb. 6. (OK) Dessa Hext, Canadian, Texas 7. (UT) Jade Rindlisbacher, Lakeshore, Utah 8. (IN) Maci Jo Zimmerman, New Ross, Ind. 9. (MT) Harley Meged, Miles City, Mont. 10. (LA) Kaylee Kinney, Sulphur, La.

Saddle Bronc

1. (KS) Cable Wareham, Whiting, Kan. 2. (NE) Sage Miller, Springview, Neb. 3. (KS) Ty Pope, Garnett, Kan. 4. (SD) Malcom Heathershaw, Quinn, S.D. 5. (AR) Brett Coffman, Idabel, Okla. 6. (UT) Korby Christiansen, Emery, Utah 7. (SD) Teigan Clark, Meadow, S.D. 8. (TX) Gus Gaillard, Morse, Texas 9. (LA) Isaac Richard, Eunice, La. 10. (OR) Mason Stuller, Veneta, Ore.

Steer Wrestling

1. (UT) Cash Robb, Altamont, Utah 2. (TX) Landris White, Angleton, Texas 3. (LA) Grant Soileau, Bunkie, La. 4. (LA) Matthew Weeks, Keatchie, La. 5. (MT) Cole Detton, Great Falls, Mont. 6. (OK) Dawson Price, Guthrie, Okla. continued on page 22 >>

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7. (ND) Justin Inglis, Regan, N.D. 8. (FL) Clayton Culligan, Okeechobee, Fla. 9. (NM) Clate Harwell, Artesia, N.M. 10. (MO) Clay Clayman, Highlandville, Mo.

Team Roping

1. (NM) Luis Mendiaz, Santa Fe, N.M., Quincy Sullivan, Peralta, N.M. 2. (CO) Beto Cisneros, Avondale, Colo., Reece Wadhams, Pueblo, Colo. 3. (GA) Jackson Green, Roanoke, Ala., Trevor Boatwright, Marble, N.C. 4. (NM) Bladen Reno, Las Cruces, N.M., Bodie Hine, Ignacio, Colo. 5. (CO) Wyatt Wollert, Wiley, Colo., Brayden Fillmore, Penrose, Colo. 6. (AZ) Clay Cherry, Stanfield, Ariz., Logan Cullen, Casa Grande, Ariz. 7. (OR) Coy Aldrich, Terrebonne, Ore., Brayden Schmidt, Benton City, Wash. 8. (FL) Lacey Nail, Okeechobee, Fla., Cole Clemons, Okeechobee, Fla. 9. (LA) Hazen Martin, Sulphur, La., Gatlin Martin, Sulphur, La. 10. (MS) Mason Theriot, Poplarville, Miss., Matt Watt, Emelle, Ala.

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Reined Cow Horse

1. (TX) Trevor Hale, Perryton, Texas 2. (TX) Trail Townsend, Earth, Texas 3. (KS) Tylor Todd, Rexford, Kan. 4. (CO) Lannie-Jo Lisac, Pueblo, Colo. 5. (TX) Colee Charlesworth, Marathon, Texas, 6. (CO) Shelby Temple, Center, Colo. 7. (NV) Ali Norcutt, Fallon, Nev. 8. (CA) Pierce Wold, Wilton, Calif. 9. (UT) Sydney Davis, Lapoint, Utah 10. (OR) Natalie Thompson, Yoncalla, Ore.

All Around Rookie Cowboy

1. (NM) Sterlin Mitchell, Lamy, N.M. 2. (WI) Justin Gukenberger, Marshfield, Wis. 3. (OK) Luke Price, Pryor, Okla. 4. (OK) Blake Tatham, Pryor, Okla. 5. (TX) Kade Berry, Poolville, Texas 6. (AZ) Logan Cullen, Casa Grande, Ariz. 7. (TX) Kash Martin, Lufkin, Texas 8. (NM) Juanito Montoya Jr., Monticello, N.M. 9. (LA) Lane Touchet, Iowa, La. 10. (TX) Benny Proffitt, Canadian, Texas

All Around Cowboy

1. (OR) Mason Stuller, Veneta, Ore. 2. (KS) Ty Pope, Garnett, Kan. 3. (CO) Regan Wheatley, Calhan, Colo. 4. (MS) Matt Watt, Emelle, Ala. 5. (UT) Dean Thompson, Altamont, Utah

6. (CO) Keenan Hayes, Hayden, Colo. 7. (UT) Chase Webster, Kamas, Utah 8. (FL) Cole Clemons, Okeechobee, Fla. 9. (AZ) Garrett Hershberger, Litchfield Park, Ariz. 10. (CA) Pierce Wold, Wilton, Calif.

All Around Rookie Cowgirl

1. (NV) Syerra Silva, Lamoille, Nev. 2-3. (SD) Landry Haugen, Sturgis, S.D. 2-3. (MI) Carly Cowles, Whittemore, Mich. 4. (OK) Grace Gardiner, Ashland, Kan. 5. (NV) Rilee Christensen, Logandale, Nev. 6. (TN) Jaycee Lowery, Gardendale, Ala. 7. (AR) Taycie Matthews, Wynne, Ark. 8. (OK) Sadie Mendenhall, Edmond, Okla. 9. (CA) Brianna Sharp, Brentwood, Calif. 10-11. (NM) Evann Segura, Stanley, N.M. 10-11. (MO) Karsyn Fuchs, Marshall, Mo.

All Around Cowgirl

1. (LA) Kylie Conner, Welsh, La. 2.(UT) Jade Rindlisbacher, Lakeshore, UT, 1,020.00 3. (LA) Hooter Murphy, Keachi, La. 4. (KS) Tylor Todd, Rexford, Kan. 5. (NM) Shacie Marr, Tularosa, N.M. 6. (AB) Kyla Kelly, Red Deer County, Alberta, Can. 7. (CO) Shelby Temple, Center, Colo. 8. (NM) Quincy Sullivan, Peralta, N.M.

9. (IA) Emma Ricke, Lawton, Iowa 10. (SC) Gracie Griffin, Pickens, S.C.

AQHA Boys Horse of the Year

1. (TX) Seven S Crazy Horse (Batman), Trevor Hale, TX 2. (OK) Mosses Man, Landon Little, OK 3. (OR) T4 Pistols Perk, Coy Aldrich, OR 4. (MO) SS Catty Starlight (Reno), Jeb Nelsen, MO 5. (ND) Hot Shots, Caydon Roshau, ND 6. (Al) LS Savana Drifter (Primetime), Drew Clukey, Al 7. (NV) Be Cades Kat, Cade Bell, Nv 8. (KY) This Chic Shines, Jake Scheidler, KY 9. (NE) Mr Holi Doc Oak, Wacey Flack, NE 10. (NM) SCR Crackin One Time, Sterlin Mitchell, NM 11. (IA) Aristo Twister, Colton Stuva, IA

AQHA Girls Horse of the Year

1. (NV) Smokey Gold Jack, Wylee Mitchell, NV 2. (NE) Mr Poco Jack Sprat, Madison Mills, NE 3. (NM) Little Piston Boon, Evann Segura, NM 4. (TX) Bjs Last, Jayci Lee Byler, TX 5. (TN) Watch Ned Jack, Emma Kate, Wilder, TN 6. (OR) Peppys Sweet Lilly, Kennedy Buckner, OR 7. (WY) Vf A Famous Lady (Chili), Rayne Grant, WY 8. (ND) Metallic Diamond (Trouble), Anna Jorgenson, ND 9. (OK) Sonita Rio, Chaley Hext, TX

Girls Team Standings

1. TEXAS, 6,550.00 2. UTAH, 3,890.00 3. LOUISIANA, 3,410.00 4. OKLAHOMA, 3,140.00 5. NEW MEXICO, 2,645.00 6. WYOMING, 2,575.00 7. NEVADA, 2,528.33 8. KANSAS, 2,449.28 9. COLORADO, 2,071.78 10. IOWA, 1,842.50

Boys Team Standings

1. TEXAS, 10,335.00 2. KANSAS, 3,985.00 3. OKLAHOMA, 3,929.58 4. NEW MEXICO, 3,655.00 5. UTAH, 3,491.25 6. NEBRASKA, 3,241.00 7. COLORADO, 3,230.00 8. LOUISIANA, 3,195.00 9. IDAHO, 2,966.25 10. MONTANA, 2,625.00

Team Standings

1. TEXAS, 16,885.00 2. UTAH, 7,381.25 3. OKLAHOMA, 7,069.58 4. LOUISIANA, 6,605.00 5. KANSAS, 6,434.28

6. NEW MEXICO, 5,710.00 7. COLORADO, 5,301.78 8. NEBRASKA, 4,944.57 9. IDAHO, 4,356.25 10. MONTANA, 4,179.28

New Mexico Rifle Event Winners

4th Zane Cline, Corona, NM 10th Dalli Cain, Mountainair, NM Trap Shooting: 8th Gage Bruhn, Logan, NM

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be a potluck meal. The Colfax County Fair will be held August 5-8, 2020. Also, there will be an August CowBelle’s meeting. It will be on August 27, and Rachel will be the hostess. It is possible that it will be at the St. James in Cimarron. Rachel mentioned that the Mills Family from Eagle Nest paid their dues, and noted a change in JoLynn’s email. Rachel adjourned the meeting. See you all in Ute Park on July 23rd. New Mexico CowBelles: Thank you to all who have submitted their news to “Jingle Jangle”. Please send minutes and/or newsletters to: Jingle Jangle, Janet Witte, 1860 Foxboro Ct., Las Cruces, NM 88007 or email: janetwitte@msn.com by the 14th of every month.

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New Mexico Rankings in PRCA World Standings Tie Down Roping, Shad Mayfield, Clovis #1 Team Roping (Heelers), Logan Melin, Tatum #4 Breakaway, Tierra Gray, Lovington #23 Breakaway, Maddy Deerman, Grants #24 Breakaway, TiAda Gray, Portales #26 Barrel Racing, Cindy Smith, Lovington #24 Barrel Racing, Leia Pluemer, Bosque Farms #39 Saddle Bronc Riding, Taos Muncy, Corona #26 Steer Wrestling, Tyke Kipp, Lordsburg #42 Bull Riding, Lon Danley, Tularosa #42

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AQHA Hosts the 2020 AQHA Ranching Heritage Challenge Finals with the 2020 AQHA World Championship Show

he American Quarter Horse Association announced that it will host the 2020 AQHA Ranching Heritage Challenge Finals in conjunction with the 2020 AQHA World Championship Show, and the AQHA Executive Committee approved rolling qualification requirements for those who qualified to compete at the 2020 AQHA Versatility Ranch Horse World. Earlier this year, the AQHA Executive Committee cancelled the AQHA Versatility Ranch Horse World Championships, AQHA Ranching Heritage Challenge Finals, AQHA Cattle Level 1 Championships, and National Ranch and Stock Horse Alliance National Championship Show to protect the safety

of exhibitors, trainers, spectators and staff during the worldwide coronavirus pandemic. After careful consideration, the AQHA Executive Committee approved hosting the 2020 AQHA Ranching Heritage Challenge (RHC) Finals in conjunction with the 2020 AQHA World Championship Show, slated for November 5 through 21 at the OKC Fairgrounds in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, pending local, state and federal mandates. The RHC Finals classes are tentatively scheduled for the beginning of the AQHA World Show. The classes will correspond with the 41st Triangle Fall Sale, which is November 6 and 7, at the AQHA World Show. The 2020 RHC Finals tentative schedule will be released at a later date with the 2020 AQHA World Show schedule. Entry information will be available in September. The qualifying period for the 2020 AQHA RHC Finals was January 1-December 31, 2019. “AQHA RHC Finals qualifiers who were impacted by the cancellation of the 2020 AQHA VRH World requested that the AQHA Ranching and Show departments evaluate if the finals could be rescheduled for this year,” says Karen McCuistion, AQHA senior

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director of member programs. “After discussions with qualifiers, representatives from the AQHA Ranching Committee, NRSHA alliance partners and OKC Fairgrounds, AQHA staff recommended and the AQHA Executive Committee approved to host the 2020 AQHA RHC Finals at the 2020 AQHA World Show.” Several factors went into the decision to host the show later this year: Most RHC Finals classes are age-specific and by not hosting the event, American Quarter Horses would miss this year of competition and the opportunity to compete for this year’s prize money. The total purse of the 2020 RHC Finals is approximately $50,000. In addition, American Quarter Horses qualified for the 2020 RHC Finals have been paid up to be fully enrolled in the challenge program.

Hosting the show during the 2020 AQHA World Show will also allow RHC classes to be live-streamed for the first time and will give added exposure to the Ranching Heritage Challenge program and Ranching Heritage Breeders. “Since the inception of the RHC Finals, AQHA has been searching for a permanent home for this event, and the AQHA World Show might be the perfect fit,” says McCuistion. “After the AQHA World Show, AQHA staff will evaluate whether the RHC Finals should continue to be held in conjunction with the AQHA World Show in the future.”

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TOUGH ENOUGH FOR BISON-TOUGH ENOUGH FOR CATTLE

We met up with Brock Toler with Back Forty Bison and asked him a few questions about his opinion on the effectiveness of the Lewis Cattle Oilers. Brock is the ranch mana er for Back Forty Bison near Dadeville, MO. Brock was skeptical, at first, on the durability of the Oilers. qBison are notorious for tearin thin s up....flippin thin s over....To bison, everythin ’s a toy! To this date, they haven’t tipped one over! The durability has really been surprisin ”. The bi est thin that Brock loves about the Oiler is the efficiency.

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he AQHA Executive Committee also approved rolling over qualification requirements for those who qualified to compete at the 2020 AQHA Versatility Ranch Horse World. Therefore, exhibitors and horses qualified to compete at the 2020 AQHA VRH World will also be qualified to compete at the 2021 AQHA VRH World.The 2020 AQHA VRH World qualifying period was March 1, 2019-February 29, 2020. The 2021 AQHA VRH World qualifying period is March 1, 2020-February 28, 2021.

