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in the same calf crop must be sired by registered Red Angus bulls averaging in the top 50 percent of the breed for the HerdBuilder index (HB) or registered Santa Gertrudis bulls averaging in the top 50 percent of the SGBI Balanced Index. Ї Breed percentages on qualified cattle will range from 25 to 75 percent Red Angus and 25 to 75 percent Santa Gertrudis, with a small allowance for other breeds. Most qualified cattle will be red. However, color is not an exclusionary requirement. Groups of cattle do not need to be fully redhided to qualify. Ї Dams of qualifiable calves must contain at least 50 percent of the reciprocal breed, meaning 50 percent or more Santa Gertrudis when the calves are sired by Red Angus sires, or 50 percent or more Red Angus when calves are sired by Santa Gertrudis bulls. To verify dam-side genetics, qualifiable herds will sign a verification form stating that at least 50 percent of the genetic makeup of the dams of calves to be qualified is from the reciprocal breed. Ї The tag used for this program will be a unique, American Red-labeled tag issued by the Red Angus Association of America. Tagging options include dangle tags or EID/panel tag combination-nested sets. Calves must be tagged on the ranch of origin. Enrollments in the program will began in February 2020. The program requires a yearly $50 enrollment fee to offset the cost of program management and a $1.25 fee for each tag.

Producers with questions about the program should contact Chessie Mitchell, RAAA tag program coordinator, at chessie@ redangus.org or visit www.americanred. org. More information about American Red will be released in the coming months.

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Sirloin Wrapped Jalapeño Poppers

Recipe courtesy of: Chef Tiffany Collins Blackmon, www.tiffanycblackmon.com

8 Ingredients Makes 8 Servings 20 Minutes

Ingredients

1 package beef Top Sirloin steaks (Milanesa), thinly sliced to 1/8 – 1/4-inch ½ cup Italian dressing ¼ cup fresh lime juice 1 Tbsp. honey 1 ½ tsp. ground cumin 8 jalapeño peppers 8 oz. smoked Gouda, shredded Barbecue sauce (optional)

Preparation

Combine Italian dressing, lime juice, honey, and cumin in a food-safe plastic bag; add steak, turning steak to coat. Close bag securely and marinate in the refrigerator for 30 minutes to 2 hours. Remove steak from bag; discard marinade. Slice steak into strips, approximately 4 inches wide.

Remove the stem and seeds from the peppers, keeping pepper whole. Stuff peppers with cheese. Wrap the steak around each pepper and secure with two toothpicks. Continue this process until all peppers are wrapped.

Place poppers on grill over medium, ash-covered coals; grill uncovered 6 to 8 minutes (over medium heat on preheated gas grill, covered 10 to 12 minutes) or until internal temperature reaches 160°F and cheese is melted.

Serve with barbecue sauce.

Nutrition information per serving: 239.1 Calories; 123.43 Calories from fat; 13.7 g Total Fat (6.6 g Saturated Fat; 0 g Trans Fat; 1.3 g Polyunsaturated Fat; 1.9 g Monounsaturated Fat;) 69.4 mg Cholesterol; 334.8 mg Sodium; 4.5 g Total Carbohydrate; 0.5 g Dietary Fiber; 22.8 g Protein; 1.2 mg Iron; 263.1 mg Potassium; 6.8 mg Niacin; 0.4 mg Vitamin B6; 0.9 mcg Vitamin B12; 3.1 mg Zinc; 19.6 mcg Selenium; 64.71 mg Choline. This recipe is an excellent source of Protein, Vitamin B6, Vitamin B12, Zinc, Selenium, and a good source of Choline.

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Veterinarian Rooted in Texas Panhandle Agriculture Joins School of Veterinary Medicine B ethany Solomon Schilling knows the Texas Panhandle, its culture and what makes it tick. After growing up on a family farm and ranch just a stone’s throw from the site of the Texas Tech University School of Veterinary Medicine in Amarillo, she has deep roots in the region and in agriculture.

That expertise and knowledge will prove invaluable for the School of Veterinary Medicine as Schilling will serve as an assistant professor in general veterinary practice. Schilling began her new duties Feb. 1 and will help teach clinical skills and prepare the students for the unique challenges that come when practicing in rural communities. She earned her bachelor’s degree (2005) and doctor of veterinary medicine degree (2010) from Texas A&M University and began working at a multi-site, mixed-animal practice in Central Texas. She later became the clinical instructor of the Primary Care Service of the Texas A&M Small Animal Veterinary Teaching Hospital, where she discovered her love of helping veterinary students integrate knowledge from their time in the classroom with the applied clinical skills needed to deliver Chisholm Trail Veterinary Clinic in Lockhart and Luling, then joined the Swann Animal Clinic in Amarillo in 2014. She is a member of the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA), the Texas Veterinary Medical Association and the High Plains Veterinary Medical Association.

