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DEPARTMENTS

10 NMCGA President’s Message by Loren Patterson

12 Just the Facts ... and Then Some by Caren Cowan, Publisher New Mexico Stockman 16

30 CoBank Quarterly: Inflation is Beginning to Loosen its Grip

38 Pay per Mile: States move toward User-Based Road Tax by Beth Brelje, Epoch Times

40 New Mexico Auctioneer Wins World Livestock Auction Championship Qualifier

52 NMCGA & Purina Mills Fund Agriculture Scholarship by Gracie Hooten, New Mexico Cattle Growers’ Association

58 Plan Now for a More Profitable 2023

Source: Noble Research Institute

62 Raising the Orphan Calf by Rosslyn Biggs, Oklahoma State University Extension Beef Veterinarian

67 Weinheimer Joins AHA Field Staff

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FEBRUARY 2023

17 Bill Gates’ Latest Invest Investment: Stop Cows from Burping with $12 Million by Richard Moorhead, The Western Journal 18 Texas A&M AgriLife Scientist Publishes Complete U.S. - Mexican Borderland Aquifer Map by Leslie Lee, Texas Water

68 Ruidoso Downs Ownership Change Approved

70 USDA Seeks Public Comments on Disease Traceability Regulations

72 FWS Extends Effective Date for Lesser Prairie Chicken Listing

74 EPA Explores Tougher Limits of CAFO Runoff by Tom Johnston, meatingplace.com

78 Leveraging Unconventional Water Resources by John R “Grizz” Deal, The New Water Movement

84 30x30 is Conservation’s Flashy New Goal by Blanca Beget, Grist

90 NMCGA Joins Suit to Overturn Lesser Prairie Chicken Listing

99 Longhorns: Unique Breed With a Promising Future

122 NIRA Spring Schedule & Standings

124 Amazing Firsts by Lyn Ray

126 2023 WRCA Sanctioned Rodeo Schedule

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PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE

by Loren Patterson NMCGA President

Loren Patterson President Corona

Bronson Corn

President-Elect Roswell

Dave Kenneke NW Vice President Cimarron

Cliff Copeland NE Vice President Nara Visa

Jeff Decker SE

Vice President Lovington

The Power of Association…

Iam always surprised with the inspiration I get when the time to write this letter rolls around. This morning I received the news that one of my college friends has been named Executive Vice-President of the Nebraska Cattlemen Association.

I could tell you about what a great job she will do and the benefit she will have to the industry but that would take away from all the accomplishments of the many friends I had as a student at Texas Tech. The little College of Agriculture and in particular the Animal Science Department was a very close knit group of students.

We worked hard and we played hard but we always did it as a group. The success of many of my classmates within that circle of friends is really amazing. We have numerous individuals that went on to Medical careers, Veterinarians, Deans and Professors of Universities and true leaders within our own beef industry. Going to conventions or attending University functions in Lubbock always end up as mini reunions and the closeness of the circle picks right back up. I was fortunate to attend Texas Tech University at that particular time. The professors we had, the timely research and the drive within my classmates were something special. I am at the age now where we lose a member of that circle every so often but it is easy to remember their success and the motivation they brought to the group.

The reason I bring this topic up is not to relive old college days but to remind ourselves of the importance of association. Not only is the Freedom of Association protected in the Bill of Rights under the First Amendment, “Right of Assembly”, it is a great way to share ideas and push ourselves beyond our own comfort zone.

The leadership found within our very own New Mexico Cattle Growers’ Association goes far beyond the names on the left side of this page. We have members volunteering their time and talents everyday with the goal of promoting our industry forward for the next generation. I challenge each member to donate your talent and time to the worthy mission of NMCGA. You might be amazed at the friends you make and the accomplishments that occur within the circle that surrounds you.

Vice President

Roy Farr SW

Datil

Joe Culbertson

Vice President at Large Amistad

Shacey

Sullivan

Secretary / Treasurer Peralta

Randell Major Immediate Past President Magadalena

Tom Sidwell Past President Quay

As I write, the legislative team under President-Elect Bronson Corn’s leadership is fighting the challenges being proposed in the Roundhouse. Please help by answering the Calls to Action that will be coming out. Keep your legislator’s phone number handy and be ready to donate your voice and testimony to protecting the next generation of Cattle Growers.

I would like to thank all the bill readers volunteering their time and those with expertise on topics volunteering their council. We are fortunate to have members and friends with a diverse background.

One of the biggest challenges we currently face is the newly designated endangered Lesser Prairie Chicken. Within that challenge is a very vague set of guidelines on critical habitat criteria from the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service.

We will continue to try and give our members the latest information. We were fortunate to get a 60-day extension before implementation of the designation goes into effect. The impact of the Lesser Prairie Chicken designation could impair grazing on no less than a third of New Mexico pastures.

Pray your neighbor gets rain!

Loren N. Patterson

JUST THE FACTS ... & THEN SOME

by Caren Cowan, Publisher New Mexico Stockman

In the not too distant past, I wondered what my Grandmother would have thought of the world. This was a woman who traveled with her family from Kansas to Arizona in a wagon in the early 1900s.

She married a rancher she met while riding a pasture. For the first few years of their marriage they lived in cow camps where she was the cook and a cowboy. That’s where their first son came to be.

She went from that to spearheading a state and then national organization. She saw television become a household device and watched the first man land on the moon.

I never thought any of that would be topped in my life time. But watching what the government is doing to Americans today is nothing short of unbelievable.

Any day now we expect an announcement that the US Forest Service (USFS) and USDA APHIS Wildlife Services will be gunning down cattle with a sniper in a helicopter in

Who would have believed it …

the next couple of weeks.

Comments on the USFS scoping notice were due on January 9. While there were numerous comments submitted pointing out the fallacy of the exercise, there hasn’t been a peep out of the agency since then.

This is not surprising because the point of the scoping exercise was for the USFS to give itself a categorical exclusion to kill the cattle with no environmental analysis under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA).

This is not the first time this has happened, and once the government gets away with this a second time, this practice will no doubt become common.

There are already rumblings of the potential in the northern part of New Mexico. Don’t be foolish enough to believe that this practice will stop in New Mexico.

However one wonders why this is happening in New Mexico first. The answer is

simple. Elections have consequences. We get the government we vote for… or not.

We may be skeptical about election integrity, but that is no excuse for staying home on Election Day. The next time you have an opportunity to vote, please consider using your rights.

Help from outside

New Mexico’s ranchers are thankful that the US House Western Caucus weighed in to the try and stop the cattle slaughter. Six members of the Caucus, Congressmen Dan Newhouse, (R-WA), Doug LaMafa (R-CA), Ronnie Jackson (R-TX), Ryan Zinke (R-MT), Chris Stewart (R-UT), and James Moylan (R-Guam) wrote the Chief of the USFS asking him to “immediately and permanently delay the proposed aerial and ground shooting of cattle in the Gila National Forest until concerns raised by local stakeholders have been adequately addressed.

Protect Americans Now was a sponsor of the Western Caucus meeting held in October in Albuquerque where many of these congressmen got a full briefing on the cattle slaughter.

New Mexico deeply appreciates the aide from these congressional leaders from coast to coast.

Your retirement investments

As reported in this issue, a new rule from the US Department of Labor took effect on January 30, 2023 that allows retirement plan managers are able to factor in a company’s environmental, social, and governing (ESG) positions. These considerations will not necessarily provide the greatest return on your investment.

For example, energy investments are not ESG friendly, yet it was energy that provided the greatest gains in the market last year.

Companies like BlackRock, State Street, and Vanguard, which collectively manage trillions of dollars in assets, have taken lead roles in the ESG movement. You might want to check your investments to see how they are being managed.

CCAs

With the extension of the effective date for the lesser prairie-chicken endangered species list until March 27, 2023, there is still time for landowners to sign up for candidate conservation agreements (CCA) until March 26.

One source for CCAs is CEHMM, 575/885-3700. 505 N. Main St., Carlsbad, NM 88220, www.cehmm.org . Watch the New Mexico Federal Lands Council Facebook page for more information.      ▫

February, CowBelles & CattleWomen!

Iwant to recap a little on our first Zoom meeting for the year. If you aren’t aware, we host a statewide Zoom meeting every second Thursday of the month, at 7 p.m. You can find the link on our Facebook page or via your email from our website.

We introduced our Officer Team, announced our theme; Believe, Encourage, and Educate for our Future (B.E.E.F), and gave a summary of upcoming dates to be aware of. My word for the year was “Encourage”. Encourage our members so that they believe in the value of our organization.

Our mission is to, “Serve as the premier women’s agricultural organization by promoting and supporting the New Mexico Beef Industry through education.” I said the word “encourage” to Michelle, our President Elect, and in five minutes she came back with an idea for the theme. I can’t think of anything more relevant to our purpose than those words.

We segued into upcoming dates and of course the question on everyone’s mind, District meetings. We have posted a Save the Date notice on our website under Events. The Event page will also be the location to register (or the mail in form printed on the next page) when we have finalized details, which won’t be long.

There will NOT be a fee for registering but please fill out the form so we have a count for food. And please plan to bring a door prize! Watch for an email as well, we will try to cover all options to remind/register everyone.

The Southern Region will be held on February 25th, in Alamogordo (location pending) and the Northern Region will be held on March 25th, at the Rio Arriba County Fairgrounds, in Abiquiu. We plan to start around 10 a.m. for both days.

If you all have any questions, please email me or any of the officers and we are happy to help. I hope you’ll join us, this officer team is incredible and their hearts are on fire! www.newmexicocowbelles.org

The Grant County Copper CowBelles’ January 6th meeting was called to order by President Kim Clark, immediately following the Installation Potluck Dinner at 6:00 p.m. The Pledge of Allegiance cited and the Cow-

Belle Creed read. Twenty-four attended, including families and guests of members. Visitors Marilyn and Bryon Wiley recently moved from the Prescott AZ area and were warmly greeted. Kim Clark proceeded in dismissing the outgoing officers and then swore in new officers for the 2023 year: Pat Hunt as President, Michelle Greeman as Vice President, Cyndi Donovan as Treasurer and Carol Crosley as Secretary. As outgoing President, Kim chose Pat Hunt as our 2022 CowBelle of the Year. This was a popular decision, given Pat’s continuing work on behalf of the club throughout some difficult years. Pat Hunt reminded of a vote taken online last year to repeat the challenge, encouraging other CowBelle groups to financially support the “Ag in the Classroom” program as decided by all. Michelle Greeman gave a brief but informative report on NM CowBelles, highlighting NM AgFest 2023 to be held at the Santa Fe Community Convention Center on February 16th. The Southern Region District Meeting and Workshops will be held on February 25, 2023 in Alamogordo NM. Specifics on time and location soon to follow. She updated on 2023 NMCB officers and what to expect in the coming year. There is also good news that Margie McKeen will again host Ranch Days at their place this year and volunteers are sought. The meeting was adjourned at 7:10 p.m. Big thanks to Kathy and Billy Davis, Leslie Crumbley, Kim Clark, Pat Hunt and Lauren Baker, who threw their resources together to make set up happen and the party decorations shine. Submitted by Carol Crosley

Chamiza Cowbelles held the January Meeting at Johnny B’s restaurant, and the meeting called to order at 12:13 p.m. McKenzie presented the secretary’s minutes as accepted by all. Nancy gave the treasurer report, it was filed for audit. Nancy updated on merchandise stock. The group received 25 license plates instead of the 75 planned to order. There was confusion somewhere and ended up with five cases of small napkins and two cases of large napkins, whereas, ordered five cases of large napkins and two cases of small napkins. Nancy also mentioned two Cowbelles’ Workshops coming up this Spring. Chamiza will get together a group of people to attend the Workshop in Alamogordo. The group decided to email and USPS mail the nominee for the Man of the Year award to the State Association. A buckle will be sponsored by group for the High Steaks Jackpot that will be taking place on February 4th, in Sierra County, where group will set up a booth to sell napkins and

license plates. The next meeting scheduled for Thursday February 2nd at 12:00 p.m. at Johnny B’s restaurant. The meeting was adjourned at 1:08 p.m. Submitted by Kimmy Molsbee

Powderhorn Cattlewomen met January 12th at the First Baptist Church in Fort Sumner. President Ann Sleep called the meeting to order and lead the Invocation, Pledge, and Creed, with nine members present. Mary read the minutes and they stand approved as corrected. Carol gave the Treasurers report. Her report was accepted as given and 33 of 35 members had paid their dues. The group reminded to attend the NMCB zoom meeting that evening if desired. Cards were signed for Janean Grissom, Yetta Bidigain, and Carolyn Bedford. Sign in sheet for 2023 meetings circulated by Sandy. All the meetings filled and ideas for programs requested. Old Business: Kelsey has tried numerous times to take the donations to Hartley House. She will try again, then if no luck, will take the donations elsewhere. New Business: The group went over the Budget, and all were happy with the increase in Scholarships. The group decided to have three scholarships, one for De Baca, one for Guadalupe and one for college students in the area and the scholarship increased to $750 each. It was decided to not do a quilt this year to give the quilters a rest. They grumbled a bit but said OK. Committees: Barbeque became Fundraising and Joan Key, Kelsey McCollum and Beverly Overton will organize. Outreach will be Mary McClain. Education and Promotion- Kari Henry, Kelsey, McCollum, and Kyra Monzingo. Legislative – vacant and Scholarship will be Nancy Schade and Carol Thorpe. The next meeting will be February 9th at Wayne Overton’s home. Meeting adjourned and Posole and fixings were enjoyed by all. Submitted by Mary McClain

Mesilla Valley CowBelles will hold first meeting of 2023 on January 24th at Andeles. The group will discuss the many Agriculture Literacy opportunities coming up this year. Cowboy Days – March 3 and 4, several Ag Days and some other Ag in the Classroom events. Also to be discussed will be round up of those needing to pay dues as well as inviting several new potential members. District Meetings coming up and the great things NMCB Officers have planned. Submitted by Janet Witte

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.      ▫

Bill Gates’ Latest Investment: Stop Cows from Burping with $12 Million

by Richard Moorhead, The Western Journal

Bill Gates is pouring millions of dollars into technology that would improve the table manners of cows.

A firm controlled by the Microsoft co-founder is investing $12 million into an Australian company developing food supplements to stop cattle from burping, Fox Business has reported.

The company, Rumin8, said in a news release that it intends to use the investment for product trials in four countries. The trials will test cattle feed designed to minimize the methane emitted by cows through burping.

“We have been very pleased with the reception we have received from climate impact funds around the world,” Rumin8 Managing Director David Messina said of the investment.

“There is a genuine desire to fund solu-

tions to enteric methane emissions from livestock and fortunately for Rumin8, they can see the benefits of our technology.”

An executive for Breakthrough Energy Ventures — a firm founded by Gates — praised Rumin8’s mission in the company’s news release touting the investment.

“The demand for sustainable protein has never been more apparent, which is why BEV is keenly interested in reducing methane emissions from beef and dairy,” Carmichael Roberts said of BEV’s motives.

“Rumin8 offers a low cost, scalable toolbox that has already proven to be effective in reducing emissions,” he said. “Our team will support Rumin8 in working closely with farmers to expand the reach of this solution globally.”

Rumin8 is planning tests with cattle feed developed with an ingredient in red seaweed that would reduce methane production in cows, according to Fox Business

Emissions from cows have been singled out as pollution before. One study concluded that cows release 5,000 tons of methane into the atmosphere every year, according to Phys. org.

Gates singled out emissions from cow burps (and flatulence) in a 2019 interview with CNN’s Fareed Zakaria.

Cattle ranching is a practice Gates is closely interested in.

The mega-billionaire is the largest private owner of farmland in the United States, according to The Land Report 100.

Gates has gone so far as to question the use of animal products in the human diet entirely — suggesting he’d prefer that developed nations switch to synthetic and plant-based alternatives.

The Microsoft co-founder owns four private jets, luxuries that ensure his carbon signature drastically outstrips that of the average person.

Texas A&M Agrilife Scientist Publishes Complete U.S.–Mexico Borderlands Aquifer

Map

by Leslie Lee, Texas Water Resources Institute

Worldwide, natural resource agencies and officials have counted the number of shared groundwater aquifers flowing beneath the U.S.-Mexico border at 11. But new research published by a Texas A&M AgriLife scientist reveals a more complicated picture: there are, in fact, 72 shared groundwater aquifers in the transboundary region.

Rosario Sanchez, Ph.D., who has led this research for over a decade, recently published the first-ever complete map of the transboundary aquifers. As surface water supplies in the region are under increasing pressure from population growth, drought and climate change, Sanchez predicts these shared groundwater resources will receive more legal and governmental attention.

“We don’t have the luxury to keep ignoring the shared component of these resources,” she said. “We have to address this sooner or later, because the less we know, the more vulnerable we are.”

Sanchez is a senior research scientist for the Texas Water Resources Institute, TWRI, part of Texas A&M AgriLife. She is also director of the Permanent Forum of Binational Waters and leads the Transboundary Aquifer Assessment Act program for the state of Texas. Laura Rodriguez, Ph.D. candidate in Texas A&M’s Water Management and Hydrological Sciences graduate program, also contributed to and co-authored the research.

Combining years of geological and hydrological research, the map shows five shared aquifers between Baja California and California, 26 between Sonora and Arizona, and 33 between Texas and the Mexican states of Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León and Tamaulipas. The researchers found 45 percent of the 72 aquifers to be in “good to moderate” condition.

“Overall, this study reflects two essential realities: half of the border region area has good aquifer conditions, and second, those shared aquifer systems are indiscriminately used by both countries without any legal framework regulating their extraction and management,” the study states.

Unknowns about border

groundwater supplies

Shared groundwater resources between the U.S. and Mexico have been largely ignored at the binational level, and few funding opportunities for continued research exist, Sanchez said. As a result, there is much that researchers and policymakers do not know about groundwater supplies along the U.S.-Mexico border.

“We don’t know how much water has been withdrawn,” she said. “We don’t know the impact of that on the other side of the border or vice versa. We don’t know the quality of that water. We don’t know who has been drilling wells or for what use. We don’t know what has possibly been pumped into these aquifers. And, we don’t know how much water we have left.”

Some groundwater maps and databases run by state and federal agencies have blank regions around the border, providing incomplete records of border groundwater supplies that are integral to the regions’ communities and economy, she said.

“My undergraduate and master’s studies were in diplomacy, and I’m a diplomat by training,” Sanchez said. “So, when I started studying groundwater for my doctorate, and I’d examine these maps and models that just stopped at the border — it didn’t make any logical sense. So, we started from scratch.”

Mapping 121,500 square miles of hydrology

The shared aquifers underlie more than 121,500 square miles of borderland and each country and state has a different methodology for determining and defining aquifers. To address this, Sanchez’ research team began this massive undertaking by creating

a unified identification methodology and started their transboundary aquifer count at zero.

“Every point in that map was a decision we had to make, based on nature and scientific data,” she said.

To define the aquifers, the team first studied the regions’ geological formations, spanning both sides of the border, then the type of formations and their porosity.

“Our analytical method used geology, topography, lithography, geomorphology and hydrology to identify hydrogeological units (HGUs), and those HGUs that have good aquifer potential at the transboundary level,” Sanchez explained.

Accurate data and bi-national cooperation

“Establishing a framework for local groundwater management is my ultimate goal for this work, because of the major binational water security implications of future management of these shared resources,” she said. “But we weren’t able to get to that point over the last 10 years, and it’s going to take funding resources and binational cooperation to get there in the next 10 years.”

International borders over groundwater resources are a complex paradox, she said, because “boundaries don’t matter to natural systems.”

Sanchez said that scientifically, the next step needed is to evaluate how much water is in the aquifers and the quality of that water. Then, local and regional stakeholders can begin to work together towards mutually beneficial shared governance and management of the groundwater resources.

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Beefmaster Member Excellence Awards

Outstanding Beefmaster breeders highlighted the 61st Annual Beefmaster Breeders United (BBU) Convention in Oklahoma City in October 2022.

The 2022 Breeder of the Year was awarded to Lyssy Beefmasters, Stockdale, Texas. The Lyssy family has been involved in Beefmaster cattle since 1972, when they first became BBU members. Lyssy Beefmasters has always operated under the belief that “you can’t manage what you don’t measure”. By selectively breeding for animals that maintain their phenotypical integrity while also enhancing their carcass performance, Lyssy Beefmasters has been able to get their herd to the point they are at today.

The BBU Breeder of the Year award was

created to recognize the efforts and contributions made by members to promote BBU and Beefmaster cattle, while also evaluating the type, size, and management practices of the member’s breeding program.

Beefmaster Breeders Cattlewoman (BBC) of the year was awarded to Marilyn Scherer, Fannin, Texas. Scherer has been an active and integral part of the cattlewomen group for many years and a BBU member since 1976. She works tirelessly to coordinate events and to raise money to support the JBBA scholarship fund. Not only is she dedicated to BBC, but she has served in various leadership roles and on numerous BBU committees.

Lorenzo Lasater, L Bar Beefmasters, San Angelo, Texas, was honored as the 2022 Performance Breeder of the Year. Lasater has been a BBU member since 1995 and is the grandson of the founder of the Beefmaster breed, and a fifth-generation rancher, so he has spent his entire life around Beefmasters. He is the President of Isa Beefmasters, LLC and the company holds a 140 head bull sale each October, sells 50 private treaty bulls each spring, offers females for sale private treaty, and sells semen and embryos both domestically and internationally.

The BBU Performance Breeder of the

MAJOR BEEFMASTERS

Year award was created to recognize members who are whole herd reporting (WHR) breeders, collect performance and ultrasound data, as well as have superb management practices within their breeding program.

The 2022 Environmental Award was presented to Tim Chapman of H.T. Chapman Beefmasters, Rockport, Texas. His current method to improve grazing and grazing management includes having 610 acres as part of a 10,000-acre cattle operation that is divided into two parts, which they currently rotate for maximum grazing management.

The BBU Environmental Conservation Award was created to recognize Beefmaster breeders who are stewards of the land and provides an opportunity for the Beefmaster breed to showcase the stewardship, conservation and business practices that work together on farms and ranches.

The 2022 New Member of the Year was awarded to Bill and Sheila Wilson, WW Beefmasters, Edinburg, Texas . The BBU New Member of the Year award is awarded to a BBU member who has been involved in the breed for less than eight years, and to a member who has shown dedication, progressivism, and growth within their program and the breed. This member must also be a part of at least one BBU satellite or marketing group. They have been BBU members since 2015.

Melvin and Marilyn Scherer, V7 Beefmaster, Fannin, Texas were named as the 2022 Member of the Year. The Scherer’s have been BBU members since 1976 and they have served each of those years in numerous leadership roles within BBU and the Live Oak Beefmaster Breeders Association.

For decades this family has been dedicated to the promotion, marketing, and improvement of the Beefmaster breed. The BBU Member of the Year award recognizes a member that makes significant efforts to promote Beefmaster cattle and Beefmaster Breeders United.      ▫

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Study: Beefmaster crosses grade 94% choice

SAN ANGELO, Texas (January 2023)—

Isa Beefmasters recently reported on the culmination of two significant research projects. Each one is a testimony to the investment the company has placed in pushing the genetic envelope and making L Bar Beefmaster genetics ever more useful to the commercial cattle industry worldwide.

The first study involves a collaboration with Beefmaster Breeders United and the Nobel Research Institute in Ardmore, OK. They used two leading Beefmaster bulls (L Bar En Fuego, C988569, raised by Isa Beefmasters and owned by Gene Haymon; and CF Nueces, C1059662, raised by Collier Farms and owned by Jim Colvin). The sires were A.I. bred to their commercial Angus herd.

