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10 N.M. Cattle Growers’ Association President’s Letter

FEATURES 22 NM Issues Wolf Release Permit to Fish & Wildlife

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12 To The Point by Caren Cowan

16 N.M. CowBelles’ Jingle Jangle 20 News Update 36 N.M. Federal Lands Council News by Frank DuBois

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38 CKP Drought Insurance Becomes NMCGA Premier Sponsor 40 W . e’ll Drink to That: Bloomberg Spends (& Loses) Big in the Land of Enchantment National Rifle Association

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PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE

Dear NMCGA members, friends & neighbors,

by Pat Boone NMCGA President

Pat Boone President Elida Tom Sidwell President-Elect Quay Jack Chatfield Vice President at Large Mosquero Dustin Johnson NW Vice President Farmington Blair Clavel NE Vice President Roy Jeff Bilberry SE Vice President Elida Randell Major SW Vice President Magdalena Shacey Sullivan Secretary/Treasurer Albuquerque Jose J. Varela Lopéz Past President La Cieneguilla Rex Wilson Past President Ancho Caren Cowan Executive Director Albuquerque

s I write this, the hot west wind is kicking up pretty good outside my office window. We have had good rains this spring, but the winds have sure dried everything out. In my travels around I have seen green grass and tanks with water in them in places and short, dry grass and empty tanks. I pray the month of June brings good rains across the state, just in time for the July and August rains to come and bring a good soaking to our state and the whole Southwest. My dad always told me that bad markets and high feed prices would hurt you, but the drought would kill you. I have been around long enough to see his theory proven several times over. The market has gotten better, feed prices are down some, and my hopes and prayers are for a good summer with adequate rain to let us all stay in business one more year. Our Mid-Year meeting is fast approaching – June 19-21 in Ruidoso. If you have not made plans to attend, please consider it. As always, we are busy tending to issues affecting our members and our industry. We will be talking about many of those in Ruidoso. If you have a friend or a neighbor who is not a member of NMCGA, bring them with you so they can see what we are all about. We are committed to help our members and the Ag industry as a whole when it comes to water issues, private property rights, public lands issues, or just whatever might come up. If you are a golfer, come join us on Monday as we kick off our gathering with the Bud Eppers-Les Davis Memorial Golf Tournament. On Tuesday night we will have our Furs and Spurs dance, and the whole time will be great fellowship, good food, and we might even learn something we didn’t already know. Hope to see you there in the cool pines ! Our Ranch Days at the Ogden’s originally set for June 6 has been rescheduled for late July. We will be sending out more details as the time draws nearer. We hope to have a good turnout, and then schedule more meetings like it around the state where we can go and see how other folks do things. We will appreciate all the support we can get. I know people are busy but hopefully we can have a good turnout for Ranch Days-2017. In the special legislative session, this last week, a budget for higher education got passed. It has been signed by the governor. This has been a tough year for budgets, funding, and anything to do with money, not only in NM but around the country. Hopefully wisdom will prevail and things will soon be back on track. We have been given an opportunity by the Department of the Interior to participate in the first ever formal public comment period to officially weigh in on monument designations under the Antiquities Act of 1906. A public comment period is not required for these designations but Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke and President Trump both strongly believe that local input is a critical component of public land management. These comments are due before July 10, with the exception of the Bear Ears monument, whose period is already past. Comments should be made to: https://www.regulations.gov/comment?D=DOI-2017-0002-000. We need to take full advantage of this opportunity to voice our opinions of these designations. If you have any trouble getting this done, please contact the office and we will be glad to assist. Been pretty long-winded this time-better go and get some things done outside. I hope the next time I see each one of you, I hear you tell me you’ve had a good rain ! Until next time! Pat Boone Ecclesiastes 12:13&14

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TO THE POINT by Caren Cowan, Executive Director, New Mexico Cattle Growers’ Association

Word of the Month: Anthropomorphic

t means ascribing human form or attri- films about horses along with discussions butes to a being or thing not human. I about issues affecting the equine world. have difficulty pronouncing the word You can imagine what might go on. and it is relatively recently added to my vocabulary. It came back to top of mind One woman (was) extremely when I was binge watching RIDE TV on a Sunday. The summer concerned about breaking up sports drought started when Baylor knocked the University of ”families” of horses as if she thinks that Arizona out of the NCAA Girls Softball Tournament, there isn’t a stud and a mare spend a life together always a Law & Order on and there are just so many home improvewith all of the foals they produce.” ment shows you can sit through. The news is out of the question and… my However, the folks who host the event mother was happy with RIDE. seem to want some open discussion and A show came on about the EQUUS Film education, even with their bias. Festival, an event that has been held in New The event is held in November. In 2016 York City for the last three years to screen Protect the Harvest was a sponsor. The

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mere announcement that this group dedicated to protecting agriculture brought out such vile comments on Facebook and their website that cannot be repeated in polite company… or any company. The issues covered in the 30-minute program included those we are all too familiar with — Walking Horses and “soring,” carriage horses in Central Park and “wild” horses. There was balance in the panels discussing these and probably other issues. They were talking about the federal wild horses. I put wild in quotes to point out that there are many in New Mexico, at least, that misuse that term on a regular basis. That area was, of course, my biggest interest. The arguments for letting these animals “roam free” without management were ones that we have heard ad nauseam. One of the arguments struck a stronger chord this time. There was one woman extremely concerned about breaking up ”families” of horses as if she thinks that a stud and a mare spend a life together with all of the foals they produce. That doesn’t even work in humans. Don’t they realize that studs are hustlers – not monogamist? Studs run with bands of mares… that is called polygamy. Colts are weaned every year so the mare can feed the next one. The stud colts eventually move on to build their own band of mares because their sires won’t let them breed mares in the band. That’s how nature works. You don’t see families of bears wandering in family packs or even wolves for that matter. Once the young know how to hunt and care for themselves they are kicked out on their own. And they don’t all get together for Thanksgiving and Christmas. Does thinking that animals are people allow people to act like animals? It seems as though we may have finally found the bottom in the human civility and ridicule of our nation’s president. There have been several “celebrities” who have chosen to step what this writer considers to be WAY over the line with few consequences.

There is one red-headed “comedienne” Rush? He used to be a cabana boy but he who will not be spending her 2018 New went and got married on us. His lovely bride Year’s Eve in the Big Apple waiting for the joined us too. mirror ball to fall. She decided, along with The 2017 Diamond in the Rough Award the idiots who took and posted the photo, winner was USDA’s Kristin Graham Chavez that it would and the charity be cute to was the USO. In my travels I come across some Between the pose with a mask of Presdonation from interesting and bazaar things. ident Trump WALC , the covered in donations in I spent some time in the San Diego blood as if the Ladies Luck she had ISISof the Draw, airport and found a whopper ... like severed and a contribuhis head. tion from Farm That was finally enough to outrage even the Credit of New Mexico, the El Paso Airport liberal media. The woman, she’s not a lady, USO took home over $5,000. The USO is has lost two jobs and one endorsement critically import in the support of our troops contract so far. These people want to clamor about animal families seem to have no respect for human families. Whether you like President Trump or not, the man has a family including a young son and grandchildren. Don’t they deser ve some respec t and consideration?

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On a more positive note… The just concluded WALC (Women in Agriculture Leadership Conference) was one for the record books and the best ever according to the old timers! Over 200 women from across New Mexico and one from Arizona from ages from four months to 94 gathered in at the Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum in Las Cruces. Between Wednesday evening and early afternoon on Thursday there were more than 17 speakers and presentations plus a bus tour and a separate track for young ladies aged 13 to 18. Then there was all the good food and fellowship. The WALC is such a production that the decision was made several years ago to hold it every other year instead of annually. Of course, New Mexico Secretary of Agriculture Jeff Witte soon decided to host the AgriFuture Conference in the off year. Speakers ranged from Congressman Steve Pearce, Lt. Governor John Sanchez and four Ladies of the Legislature, to NMSU ACES Dean Rolando Flores to Reverend Jennifer Hopper (formerly the New Mexico Farm & Livestock Bureau Ag in the Classroom program leaders) to country music sensation in Texas, New Mexico’s own Bri Bagwell. There was a bunch of great people in between. Who else could manage 200 women and all of these great speakers but our own inspirational speaker and farm boy Matt JUNE 2017

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Thank you! Many of you saw the invitation to my Mother’s 80th Birthday Party. I am proud to report that it came off in grand style and she had a great time. That wouldn’t have happened without some dear friends and family who stepped up to the plate when I found myself the lone ranger in staging the event. I want to extend deep appreciation to them and all the folks that came to help celebrate my Mother. Without childhood and lifelong friends Susie Krentz and Anne More it would have been a pretty dismal day. They both gave more than two days of their time in planning and decorating The Cowbelle Hall in Douglas, Arizona. We have celebrated family and community events there for literally generations. That’s where we learned to dance, learned how to run a meeting and always looked forward seeing our friends. With Patty Waid’s decorative boots, Beef Council table clothes, chair covers and sashes from the year we staged the State Fair Junior Livestock Sale, Anne’s creativity and a showing of the Kentucky Derby, the Hall shined. Several folks said they didn’t remember the Hall being as nice as it is. As a shameless plug, the Cowbelles have invested in some much needed renovations and the Hall is now available to rent for parties, meetings, wedding receptions and other events. It was a lot of fun working in the kitchen with friends and family including Pam and Robbie Sproul, Jerry Ligon, Bill Martin, Lynn Kimble, my only nephew R.W. and his wife Ande, and everyone else that pitched in. It brought back memories of helping Mother, Grandmother, Nana and Aunt Florence as they took their turn at providing the monthly Cowbelle meeting luncheons. And you cannot forget the clean-up crew, Pam and Robbie, Susie, and Bill Martin. It is amazing how fast you can tear down what took probably eight hours to put together. We had it down and back in the car in less than an hour.

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This has been a tough month for New Mexico’s ranching community. We lost Wally Ferguson and Mack Bell. I am proud to have known and learned from both men and we will miss them as we head into the future. I never got to know Shane Kincaid

and that will be my loss. I have mentioned my high school English teacher who had a profound impact on my entire life. We lost her a few weeks ago to the ravages of Alzheimer’s. I was unable to make it back to Tombstone for her celebration of life, but her son was kind enough to let me be a part of the service anyway. Hopefully from this you can get a glimpse of the amazing woman that took me under her wing for life. Most every life is blessed by special people. I, along with countless others, was blessed by Mary Lou. There are few teachers that remain in our lives much after we were no longer in their class room. That wasn’t so with Mary Lou. High school graduation was just the beginning of a life-long friend and mentorship for me. By extension Herman was part of the package — whether he liked it or not. I like to think that I was one of few who were so special to her. But that simply isn’t the case. Every time we talked over the past 40 plus years, she was always able to give me a run down for at least three classes before and after me. She was proud of everyone’s accomplishments and was their biggest cheerleader. Her students excelled in numerous fields and there were at least

a few that ended up with regional and national media careers. Mary Lou was passionate about life, her family, her students and what was happening in the world. An example of that was her CASA volunteering after she retired from teaching, along with marching in a political protest or two in downtown Tucson. We didn’t always agree on those world views, but we had enough love and respect for each other to disagree, without being disagreeable. That didn’t mean she would hesitate to scold me when she thought I was headed down the wrong path in my life. I know most certainly my life would have been different if I hadn’t had Mary Lou in it from high school on. She was always there when I needed someone to talk to, a shoulder to cry on, a meal, a bed to sleep in or a special happening to share. I regret that I am unable to be here today to share in the celebration of Mary Lou’s life, but I will miss her dearly and hold her in my heart.

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Members shared details for the recent District CowBelle Meeting held at Santa Rosa. Reminders were given about the Mid-Year meeting coming up in June in Ruidoso as well as the Women in Ag Conference in Las Cruces. Lariat CowBelles are beginning to make plans for the Annual Five-States Meeting to be held September 27, 2017 in Clayton. This meeting is always well just returned from the Region IV meeting attended and most educational with speakin Elko, Nevada. What a beautiful location. ers sharing Ag related information. A The town is very much dedicated to preworking lunch meeting is scheduled for serving the old way of Life. We had the June 14 to finalize plans for this meeting. privilege of taking a field trip to the Maggie Anyone interested in becoming a member Creek Ranch to see and hear what they have is encouraged to attend meetings and join done with preserving their country. I never he Regular meeting of the Lariat Cow- the Lariat CowBelles. CowBelles believe the knew there could be such beauty in Nevada. Belles was held April 12 at the Rabbit livestock industry is of importance to the Nor did I know that it could snow in the Ear Café. Information was shared world industry and do what they can to lower 48 in May, but it can! We had some about Legislative actions taken this year as support and promote the industry. Respectgreat speakers and some great tours. We well as the possible Borehole Test Site in fully submitted Judy Robertson, Secretary met some wonderful ladies from several of Quay County. The Members were reminded Mesilla Valley CowBelles Minutes of our other Region IV states and got to hear of the upcoming Chamber of Commerce the Meeting – April 25, 2017 – Meeting was some of their stories that I can’t wait to Banquet. The Lariat CowBelles are engaged held at Pastaggio’s Restaurant with eight share with you at mid-year! I did come back in plans for the April 26 Health Fair. The members present. Judging for the LCPS with this year’s Theme for our Mid-Year Health Fair is expected to be helpful to the Calendar Art Contest will be held Tuesday, meeting and it is “Women of The South- Community with valuable experts having May 2, at 1:00 p.m. Fita, Mary, Janelda, Janet, west”. I would like for all the locals to gather booths and sharing information. The Youth Mary Esther, Trudy and Traci will be attendinformation and pictures and memorabilia Ranch Management Camp will be June ing. This year, NMCB celebrates its 60th from those who have helped start to those 11-16, 2017 at the CS Ranch near Cimarron, continued on page 18 >> who have been involved, and bring to NM. The deadline for registration is May 1. JINGLE JANGLE

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display at mid year. I would love for it to look like a Cowbelle Museum as we walk through and view our beginnings and see those who have helped keep tradition going to those who will one day step up and take the reigns that lead us into the future! Please share your local’s history with us. At this time we will be documenting everything to have a database for our website! Can’t wait to see everyone next month at Mid-Year – From Our Ranch to Yours, Tana Haase-Garnett, NMCB President

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New Mexico Cattle Growers’ Association Protecting Our Ranching Way of Life

attle Ranching represents America’s most enduring and ionic way of life. Yet, everyday, ranches throughout New Mexico and the United States are threatened by forces as far ranging as economic uncertainly, government regulations, crippling drought and more. That’s why New Mexico Cattle Growers’ Association (NMCGA) works tirelessly to protect and promote all ranching families.