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SCOTUS Ruling: Nearly Half of OK Under Tribal Control

illions of acres in the eastern half of Oklahoma remain part of a Native American reservation for criminal law purposes, the Supreme Court said today in a sharply divided ruling that could have implications for oil and gas development in the state. The recent 5-4 decision put an end to a stalemate over whether 3 million acres of land, including part of the city of Tulsa, remained within the boundaries of Indian Country under an 1832 treaty struck with the Creek Nation after the U.S. government forced members of the tribe from their lands in Georgia and Alabama. The decision also recognized four other reservations in the state, bringing the total reservation land to 19 million acres. “Today we are asked whether the land these treaties promised remains an Indian reservation for purposes of federal criminal law,” Justice Neil Gorsuch, joined by the court’s four liberal justices, wrote for the majority. “Because Congress has not said otherwise, we hold the government to its word.” The case, McGirt v. Oklahoma, had drawn the attention of at least one oil and gas association, which warned of the potential consequences to energy development if the high court found that the lands were still under tribal control. Gorsuch acknowledged the “potential for cost and conflict” as a result of the ruling but said the state and tribe are capable of reaching intergovernmental agreements. Chief Justice John Roberts, who penned the court’s dissenting opinion, also warned of the broad potential consequences of the ruling. He was joined by Justices Samuel Alito, Brett Kavanaugh and Clarence Thomas, except in one footnote of the opinion. Roberts argued that the decision would hobble the state’s ability to prosecute serious crimes and could lead to decades of convictions being thrown out. “On top of that, the Court has profoundly destabilized the governance of eastern Oklahoma,” the chief justice wrote. “The decision today creates significant uncertainty for the State’s continuing authority over any area that touches Indian affairs, ranging from zoning and taxation to family and environmental law.” Jimcy McGirt, a member of the Seminole/Muscogee (Creek) nations, argued in McGirt v. Oklahoma that a state court improperly convicted him of sex crimes against a 4-year-old child because the events took place on land that still remained part of the Creek reservation. Attorneys for McGirt argued to the Supreme Court that his case should instead be reheard by a federal court (Energywire, May 12). McGirt’s position closely mirrored an argument brought in the case Sharp v. Murphy that the justices last year punted to this term. The court’s ruling also resolves the key question in Sharp. Oklahoma has maintained that the Creek Nation does not currently hold a claim to the land, alternately arguing that the claims to the land had either been invalidated or that Congress had instead established a separate entity — a “dependent Indian community” for the Creek Nation. The court called the argument that the Creek Nation never had

a reservation “willful blindness to the statutory language.” The justices also rejected claims that subsequent division and sale of the land had dissolved the reservation. “If Congress wishes to withdraw its promises, it must say so,” Gorsuch wrote. “Unlawful acts, performed long enough and with sufficient vigor, are never enough to amend the law,” he continued. “To hold otherwise would be to elevate the most brazen and longstanding injustices over the law, both rewarding wrong and failing those in the right.” Gorsuch said that both Oklahoma and its tribes had “proven time and again” their ability to work as partners. “Congress remains free to supplement its statutory directions about the lands in question at any time,” he added.

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“The Nations and the State are committed to ensuring that Jimcy McGirt, Patrick Murphy, and all other offenders face justice for the crimes for which they are accused,” they said. “We have a shared commitment by Peter Thomas Ricci, meatingplace.com to maintaining public safety and long-term FC may embrace nostalgia with its economic prosperity for the Nations and various branding and commercials Oklahoma.” featuring Colonel Sanders, but with The court’s ruling drew praise from other its latest endeavor, it has its sights set on a Native American tribes and lawmakers. form of chicken of which the good colonel The National Congress of American may have never conceived. Indians noted that the issue decided by the In a collaboration with Russia-based 3D court had “loomed over federal Indian law” Bioprinting Solutions, KFC is aiming to for two Supreme Court terms. create “the world’s first laboratory-pro“This morning, NCAI joined the rest of duced chicken nuggets,” according to a Indian Country in congratulating the Musnews release. Spurred by recent trends in cogee (Creek) Nation and proudly asserting healthy eating and nutrition, the venture that its lands remain, and will forever be aspires to create 3D-printed meat that is “as considered, Indian country as guaranteed close as possible” to the taste and appearin their treaty relationship with the United ance of KFC’s original chicken fingers. A States,” said NCAI President Fawn Sharp. final product is planned for fall 2020 testing. Members of Congress also applauded “At KFC, we are closely monitoring all of the ruling. the latest trends and innovations, and “While no court decision can correct cendoing our best to keep up with the times turies of injustice committed against by introducing advanced technologies to Indigenous people, today’s ruling is a hisour restaurant networks,” said Raisa Polyatoric step forward to safeguard Tribal kova, General Manager of KFC Russia & CIS. sovereignty for decades to come,” said New “Crafted meat products are the next step in Mexico Sen. Tom Udall (D). the development of our ‘restaurant of the future’ concept.”

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THE EDGE OF COMMON SENSE by Baxter Black, BaxterBlack.com

David and Goliath of Television “The farmer has always been a peasant.” – Richard Blinco, Idaho

hen the market crashed in 1975, Richard had a ranch, feedlot, dairy, potatoes, alfalfa and a packing house. Here we sit 45 years later and not much has changed. Today less than 1.3 percent of the American population, (and 7 percent in Canada), is involved in production agriculture. We, who are left with the responsibility of feeding the ever-growing population that now stands at 331 million people. We do it. It is lots of work. We have an enormous amount of scientific, technical, medical, and

mechanical research and dedication looking over our shoulder as we break the ground, plant the wheat, brand the calf or drive the truck. Imagine a ‘Nóngmín’ bent over in a rice field a thousand years before Christ came, not much different than a farmer bent over a furrow, feeling the soil today. What is our motive…inspiration? Do we say, “We’re feeding the world”? “I’ll get famous!” “The big money”? No. It is as simple as “It’s what I do.” There are people who have a deep heart, have a conscience, are dedicated to those we work for, are close to God, maybe have guilt, or just kindness and care. They don’t think ‘money first’. Occasionally, the consumer has a chance to make farmers’ lives easier, nicer, more satisfying. Let me suggest…their own television channels. Television waves are controlled by a handful of global companies. They have brought wonderful communication worldwide with hundreds of channels. 99.9 percent are dedicated to the majority polled, which are suburban folks. The ag rural television, which is not ‘about us’ but ‘for us’, are limited to pillars like US FARM REPORT and Orion Samuelson and some local weeklies that are an hour long. RFDTV Channel is the only exception; RFDTV contents are exclusively rural and agriculture, 24 hours a day. They are leading the effort to have Congress vote on HR 2682 that would ensure at least one percent, 0.1…1 percent, is devoted exclusively to the ag rural market. Like ag publications and ag radio, ag television is part of what holds all of our ag community together. To those of us in ag media, it’s not just a job. I think it has something to do with our souls. If you want to help, contact your Representative or Senator about passing HR 2682. HR 2682:

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Trump Admin. Made a Major Reg Change to Make Government More Efficient

called NEPA), a law that harkens back to the Nixon administration and was intended to require federal agencies to consider the effects a major federal action may have to the human environment. Simply put, the law requires that whenever a federal agency performs a major federal action they must undergo a review in which the agency considers a wide-range of actions and the potential effect that action may have on the human environment (though many would argue the human side of the environment is often ignored). The agency is then supposed to choose from those considered actions and make a final decision. Since the creation of NEPA, the law has been weaponized by many environmentalist organizations to oppose any policy they disagree with by nitpicking through the document and suing the agency for violating NEPA. Because of the hundreds of lawsuits filed against agencies across the country, it now takes an average of four to seven years for an agency to complete a NEPA analysis just to ensure that the agency can defend itself from the inevitable lawsuits. Some examples of important projects that were unreasonably delayed include taking over 13 years to finalize the NEPA review for expanding I-70, decades plus

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for public uses. Despite the fact that NEPA clearly has moved past its intended purpose, it had not been updated or reformed in over forty years. So the proposed changes are long overdue and will hopefully be a shot in the arm for an economy still struggling in the throws of Covid-19. One of the major changes to NEPA include limiting when NEPA actually applies. The intent behind NEPA was for the federal government to make informed decisions regarding potential environmental proposed major federal actions and make the public aware of the agency’s decision-making process. The new regulations clearly demarcate that only actions that include major federal involvement and are major in scale are those actions that require NEPA. This means that those projects that the government has a minor role are not included. This also means that minor actions (such as allowing certain range improvements on a grazing allotment) are not included. This is a major step in the right direction toward modernizing NEPA because projects that are either minor in scale or require minimal federal involvement should not be trapped in years of NEPA analysis.

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Another major change to NEPA is that there is now a page limit and time limit for all NEPA documents. If the impact of the decision is not significant, the NEPA document can only be 75 pages and must be completed within a year. If the impact of the decision is significant, the NEPA document can only be 300 pages at the most and it must be completed within two years. These are enormous improvements because it now requires the agencies to speed up and simplify the NEPA process and will hopefully make twenty-year delays for project approvals a thing of the past.

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he New Mexico Department of Agriculture is accepting grant applications for its Healthy Soil Program, which was created in the 2019 Healthy Soil Act. The act’s purpose is to promote and support farming and ranching systems and other forms of land management that increase soil organic matter, aggregate stability, microbiology and water retention to improve the state’s soil health, yield and profitability. New Mexico farmers and ranchers interested in applying must do so by 5 p.m. Monday, August 31 through an Eligible Entity, such as a Soil and Water Conservation District; a tribe, nation, or pueblo; or a land grant or acequia. Eligible Entities will conduct preliminary reviews of the applications they receive, then forward the applications they approve to NMDA by 5 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 8. Eligible Entities are also invited to apply to NMDA on their own behalf; such applications are also due by 5 p.m. on Oct. 8. Late applications will not be accepted. Grant funding may be used for agricultural projects in New Mexico that focus on one or more of five basic soil health principles: keeping the soil covered; minimizing soil disturbance on cropland; maximizing biodiversity; maintaining a living root; and integrating animals into land management. “I encourage farmers, ranchers and all Eligible Entities to apply for this program, which is geared toward improving New Mexico’s soil health,” said New Mexico Secretary of Agriculture Jeff Witte. “We received 84 applications as part of the pilot program last year. Based on feedback from applicants and Eligible Entities during the program’s first year, our team has made several improvements to the entire process.” NMDA strongly recommends that farmers and ranchers who intend to apply make themselves known as soon as possible to the Eligible Entity through which they intend to apply.

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ows are supposedly “dumb” animals and yet I have learned a lot from them, such as... Don’t shoot the bull. If someone wants to load you up and take you to town put up a big fight. There is danger lurking there. When your offspring become of age and leave home no amount of bawling will bring them back. Piercings, notches, tattoos and brands hurt and make it easier for BIG Brother to identify you. The way to acquire a small fortune in the cattle business is to start with a large one. Don’t allow yourself to be driven by an unruly mob. Especially don’t get stampeded. You could get hurt and it will only result in you going round

and round in circles. 7. Hogs have no place on a cow ranch. 8. Stay close to your youngsters at all times. If you must go leave them with a good babysitter. 9. Hide when people gang up and come looking for you because whenever you meet in large groups no good can come of it. 10. Never go swimming unless you can keep your head above water with your feet firmly on the ground. 11. The biggest thing wrong with the world is that there are far too many people in it. 12. If you get caught in a squeeze just stand quietly, take your medicine and get it over with as quick as possible. Offspring are far better off being raised by the female of the species. 13. Life is sexually transmitted. 14. A banker is your friend... until he isn’t. 15. Sacred cows make great hamburgers. 16. If you have an enemy give them a cow. 17. Males come around for one reason and one reason only. 18. It can be liberating to step away

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Harlie Richard Cox, 72, passed away peacefully on July 5, 2020, at his home surrounded by his family. Harlie was born on August 1, 1947, to Clayton Edward Cox and Myrtle (Sweazea) Cox in Los Angeles. As a child Harlie lived and worked at the family ranch and store in Quemado. He met Linda Delk at a dance at the airport hanger in Deming and was married on August 7, 1971. They settled in Quemado, but later relocated to live and work on the 2C Ranch in Grant County prior to taking a position at the Nan Ranch along the Mimbres River. Harlie soon became the ranch manager, and he and Linda worked together there for the next 40 years. His life revolved around taking care of the ranch, spending time with family, attending the grandkids’ functions, and attending many dances. He enjoyed summer fishing trips and was always ready for a crab leg meal. Harlie always had a special place in his heart for his horses and dogs. Harlie is survived by his daughters Lori Hudson and husband Wes of Deming, NM, and Tricia LeCompte and husband JoBonney, Perryton, Texas. He was known as “Papa” to his three grandaughters: Karlie Hudson, Breckyn LeCompte and Brittyn LeCompte. He is also survived by many nieces and nephews. Allen Wesley “Wess” Wells, 71, passed away on July 1, 2020 at his home near Gran Quivira. He was born on April 11, 1949 to the late Vernie and Opal Mae (Toothman) Wells in Mountainair. Wess was a lifetime resident of Mountainair & Gran Quivira and will be deeply missed by his family, friends and community. Wess was the son of a preacher and her husband, who was a rancher as well as a dry-land pinto bean and wheat farmer. He learned very early on the value of a hard work and stewardship of the land. What you sew you will reap was more than a Bible verse to him as he always strived to exceed expectations. He attended and graduated from Mountainair High School. He received his Bachelor’s Degree in History from Eastern New Mexico University. In his life he was a very competitive athlete who enjoyed baseball, basketball as well as football. He often worked multiple jobs and ran many successful businesses. For years he managed Hail Equipment Gas, Oil and Feed Company in Mountainair in addition to

supervising the bean elevators. He moved on to own Wells Insurance Agency with offices in Mountainair and Moriarty. In addition to these business endeavors, he also raised cattle with the W&W Ranch and the Gran Quivira Cattle Company. He would often say, he worked all the other jobs so he could support his cattle habit. For over 50 years he has been a pillar of his church and served on the board for Mountainair Assembly of God and Gran Quivira Church. He was a proud supporter of 4-H Clubs and FFA Chapters. He served many terms on the Torrance County Fair Board and loved seeing young adults achieve success in the agricultural industry. As Chariman of the Board of Directors for New Mexico Farm Credit, he helped manage the day to day operations, making sure to always put the farmers and ranchers first as well as making sure the employees of FCNM felt valued and appreciated. Throughout his life he sat on

school boards and numerous philanthropic boards and committees. A member of the NRA, Wess was proud American patriot & avid hunter. He believed very strongly in all our Constitutional rights and thanked God for our freedoms daily. Wess is survived by his beloved wife, Diane L. Wells; daughters, Tami Sue Blaschke (husband John) and T’Layna Mae Wells; step daughter, Kimberlee Sheridan; step son, Gary G. Beebe II; brother, J.E. Wells (wife Elain) and sister, Lorita Luna (husband Donny). Wess was blessed with one grandson. Ruth Wilson, 90, Ancho, went peacefully to her eternal home on July 8, 2020. Ruth was born to Anna and Henry Dishroon of Tahoka, Texas on July 30, 1929, the youngest of eight children. She graduated as Valedictorian of Seagraves High School before moving to Las Cruces, New Mexico, where she worked as a secretary of the Agriculture Economics Department at New Mexico A&M. As secretary of the Ag Econ department, Miss Dishroon graded student’s papers, including the homework of Walton Barney Wilson, a student from Ancho. On September 30, 1949, Ruth and Walt were married and the shy, quiet young woman began a lifelong journey of being