The Executive Summary: The steers gained 4.47 pounds per day, finished in 160 days (40 days faster than projected), had 0% death loss, yielded 62.6% and graded 94% choice (industry average 75%). Additionally, West Texas A&M University conducted Warner Bratzler Shear Force (WBSF) tests, and the steers

averaged 3.86kg. (Anything under 4.6kg is considered tender.) This phenomenal performance shows what can be achieved utilizing performance Beefmaster genetics in a crossbreeding program.

Isa President Lorenzo Lasater said, “We have long maintained that there is more to profitability than just quality grade. These results show that true success lies in a combination of feedlot performance, health, grade & yield, and the critical but hidden trait of tenderness. These Beefmaster-sired steers absolutely rang the bell in every phase.”

The second progeny test took place in Panama between 2000 and 2022. The program included 13 breeds and measured 2843 calves. Ten Beefmaster sires were used on native Zebu or Brahman-cross cattle. The intent of the study, conducted at the Gualaca Livestock Experiment Station by IDIAP, was to examine improving reproductive efficiency and increased growth as a means of improving profitability for beef cattle producers in the tropics.

The Executive Summary: The study

showed that for AFC (age at first calf) Beefmaster crosses were the best among the 13 breeds, while birthweights held steady, and growth was significantly increased. The scientists were very excited about the significance of the results as it pertains to beef production in the tropics, where 80% of the world’s cattle reside. Additionally, Isa Beefmasters sire L Bar En Fuego was the number one Beefmaster sire for both AFC and weaning weight.

Isa President Lorenzo Lasater commented, “The cattle industry often loses sight of the fact that profitability at the cow-calf level is predicated on low-input cattle that can handle their environment, reproduce efficiently, and wean heavy calves. No female is better at this than a Beefmaster.”

Lasater is proud of how well his Isa Beefmasters performed in both progeny tests. While the two studies encompass very different aspects of beef cattle production, they examine several key concepts in successful operations: reproductive efficiency, growth, adaptability, health, and carcass quality.

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Below: A Beefmaster-cross heifer and L Bar En Fuego

Isa Beefmasters Reports on Two Significant Research Projects

The first study involves a collaboration with Beefmaster Breeders United (BBU) and the Nobel Research Institute (Noble) in Ardmore, Oklahoma. They used two leading Beefmaster bulls (L Bar En Fuego, C988569, raised by Isa Beefmasters and owned by Gene Haymon; and CF Nueces, C1059662, raised by Collier Farms and owned by Jim Colvin).

The sires were A.I. bred to their commercial Angus herd. Nobel’s initial intent was to develop and study the replacement females, and that is still ongoing. But BBU was able to buy, feed and harvest the steers, with some truly fantastic results.

The steers gained 4.47 pounds per day, finished in 160 days (40 days faster than projected), had 0 percent death loss, yielded 62.6 percent and graded 94 percent choice (indus-

try average 75percent).

Additionally, Warner Bratzler Shear Force (WBSF) tests were conducted by West Texas A&M University, and the steers averaged 3.86kg. (Anything under 4.6kg is considered tender.) This phenomenal performance shows what can be achieved utilizing performance Beefmaster genetics in a crossbreeding program.

“We have long maintained that there is more to profitability than just quality grade. These results show that true success lies in a combination of feedlot performance, health, grade & yield, and the critical but hidden trait of tenderness. These Beefmaster-sired steers absolutely rang the bell in every phase,” Isa President Lorenzo Lasater commented,

The second progeny test took place in Panama between 2000 and 2022. The program included 13 breeds and measured 2843 calves. Ten Beefmaster sires were used on native Zebu or Brahman-cross cattle.

The intent of the study, which is ongoing, is to examine improving reproductive efficiency and increased growth as a means of improving profitability for beef cattle producers in the tropics. The study was

conducted at the Gualaca Livestock Experiment Station by IDIAP.

The study showed that for AFC (age at first calf) Beefmaster crosses were the best among the 13 breeds, while birth weights held steady, and growth was significantly increased. The scientists are very excited about the significance of the results as it pertains to beef production in the tropics, where 80 percent of the world’s cattle reside. More importantly from our perspective, Isa Beefmasters sire L Bar En Fuego was the number one Beefmaster sire for both AFC and weaning weight.

“The cattle industry often loses sight of the fact that profitability at the cow-calf level is predicated on low-input cattle that can handle their environment, reproduce efficiently, and wean heavy calves. No female is better at this than a Beefmaster,” Lasater noted.

Each study is a testimony to the investment we have placed in pushing the genetic envelope and making L Bar Beefmaster genetics evermore useful to the beef cattle industry worldwide, he continued.

Full details of both studies will be in the Spring Isa Informer newsletter.

“We are proud of how well Isa Beefmasters genetics performed in both progeny tests,” Lasater said.

“While they encompass very different aspects of beef cattle production, they examine several fundamental concepts in successful operations: reproductive efficiency, adaptability, growth, health, and carcass quality.”      ▫

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Bull Management

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Bringing your new bull home

When you buy a new bull or bulls for your herd, you can reduce problems by getting them home and settling them in properly. Bulls of all breeds can become upset and excited during the sale and delivery process. They are subjected to strange yards, different noises, loss of their mates, different people, different handling methods, trucking, unloading, new paddocks and different

water and feed.

This combination is often enough to upset even quiet animals. New bull buyers are often concerned about the apparent bad temperament of a bull that seemed quiet enough when bought. Understanding why bulls become upset, and organizing to reduce stress, allows them to settle down quickly.

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Purchase

Temperament is a major characteristic to check when you buy bulls. Inspect the bulls in the yards or pastures before sale and note any unusual behavior or activity. Note which bulls continually push to the center of a mob, run around, or are unreasonably nervous, aggressive or excited.

At the sale, note any changes of temperament by individual bulls. Some bulls that are quiet in the yard or paddock may not like the pressure and noise of the auction and become excited. Others that were excited beforehand get much worse in the sale ring and can really perform. Using the yard or paddock behavior as a guide, rather than the temperament shown in the ring, you can often buy such bulls cheaper, provided they are satisfactory in other respects.

Delivery

At auction sales, possession is yours after the fall of the hammer. Continued careful treatment of animals is important. Insurance against loss in transit, accidental loss of use, or infertility, is sometimes provided by vendors. Where it is not, it is worth considering.

When you buy a bull, ask what health treatments he has received. Knowing what has been done can reduce any health treatments.

If you take the bull home yourself:

Ї Treat and handle him quietly at all times - no dogs, no buzzers. Give him time and room to make up his mind.

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Ї With more than one bull from different origins, you must be able to separate them on the truck.

Ї Make sure that the truck floor is covered to prevent bulls from slipping. Sand, sawdust or a floor grid will prevent bulls from being damaged by going down in transit.

Ї If you can arrange it, put a few quiet cows or steers on the truck with the bull. Let them down into a yard with the bulls for a while before loading and after unloading.

Ї Unload and reload during the trip as little as possible. If necessary, rest with water and feed. Treat bulls kindly— your impatience or nervousness is easily transmitted to an animal unfamiliar to you and unsure of his environment.

If you use a professional carrier:

Ї Make sure the carrier knows which bulls can be mixed together.

Ї Discuss, with the carrier, resting procedures for long trips, expected delivery time, truck condition and quiet handling.

Ї Give ear tag and brand numbers to the carrier and make sure you have the carrier’s phone number.

Ї If buying bulls from interstate, organize any necessary health tests before leaving and work out if any other requirements must be met before cattle can come into your state

When buying bulls from far away, you may often have to fit in with other delivery arrangements to reduce cost. You should make it clear how you want your bulls handled.

Arrival

Never jump them from the back of a truck directly into a paddock—it may be the last time you see them. Bulls from different origins should be put into separate yards with other cattle for company.

Provide hay and water, and then leave them alone until the next morning. The next day, bulls should receive routine health treatments.

Consult with your veterinarian and draw up a policy for treating bulls on arrival and then annually.

Leave the bulls in the pen for the next day or two on feed and water to allow them to settle down with other stock for company. A bull’s behavior will decide how quickly he can be moved out to pasture.

Mating new young bulls

Newly purchased young bulls should not be placed with older herd bulls for multiple-sire joining. The older, dominant bull will not allow the young bulls to work much, and will knock them around while keeping them away from the cows.

Use new bulls in either single-sire groups or with young bulls their own age. If a number of young bulls are to be used together, run them together for a few weeks before joining starts.

They sort out their pecking order quickly and have few problems later. When the young bulls are working, inspect them regularly and closely.

Managing older herd bulls

Older working bulls also need special care and attention before mating starts. They should be tested or checked every

year for physical soundness, testicle tone, and serving capacity or ability. All bulls to be used must be free-moving, active and in good store condition. Working bulls may need supplementary feeding before the joining season to bring up condition.

During mating

Ї Check bulls at least twice each week for the first two months. Get up close to them and watch each bull walk; check for swellings around the sheath and for lameness.

Ї Have a spare bull or bulls available to replace any that break down. Replace any suspect bull immediately.

Ї Rotate bulls in single-sire groups to make sure that any bull infertility is covered. Single-sire joining works well but it has risks. The bulls must be checked regularly and carefully, or the bulls should be rotated every one or two cycles.

Bulls are a large investment for breeding herds and they have a major effect on herd fertility. A little time and attention to make sure they are fit, free from disease and actively working is well worthwhile.      ▫

CoBank Quarterly: Inflation is Beginning to Loosen its Grip

The U.S. economy will progressively slow through the first half of 2023 and fears of a recession are still high, and still warranted. Inflation and interest rate increases intended to combat swiftly rising prices are behind the broad economic slow-

down. But with the unemployment rate at a 53-year low and inflation trending lower, forecasts are turning at least a little less gloomy.

U.S. consumers are still spending but doing so by increasing dependence on credit. They are also finally pushing back on price increases on goods, a response to continuous declines in real wages and dwindling reserves of pandemic savings. Like consumers, businesses economy-wide are also spending more cautiously, according to a new quarterly report from CoBank’s Knowledge Exchange.

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“The economic cracks that emerged in late 2022 in housing and tech are beginning to spread to manufacturing, finance and retail,” said Dan Kowalski, vice president of CoBank’s Knowledge Exchange division. “These sectors are showing signs of weakness but not to the degree of pointing to an imminent recession. Manufacturing and retail are both undergoing a normalization phase as pandemic consumption of goods has shifted to post-pandemic consumption of services.”

The Federal Reserve raised its benchmark overnight rate by more than 400 basis points in 2022 and it is not finished hiking. The Fed has made it clear it is focused less on headline inflation and more squarely on the labor market and core services inflation excluding housing. With job growth far outpacing the availability of workers, the scarcity of labor is cause for concern, especially for the services sector.

China’s abrupt reversal of its zero-COVID policy is unleashing the full brunt of the virus. The humanitarian toll has been severe. Little data is coming out of China, but reports have estimated that in some regions up to 75 percent of the labor force has been infected — forcing shutdowns at manufacturing plants and causing major delays in trucking and at ports. U.S. exporters are feeling the impacts now, as supply chain problems have been preventing the movement of many goods into and around China.

Grains, Farm Supply & Biofuels

Grain markets balanced several challenges in the fourth quarter, from the war in Ukraine and economic slowdowns in China and Europe to interest rate hikes in the U.S. and other developed economies. The continuation of these factors and La Nina weather conditions into 2023 will likely put pressure on grain storage and merchandising margins. Stocks-to-use ratios for corn, soybeans and wheat finished 2022 at multi-year lows driven by strong domestic demand.

For the second year in a row, ag retailers posted exceptionally strong revenue and profit growth, driven by sturdy grain market fundamentals. Interestingly, despite high spring demand and tight global supplies, fertilizer prices declined during the fourth quarter amid falling prices for natural gas. While the farm supply sector begins 2023 on strong financial footing, rising wages, higher interest rates and continued high transportation costs are likely to tighten margins.

Ethanol production in the fourth quarter nearly caught up to pre-COVID levels, aver-

aging 15.5 billion gallons for the quarter. Profit margins averaged $0.27/gallon compared to $0.25 for the first nine months of 2022 and long-run historical average levels of $0.25 to $0.30. Profitability was well above average during October and November, but increasing corn prices, coupled with a 12 percent decline in ethanol fuel prices, pushed down margins in December. Year-round sales of E15 gained momentum with the Biden administration’s announcement of its intention to review states’ proposals.

Animal Protein & Dairy

Animal protein production surged in the fourth quarter, with the weekly average increasing six percent compared to the third quarter. While cold storage inventories edged higher through the second half of the year, they remain below the five-year average due to the ongoing strength of demand.

In a major shift from the prevailing conditions earlier in the year, chicken markets were well-supplied during the fourth quarter thanks to increased placements and higher live weights. Retail chicken prices remained elevated, averaging $1.85/lb. for the quarter. However, wholesale chicken prices crumbled

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amid the pressure of mounting supplies. Export markets have been less affected. Overall, U.S. chicken remains supported by global markets despite the weakening fundamentals at home.

Shrinking market-ready fed cattle supplies are bullish for cattle prices, but beef prices have drifted down from their summer highs. While retailers provided modest relief at the meat case during the fourth quarter, and a discount to year ago levels, consumer demand remained resilient despite comparatively high prices. At the wholesale level, however, beef prices have dropped from their elevated levels. From January highs to December lows, the boxed beef cutout lost 15 percent of its value. Processor margins suffered through the fourth quarter due to moderating beef prices and higher operating costs.

Nearby lean hog futures accelerated quickly to begin 2022 and had gained 68 percent in value by late July, peaking at $122/ cwt. Hogs retained much of that support through the third quarter. But despite tight hog supplies, valuation succumbed to the pressure of seasonal tendencies and processing limitations during the fourth quarter. The lean hog index dropped into the upper $70s to end the year, and the hog market appears poised for a significant bounce in 2023.

U.S. milk prices continued softening in the fourth quarter with Class III milk futures falling 5 percent. Butter prices have also fallen in a faster-than-expected retreat. Spot butter prices are down nearly 10 percent from the record highs scored in October. Record large total U.S. dairy exports for 2022 carried through the fourth quarter, underpinned by recent weakening of the U.S. dollar. However, the outlook for U.S. exports in the first half of 2023 is deteriorating. Dairy product prices are expected to grind lower as post-holiday season demand wanes amid uncertain global demand.

Power, Water & Communications

Higher energy costs will continue to squeeze the majority of U.S. consumers this year. Nearly half of all U.S. households heat primarily with natural gas and they will spend 28 percent more to do so this winter, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. The cost of electricity this season is also set to increase, with consumers likely to notice a 10 percent seasonal adjustment in their bill. Unfortunately, high energy costs have a cascading effect, feeding inflation and hampering economic growth..      ▫

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As Inflation Continues, Meats Become the Affordable Option

by Peter Thomas Ricci, meatingplace.com

With prices continuing to rise across the U.S. economy (and with meat seeing record retail numbers), some meat products have emerged as increasingly affordable food options, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ latest CPI.

The overall CPI rose 6.5 percent year-over-year in December, with the “food” category posting the largest increases at 10.4 percent.

Meat, however, was a very different story – prices only rose two percent for the category, compared to 16.1 percent for cereals, 15.3 percent for dairy, and an astounding 59.9 percent for eggs.

Consistent with recent months, prices continue to become more affordable for beef products. Overall beef prices were down 3.1 percent, with roasts falling 3.5 percent and steaks falling 5.4 percent.

While pork prices inched up 1.5 percent, bacon was down 3.7 percent. The breakfast category remains in demand, with breakfast sausage prices up nine percent and ham prices up 5.7 percent. And consumers continue to trade down for hot dogs, where prices are up 18.2 percent.

Lastly, demand is still quite high for poultry, with the category rising 12.2 percent over last December. Whole chicken prices were up 13.3 percent, while prices for chicken parts (fresh and frozen) and turkey were up 10.3 percent and 18.1 percent, respectively.

Agricultural Women Seek Nominations for the next “Diamond in the Rough”

The 2023 Women in Agriculture Leadership Conference (WALC) is slated for May 23 through 25 in Albuquerque. A highlight of the event is honoring New Mexico women with the Diamond in the Rough Award.

The award was created to honor outstanding women in New Mexico agriculture and highlight her efforts and contributions. Nominations are currently being accepted for those women that, through their actions, strive to make New Mexico’s agricultural industry a prosperous, viable component of the Land of Enchantment. Nomination forms can be located at www.nmflb.org and must be received by April 15, 2023 to be considered.

“Today’s agricultural women are integral parts of their families’ agricultural operations, in addition to their traditional roles, and we feel that they deserve to be recognized for their contributions,” said Erica Valdez, Diamond in the Rough Committee Chair.

Themed Community and Opportunity: Women Flourishing in a New Era, this year is the 2st anniversary of WALC. Over 250 women from across New Mexico are expected to come together to development leadership skills to help them succeed in today’s environment. Attendees will be treated to a great tour and hear top-notch entertainment.      ▫

Mexican Wolf Captured North of Interstate 40 in New Mexico

Source: US Fish & Wildlife Service

In accordance with current policy, the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (FWS) authorized the capture and transfer of f2754, a Mexican wolf who had left the Mexican Wolf Experimental Population Recovery Area (MWEPA) earlier this month. The New Mexico Department of Game & Fish used a helicopter to locate and capture the wolf on January 22, 2023.

The decision to capture and transfer f2754 was made in accordance with the Service’s current recovery permit, which states that “Authorized Permittees may capture and at the direction and discretion of the USFWS Mexican Wolf Recovery Coordinator, return to the Mexican Wolf Experimental Population Area, or transfer to captivity or Mexico, any Mexican wolves that have dispersed from the experimental population and that establish wholly outside of the MWEPA in Arizona, New Mexico, or Texas.”

F2754 first moved north of Interstate 40 in New Mexico on January 2, 2023, and since January 9, showed no signs of returning to the MWEPA. As it is breeding season and there are no other known wolves in the area, there was a high likelihood of a negative interaction or breeding with domestic dogs.

The wolf will be held temporarily at the Sevilleta Wolf Management Facility. Plans are in place to pair f2754 with a male Mexican wolf for transfer as a pair to Mexico later this year. These wolves are genetically redundant in the MWEPA and provide more value to the Mexico population.

Wildlife officials did not immediately notify area landowners and livestock producers of the wolf’s presence.      ▫

Pay per Mile: States Move Toward UserBased Road Tax

Hybrid drivers pay twice

by Beth Brelje, Epoch Times

With each gallon of gas pumped in the United States since 1932, drivers have been paying taxes. The revenue is used for road repairs and public transportation such as train and bus systems.

Currently, the Fed takes 18.4 cents per gallon for gas or 24.4 cents per gallon for diesel. State gas taxes range from a national high of 61 cents for gas in Pennsylvania, to a low of 8.95 cents in Alaska.

But environmentally motivated improvements in fuel efficiency and the move to electric vehicles (EVs) translate to less gas sold, resulting less tax revenue collected.

State and federal governments are looking for a new way to fund transportation. Through numerous studies by transportation organizations, they have landed on mileage-based user fees (MBUF); vehicle miles traveled fees (VMT); road user charges

(RUCs), or highway use fees (HUF). The acronyms all mean the same thing: Drivers pay a tax for each mile traveled.

“All vehicles are going farther on less gas, and that is great for our wallets, especially with the gas prices going up. But it’s not so good when our transportation system is dependent on that fuel tax,” Trish Hendren, executive director of the Eastern Transportation Coalition, told The Epoch Times. “The link between usage and payment is broken.”

But the move to user-based fees is a nationwide effort being discussed in every state. Oregon, Utah, and Virginia have already implemented pilot programs.

At least 31 states have laws requiring a special registration fee for plug-in electric vehicles. Of those, 18 states also assess a fee on plug-in hybrid vehicles, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.

Fee for EV and Gas Power

Virginia implemented a new highway use fee for electric and high-efficiency gas vehicles in 2020, in addition to its existing vehicle license registration. The HUF is around $20 and is calculated based, in part, on a vehicle’s fuel efficiency.

In Utah, all plug-in hybrid and gas hybrid vehicles must pay the Road Usage Charge,

ranging from $21.75 to $56.50. EV owners who don’t buy gas pay $130.25 a year.

In Oregon, the vehicle registration fee is based on fuel efficiency. The better the mileage (the less gas used), the higher the cost of registration. But those with high-efficiency vehicles can enroll in OreGO and get a registration discount.

OreGO participants pay 1.9 cents for each mile driven, and the money goes to the state highway fund. A device on the vehicle tracks miles driven, and drivers of fuel-powered vehicles can receive a credit for fuel tax and remote emissions testing, the OreGO website says.

Public Resistance

Studies recognize that drivers are concerned about privacy and a new tax, and offer analysis on what opposition a mileage fee would face.

“Consumer perception and messaging surrounding what many vehicle owners may see as a new ‘fee’ must also be studied before any largescale rollout of an MBUF program,” a 2019 study by the Mobility 21 U.S. DOT University National Transportation Center said. The study noted that there are privacy considerations, and said it was an unsolved issue. “In addition to the intricacies of

program design, several technological challenges also exist. For example, DOT’s must collect mileage data from each vehicle, for each type of road that vehicle travels on, but would still require doing so in a manner that protects the privacy of drivers.”

Some studies attempted to minimize the privacy concern by showing other ways people are already being tracked.

“Even if you were tracking with GPS, my phone and other apps do that as well. I use E-Z Pass on toll roads and that tracks me,” a New Jersey focus group participant was quoted in a November 2022 report of the Georgia Joint Study Committee of Electrification on Transportation.

The number of people concerned about privacy dropped dramatically after participating in a pilot mileage program in Pennsylvania, Delaware, North Carolina, and New Jersey, a study of the Eastern Transportation Coalition found, Hendren said.

Developers expect a third party, not the government, will keep track of where drivers go, and how much they owe, and some studies have indicated that because a third party is doing the tracking, the data is safe from government eyes. The data would go to a government contractor that would deduct the amount owed from a user’s credit card

and pay it to the states where the vehicle had been.

Federal Directive to Increase Revenue

The 18.4 cent-per-gallon federal gas tax has not increased since 1993. Because of inflation, the revenue has about one-third less purchasing power than it did when the tax was last raised, according to a January 2022 report from the federal Government Accountability Office.

In that report, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates the increasing gap between projected fuel tax revenues and federal highway spending will require $191 billion in additional funding to maintain current spending levels, plus inflation from fiscal years 2022 through 2031.

In November 2021, the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act allowed for the transfer of $118 billion in general revenue to the Highway Trust Fund, which will cover the estimated revenue shortfalls through at least 2026. While this funding will cover a portion of the estimated shortfall in the Highway Trust Fund, this transfer represents a one-time infusion of funding and is not a sustainable long-term source of revenues, the CBO report said.

The CBO has been telling Congress since 2007 that it must pass a sustainable funding solution for maintaining the nation’s highways.

In 2015, the U.S. Department of Transportation established the Surface Transportation System Funding Alternatives program to provide grants to states to explore the feasibility of user-based alternative funding mechanisms. That is what funded numerous studies across the country.

“The Federal Highway Administration is working diligently in response to Congress’s directive that we implement programs to better understand the full range of factors involved in implementing a mileage-based user fee, including public acceptance and administrative feasibility,” a spokesperson for the Federal Highway Administration told The Epoch Times.

New Mexico Auctioneer Wins World Livestock Auctioneer Championship Qualifier

Sixto Paiz, Portales, New Mexico, was named champion at the 2023 World Livestock Auctioneer Championship (WLAC) qualifying event at Windsor Livestock Auction Co., Inc. in Windsor, Missouri. A total of 45 contestants competed for a top 10 placing, granting them a spot in the 2023 WLAC semifinals at Arcadia Stockyard in Arcadia, Florida.