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present. The CowBelle Prayer, the Pledge winner, $500 per semester with proof of anniversary. For the annual meeting in and the CowBelle Creed were recited. registration. Next year group may include December, would like to have a history of Minutes were approved as read and trea- a vocational scholarship. Ashley Martin MVCB. Janet/Janelda will help pull this surer’s report was approved as presented. Ivins, state president-elect, is making a together. Napkin/Cookbook Challenge: OLD BUSINESS: Reminders of upcoming point of attending a meeting of each local NMCB is challenging all locals to sell WALC Conference in Las Cruces. Anita, in the state. Nancy will let her know that the napkins/cookbooks. The CowBelle that sells Gloria, and Kelsie will be attending. The group welcomes her attendance. Jodell the most will receive complimentary regis- mid-year conference will be held June 19 - thanked all the members who donated to tration to mid-year meeting. Group decided 21 in Ruidoso. An “a la carte” menu of events the food pantry on an individual basis. Beef to furnish napkins to 4-H Family Night in for registration is available. Registration raffle tickets will soon be either distributed August, the bake sale and livestock sale at deadline for the mid-year conference is in person or mailed to each CowBelle SNMSF in September. This would help to June 1. Forms were included in recent member. Nancy has re-stapled them into get NCMB/MVCB organization known to the edition of the NM CowBelle Wrangler. It was books of 10 tickets for easier distribution local community. Fundraising Ideas: at dis- decided to pay Nancy’s registration fee for and sales. Myra has already sold over 300 trict workshop, NMCB would like to sell as this conference and one additional mem- tickets. Dolores mentioned the passing of much of the current RADA inventory as they ber’s fee. Mention of this publication Judy Smith’s husband a few days ago. can (kitchen items, mainly). They are not resulted in concerns of not receiveing the Krystie will send her a card on behalf of the restocking until more of the inventory can Wrangler. Nancy will forward email CowBelles to offer condolences. Kristie won be sold. Any local that would like to sell addresses to Debi Rupe. Progress is being the door prize of free lunch! Meeting items at local events, NMCB is willing to made between the CowBelles and the adjourned at 1 p.m. Submitted by Cathy Pierce bring items to particular event and split the Stockman magazine to correct subscription The regular meeting of the Chuckprofits. Mesilla Valley will inquire with errors/problems. NEW BUSINESS: Krystie wagon CowBelles was held on May 9, 2017 NMCB about selling items at SNMSF. Also, offered to place the CowBelles’ banner on at Vera Gibson’s Home. Call to Order: 10:30 Gretchen will research what it would take the pickup carrying the TorC Fiesta Royalty a.m. by President Lyn Greene. CowBelle to raffle off a quilt/lap throw that has all of in the Fiesta Parade along with the Farm Invocation, Pledge of Allegiance, & Cowthe brands from Dona Ana County on it (this Bureau banner. May 5- CowBelles will set Belle Creed led by Lyn Greene. Welcome is similar to what Chamiza CowBelles has up a booth next to the Farm Bureau’s food Guest: Patty Snyder (Carolyn’s sister). There done with quilts). The t-shirt order form will wagon in the parking lot of Tractor Supply. were 12 members and guests attending. be sent out again for those members that CowBelles will have a booth at the upcom- The minutes from the April 11 meeting would like to order. The shirts are commem- ing Winston Fiesta on June 3. Since group approved as mailed. The treasurer report orating NMCB’s 60th Anniversary. Orders voted at the last meeting to allow Nancy to was approved for audit with $52 from the are due to Casey May 15. Gretchen will also have a booth at the upcoming Mid-Year Donation Bucket. Unfinished Business: check into ordering more MVCB shirts. Tour Meeting in Ruidoso, Nancy requested a Survey sheet from State CowBelles was of St. Claire’s Winery – Gretchen will look check in the amount of $50 to cover the cost. briefly discussed. Meeting recessed for into a tour for the group sometime this “Artsy” items are needed for the silent Program: Gene Winn, Torrance County summer. Tour includes wine tasting, tour of auction, and Chamiza CowBelles will donate Extension, Changing Agriculture in Torvineyards, and lunch. Cost is $70 per person four door prizes. Group decided to sponsor rance County. The meeting reconvened at and up to ten can go. Once all information a belt buckle prize for Sierra County Fair at 1:10 by President Lyn Greene. New Business: is received, will let all know. Next meeting $125. Krystie presented results of scholar- NMCB Summer General Membership tentatively scheduled for June/July. ship winners. In addition to $4000 winner, Meeting and “Furs & Spurs Gala” Meeting The May meeting of the Chamiza Cow- there is enough excess for three additional agenda and activities for CowBelles and Belles was called to order at 12:05 p.m. by scholarships: one for $2000 and two for NMCGA. Group decided to sponsor one President Nancy Phelps in Johnny B’s $1000 each. The additional scholarships will participant from Valencia County to Food Restaurant in TorC with 17 members be distributed in the same way as top Camp. Summer booths and Beef Promo-

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tions? Group has supplies for use. Meeting was adjourned at 1:33 p.m.; Announcements: Next meeting Tuesday June 13, Mountainair Christian Church - NOTE CHANGE! Lyn will be out of town in June. Program – Danielle Berrien. “WALCing into the Future” – May 30-June 1st – Las Cruces. Mid-Year State Meeting, Ruidoso Convention Center – June 19-21; Sustainable Rangeland Management- June 21-22, 2017 – Ruidoso Conference Center; 811 Sierra Blanca Dr, Ruidoso, NM – 1 p.m. to 5 p.m., June 21 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., June 22 Topics include soils, Drought Cycles, Wildlife, Livestock Management, Forage Production, Feed Yards & Packers, Calf Values, Water Conservation. r/s Welda Grider, Treasurer Powderhorn Cattlewomen met at the home of Beverly Carter with 18 members present. Dina Reitzel, NM Beef Council, was the guest. Kelsey McCollum, President, opened meeting by leading invocation, pledge and CowBelle creed. Kelsey reported on District II meeting in Santa Rosa. It was a wonderful success with 37 members in attendance. Everyone seemed to enjoy the Mongollan Beef with rice and sides that complimented it. Aspen Achen, DeBaca Co Extension Agent, gave an awesome presentation on “Know your Beef

Facts” which was very well received by all. Rain, Hail and Snow Network. This program The group enjoyed the opportunity to needs volunteers to report weather condiknow the State Officers. Kathy Reagan gave tions, especially rain (or the lack of!) so that a report on the lunch served at the Vaughan her office can better determine drought Auction. Terrible wind and dirt weather yet conditions in our county. Committee still had a successful BBQ lunch. Scholarship reports were made and minutes from winners were announced and they are March and April were approved. Treasurer Dillon Perez, Guadalupe Co College student, Bev Medford presented the month-end and, Micah Crist, FS High School graduate. balances and reported on the Shindig Congratulations to both of them! New Busi- income and expenses. Pat Hunt reported ness discussed was upcoming BBQ to be on the Farm Bureau Centennial BBQ held at held in conjunction with the Old Fort Days Tractor Supply Company and that three in Fort Sumner on June 10. Karen Cortese is cookbooks were sold. The next opportunity organizing the event with a very helpful to sell them will be the Kiwanis Pancake committee and the group looks forward to Breakfast being held for the PRCA Pro seeing everyone there! Dina Reitzel gave a Rodeo in Silver City the end of May. Annette wonderful program on the Beef Council. It George reported that Wranglers Restaurant was very informative and the group appre- is not interested in brand napkins at this ciated her taking time out to come down time but may purchase them next year for and visit. The group looks forward to June is Beef month. Members were working with the Beef Council at the State reminded about the upcoming WALC and Fair. Joan Key Midyear meetings. The June meeting will The Grant County Copper CowBelles be held one week earlier than usual due to met on May 16. The Pledge of Allegiance the scheduling conflict with the Midyear was recited and the CowBelles Creed and meeting. Submitted by Pat Hunt Prayer were read. Guest speaker, Mackey Irwin, Farm Service Agency County Execu- New Mexico CowBelles thank you to all who submitted news to Jingle Jangle. Please send minutes tive Director spoke about FSA programs for and/or newsletters to: Jingle Jangle, Janet Witte, farmers and ranchers. She also explained 1860 Foxboro Ct., Las Cruces, NM 88007 or email: CoCoRaHs, the Community Collaborative janetwitte@msn.com by 15th of each month.

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NEWS UPDATE by Labradoodle Bennington, III

PLF Steps Up to Defend Congressional Review Act

he Pacific Legal Foundation has just stepped forward to defend the Congressional Review Act (CRA), the 1996 statute that allows Congress to rein in bureaucracies by voiding harmful regulations. PLF is the first of two groups to move to intervene against a federal lawsuit by an environmental activist group — the Center for Biological Diversity — which claims, astonishingly, that Congress and the president violate the Constitution when they pass a law that rescinds a bureaucracy’s regulation. With its motion to intervene, PLF has also filed a motion to dismiss the lawsuit, arguing that CBD’s challenge has no basis in the Constitution, the Congressional Review Act, or court precedent and should be immediately booted out of court. PLF is the only group in the litigation that has sought a dismissal. “CBD’s lawsuit seeks to turn the Constitution on its head, placing unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats above Congress,” said PLF attorney Jonathan Wood. “Under our Constitution, administrative agencies only have power that Congress chooses to delegate to them. Congress is free to limit its delegation of power as it sees fit. What Congress gives, it can take away, or curtail. Using the Congressional Review Act to strike down an agency’s regulatory decrees is an example of that constitutional principle in action.” Under the CRA, agencies must submit every rule they adopt to Congress for review. Congress then has a brief time to use expedited procedures to enact a resolution of disapproval and send it to the president for his signature. Congress and President Trump have used the CRA 13 times to void Obama Administration rules. CBD’s lawsuit focuses on the rescinding of a regulation against hunting and trapping of predator species in Alaska’s national refuges — a restriction that interfered with the state’s ability to manage wildlife and outlawed responsible hunting practices, undermining opportunities to responsibly hunt for food or pursue income from guided hunts. In seeking to intervene in Center for Biological Diversity v. Zinke, in defense of the CRA’s constitutionality, PLF represents itself along with several key hunting organizations and individuals. They include: Alaska Outdoor Council, Big Game Forever, and Alaska Master Guides Kurt Whitehead and Joe Letarte, both of whom also hunt in their personal time.

CRA is fully consistent with the Constitution Schoolhouse Rock has taught generations of children how a bill becomes a law under the Constitution,” said Todd Gaziano, PLF’s DC Director and Senior Fellow in Constitutional Law, as well as the director of PLF’s Red Tape Rollback project. “CBD could use a refresher. When a majority of both houses of Congress pass a bill disapproving an agency rule and the president signs it, we call that a law, and this applies as much to legislation passed under the CRA as to any other form of legislation. Laws enacted using the Congressional Review Act’s procedures are fully consistent with the

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Constitution.” PLF’s intervention in this litigation reflects its established role as a leading CRA champion. The Red Tape Rollback project, founded and overseen by PLF, is a multipronged program to educate Congress and the public on dynamic ways to deploy the CRA against regulatory overreach. A significant coalition of think tanks and public interest groups has joined this project, including The Club for Growth, The Heritage Foundation, The Buckeye Institute, Competitive Enterprise Institute, and State Policy Network as Founding Partners; and Cause of Action Institute, R Street, Independent Women’s Forum, and Center of the American Experiment as Partners. “The Congressional Review Act is essential to restoring our elected representatives to their proper role overseeing the administrative state,” Gaziano said. “As the foremost independent advocate for strategic use of the CRA, and as a leading litigator against regulatory abuses by the administrative state in general, PLF brings a unique interest and expertise to this litigation. For this reason, PLF’s intervention is more than appropriate — it is essential.” The case is Center for Biological Diversity

v. Zinke. More information, including PLF’s motion to intervene, PLF’s motion to dismiss the CBD lawsuit, and a blog post is available at: www.pacificlegal.org. PLF’s Red Tape Rollback project is headquartered online at: www.redtaperollback.com.

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Fish, that temporarily prevented the federal “Maybe they are as surprised as I am that Fish government from releasing the wolves in and Wildlife actually acquiesced to this.” New Mexico. A spokesman for Fish and Wildlife conWhile the permit results in no net firmed that a permit had been issued but increase in the wild wolf population in New declined to comment further. Mexico, fostering The permit, which two wolves bred expires May 31, I don’t think it’s fair in captivity into a appears to cede wild den could authority over the for us,” said Laura improve genetic wolves introduced diversity in the under the permit to Schneberger, president of wild — one key the state, Robinson goal of Fish and said. the Gila Livestock Growers Wildlife’s wolf The permit states recovery program. “that the animals Association. “Nothing’s been Michael Robinbrought into New son, a wolf Mexico under its profair for ranching. (They’re) advocate with the visions, and all their Center for Biologsubsequent progeny, trading one set of genes for ical Diversity in will be subject to Silver City, called state laws and rules.” another, hoping to create the permit “a Ranchers who live sordid bargain.” in the wolf recovery differently related wolves, a “Game and Fish, area — in New having just lost at Mexico, largely in little less inbred. “ the 10th circuit and around the Gila Court of Appeals, National Forest — decided to bluff and demand things that vehemently oppose the reintroduction of they have no legal right to demand,” he said. an apex predator — one at the top of a food

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Antonio Manzanares 2016 Sheepman of the Year by Carol Wilson

ducation has always been necessary for survival to the hardy souls who chose to live in the high mountains of north central New Mexico. Native Americans were the first to forage and hunt, raise crops and domesticate livestock and thus learn to live off the land. Next, the Spanish settlers who came to inhabit the Tierra Amarilla Land Grant near the foot of the San Juan Mountains learned

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to produce sheep and make a good living for their families in the valleys known for cool summers, high-quality forage, and relatively dry climate. Their descendants continued to learn, and local stories claim that in the early past of the last century, more lambs were shipped out of northern New Mexico for market than anywhere else in the world. By the 1960s, however, those who had eked

out a living farming and keeping livestock on the smaller and smaller parcels of land in the high mountains wanted an easier life for their sons and daughters and saw education as a ticket out. Antonio Manzanares was one who was expected to be educated into an easier life. Though he was expected to become a dentist, he returned to his hometown of La Puente after graduating from the University of New Mexico and found that he enjoyed helping old-timers with the time-honored tasks and chores needed to raise animals in the mountains. He asked questions. Attended seminars. Observed practices of established sheepmen. Learned. Innovated. Experimented. Fast forward 30 years, when the education born of experience and hard work has transformed Antonio and his wife, Molly, into sheep experts who have given weaving demonstrations and shepherd talks at the Smithsonian Institute and have traveled the world learning of and promoting sheep, wool, and lamb. The Manzanares’ label “Shepherd’s Lamb” is distinguished as the only certified-organic lamb in New Mexico, and the Manzanares family is among the few in the United States who still graze sheep on wild land, moving from low country to mountain pasture and back according to the seasons. In fact, while the sheep industry in New Mexico has suffered severe decline in numbers in the last 30 years, the Man-

zanares family has been building their murmur of the Chama River accompanied easily for Antonio, and he majored in Psyflocks and implementing bold new market- the spring green of fields and the majestic chology at University of New Mexico and ing strategies in a unique blend of mountain vistas surrounding the ranch. returned home with a teaching degree. traditional husbandry and out-of-the-box Beautiful landscape, however, can be a Antonio helped his father with the farm innovation in marketing. double-edged sword. The Native Ameri- and did custom hay baling for other small Antonio and Molly’s story is one of inge- cans and Hispanic settlers who arrived in landowners. He substitute taught at nuity, hard work, vision, and faith. Though the 1600s had developed an agro-pastoral Escalante High School, where he met Molly, the journey has been an education, the economy based on horses, cattle, and the a ranch girl. He bought a few cattle and a couple freely shares what they have learned, hardy, long-wool Churro sheep. But 300 few sheep. and uses their knowledge and hard work to years later, agriculture no longer provided When he was helping others in the build communities and assure that the an adequate livelihood due to the lack of a neighborhood, he was also observing. Sally culture and traditions which helped raised land base, extremely small land holdings, and Clarence Andrews often asked for his them will be passed along to future gener- and competing land uses (inflated values help with their lambs. Sally ran 100 black ations. This, along with traditional driven by those who wanted vacation faced ewes and Clarence about 40 or 50 shepherding practices and innovative retail homes and ski runs in the scenic cows. Clarence often complained that Sally sales of all their products, have so impressed mountains.) fellow sheepmen that Antonio was recogAntonio’s father worked for the nized by his peers in 2016 as the New Post Office and his mother worked for Mexico Wool Growers’ Sheepman of the Rio Arriba county, which was by the Year. 1960s one of the poorest counties in the nation. Antonio, the eldest of four A class of its own children, was sent to a parochial The day the Stockman visited, Molly and school with no indoor plumbing. He Antonio were busy in the lambing pens. remembers the nuns as strict but fair, Antonio was on his knees beside a ewe and and received a top notch education. a little penco (dogied lamb), so intent on The next stop was a boarding ensuring that the penco get its belly full school in El Rito. Antonio, on a sports that it was several moments before he scholarship, was a five sport letterman looked up to see a visitor in the pens. who ran so much he could tire a deer The setting was pastoral. The deep when he graduated. School came Antonio and Molly in the early years.