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a help-meet for Walt and a ranch wife. Ruth tree designed from family jewelry and hung and Walt were both passionate advocates proudly in her living room year round. Ruth for the ranching industry. Ruth was a found- valued relationships, loved a good convering member of both the New Mexico sation and would light up when a visitor CowBelles and the Canyon CowBelles. She came to her door. She valued a one-on-one served a term as State Secretary and Trea- conversation over a large gathering and surer of New Mexico CowBelles and later never forgot details that had been shared was Chaplain of the state organization. with her. Friends and family remember her Because of Walt’s involvement in many quick wit and dry sense of humor. The most industry boards, they traveled throughout important thing in her life, though, was her the United States and even internationally Savior. Ruth loved the Lord. She gave Him on behalf of the cattle industry. Ruth and credit for the good and turned to Him for Walt had two sons, Alton and Rex, and Ruth strength. Her conversations always directed was soon making handmade western shirts her companions to God. And she was a for the boys, as well as doing all the prayer warrior who faithfully lifted family, mending and patching necessary on the friends, acquaintances, prayer requests, ranch. She found creative outlets in needle- and the nation before God’s throne. “ She point and knitting, crewel embroidery, huck was a north star,” commented one friend. weavings, hooked rugs, leathercraft and “Her faith was unwavering.” That faith led decoupage. She did all the needlepoint for Ruth to a lifetime of service. She and Walt the chairs at My House of Old Things were devoted to Nogal Mesa Ranchman’s Museum in Ancho and knitted more than Camp Meeting. Ruth served as Women’s 35 sweaters which were sent to needy chil- Prayer Coordinator of the Camp for 25 years dren through Guideposts Magazine. She was while Walt was General Chairman. She also also a master quilter who made quilts for served on the Ministerial Committee and each of her sons and also designed and cut, Registration and Finance Committee. Ruth pieced and quilted two quilts for New and Walt and several other Christian Mexico CowBelles, which were raffled as a couples started a Vespers service at the fundraiser. Though she enjoyed all her proj- annual Cattle Growers’ meeting so believects, her capstone project was a Christmas ers from all over the state could worship

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together. Her faithfulness was evident in so many areas of life. When young women started a prayer time for the schools, Ruth kept their young children so the women could pray. When the local church started an AWANA children’s ministry, Ruth was the one behind the desk, greeting each child as they arrived and keeping the records for the organization. Though tiny in frame, she was strong in spirit. She survived a train wreck in her early 60s. When widowed, she lived a full life for 29 years without the love of her life. Ruth is survived by her sons, Alton and his wife, Stacy, Canyon, Texas; Rex and his wife Carol, Ancho. Grandsons include: Justus and his wife Jessica, Artesia; Kendal and his wife Chelsea, Carrizozo; and Marshal Wilson and his wife Julie, Mesilla Park. Granddaughter: Lenna Richardson and her husband, Jody, Amarillo, Texas. Ruth is also survived by numerous nieces and nephews and five great-grandchildren. Kacie Noel Welty, 46, Truth or Consequences, entered in to rest on June 1, 2019 in Truth or Consequences. She was born on September 9, 1972 in Santa Fe, NM to Si Benjamin and Irene Bunch. Kacie attended school in Truth or Consequences and graduated from Magdalena High School. She was an excellent athlete and played volley-

ball, basketball, and track. She attended NM rado and Arizona as well as purchasing and After his graduation, Sam enlisted in the Highlands University where she got a vol- operating the Jones ranch located just Army Air Force where he trained World War leyball scholarship. In 1997 she and Doug north of Globe. Following a total of nine II pilots using the North American Aviation Welty were married and in October they years as a city councilman, Terry served as T-6 Texan trainer aircraft. After the war, Sam had their first son Darin. In 2002 they had Mayor of Globe from 2011 through 2016. He returned to Duran and married Amelia their second son, Dylin. Most of all, though, was a past president of the Gila County Vicente of Vaughn, New Mexico. Sam and she loved anything that involved her two Cattle Growers’ Association and was a Amelia were married almost 50 years when sons whether it was sports, rodeo, or just member of the Arizona Cattle Growers’ she passed away in 1998. Sam joined his watching them experience life and spend- Association, the National Indian Cattle father, Alex Hindi, a Lebanese immigrant, ing time with them. She was their biggest Growers’ Association, the Society for Range and his brothers at their family ranch in fan and loudest cheerleader. Kacie was Management, Arizona Town Hall and many Duran where they raised sheep, cattle, and known for her beautiful smile, sense of other local, state and national organiza- Arabian horses. For years, Sam operated a adventure, carefree spirit and ability to light tions. Terry was passionate about protecting bar in Duran that is still considered a Duran up a room. She encouraged those around the rights of western cattlemen and public Landmark. He was a master of all trades and her to be bold and live life with bling and land use as he took many trips to Washing- had a witty sense of humor. He was surstyle. She is survived by her sons, Darin ton, D.C. to meet with congressmen on their rounded by family and friends who enjoyed James and Dylin Dean; parents, Si and Cas- behalf. Terry was active throughout his his company and his stories. sandra Benjamin and Tombo Bunch; her adult life in the Gila County community, Ella Dee “Sis” Koontz passed away in siblings, Brandon Major, Hope Montoya and including volunteer organizations, his her home in Corrales NM on July 10, 2020 Augustine Vallardares, Cole and Lindsey parish council, schools, little league base- at the age of 100. She was born in Fort Benjamin, Kalie and Bob Clark, and Laci and ball, and 4-H. He served in the U.S. Navy Worth, Texas December 1, 1919. She was Anthony Mendoza; numerous nephews and (Reserves and Active Duty) from 1952 to schooled at Our Lady of Victory in Fort nieces; Bud and Betty Welty and the entire 1961. Terry is survived by his wife Diana; six Worth, attended Texas Tech College studyWelty family. children and three step-children. ing English Literature, and graduated from Terence O. Wheeler, 84, former mayor Samuel N. Hindi, 98, a life-long resident Sul Ross College in 1942. Ella Dee served in of Globe and a leader in the Arizona cattle of Duran, New Mexico passed away peace- the Women’s Army Air Corp during World industry for more than half a century, died fully in his home on July 7, 2020. Sam is War II. In 1946, she began a lifelong advenon March 25 in Globe. Terry was born in survived by many cousins, nieces, and ture with her husband Jasper, ranching in Tucson on October 28, 1935 to Oswin and nephews. In 1942, Sam graduated from the Alpine, TX. In 1948 Jasper and Ella Dee and Catherine Wheeler. He attended SS. Peter New Mexico Military Institute in Roswell. his cousin, James Baylor, Jr. purchased a and Paul School and graduated in 1953 from Tucson High School, where he was on the gymnastics team. He then attended the University of Arizona College of Agriculture, where he was one of the founders of the UA intercollegiate rodeo team, and received his B.S. in animal science and range/watershed management in 1958. Terry pursued a The career in cattle and range management, TheDepartment DepartmentofofAnimal Animal&&Range RangeSciences Sciencesisispart partofofthe the College of Agricultural, Consumer & Environmental starting with the Bureau of Indian Affairs at College of Agricultural, Consumer & EnvironmentalSciences Sciences San Carlos after college. His career with the Four on-campus animal facilities house: BIA took him to North Dakota and then to beeF CaTTle/horses/swine/sheep Chinle, Arizona, on the Navajo Reservation. Students can major in Animal or Rangeland Resources and are provided with the very He later was the University of Arizona coopbest of “hands on” academic instruction by our faculty. Fully equipped labs allow erative extension agent for the San Carlos students access to cutting-edge research in: Apache Tribe and for Gila County. He sub• The Chihuahuan Desert Rangeland LIVESTOCK NUTRITION / GENETICS / PHYSIOLOGY / sequently worked as a consultant in range Research Center (The College Ranch) – ENDOCRINOLOGY / MEAT SCIENCE / WOOL / 64,000 acre ranch just outside of management and reclamation for ranchers, TOXICOLOGY / WATERSHED & RANGELAND ECOLOGY Las Cruces tribes, mining companies and other land/ WEED & BRUSH CONTROL / PLANT SYSTEMATICS / • The Corona Range & Livestock Research Center – 28,000 acre ranch & facilities in holders throughout Arizona and the GRAZING MANAGEMENT Corona, NM Southwest. Since the 1980s he was a leading • Student organizations, including a The Department also offers pre-veterinary studies – Block & Bridle Club, Pre-Vet Club, advocate for the holistic range manageRange Club, Horsemen’s Association, our graduates have a high acceptance rate into veteriment methodologies developed by Allan Therapeutic Riding Club, & nary medicine programs. We offer graduate degrees at Judging Teams Savory for reversing desertification and the Master of Science and Doctor of Philosophy levels. • Clayton Research Center hosts research reclaiming grazing lands. These activities The M.S. or Ph.D. in Animal Science can emphasize on shipping protocols, particularly took him as far afield as Lesotho and Niger evaluating the health and performance of nutrition or physiology, and offers a Ph.D. in Range newly received cattle, and nutrition and in Southern Africa with the U.S. State Science to study range management, range ecology management from feedlot to slaughter and watershed management. Department’s Agency for International Development and Jordan with the U.N. Dr. John Campbell hallford––575-646-6180 575-646-2515 Dr. Shanna Ivey––575/646-6180 575-646-2515 /• Dr. Dr. Dennis John Campbell Food & Agriculture Organization. In more http://aces.nmsu.edu/academics/anrs/ http://aces.nmsu.edu/academics/anrs recent years he managed ranches in Colo-

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portion of the Alameda Land Grant on the date. In lieu of flowers, a memorial contri- Danny and wife Sherri, Artesia; daughter-inwest mesa of Albuquerque, which is now bution can be made to The Friends of the law Sharen McInnes, Cedar Hill; six Rio Rancho, where they ranched until the Corrales Library Endowment Fund (www. grandchildren, 11 great-grandchildren and mid-sixties. The ranch headquarters were corraleslibrary.org or PO Box 1868, Corrales, two great-great-grandchildren. Willie also located at their historic home in Corrales. In NM 87048) or the NM Boys and Girls Ranch leaves behind a host of nieces, nephews, 1964, Jasper and Ella Dee purchased a ranch Foundation (www.theranches.org). and friends. Willie loved God, his family, the in Ft. Sumner, NM and lived there until 1973 Willie M. McInnes was called home to ranch, and friends he met along the way. In when they returned to their home in Cor- be with his Lord and Savior on July 17, 2020. lieu of flowers, Willie would tell you to save rales. She was a gracious and devoted wife, Born October 2, 1932 in Roswell to Winn your money but vote RED in the upcoming mother, grandmother and mentor. Sis and and Annie (Purcella) McInnes, he began his 2020 election to save our Nation. Jasper, after returning to Corrales, spent life on the McInnes homestead ranch 52 David “Gene” Eugene Cessnun, 84, several years in travels around the world miles northwest of Roswell. There he passed away on July 2, 2020 in Lubbock. He with the Cabalgatos group where there learned how to work hard, appreciate con- was born May 9, 1936 in Dalhart to David were always horses to ride and parties to servation of the land, and a love for all Edwin and Gladys (Kizer) Cessnun. He attend. Sis had many hobbies. She was an animals. Willie’s school years were divided married Rosemary Landrum on January 15, avid card and excellent bridge player. She between a schoolhouse located near the 1988 in Las Vegas, Nevada and they shared read extensively, was very knowledgeable ranch, Capitan and Roswell. In Roswell he 33 wonderful years together. Gene was a about history and current events. She met the love of his life, Hazel Wright and Catholic and a true cowboy. In his younger excelled at playing Jeopardy and was very carved her initials on the haybarn post at years, he was active as a saddle bronc rider good at completing her daily crossword the ranch when he was 14 years old. Willie in the rodeo and was a ranch manager for puzzles. Sis was an excellent cook and enlisted in the National Guard and served the Barrel Creek ranch in North Texas for 26 made some of the best red chile enchiladas two years which ended when his father years. Gene then served as a Lea County that she shared with her family on many died, and he was called back to help his Sheriff’s deputy for the next 20 years, retiroccasions. She was preceded in death by mother with the ranch. Upon his return in ing in 2002. In 2005 Gene took on the job her husband Jasper Koontz, daughter 1951 he married that girl with the initials on of New Mexico livestock inspector where Francis Clare Koontz and great-grandchild the haybarn, Hazel, and began their life he served until his death. Because of his Leo Christian Koontz. She is survived by her together. Willie wore many hats during their love of the ranch life, his dedication to the son Jim and his wife, Marilee, Corrales; her marriage starting as a pharmaceutical deliv- livestock industry, and the ranchers in Lea son, Court and his wife, Anne, Corrales; ery man in Roswell and surrounding areas. County he was inducted into the Cowboy grandson, Clay Koontz and his wife, Lisa, Their first son, Dale, was born and he Hall of Fame in 2012. During his career Gene Albuquerque; grandson, Justin Koontz and decided that farming was his calling. Willie was recognized in many ways. In 1992 he his wife, Taylor, Idalou, Texas; grandsons, and Hazel bought a farm in Portales where was recognized by the American Red Cross Jasper Koontz of Phoenix; Courtenay W. eventually two more sons, Danny and with a lifesaving award, in 2002 he was Koontz of Corrales, four great-grandchil- Sammy, were born. Life on the farm was not awarded the officer of the year by the Fradren, Kaden, Kash, Khloe, Max, niece easy and times were hard so Wille took a ternal Order of the Eagles, and was the 2017 Suzanne Butler and her daughter Clare of second job as the manager for Continental Inspector of the year by the New Mexico Garland, Texas. The family would like to Oil Company in Clovis, NM. He worked hard Cattle Growers’ Association. Gene was also express our extreme gratitude and thanks at both careers until 1972 when he and his a Korean War Veteran, having served in the to her special cousin Susi Baylor Eichhorst, sister Nettie bought the homestead ranch Army in the 25th infantry division. He was husband Bob, Dr. Alyson Thal, long time from his mother and returned once again an avid animal lover who raised registered family doctor, and to the wonderful care- to the ranching life he dearly loved. Willie quarter horses and loved his dog. Gene was giving team of Sue, Beth, Donna, and Angie. ranched until his retirement in 2016, but his a man of many talents, among those being A memorial service and celebration of Sis’ love for the ranch, the land and animals an accomplished oil painter of western life will be held in Montell, Texas at a later never left him. Willie leaves behind his son scenes and a pen and ink sketch artist. He loved to work and be active, which included fixing and restoring old things. He will be dearly missed but would want you to remember his life’s motto “If one day passes without some kind of accomplishment, it is • CAKE • TUBS a day wasted.” Gene is survived by his wife: • PRESSED BLOCKS Rosemary Cessnun, Jal; two sons, four daughters, 27 grandchildren, and numerous great-grandchildren.