“To be around guys like I was around today—that’s what I live for,” Paiz said. “That’s why we all go to these competitions. It’s for the comradery with people that you know are doing the same things you do each and every day and have the same passion for it. If they didn’t, they

wouldn’t be entering the competition.”

Paiz has been auctioneering for around seven years and currently sells regularly for three livestock auctions, a car sale and an equipment auction company out of Midland, Texas. This was his fourth time competing at a WLAC qualifying event and his third time qualifying for the semifinals.

“The first one I went to I drew second in the competition order, so I got to sit there that day and listen to everybody go, (only) to find out I didn’t make it,” Paiz said. “Here I am, four years later, and to win one, it feels amazing.”

A live cattle sale took place, with the market’s regular buyers and sellers in the seats. Auctioneer contestants were judged on the clarity and quality of their chant, presentation, ability to catch bids/conduct the sale and how likely the judge would be to hire the auctioneer. Judges for the qualifying event were livestock market owners, managers, dealers and/or allied industry members from across the nation.

Individuals advancing to the semifinals with Paiz are Neil Bouray, Webber, Kansas; Leon Caselman, Long Lane, Missouri; Dean Edge, Rimbey, Alberta, Canada; Michael Imbrogno, Turlock, California; Brennin Jack, Virden, Manitoba, Canada; Jacob Massey, Petersburg, Tennessee; Runner Up Champion Daniel Mitchell, Cumberland, Ohio; Reserve Champion Andrew Sylvester, Wamego, Kansas; and Tim Yoder, Montezuma, Georgia.

The WLAC will be held in conjunction with the Livestock Marketing Association (LMA) Annual Convention June 7 through 10 in Arcadia and Punta Gorda, Florida.

(L to R) Sixto Paiz, World Livestock Auctioneer Championship Qualifying Event Champion; Mike VanMaanen, Livestock Marketing Association vice president; and Jake Drenon, Windsor Livestock Auction Co. Inc.

New Mexico Department of Agriculture Announces New Chef Ambassadors

The New Mexico Department of Agriculture (NMDA) has selected Chefs

Jordan Isaacson and Jon Young as the second class of the NEW MEXICO—Taste the Tradition Chef Ambassador Program.

Originally from Barrington, Illinois, Isaacson began his culinary education at the Illinois Institute of Art and completed his degree at the Art Institute of Colorado in Denver. He obtained a Bachelor of Arts in culinary management and graduated magna cum laude. After culinary school, he worked at and managed some of the best kitchens in Denver, eventually earning a spot as the lead instructor at a culinary school.

He later spent a season cooking at a Forbes 5-star resort, Magee Homestead, in rural Wyoming, where he honed his creativity and technique. Isaacson currently works as the head chef at Grounded Cafe in down-

town Las Cruces, New Mexico, where he has created a menu that represents how he likes to cook: plant-forward, technique-driven and house-made. He is passionate about educating others and is excited to bring New Mexico growers into the spotlight.

Young is a classically-trained French and Italian chef with over 30 years of food service experience, including designing menus and owning several New Mexico restaurants. He currently owns – and is the executive chef of – a successful farm-to-table catering business. He also owns a private chef business, for which he sources ingredients from his 1.5acre farm located in Corrales, New Mexico.

Being a fourth-generation New Mexican, his knowledge of New Mexican cuisine and culture is extensive and close to his heart. Young strives to use his vast experience, knowledge and love of New Mexico and its people to create resources for food entrepreneurs by leading a commission to create commissary kitchens for farmers and food providers.

Isaacson and Young replace Chefs Rocky Durham and John Hartley, who have served as the first-ever chef ambassadors since the program’s inception in 2018.

The ambassadors were selected through a competitive application process and will

serve a two-year term advocating for and promoting New Mexico food and agriculture at various events, such as the New Mexico State Fair and HomeGrown: A New Mexico Food Show & Gift Market, as well as industry conferences and tradeshows.

New Mexico Agriculture Secretary Jeff Witte said the chefs will receive recognition and gain industry exposure while providing a voice for New Mexico agriculture.

“The new chef ambassadors will continue to do an excellent job of promoting New Mexico products,” said Witte. “Jon and Jordan are very talented and bring lots of experience to the program. We look forward to the chefs increasing awareness of New Mexico food and beverages while bringing attention to their personal craft and brand.”

Visit the ElevateNMag.com website for more information about the NEW MEXICO—Taste the Tradition Chef Ambassador Program. Previous chef ambassador cooking demonstration videos may be viewed at the NEW MEXICO–Taste the Tradition YouTube channel.

VIEW FROM THE BACKSIDE

by Barry Denton

When Your Bull Calves!

Who gets up in the morning and decides this malarkey? Will the United States Department of Agriculture be introducing new pronoun language for livestock? What is the USDA’s policy on LGBTQ cattle?

Will we need state sponsored animal psychologists to talk to our cattle to see which gender they want to be? What will we do with the steers that still think they are bulls? What will be the selection process instituted by the USDA to determine which bulls get female parts so they can calve?

Will a transgender human be the director of this protocol? One thing about it, no one will ever volunteer to be a steer as they are always slaughtered first.

Funny thing, but I thought God decided gender when you were born? I had to look up LGBTQ. I thought it was an acronym for “Let’s Get Biden To Quit”. How did our government get in the gender business? What

business is it of theirs?

Why was the first executive order of the new Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs, to make sure that LGBTQ state workers could not be discriminated against? You would think that if someone was just elected to the Governor’s office that the first order of business might be to eliminate the fuel tax that would help every working person in the state rich or poor.

How about an executive order to combat the record amount of Fentanyl coming over our southern border? The drug cartels are probably cheering to see Katie Hobbs elected Governor as they have been enjoying Biden’s term in office.

This lady needs to resign, why should we pay her salary? She needs to run the “business” of the state and not legislate by executive order her personal interpretation of morality.

Does anyone recognize the country or state that we are living in? I look outside in the morning and see the same mountains, pastures, and roads that have always been there, but the people that are allegedly voted in to help guide us have changed dramatically.

Can we believe the results of any election? When you look at who is allegedly elected do you believe that anyone alive could have voted for that nut?

I am hoping that this won’t affect our livestock, but who knows? I never thought I would live to see what’s going on in this country today. Who ever heard of suspending the United States Constitution because of a pandemic?

Many people were told that they couldn’t go to church or the barber shop for that matter. That’s right folks, not an enemy attack, but a pandemic that was blown out of proportion to scare people into submission.

There are still folks driving around in their own car by themselves with masks on. How does that make sense? The news media made it sound like it was a larger crisis than the American Civil War which killed off about 750,000 Americans.

If you remember your history Abraham Lincoln abused the United States Constitution more than any American President. The individual lost so many rights under Lincoln that I don’t know if he was good for America or not.

He crushed the southern states with armies that made the southern states remain in a compact that they had joined voluntarily. Think about it, the states certainly had the right to secede.

They should have been persuaded to remain in the union and not destroyed because of a differing view. Of course, we can look back and see that now and you can’t really judge history by today’s lack of standards.

If bulls actually start calving soon, I’m out of here. You will find me up in the mountains with my horse and my dog being a hermit cowboy.      ▫

(The views expressed in this column are not necessarily those of the New Mexico Cattle Growers’ Association or this publication.)

Kansas AG Kris Kobach Demands Answers from NAAG on ESG Investment

by Breccan F. Thies, Breitbart

The National Association of Attorneys General (NAAG), an organization that purports to be a “nonpartisan national forum” for state attorneys general, has seen conservative attorneys general disassociate themselves due to NAAG’s left-wing bias.

In a letter to NAAG executive director Brian Kane exclusively obtained by Breitbart News, Kobach appears to be auditing the organization, which is funded by taxpayers, for its potential involvement in leftist environmental, social, and governance policy (ESG) prescriptions.

Kobach’s office is asking NAAG for a list of specific funds and private equity holdings, saying ESG practices “destroy shareholder value in pursuit of faddish ideological aims, often without proper disclosure to investors.”

Top concerns for the Kansas Republican are allowing NAAG funds to be managed by organizations like BlackRock — an entity that, among other things, amasses American properties and makes houses unaffordable to American families — or NAAG funds being used to fund left-wing, ESG-oriented policy goals like diminishing domestic fossil fuel production and enforcing diversity quotas in corporations.

Consistent with ESG ideology, part of NAAG’s focus appears to be forcing economic and social change through consumer protection lawsuits. Conservative AG offices are poised to demand a return of their money if NAAG is pursuing an agenda that furthers the ESG movement.

According to leaked financial documents, NAAG also lost $37 million in taxpayer dollars through investments in 2022.

Despite that loss, a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request obtained by Breitbart News shows NAAG funded all-expenses-paid trips to London and Berlin for attorneys general and their families.

Kobach, a new member of NAAG’s executive committee, does not go as far as his colleagues in Montana, Arizona, and Texas; he says that he “strongly believe[s] in NAAG’s mission” but finds “merit in some of the criticisms my colleagues have launched at the organization.”

He said he is dedicated to “reforming NAAG rather than abandoning it.”

Ohio Attorney General David Yost (R),

who now also serves as president of NAAG and is carbon copied on the letter, has come under fire from conservatives who believe he is allowing the organization to prop up left-wing policy goals.

In an ad obtained exclusively by Breitbart News, the Alliance for Consumers targeted Yost in his home state of Ohio that began January 26, slamming NAAG as a “left-wing racket taking millions from state consumer cases.”

The ad points out that NAAG has spent tens of millions it has gained from public settlements on overseas investments and funding the aforementioned European trips

for “liberal politicians.”

“Conservatives want the money to come home,” it continues. “Not Dave Yost. Yost is protecting NAAG’s cash stash, signing up for European trips with his liberal pals.”

The ad first aired during “Tucker Carlson Tonight” on Fox News

As Breitbart News has reported, the attorneys general of Alabama, Texas, Missouri, Montana, and Arizona have left NAAG over its “liberal bent” that “fundamentally undermined NAAG’s role as a ‘nonpartisan national forum’ that ‘provides a community…to collaboratively address’ important issues.”      ▫

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Polar Bear Kills Alaskan Mother & Baby

Source: CFACT

When Summer Myomick stepped out into a snowstorm with her oneyear-old son Clyde, she had no idea that a savage predator lay just outside.

The Associated Press (AP) reports that a polar bear killed the 24-year-old mother and her baby in the town of Wales, Alaska, as she stepped out of a school on her way to a health

clinic 150 yards away. Apparently, the bear’s white coat camouflaged it within the heavy falling snow.

Our hearts and prayers go out to Summer, Clyde, their family and friends. May they rest in peace.

Polar bears’ pretty white coats make them perfect propaganda poster children for the global warming-Left, who count on comfortable city-dwellers to view them through a Disneyesque, anthropomorphic lens.

Remember adorable little Knut the Berlin polar bear? Knut was so cute that it scored a fashion photo shoot with famed photographer Annie Liebovitz for the May 2007 “Green Issue” of Vanity Fair. In 2009, one woman was so smitten with Knut’s cuteness, that she jumped the fence at the Berlin Zoo to play in the polar bear enclosure. Another bear brutally attacked her.

The tragic attack in Alaska, and the all-too-preventable attack in Berlin, remind us that a polar bear’s striking white coat is not a fashion statement, but a means to a predatory end. Polar bears may be cute (from a safe distance), but they are nothing like cuddly. Inhabiting the frozen North places polar bears always on the lookout to kill anything that will yield a sustaining meal of protein and fat, people included.

The AP couldn’t help but use Summer Myomick’s tragic death to push the warming narrative, writing, “as climate change reduces the amount of Arctic ice, forcing the bears to spend more time on land, the number of encounters between people and bears is on the rise, researchers say.”

Conveniently left out of the AP story is the fact that the global polar bear population has soared from as few as 5,000 in the mid-

20th century, to as many as 26 to 58 thousand today. This resulted from successful conservation efforts which greatly limited polar bear hunting. Polar bears are thriving, despite what the Left would have you believe.

Contrary to the polar bear narrative, Summer and Clyde’s tragic loss was not caused by the car you drive, your electric appliances, or the rest of your supposedly over-the-top lifestyle. t was caused by two things.

First nature, as the saying goes, is “red in tooth and claw.” Living near predators means that occasional tragedy will result. It’s the same for those who live near alligators, sharks, rattlesnakes, wolves, coyotes or any other wild animal that views humans as food or a threat.

Second, as the AP acknowledges, “the

polar bear patrol in Wales became inactive due to a confluence of factors — including the COVID-19 pandemic, the relative lack of bears and the recent death of its leader.”

Polar bear attacks are rare. It is likely this attack was not preventable, and no human’s fault. With precaution, we can share the planet with polar bears and other predators.

We should not, however, give in to those who ask us to surrender our reason to childish notions that dangerous animals are as cute and harmless as cartoons or plush toys.

Polar bears are neither cuddly friends, nor drowning or starving because you live in freedom and prosperity. It is well past time to end polar bears as propaganda.

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40th Annual NMSU

Cattle Sale & Horse Expo & Sale

BULLS FOR SALE after APRIL 1, 2023

•  Recent drought has caused a significant reduction in animal numbers across NMSU ranches

•  We will be offering 14 yearling Angus bulls that boast some of the lowest birth weigh EPDs in the industry along with some of the highest $EN

•  An offering of Brangus and Brahman bulls with strong desert adapted genetics will be available

•  More detailed animal data and pictures will be posted on Department website and Facebook as it becomes available

•  Cattle are available to view in the pens next to the Bull barn off of Knox St and Stewart St.

•  Check department website for online sale information for specific sale date and time

HORSE SALE and OPEN HOUSE: April 29, 2023

• Open house starts at 9:00AM NMSU Horse Center, 400 W. Union Mesilla Park, NM

— Opportunity to visit with Equine program faculty and students and check out educational facilities, stallions, and learn more about our horse program

•  3 - 2yr Fillies, 4 - 2yr Geldings, 2 - 2yr Stallions, 1 yearling stallion, and 1 Broodmare with 2023 foal

•  Horse Sale preview 10:30AM to 12:00PM

•  Online Horse Sale will start at 1:00PM to 4:00PM Conducted by Integrity Livestock Auctions (see Department webpage for more information)

FOR CATTLE INFO CONTACT

Cattle viewing: ejs@nmsu.edu

Angus: Eric Scholljegerdes 575-646-1750 ejs@nmsu.edu

Brangus and Brahman: Andrew Cox 520-210-1338

FOR UPDATES

aces.nmsu.edu/academics/anrs

FOR HORSE INFO CONTACT

Joby Priest

575/202-3646

priest@nmsu.edu

The Final Nail in the Coffin of “Renewable” Energy

by Christopher Monckton of Brenchley from the Heartland Institute

Douglas Pollock will be known to many readers here as a regular and popular speaker at Heartland conferences. After several years researching the effect of unreliables on electricity grids the world over, Douglas has discovered a truly fascinating scientific result.

He had been looking at nations such as Britain, whose government has gone further towards reducing the economy to thirdworld status by its unhinged nut-zero policies than any other. As a direct result of this fatuity, Britain now suffers the costliest electricity prices in the world.

The manufacturing industries in which

we once led the world have died or gone overseas to Communist-led China, India and Russia. Manufacturing now accounts for just 8% of Britain’s already-imploding GDP. The workshop of the world has become its workhouse.

Industries large and small are going to the wall at a record rate, wrecked by the endless hikes in electricity prices whose root cause is the enforced and pointless shuttering of long-amortized and perfectly viable coal-fired power stations that used to produce electricity at only $30 per MWh, and their replacement with wind and solar subsidy farms producing intermittent and unreliable electrical power at anything up to $11,500 per MWh.

What is more, this disastrous industrial and economic collapse has been deliberately precipitated by a once-Conservative “government” that has long abandoned the no-nonsense economic realism and free-market ideals of Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan.

Curiously, though, the crazed infliction of pig-ugly, wildlife-wrecking, landscape-lacerating windmills on the British people is not reducing our electricity-driven CO 2 emissions.

More and more windmills and solar

panels are industrializing and destroying our formerly green and pleasant land. Yet the fraction of the nation’s electrical power contributed by unreliables stubbornly remains at just below 25 percent. Douglas Pollock wondered why.

He consulted widely among the ranking experts on grid management, but no one had any idea why grids such as Germany and the UK, whose installed unreliables capacity is so much greater than 25 percent of total generation, are incapable of getting their mean annual contribution from wind power, in particular, above 25 percent. True, on some days wind can generate about two-thirds of Britain’s electricity. But on average – a la larga , as they say in the casinos of Puerto Rico – the contribution of wind and solar is stuck at 25 percent of total grid generation.

So Douglas scratched his head and thought about it. After a good deal of research and a lot more thinking, he discovered what was wrong. It was a subtle but devastating error that none of the whinnying enviro-zomb advocates of unreliables had noticed.

Douglas’ argument is a beautifully simple and simply beautiful instance of the logical application of mathematical principles to derive a crucially-important but unexpected and hitherto wholly overlooked result. Read it slowly and carefully. Admire its elegant and irrefutable simplicity.

Let H be the mean hourly demand met by a given electricity grid, in MWh/ h. Let R be the average fraction of nameplate capacity actually generated by renewables – their mean capacity factor. Then the minimum installed nameplate capacity C of renewables that would be required to meet the hourly demand H is equal to H/ R

It follows that the minimum installed nameplate capacity N < C of renewables required to generate the fraction f of total grid generation actually contributed by renewables – the renewables fraction – is equal to f C , which is also f H / R ex-ante

Now here comes the magic. The renewables fraction f, of course, reaches its maximum fmax where hourly demand H is equal to N. In that event, N is equal to H ex hypothesi and also to fmax H/ R ex-ante, whereupon H is equal to fmax H/ R

Since dividing both sides by H shows fmax / R is equal to 1, fmax is necessarily equal to R.

And that’s it. In plain English, the maximum possible fraction of total grid generation contributable by unreliables turns out to be equal to the average fraction of the nameplate capacity of those reliables

that is realistically achievable under realworld conditions.

For onshore wind, that capacity factor R is a depressingly low 25 percent. For offshore wind, one might get 30 percent. The reason is that a lot of the time the wind is not blowing at all, and some of the time the wind is blowing too much to allow safe rotation of the turbines.

What Douglas Pollock’s brilliant and, at first blush, unexpected result means is that the miserably low capacity factor R is in fact also the fundamental limit fmax on the contribution that unreliable can make to the grid without prohibitively expensive and logistically unachievable large-scale static-battery backup.

That means that wind and solar power cannot contribute more than about a quarter of total electricity demand on the grid, unless there is battery backup. However, as Professor Michaux’ 1000-page paper of 2021 for the Finnish geological survey has established, there are nothing like enough techno-metals to provide battery backup of the entire grid worldwide.

Just for the first 15-year generation of static-battery backup for the global grid, the Professor calculates that one would need the equivalent of 67,000 years total current annual production of vanadium, to name but one of the scarce techno-metals that would be required in prodigious quantities. In another 15 years, another 67,000 years production will be needed, for batteries are short-lived, as anyone with a cell-phone knows to his cost. So battery backup is simply not an option on a global scale, even if it were affordable.

Now consider just how devastating is Douglas Pollock’s brilliant result for the climate-Communist narrative. First, it is simple. Even a zitty teenager in high school can understand it. Secondly, it shows that even if global warming were a problem rather than a net benefit there is absolutely nothing we can realistically do about it, except sit back and enjoy the sunshine. Thirdly, it shows that the climate Communists, in placing all their eggs in the electricity basket, have a basket-case on their hands.

For the imminent, enforced replacement of gasoline-powered autos by electric buggies will not only impose an enormous extra loading on the grid – for which most grids are wholly unprepared – but, since the batteries add 30 percent to the weight of the typical buggy compared with a real auto, the entire transport sector will be squandering 30 percent more energy than it does now. And that energy is supposed to come from

the already overloaded grid, powered by unreliables that can only deliver a quarter of total grid capacity in any event.

It gets worse. In the UK, the “government”, in its final thrust to destroy the British economy, is ordering every household with a perfectly good oil-fired boiler to tear it out in two years’ time and replace it with a ground-source or air-source heat pump, which will deliver far less heat at far greater cost. And where is the electricity for the heat pumps going to come from? From the grid, that’s where.

The bottom line is that, because vastly more electricity than now would be needed to achieve nut zero, and because the Pollock limit means only about a quarter of grid electricity can be delivered by unreliables, the net effect of attempts at nut zero will be to increase global emissions significantly, because, as Douglas has decisively proven, nut zero – even if it were at all desirable, which it is not – is impossible.

Nut zero, then, is a striking instance of Monckton’s Law, which states that any attempt by governments to interfere in the free market in pursuit of some political objective or another will tend to bring about a result that is precisely the opposite of that which was – however piously – intended.

Editorial Calendar

JANUARY — Wildlife; Gelbvieh; Joint Stockmen’s Convention Results

FEBRUARY — Beefmasters; Texas Longhorns

MARCH — Limousin; Santa Gertrudis

APRIL — Dairy

MAY — News of the Day

JUNE — Sheepman of the Year

JULY — Directory of Agriculture

AUGUST — The Horse Industry

SEPTEMBER — Charolais; Fairs Across the Southwest

OCTOBER — Hereford; New Mexico State Fair Results

NOVEMBER — Cattleman of the Year; Joint Stockmen’s Convention Preview; Angus, Brangus, Red Angus

DECEMBER — Bull Buyers Guide

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ANIMAL & RANGE SCIENCES

The Department of Animal & Range Sciences is part of the College of Agricultural, Consumer & Environmental Sciences

The Department of Animal & Range Sciences is part of the College of Agricultural, Consumer & Environmental Sciences

Four on-campus animal facilities house: beeF CaTTle/horses/swine/sheep

Students can major in Animal or Rangeland Resources and are provided with the very best of “hands on” academic instruction by our faculty. Fully equipped labs allow students access to cutting-edge research in:

LIVESTOCKNUTRITION / GENETICS / PHYSIOLOGY / ENDOCRINOLOGY / MEATSCIENCE / WOOL / TOXICOLOGY / WATERSHED & RANGELANDECOLOGY / WEED & BRUSHCONTROL / PLANTSYSTEMATICS / GRAZINGMANAGEMENT

The Department also offers pre-veterinary studies –our graduates have a high acceptance rate into veterinary medicine programs. We offer graduate degrees at the Master of Science and Doctor of Philosophy levels.

The M.S. or Ph.D. in Animal Science can emphasize nutrition or physiology, and offers a Ph.D. in Range Science to study range management, range ecology and watershed management.

THE DEPARTMENT ALSO OPERATES

• The Chihuahuan Desert Rangeland Research Center (The College Ranch) –64,000 acre ranch just outside of Las Cruces

• The Corona Range & Livestock Research Center – 28,000 acre ranch & facilities in Corona, NM

• Student organizations, including a Block & Bridle Club, Pre-Vet Club, Range Club, Horsemen’s Association, Therapeutic Riding Club, & Judging Teams

• Clayton Research Center hosts research on shipping protocols, particularly evaluating the health and performance of newly received cattle, and nutrition and management from feedlot to slaughter

Dr. John Campbell –575/646-6180 / Dr. Dennis hallford –575-646-2515 http://aces.nmsu.edu/academics/anrs/

Campbell – 575-646-6180 http://aces.nmsu.edu/academics/anrs

NEW MEXICO’S OLD TIMES & OLD TIMERS

by Don Bullis, New Mexico Author donbullis@msn.com

The Demise of Joel Fowler

Joel, or Joe, Fowler is not a name often encountered in lists of members of New Mexico’s outlaw fraternity even though he is known to have killed several men during his lifetime—23 according to one source—and to have rustled hundreds of head of livestock.