Schilling joins Guy Loneragan, dean of the school, John Dascanio, senior associate dean of the School of Veterinary Medicine and associate dean for clinical programs Britt Conklin on the faculty for the School of Veterinary Medicine. Three additional faculty members will begin on April 1 with a series of faculty to be added over the summer and fall. About the School of Veterinary Medicine

Thanks to the generosity of Amarillo and communities across Texas, and the commitment of legislators from around the state, the Texas Tech University School of Veterinary Medicine in Amarillo, established in 2018, is working to enroll its first class in the fall of 2021, pending approval by the AVMA Council on Education.

The School of Veterinary Medicine will recruit and select students with a passion to practice and succeed in small, agricultural and regional communities and utilize a curriculum focused on the competencies and skills necessary to be successful in practices that support these communities. Texas Tech’s innovative and cost-efficient model partners with the wider community of veterinary practices across the state to provide clinical, real-world experiential learning.

In June, Gov. Greg Abbott signed into law the biennial state budget, which appropriated $17.35 million for the School of Veterinary Medicine in Amarillo that will go toward operational needs in order to get the school up and running. The appropriation included language directing Texas Tech to move forward in establishing the school.

Donors and civic leaders have pledged more than $90 million toward infrastructure, construction and scholarships for the School of Veterinary Medicine on the site of Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center in Amarillo.

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Having grown up on a farm, she shares the desire to graduate practice-ready veterinarians who enjoy serving rural and regional communities across Texas. While she loved practicing veterinary medicine and developing relationships with patients and clients, her heart is in teaching and mentoring.

Schilling also has international veterinary experience, having served on mission trips to Haiti and Ethiopia and preceptorships in Mongolia and South Africa. She served as an emergency veterinarian at the Small Animal Emergency Clinic in Amarillo and as an associate veterinarian at the Dr. Tim Hanosh (left), director of the New Mexico Department of Agriculture Veterinary Diagnostic Services Division, participated in a New Mexico Agriculture Livestock Incident Response Team training exercise in 2018. Federal, state and local agencies came together to host an animal husbandry and biosecurity exercise to prepare responders for a potential emergency incident involving livestock in New Mexico. The New Mexico Veterinary Medical Association named Hanosh the state’s 2019 Veterinarian of the Year. New Mexico State University Photo by Jane Moorman

NMDA & NMSU’s Hanosh Named 2019 Veterinarian of the Year D r. Tim Hanosh, DVM, director of the New Mexico Department of Agriculture (NMDA) Veterinary Diagnostic Services Division, has been named the state’s 2019 Veterinarian of the Year by the New Mexico Veterinary Medical Association. Hanosh oversees the division that conducts diagnostic analysis of animal specimens from veterinarians and agencies to determine the cause of deaths or to identify diseases. These specimens range from a tube of blood or piece of tissue to a large animal. Veterinary Diagnostic Services is located in Albuquerque, in the same building as the New Mexico Department of Health’s Scientific Laboratory Division.

Hanosh has been the director since July 2011.

With the NMDA housed on the campus of New Mexico State University in Las Cruces, the state agency and the state higher education institution work together on issues related to the agriculture industry. As part of the land-grant university system, NMDA falls under the purview of NMSU, and the NMSU Board of Regents serves as the state’s Board of Agriculture.

NMDA’s Veterinary Diagnostic Services works closely with NMSU Cooperative Extension Services, primarily Extension Veterinarian Dr. John Wenzel and the NMSU College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences Extension Animal Sciences and Natural Resources.

New Mexico Secretary of Agriculture Jeff Witte said Hanosh is an asset to the New Mexico community as a whole.

“Dr. Hanosh’s dedication to serving our New Mexico veterinarian community with timely and accurate animal health diagnostics is a testament to his dedication to the state,” said Witte. “Veterinary Diagnostic Services has grown its diagnostic submissions by nearly 20 percent since he was named director nine years ago. We are proud of his leadership and the entire team at the lab.”

The purpose of the award is to recognize the veterinarian who has rendered outstanding service to the profession, has served as an outstanding representative of the profession to the general public and whose activities, civic involvement and lifestyle exemplify the type of professional person that all veterinarians can be proud of. The award recipient demonstrates a sincere concern for the image and advancement of the profession and demonstrates a dedication to a lifetime of learning. The recipient is willing to represent the profession honestly and well to young people considering veterinary medicine as a career choice.

Tamara Spooner, New Mexico Veterinary Medical Association Executive Director, said Hanosh has contributed greatly to the veterinary community and to the entire state of New Mexico over the span of his career. “Dr. Hanosh is respected immensely, and this recognition is very much deserved,” said Spooner. “We are very happy to be presenting him with this award.”

Under the direction of Hanosh, NMDA’s Veterinary Diagnostic Services Division became a fully-certified International Organization for Standardization (ISO) laboratory in 2018 for the first time in its existence. The ISO 17025 certification means the lab has met specific criteria to qualify as an accredited testing lab. The accreditation demonstrates the lab’s capacity to deliver reliable results.