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New York, was designated as chief patrol- at law enforcement personnel. (The first man. Each officer was issued a Harley two-way radios were not installed in State Davidson motorcycle equipped with siren Police cars until 1946.) Legend also holds and red lights, and other necessary gear. that House designed the black and grey by Don Bullis, Governor Seligman died in office less uniforms worn by State Police officers in New Mexico Author than two months later, on September 25, 1935 which are basically the same uniforms DonBullis.biz 1933, and Andrew Hockenhull succeeded worn by officers more than 85 years later. him in office. Hockenhull wanted his own While House was able to survive one man as chief and he demoted Irish to patrol- change in governors—from Hockenhull to man and elevated Eli J. House to chief. Tingley—he couldn’t do it a second time Hockenhull served out Seligman’s term when Tingley left office. Governor John E. and Clyde Tingley was elected in 1934 and Miles named his own chief, Tom Summers, took office in early 1935. One of the first and House resigned. Summers was a former pieces of legislation enacted at Tingley’s deputy warden of the New Mexico State new era in New Mexico law enforce- urging was designed to create a New Penitentiary and Catron County sheriff. ment began on May 14, 1933 when Mexico State Police Department to replace Note that early State Police Chiefs were the legislature created the New the Motor Patrol. The bill passed, with an appointed by the Governor from outside Mexico State Motor Patrol. In the years emergency clause, and became law on Feb- the ranks of the department. That changed before that, law enforcement in New ruary 25, 1935. The manpower complement following the appointment of Herbert Mexico had been the responsibility of a was increased to 30 officers, and all Motor Beasley who was the choice of Governor patchwork of agencies: U. S. Marshals, Patrol officers became State Police officers. John J. Dempsey in early December 1946. county sheriffs, and town marshals, Indian E. J. House remained as chief, and some He continued to serve in the administration police, and even the army in a limited way. sources indicate that the change in desig- of Governor Thomas J. Mabry. Beasley For a while there was a statewide agency nation was House’s idea. served as Quay County Sheriff at the time called the New Mexico Mounted Police. It As Chief of the State Police, House is best of his appointment. was created in 1905 primarily to stop cattle remembered for creating a communicaDuring Beasley’s term as chief, Ovida rustling and to assuage eastern establish- tions system using the public airwaves. He “Cricket” Coogler was murdered in Doña ment fears of lawlessness in New Mexico in provided the information and radio station Ana County, and the chief involved himself the years leading up to statehood. Once KOB in Albuquerque provided two broadcontinued on page 49 >> statehood was achieved in 1912, the legis- casts per day, at noon and 6:00 p.m. directed lature seemed little interested in funding the Mounted Police, and finally abolished the group altogether in 1921. By 1933 the state’s population had reached nearly 425,000 and motorized transportation had become the rule rather www.fivestateslivestockauction.com than the exception (the first automobile Box 266, arrived in New Mexico in 1900), and GoverClayton, NM 88415 Active buyers on all classes of cattle. Stocker nor Arthur Seligman perceived the need for SALE BARN: demand within excellent wheat pasture and a state organization to patrol the roads, and 575/374-2505 grass demand. Supporters of vaccination perform other duties. Thus, was born the Pat Riley Motor Patrol. Those “other duties” included program of your choice. Four active packer 575/374-2505 collection of excise taxes on the sale of gasbuyers, supported by area feedlots on these Watts Line: oline, the registration of motor vehicles and feeder cattle. Receiving station available. 1-800/438-5764 the issuance of licenses. Many observers believed that the real purpose of the orgaWe are an active Sheep sale 2nd to last Wednesday every month! nization was to raise money for state coffers supporter of local We believe that customers, large and small, should from tourist traffic violation citations. 4H clubs and receive the highest quality service available. Our buyers A board of Supervisors of the Motor several other and sellers are our biggest asset and we are dedicated to Patrol was created, and it was made up of student activities. Governor Seligman, State Highway Engiserving your needs. Our top priority is to get you the Not only do we neer Glenn D. Macy, and Attorney General best possible price for your cattle. In operation since the contribute to the E. K. Neumann. youth but also to 1950s and sold to the current owners who held their first Authorized strength was to be ten men, the local economy sale in January 1990, Kenny Dellinger has managed the as 90% of the supand for those positions the state received sale barn and served the community since that first sale plies and services 210 applications. That number was quickly more than 25 years ago. are contracted. pared down to 135 men who were tested and the list further reduced to 18 who were admitted to a one-month training program. On August 5, 1933, a chief and nine patrolWE APPRECIATE YOUR BUSINESS! men were graduated. Earl Irish, a native of NEW MEXICO’S OLD TIMES & OLD TIMERS

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NMSU Dean Flores Named Institute of Food Technologist Fellow

olando A. Flores, dean and chief administrative officer of New Mexico State University’s College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences, has been recognized for his contribution to the advancement of the field of food science and technology regionally, nationally and globally. Flores is among the 12 inductees into the Institute of Food Technologists 2020 Class of Fellows. “It is an honor to be nominated and recognized with this prestigious award,” Flores said. The IFT Fellow designation honors professionals and scientists with extraordinary achievements within the science of food and technology community. Flores has conducted pioneering research in waste and byproduct utilization. “The science of food is one that we, hopefully, all deal with three times a day,” Flores said. “The disruption that COVID-19 has caused to our food chain brings awareness of all the work that we have to do to provide safe and secure food. “In this country, we are blessed with high productivity from our farmers and ranchers,” he said. “The science of food makes possible the transformation of agricultural products into food. This is a very important endeavor, which I have the privilege to help expand in New Mexico.” Since 1970, the IFT Fellow distinction has recognized individuals with exemplary accomplishments such as successfully introducing new food products, spearheading scholarly advancements, and improving the human condition through the

science of food. Flores is being honored for his his research accomplishments; advancement of food science and technology regionally, nationally and globally; cultivating of the next generation of food scientists and engineers; and excellent service to IFT and other professional organizations. Since joining NMSU in 2016, Flores has worked to establish the Center of Excellence in Sustainable Food and Agricultural Systems, which awarded its first seed grant this summer. He is also supporting a new food science and technology program that includes a master’s degree program in food bioprocessing in the College of Engineering. All these efforts are needed to support a new $25 million facility that has been approved by the New Mexico voters to house the food science, security and safety program. The new facility will include meat and food processing pilot plants and laboratories. Flores’ leadership at NMSU is having a global impact by creating opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students globally – specifically in Latin America, India and China. NMSU has been represented at the last two Women Economic Forums in India and the one this year in Cairo, Egypt, with eight students attending each year and giving presentations. Through his leadership and the participation of the Extension faculty, a novel exchange program for Extension faculty in New Mexico, Costa Rica and Mexico is being developed to enrich the global experiences of Extension educators in these countries. Other programs are in development with universities in Mexico, Costa Rica, Uruguay, Argentina and Paraguay, as well as with the Interamerican Institute of Cooperation in Agriculture. These projects continue the collaborative research and student exchange programs that he established at UNL with

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India, China, Japan and Latin America. Prior to his arrival at NMSU, Flores was professor and head of the Department of Food Science and Technology at University of Nebraska-Lincoln and director of the Nebraska Food Processing Center. During his 10 years of leadership in Nebraska, a pilot food processing facilities was established. The center serves as a major food processing and applied research hub that integrates applied research with state-of-the-art pilot plants, laboratory services, a team of product developers, and a team that supports food entrepreneurship. Prior to his roles at UNL, Flores was at Kansas State University and the USDA-ARS Eastern Research Center. His research was focused on value-added agricultural products and by-products, simulation and optimization of processing systems, food safety, and water reconditioning and reuse in food processing. He received many awards for his research. In recognition of his accomplishments and expertise in food science and technology, Flores was honored as the third recipient of the Stanley Watson Award from the Cereals and Grains Association, formerly the American Association of Cereal Chemists in 2008, and named a Robert B. Daugherty Water for Food Institution Fellow in 2014. He also received the Outstanding Alumni Award from department of Grain Science and Industry at Kansas State University in 2017 and was named an Alumni Fellow for the Graduate School at Kansas State University in 2018.

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Experimental Rangeland Productivity Tool Expands to the Southwest

very spring, ranchers face the same difficult challenge of trying to guess how much grass will be available for livestock to graze during the upcoming season. Since May 2019, an innovative Grassland Productivity Forecast or “Grass-Cast” has been helping producers in the northern and southern Great Plains reduce this economically important source of uncertainty. Officially launched this spring, GrassCast is now available to producers throughout New Mexico and Arizona. This experimental grassland forecast is the result of collaborations between the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Service, Climate Hubs and Natural Resources Conservation Service; the National Drought Mitigation Center; Colorado State University and the University of Arizona. Funding from USDA ARS and NRCS, as well as NDMC and the USGS has supported Grass-Cast’s expansion to the Southwest region. Caiti Steele, associate professor at New Mexico State University College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences Jornada Experimental Range and coordinator of the USDA Southwest Climate Hub, is on the team helping to share information about Grass-Cast. “Deciding appropriate stocking rates is one of the most critical decisions a rancher can make for maximizing livestock weight gain while maintaining rangeland productivity,” Steele said. “But often it’s difficult to translate seasonal weather outlooks for the growing season into forage production.” Grass-Cast uses over 30 years of historical data about weather and vegetation growth – combined with seasonal precipitation forecasts – to predict if rangelands are likely to produce above-average, near-average, or below-average amounts of forage in the upcoming growing season relative to their area’s more than 30-year history. “To be clear, Grass-Cast doesn’t predict if or how well new stands of grass will grow in a specific location,” Steele explained.

“Grass-Cast instead gives a prediction of be updated every two weeks. These maps how well existing, established rangeland provide productivity estimates for rangeforage resources will perform if the growing lands at the peak of the summer monsoon season is wetter, dryer or near normal in growing season of June 1 through t e r m s o f p r e c i p i t a t i o n a n d September 30. evapotranspiration.” The early monsoon season maps do Grass-Cast also gives ranchers a view of show a broad range of estimates in producrangeland productivity in the broader tivity because they are mostly based on region to help with larger-scale deci- seasonal precipitation outlooks, not measion-making, such as determining where sured precipitation, Steele explained. grazing resources might be more plentiful “The NOAA Climate Prediction Center if their own region is at risk from drought. currently shows equal chances of above Steele emphasizes that Grass-Cast maps and below-normal precipitation,” she said. are intended to complement other sources “So we have equal chances of the forage of information that ranchers rely on for their production levels estimated in the three management decisions. Grass-Cast maps for the Southwest region “Producers should not rely on Grass-Cast right now.” as a sole source of information,” she said. However, as the growing season unfolds, “Similarly, public land managers should not Grass-Cast includes more and more meause Grass-Cast as a sole source of informa- sured precipitation amounts and its tion for setting stocking rates, determining accuracy improves. The grassland producturnout dates, or for other aspects of lease tivity forecasts are updated every two agreements, allotments or permits.” weeks to incorporate newly observed The first publicly available forecast for weather data and emerging trends in the Southwest was released in May 2020, growing conditions, so it should be conspecifically for the spring growing season, sulted more than just once during the which ended on May 31. growing season. Grass-Cast maps for the Southwest’s “Keeping checking the maps,” Steele said, summer growing season were posted to “and let us know what you think.” the Grass-Cast website in mid-June and will

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oel Nelson, a Texas cowboy that some say has considerable talent with horses, will be the third recipient of the Ranching Heritage Association Working Cowboy Award during the 43rd Annual National Golden Spur Award dinner at 6 p.m. Saturday, October 10 at the Overton Hotel in Lubbock. “This award is designed to recognize an outstanding individual who makes his living primarily horseback caring for livestock on a daily basis,” said Jim Bret Campbell, director of the National Ranching Heritage Center (NRHC) at Texas Tech University in Lubbock. “Although Joel grew up in Seymour, Texas, and now ranches in Alpine, his impact has been felt from the King Ranch in South Texas to the Parker Ranch in Hawaii.” The Ranching Heritage Association (RHA), a nationwide non-profit membership organization supporting the work and mission of the NRHC, sponsors the award on an annual basis to honor a working cowboy skilled in all aspects of ranch work and respected by the ranch crew and ranching community. “Our Board of Directors believes it’s important to recognize those folks who brave all kinds of weather and conditions to ensure that work on a ranch gets done,” Campbell said. “Our first two recipients— Boots O’Neal of the Four Sixes Ranch and Arizona cowboy Ed Ashurst—set a high standard in regard to integrity and impact on a ranch and the surrounding community. Joel Nelson definitely fits in the mold established by Boots and Ed.” Campbell said Nelson’s nomination included heartfelt letters from supporters across ranch country. King Ranch descendent Tio Kleberg called Nelson “a cowman’s cowboy” who does and can do all the jobs to perfection. Kleberg’s wife, Janelle, described Nelson as “the finest horseman I have ever seen, and I have seen many.” Western entertainer Red Steagall declared Nelson’s talents with a horse unequaled and said “his instincts about handling cattle give him an edge over

almost anyone else in the cow outfit.” Nelson has spent decades working on some of the most respected ranches in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and Hawaii, specializing in breaking colts. He and his wife Sylvia work together on horseback operating the Anchor Ranch near Alpine and raising Angus cattle. Nelson’s skills on the ranch are rivaled only by his widespread reputation as a cowboy poet. He takes the raw materials of ranch life and expresses them in poetry. In 2009, Nelson was named a National Heritage Fellow by the National Endowment for the Arts for “major contributions to the excellence, vitality and public appreciation of the folk and traditional arts.” In addition, his “Breaker in the Pen” album of cowboy verse is the only cowboy poetry ever nominated for a Grammy Award. Nelson was invited in 1999 to Rothbury, Northumberland, England for one month as a poet-in-residence visiting school classrooms, young farmers’ meetings and public gatherings. An article in “Poetry Review” described him as captivating his audience and “incomparable as an inspirational force for poetry.” Since 1986 he has been a regular performer at the annual Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko, Nev., and helped found the Texas Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Alpine, where he served on the organizing committee for 33 years. “My earliest memory is of my father carrying me in the saddle with the saddle horn between my legs,” said 74-year-old Nelson. “I must have been three. He pointed to the ground and taught me to tell the difference between a cow and a horse track.” Cows and horses have been part of Nelson’s life ever since, and he has managed to merge his two great passions: poetry and the cowboy lifestyle. “There’s rhythm and meter to everything when you work outside,” Nelson said. “Trotting across a grassy flat, working cattle, the day-to-day changes of the seasons; they all have a poetic cadence.” Gary Dunshee, owner of the Big Bend Saddlery in Alpine, may have summarized Nelson’s life best in describing him as “a great ambassador for cowboying not only in Texas but all of the West.” To register for the National Golden Spur Award dinner, call Vicki Quinn-Williams at 806/834-0469 or register online at www. ranchingheritage.org/spur. Reservations are required by Thursday, October 1. Tickets are $95 for RHA members and $125 for non-members.