No one is quite sure where he was born but some assert that he was born in Mississippi in the late 1840s. There is little doubt that he died in January 1884. In the meantime, he spent some of his early life in Texas and is said to have killed his first man in Fort

Worth in 1861 in a dispute that involved his uncle, a local lawyer. He subsequently moved on to Las Vegas, Santa Fe, and White Oaks. He managed to make himself unpopular in each of those communities. His problem seems to have been that while he was quite amiable when sober, he became belligerent and downright vicious when he was drunk, which happened too often for many sedate citizens.

At last he arrived in Socorro County where he occupied a ranch about 30 miles west of town in the Ladron Mountains. He maintained one of those magical cattle herds that seemed to grow in size even though Fowler made several sizable livestock sales. On at least one occasion he made a cattle sale and arranged to have the buyer bring cash to his ranch to consummate the deal. Fowler then killed the buyer, kept the money, and buried the man on his ranch. Legend holds that the bodies of several men were found on his property after his death. Specifically, New Mexico rancher Montague Stevens claimed that 16 graves were found there. In November 1883, Fowler sold his ranch to J. C. Read of Fort Worth, Texas, for $52,000, a considerable sum at the time. That event began a series of events that would bring about his demise.

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On November 5, 1883, Fowler received the proceeds from the sale and deposited the money in a Socorro bank. Following his usual pattern, he began drinking that afternoon, and in the early morning hours of November 6, he was still at it. As the hours advanced and he became more and more unpleasant, some of his fellow drinkers took his gun away from him before he could cause any real damage. Some time after that, a salesman from the east, James Cale, arrived on the scene. The stories about how he happened to be there varied widely, but however it was, he managed to anger Fowler who pulled a knife he had concealed in his boot. He promptly stabbed Cale in the chest. Cale died a few hours later, but before he did, he managed to make a statement in which he swore that Joel Fowler was the man who killed him.

Fowler was soon locked up in the county jail. Many citizens feared, though, that with all his money—a banker said he had more than $100,000 on deposit—Fowler would escape justice, and proof of that assertion arrived when noted Santa Fe lawyer Tom Catron was hired to defend him. Local folks were also concerned that some of Fowler’s Texas friends, all gunmen, would arrive in

Socorro to rescue their friend. Some did, in fact, appear but were promptly escorted to the train station and sent on their way.

Joel was tried in early December and convicted. Anxiety grew when Catron appealed the conviction to the territorial Supreme Court. The local vigilante group, known as Los Colgadores, or “the hangers”, took steps to assure that Fowler did not escape. Worry continued to grow. At one point, a militia unit was assigned to guard the jail, but toward the middle of January, it was withdrawn. Things were reaching a flash point. That was compounded by Sheriff Pedro Simpson’s departure from town in pursuit of train robbers.

On January 23, near midnight, about 200 of the vigilantes arrived at the jail. The jailer could offer no resistance. Fowler was removed from his cell and taken outside to a waiting buckboard. Some reports of the day asserted that he yelled bloody murder and resisted the vigilantes with all his might. At one point he was said to have cried out for help from the angels in Heaven for rescue. Legend holds that a man in the crowd replied, “It’s a cold night for angels, Joe. Better call on someone nearer town.” No help arrived, and the buckboard drove away and left Fowler hanging. One source reported that the hanging was botched, and some of the vigilantes were obliged to grab him and apply their weight to his to strangle him. Others said they thought Fowler was dead before he was hanged; dead from fright. Yet others reported that some members of the crowd shot Fowler to make sure he was dead.

Almost the end of the story.

An item in the New Mexico Historical Review, dated January 1965, included a version of the hanging offered by one Chester Potter, who claimed he was among the vigilantes when Joel was sent on his final journey. He wrote:

“The ‘vigilantes’ took their man [Fowler] up McCutcheon Avenue … [to a] huge cottonwood tree. En route to nature’s gibbet, Fowler repeatedly requested that he be shot instead of ‘strangled,’ as termed it. He was told this was impossible. He did not whine but presented his proposition in a cool and businesslike manner.

“At the tree the leaders asked for a rope and for a moment it seemed as though this necessary item of equipment had been forgotten. However, Arthur Goebel gravely announced… that he would furnish the hemp. Goebel removed his [overcoat] disclosing a rope wound around his body. Somebody grabbed a free end while others caught hold and in an instant Goebel became a human reel. He was rolled some distance before the rope was entirely separated from

his body. Fowler heartily joined in the laughter which greeted this little by-play. A noose was quickly fashioned, placed around his neck, the rope thrown over a limb, and being told that if had anything to say, to say it quick, he inquired: ‘Can I climb up, jump off and pop my neck?’ The answer was ‘no,’ and then he said: ‘It’s a damn tough country where you have to climb for water, dig for wood, and they call corn ‘mice” (maise). I’ll take my medicine like a little man.’ Those were his last words.”

Joel Fowler was the last man executed by los colgadores

RANCH FOOD & FODDER

by Deanna Dickinson McCall

February may mean the beginning of calving, or it may mean big snowstorms.

If you’re in the southern end of the state it probably means dusty winds. It is also the time to celebrate your sweetheart, with Valentine’s Day.

When we were ranching in Nevada, we had a massive storm come in late January, sealing us off from the world. I wrote the full version of the following story in Mustang Spring, my first book. I’ve condensed it here. No one could reach us, and we couldn’t get

out through the huge frozen drifts of snow. We had a couple hundred head of mother cows to feed every day, and it took all day to just get them fed. The zero and below temperatures were awful tough on the stock and on us. As if it wasn’t already hard enough to get equipment started and running, we began to run out of hay and fuel. It had been three weeks since the road was opened.

When we were finally able to get a path plowed in and fuel and hay were delivered to us, it was a huge relief. However, the weather warned of winds and more snow the next day. We got quick baths and headed for town to get some groceries. Just to have clean hair and clean clothes and not be wearing insulated coveralls reeking of manure and diesel felt wonderful. We’d had very little variety of food in the last few weeks. I was about out of ideas of how to make beans taste different. After getting groceries and whatever we needed we decided to stop and grab a meal

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before heading back. We made our way to a table, and I was surprised to see a bouquet of roses on the table. Not the usual thing to see in a little cow county cafe. The waitress appeared and handed us the menus and stated that there were several specials that day for Valentine’s Day. We had no idea it was Valentine’s Day. The calendar had ceased to matter for a week or two.

We laughed and ordered one of the specials. That was one of the best Valentines Days we ever had. Looking at each other’s wind and snow burned faces over a candle and roses, knowing that person was really your sweetheart after all we’d been through.

We usually have our Valentine’s at home now. Living on remote places really teaches you to make the most of things and that you can make special occasions memorable and better at home than going out. You’ll likely have a better steak or prime rib at home than you will out. The recipe below will show someone they are really your sweetheart.

Sweetheart Cookies

Ingredients:

1 cup of butter

1 tsp almond extract

½ tsp salt

1 cup of powdered sugar

2 ¼ cup flour

3 TBS maraschino syrup or juice

½ cup chopped maraschino cherries

½ cup slivered almonds

1 cup dark chocolate morsels or chunks

Directions:

Line cookie sheets with parchment paper and preheat oven to 350.

Using either a stand or handheld mixer beat butter until creamy, then add almond extract, salt and powdered sugar.

At low-speed alternate adding the some of the flour and the juice or syrup, til thoroughly mixed.

Stir in nuts and chocolate pieces. Roll into golf sized pieces and place on the parchment covered cookie sheets.

Bake for about 12 to 18 minutes, just until the edges barely show a bit of golden color. Don’t overbake, they are delicate cookies. Let them stand for a few minutes before removing from the cookie sheet.

NMCGA & Purina Mills Fund Agriculture Scholars

by Gracie Hooten, New Mexico Cattle Growers’ Association

New Mexico Cattle Growers’ Association (NMCGA) recently awarded four scholarships during the annual Joint Stockmen’s Convention. Recipients and their families were recognized during the Stockmen’s Award Luncheon in December. Purina Mills along with NMCGA Young Cattlemen’s Leadership (YCLC) and the Allied Industries Committees worked together to fund two $1,000 scholarships and two $500 scholarships.

Purina Mills Scholars, receiving $1,000 each, were Emma Traylor and Sterlin Mitchell. Emma is from Capitan where she was raised on her family’s ranch learning the

value of hard work, but to always enjoy the little things.

In high school, Emma worked under Dr. Rebecca Washburn at her veterinary clinic. This is where she quickly fell in love with the veterinary industry and all it has to offer. Emma is currently studying Animal Science with a pre-veterinary concentration at Texas Tech University to fulfill her career goals of becoming a veterinarian.

Sterlin was raised on the San Cristobal Ranch of Singleton Ranches near Santa Fe. Being raised on a ranch has provided him with the ability to ride and show some great horses. This past year, Sterlin finished in the top ten in Reined Cow Horse and Boys Cutting at the National High School Rodeo Finals in Gillette, Wyoming.

He is a senior attending the online program at Mosquero High School. After graduation, he plans to obtain a degree in Ranch and Feedlot Operations.

“Investing in our youth shines a bright light on the future of the industry,” said Loren Patterson, NMCGA President. “I commend the parents of these students for raising them with the values of hard work and a commitment to agriculture.”

YCLC and Allied Scholars, receiving $500 each, were Libby Modisette and Shawn Agar.

Libby is a senior at Texico High School and is an active member of FFA. She has a true love and passion for showing livestock, which has gifted her with some of the best and most influential experiences of her life. Given her love for animals and animal science, Libby is fully committed to accomplish her career dream of becoming a veterinarian.

Shawn is from Santa Rosa and was raised on a commercial beef cattle operation. He is currently a junior at Oklahoma State University. His overall career goals are to fulfill his passion in the cattle industry, obtain an Animal Science degree, and become a real estate appraiser.

The Association received thirteen scholarship applications in 2022. Judges remarked on the challenge it was to select recipients, as every student showcased young lives filled with accomplishment sustained through hard work and community involvement. We encourage all past applicants to apply again in 2023.      ▫

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(top left) Emma Traylor, Purina Winner (top right) Sterlin Mitchell, Purina Winner (middle) Libby Modisette, YCLC Winner

(right) Shawn Agar, YCLC Winner

‘Swanky’ White House Dinner Due to Biden’s Border Policies

by: Sandra Sanchez, Border Report

While other freshmen members of Congress were attending a special White House dinner, Republican Rep. Monica De La Cruz stayed home citing philosophical differences she has with the Biden administration’s immigration policies.

De La Cruz, who is the first Latina and first Republican to represent Texas’ 15th Congressional District on the South Texas border, said she “politely declined the invitation” to dine with President Joe Biden.

“I won’t be attending swanky Washington, D.C., insider receptions while the cartels control the border,” she said in an email.

“Since President Biden was sworn into office a little more than two years ago, more than 1.2 million illegal migrants have crossed the border, evading capture entirely.

The failure to secure the southern border perfectly represents the failures of the Biden administration: talk a big game to win elections and fail to deliver actionable results. More than that, the failure to lockdown our border represents a clear and present danger to the safety of Americans,” she wrote.

De La Cruz says she sent Biden a note explaining her absence.

She also has launched a petition to send to the president to get him to stop future “White House spending American tax dollars on expensive parties while the border crumbles,” she wrote.

“I appreciate The White House inviting me to a party, but as I told the President, our country has too many challenges that need my attention. Besides, I have a call with my kids at that time — and I’m more of a Shiner Bock and Taco Palenque girl, anyway,” she www.aerotechteam.com

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U.S. Representative Gabe Vasquez, a freshman congressman whose district stretches the entire length of the New Mexico-Mexico border, said he joined Biden to celebrate the swearing-in of the 118th Congress.

“As a working-class New Mexican from humble beginnings, I’m honored to represent our district and fight for the American Dream,” Vasquez tweeted with a U.S. flag emoji.      ▫

FEBRUARY IS AMERICAN HEART MONTH

The New Mexico Beef Council has created a partnership with the American Heart Association for the month of February which includes the annual “Go Red for Women” luncheon. Additionally, several American Heart Association – Certified recipes have been added to the NMBC Recipe file at NMBeef.com. 

BEEF, IT’S WHAT HEALTHY ATHLETES EAT

The New Mexico Beef Council entered into sponsorships with New Mexico State University and University of New Mexico Athletics last fall. The sponsorships connect NMBC directly with the athletic directors and coaches for both schools. Our emphasis for these programs is to focus on healthy eating habits for all athletes. NMBC also receives signage at various sports competitions including this jumbotron banner that was displayed at a recent NMSU game at the Pan Am Center. 

KATHRYN MALCOM-CALLIS RECOGNIZED AS “EDUCATOR EXTRAORDINAIRE”

The New Mexico Beef Council’s Beef Education program has been fortunate, over the years, to have incredible presenters represent them at various agriculture education events across New Mexico. It is therefore sad when one leaves.

Kathryn Malcolm Callis has been a dedicated NMBC beef educator and is now choosing to retire and will be very much missed.

Kathryn lives in Clayton New Mexico and for over 17 years has dedicated her time to speaking to thousands of students and teachers in various locations across the northern part of the state. She has traveled hundreds of miles and planned dozens of Beef presentations on behalf of the NM Beef Council. Kathryn’s educational efforts not only included beef information about the industry and the families who are involved but she also made sure to always bring in extra items to supplement her presentations. Ollie, her loyal dog, was always with her along with visual aids such as saddles, chaps, and western gear, showing the tools that are necessary in the everyday life of a rancher. NMBC would then provide additional materials in the form of banners, beef jerky, coloring books and more.

At the December 2022 NMBC Board Meeting Dina Chacon-Reitzel and NMBC Board members presented Kathryn an engraved Nambe platter in recognition of her commitment to the NMBC Beef Education program. She will be truly missed but we wish her the best of luck in her retirement and a well-deserved rest! 

GET TO KNOW YOUR NEW MEXICO BEEF COUNCIL

Jim Hill has served on the Council for the past four years. “I’ve learned so much about our industry as a Council member,” says Jim enthusiastically. Jim and his wife, Debbie, raise Angus and Angus/Hereford Crossbreeds as well as running a very successful hay business in Mesilla Park. He considers himself blessed to work with two of his sons daily and because he enjoys so many of the people with whom he has worked over the decades. Jim grew up in Tennessee and went to college at Texas Western (University of Texas El Paso) to play football. After an injury, he gave up the dream of being a professional football player and settled into that of being a family man working the land. Jim and Debbie have five children and fourteen grandchildren. Jim’s favorite beef dish: Prime rib with real horseradish. After decades of working in the agriculture industry, Jim knows the biggest challenge for ranchers and farmers was, is and will continue to be water. 

Dina Chacon-Reitzel, Kathryn Malcolm Callis and Cole Gardner

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Students from Colfax County and surrounding communities converged on the

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UPCOMING EVENTS

DIRECTORS

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Dina Chacon-Reitzel 505-841-9407

CHAIRPERSON Cole Gardner (Producer) 575-910-8952

VICECHAIRPERSON

Dan Bell (Producer) 575-799-0763

SECRETARY

Marjorie Lantana (Producer) 505-860-5859

NMBC DIRECTORS:

Sarah Fitzgerald (Feeder) 830-739-3450

John Heckendorn (Purebred Producer) 505-379-8212

Jim Hill (Feeder) 575-993-9950

Nancy Phelps, (Producer) 575-740-0957

Kimberly Stone (Producer) 202-812-0219

Joel Van Dam (Dairy Representative) 575-714-3244

BEEF BOARD DIRECTOR

Boe Lopez (Feeder) 505-469-9055

FEDERATION DIRECTOR

Cole Gardner (Producer) 575-910-8952

USMEF DIRECTOR

Kenneth McKenzie (Producer) 575-760-3260

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Plan Now for a More Profitable 2023

Source: Noble Research Institute

If you’ve been waiting for a sign it’s time to deal with the shoebox of receipts piled in the corner of your office or shop or on the kitchen table … this is it.

Dan Childs and Jason Bradley, two agriculture economic consultants at the Noble Research Institute, say that to end your financial year well, most of the work should already be done.

“Don’t wait until the end the year to cram it all in,” Bradley says.

To make the most of your end-of-year tax consultation meeting, be prepared with updated income/expense records, then use this final month of the year to reflect, recalibrate and look toward a more regenerative future on your farm or ranch.

These three financial statements are the building blocks for successful financial strategies.

1. REVIEW YOUR PROFIT AND LOSS STATEMENT; MANAGE FOR TAXABLE INCOME

Take stock of your income and expense

reports in December and prepare to have a thoughtful conversation with your accountant concerning any additional expenses or income you anticipate in the financial year. Evaluate your taxable income so far, and make a plan to adjust accordingly.

Your profit/loss statement, also known as an income statement or statement of earnings, tracks basic revenue and expenses over a specific time period, typically a fiscal year.

If you’re a new producer or are in the process of transitioning your operation toward a more regenerative model, make an honest evaluation of what kinds of tax implications those changes might have.

Are you shifting a calving season to sync more closely with resource needs? Moving from a year-round herd to custom grazing? Need to purchase a no-till drill? Now is the time to identify those production goals and changes and decide how they will impact your income and cash flow. Do you need to stock up on cover crop seed now? Sell old drills to release capital for reallocation to new equipment?

Only a tax professional can offer the kind of legal guidance you might need in these decisions. Remember, tax codes may change from year to year, so be sure your decisions are in line with the most current requirements.

2. REVIEW NET WORTH STATEMENTS; SET OPERATIONAL GOALS FOR THE FUTURE

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Keep After It, Little By Little

If your tendency is to let receipts and statements stack up until the end of the year, make 2023 the year you ask for help to start a new habit.

Set a goal to update your income and expense report at least on a monthly basis; aim to review operational goals quarterly or every six months. Write down your marketing plan each year, but be prepared to adjust as reality unfolds. If tracking and recording all this feels daunting, consider asking your accountant, banker or trusted adviser to set short, intermittent meetings throughout the year for check-ins.

“Having that meeting set where you know you need to have all your information ready, even just for the first few months, might be enough to get your feet under you and get you in the habit of tracking the data,” Bradley says. “It gets easier if you just keep at it.”

He likens it to simple household chores.

“We all know that if we load the dishwasher after every meal, or wash a few dishes every day, it’s way easier than waiting until the end of the week and facing that big mountain in a full sink. That’s when it feels overwhelming, and you just want to walk away,” Bradley says.

Find ways to make record-keeping a small habit so it doesn’t become a big burden at the end of the year. Many accounting systems now come with apps or cloud-based sharing software, so your records are accessible on your smart phone.

If that’s the case, use small pockets of time – waiting for the feed truck to warm up, sitting in a drive-through line or in a medical waiting room, for instance –when you might otherwise scroll through social media or respond to texts. Instead, use it as a small window to categorize expenses on your mobile Quicken or QuickBooks app.

When you’re in the office, start small and set a specific time – say, five minutes before you eat lunch. Or set a goal to enter three to five data points while the first pot of coffee brews each morning. These little bits of time add up if you keep at them consistently, and the small bits of data will add up to paint a powerful picture of your ranch’s financial fitness.      ▫

Value

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Tucumcari Bull Test Sale — March 11, 2023

VALUE OF FEED EFFICIENCY ASSUMPTIONS:

• Assuming these bulls (actual data from 2021 test) were steers in feedlot, grown from 700 -1400 lbs (700# Gain)

• Cost of feed $185/ton, 62% DM, yardage at $0.25/head/day

• Bull will sire 100 calves in lifetime, calf crop is 50% his genetics, 40% Heritability of FE

• Assumes a bull at 80% ratio for FE does not add any value, other bulls compared to him

• This does not include value of keeping females who are more feed efficient

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managing a business, but if you want to move to a more regenerative model that intentionally balances people, profit and planet, it’s time to take those goals into consideration with your accounting.

“Your basic financial accounting asks, ‘Are we doing things right?’” Childs says. “What we want to think about next is more managerial accounting. It asks, ‘Are we doing the right things?’”

A net worth statement, also referred to as a balance sheet, considers the bigger picture of your ranch’s financial health. It incorporates assets, liabilities and any shareholder equity.

“Assessing a net worth statement is really the gold standard way of asking, ‘How are we progressing financially?’” Childs says.

He prefers to review this statement at the start of a new year and use it as a vantage point from which to set goals for the year ahead.

Make an honest evaluation of this statement with your CPA, banker, or financial adviser, Childs suggests, “then use that to help forecast a realistic financial goal of X amount of profit for 2023.”

It’s simple, but powerful, the economists

note, for business owners to not only set profitability goals, but to write those goals down and keep them in a place where you can regularly review them.

Forbes magazine notes that fewer than 20 percent of people consistently write their goals down, even though “people who very vividly describe or picture their goals are anywhere from 1.2 to 1.4 times more likely to successfully accomplish their goals than people who don’t.”

3. REVIEW CASH FLOW STATEMENT; USE ENTERPRISE ACCOUNTING AS BUILDING BLOCKS

Your cash flow statement, in simplest terms, illuminates where money comes into the business and where money is spent. This measures the business’s ability to generate cash to pay debts, fund operating expenses and more. While your cash flow statement is going to evaluate the ranch’s financial footing as a whole, it can also be used as a starting point for more detailed enterprise accounting.

Your ability to focus on each individual cash-generating opportunity offers a clear picture of which enterprises on the ranch are most profitable.

“This is where you can start looking at

your big goals and then ask, ‘Which enterprises on the ranch are going to contribute to hitting that goal?’” Bradley says.

Enterprise accounting allows a manager to ask powerful questions, such as: Can we shave a little off the overheads on this enterprise or can be get better margins on that enterprise? If we got better return here, could we reinvest that to improve over there?

“If you’re really concerned about addressing profitability, this is where you need to go,” Childs says. “Your knowledge of your enterprise profitability is very powerful in building an accurate operational plan.”

The bottom line, Bradley says, is that the best way to achieve success is to plan for it.

“So plan early, and plan often.”

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Raising the Orphan Calf

by Rosslyn Biggs, Oklahoma State University State Extension Beef Veterinarian

Raising an orphaned beef calf can be time consuming and may require additional expense. Additionally, calves may not be thriving at the time they are orphaned so managing health and nutrition can present challenges. Below are considerations when creating a plan.

Nutrition

Age has significant influence on the nutritional considerations for an orphaned calf. High quality colostrum should be fed to calves that lose their dams at less than 24 hours of age. Producers should not wait to administer colostrum if there is evidence the calf has not nursed.

Beyond the first day of life, calves need 10-12 percent of their body weight in milk per day. A good rule of thumb is that one gallon of milk equals eight pounds. Feeding multiple times per day from a bottle or bucket are both options, however, nursing from a bottle closely mimics the nursing of the udder.

The quality of a milk replacer is critical,

and the calf should be consistently fed with the same product. Milk replacers should, at a minimum, be at least 15 percent fat and 22 percent protein. Milk should be at 101-105 degrees F when fed.

Within the first week after birth, offer a calf starter ration of pellets or other creep feed along with high quality hay. Once the calf is beginning to consume ½ to 2 pounds of dry feed daily, slow bottle weaning can be initiated. Unlike in dairy calves, best results are seen if a beef calf is fed milk for several months. At eight weeks of age, the calf’s weight should have double since birth.

Fresh water should be always available. Water buckets, bottles, and feed pans should be regularly cleaned and sanitized.

Temperature

Calves, especially newborns, do not have the ability to easily maintain their core temperatures. Environmental conditions such as wind and outside temperatures below 50 degrees F may lead to cold stress. Especially during the winter, calves may need to be taken indoors for rewarming and fluids if their temperature drops below 99 degrees F.