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made more money with her small flock of ewes than he did with all of his cows.

Sheepman’s tutorial This lesson stuck with Antonio, so he scraped together some money and bought a few ewes. The ewes were turned out in a pasture that had an old garage in the middle of a field. The sheep got into the garage and consumed poisoned grain intended for prairie dogs. Four died. “I should have got out of the business then, “Antonio remembers. By the time Molly and Antonio were married, Antonio’s flock had grown to 90

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head. Although Antonio had grown up around sheep, the small herds of northern New Mexico were only personal use flocks, not intended to make a living for any of their owners. Wanting to learn more, Antonio and Molly attended their first Wool Growers’ convention, where they stood by themselves and talked to no one because they were too shy to introduce themselves. Fortunately, Madalyn Cauhape, former president of New Mexico Wool Growers and iconic New Mexico sheepwoman, intro duced herself to the young couple, saying, “I know what it is like to be a stranger in a group,” then proceeded to introd u ce o t h e r yo u n g sheepmen, including Pete and Sarah Gnatkowski, Myrnie Cauhape, Mike Casabonne and Steve Lewis. As he became more comfortable around other sheepmen, Antonio was

impressed by Bill Roach’s progressive ideas. When he heard Jim Sachse, Extension Sheep and Goat specialist, describe Mary Roach as the best sheep person in the whole state of New Mexico, Antonio and Molly asked for and gained permission to visit the Roachs in Tatum and learn more about the business.

School of hard knocks But they figured they needed more than sheep to make a living in agriculture. “I

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wasn’t the best cowboy in the world, but Molly was from a cowman’s family,” Antonio later recalled. “We bought cattle, which was the biggest mistake. A bunch of our cattle got Acute Bovine Emphysema and we lost some of them. Others tore up our corrals during treatment. We sold the cows to pay the bills.” Which was all good and well until the Farmers Home Administration asked how the Manzanares family, which now included baby Agustin, was going to make money to pay the loan which had been secured by the cows. Antonio boldly answered, “We will change to sheep.” The FSA man replied that that was fine, but FSA wouldn’t finance more livestock. Antonio had observed that if a sheep looked at Bill Roach the wrong way, Roach would sell the offending animal. “I figured that his culls were better than a lot of people’s good stuff,” Antonio remembers. “So I called Bill and said ‘I’d like to buy a few sheep from you but I can’t pay right now.’” The Manzanares got 100 head of ewe lambs on credit, extended and restructured their loan with the help of their FmHA banker,

and paid their friends back in good time. Molly and Antonio worked side by side, shearing sheep, packing wool, lambing ewes. “Everything was centered around the sheep business,” Agustin recalled of his childhood. “We were surrounded by the business and it didn’t occur to me then that there was any other way to live.” When Lara was born, they were running 400 ewes on the Canones Creek. “We bought more and borrowed more, and we

didn’t have enough pasture to support what we had,” Antonio remembers. “We read a lot of books. Molly knew more than I did, because she grew up a rancher’s daughter. I didn’t grow up ranching...I was supposed to be a dentist. So we talked to a lot of people and read all we could about the sheep business.”

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and learning as we went,” Antonio remembers. “We made plenty of mistakes.” Ewes purchased in Tularosa went down with pregnancy toxemia right before they lambed, unused to the tough northern winters. Bags turned bad on a bunch of Columbias. Coyotes were eating more out of the flocks than they could afford to lose. So the Manzanares family did what they did best...experiment, innovate, and learn. They convinced a cattleman that it would be good for forage diversity to run sheep alongside his cows on an allotment in the Carson National Forest. They hired a herder to take the sheep into the mountains. The learning curve was steep. When the herder had to come off the mountain to attend a funeral rosary, Antonio got a crash course in mountain herding. He and the flock endured a nighttime electric storm which convinced him that either he and the horse or the entire flock would be dead by morning. Luckily, he was wrong. Coyotes were still a problem, even with dogs and a herder. Antonio hiked up to the sheep camp in the mountains one day with a battery for the noisemaker which was supposed to keep

coyotes at bay. He decided to take a short- small, his mother and father discussed the cut on the way home and left the trail, advisability of one of them getting a job in quickly becoming lost in unfamiliar terrain. Santa Fe while the other herded the sheep. It was getting dark and his pregnant wife “They said, ‘We didn’t get married so we and family were waiting. Panic set in as the could be apart,’ so this young couple took sky lost light. Just at dark, he came out of their little baby and went to live at a sheep the forest near some lakes he recognized. camp together.” Through the hard times and the heartAccording to Agustin, “that ethos carries breaks, Antonio and Molly kept learning throughout their lives and partnership.” and growing in the sheep business, leading Possibilities, not problems their children by their strong example. Agustin related that, when he was very The family grew with the addition of two more girls, Raquel and Luisa, and Antonio moved his family to his paternal grandfather’s farm, sharecropping the 220 acres of land along the Chama River until they could buy it. The community that raised them was important to both Antonio and Molly. Antonio helped bring health care to Los Ojos with La Clinica de Pueblo. Many nights he was away from the supper table for various meetings, including local boards such as the SWCD, Ganados, and La Clinica and the board of directors of the Northern Rio Arriba Electric Coop Inc, as well as national boards like the American Lamb Board. Molly saved Crossbreed lamb, Churro cross lamb, jobs and a business when she restruc& Dorper cross lamb tured a failing business several years ago and assumed financial responsibility for the business. But the brain drain created when young people leave rural American and don’t return was troublesome. Antonio, ever the optimist, believed that there was plenty of opportunity in the valley if people would just look around and see it. With the help of Maria Varela, commuJoin New Mexico’s OLDEST Livestock Trade Organization nity organizer/planner, Antonio, Molly and others formed a non-profit organization which identified and addressed the three Representing the interests of the sheep industry for over 110 years... most urgent needs of the local sheep at the Roundhouse, on Capitol Hill and everywhere between. growers: reducing loss by predators, finding Dues 3¢ per pound of Sheared Wool – Minimum $50 better markets for lamb, and obtaining New Mexico Wool Growers, Inc. higher wool prices. POB 7520, Albuquerque, NM 87194 • 505.247.0584 phone • 505.842.1766 fax Ganados del Valle (Flocks of the Valley) nmwgi@nmagriculture.org was established in 1983 and by 1991 had 55 Follow us on the web at www.nmagriculture.org member families and had incubated four viable enterprises which had created 35 new jobs in the area. The predator problem was addressed with guard dogs, some of the first used in CONGRATULATIONS New Mexico. The wool committee of Ganados del Valle established Tierra Wools to teach locals to handwork wool under the tutelage of master weaver Rachel Brown of Taos. from Tierra Wools bought the Burns Mercantile building in Tierra Amarilla, and the whole from Laura & Clayton Stansell

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building filled with artisans busy spinning, dying, and weaving the wool. New jobs were created and the wool producers could sell their wool through Tierra Wools or as finished rugs and weavings. Antonio and Molly are directors of Tierra Wools, which sells wool, yarn, blankets, weavings, and Shepherds Lamb meat. Sophia has worked for Tierra Wools for the last 30 years. “I wouldn’t have a job, and the rest of my family wouldn’t either, if not for Tierra Wools and the Manazanares family,” she noted. “My granddaughter, who is five, is learning to work with wool. I see traditions being carried forward. We will continue to work with wool for many years, and I hope the sheep will stay here as well. It is a great thing.” Tierra Wool has developed a curriculum which enables them to teach students from all over the world how to spin, dye and weave. They also carry the work of approximately 60 consignors in the shop.

tains with a herder each summer. The summer of 1989, Ganados del Valle gained international notoriety when they leased summer grazing land from the Jicarilla Apache tribe, then were asked to leave their leased grazing in August, three months early. Since their home places were all growing much needed hay for the winter, Ganados asked the Game and Fish Department to let the sheep graze on the Sargent

Wildlife Area or the Humphries Wildlife Area. The wildlife areas were not preserves or refuges, but the sheepmen has been told for years by the New Mexico Game and Fish that “grazing is forbidden.” Antonio disagreed. “There was express language that said the Wildlife areas were supposed to be maintained with grazing and hunting,” he related. “We decided we would force the

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Recycling old genes issue.” Ganados drove 2,200 ewes and While working to start Tierra Wools, lambs overnight to put them within the Manzanares family crossed paths striking distance of the Humphries Wildwith Dr. Lyle McNeal, Professor of life area. “We took them into the area Animal Sciences at Utah State Univerand we let Game and Fish know about sity, who was working to bring back the it,” Antonio remembers. “They called it endangered Churro sheep. civil disobedience, but we equated it In the 1500s, Spain considered the with dumping tea into the Boston Churro a lesser breed than their fineHarbor. We took a stand as the state was wool Merino, so the Churro was the unwilling to deal with our issues. We only breed of sheep that Spain allowed had a lot of businesses that we had to leave the country with their explorFamily photo, early 1990s (l to r) Fermin Meza (ranch hand), developed that were dependent on ers. Wool was a big commodity in the Raquel, Lara, Molly, Luisa, Agustin, and Antonio. those bands of sheep.” world and Spain wanted to keep the It was a tense four days. Antonio, Molly, fine-wool Merino in the country. The Churro, and their herder, Martin Romero, held the “The outcome was that we eventually a coarse-wool breed, arrived in the New 2,200 head of sheep while planes flew over- bought a forest permit,” related Antonio. World with the Conquistadores. The head, national news agencies gathered to “The ability to negotiate to have the organi- Navajos raided Spanish settlements and compare the Ganados story to the plot of zation buy the permit was the result of the found, to their delight, that the churro the “Milagro Beanfield War”, a story of dis- actions we took. We created controversy, adapted well to the harsh southwestern puted land and water rights set in New but we also garnered good will.” climate. Over time, the Navajo came to Mexico. And politicians stewed. Antonio still takes care of the sheep for regard the Churro as their own. The coarse Bill Humphries, State Land Commis- the poquiteros. “We take the sheep to the wool had a luster in the fiber and is the wool sioner, diffused the situation by negotiating mountains and keep them there June, July, of choice for the renowned handwoven a settlement which allowed the sheepmen August and September, then bring them Navajo blankets. to graze near Heron Lake until the owners home in October,” noted Belarmino But the Churro fell into disfavor in the could cut the hay in the valleys. “He didn’t Archuleta, chairman of Ganados del Valle. 1930s, when reservations became overhave to help us,” Antonio noted. “The Hum- “Then we feed and lamb them in the winter grazed and thousands of the sheep that the phries Wildlife Area was named for Bill’s and early spring. It is just what we do.” father.”

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conquistadores would have recognized were killed as the government tried to make room for fine-wool sheep. A few Navajo hid their sheep because they prized the high luster wool. Dr. McNeal was now hunting for Churro stock to re-establish the breed. Ganados invited Dr. McNeal to inspect the Manzanares flock, and some lines of the Churro sheep were found. Molly, Antonio and others started a Navajo sheep breeding program and now have the largest flock of Churro sheep in the nation, about 300 head. Most of the Churro wool is sold through Tierra Wools.

Subtract the middle man In the late 1980s, Antonio and Molly concluded that selling their lambs to order buyers just wasn’t working. The one check a year just couldn’t stretch far enough to cover the year’s expenses. A Santa Fe accountant encouraged them to sell lamb through the Farmers Market. “They are all greenies,” Antonio responded. “Would they even buy meat?” Nevertheless, he took Agustin with him when he went to reconnaissance the

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Farmers Market. Agustin remembers a small market that looked like something the people with hobbies would do on the weekends. But Antonio saw potential. The Manzanares family became the first meat vendors at the market. They took nine lambs to their first Market and were sold out by 10:00 a.m. Thus the time-consuming task of retailing lamb Antonio and Molly at the Santa Fe Farmers Market. meat was born. At one time, the family owned an ice cream truck to long hours and hard work. transport lamb meat. Today, a huge walk in Tom Delahanty met Antonio 20 years freezer stores frozen lamb meat which is ago at La Montanita Co-Op. Both are certitransported in coolers to Farmers Market fied organic producers, Tom with chicken every Saturday except during lambing and Antonio with lamb. “I can honestly say season. Fresh lamb is available from that I would not be in business yet today if mid-September through March.. it weren’t for Antonio and Molly’s support Retailing meat takes a lot of time and in all ways,” Tom stated. “They produce the work, but then, the Manzanares family best lamb and have been resourceful and raises sheep, so they are accustomed to creative in the marketing changes over the past 25 years. They are fierce supporters of local, sustainable farm/ranch producers, and they have given many the encourage-

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ment and support to continue the hard work and commitment that ranching and farming requires.” When Antonio could not locate an Organic Certified facility to process his Organic Lamb, he worked tirelessly to get a facility certified. He spends a lot of time on the road, taking the lambs to the processing facility in Colorado and then transporting the meat back to Santa Fe for the Farmers Market. Visiting with the gregarious sheepman and his crew gives consumers confidence in their product. “They like knowing where their meat comes from,” Antonio confirmed. “I gave a lot of meat away to raise awareness of fresh local lamb,” he noted. “I used to go to about six different Farmers Markets. Now I just go to Santa Fe every Saturday, except during lambing season.” Shepherds Lamb is also served by several upscale restaurants in Santa Fe and Taos and is the only lamb available for purchase at Santa Fe’s La Montanita Co-op. Grace Graham is Meat Manager for La Montanita Co-Op in Santa Fe and noted that the Co-op sells every piece of Shepherd’s Lamb they can get into inventory. “Antonio has tastings and samplings so customers can get to know him and his meat, which is nice,” she noted. “We sell about 30 whole lambs every two weeks, which keeps our customers happy.” Antonio’s dedication to his customers is the source of a running joke in the family. Daughter Luisa lives with her husband, Brody, and Amelia (Antonio and Molly’s only grandchild) east of Denver. “When Mom and Dad decide to come and see us, the first thing Dad does is call all of his customers along the route, asking, ‘Do you need anything? How can I help you? Do you need some more lamb shoulders, or shanks?’” Luisa laughed. “We always ask if he is coming to see us or just visiting customers.” Lambs are raised to 110 to 115 pounds in four months, then fifty or sixty are harvested every two weeks. About a third of all the lamb in the country is retailed by producers who, like the Manzanares family, are thinking out of the box. Antonio commented, “We always go when we get invited to speak because we want to tell them how we are raising the sheep and let them know we are doing it for them.” And they don’t just speak in their own county, or even country. Antonio, Molly and Lara spent two weeks at the Smithsonian

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in Washington, D.C., demonstrating and discoursing on spinning, weaving, shearing, and sheep. They have been to Italy to participate in a Slow Foods conference and have been featured in magazines and newspapers from the New York Times to Sunset Magazine. Agustin remembers that before processing plants and direct to consumer marketing became a big part of the family’s life, they would often sell cull ewes to locals. “I was a kid, but killing a sheep was a festive day,” he related. “Dad was trying to teach me to skin the sheep and I wanted to do something like whittle a stick with the knife. That wasn’t acceptable. Dad drove home the thought that we had to show respect: both respect for the animal by killing it cleanly, and respect for the consumer by doing a very clean job. This was important, because this was food for people that we were producing.”

