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PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE by Pat Boone NMCGA President

Dear fellow NMCGA members & cattle producers,

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

s I write this, we are winding down a busy April branding season. Seems the good breed-up from last spring had most everybody’s cows calving right on time so lots of works got scheduled close together. Cows are in good shape and the calves are stout and doing good here in our country. I pray we all receive timely moisture through the summer, the market continues to get better, and we all have a good year. Our new chief executive has been busy in his first hundred days. President Trump most recently signed an executive order to review the national monument designations here in New Mexico and other western states, some all the way back to 1996! Hopefully these orders will be overturned, and a more sensible plan put in place. We will keep you informed as these things continue to develop. We are excited about our summer meeting in Ruidoso, June 19 through 21. As we have been the last couple of years, we will be at the Lodge at Sierra Blanca, with the meetings held at the adjacent convention center. If you haven’t got your reservations yet, do so quickly before the hotel fills up. We will kick off on Monday with the CowBelle’s BEEF Fit Fun Run/Walk and then our golf tournament. Consider coming up and joining us as we start off our time together with a little exercise! We have outstanding speakers lined up to bring presentations pertinent to our industry today. Risk management to cow efficiency to hearing how ranchers cope raising cattle among wolves are just some of the subjects to be covered. We will hear from several agency directors on current happenings around the state, and on Tuesday our focus will be on private property rights. This looks to be one of the very best meetings we have ever had. Please make plans to come join us and be a part of what we do. Bring someone with you. Every day we face new challenges, as well as continuing to fight the ongoing battles. If you are not a member of NMCGA, come to our meeting and judge for yourselves if you believe in what we do. I hope to see many new faces. Please take a look at the CowBelle agenda that is jam-packed with events for both CowBelles and Juniors. Great job Ladies! We have our first Ranch Day scheduled June 6 at Ogden Farm and Ranch at Loving. We are excited about doing several of these around the state to raise awareness of the importance of agriculture to our state. If any of you are interested in hosting a Ranch Day, or just want more information, please contact the office. Speaking of agriculture’s importance, the cuts to the New Mexico Department of Agriculture (NMDA), Extension, and our Ag Science Centers in the higher education budget will be devastating to our industry. Please call or email your legislators and the Governor’s office to tell them we must have these entities operating at full staff and capability. They are essential to our everyday lives. As I close, I would like to thank Tom Sidwell for his letter last month, and for his service to our organization. The president-elect’s job can be difficult with having to be in Santa Fe for the whole legislative session. So, I tip my hat to Tom, and all those who have been there before us. We are here for you, the NM cattle producer, and promise to be here until the last battle is over. Until next month . . .

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

n a world where all we want to do is grow healthy food and fiber, take care of the land, provide reasonable resources for wildlife and rear families who have common sense and strong values, there is sure a lot standing in the way. It is hard to ignore the political scene both in our state and our nation. Let’s start with the state front. At press time, there is still no word on when or if Governor Susana Martinez will call a Special Session to address the financial crisis our state is in. We have no budget including operations for higher education, the Legislature and much, much more. The Legislature has sued the Governor and the State Supreme Court has taken on the case. The Governor’s answer to the suit is due on May 5. She has called for furlough plans from all state agencies and there is rumor that

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High Stakes … the state will be out of money prior to the Memorial Day weekend. There is also rumor that there are tens of millions of dollars to come from the feds that could provide a short term fix. But, of course, will the feds deliver?