Bedding can also help maintain calf temperature. Deep bedding such as straw should be available and regularly refreshed. Housing should be well ventilated areas, clean, and dry.

Health

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Cow-Calf Corner: Purchasing Thin Cows: Opportunity or a Train Wreck?

by Paul Beck, Oklahoma State University State Extension Beef Cattle Nutrition Specialist

In every drought cycle some producers have an earlier end to the drought than others and some are more severely affected by drought than others. As producers liquidate productive cows due to drought, there is opportunity to ship in cows with high quality genetics that otherwise would be in the prime of their productive life.

But often these cows have been held on to for too long by a producer waiting for the “ranch saving rain” that never materialized, with too little grass and little to no hay or feed in reserve. It is hard to turn loose of genetics we have been building and working toward for years, so you can understand the thought process, nevertheless these cows have become much too thin and weak to survive a severe weather event, let alone be

productive.

However, with the right management, these cows can be a massive benefit in building a cowherd for your future, or a windfall for short term gain if sold when the market correction occurs (it always does).

There are reasons why these cattle are cheap:

Thin cows have less cold tolerance. Cows in good condition can withstand temperatures below 32°F reasonably well, thin cows with thin hair coat may have a lower critical temperature of around 40°F. For every degree below the lower critical temperature energy requirements increase by one percent. A winter storm hitting thin cows with little protection can be a disaster.

Thin cows have more problems calving. This is especially true for heifers. It takes a lot of energy to expel a fetus and often new heifers run out of power before the process is even getting going. If we take too dramatic steps to improve the condition of the cow, we can influence the size of the calf.

My rule of thumb is over nutrition on a third trimester cow can increase the calf weight by 10 percent. This is not usually a problem for a mature cow or a well-devel-

oped heifer in good condition. A 10-pound heavier calf can be disaster for a 750-pound weak thin heifer.

Thin cows have weaker calves. Calves born from assisted births are usually weaker and take longer to get up and start nursing. Both the cow and the calf are exhausted. This will delay the uptake of colostrum, which has huge effects on health and resilience of the calf.

Undernutrition during fetal development limits production of fat in the calf, especially the essential brown adipose tissue needed for quick energy early in life. If calving happens during a cold winter storm the calf may wind up laying in the cold wind and freezing to death.

Thin cows produce less (and weaker) colostrum. As mentioned above colostrum is essential for early passive immunity transfer from the cow to the calf. Maternal antibodies in our research often are still found in the calf for up to 4 months. Calves that get limited or no colostrum shortly after birth are less resilient to disease, more likely

to succumb to scours or respiratory disease before weaning and have more health issues throughout production.

Thin cows have problems rebreeding. Research at OSU from the 80’s and 90’s has shown us the importance of body condition at calving on post-partum interval and rebreeding success. Cows in body score condition (BCS) 3 have been shown to have 20-day longer post-partum interval and 20 percent lower pregnancy percentage than

cow in BCS 5 (90-days to first breeding vs 60 and 60 percent pregnancy vs 80 percent). Cows that needed assistance during calving also have lower rebreeding percentages.

Cows calving in thin body condition have also been shown to have improved pregnancy rates when they are increasing in body condition before breeding. Increasing body condition during lactation is not easy and is expensive because of large increases in protein and energy requirements, but it can be done in the right situations.

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Weinheimer Joins AHA Field Staff

The American Hereford Association (AHA) welcomes Cord Weinheimer, Madisonville, Texas, as the organization’s new Southwest region field representative.

Weinheimer will represent AHA members in the region and assist with Associa -

tion activities and services.

Along with attending Hereford sales and events, he will sell advertising for Hereford Publications Inc. and work to broaden relationships across the industry. Weinheimer will also help Hereford breeders and commercial users of Hereford genetics utilize AHA promotional and marketing programs.

“We are excited Cord is joining our team as the AHA Southwest region field representative,” says Joe Rickabaugh, AHA director of seedstock marketing. “Cord hails from a long-time Hereford family and has deep roots in the Hereford breed. He also has a wealth of commercial cattle management experience and great enthusiasm for the Hereford seedstock and commercial industries.”

A native Texan, Weinheimer is a fifth-generation cattle producer with a love for Hereford cattle and Hereford people. He graduated with a bachelor’s degree in animal science from Texas A&M University in 2017. Weinheimer formerly managed several ranches in Texas and is a former director for the Stonewall Chamber of Commerce, along with the South Texas Hereford Association.

“I am very excited about the opportunity to work for the AHA,” Weinheimer says. “My long-time passion for the Hereford breed and its people will be my catalyst for building a positive impact across the industry. As I embark on this new career, I look forward to working with producers and promoting Herefords in all facets of the beef industry.”

Weinheimer began his duties Feb. 1.

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All American Ruidoso Downs Ownership Change Approved

Approval has been granted to Johnny Trotter by the New Mexico Racing Commission for the ownership transfer of All American Ruidoso Downs, LLC; All American Ruidoso Horse Sales, LLC; and Billy the Kid Casino. Trotter previously had partners sharing ownership of the property and affiliated businesses.

In 1959, Ruidoso Downs became home to the All American Futurity, which has evolved into the world’s richest race for American Quarter Horses at $3 million. Since 1962, Ruidoso has been the home of what is arguably the nation’s No. 1 American

Quarter Horse Yearling Sale.

A Texas businessman, cowboy and horseman, Trotter said, “Horses have been an important part of my life. Jana and I have enjoyed racing, buying and selling horses here for over 20 years. Ruidoso Downs is important to us.

“I am excited to be the sole owner, and I look forward to maintaining Ruidoso Downs and the horse sales as the pinnacle of horse racing. Nominations for 2023 futurities and derbies are strong, and we anticipate the yearling sales to continue as strong as ever.”

Trotter expects more great things to come for the property, its team and its events. “We have a great management team in place, and several improvements to the property and our programs currently are under consideration,” he said. “We are the home of the nation’s best racing and sales, both Ruidoso Select Yearling and New Mexico-Bred Quarter Horses and Thoroughbreds. We have the nation’s best Racetrack Chaplaincy programs; and the nation’s best locations for racing, casino gaming and family fun. We look forward to providing a great venue for everybody at Ruidoso Downs.”

Johnny Trotter is actively involved in farming, ranching, cattle feeding, banking, automobile dealerships, real estate and other

businesses. He is a former president of the American Quarter Horse Association (AQHA) and an AQHA Hall of Fame member, as well as the Tri-State Western Heritage Hall of Fame, the Cattle Feeders Hall of Fame, the Texas Horse Racing Hall of Fame and the Texas Cowboy Hall of Fame.

Trotter ranks among the Quarter Horse breed’s all-time owners and breeders, having raced several Grade 1 qualifiers, five AQHA Champions and 2018 AQHA World Champion Bodacious Eagle. His wife, Jana, was one of the group of women known as “The Girls” who campaigned Devons Signature in the 2004 All American Futurity, and now enjoys racing Thoroughbreds.

The final approval for the transfer is pending the approval of the New Mexico Gaming Control Board.      ▫

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USDA Seeks Public Comment Animal Disease Traceability Regulations

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The United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal & Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is proposing to amend animal disease traceability regulations and require electronic identification for interstate movement of certain cattle and bison. APHIS is also proposing to revise and clarify record requirements.

These changes would strengthen the

Nation’s ability to quickly respond to significant animal disease outbreaks, according to the USDA. Major animal disease outbreaks hurt ranchers and farmers and all those who support them along the supply chain, threaten our food security, and impact our ability to trade America’s high quality food products around the world. Rapid traceability in a disease outbreak could help ranchers and farmers get back to selling their products more quickly; limit how long farms are quarantined; and keep more animals from getting sick, the agency stated.

Interested stakeholders may view the proposed rule in the Federal Register at www. federalregister.gov/public-inspection/ 2023-00505/use-of-electronicidentification-eartags-as-official-identification-in-cattle-and-bison.

Members of the public may submit comments. All comments must be received by March 22, 2023. APHIS will review all comments and address them in a final rule.

Animal disease traceability, or knowing where diseased and at-risk animals are, where they’ve been, and when, is important to ensuring a rapid response when animal disease events take place. USDA is committed to implementing a modern system that tracks animals from birth to slaughter using

affordable technology that allows for quick tracing of sick and exposed animals to stop disease spread.

APHIS has worked extensively with stakeholders on this issue and electronic identification and records for livestock movement emerged from these discussions as valuable goals for safeguarding animal health. APHIS decided to pursue these changes through notice and comment rulemaking to ensure transparency and maximize public participation in the process.

The proposed rule would require official eartags to be visually and electronically readable for official use for interstate movement of certain cattle and bison. It would also revise and clarify certain record requirements related to cattle, including requiring official identification device distribution records to be entered into a Tribal, State, or Federal database, and available to APHIS upon request.

FWS Extends Effective Date for Lesser Prairie-Chicken Listing

The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (FWS) is delaying the effective date of the final rule to list two Distinct Population Segments (DPS) of the lesser prairie-chicken under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). The Service is extending the effective date by 60 days, from January 24, 2023, to March 27, 2023.

The extension will allow the Service to finalize conservation tools and guidance documents to avoid confusion and disruption for landowners, federal partners, and industry within the lesser prairie-chicken’s five-state range.

The Service published a final rule listing

two Distinct Population Segments of the lesser prairie-chicken under the ESA on Nov. 25, 2022. The final rule listed the Southern DPS of the lesser prairie-chicken as endangered and the Northern DPS as threatened. The Service also published a final 4(d) rule designed to conserve the Northern DPS of lesser prairie-chicken while allowing greater flexibility for landowners and land managers.

During the extension period, the Service will continue working with interested parties to establish Service-approved grazing management plans. These plans are necessary under the 4(d) rule to allow compatible

grazing operations to continue to work with lesser prairie-chicken conservation efforts. In addition, the extension will allow industry stakeholders more time to participate in or expand voluntary conservation efforts before the primary nesting season of the species.

Finally, the extension of the effective date will allow for additional pre-listing enrollment in the suite of Service-approved conservation tools and plans, including Candidate Conservation Agreements with Assurances and Habitat Conservation Plans aimed at protecting the species while providing certainty for industry and landowners.

The FWS is not accepting public comment on the extension. A Federal Register notice extending the effective date of the final listing for the lesser prairie-chicken was publish on January 24 under docket FWS-R2-ES-2021-0015.

The lesser prairie-chicken is a species of prairie grouse commonly recognized for its colorful spring mating display and stout build. Once numbering in the hundreds of thousands, its population has declined significantly, largely due to habitat loss and fragmentation across the southern Great Plains. The lesser prairie-chicken currently occupies a five-state range that includes portions of Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas.      ▫

EPA Explores Tougher Limits for CAFO Runoff

by Tom Johnston, meatingplace.com

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said it will study the prospect of the agency committing resources to rulemaking that would toughen wastewater regulations on industrial sources such as large-scale livestock farms the agency calls concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs).

Any revision would be the first EPA has made regarding CAFO regulations since 2008. Those changes occurred in response to a court order stemming from a lawsuit filed by environmental group Waterkeeper Alliance. The 2008 rule, among other aspects, specified that the owner or operator of a CAFO that discharges or proposes to discharge effluent must apply for a National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit.

EPA’s announcement comes after consumer advocacy group Food & Water Watch sued the agency, convincing the court to order the agency to respond to a petition the plaintiff filed with the EPA in 2017 urging the agency to strengthen its regulations and permitting program for CAFOs.

The Clean Water Act defines CAFOs as “point sources” of pollution, which the plaintiffs argue should require CAFOs to follow permits that restrict their pollution discharges into rivers and streams. But due to the EPA’s weak regulations, the plaintiffs say, only a small fraction of these operations have the required permits. The permits that do exist also are weak and inadequately protective of water quality, they contend.

Meanwhile, EPA also has its eyes on meat and poultry processing (MPP) plants. In 2021, the agency announced its intent to initiate rulemaking revising effluent limita-

tions on those facilities. The agency’s last amendment to the original 1974 regulation came in 2004, but that regulation only applies to 300 of the estimated 7,000 processing plants nationwide.

The announcement followed EPA’s completion of a detailed study on the processing industry, indicating those facilities discharge the highest phosphorus levels and second-highest nitrogen levels of all industrial categories. Some MPP facilities, however, already are removing nutrients from their wastewater and achieving effluent concentrations well below limitations in the 2004 regulation, the agency noted.

In March of 2022, the EPA submitted an information collection request to gather sufficient data from MPPs to support a rulemaking.

Health Advocates Sue FDA Over Antibiotics in Livestock

by Kate Gibson, meatingplace.com

Acoalition of health advocacy groups has sued the Food & Drug Administration and its Center for Veterinary Medicine (CVM) over the use of antibiotics in animal agriculture, saying misuse of the medicines is a growing and deadly public health crisis.

Organizations including the National Resources Defense Council, Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments and Earthjustice filed suit to force the FDA to phase out the practice of administering antibiotics “en masse” to food-producing animals.

The use of medically important antibiotics for disease prevention in livestock and poultry contributes to the “rise and spread

of antibiotic-resistant bacteria,” which advocates contend kills 35,000 and sickens more than 2.8 million people in the U.S. each year.

“The FDA does not comment on possible, pending or ongoing litigation,” a spokesperson for the agency told Meatingplace in an email.

Many of the same public health and consumer groups in 2016 petitioned the FDA to ban the use of antibiotics in healthy animals. The FDA denied the request five years later.      ▫

U.S. Lawmakers

Revive Spotlight on Meatpacker Expansion, Labeling

by Chris Scott, meatingplace.com

Several members of the U.S. Congress are taking steps that could change the fortunes of small meatpacking companies and heat up the ongoing debate on mandatory country-of-origin labeling, or MCOOL.

Representative Dusty Johnson (R-S.D.) and Representative Abigail Spanberger (D-Va.) reintroduced their “Butcher Block Act” legislation that would establish a permanent grant and loan program that aims to increase competition in the meatpacking industry. Originally launched by the two lawmakers in 2021, the proposal would help boost marketing options for meat processors and livestock companies and establish a grant program through USDA to help eligible organizations launch new construction or expansion projects, according to the proposed bill.

Meanwhile, at least one Capitol Hill lawmaker is responding to calls to reintroduce legislation that would restore MCOOL rules for American-raised beef. Senator John Thune (R-S.D.) announced that he plans to push his American Beef Labeling Act proposal as part of the 2023 Farm Bill, just weeks after more than 50 consumers and cattle groups asked U.S. lawmakers to launch such efforts in a letter outlining their concerns.

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EPA to Study Water Pollution Tied to Livestock Farms

by Marc Heller, E & E News

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has said it will study water pollution generated by large livestock farms, a potential first step toward tighter regulations on how industrial agriculture manages animal waste.

Officials announced the study as part of a biennial review of water pollution regulations required by the Clean Water Act. The review, called “Effluent Guidelines Program

Plan 15,” touches on wastewater discharges across many industries, and the study of big livestock farms comes in response to a lawsuit filed by the organization Food & Water Watch.

In a report finalized January 20, the environmental agency said any proposal to revise the regulations — which could take several years — requires the type of updated information the study would provide. That could include changes in the livestock industry since the last major update in 2008, as well as advances in technology and farm practices to reduce manure runoff, EPA said.

“Understanding the nature and frequency of discharges is critical to understanding the

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extent to which potential revision of the effluent limitations guidelines (ELG) could yield significant pollutant reductions,” EPA said.

Livestock agriculture groups point to improvements in the design of manure management systems — which include outdoor lagoons, tanks and equipment to inject liquefied manure into fields to reduce direct runoff into streams. Concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) big enough to fall under EPA regulation — generally with hundreds or even thousands of animals — are also required to have pollution permits and nutrient management plans.

The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association was supportive of the effluent limitations guidelines study in a statement from its chief counsel, Mary-Thomas Hart.

“Collecting further information will enable EPA to make an informed and reasoned decision on whether to revise the CAFO ELGs,” Hart said. “We appreciate that EPA is not choosing to unnecessarily rush its regulatory process.”

And while technology such as the use of membranes to filter manure is unfolding, that method isn’t widely used in the poultry industry, for instance, the U.S. Poultry and Egg Association and other groups told EPA in response to a preliminary report on the effluent guidelines in 2021, in which the groups asked for an extended comment period.

Should updates come along, the groups said, EPA will need a more accurate accounting of the facilities that are covered, since some of the categories referenced in that report could include “restaurants, specialty sausage manufacturing and delicatessen and sandwich shops.”

In that preliminary report, EPA also cited regional shifts in where big livestock farms are located, as well as the general trend toward fewer but larger farms.

A study is also likely to run into the complications of the “Waters of the U.S.” regulations that attempt to define waterways subject to the Clean Water Act. The agency said its first step is to assess the extent to which CAFOs discharge into such waters.

Beyond that, the agency said, “EPA’s data about discharges of pollutants from CAFOs is sparse; indeed, its preliminary analysis was only able to analyze monitoring data from sixteen reporting CAFOs. EPA intends to gather information about discharges from the production area to appropriately characterize whether manure, litter, and process wastewater flows off land application areas.”

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Leveraging Unconventional Water Resources The New Water Movement

by John R “Grizz” Deal, New Mexico Desalination Association

New Mexico is in a severe water crisis. While it’s not news that the Great American Southwest is arid, the fact that our state has experienced drought for the last 20 years is news to some folks.

Those that grow food, and those of us that support them, are keenly aware of the dramatic lack of water available for farmers and ranchers; folks that have been feeding us for hundreds of years. Our changing climate, urbanization, increased industrial use, and a somewhat closed hydro loop have all contributed to the current water state of affairs in New Mexico.

According to Mike Hightower, research professor at New Mexico State University, “… New Mexico cannot continue to operate under a business-as-usual scenario for future water resource availability. Municipalities, industries, and agricultural entities will require new and more resilient water supply solutions.”

Seasonal precipitation variations have always been tough to navigate in the state, but the variations are becoming less varied, with drought being a nearly year-round phenomenon. This puts additional stress on the people that grow our food, and on the food supply itself.

New Water

Here’s the Good News: water scarcity has led to revolutionary thinking regarding not just where to secure additional resources, but how to treat these unconventional sources for specific applications. This is known as “fit for purpose” water.

In a water rich region, it became very easy to just dispose of imperfect water as every application was thought to need water fit for human consumption. While this has never been the case, in “water fat” regions viable waters have been ignored, usually because of not only the “Perfect Water” thinking, but also due to low standards for wastewater discharge (“just throw away unfit water”), and because treating these unconventional waters has been difficult and expensive.

Like many other industries such as computing, wind and solar energy, and medicine, effective water treatment for a wide variety of unconventional resources has now become affordable. Advances in treatment methods, lower cost materials, and the fit for purpose

philosophy have contributed to this recent positive outlook on water in New Mexico.

Unconventional Water Resources

The EPA National Water Reuse Action Plan focuses on fit-for-purpose treatment and reuse of wastewater in five major areas:

Ї Thermo-electric cooling water

Ї Agricultural wastewater

Ї Municipal wastewater

Ї Produced water

Ї Storm water

We add two additional sources: brackish groundwater and industrial wastewater. This national plan is working only because of new state and local-level projects and regulations, consumer advocacy, and industrial practices.

To Recycle or Reuse?

While there are abundant sources of unconventional water that can be treated and recycled for other uses including farming and ranching, one goal of the New Water movement is to help industry create a closed loop system. This means industrial users will no longer send their wastewater to the local

municipal plant, where they quite often pay additional fees to do so, but rather treat and reuse their wastewater right there at the plant. This would dramatically reduce industrial freshwater withdrawals leaving more water for people and to grow food.

Industry, government, academia, and stakeholders are coming together for the first time in the state’s history to work harder on a solution to water stress in New Mexico, not only to save our current industrial and agricultural base, but to expand it.

Over succeeding issues of The Stockman, we’ll investigate ownership and economic drivers of water in New Mexico, explain the sources of unconventional waters in the state and how to treat them, and provide case studies where New Water is already making a difference. Our intent is to provide you with a solid knowledgebase on New Water so you can make a positive difference in your own lives and in the entire ranching community.      ▫

About the author: John R Grizz Deal is vice president of New Mexico Desalination Association (www.NMDesal. org), a 501-c-6 charity and CEO of IX Water, a spin-out from Los Alamos National Laboratory. The mission of both entities is to help solve regional water stress and drought.

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New Mexico winter 2023 weather will be “warmer than normal, with abovenormal precipitation.”

For the same period, Weather.gov predicts “below average precipitation and above average temperatures for all of New Mexico.” I guess it’s up to us to figure it out. The adjacent maps show drought June 2022 compared to January 2023.

Data valid: January 24, 2023 at 7 a.m. EST • https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/

2023 IX Cartographica based on the Drought Monitor base maps.

30×30 is Conservation’s Flashy New Goal – Now Countries Need to Figure Out What it Actually Means

by Blanca Begert, Grist

Right before the holidays, nearly 200 countries announced a breakthrough deal to protect Earth’s plants and animals. Of the 22 targets established at the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity, or COP15, one stood out: an agreement to conserve 30 percent of land and seas by the year 2030.

The goal, commonly known as 30×30, has been around for a few years, slowly gaining traction in environmental circles since it was first proposed in the journal Science Advances in 2019. It draws inspiration from research by famed biologist E.O. Wilson that at least half the planet needs to be conserved in some way to protect 80 percent of species.

The formal adoption of 30×30 by nearly all of the world’s governments at COP15 turned it into the official guiding star for the global conservation movement, with some leaders comparing it to the Paris Agreement in terms of significance.

One of the toughest questions yet to be answered is: What exactly counts towards the 30 percent? Can certain conservation-minded agricultural methods that protect soil and promote a diversity of crops be included, or do only strictly protected areas like national parks count?

To what degree will Indigenous territories be considered conserved land? And how will areas that connect fragments and contain the rarest, most species-rich ecosystems be prioritized under the goal? The final language in last month’s global agreement was vague on many of these topics.

“Underneath that [30×30] number is a huge amount of complexity,” said Claire Kremen, a conservation biology professor at the University of British Columbia who researches how to reconcile biodiversity conservation with agriculture. “It all depends on where and how you do this protection and there hasn’t been a lot of clarity on these points.”

The United States, while not technically part of last month’s global pact (the Senate since 1993 has refused to join the biodiversity convention), has been wrestling with these same questions independently. President Biden committed to the 30×30 goal within U.S. borders via executive order during his first week in office. And many states have also committed to the target, including Cal-

ifornia, Maine, New York, Hawaii, and New Mexico.

Just as negotiators at COP15 struggled to come to an agreement about what types of ecosystems and actions should count towards the global goal, the U.S. government has yet to define what “conserved” land and sea means under 30×30.

Currently, the U.S. has a variety of different protected area designations that are regulated in different ways. Most federal land, which makes up 27 percent of the country, is managed under some form of conservation, be it national parks and wilderness areas or, more commonly, a “multiple-use” mandate that allows for what the government determines to be sustainable levels of extractive activities like forestry and grazing.

Add state parks and private land under conservation easements to the mix, and we’ve easily already met the 30 percent target, says Forrest Fleischman, a professor of environmental policy and forest governance at the University of Minnesota.

But most 30×30 advocates don’t think that all those lands should count towards the target, whose main goal is to protect biodiversity. While the U.S. Geological Survey’s Protected Area Database considers more than 31 percent of the country’s land under some form of protection, only 13 percent has strict mandates for biodiversity protection that don’t allow for any extractive activity.