Organic sheep = organic wool Although some of the finewool produced by the Manzanares family is sold through Tierra Wools, they accumulated and stored five years production because the market wouldn’t pay a premium for the wool and they couldn’t accept non-organic market price. Antonio, always the innovator, now sends the wool East to be washed, dyed, and made into organic wool blankets, which are sold on the Shepherd’s Lamb website and at Tierra Wools. Strickland Wheelock of Wheelock Textiles, has manufactured wool blankets from the Shepherd’s Lamb wool. Strickland noted, “Antonio and Molly are delightful people to work with, Not only are they very honorable plus the quality of the wool is excellent. Strickland continued “From a manufacturing standpoint, Antonio’s wool runs smoothly through the yarn making, weaving and finishing. The net result is top quality blankets with excellent loft and hand.”

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Traditional sheep raising methods are practiced by the Manzanares family. Molly and Antonio tend the sheep themselves from birth to slaughter, and their grown children help as often as time and distance allow. The four-week lambing period is a marathon, moving sheep twice a day to and from lambing grounds, collecting newborn babies, ensuring that the “pencos” (orphans or abandoned twins) get a good start in life. As organic farmers, the options for healing a sick sheep aren’t much different from those of their grandparents: no antibiotics and careful nursing. Their lives revolve around the sheepman’s calendar...lambing, marking, the annual spring cross-country trek to the summer pasture in the mountains above Canjilon where the sheep will stay until October, and then the return of the bred ewes, dogs, horses and equipment back to the low pastures and lambing grounds near home. “They work hard. Very, very hard,” attested Steve Rendon, who has helped mark sheep. But they also have to worry about things that their grandparents never experienced. Real estate prices escalate due to the mountain views and scenery. More people mean more cars to watch for when they are moving sheep across busy highways twice a day. Social media and networking is essential in their retail businesses, as is point-of-sale signage.

Reviewing the important things Molly and Antonio always modeled the importance of being active and committed to supporting and growing a sustainable, healthy community through local thinking and action. Translated: they take part in the fiestas, serve on committees, are devoted to the church, deliver eulogies, help keep the water running in the acequias, and in short, act as active members of their community. But they also provide examples of humor and fun. “When we were growing up, both my parents were often overextended and exhausted from working so hard,” noted Raquel. “But they were dedicated to their children and to being present in our lives. When it came to their children, they showed up---they coached our sports teams, took us to practice and picked us up, and came to almost all of our games. Even though my father wasn’t a big fan of volleyball, he came to the games and cheered us on. My favorite memories of my Dad from our younger years include him putting on a

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rock and roll LP and dancing with the four keting work. Sometimes I would want to say, new concepts. of us. He did this often.” ‘we can’t do this anymore,’ but he is comAs he drives between lambing pens and Antonio also likes a good turn of phrase. mitted to make it work and we have.” his home pasture, for example, Antonio is Antonio has a different take. “Molly is the full of ideas for the future. “I think the time When a reporter, in Lara’s hearing, asked about his children, he got a twinkle in his real superwoman,” he explained. “She took has come to have a national restaurant eye and replied, “We’ve got a warrior, a care of 1,500 cattle in the mountains one chain featuring lamb,” he noted. “And I’d lawyer, a doctor, and a hippie.” Lara would season just because she wanted to teach like to start a sheep dairy. Roquefort cheese, the kids to ride horses. And she and the kids made from sheep’s milk, retails for $20 per prefer to be known as a musician/artist. Greg Martin was Antonio’s college room- lambed out all the ewes one year in the rain pound. I’ve wanted to start a dairy for years, mate for a couple of years. The first time he and snow while I was in Spain learning but the U.S. wouldn’t allow imported sheep. helped during lambing season, Antonio about the sheep business over there.” Now, they will allow semen to enter the handed him a gas can and said “take this to When questioned, Molly will admit that country. We are getting closer.” the water truck.” Greg put the fuel intended she and the kids spent three seasons on the Benjamin Leyba, executive Vice Presifor the water pump into the truck’s gas tank. mountain with the cattle, and yes, they are dent of Northern Rio Arriba Electric When they needed water later, they all good riders. “We just do what we can to Cooperative in Chama, has worked with couldn’t start the pump. “The ribbing keep the ranching going,” she explained. “It Antonio professionally and as a stockman. Antonio gave me was half in Spanish and is a team effort. That is why there are so “Mr. Manzanares has a great vision for his half in English,” Greg recalls. “It cost us time many family ranches, because it takes business,” Benjamin explained. “And his to fix the mistake, but Antonio didn’t make everyone.” strong entrepreneurial skills have allowed me feel bad. He still had a sense of humor.” In fact, the daughters agree that their him to do very well in this industry. Along Though Antonio is the more vocal of the parents, as a team, should be known as with this skill, he has a strong work ethic, two and gets the most recognition, he and Sheepman and Sheepwoman of the Year. great family support, and his wife Molly Molly both give each other credit for their “Mom and Dad are both all about the ranch,” works as hard as he does.” successes. As Molly explained, “Antonio is reminisced Luisa, a veterinarian. “They both Benjamin continued. “Mr. Manzanares is very determined and makes the direct mar- work hard on the ranch and then they drive one of the few ranchers that has worked all over the country, taking hard to market his lambs, wool, weaving lamb here or wool there.” and wool blankets. He has great knowledge Raquel, an attorney for the of this industry. He is a true leader as he is University of Massachusetts, well known nationally. He has the vision agrees, “Mom does every- and business sense to succeed.” thing that Dad does, then Antonio’s sister Francella moved away comes to the house and fixes from La Puente at a young age, but has a meal.” witnessed Antonio and Molly’s struggle to survive from one year to the next. “They The vision of a have faced environmental challenges, lack lifelong learner of manpower, politics of the industry, hardIdeas sprout in Antonio’s ships and disappointment to name a few,” brain like weeds in a garden. she stated. “I fixed a leg of lamb for Easter, He is constantly searching for and as I was sitting at the table with my Shepherd’s Lamb organic lamb meat in the display case at better ways to do familiar three daughters and their families, I got La Montanita Coop, Santa Fe. tasks, or experimenting with somewhat emotional, overcome with the feeling of just how difficult it was for someone to put that food on the table.” “Antonio is a true hero,” she summarized.

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“He has gone through many challenges, but he just keeps lambing year after year.” Antonio and Molly also had the vision to make sure that their children’s education was not hindered by having to work on the family ranch. Just as Antonio chose a different path than the one his parents had envisioned, all of their children became well educated at prestigious universities and have established careers away from the ranch. “Dad truly believes that being a sheepman is the best thing in the world,” noted Agustin. “That being said, he has emphasized finding our own way and has always told us that we were not constrained by anything but our own imaginations.” Agustin, who serves in the US Army and is stationed with his wife, Alexis, at Langley Eustis in Virginia, added with a laugh. “But he is firm in his belief that there is nothing in the world as good as being a stockman in New Mexico...and he still believes that we will all come to that conclusion eventually.” An old saying states “People succeed when they believe in what they are doing.” Molly and Antonio believe in what they are doing, and to that belief they add a strong work ethic, great leadership skills, family and community responsibility, and a devout faith. The education of a lifetime and the last 37 years in the sheep business has shaped Antonio’s life and made him the sheepman that his peers are proud to recognize as one of the best.

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gered species delisting backlog. And the USGS received a $23 million increase for water and other studies. The BLM received a total budget of $1.2 billion. That’s an increase of $15 million, which includes $9 million for the sage grouse conservation project. One item of controversy in the BLM budget is the creation of a congressionally chartered foundation for the bureau. ASI, PLC and NCBA have written to the appropriating committees asking they “rethink” this proposal. “Buried in the hundreds of pages of bill and report language is Section 122 which creates a new, Congressionally-authorized Bureau of Land Management Foundation,” the letter states. “This Foundation was championed by Obama Administration officials like former Sec. Sally Jewell and BLM Director Neil Kornze. There are several parts of this language that are of great concern. The language creates a new quasi-governmental foundation that has broad authority, and a board of directors that is not overseen by Congress. The BLM Foundation would have the ability to hold real property, including land, water, or interest in land or water, essentially adding to the federal estate. While funding is to be by private donation, funds to establish an office and meet administrative, project and other expenses are appropriated through the FY 17 appropriations bill. It is simply inappropriate to include authorizing language for a brand new entity in a short-term spending bill.” Earlier drafts of the bill didn’t include this provision, so it was snuck in at the last minute. Bottom line: A Republican congress has increased the budget for BLM and smoothed the way for more private money and land acquisitions. There was a positive in the budget deal. I have written here several times about Michelle Obama’s Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act, which placed such onerous standards on the school lunch program. Those standards included calorie ranges for each age group, sodium limits, zero tolerance for trans fats, and specific ounce amounts for meats and grains. The result? Less meat. The kids revolted and hundreds of school districts dropped out of the program. Finally, and mercifully, Congress is catching up to the countryside. The budget deal ends these regulations. This whole program goes back to 1946 when it was started after WWII to sop up surplus ag commodities and morphed over time until it became the former First Lady’s personal social engineering party. It was misguided in the beginning and is still wrong today.

The monument’s moment President Trump signed the E.O. mentioned in my last column, requiring a review of all national monuments of over 100,000 acres and designated since 1996. “Today, I am signing a new executive order to end another egregious abuse of federal power, and give that power back to the states and to the people, where it belongs,” said the President. Trump required that Bears Ears and Grand Staircase Escalante in Utah be reviewed first, and Secretary Zinke has since spent an eventful week touring those two sites. Beginning with Bears Ears, Zinke met with Utah officials and the Utah Congressional Delegation, followed by meetings with Tribal leaders and local government folks. Having toured Bears Ears by plane and

horseback, he then moved on to the Grand Staircase Escalante, which had been created by President Clinton in 1996. His tour of that unit began in Kanab, where he started the day with a roundtable discussion. Leland Pollock, a County Commissioner and rancher, said prior to the designation of the monument he was able to run 260 head, but for the most recent grazing season he had been cut back to 64 head. Pollock explained the other animal units had been placed in “suspension”, which meant they still showed up on paper in the BLM office. “That,” said Pollock, “is how the federal government is getting rid of the rancher on the monument.” Later that day, on a hike to the once-proposed Smokey Hollow Mine, Utah Rep. Mike Noel explained that while an employee of

the BLM he had overseen a “bulletproof” EIS on the project which, “would have generated 9 billion tons of clean high-quality coal, hundreds of jobs and millions of dollars in revenue.” That all came to a screeching halt when Clinton designated the monument. The theme that day seemed to be one of optimism. “I’m very excited. I think there’s hope, hope for the people who want change on the monument and who want the boundaries reduced dramatically,” Pollock said. And Zinke said, “I’m an optimist and I think there’s enough common ground to move forward. So we’ll gather our thoughts, break out the maps and make a good recommendation to the president.” Zinke also said something I found very interesting. “Monuments should never be put in a

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position to prevent rather than protect…” I believe this perfectly describes what happened here in southern New Mexico when they went beyond the Organ Mountains. The objective was to prevent certain activities such as land exchanges, rights-ofway for utilities and pipelines, geothermal development, water development, placement of Border Patrol devices, etc., rather than to protect objects. Boundaries were drawn and then the hunt was on for objects to justify those boundaries. Let’s hope Zinke visits here and makes this observation himself.

Here we go again Just as I was wrapping this up Trump released his budget for FY 2018. Here’s a quick rundown: Interior -$1.6 billion; BLM -$162.7 million; FWS -$202.9 million; Park Service -$296 million. And leading the pack was EPA with a 31 percent cut. It appears Trump doesn’t give up easily, and neither should we. Until next time, be a nuisance to the devil and don’t forget to check that cinch. Frank DuBois was NM Sec. of Agriculture 1988-2003, is author: The Westerner (www.thewesterner.blogspot. com) & is founder of The DuBois Rodeo Scholarship & The DuBois Western Heritage Foundation

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CKP Drought Insurance Becomes NMCGA Premier Sponsor

he New Mexico Cattle Growers’ Association (NMCGA) is proud to announce that CKP Insurance has become the Association’s first ever Premier Sponsor, reports the group’s Pres. Pat Boone, Elida. “The support of our allied industries is critical to the mission of the NMCGA,” explains Boone. “We pride ourselves on having affordable programs, meetings & conventions for our members all across NM. The only way we can do that is with this support.” “In 2017, CKP has set a new bar for supporting New Mexico’s ranchers and rural communities,” Boone said. CKP Insurance, based in Boca Raton, FL (with local representation in NM), has been a sponsor for the Association at events in 2015 and 2016. Some of the events CKP has sponsored includes the Southern NM State Fair, the Eastern NM State Fair, the Eastern NM State Fair calf scrambles, the Northern NM Stockman, the Indian Livestock Days, as well as the NMSU Youth Ranch Mgt. Camp. CKP’s product in the West is the U.S.

Dept. of Agriculture’s Risk Mgt. Agency’s Pasture, Rangeland and Forage (PRF) Program which covers livestock owners for the lack of precipitation. The PRF Program is available across the nation but particularly beneficial in the Southwest. “While other agencies may be selling this program, CKP specializes in it” explained CKP Partner Chuck Hemphill, “our agency prides itself on personalized customer service. Purchasing the insurance without a complete understanding of the program can lead to misunderstandings, which may not allow you to realize the full benefit of the program. Additionally, our customers receive monthly status updates so they are aware of how the program is performing month to month.” CKP’s local Trusted Risk Advisors are working with ranchers now to plan their programs for the 2018 year, Mr. Hemphill noted. Anyone who grazes livestock or harvests hay is qualified for the program including leased lands, federal and state grazing allotments and deeded land. CKP works with you and the local Farm Service Agencies for mapping & certification to participate. For more info contact your local NM Trusted Risk Advisor Caren Cowan at 505/263-2015 or carencowan@ckpinsurance.com

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We’ll Drink to That: Bloomberg Spends (& Loses) Big in the Land of Enchantment

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tion to in order to force the local residents to conform to your worldview. This is not a common hobby and is confined to a few megalomaniacal billionaires who – rather than spend their money to enjoy life – spend it to make others’ lives less enjoyable. Case in point: Michael Bloomberg. We all know the former New York City mayor wants to bring New York City style gun control to America at large (think gun bans, discretionary licensing, prohibitively expensive fees, cronyism, and public corruption). But he doesn’t stop at that. Another Bloomberg obsession is soda.