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hen the Trump administration finalized its rule defining what waterways and streams qualify for federal protections, environmentalists were aghast. But it was the conservative Pacific Legal Foundation — not greens — that filed the first legal challenge over the Navigable Waters Protection Rule. The group’s lawsuit “is certainly eyebrow raising,” said Justin Pidot, co-director of the University of Arizona’s environmental law program. “It’s an aggressive rule, and they are still saying it doesn’t go nearly far enough,” Pidot said. Three and a half years into Trump’s presidency, many legal groups on the right have faded into the background of the administration’s deregulatory agenda. But not the Sacramento-based Pacific Legal Foundation. It has pressed on with its property rights-driven agenda, often suing the administration on environmental issues. “PLF has been on an upswing for a while now,” said Jonathan Adler, a law professor at Case Western Reserve University. “They’ve really established themselves in the water area as in for the long haul.” Approaching its 50th anniversary, PLF has built an infrastructure and fundraising operation that fuels the most robust legal operation on the right. Its targets are frequently the Endangered Species Act and the Clean Water Act, which it challenges regardless of which party is in the White House. Now, the group appears to be closing in on a decades-long goal of asking the Supreme Court to wade back into the legally murky issue of the Clean Water Act’s scope. The justices have tried before, most recently in the 2006 case Rapanos v. United States, which was also launched by PLF. But the fractured decision provided little guidance for EPA and other agencies, and PLF has filed multiple lawsuits that could bring the issue back to the high court. PLF’s efforts have made it a feared — but respected — juggernaut among the environmental community. “They are right of the Trump administration, which is the most conservative

administration since the passing of the Clean Water Act,” said Mark Ryan, former Clean Water Act attorney in EPA’s Region 10. “As long as you are right of the most conservative administration in modern history, you are going to have work,” he said.

Counterweight to enviros Founded in 1973 by staffers of then-California Gov. Ronald Reagan (R), PLF was born just after EPA and as part of a conservative backlash against a perceived liberal dominance of law schools, courts and the media. PLF billed itself as the “first public interest law firm dedicated to the principles of individual rights and limited government,” and it became a model for a growing conservative legal movement that continues through today. The foundation takes a long-term view of the law, particularly on environmental issues, and it sets decadeslong goals, said Tony Francois, a PLF senior attorney. Their aim isn’t to fight one administration’s policies; it’s to establish legal precedent that makes it impossible for environmental rules to swing back and forth between administrations of dif ferent parties.

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has confidence in its litigation strategy. “If we do the work well over a long period of time, the Supreme Court is going to take notice,” Salzman said. “They are going to take our case.” With the Clean Water Act, PLF’s strategy appears to be working.

PLF’s power is rooted in its robust fund- ‘They are good at finding cases’ raising efforts that dwarf other conservative PLF has shepherded Clean Water Act legal outfits like the Denver-based Moun- challenges both big and small to the tain States Legal Foundation. Supreme Court. A review of PLF’s financial documents In two high court battles — Sackett v. dating back to the Obama administration EPA in 2012 and Army Corps of Engineers v. showed that the group has grown steadily Hawkes in 2016 — PLF secured unanimous — even through the Trump era. wins in cases concerning whether landownThe foundation now has nearly $60 ers could challenge agency wetlands million in total assets, and it has brought in enforcement actions and determina$9 million to $13.6 million in contributions tions in court. every year. More than half of the contribuThe cases were technical but had broad tions come from individuals, 30 percent implications because they forced agencies come from foundations and 17 percent are to take a much harder — and more from “small businesses and other organiza- resource-intensive — look at their enforcetions,” according to the group. ment programs under the law. Critics often charge that while PLF purLike other PLF cases, the lawsuits ports to represent the small business or appeared to come out of left field. property owner, the precedents its cases Frequently, the subject of the actual set often benefit big business or agriculture. dispute — enforcement fines, for example But Pidot, a former attorney at the Inte- — is far less than the cost of bringing the rior Department during the Obama case to the Supreme Court. But PLF has a administration, said PLF shouldn’t be knack for identifying far-reaching issues written off as in the pocket of industry. within those fights, Pidot said. “PLF has a pretty strong ideology itself,” “They are good at finding cases — where he said. “It certainly aligns with big business, you have a sympathetic plaintiff — on an but I don’t think it’s an inauthentic view for issue that rides beneath the waves but has the people at PLF.” really broad implications,” he said. Salzman said the group has refined and PLF also has a track record of bringing

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much broader Clean Water Act claims to the high court. In 2006, PLF argued Rapanos, a case that challenged the scope of what wetlands and streams qualify for Clean Water Act protections. The case resulted in a muddled ruling from the high court where no opinion earned a majority of votes from the nine justices. Most courts have since adopted Justice Anthony Kennedy’s opinion and the controlling precedent, but others, including PLF, have pushed for Justice Antonin Scalia’s opinion, which earned four votes and presents a far narrower view of the law’s reach (Greenwire, Aug. 27, 2014). Scalia’s opinion has become the basis of the Trump administration’s Navigable Waters Protection Rule, finalized in April. Kennedy’s opinion underpinned the rule’s Obama-era predecessor. The Trump rule would remove protections from up to half of the country’s wetlands and more than 18 percent of its streams that flow only after snowmelt or rainfall, compared to the Obama regulation.

Multiple paths to Supreme Court PLF was first to challenge the Trump administration’s new definition of waters of the U.S., or WOTUS, and blue states and environmental groups have followed. But because of PLF’s litigation strategy, it is closer to getting the issue to the Supreme Court. The foundation can use existing lawsuits as a springboard for challenges to the Trump rule. If it is successful in beating other groups to the high court, PLF will hold a significant advantage in framing how the question is presented to the justices. The group has multiple cases on the issue already working through the court system. For example, the Sackett case, which concerned an Idaho couple’s wetland, is still ongoing. After winning on the issue of whether the couple could challenge EPA in court, the case has continued on the jurisdictional issue of whether the wetland qualifies as a federally protected water body. EPA has tried to dismiss the case now at the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, saying it is no longer pursuing an enforcement action against the couple (Greenwire, April 13). But EPA has been unsuccessful so far, and, even if the Sacketts lose there, PLF could immediately petition the Supreme Court to review the broader WOTUS question. “There are definitely some aspects of it

that make it a good candidate,” Francois said. PLF has another case percolating in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico that raises the jurisdictional issue. In that case, New Mexico Cattle Growers’ Association v. EPA, PLF has now challenged the Trump rule for not going far enough and has moved to block parts of it from going into effect, while supporting other provisions in it (Greenwire, April 27). And PLF, in the Sackett case, has also sought to intervene in the lawsuit brought by more than 15 states challenging the Trump rule. The foundation has urged the court not to grant the blue states’ request to block the new definition (Greenwire, May 22).

‘Durable resolution’ The flurry of activity often has a dizzying effect on environmentalists. In every case, PLF adheres to the more limited view of Clean Water Act jurisdiction in Scalia’s Rapanos decision. “They seem to be trying everything possible to get their view of Rapanos — and their antebellum view of the Clean Water Act as limited to traditional navigable waters — up to the Supreme Court as quickly as they can,” said Blan Holman of the Southern Environmental Law Center. But there’s also a begrudging respect for the foundation among green groups. “I disagree with their legal positions on the waters of the United States [rules], but it is obviously an ideologically driven position,” Holman said. “It’s not a transactional approach at all.” The strategy also positions PLF well if President Trump loses reelection in November. If former Vice President Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic nominee, wins the White House and his administration seeks to undo the Trump rule, PLF could easily adjust its ongoing litigation to challenge the new regulation. “It may be that their eye is on the next administration,” Pidot said. Francois, the PLF attorney, said the group continues to grow no matter which party occupies the White House. And its backers recognize the importance of their long-range strategy. “Courts are a better avenue for longer term, more durable resolution for these disputes,” Francois said. “Our supporters generally see that.”

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in the investigation. The case was never solved but Beasley and two others—Doña Ana County Sheriff Alfonso “Happy” Apodaca and District Attorney’s investigator Ray Sandman—were convicted and sent to prison for violating the civil rights of a suspect in the case. The next chief, Joseph Roach, also appointed by Governor Mabry, was chosen from within the departmental ranks, as have all chiefs since. As a rule, when governors change, so do State Police chiefs. Two chiefs, however, managed to stay on the job in several administrations. Joseph Roach was appointed by Governor Mabry, as noted above, and served under governors Edwin Mechem and John Simms. Martin Vigil was appointed by Republican Governor David Cargo in the late 1960s and also served under Democratic governors Bruce King

and Jerry Apodaca before being ousted by Democrat Governor Toney Anaya in 1983. The New Mexico State Police Department ceased to be an independent, stand-alone, organization in 1987 when it became a Division of the New Mexico Department of Public Safety (DPS) under the administration of Governor Garrey Carruthers, with the approval of the legislature. Selected Sources: Bullis, New Mexico’s Finest: Peace Officers Killed in the Line of Duty, 1846-2010 Tom Drake, “First Automobile in New Mexico,” La Crónica de Nuevo México, July 2010 Hornung, The Thin Gray Line—The New Mexico Mounted Police New Mexico State Police 60th Anniversary Yearbook, 1935-1995 Edmundo Delgado, “New Mexico Mounted Police Predecessor of New Mexico State Police,” Round the Roundhouse, Jan. 20-Feb. 17, 1994

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NM Secretary of Ag Appointed to USDA Ag Stats Advisory Committee

ew Mexico Secretary of Agriculture Jeff Witte was appointed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) as a new member of the Advisory Committee on Agriculture Statistics (ACAS). Secretary Witte is one of 22 committee members who will represent a broad range of agricultural disciplines and interests. The purpose of ACAS is to advise the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture and the National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) on the conduct of agricultural censuses and surveys. ACAS members represent a variety of agricultural sectors across several U.S. states and districts allowing for a broad representation of perspectives on various agricultural disciplines. Secretary Witte will serve his term providing insight on a stateagency level. “It is a great honor to have been appointed by the USDA as a distinguished member of the ACAS,” said Secretary Witte. “I look forward to serving on this committee and having the opportunity to provide perspective as a state government agricultural agency to ensure that all agricultural activity is accurately recognized and accounted for.” NASS New Mexico State Statistician Longino Bustillos believes Secretary Witte will be a valuable asset to the ACAS. “I am very pleased to see that Jeff Witte has been selected to the USDA Advisory Committee on Agriculture Statistics,” Longino said. “As a native New Mexican, his broad knowledge will provide an informed view of the unique challenges – as well as the data needs – of farmers and ranchers in the southwest.” Secretary Witte will serve as an ACAS member through June of 2022.

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NMDA Takes Innovative Approaches to Serve the Public Amid COVID-19 Pandemic

ew Mexico’s agriculture industry provides many resources that are crucial to the state’s communities and economy. To ensure these resources remain available to the public, the New Mexico Department of Agriculture (NMDA) is taking innovative approaches to continue offering services while adhering to the state’s public health emergency orders and COVID-Safe Practices. Many of NMDA’s services normally provided in person, such as licensure trainings, have temporarily been moved to an online format. Necessary in-person activities, including certain inspections by NMDA field staff, have continued with use of proper personal protective equipment and social distancing procedures. “Despite the current COVID-19 pandemic, we at NMDA have dedicated ourselves to finding and creating innovative avenues that allow us to continue providing services necessary to commerce,” New Mexico Agriculture Secretary Jeff Witte said. “Virtual trainings and classes, as well as routine inspections, are just a few of the activities that remain available to our constituents.” Some of the many services NMDA continues to provide include the following: Dairy: Dairy inspections have been conducted routinely. Milk hauler certification classes can be completed virtually. Hemp: Hemp cultivation license applications are continually processed. Laboratory operations: Laboratory operations and sample testing within the NMDA Metrology Lab, Petroleum Standards Lab, State Chemist Lab and State Seed Lab have continued. Before submitting samples or artifacts for calibration, please call 575/646-1551. Market news: NMDA continues to provide livestock and grain market news data. This was made true under a cooperative agreement with the United States Department of Agriculture. Organic program: The NMDA Organic Program continues to provide United States Department of Agriculture/National Organic Program-accredited organic certifications. These are for farmers, ranchers and processors/handlers throughout New Mexico. Peanut inspections: All necessary ser-

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On Behalf of Environmentalists, I Apologize for the Climate Scare

by Michael Shellenberger, environmentalprogress.org

n behalf of environmentalists everywhere, I would like to formally apologize for the climate scare we created over the last 30 years. Climate change is happening. It’s just not the end of the world. It’s not even our most serious environmental problem. I may seem like a strange person to be saying all of this. I have been a climate activist for 20 years and an environmentalist for 30. But as an energy expert asked by Congress to provide objective expert testimony, and invited by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to serve as Expert Reviewer of its next Assessment Report, I feel an obligation to apologize for how badly we environmentalists have misled the public. Here are some facts few people know: ЇЇ Humans are not causing a “sixth mass extinction” ЇЇ The Amazon is not “the lungs of the world” ЇЇ Climate change is not making natural disasters worse ЇЇ Fires have declined 25 percent around the world since 2003 ЇЇ The amount of land we use for meat — humankind’s biggest use of land — has declined by an area nearly as large as Alaska ЇЇ The build-up of wood fuel and more houses near forests, not climate change, explain why there are more, and more dangerous, fires in Australia and California Carbon emissions are declining in ЇЇ most rich nations and have been

declining in Britain, Germany, and France since the mid-1970s ЇЇ Netherlands became rich not poor while adapting to life below sea level ЇЇ We produce 25 percent more food than we need and food surpluses will continue to rise as the world gets hotter ЇЇ Habitat loss and the direct killing of wild animals are bigger threats to species than climate change ЇЇ Wood fuel is far worse for people and wildlife than fossil fuels ЇЇ Preventing future pandemics requires more not less “industrial” agriculture I know that the above facts will sound like “climate denialism” to many people. But that just shows the power of climate alarmism. In reality, the above facts come from the best-available scientific studies, including those conducted by or accepted by the IPCC, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and other leading scientific bodies. Some people will, when they read this imagine that I’m some right-wing anti-environmentalist. I’m not. At 17, I lived in Nicaragua to show solidarity with the Sandinista socialist revolution. At 23 I raised money for Guatemalan women’s cooperatives. In my early 20s I lived in the

semi-Amazon doing research with small farmers fighting land invasions. At 26 I helped expose poor conditions at Nike factories in Asia. I became an environmentalist at 16 when I threw a fundraiser for Rainforest Action Network. At 27 I helped save the last unprotected ancient redwoods in California. In my 30s I advocated renewables and successfully helped persuade the Obama administration to invest $90 billion into them. Over the last few years I helped save enough nuclear plants from being replaced by fossil fuels to prevent a sharp increase in emissions But until last year, I mostly avoided speaking out against the climate scare. Partly that’s because I was embarrassed. After all, I am as guilty of alarmism as any other environmentalist. For years, I referred to climate change as an “existential” threat to human civilization, and called it a “crisis.” But mostly I was scared. I remained quiet about the climate disinformation campaign because I was afraid of losing friends and funding. The few times I summoned the courage to defend climate science from those who misrepresent it I suffered harsh consequences. And so I mostly stood by and did next to nothing as my fellow environmentalists terrified the public. I even stood by as people in the White House and many in the news media tried to destroy the reputation and career of an