The Impact on New Mexico Agriculture A higher education budget would seem to be important because we rely upon New Mexico’s institutions to educate the generations that will follow in our footsteps and create the next big advances for our community. That alone is enough to generate deep concern over the situation we now find ourselves in. But you don’t have to dig very deep to figure out that it isn’t just higher education that we rely on our educational institutions for. In the case of agriculture, New Mexico

State University (NMSU) is crucial to our future. The state’s only land grant university, NMSU houses the New Mexico Department of Agriculture (NMDA), the Cooperative Extension Service (CES), the Agriculture Experiment Station (AES) system, the Range Improvement Task Force (RITF) and the College of Agriculture. Following those branches a bit, the CES has a presence in all of the state’s 33 counties. It is the home for 4-H and numerous other programs that reach out to local communities and works to educate youth of all ages on the agriculture. The AES has 12 science centers from Farmington to Clayton and down to Las Cruces. Each of these centers has a specific mission to address a variety of agriculture pieces. Those that ranchers work with most are the Clayton Research Center, which has a fully functional feed yard; the Tucumcari Ag Science

Center which includes the Tucumcari Bull This isn’t a problem isolated to NMSU. Administration’s preferred approach, from Test and lots of other projects; and the Other universities are equally important to the regular Session. Corona Range & Livestock Center that is a other sectors so necessary to our state. Just Sponsor Representative Jason Harper working ranch laboratory. look at the University of New Mexico and and others sat down for an afternoon at the The New Mexico Cattle Growers’ Associ- what it means to health care to the state NMCGA office for a fairly in-depth discusation (NMCGA) and other ag groups have and surrounding regions. sion. We think we planted some seeds that often gone to bat at the Legislature and in The Governor has pledged to fund will bear fruit in coming versions of the bill. other venues to provide funding and higher education and we need to hold her As it sits now, HB 412 is alarming at best. resources for these centers that are so feet to the fire on funding ALL of what these While it appears to be clear that there is no important to the future on one of the institutions mean to our families, our com- intention to increase the tax burden on largest engines in the state’s economy. munities and our livelihoods. agriculture, eliminating exemptions in favor The FFA (formerly of deductions, it is the Future Farmers of completely clear that America) and the Agrithe current plan will be The Governor has pledged to fund higher education c u l t u r e E x te nsi o n an impossible stanEducation (AXED) prodard for many, many and we need to hold her feet to the fire on funding grams are part of the small agriculture operCollege of Agriculture. It ations across the state. ALL of what these institutions mean to our families, our is worth noting that for Instead of having a the 2016-2017 school clear exemption as we communities and our livelihoods. year, there were some h ave to d ay, t h e four Albuquerque schools that wanted to measure would require that all agriculturadd agriculture education to their pro- Then the tax package … ists would be required to obtain a State Tax grams. However there were not enough ag The Governor also vetoed a tax package ID number, also known as a Combined teachers available for that to happen. intended to address the budget crisis New Reporting System (CRS) ID Number. This We could go on, but the picture is pretty Mexico has faced for the past several years registration is the Taxation & Revenue clear that much more than a teaching and will continue to face for the foreseeable Department’s (TRD) method for reporting budget is necessary for NMSU to continue future. Being no tax expert, I am not going the State’s major business taxes. to provide all the services needed by to sit in judgment of any package, but we Then for every transaction of buying or agriculture. have learned more about HB 412, the selling ag products or products used for the

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program on Facts v Myths, Know your Beef facts. President Garnett encouraged group to attend Summer Conference in Ruidoso in June. Powderhorn Cattlewomen are serving a BBQ lunch for a local farm/ranch auction on April 8. Money from BBQ will go towards scholarships for DeBaca/Guadalupe graduates. The group will be choosing recipients of this year scholarships this month and awarding the two $500 scholarships in May. At the auction, the group will also be displaying the banner” There’s a Cow in my Marshmallow” and use it for beef promotion along with the delicious BBQ! The group will be discussing plans for annual BBQ lunch in June at the Old Fort Days, Ft Sumner and finalize in May. On April 26 the group will be helping with AgDay at Ft Sumner elementary school hosted by DeBaca Co Extension Office. Submitted by Joan Key The Frisco Cowbelles held the March meeting on the 20th. The following items were discussed: Ranch Days, current number participating is 518 youth; Father’s Day Picnic to be held on June 18; July 1st will be the big fundraiser – brisket Dinner, followed by an auction, then dancing and will begin at 5:00 in the Glenwood Park. Submitted by Martha Stewart, Frisco Cow-