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sion, holding that the DHMH “exceeded the scope of its regulatory authority” and upholding the permanent injunction against the ban’s enforcement. Unfortunately, Bloomberg continues to have an unusually active imagination when it comes to infringing upon the rights and choices of other people in far-flung places. Bloomberg trained his sights all the way out to New Mexico this year, financing a full-on effort to pass “universal” background check legislation for firearm transfers. That effort failed on the strength of opposition led by the NRA. Other opponents of the bill included the New Mexico Sheriff’s Association, which issued a statement emphasizing the proposal would “make it harder for law-abiding New Mexicans to exercise their Second Amendment rights” and “do nothing to keep guns out of the hands of criminals.” But Bloomberg wasn’t finished with the Land of Enchantment and poured additional cash into another pet project, an initiative campaign to impose a “sin tax” on sugary beverages sold in Santa Fe. By late April, according to a local media report, the New York billionaire had dumped $1.13 million into the effort. In early May, however, Santa Fe voters rejected the measure by a 16-point margin. Underscoring the elitist nature of the campaign, the Albuquerque Journal reported, “Voters in the city’s middle- and lower-income neighborhoods went against the tax in huge numbers, while the vote in Santa Fe’s affluent north and east sides split almost precisely 50-50.” While Bloomberg’s New Mexico efforts may have failed, don’t expect him to cut his losses and run. Inflamed by the failure of his New York City beverage scheme, Bloomberg has sought vengeance the only way he knows how: by seeking to spend his opposition into oblivion. His recent expenditures to pass soda taxes in three other cities, according to Fortune, amounted to $20 million. While unimaginable sums to most ordinary people, this is all chump change to the New York media mogul. With billions of dollars at his disposal – and more pouring in endlessly from his empire – his ability to stick his nose into other peoples’ freedoms is for all practical purposes unlimited. He is the embodiment of a plutocrat, and his pathological need to control the people he considers his inferiors is completely unmoored by political or geographic boundaries. And make no mistake: he’s just as

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Watch Out for Activist Drones

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ould an activist flying a drone be spying on your private property? Livestock producers are being warned about the potential trespassing in Nebraska. For cattlemen, I think part of the appeal of being in this business is enjoying the wide open spaces, breathtaking views and privacy of living in a remote rural area. However, for some, that peace and quiet is being interrupted by a buzzing noise overhead. It’s a drone, and activists could be the ones flying them over your operation. Cattlemen in south central Nebraska are being warned about possible drone flights over their operations. Pete McClymont, executive vice president of the Nebraska Cattlemen, tells 1049 Max Country radio that his organization has learned from members and local law enforcement officials that activists from the group SHARK could be attempting to fly drones over feedlots and around the Meat Animal Research Center near Clay Center, Nebraska.

This is not the first time these activists have done this. According to the report, the activists, “could be back in the area attempting to get drone footage of dead stock. McClymont says they may be in the Franklin County area, as well. There was a report of a black pickup with Illinois plates possibly taking photos near a Custer County feedlot, but that was not confirmed.” McClymont is advising producers to be on the lookout and keep any dead livestock hidden from view before rendering services come. Additionally, producers are encouraged to contact local law enforcement if they feel drones, or trespassers on foot or vehicle, are invading their privacy. First activists went undercover as employees trying to find fault in livestock producers, now they are simply going to spy on you with the latest technology. As always, if we keep doing what is right by our land and livestock, we have nothing to worry about. However, activists should be reminded of the laws in this country, and playing Big Brother by sneaking around is an extreme invasion of privacy. The opinions of Amanda Radke are not necessarily those of beefmagazine.com, Penton Agriculture, or New Mexico Stockman.

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Brangus-Cross Steer Wins Houston Carcass Contest

he International Brangus Breeders Association (IBBA) is excited to announce that a Brangus-cross was named Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo (HLSR) Carcass Contest Champion in late April. Jordan Adams, a high school junior of Clear Creek FFA, in League City, Texas, exhibited the Brangus and Charolais crossbred steer. Brent Cromwell purchased the steer’s sire, DDD =W= DJANGO 820A44; he was the high-selling bull in Doguet’s Diamond D Ranch’s 2014 fall sale in Poteet, Texas. “This market steer was from [Django’s] first calf crop,” said Doguet Genetics Manager Timmy Lucherk. The dam of the HLSR Carcass Contest Champion was a Charolais-composite cow. “These bulls are a prime example of the genetic and physical make-up that Timmy Lucherk and Doguet’s Diamond D Ranch put together and offer every year. These are real-world cattle and can apply to every facet of production, whether it be raising commercial bulls, females, fat cattle, or show animals,” Cromwell said. “These type of cattle can do it in the show ring and the cooler.” “The Brangus association congratulates Jordan for feeding and caring for this outstanding steer,” stated IBBA Executive Vice President Tommy Perkins, PhD., PAS. “The Doguet, Wellman and Cromwell families are to be complimented for producing a masterpiece in Django. This award further validates that American-breed cattle, specifically Brangus, excel in the pasture as well as on the plate for consumers.” The Cromwells have experienced great success using Brangus bulls on their exotic cattle. “We like to use Brangus bulls to clean up our exotic cattle for several reasons; whether it’s 40 degrees in the winter or 100 degrees in the summer, Brangus bulls are out working,” Cromwell said. “We typically don’t have any problems with dystocia, and although the show steers are extremely competitive, the replacements are as good as it gets.” Basic quality grades for young “A” maturity carcasses are standard, select, choice and prime, while yield grades are scored on a numeric scale of one to five. A yield grade of one is trim and heavily-muscled, whereas

a score of five is excessively fat and lighter-muscled. Cattle are graded on the rail for yield and quality, with quality being the measurement of palatability to the consumer and yield being the percentage of closely trimmed retail cuts. Adams’s steer received a quality grade of average-prime, displaying moderately abundant marbling. The carcass was, also, stamped with a numerical yield grade of two. The steer measured a 14.9-square-inch ribeye, which indicates an excellent carcass cut-out value of the steer. “This goes to show the excellent carcass merit of Brangus-influenced animals,” Lucherk said. “For many years there has been a gap between the goals of show steer producers versus the commercial cattle industry,” stated IBBA Field Representative Matt Murdoch. “The show ring has been slowly but surely fading away from the original reason for showing market steers. The facts are that these steers will eventually be hung on the rail and processed just like the rest of the market cattle.” For the modern-day club calf breeder, the selection criteria has been based solely on the phenotypic aspect and aesthetic value of these cattle.

Balance and eye appeal are generally prioritized higher than the market characteristics of muscle, growth, and fat cover, which ultimately affects the bottom line as these cattle are graded on the rail and sold by the pound. “With that being said, it is truly pleasing to see that we can have a steer that can be successful, not only ringside, but when hung on the rail, as well,” Murdoch said. “To all cattlemen this should be a positive feeling to know that we are finally making the progress to rebuild the bridge from show steers back to the basic fundamentals of market cattle.” “The staff, membership and volunteers of IBBA congratulate all other exhibitors of Brangus genetics who, also, excelled in the carcass contest this year,” stated Perkins. “Testimonies like this reflect why Brangus cattle make money and sense; Brangus genetics have superior carcass merit and feedlot efficiency.”

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EPA, Army Corps Want State Input on WOTUS Rewrite

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AGGIE NOTES From the Animal Resources Department Cooperative Extension Service, NMSU

NMSU Coop. Ext. Trains Landowners Proper Prescribed Burn Techniques

ell before the emergence of humans on the planet, fire played a role in shaping vegetation. Evidence suggests fire may have been burning plants as early as 440 million years ago. The question of how long humans have been using fire, for cooking, is hotly debated. “So where do these two stories converge? How long have humans been using fire to manipulate vegetation?” said Doug Cram, wildland fire specialist in New Mexico State University’s College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences. “At least in North America, Native Americans were the first fire managers. However, that skill has largely been lost among landowners.” Unlike other management tools such as tree cutting or herbicide spraying, burning is not a surrogate for some other disturbance. Rather, it is a natural process that can be used to influence vegetation toward a specific objective, such as reduced brush cover. Last month the NMSU Cooperative Extension Service and the New Mexico Prescribed Fire Council joined forces to begin training the next generation of landowners on the safe and effective use of fire. The training was conducted on the NMSU Corona Range and Livestock Research Center under the direction of Shad Cox, superintendent; and Richard Dunlap, senior research assistant. “Fire is a useful management tool, but understanding when, where and how to use it takes practice,” Cox said. “The training was designed specifically to address how to best use fire.” To facilitate this learning, the New Mexico Prescribed Fire Council recently acquired a “Burn Trailer” that citizens can borrow. The trailer contains all the tools landowners would need to burn. “Equipment that they would not find in the barn can be found in the trailer, such as drip torches, flappers, Pulaskis and a sling psychrometer, an instrument used to measure relative humidity,” Cram said.

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“Burning in the Corona country is one part fire experience and nine parts weatherman,” said Brent Racher, a veteran burner who helped teach the students. Indeed, being able to interpret weather forecasts for the day of the burn, as well the following days, is critical to successful burning. ublic concern regarding New Mexico “People need to know what will be the State University (NMSU) potentially wind speed and direction, relative humidity, closing two agricultural science ventilation rate and fuel moisture,” Cram centers has stimulated the College of Agrisaid. “These are all variables that must be cultural, Consumer & Environmental considered and taken into consideration.” Sciences to conduct a self-evaluation of the In addition, smoke must be account for 12 centers around the state. in order to avoid impacting downwind “At this time we are not closing any neighbors, communities and highways. centers; that would be the last recourse, but “This unique training opportunity is set it is on the table,” said College of ACES Dean to be repeated annually, as well as later this Rolando A. Flores. “In a time of low budgets, summer during growing season conditions, we need to rationalize and properly a historically non-traditional season of manage our resources.” burning that may offer equal efficacy but During visits with the advisory boards at with reduced fire behavior conditions such each agricultural science center, Flores as flame lengths and rates of spread,” Cram explained the evaluation process the said. college has begun. Contact Cram at 575/646-8130, dcram@ “We have formed a committee to deternmsu.edu, or the NM Prescribed Fire mine ways we can operate the research Council to learn more about this hands-on centers more efficiently as a whole, while training. reaching our goal of providing applied

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NMSU, Texas Tech to host Sustainable Rangelands Symposium June 21-22 in Ruidoso

he influence of drought cycles on rangeland and cattle management options will be the theme for the second annual Sustainable Rangelands Symposium Wednesday and Thursday, June 21-22, at the Ruidoso Conference Center, 811 Sierra Blanca Drive, Ruidoso. New Mexico State University’s College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences and Texas Tech University’s College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources are co-hosting the event that will follow the New Mexico Cattle Growers’ Association conference. “Rangeland sustainability is a key concept and one to which all ranchers, landowners, technicians and resource managers should strive to achieve and maintain,” said Mike Hubbert, NMSU animal and range sciences professor. “We have developed a roster of speakers that will address the drought cycles and what ranchers may do to lessen the impact on their operation.” From soils, water conservation and forage production, to livestock and wildlife management, the speakers will provide vital information. “Additional program topics will address calf values, and what feed yards and packers are looking for in the animals they buy,” Hubbert said. “Ultimately, the industry must understand the impact of consumers’ preference as to what they want and what they actually buy.” Keynote speaker Gary Paul Nabhan is an internationally celebrated nature writer, agrarian activist and ethnobiologist who tangibly works on conserving the links between bio diversity and cultural diversity. The National Ranching Heritage Center at Texas Tech University will host a Ranch Camp for the attendees’ children who have completed grades one through five. “While their parents attend the symposium sessions, the children will participate in hands-on activities and lessons created and led by NRHC educators,” Hubbert said. Symposium programs will be from 1 to 5 p.m. Wednesday, June 21, and from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Thursday, June 22. Pre-event registration fee is $75 for an individual, or $100 for a couple. Registration fee at the door will be $100. Contact Jenny Castillo at 575/646-2515 to register. MCM Elegante Lodge & Suites is the conference hotel. To make reservation call 575/258-5500.

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science that the agricultural producers may use in their operations to position themselves for success,” Flores said. The committee includes individuals from the private industry, some agricultural science center superintendents, college department heads and faculty members. “Our agricultural science centers need to be as self-sufficient as possible; research is not free,” Flores said. “It is critical that faculty members submit grant proposals, and they are doing it. However, at the national level, funding sources have decreased while the amount of people applying for funding has increased.” The alternative for the College of ACES is to do as other universities have done – turn to the private sector for partnerships. “We need to start looking at different approaches as to how we fund research,” he

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said. “We need more involvement with private industry participating in research, sponsoring research.” Under Flores’ leadership the entire college is conducting an extensive self-evaluation to determine the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats of each department and program, including the Cooperative Extension Service within each county and the 12 agricultural science centers around the state. “As with any organization involving 700 employees, we are finding issues and we are working to solve them,” Flores said. “As an engine for the economic and community development of New Mexico, we are committed to use efficient systems with considerable positive impact in the state.”