“There’s habitat value to be found in all sorts of lands,” said Helen O’Shea, an expert on land-use and conservation issues at the Natural Resources Defense Council, “but the 30×30 effort is about creating a system that’s protected and ecologically representative. A connected system that’s going to link up areas that are solely being looked at for conservation purposes.”

For others, however, the answer isn’t as simple as just increasing the amount of land under strict protection. “If the goal is to move another 17 percent of the U.S. into something equivalent to a national park or wilderness area, that seems unrealistic,” said Fleischman, who is part of group of experts working to understand the social implications of 30×30, funded by the Science for Nature and People Partnership.

When the 30×30 goal was first announced in the U.S., it received significant pushback

from ranching communities and private landowners, who were concerned about impacts to rural economies like grazing and logging. Many also argued that certain productive land uses, especially when planned with biodiversity in mind, are compatible with conservation of species and ecosystems.

While the white spotted owl can’t live in logged forests of the Pacific Northwest, for example, open grazing helps to maintain prairie habitats. Some grassland birds also thrive in the early successional forests that grow after timber harvest.

“It’s a very complicated, site-specific issue,” said Tom Cors, director of U.S. government relations for The Nature Conservancy. “Some places might have adequate ‘protection,’ but they need more management,” he added, referencing the need to conduct more prescribed burning to support ecosystem function in Western forests.

Globally, the most significant critique of the 30×30 initiative has come from Indigenous peoples, who warn that the protected area conservation model has allowed governments and nonprofit groups to seize control of natural resources and, in many cases, violently remove Indigenous peoples from their lands, from the Democratic Republic of the Congo to Nepal to Peru. Tribes in the U.S. that have historically been excluded from conservation planning, decision-making, and funding wanted to make sure the country’s 30×30 goal didn’t repeat these patterns.

In an effort to address those concerns, the Biden administration framed its 30×30 pledge as a “collaborative and inclusive approach to conservation,” with topline goals of honoring tribal sovereignty, supporting the priorities of tribal nations, respecting private property rights, and supporting the voluntary efforts of landowners, all with science as a guide. A May 2021 report from the Department of the Interior emphasized the concept of “conservation” rather than “protection,” “recognizing that many uses of our lands and waters, including of working lands, can be consistent with the long-term health and sustainability of natural systems.”

An interagency working group is trying to account for different types of land uses while building the American Conservation and Stewardship Atlas, a tool to represent the amount and types of lands and waters that are currently conserved or restored. Part of the group’s mandate is to figure out how

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contributions from farmers, ranchers, and forest owners, as well as the conservation strategies of Tribal Nations, will count toward the 30×30 goal.

A December 2021 progress report did not include a number for how much land and water is currently managed for conservation; in an email to Grist, a Department of the Interior, or DOI, spokesperson had no updates on the Atlas timeline.

Beyond “what actions count,” land managers are also thinking about “which lands and waters should be protected?” towards the 30-percent target. Biodiversity tends to be concentrated in certain areas and ecosystem types, so where land protection happens is important. In its comments on the Atlas, The Nature Conservancy recommended distributing conserved areas among 68 ecoregions of the U.S. — the Central Appalachians, Northern tallgrass prairie, and California central coast, for example — and protecting 30 percent of each.

In the U.S., it’s private lands that contain most of the country’s biodiversity; these also play a role in connecting protected areas,

which conservation groups have emphasized as an important priority for the Atlas, as habitat connectivity has been shown to be critical for species’ survival. In addition, the Biden administration wants the tool to promote equity, increasing access to nature in historically marginalized communities, often in urban areas. Yet as the DOI itself notes, “there is no single metric — including a percentage target — that could fully measure progress toward the fulfillment of those interrelated goals [of doing better for people, for fish and wildlife, and for the planet].”

The 30×30 target established at the U.N. biodiversity conference is global, meaning that countries can sign onto it without necessarily committing to conserve 30-percent of land and waters within their borders. Still, many countries have issued their own 30×30 commitments, including Canada, Australia, Costa Rica, and France.

The United Kingdom has been criticized for claiming to protect 28 percent of its land when the included national parks and “areas of outstanding natural beauty” fail to address poor farming practices, pollution, and invasive species. In July, Colombia announced

Cold Storage Stocks Are Piling Up

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that it had already met the target for land and sea.

The final agreement reached at COP15 nodded to the inclusion of working lands and the importance of protecting ecologically-representative and high-biodiversity habitats, without setting clear guidelines. It “recognized and respected” the rights of Indigenous peoples, who steward 80 percent of the world’s biodiversity on their lands, without establishing their territories as a specific category of conserved area, leaving them vulnerable to human rights violations.

For Fleischman, having a “political slogan” without a clear meaning isn’t necessarily helpful for achieving biodiversity and environmental justice goals. “Advocates say, ‘Look beyond the numeric spatial target at the language which is about finding ways to pursue conservation at a whole landscape level while taking into account social equity issues such as [urban] parks,’” he said. “But if that’s the case, what is the point of saying ‘30 x 30’? ‘Healthy nature everywhere’ might be a better goal.”      ▫

up 16 percent from year-ago levels, but the closely watched inventory for pork bellies was up 16 percent from a month ago, 65.6 percent higher than a year ago and 45 percent higher than the five-year average.

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Spurred by higher protein prices and penny-pinching on the part of consumers, the volume of beef, pork and poultry in cold storage is up significantly both year-over-year and compared with five-year norms.

For example, the total pounds of beef in freezers were up 4 percent at the end of December 2022 from the previous month, up seven percent from the same time last year, and 8.5 percent higher than the fiveyear average.

Noted the analysts for the Daily Livestock Report , “Expectations for tight supplies/higher prices in 2023 have caused both end users and packers to hold more beef in cold storage than in the past. The additional supply may help limit some of the upside price pressures in the near term, especially if beef production does not decline as quickly and as much as previously expected.”

Frozen pork supplies, meanwhile, were up one percent from November and

Hams bucked the storage trend, coming in at 13 percent lower inventory than a year ago and 25 percent lower than the five-year average.

Total red meat supplies in freezers were up two percent from November, up 11 percent from last year.

Although poultry tends to be less expensive at retail than the red meats, prices in that market have risen sharply, as well, and the “chicken supply remains burdensome,” the DLR said. Totaly supply in cold storage is nearly 1 billion pounds, up 25 percent from year-ago levels. Chicken breasts, in particular, were up 63 percent from a year ago and up 24 percent from the five-year average.

Total frozen poultry supplies in December were up seven percent from the previous month and up 23 percent from a year ago. Total pounds of turkey in freezers, meanwhile, were up 35 percent from last month and up 14 percent from year-ago levels.

NEW MEXICO FEDERAL LANDS NEWS

by Frank Dubois

Wolves, coyotes, banning livestock

Wolves

Well, I guess we knew it was bound to happen.

A Mexican wolf has crossed north of Interstate 40. In other words it is now beyond the experimental population area in New Mexico. According to the NM Game and Fish, the female wolf traveled “farther north and east than any wolf of its kind since it was reintroduced in 1998.”

New Mexico Game and Fish has reportedly warned livestock producers that the wolf is protected under federal law and cannot be hazed or harassed. The endangered species act states:

“In carrying out the program authorized by this Act, the Secretary shall cooperate to the maximum extent practicable with the States. Such cooperation shall include consultation with the States concerned before acquiring any land or water, or interest therein, for the purpose of conserving any endangered species or threatened species.”

And under the prohibited acts section of the endangered species act, it states:

“remove and reduce to possession any such species from areas under Federal jurisdiction; maliciously damage or destroy any such species on any such area; or remove, cut, dig up, or damage or destroy any such species on any other area in knowing violation of any law or regulation of any State or in the course of any violation of a State criminal trespass law;

(C) deliver, receive, carry, transport, or ship in interstate or foreign commerce, by any means whatsoever and in the course of a commercial activity, any such species.”

So be aware the state is very involved with this issue.

Coyotes

A coalition of environmental groups has filed a petition with the Secretary of Interior to protect coyotes saying “that small statured Mexican gray wolves are often mistaken for coyotes and that protecting coyotes would in turn cut down on wolf deaths.” They want the Secretary of Interior to list the coyote as an endangered species anywhere the wolf might roam, claiming the illegal killings are the number one cause of death for the Mexican wolf, and that a good portion of those are claimed to be by mistaken identity. A spokesman for the Center for Biological Diversity said, “It’s an outrage that merely saying ‘I thought it was a coyote’ serves as a get-out-of-jail-free card for anyone who shoots one of these highly imperiled animals.”

They are right about one thing – this is an outrage.

Climate change

Last December I wrote: What will come of all this climate change push. especially for ranchers and rural property owners?

It seems clear the enviros will use climate change as the lever to lobby for all the items on their agenda… and

–climate change will take a much more prominent place in all planning documents and decisions, including those on livestock grazing

Now take a look at what is happening in the European Union.

The highest Dutch court has upheld lower court rulings that found the country was failing to comply with European Union (E.U.) environmental regulations.

The ruling ordered the Dutch government to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 25 percent by 2020, which meant the country would almost have to double the amount previously obtained.

The Dutch government finally produced a plan to “radically” reduce livestock numbers by more than 35 million by 2030.

According to an article by Baylen Linnekin, the plan includes “paying some Dutch livestock farmers to relocate or exit the industry, and helping others transition to more extensive (as opposed to intensive) methods of farming, with fewer animals and a bigger area of land.”

And to top things off, they will be training future lawyers on the best way to sue you.

There is a national movement to mandate courses on climate change be a part of every law school’s curriculum. Two law professors

recently wrote in a paper published by Cambridge University Press:

Law students graduating in the coming decades will conduct their entire future practices in a web of climate law.

Climate change is still perceived as a niche topic – studied by those interested in ‘green’ issues and neglected by everyone else – rather than the socially pervasive issue that it is. Regrettably, this means that students are leaving Law School without a proper understanding of the legal framework or social context within which they will practise… Accordingly, this paper argues that climate change education should be compulsory and assessable content across the core law curriculum.

Note the “compulsory” in their paper.

Taxpayer dollars will be used to better train these attorneys who will sue you and other producers.

And New Mexico, no longer The Land Enchantment, will be the Land of Canis Lupus Baileyi . No longer seen as a place where the buffalo used to roam, but instead as a place where the wolves do roam.

Sorry about the negativity in all this. I could not figure out a better way to present it.

Until next time, be a nuisance to the devil and don’t forget that cinch.

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

NCBA, TCFA, KLA, OCA, NMCGA Sue Biden Admin to Overturn Lesser Prairie Chicken Listing

The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA) has filed a Notice of Intent to sue the Department of the Interior and the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (FWS) over the listing of the lesser prairie chicken under the Endangered Species Act. This is the first step in court toward overturning the listing and revoking FWS’s final rule for both the Northern and Southern Distinct Population Segments (DPS).

“The lesser prairie chicken only survives today because of the voluntary conservation efforts of ranchers,” said NCBA Associate Director of Government Affairs Sigrid Johannes. “The science has proven repeatedly that healthy, diverse rangelands—like those cultivated by livestock grazing—are where the lesser prairie chicken thrives. There are numerous places where this listing

goes seriously wrong and we are defending cattle producers against this overreaching, unscientific rule.”

The listing was previously set to take effect at the end of January, but thanks to pressure on the Biden administration from NCBA and our allies in Congress, the rule was delayed by 60 days. The listing will now take effect on March 27, 2023, and the states included in the species’ range are Kansas, Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Colorado.

NCBA’s lawsuit follows a letter submitted to Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland and FWS Director Martha Williams requesting a delay of the effective date of the rule and flagging particular concerns with the 4(d) rule for the Northern DPS of the bird.

By permitting third parties to act as

grazing authorities with the power to review and approve grazing management plans within the Northern DPS, FWS has opened the door to activist groups having oversight of cattle grazing.

Without these third party-approved grazing management plans, cattle producers operating inside the species’ range will be subject to a punitive degree of civil and criminal penalties for incidental take of the bird.

“This 4(d) rule would allow environmental activist groups to become ‘grazing police’ over cattle producers. Designing a thirdparty verification system puts political priorities over sound science and empowers distant bureaucrats over land managers and producers with decades of experience,” said Johannes.

The lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas. In addition to NCBA, the case is being brought by lead plaintiff Permian Basin Petroleum Association along with the Texas Cattle Feeders Association, Kansas Livestock Association, Oklahoma Cattlemen’s Association, and New Mexico Cattle Growers’ Association.

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Activists Challenge

Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District’s Water Use

by Scott Wyland, sfnewmexican.com

The WildEarth Guardians are challenging the state engineer’s authority to grant a regional irrigation district a series of permit extensions without making the organization prove the water it diverts from the Rio Grande has a beneficial use.

The environmental group contends in its lawsuit the state engineer, the state’s top water official, has issued extensions for 90 years on the Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District’s water permits without

making the agency prove beneficial use of the water.

Beneficial use is a basic tenet of New Mexico water law, which says a water right means beneficially using the water, not owning it — whether the purpose is for domestic use, irrigation, industry or recreation.

The parties presented their arguments in late January at a state District Court hearing.

State District Judge Francis Mathew said it could take 60 days for him to make a decision in the case, and he encouraged the parties to discuss a settlement.

Samantha Ruscavage-Barz, an attorney representing Santa Fe-based environmentalists said the conservancy district, with such “laissez-faire management,” can divert Rio Grande water between Cochiti Dam and Elephant Butte without showing the amount it is putting to beneficial use.

“The state engineer can’t tell us how much water MRGCD is using, and so the public doesn’t know how much water is at stake here,” she said. “Ninety years of unchecked water use is an absurd result of the state engineer’s interpretation and should not be adopted.”

The lack of accountability is unacceptable as a changing climate depletes water supplies, Ruscavage-Barz added.

The state engineer has continually used one clause in the statute — that he can extend the permit without proof of beneficial use if he deems it’s in the public’s interest, Ruscavage-Barz said. She argued a state official must comply with the entire statute and not pluck one clause that suits his purpose.

Attorney Charles Dumars, representing the conservancy district, said he believes WildEarth Guardians’ true aim is to reduce the volume of Rio Grande water the district and its irrigators use.

Simi Jain, an attorney for the state engineer, said after a permit extension is granted, state law doesn’t impose time limits for a permittee to establish beneficial use.

The state engineer has broad authority to interpret when circumstances call for granting an extension, Jain added.

The group’s argument, she said, “ignores the [statutes’] plain language and also dismisses the practical reasons for granting the state engineer discretion in the first place.”

“Things happen,” Jain said. “Sometimes projects can’t be built within the time frame set out in the permit. To cut the state engineer off and prevent him from exercising discretion really limits the state engineer from making those practical-sense decisions, which are within his purview.”

Ruscavage-Barz said the state engineer isn’t entitled to make indefinite extensions on permits just because it might be challenging to determine beneficial use.

“That certainly could have been an excuse in 1935 or 1940 or 1945 that it’s going to take a while to do this,” she said.

“It’s now 2023.”      ▫

Rule Letting Retirement Fund Managers Consider ESG Factors to Take Effect Despite Red States’ Lawsuit

by Ronn Blitzer, FOXBusiness

Commencing on January 31, 2023, retirement plan managers are able to factor in a company’s environmental, social, and governing (ESG) positions when making investment decisions, as a Biden administration rule goes into effect – despite the objection of 25 Republican-led states.

The Department of Labor rule, first announced in November, reverses restrictions put in place under the Trump administration. It is now facing a lawsuit from Utah and two-dozen other states, who argue that it violates the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) of 1974,

which says retirement plan assets must be held for the exclusive purpose of providing benefits to participants in the plan, and that fiduciaries must act solely in the participants’ interests.

The GOP-led states say that by focusing on social and political agendas, plan managers will be compromising the growth potential of participants’ accounts.

“Permitting asset managers to direct hard-working Americans’ money to ESG investments puts trillions of dollars of retirement savings at risk in exchange for someone else’s political agenda,” Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes told FOX Business,

saying the rule “must be stopped.”

The lawsuit was filed on January 26 in federal court in Texas. The court has yet to issue a ruling on the request for an injunction. If granted, the rule would be blocked for the duration of the case, depending on any subsequent appeal.

Over the past few years, massive asset managers and financial institutions have increasingly focused on prioritizing ESG factors when making key investment decisions. They have particularly set their sights on investing in companies based on those companies’ efforts to combat climate change and curb their carbon footprints.

Companies like BlackRock, State Street, and Vanguard, which collectively manage trillions of dollars in assets, have taken lead roles in the ESG movement. In response to the growing movement, Republican state attorneys general and financial officers have fought back, canceling contracts with the firms and threatening legal action over how they handle customers’ investments.

The Labor Department did not respond to Fox Business’s request for comment on the lawsuit. In November, Labor Secretary Marty Walsh said the new rule would “help plan participants make the most of their retirement benefits.”

Republicans, however, believe it does more to advance the Biden administration’s green agenda than help investors handle their retirement savings.

“This rule is an affront to every American concerned about their retirement account,” Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said in a statement to FOX Business. “The fact that the Biden Administration is now opting to risk the financial security of working-class Americans to advance a woke political agenda is insulting and illegal.”

Fox Business’ Thomas Catenacci contributed to this report. ▫

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Lemon Grass Beef With Avocado

Ingredients:

1/2 cup low-fat sesame-ginger salad dressing

2 tablespoons refrigerated fresh lemon grass paste

2 tablespoons bottled Korean sweet sesame red chili sauce

1 flank beef steak (about 1 pound)

3 teaspoons garlic-flavored olive oil, divided

1 1/2 cups sweet mini peppers (orange, yellow, red) cut into 3/4-inch pieces

2 fresh California Avocados, peeled and cut into 1/2-ich cubes

1/2 cup coarsely chopped Italian parsley

Directions:

Combine dressing, lemon grass paste and red chili sauce in small bowl.

Cut beef steak lengthwise in half, then crosswise into 1/4-inch thick strips. Place beef and 1/2 cup dressing mixture in medium bowl; mix well.

Heat 1 teaspoon oil in large nonstick skillet over medium-high heat until hot. Add half of beef; stir-fry 1 to 2 minutes or until outside surface of beef is no longer pink. Remove from skillet. Repeat with 1 teaspoon oil and remaining beef. Remove from skillet; keep warm.

Meanwhile, heat remaining oil in same skillet over medium-high heat until hot. Add peppers; stir-fry 2 minutes or until crisp-tender, stirring frequently.

Combine cooked beef, peppers, avocados, parsley and remaining dressing mixture in large bowl; mix lightly but thoroughly.

Nutrition information per serving: 464 Calories; 31g Total Fat; 6g Saturated Fat; 15g Monounsaturated Fat; 66mg Cholesterol; 433mg Sodium; 20g Total carbohydrate; 27g Protein; 3.2mg Iron; 9.3mg Niacin; 0.9mg Vitamin B6; 109.7mg Choline; 1.4mcg Vitamin B12; 5.3mg Zinc; 27.6mcg Selenium; 9g Fiber.

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The majestic Texas Longhorn is an icon of Texas and the Southwest culture. It represents ranching, the American cowboy and the pioneer. Our history and the Texas Longhorn are inseparable.

Rising From the Past

The Texas Longhorn became the foundation of the American cattle industry by claiming first rights in the untamed, newly discovered Americas more than 500 years ago. In 1690, the first herd of cattle was driven north from Mexico to land that would eventually become Texas.

By the Civil War, millions of Longhorns ranged between the mesquite-dotted sandy banks of the Rio Bravo to the sand beds of the Sabine. Most of the Longhorns were unbranded, survivors of Indian raids, scattered by stampedes and weather, escaped from missions or abandoned after ranch failures.

Less than 40 years later, the Longhorn was closer to extinction than the buffalo. In 1927, the Federal government stepped in to help preserve the Texas Longhorn and a great part of our American heritage.

Congress assigned forest service rangers, Will C. Barnes and John H. Hatton, to the task and these two men put the first herd together for Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge in Oklahoma. Gradually, more breeders started raising private stock, recognizing the value of Texas Longhorns.

New Mexico Butterfly Joins ESA List Despite Rancher Concerns

by Michael Doyle, Greenwire

The Fish & Wildlife Service (FWS) has listed the Sacramento Mountains checkerspot butterfly as an endangered species, reversing earlier assessments against the wishes of some ranchers in New Mexico.

Citing in part drought driven by climate change, the federal agency concluded the small butterfly requires Endangered Species Act protections that had been denied in 2004 and again in 2009. One contributing factor is the loss of host plants and nectar sources during the summer.

“Despite large precipitation events during the summer months of 2021, the Sacramento Mountains remain in a moderate to severe drought, and impacts to the butterfly’s habitat from climate change are likely to continue,” the FWS stated.

Grazing, recreation, the spread of invasive and nonnative plants, and changing wildfire conditions have also undermined the butterfly’s habitat, according to the agency.

The butterfly currently inhabits Bailey Canyon and Pines Meadow Campground in the Sacramento Mountains. During the 2020 survey season, eight butterflies were detected in both meadows combined. In 2021, surveys detected 23 adult butterflies.

“In addition, the overall meadow condition for these sites was low because there are few host plants and nectar sources present,” the FWS reported.

The decision to list the species under the ESA comes about one year after the idea was proposed. Although the proposal did not excite widespread controversy, it did alarm some who fear they may be directly affected (Greenwire, January 24, 2022).

“We believe that the FWS may not have followed lawful procedures, that some information provided is misleading, and that there are too many unknown variables to warrant the listing of the [butterfly] as endangered,” wrote Gary Scarbrough, chairman of the Public Land Use Advisory Council, for Otero County, New Mexico.

The FWS is not yet proposing to designate critical habitat for the species.

The butterfly is a subspecies of the Anicia checkerspot, living in the Sacramento Mountains in south-central New Mexico. It has a

wingspan of approximately two inches and a checkered pattern with dark brown, red, orange, cream and black spots.

It relies on a perennial plant called the New Mexico beardtongue and, for nectar, on a plant called the orange sneezeweed.

FWS explained that problems for the plants, and hence for the butterflies, arose when feral horses were inadvertently released onto the Lincoln National Forest around 2012. Roughly 60,000 horses now live throughout the Sacramento Mountains.

New Mexico beardtongue is usually not a main food source for horses. But as drought has dried up other food plants, the horses switched diets and start going after the plants that the butterfly needs.

An organization that was then called the Southwest Center for Biological Diversity filed a petition in 1999 requesting emergency listing of the Sacramento Mountains checkerspot butterfly as endangered.

In 2001, FWS proposed listing the species, but a few years later reversed its position, stating that “the threats to the species were not as great as we had perceived when we proposed it for listing.”

In 2007, the Center for Biological Diversity and the group now called WildEarth Guardians filed another petition, citing threats including horse grazing, climate change and an imminent plan to spray for insect pests.

In September 2009, FWS again determined listing was not warranted.

“Since we published the not-warranted rule in 2009, drought from climate change has worsened in New Mexico, worsening habitat conditions for the Sacramento Mountains checkerspot butterfly,” the FWS explained last year. “Further, during abnormally dry conditions, both feral horses and elk switch to browsing certain plants that are important for the butterfly. Additionally, recreation on the Lincoln National Forest has increased in recent years.”

The agency initiated a review of the species in January 2021. That March, the Center for Biological Diversity filed another petition to list the butterfly as endangered with critical habitat. The FWS said it included the information provided in the petition in the analysis of the species’ status.      ▫

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Ninth Circuit Win for MSLF Prevents Environmental Power Grab

by William Trachman, Mountain State Legal Fund

In yet another victory for property rights, the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, based in San Francisco, has ruled in favor of reason and the interests of Mountain States Legal Foundation’s clients.

In the case of CBD v. Haaland , Judge Hurwitz’s opinion holds that the federal courts have no jurisdiction to entertain the Center for Biological Diversity’s (CBD) claims. The Court firmly held that the “decision not to amend the Grizzly Bear Recovery Plan, like adoption of the Plan itself,” is not reviewable by the court.