Photo courtesy New Mexico Department of Agriculture Dr. Tim Hanosh, director of the New Mexico Department of Agriculture Veterinary Diagnostic Services Division, has been named the state’s 2019 Veterinarian of the Year by the New Mexico Veterinary Medical Association.

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The Loving Goodnight Trail T he Loving-Goodnight Trail began in central Texas and wended its way west to the Pecos River and then north across New Mexico, Colorado and terminated in Wyoming. It was named for Charles Goodnight (1836-1929) and Oliver Loving (1812-1867) who sought to take advantage of cattle prices that were higher in the Rock y Mountain west than they were in Texas.

Born in Hopkins County, Kentucky, Oliver Loving moved to Lamar County, Texas at a young age, and by 1845 he was engaged in ranching and farming, with freighting as a sideline. In the late 1850s, he was the first, along with John Durkee, to drive a herd of cattle from Texas to Chicago, Illinois. A part of that route came to be called the Shawnee Trail.

He also drove cattle from Texas to Denver, Colorado. In 1866 he and Charles Goodnight drove a herd of cattle from the Brazos River in Texas to Fort Sumner, New Mexico. They sold part of the herd to the U. S. Government that used it to feed Navajo and Apache Indians who had confined to the reservation at Bosque Redondo. Goodnight then returned to Texas for more cattle while Loving took what remained of the

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herd on north into Colorado. The effort was so successful that they followed the same trail north the following year and continued into Wyoming.

On the third such drive, Loving, while riding well in advance of the herd with another cowboy—one-armed W. J. “Billy” Wilson—was severely wounded by Indians during a skirmish along the Pecos in southern New Mexico. Wilson, at Loving’s urging, returned to the herd for help while Loving managed to evade Indians in the area and get to Fort Sumner. He died there of gangrene poisoning in September. He is said to have asked Goodnight to take his body back to Texas for burial, as he did not wish to be buried in “foreign soil.” (New Mexico was a territory of the United States at the time.) He was first buried at Fort Sumner before he was reinterred at Weatherford, Texas, the following year.

If any of that sounds familiar, it is because Augustus “Gus” McCrae, a character (played by Robert Duval in the television movie) in Larry McMurtry’s novel Lonesome Dove (Simon & Schuster, 1985) is said to be based on Oliver Loving, and his demise, although McMurtry took considerable literary license. For instance, Gus McCrae was rescued by an elderly German man who happened by while Loving was saved by some young Hispanic men who took him to Ft. Sumner. They both died, but McCrae was wounded in the leg while Loving’s arrow wound was to the arm. Note, too, that McCrea received his wound in Montana, not New Mexico.

The town of Loving, New Mexico is named for Oliver Loving, as is Loving Bend on the Pecos (where he is said to have been wounded). Loving, and Loving County, Texas, are also named for him. Lovington,

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Charles Goodnight (1836-1929) was born in Macoupin County, Illinois and moved on to Texas with his family in 1846. As a young man he served as a Texas Ranger and scout, and he supported the Confederacy during the Civil War. In 1866 he joined a partnership with Oliver Loving, as noted above. After Loving died at Fort Sumner, Goodnight continued to use the trail until he entered a partnership with New Mexico cattleman John Chisum (1824-1884), which, according to one source, was a profitable relationship, even though the two men were not fond of one another (Goodnight was a teetotaler, for one thing, and Chisum was not).

John Chisum arrived in the Bosque Grande, south of Fort Sumner, in 1865, with about 600 head of cattle. Ten or so years later he moved his headquarters to Roswell. He claimed a ranch that was 150 miles long—from Roswell to Fort Sumner—and 50 miles wide. His herd was said to have ranged from 80,000 to 100,000 head tended to by up to 100 cowboys. He was financially involved in the Lincoln County War (1878-1881) but he did not participate in any of the fighting. He died in 1884 of a large tumor on his neck (one source claims he died of stomach cancer).

Goodnight latter settled in the Palo Duro Canyon in the Texas Panhandle, where his JA Ranch grew to a point where he and partner John George Adail ran 100,000 head of cattle on about one million acres. Goodnight earned historical accolades when he preserved what was left of the southern herd of the American buffalo, and that herd contributed to the establishment of the buffalo herd at Yellowstone National Park. By 1890, the JA had been sold off. Goodnight contented himself with a small ranching operation in the Panhandle, and spent his winters in Tucson, Arizona. He died in Goodnight, Texas, of natural causes at age 93. Historian J. Evetts Haley wrote that Goodnight was “the most representative cowman that the West had known.” Woodrow Call, a character (played by Tommy Lee Jones in the television movie) in Larry McMurtry’s novel Lonesome Dove (Simon & Schuster, 1985) is said to be based on Charles Goodnight, although McMurtry, again, took considerable literary license. Actor James Gammon played Goodnight in the movie Streets of Laredo, which was also based on a McMurtry novel.

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