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NMSU Extension Agents Earn National, Regional, & State Awards

ew Mexico State University Cooperative Extension Service agents are racking up the awards. NMSU Sierra County CES Agriculture/4-H Agent Joshua Boyd earned national finalist honors from the National Association of County Agricultural Agents for his 4-H Horse Judging Manual. The NACAA’s communications competition recognizes agricultural agents on the state, regional and national levels. Boyd’s manual earned the second-highest award level possible. “When I learned I was a national finalist, I was extremely shocked and felt blessed for the acknowledgment and the recognition of all the work,” Boyd said. Two NMSU CES agents also received the coveted 2017 NACAA Distinguished Service Award and Achievement Award. Leigh Ann Marez, Guadalupe County Extension Program Director/Agent received the Distinguished Service Award, which recognizes an agent with over 10 years of experience who has demonstrated exceptional Extension work with his or her respective county clientele and across the state. Jason Lamb, Quay County Extension Agricultural Agent, received the Achievement Award, which recognizes an agent with fewer than 10 years of experience who has demonstrated excellence in programming in his or her respective county and statewide. The NACAA only selects one Distinguished Service Award recipient and one Achievement Award recipient from each state per year. As for Boyd’s 4-H Horse Judging Manual, he couldn’t be more pleased, especially for his first time entering the competition. “I was encouraged to enter the competition by the New Mexico Association of County Agricultural Agents,” he said. “And I’ve received positive feedback from FFA teachers and advisers, as well as 4-H coaches. To my surprise, some Texas schools are using the manual for their main source of reference.” The user-friendly manual provides a basic outline for coaches and beginning horse judges. It includes concepts on how to judge various classes of horses, as well

as information about horse anatomy, judging criteria and advanced practical judging reasons. The NACAA communications awards include several categories, such as publication, newsletter, website, feature story and video presentation. Award results are announced in mid-May of each year. In addition to Boyd’s recognition in the publication category, the following NMSU CES agents received certificates in the West Region, which includes 13 states: • Bonnie Hopkins, San Juan County Extension Agricultural Agent, program promotional piece category: Alfalfa and Range Workshop • Newt McCarty, Valencia County Extension Agricultural Agent, video recording category: Food Camp for Kids (videography by Jane Moorman) State certificate winners include: • Newt McCarty, Valencia County Extension Agricultural Agent, personal column category: Preserving Agriculture • Samantha Ortiz, San Miguel County Program Director/Extension 4-H Agent, feature story category: NMSU Extension Hosting Annual Ag Day in Las Vegas, New Mexico

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eing a ranch realtor these days must be difficult because they must appeal to two distinct types of buyers. There are the lifestyle buyers who could care less about a ranch’s carrying capacity, and then there are the ranchers who have pulled the wool over their banker’s eyes and can get financed to buy another place. So how do ranch realtors appeal to lifestyle buyers without insulting the cattlemen, and vice versa? Here are a few unreal estate ads to show you how hard this must be. See if you can tell which target audience the realtor is trying to reach. Unparalleled recreational opportunityThrill to the blood curdling call of the wolves. If you love to hunt this is the place is for you. (Sure, there’s lots of hunting, but very little finding.) Javelina, bears, lions, skunks and wild turkey have been spotted in the past. (That was back in 1896 and the only Wild Turkey on this place is in the bar.) Live off the fat of the land. (If you like to eat wild pig.) A large elk herd lives on the ranch. (And tramples all the fences and eats any hay you put out for the cows.) Three miles of river frontage for fly fishing right outside your door. (The house flooded five years ago.) $35,000,000. Firm. This One Will Pencil- (If you use some very fuzzy math.) Will run 350 cows in a good year. (The last good one was in 1956). Manufactured home on the premises that’s so gross even the rats left. Miles and miles of old pipe that needs replacing. Comes with haying equipment. (You’re gonna need it.) Only $7,000,000. Live The Life Of Luxury- Impressive main residence is a 12,000 square foot sprawling log home with a media room, spa and gym. The entire 125 acre ranch is lushly landscaped. (It wouldn’t feed two goats for a month). Relax in your very own an indoor/ outdoor wrap-around-the-house seawater pool with a swim up bar. (It’s the only water on the place.) Miles and miles of brand new plastic fencing. Borders Ted Turner so there are regular buffalo sightings on your property. Near a ski area. Act quick. This one won’t be on the market for long. $75,000,000! For The Cowboy In You- Equestrian facilities include round pen, roping arena, barn

with 12 stalls. Would make a great ranch for miniature horses, ostriches or llamas. (It’s not worth a darn as a cow outfit.) Could also be a profitable horse racing operation. (Yeah, and if pigs had wings they could fly.) Home on property is a double wide modular home that previously was Trevor Brazilles horse trailer. $3,000,000. Sustainable- For the greenie in you. Grow your own organic vegetables. Could be a solar facility or a great wind farm. (The weather around here is terrible.) 100 percent of mineral rights sell with the ranch. (The only mineral around here is the asbestos in the walls of the broken-down home.) A natural amphitheater perfect for poetry readings A real working ranch at 10,000 feet elevation near Jackson Hole with a 25 million dollar view. There’s no home for the manager. (Nor enough income to pay for one.) If you have to ask the price you can’t afford it. 300,000 Acre Ranch!- (295,000 acres BLM, 4,950 Forest Service lease. 50 acres deeded.) There is a conservation easement on the entire ranch, (So the Nature Conservancy will be breathing down your neck constantly.) Will run 26 pair for half the year. (But must be replaced constantly because the wolves around here are eating the cattle as fast as they can be replaced.) Huge shop. (It’s bigger than the house.) Could be a good grass ranch. (Now that they’ve legalized marijuana in this state.) $26,000,000. Historic Ranch- A rustic old line camp cabin that dates to 1850, has some indoor plumbing and impressive history library is included. (The holes in the walls are chinked with old newspapers from 1936.) Outbuildings include your own outdoor boudoir. This place was used at one time to film Little House On The Prairie. Outdoor kitchen. (There’s not one in the house.) Comes with a collectible squeeze chute. Great shopping nearby. (There’s a COSTCO two hours away!) Call for price. (We’re too embarrassed to say.)

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of the back room and walked up and stood by Mr. Cantley. Mr. Cantley said to Mr. Fielder, ‘I’ve been told that you said you were going to beat by Don Bullis, NM Author the stuffing out of me.’ Mr. Fielder said he had DonBullis.biz never said so, and that whoever told him so was a liar. After some farther parley about A Silver City some lawsuit, Cantley said he had personal Gunfight reasons for knowing he had it in for him. Fielder told Cantley, ‘Cantley I have nothing unfights are part and parcel of the on earth against you; I’ve always been your literature—including television and friend.’ Cantley asked Mr. Fielder if he was movies—of the Old West. Such armed. Mr. Fielder replied, ‘I do not think you events were usually portrayed as matters of have any right to ask me that question.’ honor, or villainy, in which two men faced “Mr. Cantley then pulled his pistol and fired; each other in the middle of a dusty street, Mr. Fielder pulled his pistol and fired; his pistol drew holstered six-guns and fired at one apparently going off before he had it up and another. Readers will recall that Marshal I think the first shot went into the floor. Then Matt Dillon of TV’s Gunsmoke fame only they both continued to fire. After the third or required a single shot to bring down his fourth shot Cantley staggered and started to adversary at the opening of each show. So fall. After Cantley fell or was falling Mr. Fielder did Roy Rogers, Gene Autry, John Wayne stepped forward and fired another shot with and many others. his pistol in both hands, he then snapped his The problem is that history only recorded pistol once or twice more at Cantley but it was a single instance of such a fight ever taking empty.” place and that was in Springfield, Missouri, Under the heading, “INCIDENTS OF THE in 1865 when James Butler “Wild Bill” Hickok SHOOTING”, the Enterprise reporter prokilled a gambler named Dave Tutt. So much vided the following details: legend has grown up around the affray that “When Cantley pulled his gun Mr. Fielder it is virtually impossible to report what coolly reached for his cigar and placed it in the really happened. other side of his mouth, at the same time What follows, though, is an abridged freeing his elbows from the place they occuaccount of a real-life gunfight, taken from pied between the pickets of the railing against the Silver City (New Mexico) Enterprise for which he was standing, and stepped to one October 11, 1895. side of the railing so that his arms were “At twenty-five minutes past ten o’clock on unobstructed. Tuesday evening (Oct. 8), the citizens of Silver “From the relative positions of the combatCity were startled by the loud reports of six ants and the bullet marks in the wall behind pistol shots fired in regular and precise order where Mr. Fielder stood, it is evident that each of about a half second apart, followed by an of the bullets fired from Mr. Cantley’s pistol interval of a few seconds by two more shots… only missed his opponent by a few inches. One “The affray occurred at the White House bullet went too high and to the left of Mr. Saloon, into which place Mr. [James] Fielder Fielder’s head, one just to the right of his had stepped for a few moments before going breast. Mr. Fielder’s first shot evidently went home [after] simply taking a stroll through the into the floor between them, his second evitown before retiring for the night. Walking dently struck the deceased above and through the club room to go out he was outward of the nipple of the left breast, accosted by Marshall [sic] [Charles] Cantley, another struck him in the neck above the left who had been drinking and was considerably clavicle, when he commenced to stagger and under the influence of liquor. Their conversa- fall, and another after he had fallen grazed tion at first was of a pleasant and jovial his chin on the left side, going downward character, but soon Cantley became angry through the neck into the body. One of the and aggressive, as he often did while drinking. bullets fired by Mr. Fielder went over his antagMr. Fielder strove to placate and pacify him onist’s head and bedded itself in the wall. Mr. but without avail.” Fielder testified that after the first shot was Witness John Gillett described what fired by Cantley he could not see him on happened then. account of the [gun] smoke, and he just fired “Cantley was drinking during the evening at the point where the flashes were coming and Mr. Harvey, myself, and others had been from, until Cantley fell.” trying to get him home for an hour and a half Charley Cantley had resided in Silver City but could not. I had been in the back room a for about ten years at the time of his death, short time when I heard the words uttered by and had served as a lawman for the entire Mr. Fielder, ‘liar or damned liar.’ I stepped out period, first as a deputy sheriff and then as

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Progress Against the Progressives

efore we get into this, I hope you all made it over to Tucumcari, New Mexico for their “Rawhide Days” celebration during the first weekend in May. They had a great time there with lots of great music, a cattle drive, a Longhorn photo shoot, a beauty pageant, a blacksmith competition and art auction. If you missed it put it down to go next year! I know some of you do not like crowds, but if the crowd includes horses, cattle, cowboy music, pretty girls, and the artisanal blacksmiths, how could you go wrong? Let’s talk about the term progressive which means to go forward. How did the left get that moniker? To me going forward is to give the individual more freedom. The progressive movement wants to take your freedoms away so we are all the same. I would call that the retardant movement, because it retards progress. Think about it in terms of training a horse. The better your horse works on his own, the more the rider needs to leave him alone. It looks to me like Washington, DC is all abuzz! President Trump just continues to tick off the Washington establishment and they just do not know how to handle it. They are trying

city marshal. He was well regarded and generally considered fearless in the face of the outlaw element. The Enterprise, though, said this: “His long continued authority as an officer … had caused him to assume an arbitrary demeanor, which at times tended toward aggressiveness. Liquor, to which he was slightly addicted, would aggravate this tendency… “The business houses in the city all closed during the funeral which was largely attended by all of our best citizens.” Justice of the Peace Isaac Givens ruled the case a matter of self-defense, and the Enterprise concluded thus: “The whole affair is to be deplored.” Not much like a Matt Dillon shoot-out, is it?

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their best to discredit the President, but he just keeps on firing back at them. The media has to be the funniest victim, as he is always calling them out for reporting “fake news”. They have not figured out that with social media they are not nearly as important as they used to be. It would be nice to get a half honest media once again, but will that ever happen? If you happen to know any Washington lobbyists, have you talked to them lately? They are mad, too. When they line up at the Congress for their alms, they are not getting half of what they did the last eight years. Believe me, if our President can drain even half the swamp it will be nothing short of a miracle. Of course, the man that did an abysmal job of running for President a few years back, Arizona Senator John McCain cannot seem to figure out which party he belongs to. From his latest actions against Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and the firing of the FBI Director James Comey, I guess he misses the Democrats being in charge. Of course, McCain’s boy, the junior Senator from Arizona, Jeff Flake joined right in there with him. I just cannot figure out how Arizona

elected two progressive senators in the Republican Party. All I can say is, the western ranchers need to thank Environmental Protection Agency Chief Scott Pruitt for rolling back President Obama’s overreaching “Waters of the United States” rule that claimed to even regulate puddles. By rolling this back we have all regained our water rights that we paid for when we purchased the land we live on. One thing about it, President Obama wanted to make sure the government had complete control over you, your land, and your water. The rule was held up at the Supreme Court, but there is no longer a need for them to even look at it now. Water is such a vital issue to all ranchers and farmers. The government grabbing your water rights is criminal in my book. Someone forgot to remind President Obama that government agencies are not supposed to be activists. Another large concern to residents of the rural west has to be the 1906 Antiquities Act which allows presidents the right to designate national monuments on federal land without the approval of Congress. In the West this greatly affects us because of

the amount of land we need to run cattle on, mine, and for oil leases. These seem to boil down to nothing other than federal land grabs. In Arizona only 16 percent of the land is owned by private citizens. That means that 84 percent of this state is owned by the federal government. I know other western states are similar. How preposterous is this? Why would anyone that resides in Washington, DC know anything about how we should live on this land? It should be left up to the residents that live here. Other than owning a land to place their government facilities on, why would the federal government ever own any other land? It certainly should be left up to the states. Local control is much more effective than governing from afar. Open your eyes and look at how incapable the United States Forest Service is in taking care of its charges. If you are in love with the work of the EPA, have you looked at the Animas River lately? Also, I just saw a proposed bill that would strip the Bureau of Land Management of policing its lands. These overreaching government agencontinued on page 52 >>

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cies need to be reined in and start leaving hard working people alone, so they can make a living. Many city dwellers think they are saving the land by having it under federal control, but once again they do not live there. They can be fed mountains of political misinformation and they will believe it, because they do not see it everyday. Those of us that live here know how it really works. The good news is that our new Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke has a proven record of supporting President Teddy Roosevelt’s multiple use vision of public lands. Just so I am clear, multiple use meaning economic, recreation, and conservation. He is a fifth generation Montanan and former 23-year US Navy Seal Officer. Zinke is praised for co-authoring the Resilient Federal Forest Act which initiated new reforms to revitalizing timber towns across America. The bottom line is he will help those of us that have to deal with the government trying to run us off of public lands. Secretary Zinke just came on board on March 1st, so give him a little time to get this right. Don’t think that the fight is over just because we won the White House. Mr. George Soros and his left wing groups are doing everything they can to undermine this administration. However, since you are a westerner, you are required to fight back every chance you get. I think a great outlook is in our future, but we cannot rest on our victories. We need to get to work and keep the swamp dwellers out of our lives. Our biggest fear should be the Washington establishment which consists of both parties in many cases. Editor’s Note: Views expressed in this column are not necessarily those of the NM Cattle Growers’ Association or the NM Stockman magazine.

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Enjoy Today

f you stop and think about it, we live in the most exciting time in the history of the human race! People live longer. They enjoy the highest standard of living ever known to mankind. Conveniences are better than ever before. Yet all of the time you hear people saying, “Things sure ain’t like they used to be.” Some people always lament about, “The good ol’ days.” It is a good thing that, “things ain’t like they used to be.” The “good ol’ days” were not all they are made out to be— they were tough times. Think about it. For thousands of years, mere survival consumed the bulk of an average day— and folks only survived forty-some-odd years on average. If you got sick, odds were—you died. If you got injured very seriously, odds were—you died. If you did not get out and find sufficient food each day—you died. If somebody else wanted your food (or other stuff) and you were not a better fighter than they were—you died. Times may have seemed simpler, but they were also a heck of a lot tougher. One should study other aspects of history as well. You think people complain about crooked politicians now? Well go back and look at what they used to get away with. I am not saying they are straight, respectable, or honest today by any stretch of the imagination. What I am saying is, there has always been problems with people in positions

of power “taking it to the little guy.” Governments were corrupt since recorded history first began and people complained about the treatment and taxes from that day to this. Griping about the Government is nothing new. You say things were “cheaper” back then? Well so were wages! By a lot bigger margin. People used to spend most of their day either foraging for a meal or working for next-to-nothing so they could afford one. They did not have time to go enjoy things we take for granted now. A poor person by today’s standards was considered pretty well-off by yesterday’s. I could go on and on, but either you get the picture—or you won’t. Here is an idea. Instead of complaining about how things “aren’t like the used to be,” try to enjoy this day. Focus on what is good, and right, about now— today. Think about all the good things you have in life. A wise man once told me, “The grass may seem greener, but comparing your life to others, or another time and place, is a waste of time. You have no idea what other folks went through. Not until you’ve ridden in their saddle for a while.” Sure, people always have had problems. They always will. But I am here to tell you, life is GREAT! Why, it’s just about as great as you allow it to be! Not only is this time and place the best ever known to mankind in all of history, it’s all you truly have anyway! Why not make the most of it and quit belly-achin’ about a perceived better time—which never really happened anyway. Onward and upward. It’s the Cowboy way!