This case centers around the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem Area grizzly bear. Back in the early 1990s, the US Fish & Wildlife Service (FWS) developed a recovery plan for the bear, which had been placed on the endangered species list. A recovery plan is like a roadmap for how the FWS will engage in species recovery. They are not binding and can be supplemented as necessary.

CBD’s ultimate goal was to gain the

ability to ask for changes to the recovery plan and then sue when the changes weren’t made, forcing agencies like the FWS to waste taxpayers’ time and money re-defending every aspect of a recovery plan that is not even binding.

The result, as MSLF General Counsel William Trachman said, could have been unending years of countless lawsuits, putting “the FWS to a choice: give in to the whims of environmental advocates, or litigate a thousand cases.”

Recovery plans are supposed to be flexible, enabling the FWS to adjust their actions or make entirely new plans to recover and conserve endangered species. The CBD instead wanted to implement their own plans for expanding the grizzly bear population to places where they have not lived in generations.

If CBD had won this case, it would have opened wide the floodgates for judicial

review of every change CBD ever wanted to propose to this and many other recovery plans.

The Court’s ruling ensures that will not happen. Mountain States’ direct involvement in this case has kept recovery plans flexible, and defended them against unwarranted litigation from organizations like CBD.

Trachman, who is lead counsel on the case, stated, “The Ninth Circuit’s ruling in favor of our clients is a clear win for property rights and sound, principled policy. Our work here will deter future nuisance litigation from environmental extremists.”

RIDING HERD

by Lee Pitts

Buyer Beware

Recently I called a plumber friend to order a toilet thinking I’d get it cheaper than buying it from a big box store or the local hardware store. The toilet was delivered to my house and in preparing to install it I noticed something was missing: THE SEAT! Now, I think we can all agree that the seat is a fairly important part of the apparatus, just ask any woman who constantly tells her husband to put the seat down after use, otherwise she might sit down and get stuck, and calling the fire department to get removed from your toilet is not something you’d want talked about around town.

When I went to the local hardware store to buy a toilet seat I noticed a banner saying that a popular brand of a battery powered drill was only $79. But then I read the small print and discovered that did not include the battery or the charger. That was $159 extra! I felt like I was ten years old again on Christmas morning when you got a toy you couldn’t play with because ‘batteries were not included!’

We’ve become a nation of salesmen, promoters and hucksters. We sell stuff better than we make it. For example, my wife and I were picking out wood flooring to redo our kitchen floor and after looking at samples for 30 minutes we finally decided on one we both liked. Then the salesman informed us it was out of stock and he didn’t know when it would be available, if ever. It reminded me

of buying a can of nuts with a bright label that showed what we could expect once we opened the can. The label showed numerous cashews, (my favorite) but it had one half of one cashew in the entire can! The pizza joint in our town advertises that they are ‘the home of the $8 pizza’ but that’s just for the crust and the sauce. If you want pepperoni, cheese and olives they’re two dollars each so their $8 pizza is really $14!

Sometimes we’re outright lied to. As a child I wanted a coonskin cap because Daniel Boone supposedly wore one only to find out as an adult that he never did. Asthma Cigarettes did not cure cancer, Dr Koch’s Cure All was little more than distilled water, one size does not fit all, wearing sneakers doesn’t make you look skinny and you can’t ‘wash and wear’ clothes without looking like a homeless person. And why is every item in the grocery store ‘New and Improved?’ I don’t want new and improved, I want ‘old and reliable’.

And whatever happened to ‘truth in advertising?’

I am reminded of an incident where telling the truth almost got me sued. I was working ring at the all-breed bull sale at San Francisco’s Cow Palace which always attracted a big crowd. For some reason I’ll never understand the Cow Palace didn’t require their consignors to semen test their bulls ahead of the sale. I’ve never heard of another bull sale that didn’t semen test their bulls.

The Limousin bulls always seemed to have the highest breed average because two good cattlemen always got in a bidding war over them. They were both my friends and always sat in my section where I was taking bids. One of the men told me ahead of time, “You let me know if a bull isn’t semen tested because I don’t want one!” And the other bidder was a dear friend of mine. In fact, I gave the eulogy at his funeral. He’d never

speak to me again if I sold him a bull that wasn’t semen tested. So whenever an untested Limousin bull came through the ring I said in a normal voice, “Not semen tested.”

When I got home a week later there was a letter waiting for me from a Limousin breeder who sold his untested bulls at the Cow Palace and said he was going to sue me if I didn’t pay him the difference between what his untested bulls brought and the average of the tested bulls. He also threatened to sue me for defamation of character. And all I had done was tell the truth because I thought that buying a bull that wasn’t semen tested was like buying a toilet without a seat.

Burning Questions

I know the cowboy and cowgirl community looks to me as a stylish trendsetter who is always in fashion. As a man of few fashion surprises who owns at least three pairs of jeans and a stack of T shirts, some even without colorful pictures of cows or cars on them, I realize I have a responsibility to share my insight as to what’s fashionable.

I’m constantly barraged with questions like, “What’s in style, shotgun chaps or chinks? Fringe or no fringe, vest or no vest, Pendleton or polyester, a feather in one’s hat or a hat band, belt or suspenders, wrist watch or pocket watch, jinglebobs on your spurs or no jinglebobs?

As a leatherworker I’m often asked if it’s fashionable to put your name on the back of your belt or did that style go out with Lyndon Johnson? (I prefer initials on the tip of your belt.) And yes, you should wear a belt and pull up your pants. Even though teenagers are often seen with their pants pulled down like they have $500 worth of nickels in them, it’s not a style that will ever catch on with the cowboy crowd. Can you imagine Trevor Brazile getting off his horse after roping a

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The top five five questions I get from people who want to dress as stylish as myself are...

#5 Levi or Wrangler? I was a Levi man in my younger years but that was before I learned that Levi gives hundreds of millions of dollars to extremely liberal causes, while Wrangler sponsors the NFR. So now I’m a Wrangler man. Okay, okay, the fact that Levis now cost $60 per pair might have a little something to do with my fashion awakening. At any time you could add up the cost of everything I’m wearing and the total wouldn’t be near $60! Compromise position: Cinch jeans.

#4 Square toe or pointy toe? I notice a lot of rodeo cowboys and cowgirls are wearing square toed boots these days but, call me old-fashioned, I believe that proper boots should have pointy toes so you can get your foot out of the stirrup faster with less hang up. Compromise position: My favorite boots have always been Justin Ropers with a round toe. Under no circumstance should a cowboy or cowgirl wear those silver toe caps on their boots that make them look like derelict rock and roll singers.

#3 Outside or inside? Because I also make

spur leathers people ask if the buckles should be on the outside or inside? It depends on what part of the country you’re from. If you’re from California the buckles should be on the inside so you can put a big gaudy concha on the outside of your spur leathers. If you live closer to Texas and Nebraska it’s fashion forward to wear the buckles on the outside which is more practical. Compromise position: I really like the three piece spur leathers with a concha on the outside and the buckles in the middle.

#2 Wild rag or bolo tie? Wild rag for sure, unless you happen to be from Arizona. I’ve traveled that state extensively and have found that only an Arizonian can wear a bolo tie and look good at it. Arizona cowgirls are also the only ones who look good with big old Squash blossoms around their neck. Maybe it’s the turquoise? Compromise position. Do like I do and don’t wear either one because neither a wild rag or bolo tie looks good with a tee shirt.

#1 Black or white? The number one question: “Is it more fashionable to wear a white (actually grey) or black hat?” I used to wear nothing but silver bellies but I’ll admit that nothing looks better than a properly shaped black hat, except under really dusty conditions. I’ve seen some auctioneers wear brown

hats, but you have to be really courageous and good looking to pull this look off. Compromise position: Just wear a straw hat all year round. They’re lots cheaper and you won’t care as much if one happens to blow away or get stepped on by a bull or horse. I’ll admit straw hats don’t look good if you wear one with a suit but I tend to avoid any enterprise that requires wearing one of them darn things.      ▫

Cow Efficiency & Forage Intake Research at the OSU Range Cow Research Center

Paul Beck, Oklahoma State University State Extension Beef Nutrition Specialist

Growth rates and carcass weights have been increasing over the last 30 years. However, little research has been conducted to determine how aggressive selection for production traits affects beef cow maintenance requirements.

It is thought that cows with greater genetic capacity for growth, milk and mature weight have greater maintenance energy requirements. To measure this, Amanda Holder, a graduate student at the OSU Range Cow Research Center examined the effects of diet type on greenhouse gas emissions and dry matter intake estimation.

They used 42 Angus cows with a wide range in DMI EPD (-1.36 to 2.29) and were

fed either grass hay only or a mixed diet of 35 percent hay and 65 percent concentrate feeds. They found that intake of the mixed ration and the long-stem hay were correlated, but cow weight gain while consuming hay was not correlated with cow weight gain while consuming the concentrate-based diet.

As intake of both diets increased, both CO 2 and methane production increased. Daily greenhouse gas emissions increased with increasing feed intake and were lower when cows consumed hay compared to emissions during the period cows consumed the mixed diet.

A study by OSU graduate student Emma Briggs investigated hay voluntary intake and its relationship to both recovered energy (cow weight gain and milk production) and

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maintenance energy requirements during the dry period in Angus cows. Twenty-four mature fall-calving Angus cows were individually fed in amounts to ensure minimal weight and body condition change.

Recovered energy was calculated as the total of maternal tissue energy change (weight gain or loss) plus milk recovered energy (milk yield plus milk composition). From this information, maintenance energy requirements were calculated for each cow.

After calves were weaned, a voluntary feed intake study was conducted to determine the influence of total recovered energy during lactation and lactation maintenance energy requirement on voluntary intake of a low-quality grass hay diet. The energy required for maintenance declined as net energy recovery increased, but there was no relationship between the amount of daily milk energy produced to post-weaning voluntary forage intake.

However, increasing weight loss during lactation was associated with greater post-weaning feed intake. In contrast to previous work, these results suggest that cows within a breed that are better able to maintain their body condition and produce more milk energy at the same time have lower maintenance energy requirement. Around 74 percent of the maintenance energy required to produce beef is used by the beef cowherd and consequently about 70 percent of the greenhouse gas emissions generated by beef production are from the cowherd. Cow efficiency and greenhouse gas emissions are important to consumers and government regulators; thus, they are important for our industry.

Beef Import Picture Changes for Year Ahead

by Chris Moore, meatingplace.com

Good news for Brazil, Canada and Australia: The contraction in the U.S. cattle herd — expected to continue into 2023 — opens the door for significant increases in beef imports of all kinds in the year to come, according to a recent report by USDA’s Foreign Agricultural Service.

After eight years of growth, red meat production, especially beef, is set for a substantial contraction during 2023, down two billion pounds year over year, due to shrinking cattle supplies, according to a report by CoBank. Meanwhile, demand remains high among U.S. consumers, despite historically high prices.

Brazil and Canada have become the United States’ top suppliers for beef trimmings, amid Australia and New Zealand’s pullback from the U.S. market, but in 2023, U.S. imports from Australia are expected to rebound from historic lows.

Duty-free access, an improved labor situation, and a rebuilding herd and cow slaughter rate — after a long period of devastating drought — will support Australia’s reemergence in the U.S. trimmings market, FAS projected.

FSIS is evaluating several prospective exporting countries to determine equivalency for beef imports. That means competition for space in the “Other Countries” trade quota could increase in the future — although, with far more production capacity than other countries in the category, Brazil is expected to remain the largest “Other Countries” participant in sending beef to the U.S.

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Genevieve “Louise” Ford Kimble, 99, was born May 15th 1923 in El Paso, Texas and died December 17, 2022 in Douglas, Arizona.

She moved to Douglas in 1928 when her father had been transferred to the Douglas Train Station as a train master for Southern Pacific Railroad. She graduated from Douglas High School in 1939 and went on to St. Mary’s of Notre Dame for two years with her sister Marnie. Afterwards, she went to the University of Arizona where she graduated with honors in Political Science.

She married William C. Kimble on April 23, 1945 and they lived in San Bernardino, California until Bill was discharged from the Army. They moved back to Arizona and lived on the Hunsaker Ranch in Sulphur Springs Valley, located 35 miles north of Douglas.

While raising her seven children: Melinda Kimble (Jim Phippard); Bill Kimble, Jr. (Michele); Sue Krentz; Melissa Strahl

(Stuart); Lily Percell (Mark); Jon Kimble (Laura Cullen); and Steve Kimble, she went back to the U of A to study for a Masters in Education, graduated with honors and began to teach.

Louise taught for a few years at Douglas High School, and then from 1978 until 2003, she worked at Loretto where all of her children had gone to school. Throughout her time at Loretto, she taught every single grade, devoted herself to various fundraisers, served as assistant principal, worked as the librarian and was named Teacher of the Year. She was dedicated to providing a quality Catholic education and improving the literature of the school even if it meant reading every book she ordered for the school library.

She is survived by her seven children, 16 grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren.

The family requests donations to The Rob Krentz Scholarship, C/O Malpai Borderlands Group, PO Box 3536 Douglas AZ 85608. Or

to the Faith McKee Fund please send to: Roxann Wetlaufer, DU, 651 W Silhouette Ridge Place, Oro Valley AZ 85755

William D Caster

January 17, 1944 - January 5, 2023

His final wish was realized when he passed away peacefully at the place he was most comfortable and which was also the result of his life’s work, the Caster Ranch south of Mountainair.

He is survived by his wife Cassie Caster and his three sons aka “the 3 D’s” David Caster and wife Sheri, Darren Caster, Dean Caster and wife Leanne. He is also survived by younger sister Rowena Metzger, and his older sister Bertha McMath. William also is survived by his grandchildren Arina Caster, Savanah Morgan, Jasmine Lucky, Kristin Voight, Darric Caster, Seth Caster, Kyle Caster, Tyneal Caster and Ruth, Jennifer and Leanna Caster as well as numerous great grandchildren, nieces, nephews and all of their families who loved him dearly.

William will also be missed by those who knew him from his tenure at Transwestern Pipeline Company where he worked for over 35 years.

William loved animals, especially cattle. He started his herd of Angus Cattle with a bull named Chino and a cow named Sissy. The herd eventually grew to over 400 head. Apart from being a rancher, William was an avid sportsman who loved to camp, hunt and fish.

Josephine A. Rivale, 91, Las Vegas, New Mexico, passed away peacefully on Tuesday, January 10, 2023 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Josephine was born January 25, 1931 in Wagon Mound, New Mexico, the daughter of Jose and Feloniz Archuleta.

Josephine’s relentless and independent life started at a young age of 9 years old after losing her mother and being raised by her father working and riding horses on their ranch in Wagon Mound. There she met the love of her life Joe Rivale and married in 1950 where they both continued their passion of country life throughout ranches in Mt. Dora; Des Moines; Las Vegas; Ocate; Weston, Colorado, San Luis, Colorado.

Josephine was always by Joe’s side in all

the cattle operations. She would be remembered by all the cattle owners, buyers, truckers, cowboys and whoever was at shipping because she always had a delicious home cooked meal for everyone. You knew her because she always wore her cowboy hat. She was one of the last pioneer women.

Josephine’s unconditional love for family was first and foremost. Besides her love of country life, she loved nature, animals, beautiful flowers and plants. She was also a former member of the Silver Spur CowBelles, a chiropractic assistant for many years as well as a caregiver until age of 86. Josephine was an avid gym enthusiast until age 88.

Survivors include three children: Raymond Rivale (Canda); Anna Belle R. Martinez(Tolo); Eleanor Rivale (Tim); eight grandchildren: Reon McBride (John); RJ Rivale (Chantal); Riata Rivale (Christian); Reinda Alvarez (Justin); Rayelle Rivale (Jason); Tolo Nathaniel Martinez (Lera); Kymberlee Jo Martinez (Fabian); Joe Carlo Hanlon (Natalie); 11 great-grandchildren: Cort McBride, Kaycee McBride; Jayden Rivale, Shyler Rivale; Klansey Gutierrez, Olivia Gutierrez, River Gutierrez, Emeryn Gutierrez; Revalee Alvarez; Liam Cresencio Martinez; Teya Belle Martinez. She is also survived by one sister Domie LeFebre of Albuquerque, New Mexico, and numerous nieces and nephews.

Editor’s Note: Email caren@aaalivestock.com. Memorial donations may be sent to the Cattlegrowers’ Foundation, a 501(c)3, tax deductable charitable foundation serving the rights of ranch families and educating citizens on governmental actions, policies and practices. Cattlegrowers Foundation, Inc., P.O. Box 7517, Albuquerque, NM 87194. The New Mexico Stockman runs memorials as a courtesy to its readers. If families & friends would like to see more detail, verbatim pieces must be emailed to us, & may be printed at 10¢ per word.

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— 44,233 total acres consisting of 119.6 deeded acres and 44,113 acres Gila National Forest Grazing Allotment. Ranch will run 650 head mother cows yearlong and 18 horses. San Francisco River Runs through the Ranch, great improvements. Priced at $4,900,000

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EIGHT MILE DRAW LAND 740 ± Acres of unimproved native grassland located four miles west of Roswell in the Six Mile Hill area with frontage along U.S. Highway 70/380. This parcel is fenced on three sides and adjoins 120 acres of additional land that may be purchased. Great investment. $600 per acre.

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Skully Creek Ranch: 94 AU with 1,440 deeded acres, state and federal leases in Greenlee County approximately 40 miles northeast of Safford, Arizona. The ranch is located just over four miles off the paved highway along and lies along Skully Creek. The headquarters includes an adobe, two-story rustic ranch house overlooking the cottonwood lined Skully Creek Canyon with amazing views of Hells Peak in the distance. This is a real nice “off-gride” property with private, solar powered well. The deeded land location and physical features provide privacy and mountain views.

Price: $1,600,000

Indian Springs Ranch: 52 AU with 1,480 deeded acres, BLM grazing lease in Cochise County approximately 14 miles northeast of San Simon, Arizona. The ranch is located just over 12 miles off the paved highway at the end of Indian Springs Road in the Peloncillo Mountains. Headquarters improvements include two ranch houses and horse corrals with shades. The ranch is very private and secluded with lots of water. Livestock water is provided by numerous springs and three private wells. The water wells are pumped via solar with water levels all less than 100’. Private land controls access to thousands of acres in the Peloncillo Wilderness. Price: $1,400,000

Michael Perez Associates

Nara Visa, NM • 575-403-7970

SOLD ESCROW

Hunt Valley Farm: West of St. Johns in Apache County, Arizona, includes 891 deeded acres in total with 210 acres currently irrigated via center-pivot sprinkler and gated pipe flood irrigation. Shallow wells on land-line electricity with room to expand the irrigated acreage. Currently used as a grow yard/heifer development facility with corral/bunk space for approx. 950 head. Buildings include a remodeled mobile home in good condition, farm office and large metal shop with commodity storage under roof. This is a nice production farm located directly off the paved highway situated at 5,400’ elevation. Price: $1,500,000

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

Lifetime rancher who is familiar with federal land management policies

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

RANCHES/FARMS

*NEW* 472+/- Ac Organic Apple Orchard, Willcox, AZ – Nicely improved HQ with 3 homes, workshops, and 24,075 +/- s.f. of processing facilities, including sorting, washing, cold storage buildings, retail space and truck scale. Over 400 acres planted to 10 different apple varieties and 10 acres of pears. 7 Irrigation wells, and 3 domestic wells. Property is being sold turnkey with all equipment. $8M Call Harry Owens or Nancy Belt

*NEW* 12.7+/- Irrigated Acres, Marana, AZ – Irrigated farmland in the heart of Marana, perfectly suited for development. Currently, planted in Alfalfa and at one time was planted to corn. Fields are fenced, flood irrigated from concrete ditches and gates from the Cortaro Irrigation District. Great location near Marana Stockyards for those interested in performance horse activities that involve livestock. $825,000

*NEW* 98+/- Deeded Acre Farm, Bonita, AZ – Great little farm in a picture-perfect setting! Two small pivots with 35 acres of water rights. Nicely improved with a newer 3 BR, 2 BA Shultz doublewide mfg home; 3-sided hay/ machine shed, 1,560+/- s.f. shop with concrete floor and insulated ceiling, hay shed, Connex box, nice set of guardrail and steel corrals with crowding tub, squeeze and scale. 250 gpm irrigation well with 20 HP motor and 13,500+/- gallons of storage. Raise horses, finish out calves, small cow/calf operation or

homestead. Runs about 40 head of cattle. $750,000

120 +/- Acres of Farm Ground, Willcox, AZ – Located NW of Willcox in a good groundwater area. 2 wells. Center pivot. $468,000 Call Harry

Owens

*SOLD* 200-300 Head Cattle Ranch, Marana, AZ – 112.8 +/Deeded ac; 150+/- ac of pasture, 3,700+/- ac of sub-lease, 14 +/ac of farm fields, HQ on State Land. 2nd mfg home on deeded. 2 sets of good steel pipe corrals $1.9M

*SOLD* 2,373+/- Acre Farm, Animas, NM – Custom 2560 +/s.f. home built in 2008. 20-Acre pivot, 40’ x 60’ shop, 40’ x 50’ hay barn, fruit trees, chicken coop, garden area. Pivot produced 9.5 tons/ ac of alfalfa in 2020. 300 gpm well. 5 pastures with water piped to 2 storage tanks and drinkers in all pastures. Historically has run 40 head of cattle yearlong. $1.3M

HORSE PROPERTIES/LAND

*SOLD* 5+/- Acre Country Estate, Dewey Humbolt, AZ –Charming 2 BR, 3 BA 2-story home. Beautiful, vaulted wood ceilings, loft, floor to ceiling windows in the great room with expansive valley views. Includes 2-car detached garage, 1,092+/- s.f. metal shop building, railroad car, small barn, fenced and cross fenced. Online Auction to start 12/1 and will end with a soft close on 12/10. Contact Paul Ramirez for details or check out our webpage coming soon.

*NEW* 0.14+/- Acre Building

Lot, Maricopa, AZ – A great opportunity to own a corner lot in the desirable community of Tortosa. Ideal for a small builder or buyer wishing to build their dream custom home. One of only two lots available in the area, the other lot is adjoining this one. Utilities to the lot, back block wall in place. $110,000

SERVING THE RANCHING INDUSTRY SINCE 1920

SOLD SOLD SOLD SOLD

*SOLD* 40+/- Acre Last Stand

B&B Guest Ranch, Sonoita, AZ –

SOLD

An exceptional property in the grasslands of Sonoita, presently operating as a successful wedding & equestrian event venue. The Territorial, twostory 4 BR, 4.5 BA main home has 4,110 s.f., & custom features throughout. $1,675,000

*SOLD* 90+/- Acre HP Bar

Ranch, Benson, AZ – Perfect gentlemen’s ranch or private get-away. Backs up to USFS for endless riding possibilities. Fully fenced for cattle. 2 BR, 1 BA home; garage; steel barn w/two horse stalls, tack room & large hay storage; corrals; workshop. Expansive views. $595,000

*SOLD* 20+/- Acre Equestrian Property, Sonoita, AZ – Established horse training and boarding facility on +/-20-acres adjoining BLM land, panoramic mountain v iews. Two mfg homes, 36’ x 160’ horse barn, barn/shop, equipment shed, hay shed, 10 shades/loafing sheds with corrals, +/-70’ x 90’ dressage and 160’ x 170’ fenced arena. There are also RV spaces with septic, a fire pit and a well. $650,000

■ FLYING W MOUNTAIN RANCH: 345 AYL plus five horses located in the cedar mountains of Hachita, NM. 39.60± sections, 25,347± acres total, 1278± acres of deeded land, 3152± acres of state land, 20,917 acres of blm, 3960± acres of the allotment is within WSA, this ranch has been owned by the same family for over 100 years, four miles of newer fence, over 55,000 gallons of water storage, 17± miles of pipeline less than 20 years old, three wells plus one domestic well, four pastures plus three traps, seven dirt tanks, house, barns, corrals, semi-load and livestock scales. Priced at $2,900,000

■ PHILLIPS RANCH/ COW SPRINGS LEASE RANCH: located west of Deming, NM 397 AYL 52 Section cattle ranch located west of Deming, N.M. Road sign income!!! 33,323+/- total acres comprising of 3,742+/- acres of Private Land 11,243+/of New Mexico State Land 15,114+/- of Bureau of Land Management, 3,224+/acres adverse land, 7 Wells, 3 sets of corrals, ranch includes two homes, metal barn, metal shop, pipe corrals, livestock scale, cattle chute &

ramp.