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outstanding scientist, good man, and friend of mine, Roger Pielke, Jr., a lifelong progressive Democrat and environmentalist who testified in favor of carbon regulations. Why did they do that? Because his research proves natural disasters aren’t getting worse. But then, last year, things spiraled out of control. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said “The world is going to end in twelve years if we don’t address climate change.” Britain’s most high-profile environmental group claimed “Climate Change Kills Children.” The world’s most influential green journalist, Bill McKibben, called climate change the “greatest challenge humans have ever faced” and said it would “wipe out civilizations.” Mainstream journalists reported, repeatedly, that the Amazon was “the lungs of the world,” and that deforestation was like a nuclear bomb going off. As a result, half of the people surveyed around the world last year said they thought climate change would make humanity extinct. And in January, one out of five British children told pollsters they were having nightmares about climate change. Whether or not you have children you must see how wrong this is. I admit I may be sensitive because I have a teenage daughter. After we talked about the science she was reassured. But her friends are deeply misinformed and thus, understandably, frightened. I thus decided I had to speak out. I knew that writing a few articles wouldn’t be enough. I needed a book to properly lay out all of the evidence. And so my formal apology for our fear-mongering comes in the form of my new book, Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All. It is based on two decades of research and three decades of environmental activism. At 400 pages, with 100 of them endnotes, Apocalypse Never covers climate change, deforestation, plastic waste, species extinction, industrialization, meat, nuclear energy, and renewables. Some highlights from the book: ЇЇ Factories and modern farming are the keys to human liberation and environmental progress ЇЇ The most important thing for saving the environment is producing more food, particularly meat, on less land ЇЇ The most important thing for reducing air pollution and carbon emissions is moving from wood to coal to petroleum to natural gas

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to uranium 100 percent renewables would require increasing the land used for energy from today’s 0.5 percent to 50 percent ЇЇ We should want cities, farms, and power plants to have higher, not lower, power densities ЇЇ Vegetarianism reduces one’s emissions by less than four percent ЇЇ Greenpeace didn’t save the whales, switching from whale oil to petroleum and palm oil did ЇЇ “Free-range” beef would require 20 times more land and produce 300 percent more emissions Greenpeace dogmatism worsened ЇЇ forest fragmentation of the Amazon ЇЇ The colonialist approach to gorilla conservation in the Congo produced a backlash that may have resulted in the killing of 250 elephants Why were we all so misled? In the final three chapters of Apocalypse Never I expose the financial, political, and ideological motivations. Environmental groups have accepted hundreds of millions of dollars from fossil fuel interests. Groups motivated by anti-humanist beliefs forced the World Bank to stop trying to end poverty and instead make poverty “sustainable.” And status anxiety, depression, and hostility to modern civilization are behind much of the alarmism Once you realize just how badly misinformed we have been, often by people with plainly unsavory or unhealthy motivations, it is hard not to feel duped. Will Apocalypse Never make any difference? There are certainly reasons to doubt it. The news media have been making apocalyptic pronouncements about climate change since the late 1980s, and do not seem disposed to stop. The ideology behind environmental alarmsim — Malthusianism — has been repeatedly debunked for 200 years and yet is more powerful than ever. But there are also reasons to believe that environmental alarmism will, if not come to an end, have diminishing cultural power. The coronavirus pandemic is an actual crisis that puts the climate “crisis” into perspective. Even if you think we have overreacted, Covid-19 has killed nearly 500,000 people and shattered economies around the globe. Scientific institutions including WHO and IPCC have undermined their credibility through the repeated politicization of science. Their future existence and relevance depends on new leadership and ЇЇ

serious reform. Facts still matter, and social media is allowing for a wider range of new and independent voices to outcompete alarmist environmental journalists at legacy publications. Nations are reverting openly to self-interest and away from Malthusianism and neoliberalism, which is good for nuclear and bad for renewables. The evidence is overwhelming that our high-energy civilization is better for people and nature than the low-energy civilization that climate alarmists would return us to. The invitations from IPCC and Congress are signs of a growing openness to new thinking about climate change and the environment. Another one has been to the response to my book from climate scientists, conservationists, and environmental scholars. “Apocalypse Never is an extremely important book,” writes Richard Rhodes, the Pulitzer-winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb. “This may be the most important book on the environment ever written,” says one of the fathers of modern climate science Tom Wigley. “We environmentalists condemn those with antithetical views of being ignorant of science and susceptible to confirmation bias,” wrote the former head of The Nature Conservancy, Steve McCormick. “But too often we are guilty of the same. Shellenberger offers ‘tough love:’ a challenge to entrenched orthodoxies and rigid, self-defeating mindsets. Apocalypse Never serves up occasionally stinging, but always wellcrafted, evidence-based points of view that will help develop the ‘mental muscle’ we need to envision and design not only a hopeful, but an attainable, future.” That is all I hoped for in writing it. If you’ve made it this far, I hope you’ll agree that it’s perhaps not as strange as it seems that a lifelong environmentalist, progressive, and climate activist felt the need to speak out against the alarmism. I further hope that you’ll accept my apology. Editor’s Note: Here’s one comment posted the day this article was posted: GeorgeEH a day ago (June 30, 2020) Well said Michael. “BIOFUELS, BIOMASS and WINDFARMS are destroying wildlife habitats at great speed, yet they do not produce any environmental benefits at all. They are remedies that are worse than the illness and should be abandoned immediately. If the planet is at risk, it is from the corrupt alliance of “green” charlatans, subsidy-sucking speculators, and politicians. Together, they have created a monster which is causing more devastation worldwide than there has been in 5,000 years of civilization.”

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Handmade Versus Hand Assembled

hy is it important to know the difference between handmade and hand -assembled (or hand crafted)? Value! The differences can sometimes be slight, but it’s worth knowing if you want to be an informed collector. As savvy collectors, we anticipate the items we collect will appreciate over time, or at the very least, retain their value. Sometimes that can be difficult to predict with market changes and what-not, but one of the things we can do to help sway chances in our favor, is to collect better stuff. An example is the so-called Fred Harvey era jewelry. We know this refers to turquoise and silver items (mostly jewelry) made in the first half of the 20th century. In recent years, Fred Harvey era items have been very popular with collectors. However, there are some (bracelets for example) from that time period which sell in the $100 to $200 range, while others may sell for $1,000 and up. The difference—the higher value ones are completely handmade and discerning collectors know the difference. Which do you rather grandma have bought back in the day? The ones now worth $100 or the ones now worth $1,000 or more? So what constitutes “handmade?” A definition found in the dictionary says: hand·made (adjective) made by hand, not by machine and typically therefore of superior quality. Hand-wrought and hand-forged are synonyms. Basically, it means the artist or maker made the item from scratch and did not buy precast parts and assemble them together. Hand-assembled or handcrafted items generally consist of items put together from two or more pre-made or precast pieces (most of the time precasting is done by machine or in mass-produced methods). As a matter of disclosure, very, very few things are completely handmade anymore, but the closer you can get to being purely handmade, the better off you are. For example, you can have a pair of spurs using precast spur blanks cast in a factory

may think we are splitting hairs, but down the road, it will most definitely make a difference in value when you present those items to the collector marketplace for resale. Just know this, if the item you are buying was assembled using parts the artist purchased at the store, it is NOT completely handmade. Sure, it may have a good look to it and may be hard to tell at a glance the difference from a completely handmade item, but you will most assuredly realize the difference when you want to resell (if your buyer is a knowledgeable collector). In the realm of so-called handmade items, there is a big difference between a true craftsman who can take raw materials and build a piece of art from scratch vs. the person who, although they may have an artistic eye, are merely assembling pieces together and saying it is handmade. And the advanced collectors know the difference. One of the best ways to describe it I can think of is a paint by numbers piece of art. If you have a piece of art whereby the “artist” sat down with a paint by numbers kit and it told them where to paint and what colors went where and they were basically just filling in some blanks, you could argue

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somewhere or you can make a pair of spurs by forging them from a single piece of steel. You can have belt buckles made using precast buckle blanks bought from a supplier or you can hand forge them from silver (or other metals). You can have a turquoise bracelet made from a bracelet blank (bought at the jewelry supply store) or you can start with ingots of silver and create it yourself. All of the above can then be decorated with precast silver, gold or other non-precious embellishments, or the artist can cut the embellishments out by hand or even hand engrave the items. “When you buy something made by a person, there is something special there, and you do feel it. The consciousness with which a thing is made is often more important than the thing itself.” - J. Donald Walters As a collector, it is important to know the difference between completely handmade and the various stages of hand-assembled for yourself. Do not take anyone’s word for it unless you know the person knows what they are talking about and you trust that person’s judgment. A lot of items will be presented to you as “Handmade” when in fact they are mostly hand-assembled. To some, that is a small difference and they

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(weakly in my opinion) that it is hand painted. However a paint by numbers artwork will never be valued in the collectors world in the same way a piece of art is where the artist sat down with a blank canvas and painted a wonderful scene from the imagination using an image in their head or perhaps a photo. What’s worse than not even being hand-assembled however, is if a piece is completely machine made. With technology the way it is today, they can mass produce items which to the untrained eye look like the real deal. My advice is to avoid those types of items completely as they are almost never “collectible” in the long run. Hand-assembled is much better than machine made, but the purist prefers as close to completely handmade as possible. If you are not sure how to tell the difference, start talking to reputable dealers and collectors who can show you the little tell-tale signs. So the next time you see a belt buckle that was made using a buckle blank and then had precast embellishments applied to it, or perhaps a bracelet made in a similar manner, think of the difference between a paint by numbers piece of art vs. a truly hand drawn, hand painted masterpiece. Both may have a good look to them, but when you go to sell the items in the market of collectibles, there will be a big difference in price. Of course, you will likely have to pay more for the completely handmade item in the beginning, but you are a lot more likely to see appreciation, or at least have it hold its value, when you buy handmade over hand-assembled.

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ew Mexico State University is participating in gathering information to help understand how producers make decision regarding their cattle operations. “We are collaborating with the Southwest Beef Coordinated Agricultural Projects, along with colleagues in California, to survey producers regarding their bull management and selection strategies as well as their marketing mechanisms,” said Craig Gifford, NMSU Extension beef cattle specialist in the College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences. The purpose of the study is to examine the best methods for managing bulls after purchase and the influences driving bull-buying decisions. “Potential benefits associated with the study include improvement to marketing strategies and management for both bull buyers and bull breeders,” Gifford said. “Our seedstock folks will find value in evaluating the factors their customers find important, and the survey will provide some benchmarks for the commercial producers.” Participation by ranchers will help guide future university research, educational training and research and management. “We ask cattle producers to please take the time to tell us about their bull selection priorities, bull health and management, general cattle operation and marketing program,” he said. The results will be anonymous and will only be reported as summaries. “Their answers will not be connected to their name or address in any way,” he said. “Participation is completely voluntary.” The analysis of the survey will be shared in a future Extension publication, workshops and with ranchers in the Southwest. “The survey should take approximately 20 to 30 minutes to complete,” Gifford said. “There is no risk anticipated with their participation. They may omit responses to any question they choose not to answer.” To participate in the survey, visit http:// nmbeef.nmsu.edu/bull-survey. The survey project is part of a study to improve the sustainability of beef production in the Southwest funded by a U.S. Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture $8.9 million grant.

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Environmental Groups Petition USDA Over Depopulation

by Lisa M. Keefe, meatingplace.com

everal environmental groups have petitioned USDA’s Animal & Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) over tactics used in the mass depopulation of livestock, such as happened over the spring as COVID-19 affected meat plants’ employees and the meat supply chain backed up to farms. The groups petitioning APHIS include the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), Center for Biological Diversity, Earthjustice, Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future, among others, according to the Food and Environment Reporting Network. According to NRDC, some of the methods result in risks to the environment and public health, such as mass burials and mass incineration, which the organizations contend occur without environmental controls. “That is why NRDC and partners filed an emergency petition with APHIS asking the agency to take immediate action to protect public health and provide basic, vital information about this unprecedented situation,” the NRDC said on its website. Communities near livestock operations often are already “overburdened” by pollution and other environmental effects of large farms and feeding operations, NRDC went on: “Without swift action, the people who live near industrial animal production facilities will continue to shoulder this pollution burden plus the burden from this unprecedented move to depopulate potentially hundreds of thousands of animals across the country. This is an emergency situation that APHIS can and must address with an emergency rule to protect communities and the environment.”

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Game Department Expands Black Bear Population Estimate Survey into the Gila National Forest

uring the summer of 2020, Department biologists and conservation officers will be starting a two-year black bear population estimate study using hair snares in the Gila National Forest. Bear hair snares are a modern study technique designed to collect DNA and allow biologists to identify the number of bears in an area. Starting in early June, Department biologists and conservation officers will set up the hair snares across the Gila National Forest. The hair snares will consist of strands of barbed wire stretched across an area with bait in the middle. As bears duck under or step over the wire a small amount of hair will be collected. Elise Goldstein, assistant chief of wildlife for the Department said “the DNA collected will help biologists continue to make informed wildlife management decisions, ensuring that New Mexico continues to have a healthy, robust population of bears.” Summer is the ideal time for these DNA samples to be collected; bears are shedding their winter coats and the snare will pull this loose hair without harming the bear. The study occurs during breeding season when bears are moving more. Biologists will collect the hair, which will then be sent for DNA analysis at an internationally recognized lab utilized by many state agencies and universities for their wildlife genetic studies. Bear hair snare sites are not located in high use areas, but if you are recreating in the Gila National Forest and find one of these sites, the Department asks you to not touch the study areas and to make your way around the sites. In the past several years similar studies have been completed in the northern and southern Sangre de Cristo Mountains, Sandia Mountains and the northern and southern Sacramento Mountains. Learn more about these studies at: http://www.wildlife.state.nm.us/download/hunting/species/bear/publications/ Estimating-Black-Bear-Density-in-NewMexico-Gould-etal-2016.pdf The Department also recently wrapped up a bear hair study in the Jemez Mountains.