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crews, the EMTs, nurses, tow truck drivers, firemen, city police, food service workers, hospital emergency lifesavers, and all those people whose store, business, office, church or home has been vandalized or demolished…that’s WHO. If you are part of this poop parade, regardless of the cause, think of the mess as your legacy. Think of them as having to change your diaper after you’ve done your business. Even if 25 percent of the POOPsters had the character or self-respect of Missy, WHO does clean up your mess, mayb e p e ople would take you seriously.

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sk yourself “Do you make messes, or clean them up?” Missy is 53, would rather be at home with her two grandchildren, works for the city and was ordered to work late. Her back hurts as she leans on her push cart and broom. Missy watches a CNN reporter interview an activist who symbolically throws a protest sign at the broom’s feet. “It’s a good sign of solidarity,” the activist boasts. When you sit at home watching the continuing protest, marching, window-smashing, burning buildings, dissing school faculties and political mud-slinging all being done in the name of a cause…do you ever think, “WHO is going to clean this mess up?” It appears that it is NOT the ones who made the mess. They must be exhausted after shouting, marching and carrying those heavy signs. Afterwards, the celebrity speakers are probably swept away in their limos, then flown back to their gated communities in time to see themselves in CNN spouting more Hate Speech than Hitler’s scriptwriter could keep up with! I suspect part of the protesters and marchers are shamed by the personally degrading behavior they get associated with. They depart as quickly as they can, leaving their “enthusiastic cohorts” to break windows, set cars on fire and loot the neighborhood…leaving WHO to clean up? There are examples of protesters who made an effort to clean up their mess. The Native Americans and ‘environmentalists’ protesting against the ND Access Pipeline tried, but the quagmire of abandoned garbage, teepees, vehicles and human waste made it impossible. The Army spent $1.1 million to make it safe again. Four hundred and seventy thousand marchers in The Women’s March in Washington, D.C., were encouraged to leave their signs with sticks or cardboard on the street as a “slap in the face” to their nemesis. How easy is it to bend over and pick up a flat piece of cardboard from the sidewalk? How about picking up 200,000 of them? New York City, Chicago, Austin, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, Philadelphia equate to mountainous,

immense, huge, gigantic, megalithic piles of detritus left by…what’s a good word to describe the protesters and marchers? Changers? Supporters? Good Intentioneers? Sincere Obstructers? Meaning Wellers? How about “Protesters Offended by Other Protesters?” Well, what do they all have in common? Imagine a circus parade with both Elephants and Protesters Offended by Other Protesters…POOPsters. It would be fair to say neither POOPsters nor Elephants give a poop about the mess they make. Which brings us to the question, WHO cleans up the mess? The ANSWER is: the city garbage

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NORTHEAST NEW MEXICO RANCH FOR SALE 14,300 Deeded Acres (+ or -) 1,175 Acres State Lease Land Excellent grass ranch, two homes, good shipping pens with stock scales, well watered. 35 miles east of Tucumcari, NM, 10 miles from I-40. Call for Brochure

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ETHAN LABRIER QUALIFYING BROKER 7900 S.W. 81st Place 1, Amarillo, TX 79119

575-708-0244 - 806-418-2249

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P.O. Box 244, 585 La Hinca Road, Magdalena, NM 87825

Buyers are looking for a ranch. If you have a ranch to sell, give me a call. Lincoln, New Mexico: Historic Vorwerk home with 33+/- acres . Rio Bonito river with 16.5 acre feet of historic water rights dating to 1853. Elk, mule deer, turkey, barbary sheep. Brochure at: www.sidwellfarmandranch.com 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

cows. Ready for your cows. Corona. $1,200,000 DINNER HILL RANCH: 14,080 acres, 151 cows. North of Del City, TX. $1,500,000

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BROADDUS PLACE: 1,001 acres. House and plenty of improvements. Magdalena. $569,000 HIGHLAND MEADOWS ESTATES: 522 acres. 335 lot subdivision.

30 minutes west of Albuquerque. $550,000 BROADDUS STORAGE UNITS: 104 total units. 80% occupied. Low overhead.

Magdalena. $535,000 SAN ANTONIO FARM: 13.22 acre Farm w/ ancient water rights. $450,000 MILL CANYON: 120 acres. 2108 sf home. Magdalena Mountains. SOLD $390,000

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TORRANCE COUNTY RANCH: 27,905 acres, 245

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AG LAND LOANS As Low As 3% OPWKCAP 2.9%

INTEREST RATES AS LOW AS 3% Payments Scheduled on 25 Years

Joe Stubblefield & Associates 13830 Western St., Amarillo, TX 806/622-3482 • cell 806/674-2062 joes3@suddenlink.net Michael Perez Associates Nara Visa, NM • 575/403-7970

MOUNTAINAIR RANCH Located 5 miles east of Mountainair lies a 295 acre parcel that is developed perfectly. Property has a custom built Ranch style home with artistic features, NM landscaping and a one car garage. At the headquarters is a Fabulous horse barn with indoor stalls and outdoor runs as well as turn out pens and a large tack room. Also at the horse barn is a garage area. Property also features a shop, storage building, separately fenced pastures, shipping pens and an arena. At the arena and shipping pens is a Rustic style cabin. This property is immaculate and the setting is beautiful. Shown by appointment to qualified buyers. Call Becky to schedule a showing, 575-748-4722.

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

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DRIPPING SPRINGS RANCH , MULE CREEK, NM - 232 deeded acres with 13,000 Gila National Forest allotment for the grazing of 150 head of mother cows a 4 horses yearlong. Nice improvements, beautiful country. Priced @ $2,500,000

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THE FOURR RANCH DRAGOON AZ – 1280 deeded acres, 11610 AZ state, and 3689 NF Acres. Runs 300 head, Well-watered, lots of grass. Priced @$4,250,000

•Rocky Ridge Ranch – Just Listed almost 6 sections with 41% Deeded, 44% BLM and 14% State Lease. Very few ranches are improved in a manner comparable to this ranch, regardless of size and the location and is within close proximity to Roswell, NM as an added bonus. Call Cherri Michelet Snyder for more details and check out the website. Reduced by $200,000

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RAINBOWS END RANCH, SUNIZONA, AZ – 315 head yearlong, 5588 deeded acres 15000 state and BLM lease. Good easy grass country. This is a nice ranch in a very productive area of Arizona. Priced @$3,500,000

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BAR B RANCH, TUBAC, AZ – 75 head yearlong, 526 acres with 75 acres irrigated, owned by the same family since 1914, large grandfathered water right. Last large tract of land in the area. Improvements need attention. Priced @$1,950,000 – reduced from $2,350,000

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If you are looking to Buy or Sell a Ranch or Farm in Southwestern NM or Southern AZ give us a call:

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Nancy A. Belt, Broker Cell 520-221-0807 Office 520-455-0633

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Please view our websites for details on these properties, choice TX, NM, CO ranches (large & small), choice ranches in the high rainfall areas of OK, irr./dryland/CRP & commercial properties. We need your listings on any types of ag properties in TX, NM, OK & CO.

Tobe Haught 505-264-3368 Tamra Kelly 928-830-9127 Harry Owens 602-526-4965

RANCHES/FARMS *NEW* 400 Head Alamosa Ranch, Tolar, NM – +/-10,982 Deeded acres, +/- 4,000 acres State of NM Grazing Lease, +/-700 acres adverse grazing. 2 homes, barns. The HQ consists of a 3 BR, 2 BA, double wide mfg main home, yard with fruit and shade trees. Second double wide mfg home, set of scales, pipe corrals, pipe loading chute, saddle house, shop, cedar picket and wood horse pens. 13 Wells, 80 to 200 feet deep, 12 windmills, 4 miles of pipeline and 2 storage tanks. Ephemeral increases in wet years ($370/ac) $4.064M *NEW* Hunting and 125 Head Cattle Ranch, Lindrith, NM – Laguna Seca Ranch is set against scenic bluffs with expansive views of open meadows and rolling hills covered in pines, juniper and oaks in the Santa Fe National Forest. Abundant elk and deer. Includes deer and elk permits, two homes, steel shop with equipment shed partially insulated and heated, hay barn, tack room, storage, second hay barn, steel corrals with sorting pens, steel lead-up and crowding tub, squeeze chute, scales, calf table and loading chute. Well watered with 7 wells, 8 dirt tanks, 2 storage tanks, and 10 drinkers. $2,500,000 Includes cattle and equipment. 490 Head La Cienega Ranch, Yucca, AZ – Solid working desert ranch with a well improved recently remodeled headquarters. Includes a home, bunk house, shop, tack house, good corrals. 122.83+/- deeded acres, 13,483+/acres State Lease, 69,390+/- acres BLM, and 86,302+/- acres adverse grazing. Good water with miles of pipeline, 9 wells, 2 dirt tanks and springs. $1,690,000. Call Tamra Kelly at 928830-9127

*SOLD* 90 Head, Agua Fria Ranch,

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Quemado, NM – This is a scenic midsize ranch with great prospects. Operating as a private hunting retreat, & a purebred Angus & Paint horse ranch. +/-

1200 deeded acres, +/-80 acres of NM lease, & +/-5220 acres BLM. 4BR, 2BA, mfg. home. Trophy elk, antelope, deer. Elk & mule deer permits. Candidate for a conservation easement or land exchange with the BLM. $1,490,000

records indicate it is 70’ deep with static water at 35’. Flood irrigated and fenced. Suitable for crops, pasture, or nut trees. Located close to I-10, town, schools and services with easy access. A great value at $400,000

*NEW* 300 Head South Clem Ranch, Harquahala, AZ, – Solid working desert ranch. 40 deeded acres, +/-32,000 acres BLM, +/-17,600 State, +/34,800 adverse. 3 Wells, 5 dirt tanks, 9 - 10,000+/- gal storage tanks. Shipping corrals at HQ and 3 sets of working pens and traps. Ephemeral increases in wet years. Includes cattle and rolling equipment. $1.45M

*REDUCED* +/-38 Acre Farm, Sheldon AZ – This preppers paradise includes a large 4 BR 3 BA home; canning studio; root cellar; large workshop with covered outdoor work area; irrigated pasture with 600 gpm well, fenced and cross fenced for cattle/horses; corrals; barn; chicken houses and pens; rabbit pen; garden area, fruit trees, pond and other various outbuildings. The property includes tractor implements; backhoe; and RV. $410,000 $395,000

*NEW* 1388 AUM’s - Deadman Ranch, East of Reserve, NM – Gorgeous Mtn ranch in the Ponderosa Pines with open grassy meadows and abundant wildlife. Turnkey operation with a fully improved and equipped headquarters. Pristine, beautiful, private. 115+/- Acre deeded forest inholding with USFS permit. Modern log cabin, separate guest and cowboy bunkhouses, managers house, corrals, stable, shop, seasonal creek, strong well with water piped to all pastures. $1,200,000 w/ cattle & equipment. Call Nancy Belt 520-221-0807 Bar LR Homestead Multi Parcel Auction, St. David, AZ ~ Sold at Auction April 22, 2017 122.87 +/- Acres with panoramic valley and mountain views, irrigated pasture, white vinyl fencing, mature pecan trees, multiple homes, workshop all in a beautifully treed, quiet rural town setting.

*MAJOR REDUCTION* 17 Head BLM Permit, Near Ft. Thomas, AZ – 200+/- deeded acres with well, and spring. Very remote and extremely scenic with a beautiful canyon lined with sycamore and cottonwood trees and stunning rock formations. $285,000 $199,000 240 Acres with Irrigation Rights, Elfrida, AZ – Suitable for hay, crops, pecans, irrigated pasture, homesite or future development. Includes 130 acres of irrigation rights, partially fenced, with corrals, & a well. Reduced to $279,800 $215,000. Terms.

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

*NEW* 98+/- Acre Farm, Pomerene, AZ – 70 plus irrigated acres with an 800 gpm well that has a 16” casing,

*REDUCED* San Rafael Valley, AZ – Own a slice of heaven in the pristine San Rafael Valley, 152 Acres for $304,000 & 77 Acres with well for $177,100

*SOLD*94 Head Cattle Ranch,

Safford, AZ – 200 Deeded Acres, BLM and State of AZ Grazing Leases. Desert ranch w/five sets of corrals, four w/ wells & one w/a spring. The ranch is well watered w/5 total wells, 6 dirt tanks & a spring. $450,000

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n BANKRUPTCY COURT SALE / DVR RANCH – Quay/Harding Co., NM – Located on both north & south shores of the Ute Lake reservoir – Logan, NM is a 22,429.44 ac. +/- ranch (10,444.44 deeded – 12,385.5 State Lease) watered not only by wells & pipeline but also the lake itself on both shores. Excellent location on all weather roads & pvmt. n UTE LAKE SUBDIVISION – beautiful, new custom built home, 5,046 +/- sq. ft. on 3.230 ac. +/-, 4 bdrm., 3 ½ bath & an attached two car garage. n BUY THE IMPROVEMENTS – LEASE THE LAND! – Union Co. – 640 ac. +/-, nice home w/ landscaped yard w/matured trees, nice shop, cattle pens & modern pivot sprinklers. n EXCELLENT OWNER FINANCING! ABERCROMBIE RANCH – Huerfano Co., CO – 7,491 ac. +/- of choice grassland watered by wells & the Cucharas River, on pvmt. n MESA DEL GATO RANCH – 6,423.45 AC. +/- in two tracts of 3,735 ac. & 2,688.45 ac., all deeded, approx. 7 mi. apart offered as one ranch, broker will assist w/contracts on either or both of the tracts, good country for year-round cow/calf operation or summer yearling grazing. n CANYON VIEW RANCH – 1,542 deeded ac. +/- just out of Clayton, NM, beautiful, good country, well watered, volcanic rock mining operation offers addtl. income, on pvmt. n BOX CANYON RANCH – Quay Co., NM – well improved & watered, 2,400 ac. deeded, 80 ac. State Lease, excellent access from I-40. n LAKE VIEW RANCH – San Miguel Co., NM – 9,135 ac. +/- (6,670 +/- deeded, 320 +/- BLM, 40 +/- State Lease, 2,106 +/- “FREE USE”) well improved, just off pvmt. on co. road., two neighboring ranches may be added for additional acreage! n G BAR FARM – Tucumcari, NM – 194 ac. +/-, well improved w/home, barns, pens, 138.6 ac. Arch Hurley conservation district water rights, well suited for combination farm/livestock operation! n AIRPORT DRIVE – Tucumcari, NM – Choice 160 ac. +/-, on pvmt. w/beautiful home, roping arena, steel pens & 139.5 ac. +/- of water rights. n BIRD HUNTERS HAVEN – Quay Co., NM – 258 ac. +/-, in easy driving distance of Ute & Conchas Lakes, all in native grass w/home, barns, good fences, well watered , on pvmt.