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Ben G. Scott – Broker

Krystal M. Nelson – NM QB 800-933-9698

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RANCH & FARM REAL ESTATE

We need listings on all types of ag properties large or small!

■ PRICE REDUCED! CEDARVALE, NM – 7,113-acre ranch (5,152 ac. +/- Deeded – 1,961 ac. +/- State Lease) well fenced & watered w/good pens, new barn.

■ KB RANCH – Kenney Co., TX – KB Ranch is a low fenced 802 +/- acre property that is surrounded by large ranches. The ranch has abundant whitetail and is also populated with turkey, dove, quail, hogs and varmint species. Axis are in the area and have been occasionally seen. The ranch lies approximately 9 miles south of Bracketville on TX 131 and is accessed by all weather Standart Road.

■ SPRINGER LAKE FARM – This 491.55 ac. +/property is located in Colfax County, NM and is 3 miles West of Interstate 25 on Higway 58 or approx. 20 miles East of Cimarron, New Mexico. Along with the property are 371 shares of water from Antelope Valley Irrigation District which has been used to irrigate approximately 222 acres historically. This will make a good investment for development, farming, grazing or hunting with deer, elk and antelope in the area.

■ COLFAX COUNTY NM GETAWAY – 1,482.90 ac.+/grassland (1,193.59 ac. +/- Deeded, 289.31 ac. State Lease), great location near all types of mountain recreation.

■ PRICE REDUCED! UNION CO., NM – 2,091.72 ac. (1,771.72 Deeded, 320 ac. -/+ State Lease), well watered w/three wells, two sets of steel pens.

■ CASTRO CO., TX – 592 ac. +/_- w/remodeled 4 bd./4 ½ bath home, 160 ac. under pivot. Balance is dryland & native grass.

■ CARSON CO., TX – 640 ac. +/- 5 mi. N of Panhandle on TX 207.333 ac. +/- under 3 center pivot systems. One well produces 800 GPM. Permanent perimeter and cross fencing.

■ PECOS CO. – 637 ac., Big water, State Classified Minerals.

■ ANGUS, NM – 250 +/- acres with over a 1/2 mile of NM 48 frontage. Elevations from 6,800 to 7,200 feet. Two springs along a creek. Ideal for future development or build your own getaway home.

■ PALO DURO CREEK TREASURE – 941 acres +/- in Randall Co. NW of Canyon, Tx. STUNNING VIEWS OVER LOOKING PALO DURO CREEK. Turn key cow/calf operation w development potential. Property includes: 3/3/3 ranch style home, 4 wells, large shop plus shed, enclosed livestock working facility w/hydraulic chute, livestock pens & shed, miles of 5 & 6 barbed wire fence & over 7000’ of pipe fence. YOU WILL NOT WANT TO MISS THIS! Canyon School District.

■ DEAF SMITH CO., TX. – 651 ac. +/-, 7 miles N of Dawn, Tx., 1 mile E of FM 809. 349 acres native grass with well-maintained fencing and 302 acres of cultivated dry land.

■ PRICE REDUCED! DALLAM CO, TX – 1,216.63 ac. +/- of CRP/ranchland w/irrigation, re-development potential, wells & pipelines already in place.

■ PRICE REDUCTION! TURN-KEY RESTAURANT –READY FOR BUSINESS! One of the best steak houses in the nation just out of Amarillo & Canyon at Umbarger, TX., state-of-the-art bldg., w/complete facilities.

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FEBRUARY — Beefmasters; Texas Longhorns

MARCH — Limousin; Santa Gertrudis

APRIL — Dairy

MAY — News of the Day

JUNE — Sheepman of the Year

JULY — Directory of Agriculture

AUGUST — The Horse Industry

SEPTEMBER — Charolais; Fairs Across the Southwest

OCTOBER — Hereford; New Mexico State Fair Results

NOVEMBER — Cattleman of the Year; Joint Stockmen’s Convention Preview; Angus, Brangus, Red Angus

DECEMBER — Bull Buyers Guide

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PIE TOWN, Goat Ranch Road Access, South of Wild Horse Ranch Subdivision. 20 acres $12,000, 40 acres $24,000. Beautiful views. DATIL, Herrington Canyon Road, Two 40 acre tracts. $24,000 each

FENCE LAKE, 295 Pine Hill Road, 60 acres with over 2300 sq. ft. log home, corral, outbuildings. $240,000

SAN MARCIAL, Willow Springs Ranch, Winchester Road. 432 acres at the foothills of Chupadera Mountains $325,000

MILAGRO, 0000 Pecos Spur, Portrillo Creek Ranch Subdivision. 164 acres wide open space. Distant mountain views. Close to I-40. $94,000

SAN ANTONIO, 1496 State Road 1, 11 irrigated acres with adobe home, well and community water $305,000

Paul Stout, Broker 575-760-5461 cell 575-456-2000 office

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WANTED: Farms and Ranches — Broker has over 45 years experience working on and operating a family farm and has been a farm owner since 1988.

NMREL 17843

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CAPULIN -SIERRA GRAND VIEW, Union County. NM. 520 +/- deeded acres with HQ 1.5 miles off highway, 3 bedroom 2 bathroom home with landscaped yard and volcanic rock walls, nice outbuildings, 3 registered wells including 1 registered as an irrigation well and an excellent solar well. Close proximity to Des Moines, NM. $898,000

mer grazing, pond and trees accessed off county road on rear of property as well. Presented “ASIS” New Survey, $4,000,000 $3,800,000

DES MOINES, 336.58 +/- Deeded

Acres Union County NM – 3 bedroom

UTE PARK RIVER PLACE 6.83 +/ACRES, 450 +/- feet of the Cimarron River and more than that of Ute Creek are the south and east boundaries of this unique one of a kind water property. 2 bedroom 1 bathroom cabin, year round access off Hwy 64. $589,000 $570,000

CONTRACT PENDING SOLD

2 bath home, 32ft X 30ft metal building on slab. 62 ft X 12 ft metal barn, one big pasture off highway. Mixture of open grass range and trees. Less than two miles to town. $575,000

MAXWELL 45, Excellent irrigated pasture with utilities in back of property, including installed septic system, with private views of mountains. 40 irrigable acres and a domestic water meter installed. Great to put down home and bring horses. $249,000 $239,000

BAR LAZY 7 RANCH, Colfax County, Moreno Valley 594.38 +/- deeded acres, accessed off blacktop between Eagle Nest and Angel Fire. Historic headquarters. Currently used as sum-

CIMARRON BUSINESS, Frontage opportunity, house, big shop and office buildings, easy view off Hwy 64. Formerly known as “The Porch.” $295,000

COLFAX TAVERN & DINER, Colfax County, NM. Aka “COLD BEER”, turn key legendry regional icon and destination, with anchor staff/team willing to stay on. Prime business on front range. $1,500,000

SPRINGER VIEW, 29.70 +/- deeded acres. Large house being remodeled, shop, trees, old irrigation pond. All back off highway with great southern aspect. 311 Hwy 56, Colfax County. $209,000

JE Harris & Sons Ranch

San Juan County, NM

The JE Harris & Sons Ranch is a historical ranch located in premier wildlife habitat. The ranch lies in the Colorado Plateau, which encompasses rugged tableland topography. The ranch has grass, shrub, and woodland-covered benches rising from the La Plata River valley to the Ute Mountain Reservations.

Rodeo Roundup

Rodeo & Cenex® Partner for 2023 Rodeo Season

The National Intercollegiate Rodeo Association (NIRA) is excited to announce a new partnership with Cenex®, the energy brand of CHS, for the 2023 competitive season. Cenex provides premium, high-quality refined fuels, lubricants, propane, and renewable energy products consumers depend on to power their homes and businesses.

With 1,400-plus locally owned and operated convenience stores in 19 states, Cenex is proud to power the connections bringing communities together across the country,

including the time-honored tradition of rodeo.

Through this partnership, Cenex will sponsor and promote at the 2023 College National Finals Rodeo (CNFR) as well as supplementary telecast events on ESPN3 and ESPNU.

“The NIRA is thrilled to be partnering with Cenex in 2023. It’s the perfect fit for our industry,” says NIRA Commissioner Jim Dewey Brown. “CHS is owned by farmers and ranchers, and the Cenex brand fuels rural America. We know these are the people that created our sport; and to be celebrating that history through this sponsorship is a wonderful thing.”

As a brand of CHS, a leading global agribusiness owned by farmers, ranchers and cooperatives across the United States, Cenex is committed to empowering projects and programs that build brighter futures in the communities it serves.

“We’re proud to support the next generation of rodeo,” says Matt Mohs, vice president of Cenex refined fuels marketing. “Through this partnership, Cenex continues its dedication to supporting youth sports across rural America and celebrates a sport that’s so deeply rooted in the traditions and values of our farmer owners.”

Cenex has shown its support for youth athletes both on and off the field through partnerships with organizations like the Positive Coaching Alliance and the Minnesota Twins, and has also contributed over $475,000 to philanthropic projects across the country.

“I am beyond impressed with their commitment to philanthropy. College rodeo is lucky to be sharing the stage with Cenex,” says Commissioner Brown.      ▫

Rodeo Roundup

Rodeo Association

Grand Canyon Region Spring Schedule

University of Arizona

3/4/2023 - 3/4/2023

Sam Garcia

(520)456-7804

Tucson, AZ

Central Arizona College #1

3/11/2023 - 3/11/2023

Joe Moody (520)431-1335

Casa Grande, AZ

Central Arizona College #2

3/12/2023 - 3/12/2023

Joe Moody

(520)431-1335

Casa Grande, AZ

Cochise College #2

3/18/2023 - 3/19/2023

Lynn Smith (520)678-6702

Ft. Huachuca, AZ

Grand Canyon Regional #1

4/1/2023 - 4/2/2023

Joe Moody

(520)431-1335

Payson, AZ

New Mexico State University #2

4/21/2023 - 4/22/2023

Brice Baggarly (334)750-2574

Mesquite, NM

Grand Canyon Region Standings as of 11/1/2022

Men’s Team

1. Central Arizona College, CAZC, 2,009.00

2. New Mexico State University, NMSU, 1,694.00

3. Mesalands Community College, MESACC, 1,147.00

4. Navajo Technical College, NAVAJO, 780.00

5. Cochise College, COCHSE, 246.00

Women’s Team

New Mexico State University, NMSU, 1,507.00

Central Arizona College, CAZC, 1,269.83

Cochise College, COCHSE, 540.00

Mesalands Community College, MESACC, 368.00

5. Dine College, DINE, 137.00

Men’s All-around

1. Yazzie, Hiyo Myers, NAVAJO 876.00

Southwest Region Spring Schedule

Odessa College

2/23/2023 - 2/25/2023

Tom Kelly

(432)335-6304

Odessa, TX

Ranger College

3/23/2023 - 3/25/2023

Llew Rust

(918)320-9612

Sweetwater, TX

Western Texas College

3/30/2023 - 4/2/2023

Greg Rhodes

(325)207-1219

Snyder, TX

Howard College

4/13/2023 - 4/15/2023

Justin Jenkins

(432)213-5506

Big Spring, TX

Tarleton State University

4/20/2023 - 4/22/2023

Mark Eakin

(254)485-8885

Stephenville, TX

2022-2023 GRAND CANYON RE

Southwest Region Standings as of 10/31/2022

Men’s Team

1. Western Texas College, WTXC, 1,990.00

2. Clarendon College, CLAREN, 1,930.00

3. Tarleton State University, TARLET, 1,720.00

4. South Plains College, SPLNS, 1,075.00

5. Texas Tech University-Lubbock, TXTUL, 1,067.50

6. West Texas A&M Univ, WTXAMU, 1,042.50

7. Weatherford College, WEATHR, 890.00

8. Sul Ross State University, SLROSS, 755.00

9. Cisco College, CISCO, 730.00

10. Odessa College, ODESSA, 565.00

11. Ranger College, RANGER, 345.00

12. Howard County Junior College, HOWARD, 245.00

13. 1Eastern New Mexico University, ENMU, 160.00

14. Vernon College, VERNON, 155.00

15. Frank Phillips College, FPC, 140.00

Women’s Team

1. Tarleton State University, TARLET, 1,117.00

2. Texas Tech University-Lubbock, TXTUL, 763.33

3. Weatherford College, WEATHR, 567.50

4. South Plains College, SPLNS, 500.00

5. Cisco College, CISCO, 465.00

6. Eastern New Mexico University, ENMU, 383.75

7. Frank Phillips College, FPC, 382.50

8. West Texas A&M University, WTXAMU, 335.00

9. Clarendon College, CLAREN, 300.00

10. New Mexico Junior College, NMJC, 300.00

11. Ranger College, RANGER, 250.00

12. Western Texas College,WTXC, 212.50

13. Howard County Junior College, HOWARD, 80.00

14. Sul Ross State University, SLROSS, 75.00

15. Vernon College, VERNON, 55.00

Men’s All-around

1. Hiatt, Quade David, WTXAMU, 762.50

2. Yore, Brey Smith, SPLNS, 670.00

Rodeo Roundup

Firsts

by Lyn Ray

Many believe that first time wins are impossible but a team of talented ranchers and cowboys proved that statement wrong – really wrong. On November 5, 2022 a well thought out and blessed team of ranchers, breeders and cowboys showed up at the inaugural Riata Buckle Futurity and won.

As Dee Ann Littlefield said, “It was an amazing day of FIRSTS!!! Chris Littlefield and Bo Crutchfield were First Place in the First Annual Riata Buckle Futurity 12.5 roping for horses 5 years and younger.” The team split $61,000 with Littlefield riding That Bold Pepto CCL (by Bold and Beautiful) owned by Billy and Lyn Ray and Crutchfield riding Big Valleys Ms Haida (by Big Valley) owned by Mick O’Brien of O’Brien Ranches in Refugio, TX.

The Rays who are ranchers, not ropers, traveled from Albert, New Mexico to watch their FIRST roping event ever. As owners and operators of the historic Tequesquite Ranch, founded by Lyn’s great-great-grandfather in 1870s, they are no stranger to good horses.

Bo Crutchfield with the O’Brien Ranch in Texas also has a long history in horses as some of the original founding breeders in the AQHA. Combine the history of ranching and horse breeding with the unmatched talent of Littlefield who has a horse training resume to include multiple AQHA world championships, success is inevitable. This win is an excellent example of good horse programs stepping up their game to stay with the times in terms of competition ability and also raising good using ranch horses.

The team began when the Rays purchased a somewhat leggy, sorrel, two-year-old from Littlefield three years ago. Ray remembers Littlefield saying, “He will be a great rope horse.”

Littlefield, who has ridden almost every horse in That Bold Pepto CCL’s (Sketch) pedigree, has built an outstanding breeding program for generations of horses. Ray believed that Littlefield knew what he was talking about and took the chance. On a September day, Sketch, loaded up and traveled from Henrietta, TX to New Mexico to

further his career as a ranch horse and pasture breeding stallion. The horse returns to Littlefield for training every year and when the chance to enter The Riata came up, Ray said, “Let’s go win it!”

To complete the team, longtime friends of Littlefield teamed up with Crutchfield. Although they have roped thousands of steers together in the practice pen and have entered a lot of ropings together, this was the FIRST check these two have ever won as a team. This historic win for them and this horse program they have been working on for the last 15 years was a pivotal point in their business as well as for Ray and the Tequesquite Ranch horse program.

The morning of the roping the team roped their first three steers picture perfect and came in at 24.6 seconds to be first in the short go. They backed in the box ready to get paid for what they have been working for so long. And it paid off! Littlefield’s kids, Levi and Laycee,

were there to cheer the team on for the entire time.

The theme for the weekend was “good people attract good people.” This win is an example of what wisdom, patience, integrity, and hard work can achieve. God is so very good all the time. Glory and honor to Him.

Dee Ann Littlefield, Bo Crutcfield, Laycee Littlefield, Levi Littlefield, Chris Littlefield, Lyn and Billy Ray

Bo Crutchfield and Chris Littlefield

Rodeo Roundup

580-399-9082; cordmccoy@yahoo.com

Prowers County Ranch Rodeo

May 6

Lamar, CO

Sanctioned Rodeo Schedule

Rail 3 Ranch Rodeo

March 19

Florence, AZ

Event: Shad Beebe; 520-705-6938; shadbeebe@hotmail.com

Entries: Roger Biede; 510-418-3959; rcbthree@hotmail.com

Lowell Goemmer Memorial Ranch Rodeo

March 24

Wickenburg, AZ

Logan Anderson 928-301-7296; sevenanchor7@yahoo.com

Ada Ranch Rodeo

March 30

Ada, OK

Cord McCoy

Carly Bowling 303-877-2549; zagsfan32@hotmail.com

Wild Horse Prairie Days

June 2–3

Haskell, TX

Casey Larned 940-864-2749; larcas30@yahoo.com

Fort Sumner Ranch Rodeo

June 9–10

Fort Sumner, NM

Kari Henry 575-799-8527; khenry@nmsu.edu

Ben Johnson Days

June 16–17

Pawhuska, OK

Event: Cody Garnett; 918-429-6349; benjohnsoncowboymuseum@gmail.com

Entry: Cara Zibell; 918-559-9967; carazibell@gmail.com

Chugwater Roundup

June 17

Chugwater, WY Rand Selle; 307-710-3133; sellerodeo@ gmail.com

Colorado Championship Ranch Rodeo

June 23–24

Hugo, CO

Tina Waite 719-740-1062; twaite@esrta.com www:coloradochampionshipranchrodeo. com

Stout Ranch Rodeo

June 23–24

Fort Worth, TX

Graham Johnson 806-336-8015; graham@stoutrodeo.com www.stoutrodeo.com

Santa Fe Trail Ranch Rodeo

July 7–8

Council Grove, KS

Clay Wilson 785-466-1359; clayhorses5@gmail.com

Waurika Chamber of Commerce Ranch

Rodeo

July 14–15

Waurika, OK

Carl Gholson

580-512-7738; jcgholson@att.net

Texas Ranch Roundup

July 21–22

Wichita Falls, TX

Sandra Ross 940-687-4932; sross@ntrehab.org

www.texasranchroundup.com

Estancia Valley Ranch Rodeo

July 21–22

Moriarty, NM

Chris Morgan 806-782-6677; Chairman@eastmountainrodeo.com www.eastmountainrodeo.com

Weld County Fair Ranch Rodeo

July 30

Greeley, CO Rand Selle 307-710-3133; sellerodeo@gmail.com

Ride for the Brand Championship Ranch Rodeo

August 5

Colorado Springs, CO

Elly Durham 719-659-0819; elly.durham@thestockmensbank.com www.championshipranchrodeo.com

Tom Horn Days

August 11

Bosler, WY Rand Selle 307-710-3133; sellerodeo@gmail.com www.tomhorndays.com

Big Bend Ranch Rodeo

August 11–12

Alpine, TX

Event: Mattie Sargent; 432-294-1640; bigbendsaddlerymattie@gmail.com

Entry: Alex Ponton; 210-837-7976; alex@palomablancaenterprises.com bigbendranchrodeo.com

OCA Ranch Rodeo

August 18–19

Guthrie, OK

Michael Kelsey

405-403-6097; mkelsey@okcattlemen.org www.okcattlemen.org

Motley Dickens Old Settler’s Rodeo

August 25–26

Roaring Springs, TX

Billy Paul Campbell 806-252-7695; barcranch@me.com

Ranches interested in competing in 2023 WRCAsanctioned ranch rodeos must obtain their 2023 WRCA ranch team card. Email wrca@wrca.org to get your card application or to learn more about the requirements.

Jackpot Ranch Rodeo

August 26–27

Camp Verde, AZ

Logan Anderson

928-301-7296; sevenanchor7@yahoo.com

West Texas Ranch Rodeo

September 8–9

Amarillo, Texas

Event: Lane Provence; 806-570-8983; lane@wtranchrodeo.com

Entries: Tina Waite; 719-740-1062; twaite@esrta.com

Earth Ranch Rodeo

September 15–16

Earth, TX

Rex Fennell 806-773-6366; rhinoroofing@yahoo.com

Kansas Championship Ranch Rodeo

September 22

Medicine Lodge, KS

Event: Jamie Miller; 620-388-3568; merrill.rks@yahoo.com

Entries: Tina Miller; 620-770-1364; rodeo@peacetreaty.org www.peacetreaty.org

Battle Mountain Ranch Rodeo

October 7

Battle Mountain, Nevada Event: Shawn Goemmer; 928-713-9999; goemmer.ranches@gmail.com

Entries: Mindy Goemmer; 928-713-5362; goemmer.ranches@gmail.com

Jackie Perkins Memorial Ranch Rodeo

October 7

Coffeyville, KS

TJ Mills 918-617-0194; tmills0194@gmail.com

WRCA 27th World Championship Ranch Rodeo

November 9–12, 2023 Amarillo, TX WRCA.org

Tickets on sale June 1      ▫

Arizona High School & Junior High Rodeo Association 2023

Schedule

March 25/26 – Safford

April 8/9 – Sonoita

May 5/7 –Holbrook

Jr. High Finals/High School Rodeo

May 31/June 4 – Prescott High School Finals

Rodeo Roundup

2023 New Mexico High School & Junior High Rodeo & Association Spring Schedule

March 18 - 19, Hobbs – Corral Arena

April 1 - 2,Lovington – Lea County Fairgrounds

April 22 - 23, Gallup – Red Rock Park

May 13 - 14, Farmington – McGee Park

May 25 - 29, State Finals – T.B.D.

***Tenative Schedule and subject to change****

A-B

C-D

E-I

Arrowquip Sale

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• As always, made in USA

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Diane’s

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Hobbs, NM

Jim Selman • 575-397-1228

Case & Co.

Tucumcari, NM

Luke Haller • 575-403-8566

Cowboy’s Corner

Lovington, NM

Wayne Banks • 575-396-5663

Creighton’s at The Fort Fort Sumner, NM

Garland Creighton • 575-760-6149

Creighton’s Town & Country

Portales, NM

Garland Creighton • 575-356-3665

Double D Animal Nutrition

Artesia, NM

Don Spearman • 575-302-9280

Guadalupe Mountain Farm, Ranch & Show Supplies

Carlsbad, NM

Amber Hughes • 575-988-3508

One Stop Feed, Inc.

Clovis, NM

Austin Hale • 575-762-3997

Purina Animal Nutrition

Eastern NM

Steve Swift • 575-760-3112

Purina Animal Nutrition

Western NM

Joram Robbs • 520-576-8011

Roswell Livestock & Farm Supply

Roswell, NM 575-622-9164

Williams Ranch Supply

Quemado, NM

Jimbo & Trisha Williams 505-238-4656

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