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Wildlife Crimes Net $74,000 in Restitution

n June 23, 2020, Sandoval County Judge James A. Noel ordered Cody W. Davis of Arnegard, N.D. to pay $74,000 in restitution to the state for poaching a trophy mule deer buck. This civil restitution included $20,000 for

the mule deer which was killed out of season, without a license and resulted in the waste of game and an additional $54,000 in reimbursement to the Department for the extensive investigation required for this case. The restitution to the state is in addition to his criminal conviction which included a $3,000 donation to Operation Game Thief (OGT). An OGT tip in December of 2015 initiated the investigation. Conservation officers searched the area in question and found a large headless mule deer buck near Lindrith,

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s part of the United We Steak campaign launch, a United We Steak ad appeared on a billboard in Times Square. At 23 stories tall and more than 7,300 square feet, it’s one of the largest digital signs in the world. The United We Steak image appeared five times during morning and evening rush hours. United We Steak is the cornerstone of our summer grilling promotion and leverages the uniqueness of each state along with showcasing the importance of beef to each. The campaign comes to life at UnitedWeSteak.com with an interactive map of the United States made from 50 hand-cut stateshaped steaks. In addition to featuring individual beef recipes for each-state, UnitedWeSteak.com features a beef producer from every state – see story on Tim Foote Cattle Company. The state and U.S.-shaped steaks will also be featured in national advertisements including still images and videos that will be shared on digital and social media platforms including Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn and Pinterest. A new series of United We Steak videos will also be running on video platforms including YouTube and Connected TV, such as Hulu, in an effort to inspire Americans to grill up their favorite beef meal no matter where they live. United We Steak will run from now through Labor Day to make sure that beef is the protein of choice for consumers during this grilling season. In just one week the campaign reached more than 40 million consumers, the videos have received more than 15 million video views, and the website UnitedWeSteak.com has had more than 163,000 visits. All of this suggests that consumers love the new campaign. The reception has been so strong that additional videos and audio spots are being added into the advertising rotation.

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arrett Foote just graduated from Texas Tech University and is currently attending Law School while also working on his family’s ranch, Tim Foote Cattle Company in Texico, NM. Garrett: We are a backgrounding ranch. That means we raise cattle from when they are weaned off of their mother’s milk and we facilitate the transition from grass pasture to a grain diet. NMBC: What makes your ranch unique (geographical, environmental, resources, etc.)? Garrett: Our ranch is located 15 miles north of Texico, NM, which is on the eastern New Mexico border. This region’s dry, mild environment is ideal for raising cattle. We graze cattle on wheat during the winter months and in the summer months they graze on grass. The grass and wheat grown in our area is very nutrient dense so it makes sense to use our local resources. N M B C : What does your grain ration consist of? Garrett: Our cattle eat what’s in sea-

son! Everything that goes into their feed ration depends on the season, how much was grown and harvested, and the location of where it was grown. We raise our own crops to create the feed rations, but sometimes we also have to buy from neighbors. So, based on the season, our grain ration consists of dried distiller’s grains, soybean hulls, cracked corn, whey, and supplements to keep the health and digestive system balanced as well as wheat, corn, or sorghum silage depending on what is available each season. The cattle may receive grain and other feeds, but only in small amounts. Grass and hay are their primary feed sources. NMBC: How long do cattle typically stay on your ranch? Garrett: Cattle will stay under our care for anywhere from 30 to 150 days. The amount of time that cattle remain with us depends on how much they weigh when we receive them. We typically receive cattle that weigh between 400 and 700 pounds and we keep them until they weigh 750 to 800 pounds. NMBC: How do you keep animals safe and healthy? Garrett: We work with our veterinarian and nutritionist to develop comprehensive animal care programs which help keep our cattle healthy.

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Consumers “Stocking Up” Leaves Shelves Empty

o say consumer behavior around food has shifted this spring due to COVID-19 would be an understatement. One of the most jarring examples of the changes is empty store shelves across the country, caused by consumers stocking up on food and supplies. While this dynamic was short-lived, the widespread magnitude was something many generations in the U.S had never faced before. Not only are consumers cooking more, but they also have more food stocked up in their pantries and freezers than they typically would. About 60 percent of consumers are stocking up more now than they did before. Most consumers

have between one to four weeks of food at home. Another 20 percent have at least five weeks of meals, with very few indicating they have less than a week of food in their house. These general stocking up behaviors have remained steady since April and well over half of consumers agree that they will continue to stock up on groceries for the foreseeable future. Consumers are not particular about the types of food that they’re stocking up on, other than plant-based proteins, which the majority of consumers claimed to not have in their home. In comparison, one-third of consumers have at least five meals of Ground Beef or chicken breast at home. At least 20 percent of consumers are also stocking up on beef roasts and steak, specifically Sirloin steaks, Strip steaks and Ribeye steaks. With summer grilling season approaching, the appeal for stocking up on steak has grown 7 percent since midApril. Over the same time period, chicken breast has seen an 8-10 percent decline in future stocking up behaviors. Couple that with the fact that consumers plan to grill nearly seven times a month, and that consumers’ ideal grilling experience is all about beef and family, it all leads to a promising sign for beef this summer grilling season.

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mmunology – it’s not only a big word but it’s a big subject. There are so many parts and pieces to the system that it might be easier to rebuild a diesel engine than to understand how it all works. And as we learn more about the immune system, we are amazed by how little we know…but at this point in time we all realize the importance and need for “herd immunity”. Regardless of how complex the immune system is, we rely on its ability to function and expect it to perform every day. Developing immunity for a calf is like the recent daily activity in the stock market! The rancher hopes the calves are protected but isn’t really sure. At birth, the calf has the ability to defend itself against a few health risks but the immune system is not trained to detect serious threats just yet. Long term immunity must be developed as the calf grows. Early on, the calf is protected by the largest piece of the immune system which is the skin and mucous membranes found in the respiratory and digestive tracts. These tissues are part of what we call the innate (natural) immune system and is non-specific by protecting against all invaders. Shortly after birth, we hope that the calf is strong enough to stand and nurse the most crucial meal of its life. Not only does the colostrum provide energy, passive immunity, vitamins and minerals to the calf but colostrum can turn on or off signals to assist in growth and development of that calf throughout its life. While we used to believe that the calf could digest colostrum for up to the first 24 hours of life, we now know that the sooner the calf suckles and absorbs colostrum the better, as the opportunity for digestion decreases dramatically after only a few hours. So ideally the calf should start nursing within 30 minutes and the cleaner the calving pen is the better. A clean maternity pen can reduce the accidental ingestion of bacteria along with the colostrum. Less exposure to disease allows the calf to start performing up to its genetic potential. Fortunately, most beef cattle produce adequate colostrum but colostrum quality can be improved by vaccinating the cow prior to calving. This passive transfer of

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immunity is critical as calf survival depends on the maternal protection from colostrum and the innate (natural) immune system during the first several months of life. During this time of calf growth, the calf will build up its immunity based on exposure to disease or vaccination. This is what we call Acquired immunity as the body responds to what it comes into contact with. And just like in people, sometimes one exposure to disease provides long term

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immunity and other times we need several exposures to remind the immune system of what we want it to fight off. So, in the case of calves, we recommend multiple vaccines for a couple of reasons. First not all calves respond to a single vaccine. Often this is due to a lack of ability to respond appropriately. Secondly, in order to respond appropriately and create long term memory, the body must see and process a vaccine multiple times – similar to teaching kids’

math by flash cards and repetition since the more they see the formula the faster and more accurate their response is. Vaccines have been studied extensively and one recent study has shown that only half of the calves vaccinated had an adequate immune response within the first 28 days – even with multiple vaccine doses. With a low immune response, the cost of production will increase due to inefficiencies such as sick calves or a vaccine protocol with 4 – 5 doses in order to get adequate protection. Think about what profit you

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lose when cattle are sick and don’t respond. Fortunately, there are steps that can be taken to assist the calf in getting all it can out of your vaccine program. They need to be handled with low stress and be in good body condition since sick or debilitated calves don’t respond well. And while there aren’t any ‘Super Foods’ like blueberries to feed the calves, they can be supplemented to support their health. In the study mentioned above in which only half the calves responded, there was second group of calves that had 80 percent respond to the same vaccines within 28 days. The difference was in providing the calves supplemental Zinc, Manganese, Selenium and Copper by injecting Multimin®90 at the same time as vaccination. We commonly believe that it takes several weeks after vaccination to be fully protected, but we can find results to support that vaccines work very quickly, if we know where to look. Another recent study has shown how quickly vaccines can be processed by the body to help fight disease. Calves were vaccinated once and given injectable minerals included in Multimin®90 (Zinc, Manganese, Selenium and Copper) at the time of vaccination. Five days after vaccination they were challenged with a very bad virus called Bovine Virus Diarrhea Virus (BVDV). Two days after receiving the BVDV challenge, blood samples were taken and analyzed. What the researchers found was that the group that received Multimin®90 performed better and had less disease than the other groups that didn’t receive injectable trace minerals. So, the big question is what’s the difference in immune response between the groups? Immune response depends on what the animal has in its tank to give. It’s like trying to chop corn all day on a ¼ tank of fuel…you’re only going to get so far. The more nutritionally sound the calf is including an adequate micro-mineral status, the better the animal can respond to vaccine stimulation or disease stresses. And by providing the calf what it needs to thrive we also support good stewardship and stockman ship – which really is supporting the welfare of the calf and your operation! For additional information, visit www.multiminusa.com

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Veterinarians Play Critical Role in Backyard Poultry and Livestock Welfare, as well as Human Health by Trina Wood

ackyard poultry and small-scale livestock agriculture are a growing trend in the U.S., even in large cities such as Seattle, Portland, Denver and San Francisco. Residents raising backyard poultry and livestock do so for a variety of reasons such as access to locally sourced food, companionship and sustainability. But how often do these owners seek veterinary care in these urban and peri-urban areas (UPAs)? A Western Regional team of collaborators, including UC Davis researchers, conducted a survey of veterinary practitioners to better assess their engagement with owners of these animals. They received responses from 880 veterinarians in California, Colorado, Washington and Oregon.

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Most respondents reported working in companion animal only or companion animal predominant practices. Although most of the veterinarians perceived an increase in backyard poultry and livestock in their practice areas, few were actively treating such animals primarily because of a lack of facilities, interest or experience. Their findings, published in the July 15 issue of the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association, indicate an increasing demand for veterinary services for poultry and livestock in peri-urban areas, and a need for ongoing continuing education of practitioners, as well as the animal owners. “This segment of agriculture has been largely overlooked by the veterinary community in North America,” said Dr. Alda Pires, University of California cooperative extension specialist in the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine and co-principal investigator in the study. “Due to the potential for public health issues and the spread of zoonotic disease, veterinary professionals need increased training and better awareness of the health and welfare of these animals.” Dr. Ragan Adams, veterinary extension specialist at Colorado State University and

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a co-principal investigator emphasized that the animal owners also need better awareness of the importance of regular veterinary care and a willingness to pay for that medical expertise. “Many of these owners are unfamiliar with the responsibilities and challenges of owning poultry and/or livestock,” Adams said. “County Extension personnel can teach the new animal owners as they have taught youth in 4-H programs for more than 100 years. With enhanced knowledge about animal husbandry, the new owners will understand the importance of seeking veterinary services when their animals show signs of illness.” Disease spread from these peri-urban areas can spell disaster for other animals. For example, the 2015 outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza, traced to backyard poultry flocks, had severe economic and trade consequences for the commercial poultry industry. Recent outbreaks of virulent Newcastle disease in California also posed significant threats to commercial poultry flocks and the agricultural economy. “The health and welfare of animals in UPAs are of concern because their owners often lack the knowledge or expertise regarding safe handling and animal hus-

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Willard, NM: Go south on Cattle Rd & find this ~1,130 deeded acre ranch. It has pipeline well & drinkers, perimeter fences, Mostly open blue stem grazing pastures have cedar & pinon tree cover. Fat cows onsite. Asking $660,000 obo

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740 Apache Mesa Ranch: Hwy 84 – Deeded ~1,480 acres of grazing land w/160 ac BLM lease off Hwy 84. Includes 4 stall barn w/living quarters, stone bunk house & separate bath house. Fenced perimeter, springs & dirt tanks too. $1,498,000 obo Pena Canyon near Villanueva, NM: Two parcels for sale: 180 acres @ $121,000 & 257 acres @ $141,900. Off CR B29A in Pena Canyon w/creek & mesa top views, next to National Forest. Also have 547 deeded acres on Pena Creek for $324,000 CR 4JK, Dilia, NM: 11 acre farm w/5 ac ft ditch water rights. Live on one side of county road, farm the other side. Has community water, overhead electric, CR road access & nice views. $89,000 95 Hwy 84, Las Vegas, NM: 157 acre parcel has fiber optic internet, telephone & power available. Has several building sites & long sunset views. Price: $156,900 80 Apache Mesa Road: Mesa top 80 acre parcel has 13 gpm water well, fence on 2 sides, two tanks & Hermits Peak & Sangre views. Moderate pinon & cedar tree cover. Off the grid. Price: $98,900 Owners ready to sell... 200 Acres on Apache Mesa: Off the grid mesa top meadow has tall pines, juniper, mossy rocks & partially fenced. Majestic La Cueva Canyon views. Price: $149,000 Stanley, NM: One 40 acre tract w/power & water @ $64,900 & one 40 ac tract for $54,900, One 80 acre parcel w/power @ $79,900. Located on Buckboard Rd off the old Simmons Road. 640 acre tract also available has a good water well. Rancho del Rito, San Jose, NM: Rito de Sebadillo Creek gated parcel has 144 acres w/underground power & water well, Sensible CC&R’s Priced at $179,900 & owc. Rociada, NM: 22 acre parcel off Maestas Canyon has tall pines, fir, spruce, sugar pine, foxtail, close to pavement. Quiet & Secluded & borders Nat forest. Asking $140,000 Apache Mesa: 227 deeded acres w/145 ac grazing lease has amazing rim rock views, two tanks, power & fiber optics close by. Asking $354,400

KEN AHLER REAL ESTATE CO., INC. 300 Paseo Peralta, Suite 211, Santa Fe, NM 87501

Office: 505/989–7573 • Toll Free: 888/989–7573 • Mobile: 505/490–0220 Email: kahler@newmexico.com • Website: www.SantaFeLand.com

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WAGON MOUND RANCH, Mora/Harding Counties, NM. 8,880.80 +/- Total Acres, a substantial holding with good mix of grazing land and broken country off rim into Canadian River. Has modern water system located 17 miles east of Wagon Mound off pavement then 3 miles on county road. Two bedroom historic house, once a stage stop. Wildlife include antelope, mule deer and some elk. $2,390,000 RATON MILLION DOLLAR VIEW, Colfax County, NM. 97.68 +/- deeded acres in 2 parcels with excellent home, big shop, wildlife, a true million dollar view at the end of a private road. $489,000. Also listed with the house and one parcel for $375,000 MIAMI 20 ACRES, Colfax County,

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NM quality 2,715 sqft adobe home, barn, grounds, fruit trees and mature trees. Extremely private setting. REDUCED $353,000. This is a must see. Also listed with same house with 10 +/- deeded acres for $308,000 MAXWELL 19.50 ACRES, Colfax County, NM quality extensive remodeled two bedroom, one bathroom home with water rights, outbuildings for livestock in NE NM. Great south facing porch for sipping iced tea cooling off at 6,000 ft elevation. Would make great summer getaway and winter ski base. $270,000

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MORA COUNTY 160 +/- ACRES, 12 miles south east of Wagon Mound, remote, excellent solar well good mix of sub irrigated and range. Small cabin. $154,000

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MAJOR RANCH REALTY RANDELL MAJOR Qualifying Broker

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SIDWELL FARM & RANCH REALTY, LLC Tom Sidwell, Qualifying Broker 6237 State Highway 209, Tucumcari, NM 88401 • 575-403-6903 tom@sidwellfarmandranch.com • www.sidwellfarmandranch.com

Terrell land & livesTock company 575/447-6041

Tye C. Terrell, Jr. P.O. Box 3188, Los Lunas, NM 87031

CALDWELL RANCH

Paul Turney – 575-808-0134 Stacy Turney – 575-808-0144 Find Your Favorite Place 2825 Sudderth Drive, Suite F Ruidoso NM 88345 O: 575-336-1316

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First time offering of a quality ranch property located in northeastern Chaves County, New Mexico, approximately 20 miles northwest of the small community of Elida. Configured in two tracts of a total of 7,200 deeded acres and 640 acres of state lease. Watered by three wells and pipelines. Grazing capacity is estimated to be 130 AUYL. Priced at $370 per deeded acre. Call for a brochure.