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the largest cattle ranches within the state of New Mexico. The historic Turkey Track Ranch, once owned by Cap Mossman, the famous lawman, has been under one family ownership for over 70 years. The ranch is situated in three southeastern New Mexico counties and encompasses over 253,000 acres. The ranch extends from the Pecos River Valley on the ranch’s western boundary for over 40 miles to above the “Caprock Escarpment” in Lea County. The acreage includes, 37,000 +/- deeded acres, 167,625 federal BLM lease acres and 48,800 NM State lease acres. The grazing capacity is set by the BLM at over 3,000 AUYL. The ranch is operated from a headquarters located above the Caprock in Lea County and two additional cow camps all complete with living facilities and working pens. The pasture design includes 13 larger pastures and numerous smaller pastures and traps. Livestock water is provided by approximately 30 serviceable wells and miles of buried pipeline. In addition there are numerous large earthen tanks scattered throughout the ranch. The terrain and vegetation is diversified ranging from shinnery oak lowlands to tight grama grass turf. This is a must see. It could be one of the last opportunities to own a large piece of history. Call for an appointment to come take a look. Price: $18,500,000 cash Scott McNally, Qualifying Broker Roswell, NM 88202 Office: 575-622-5867 • Cell: 575-420-1237

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Apache Mesa Ranch: 5,300 + - acre rim rock ranch located southwest of Las Vegas, NM. 3,520+- deeded acres w/BLM & State grazing leases, cedar, pinon & ponderosa tree cover, rim rocks, mesas & grassy meadows. HQ w/bunk house & Foreman’s home & plenty of scenery. Priced at $1,998,900 OBO El Pueblo Farm: Pecos River front farm on 5.3 acres w/3 bedroom home w/generous irrigation rights. Well developed, self sustainable farm has green houses, goats & chicken facilities. Priced at $387,500. Call Catherine 505-231-8648 Romero Ranch: 920 acres w/40 acre BLM grazing parcel attached. Mesa top location has grammas, side oats, sacatone, cedars, pinons & tall pines. 6 stock tanks, close to power. North & east sides include La Cueva Canyon bottom & Owner will carry! List Price is $400,000 Dilia Loop Road: Fenced 20+ acre parcel raises alfalfa & sweet grass, 4 irrigated sections w/20 ac/ft ditch rights & Pecos River frontage. Excellent farming opportunity for organic vegetable gardens, alfalfa or sweet grass. Priced at $225,000 Upper Anton Chico: Outstanding alfalfa production on this 7.5 acres. Irrigated with under ground pipes, perimeter fenced, easy farm to work and water. Now $82,500 Bernal, NM: 20 acre view home site is fenced on 3 sides, overhead electric, telephone on the lot line and has great valley views. Mfg homes allowed. Amazing price of $69,900 Bernal, NM: 100 deeded acres for sale on north I-25 frontage road. Electric & phone at property line. Good water wells in the area. Hilltop parcel with view. Asking $100,000 Apache Mesa Road: Two 80 acre parcels, w/good water wells on site. West parcel has septic system, solar array, storage containers and a travel trailer, priced at $185,000. East parcel has two dirt tanks, fence on one side, good mountain views, priced at $165,000. Buy one or both! White Lakes Road: 1,100 deeded acres grass land, nice mountain views, over head electric on site, county road access. Basin fringe water! Wind farm? Solar array farm? Looking to get $898,900 Stanley, NM: Two 40 acre tracts w/power & water $65,000 each, Two 80 acre Tracts w/ power - $89,900 each. Located on Calle Victoriano. 640 acre tract also available. Opportunities available for a large yearling operation plus cow/calf ranch operation available for purchase, no leases, principles only. Call for details.

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RITO SPRINGS RANCH ■ Western New Mexico ■ ELK (12 Permits), MULE DEER, ANTELOPE, & QUAIL, DUCK HUNTING■ Unit 12 ■ 15 Acre PRIVATE LAKE stocked with Fish ■ Locked Gates on 95% of the Ranch ■ Great home for 250-275 Cows, calves weigh 550-600 lbs. ■ 200 Acres of Irrigated Land with “Free” Surface Water Rights ■ 175 + Acres of Sub-Irrigated Land ■ Deeded Land -9,579 Acres ■ State Grazing Lease – 8,041 Acres ■ Federal Lease Land – 1,180 Acres SUBSTANTIAL PRICE REDUCTION

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Angus, Shorthorn, LimFlex Bulls - Cows - Heifers for Sale John & Laura Conniff 1500 Snow Road, Las Cruces, NM 88005 575/644-2900 • john@conniffcattle.com Casey & Chancie Roberts Upham Road, Rincon, NM 575/644-9583 www.conniffcattle.com www.leveldale.com

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Summer, Fall & Winter grazing for calves & feeder cattle. Yearlong lease for cows & calves. References upon request. Please send detailed information to Pasture@ZiaAg.com or leave a message at 505.349.0652

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Williams Windmill, Inc.

New Mexico Ranch Items and Service Specialist Since 1976 New Mexico Distributor for Aermotor Windmills

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eer aren’t the slim, graceful vegans we thought they were. Scientists using field cameras have caught deer preying on nestling song birds. And it’s not just deer. Herbivores the world over may be supplementing their diets. When researchers in North Dakota set up “nest cams” over the nests of song birds, they expected to see a lot of nestlings and eggs get taken by ground squirrels, foxes, and badgers. Squirrels hit thirteen nests, but other meat-eaters made a poor showing. Foxes and weasels only took one nest each. Know what fearsome animal out-did either of those two sleek, resourceful predators? White-tailed deer. These supposed herbivores placidly ate living nestlings right out of the nest. And if you’re thinking that it must be a mistake, that the deer were chewing their way through some vegetation and happened to get a mouthful of bird, think again. Up in Canada, a group of ornithologists were studying adult birds. In order to examine them closely, the researchers used “mist-nets.” These nets, usually draped between trees, are designed to trap birds or bats gently so they can be collected, studied, and released. When a herd of deer came by, they deer walked up to the struggling birds and ate them alive, right out of the nets. This behavior is not limited to one species or one continent. Last year, a farmer in India made a video of a cow eating a recently-hatched chick. Some scientists speculate that herbivores turn to meat when they’re not getting enough nutrients in their diet. It’s possible. A biologist in Scotland documented red deer eating seabird chicks, and concluded it was how they got the dietary boost necessary to grow their antlers. The same researcher also documented sheep eating the heads and legs off of seabird chicks. And then there’s another cow in India, which reportedly ate fifty chickens. There may be a specific need that drives herbivores to occasionally eat meat. It’s also possible, experts say, that eating meat, when it can’t run away from them, is just something supposed “herbivores” do, & we’re finally getting wise to it. The famous line from The Simpsons might be accurate – If a cow ever got the chance, he’d eat you and everyone you ever cared about. Sources: Herbivores Busted Preying on Birds Nests, Scottish Deer are Culprits in Bird Killings.

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Wallace (Wally) Harvey Ferguson, 80, Carrizozo died peacefully at his home on April 23, 2017. Wally was born in Carrizozo on June 14, 1936 to Louise and Wallace Ferguson. Wally lived in Capitan and attended Capitan High School where he graduated in 1954. He was a determined athlete, played quarterback and was a member of two state championship football teams. He played in what is known as the Greatest Football game ever played – the Tularosa Football Game. He attended NM A&M on a football scholarship starting in 1954 and majored in vocational agriculture. He had a successful football career and was nicknamed The Bull. Wally was also named The Greatest Aggie in 1956. On December 28, 1959 he married Anne Gallacher in Carrizozo. They began their married life together in Farmington where Wally taught Ag. The next year they moved to Capitan where he continued his teaching career and coached football, basketball and track for four years. In 1963 Wally and Anne began their ranch life together. Wally truly enjoyed ranching, cattle and improving their cow herd. Wally and Anne started a Red Angus Cow Herd in 2000, raising registered herd bulls and cows. Wally was involved in his community and agriculture throughout his life. He was a member of the Carrizozo School Board for 18 years, was president of the New Mexico Beef Council, a member of the New Mexico Cattle Growers’ Association, New Mexico Public Lands Council, National Cattlemen’s Association and Chairman of White Sands Missile Range Extension area. He was the 1995 NM CowBelle Man of the year. Wally was a devout Christian and a member of the Nogal Presbyterian church for over 50 years. Until the very end he thanked our dear Lord for his many blessings. Wally loved his family and Anne was his true equal. They enjoyed doing everything together. Over a cup of coffee at the kitchen table many decisions were made and plans discussed. Wally enjoyed a very close relationship with his children and grandchildren. He attended countless games, dances, school functions, and college activities – all with a smile on his face. Wally is survived by his loving wife of 58 years, Anne, and their three children Lisa Shivers (husband Mike), Matt Ferguson (wife Becca), Mary Jane Cooper (husband Jim); seven grandchildren and a great grandson. JUNE 2017

Ralph Mack Bell, 73, Corona, passed away peacefully at home on May 20, 2017. Mack was born in Tucumcari, on February 28, 1944 to Ralph and Faye (Maben) Bell. Mack and older sister, Dixie, were in junior high when the family moved to Santiago,

Chile in South America for two years. Ralph succeed. Mack was an elder in the Corona worked as a watershed specialist and Mack Presbyterian Church and helped sponsor learned to speak Spanish, a skill he would Christian youth activities. He supported enjoy for a lifetime. He graduated from Rob- Corona High School sports, rodeo, 4-H and ertson High School in Las Vegas in 1962 and FFA. He liked to turn broken parts into received a degree in Range Management something useful. His love of old trucks led from NMSU in l966. to a colorful collection of vintage vehicles. Mack married Betty Mack was always been a supporter of comAnn Bond of Corona munity activities. He served on the Corona on June 3, 1967. Board of Education, Lincoln County Fair Mack worked as a Board, Lincoln County Planning & Zoning Soil Conservationist Commission, Canadian River Soil & Water in Artesia, Gallup Conservation District, Quay County Farm a n d E s p a ñ o l a , Bureau and was on the Board of Trustees before purchasing a for the Lincoln County Medical Center in farm in Tucumcari. Ruidoso. Mack was a member of NM Cattle Mack worked as a Growers’ Association and Lincoln County science teacher Farm Bureau. He served on the board of during the school directors for Farm Credit of New Mexico. year and farmed Mack also served on the Otero/Lincoln FSA year round before County Committee. He received Outstandexpanding his oper- ing Conservationist awards from the ation in 1978 by Carrizozo Soil & Water Conservation District. purchasing a ranch Mack is survived by his loving wife, Betty in Corona. Mack Ann, daughter, Beverly Gunn (Clifford), Ft. continued to work Sumner; son, Dan Bell, (Crystal), of Corona; in Tucumcari, but four grandchildren; sister Dixie Heckendorn he made Corona his (Harry), Tucumcari and their children, Jody home. Mack’s 6’4” Lamm (Bob), John Heckendorn (Cathy) and stature included a Julie McDaniel (Mac), brother-in-law, Lerry big heart and a big Bond (Martha). handshake. He was Shane Kincaid, 16, Carlsbad, New genuinely inter- Mexico, passed away May 20, 2017 in Carlsested in people’s bad, after a vehicle collision with a cow. lives and enjoyed Shane Kincaid was born September 24, h e lp in g oth e r s 2000 in Carlsbad. He loved his diesel pickup, branding cattle and listening to outlaw country music. Shane was known for his big heart. He was always generous to his friends and often stepped up to help the underdog. “We will never forget his blue eyes and crooked little grin.” Survivors are his mother, Robin Kincaid; father, Todd Looney; grandparents, Laurie and Nina Kincaid, all of Carlsbad; siblings: EJ Kincaid, Las Cruces: Jessi Brito (husband, Nick); Joseph Jones; girlfriend, Jennah Groves, all of Carlsbad and numerous extended family and friends. 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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ocal Media Insider, a national online publication that reports on digital advertising, named the New Mexico Beef Council’s native ad campaign the “Top Ad” for its over the top click through rates. Clicks measure the engagement of the targeted audience and their response to a particular ad. The New Mexico Beef Council’s native ad campaign generated click through rates greater than .2 percent which is nearly five times that average click through rate of .04 percent.

The editor of Local Media Insider commented, “We like so many things about this campaign. First, it recognized the assets the client already had – food-related content with a fantastic visual component – and worked with this content. Native ads for recipes are a perfect match with the media placement on the native ad network. The click through rates are extraordinary, and finally, the codes were correctly placed so that “look back” clicks could be “counted.” And the best flattery is imitation as another beef council is already copying the idea. Congratulations Marketing

Solutions (the agency for the New Mexico Beef Council) for their good work.” The New Mexico Beef Council has embraced digital and online media. “We have found that the digital world is the best place to reach our targeted demographic,” states Dina Reitzel, NMBC’s Executive Director. “We have revamped our website to better showcase our product, run a robust social media campaign which features beef recipes, and last year added the digital and native advertising component. All of these elements help us to reach the elusive millennials,” she adds.

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New Mexico Beef Council Digital Ads Named “Top Ad” JUNE 2017

DECODING THE LABEL: KNOW YOUR BEEF CHOICES Like the farmers and ranchers who choose how best to raise their cattle for beef, you have choices when it comes to the beef you buy. Cattle are raised responsibly and beef is safe, wholesome and nutritious – but you may see a variety of statements that reflect different production practices on beef packages in your grocery store or on a menu. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) approves these labels for beef based on specific criteria.

GRAIN-FINISHED

GRASS-FINISHED OR GRASS-FED

(most beef is raised this way and likely doesn’t have a specific label claim)

THIS BEEF COMES FROM CATTLE THAT…

• Spend the majority of their lives eating grass or forage • Spend 4-6 months at a feedyard eating a balanced diet of grains, local feed ingredients, like potato hulls or sugar beets, and hay or forage • May or may not be given U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved antibiotics to treat, prevent or control disease and/or growth-promoting hormones

• Spend their whole lives eating grass or forage • May also eat grass, forage, hay or silage at a feedyard • May or may not be given FDA-approved antibiotics to treat, prevent or control disease and/or growth-promoting hormones

NATURALLY RAISED

CERTIFIED ORGANIC

(may be referred to as “never-ever”)

THIS BEEF COMES FROM CATTLE THAT…

• Never receive any antibiotics or growth-promoting hormones

• May be either grain-or grass-finished, as long as the USDA’s Agriculture Marketing Service (AMS) certifies the feed is 100% organically grown • May spend time at a feedyard

• May be either grain- or grass-finished

DID YOU KNOW?

91% 80%

• May spend time at a feedyard

100%

of U.S. cattle farms and of feedyards are family-owned.

Cattle eat grass for most of their lives.

of beef processed in federally inspected packing plants is overseen and inspected by the USDA.

All cattle are commonly fed vitamin and mineral supplements to balance their diet.

You will likely come across other beef labels. For example, USDA labels like “beef raised without antibiotics” (cattle have never received antibiotics but may receive growth-promoting hormones) and “beef raised without hormones” (cattle have never received growthpromoting hormones but may receive antibiotics). All USDA labels must be approved through a formal submission and evaluation process. You might also see other claims on labels, including references to cattle breed, where cattle were raised and welfare. References: U.S. Department of Agriculture ‘Choices of Beef Definitions,’ October, 2016 and USDA 2012 Ag Census Cattle Industry Highlights, February, 2015

For more information about your beef checkoff investment visit MyBeefCheckoff.com 2016 – 2017 DIRECTORS — CHAIRMAN, Alicia Sanchez (Purebred Producer); VICE-CHAIRMAN, Tamara Hurt (Producer); SECRETARY, Kenneth McKenzie (Producer). NMBC DIRECTORS: Bruce Davis (Producer); Zita Lopez (Feeder); Kenneth McKenzie (Producer); Milford Denetclaw (Producer); Susie Jones (Dairy Producer); Matt Ferguson (Producer).

FEDERATION DIRECTOR,

Alicia Sanchez, NMBC Chairman U.S.M.E.F. DIRECTOR, Kenneth McKenzie BEEF BOARD DIRECTOR, Bill King (Producer)

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

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