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214.701.1970 jamessammons.com jsammons@briggsfreeman.com

Buyers are looking for a ranch. If you have a ranch to sell, give me a call.

Scott McNally, Qualifying Broker Bar M Real Estate, LLC P.O. Box 428, Roswell, NM 88202 Office: 575-622-5867 Cell: 575-420-1237 Website: www.ranchesnm.com

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Texas Cola Shredded Beef Brisket Makes 8 Servings 9 Ingredients 6-1/2 Hours

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Ingredients 3.5 lbs. Brisket Flat 1 Tbsp. garlic powder 2 tsp. onion powder 2 tsp. ancho pepper powder 2 tsp. kosher salt 2 Tbsp. olive oil.

Nutrition information per serving: 356 Calories; 99.4 Calories from fat; 11.1 g Total Fat (3.3 g Saturated Fat; 5.6 g Monounsaturated Fat;) 129 mg Cholesterol; 855.1 mg Sodium; 19.4 g Total Carbohydrate; 1.7 g Dietary Fiber; 43.8 g Protein; 4.7 mg Iron; 905.9 mg Potassium; 0.5 mg Riboflavin; 9.9 mg Niacin; 1.1 mg Vitamin B6; 3.7 mcg Vitamin B12; 11 mg Zinc; 30.3 mcg Selenium; 180.3 mg Choline. This recipe is an excellent source of Protein, Riboflavin, Vitamin B6, Vitamin B12, Iron,, Selenium, Zinc, Choline; and a good source of Potassium.

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If you are looking for a place to call home, plant your roots, or hang your hat and need people well versed in the industry, then this is the place to look! Joe Cox - 575-361-5269

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Jodie Chism - 575-361-0494

SUMNER LAKE, State Road 203, River Ranches Estates, River Ranch Road lots (at intersection with 203) $18,900 each. State Road 203 frontage lot. $25,000 SAN ANTONIO, Zanja Road, 4.66 acres farmland with Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District water rights. $69,000 CUERVO, Mesita Pass Road, 148.13 acres of land in Mesita Ranch Subdivision. Perfect for a new home site, hunting or grazing. $85,000

MAGDALENA, 47 Angus Loop, 3bd/2ba home on 11.04 acres. Horse barn and corral. Beautiful views of Magdalena Mountain. $180,000 $177,000 AUGUST 2020

www.scottlandcompany.com

Paul Stout, Broker

575-760-5461 cell 575-456-2000 office officeoffice

NMREL 17843

www.bigmesarealty.com

RIBERA,340 CR B41E 32.6 acres with 3bd/2ba home on Pecos River, Hay Barn and outbuildings. Just over 20 acres in alfalfa and grass hay production. $695,000 CUERVO, 1130 Aguila Road. 3bd/1ba home with corral on 56.6 acres at the foot of Cuervo Mesa. $85,000

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PIE TOWN, Goat Ranch Road Access, South of Wild Horse Ranch Subdivision. 20 acres vacant land. $16,000, 40 acres vacant land. $32,000. Beautiful views.

Add the tomato paste, cola and Worcestershire to the pot. Bring to a boil then reduce heat to a low simmer. Place the lid on the pot and cook for 4 hours. Remove lid to allow sauce to start to reduce, and cook brisket a further 2 hours or until completely tender. Remove brisket from the pot, shred with a fork and return to the pot. Stir brisket into the pot sauce then serve.

6 oz. tomato paste 4 cups cola 1/3 cup Worcestershire sauce Preparation Combine garlic, onion, ancho and salt to make a dry rub. Coat the brisket flat well on both sides with the seasoning, rubbing it in well. Add olive oil to a heavy bottomed enameled cast iron pot or dutch oven and heat over medium high flame. Once warmed, place the brisket flat into the pot to brown thoroughly, leaving at least 10-15 minutes before flipping. Turn the flat and brown the other side. A further 10-15 minutes.

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+/- deeded acres, 1,640 NM State Lease, 120 BLM, 837 Private Lease, beautiful new home plus ranch manager’s home, good pens, water and fences. ■ CAN BE DIVIDED! BLANCA CREEK RANCH – Quay/Guadalupe Cos., NM – 10,191.44 Deeded ac. + 1,640 State ac. – Well improved ranch with excellent access. Level to gently rolling with some arroyos. Located along I:40 between Albuquerque, NM and Amarillo, TX. A beautiful, new, custom built home is situated at the headquarters along with a well-built 150 X 115 shop (80 x 150 enclosed and heated), outdoor arena, horse barns, pens & other improvements. The ranch is well watered and has very good to excellent fence. ■ ELK RIDGE RANCH – Capulin, NM area, 100hd. +/- herd of Elk seen on property from time-to-time, 5,520 ac. +/- w/nice home, barns & pens, watered by wells & live water, no outside access through the property. Brochure being prepared! ■ PRICE REDUCED! WEST HAYDEN RANCH – Union/Harding Counties, NM – 9,670.76 ac. +/- (8,350.76 ac. +/- Deeded, 1,000 lease/purchase acres, 320 ac. +/- NM State Lease) of really good ranch land, well watered by a large spring, mills & subs, on pvmt., home, barns & 2 sets of pens. Consider dividing! ■ ELK CANYON RANCH – Harding County, NM - Another “hunter’s paradise” listed by Scott Land Company, LLC along w/the Elk Ridge Ranch, great opportunity for livestock/ hunting/recreation, 2,240 ac. +/-, well watered w/good fences. Located just west of the West Hayden Ranch.

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RANCHES/FARMS *SOLD* 440 Head Spanish Stirrup Ranch, Deming, NM – The historic Spanish Stirrup Ranch is in the Florida Mountain range containing 663+/- deeded acres, 16,963+/- acres BLM grazing permits; 5,184+/- acres of State grazing lease; and 12+/- sections of adverse grazing. $2,250,000

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house, irrigated gardens and orchard. The permit and HQ’s are watered by springs, creeks and dirt tanks. On the allotment are a line cabin, two sets of corrals, one with a loading chute at the highway. $1,100,000 $995,000 *PENDING* 68+/- Head Three Brothers Ranch, Tombstone, AZ – Good starter or retirement ranch in the San Pedro River

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*NEW* 252+/- Head Gordon Family Ranch, Aguila, AZ – This historic work-

ing cattle ranch is thirty minutes from Wickenburg, with 50+/- deeded acres, 77,331+/- acres BLM grazing permits, and 11,035+/- acre State lease. HQ has two solar powered homes with backup generators; bunk house; tack house; good set of working and shipping corrals. There are also steel pipe horse facilities; two round pens; six pens and 15+/- acre horse pasture. This is a well watered ranch with 10 wells, 11 dirt tanks, 6 water tanks, and 7 drinkers. Good variety of grasses and browse. A scenic and well maintained ranch. List of equipment included will be provided. Cattle may be sold by private treaty. $1,700,000 *REDUCED* 117 Head Tule Springs Ranch, Greenlee County, AZ – Located in beautiful Apache National Forest with

valley with sweeping views, good access, grass, browse and water. 320+/- ac. deeded, 5,403+/- ac. State lease, 2,961+/- ac. BLM permit. Easy terrain with access from Hwy 82 and Tombstone. 3 wells, 2 storage tanks with drinkers, 2 dirt tanks, set of wood & wire corrals. Adjoins Orduno Draw Ranch also offered by Stockmen’s Realty, LLC. $600,000

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*NEW* 530+/- Acre Homestead with Home near Cotton City, Hidalgo, County, NM – Versatile property great for those wishing to be self-sustainable or looking for a place to pasture horses, a small herd of cattle or other livestock. Recently remodeled home, 2 wells, fenced in garden area and fully fenced 520+/- acres, stout corrals, hay shed, conex box,and 1 BR, 1 BA bunkhouse. $455,800 for all or $243,800 for 520+/- acres of land with corrals and bunkhouse.

San Pedro River National Conservation Area and has easy access from Highway 80. This would make a great starter or hobby ranch or complement to a larger holding. Adjoins Three Brothers Ranch also offered by Stockmen’s Realty, LLC. $275,000 HORSE PROPERTIES/LAND *NEW PRICING* 40+/- Acre Last Stand B&B Guest Ranch, Sonoita, AZ – An

exceptional property in the grasslands of Sonoita, presently operating as a successful wedding & equestrian event venue. The Territorial, two-story 4 BR, 4.5 BA main home has 4,110 s.f., & custom features throughout. A true destination property w/a pool & two cabana guest rooms, 3 casitas, event barn, horse facilities, roping arena, recreation room w/ racquetball court, & fishing pond. Neighbors public conservation land with trails. Powered by 80 solar panels connected to the grid, one well w/pressure tank & storage, also fenced for livestock. Mature landscape & fruit trees. Property could also be converted to a vineyard/winery. $1,975,000 $1,675,000 A great value! *REDUCED* Acreage in San Rafael Valley, AZ – Own a slice of heaven in the beautiful San Rafael Valley, where

*NEW PRICING* 30+/- Head Orduno Draw Ranch,Tombstone, AZ – An excellent value! Small desert ranch in the San Pedro Valley of Cochise County, Arizona.

56.6+/- acre deeded inholding, and 23+/- section USFS grazing permit. A well improved and maintained horseback ranch, with $70k thinning project for increased fire protection recently completed on deeded land. The headquarters is located in a scenic valley setting with solar power; two homes; barn with tack room, hay storage, horse stalls; shop; corrals with crowding pen and squeeze chute; root cellar/cold meat storage; hen

320+/- ac. deeded, 2,780+/- ac. State lease, and 560+/- ac. BLM Allotment. Easy terrain, gentle hills with mesquite, acacia, and creosote, and several major draws with good browse and grassy bottoms. Has one well that needs equipping, a dirt tank, and is fenced. Borders the

open spaces, wildlife, ranching history & private dreams live. Pristine scenic San Rafael Valley acreage w/lush grasslands, beautiful views, unspoiled night skies & ready for your personal footprint. 152 Acres for $304,000 & 77 Acres w/ well & shed for $177,000 *PENDING* 27+/- Acres in Virden, NM – Fenced property w/Gila River frontage, 4.5 +/- acres irrigation rights, 2 wells, older mobile home. Some equipment included in sale. Call for more infomation. $75,000

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bandry,” said Dr. Dale Moore, Washington State University Veterinary Medicine Extension specialist and co-investigator. “A previous survey found that the owners want more access to livestock and poultry medicine. This follow-up survey highlights the need for veterinarians, along with extension specialists to work with small-scale poultry owners to improve biosecurity measures, better detect disease and mitigate potential future outbreaks.” The original study ideas for these surveys came from Washington State University Veterinary Medicine Extension (Drs. Dale Moore and Amos Peterson) as part of Peterson’s Master’s Thesis project. The project was then extended to Veterinary Medicine Extension in California (Drs. Pires, Jerome Baron and Beatriz Martinez-Lopez), and at Colorado State University (Dr. Ragan Adams). Extension educators at Oregon State University and the Oregon Veterinary Medical Association helped with contacts in their states. The increase in popularity of backyard and peri-urban agriculture provides both challenges and opportunities for veterinarians. Providing veterinary service to owners of backyard poultry and livestock, who often view their animals as pets rather than production animals, requires a different approach and some different skills than providing veterinary service to owners of conventional or commercial livestock operations. Study authors suggest a new model of practice might be envisioned for urban and peri-urban poultry and livestock clientele to ensure the health and welfare of their animals, and to safeguard public health. Specific opportunities for the veterinary profession are to identify local or regional veterinary service needs for these owners, become equipped to address exotic or zoonotic disease detection and husbandry questions, and provide medical care as well as food safety advice.

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Cattle U Transitions to Virtual Event

ith careful deliberation, High Plains Journal has decided to transition its scheduled Cattle U & Trade Show to an online virtual learning opportunity. Cattle U will be rescheduled to September 8 to 11, 2020. Associate Publisher Zac Stuckey said the primary concern for the publication in planning its educational events has always been the health and safety of guests, exhibitors and partners. In consideration of the challenges an in-person event would present in this current pandemic environment, the decision to transition to a virtual learning event was made. By transitioning to a virtual learning environment, High Plains Journal hopes to broaden the audience for these educational opportunities. For 70 years the core goal of the Journal has been to bring the experts to farmers and ranchers of the High Plains so that they can benefit from their knowledge and improve their farms and their futures. Virtual opportunities like these also allow more members of farm families and their employees to attend and learn, further expanding the Journal’s educational goals. The new Virtual Cattle U will feature the same speakers who have already been scheduled. They will give their presentations over a series of live webinars on September 8 to 11. The webinars will be recorded and posted on the www. cattleu. net website for registered attendees to view at their convenience. Current Cattle U registration fees will be applied to the future in-person Cattle U 2021, or registrants can request a refund of their fee. Because of the change in format, the Virtual Cattle U registration will now be free and open to those who register in advance at www.cattleu.net. All registered attendees will receive access to Cattle U virtual content online, a complimentary eight-week High Plains Journal subscription, and can sign up for monthly beef cattle news updates through the HPJ Direct newsletter.

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