belles Sect. The April meeting of the Lariat CowBelles was held April 12 at the Rabbit Ear Café. Information shared about recent Legislative Actions taken this year as well as the possible Borehole Test Site in Quay County. The members were reminded of the upcoming Chamber of Commerce Banquet. The Lariat CowBelles are actively engaged in plans for the upcoming Health Fair which will be April 26. The Health Fair is expected to be helpful to the community with valuable experts sharing information. The Youth Ranch Management Camp will be June 11-16, 2017 at the CS Ranch near Cimarron, NM. The Deadline for registration is May 1, 2017. Members shared details for the recent District CowBelle meeting held at Santa Rosa. Reminders were shared regarding Mid-Year meeting in June in Ruidoso and the Women in Agriculture Conference in Las Cruces. Lariat CowBelles are beginning to make plans for the Annual Five-States meeting to be held September 27 in Clayton. This meeting is always well attended and educational with speakers sharing Ag related information. A working lunch meeting is scheduled for June 14 to finalize plans for the meeting. Anyone interested in becoming a member is encouraged

to attend meetings and join the Lariat CowBelles. Cowbelles believe the livestock industry is of importance to the world industry and do what we can to support and promote the industry. Respectfully submitted, Judy Robertson, Secretary The April meeting of the Chuckwagon CowBelles was held in Estancia, New Mexico at the “Old Mill” restaurant. The meeting was called to order at 10:30 a.m. by President Lyn Greene with 17 members and two guests present. Ruth Auge and Lucy Cloyes were guests. Ruth Auge also joined Chuckwagon CowBelles. Javier Sanchez was guest speaker on Torrance County Area History. Treasurer report by Tommie was filed for audit and the Donation Bucket was passed to members with a total of $82 collected. A Rada order is coming and bill will be presented at next meeting. Correspondence: A thank you for the Texas panhandle Fire Relief Efforts gift and a thank you from Kristie Gallagher, FFA District III President/State Vice-President for a monetary gift to help her with expenses. President Lyn Greene and five other members of Chuckwagon attended the District I Workshop in Capitan gave a report. NMCB Summer General Membership Meeting and “Furs & Spurs Gala” will be

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held in Ruidoso, New Mexico with NMCGA June 19-21, 2017. Lunch: Snack hostesses were Lyn Greene and Cindy Robison. The group all ate lunch at the Old Mill. Announcements: next meeting on Tuesday, May 9, 2017 will be at Vera Gibson home; ANCW Region VI Meeting – Elko, Nevada April 27-29; “WALCing” into the Future – May 30 – June 1st – Las Cruces; Mid-Year State Meeting, Ruidoso Convention Center – June 19-21. Adjourned at 11:06 a.m. r/s Acting Secretary, Carolyn Chance Minutes of the Copper CowBelles April 18, 2017 – Meeting was called to order at noon with 14 members present. President Pat Hunt lead the Pledge of Allegiance, the Creed and Prayer were read. Due to no newsletter this past month, the minutes for

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overnor Susana Martinez signed legislation in early April aimed at protecting employers from unreasonable demands made by workers injured on the job. The bill, sponsored by Democratic Senator Jacob Candelaria, Albuquerque, amends the workers’ compensation system in New Mexico to clarify that an employer can fire an injured worker who returns to work — if the person is terminated for misconduct unrelated to the injury. The measure also makes it clear that an injured worker isn’t entitled to full disability benefits if he or she rejects a reasonable offer to return to work. Martinez, a Republican in her second term, said the bill restores balance to the workers’ compensation system. “It protects someone who is legitimately injured on the job, but it also protects the employer,” she said at a news conference in Downtown Albuquerque. Candelaria, a lawyer, thanked Martinez for signing the legislation, which passed with bipartisan majorities in the House and Senate. “It’s commonsense,” he said of the changes. “It’s not about political party or ideology.” Senate Bill 155, Candelaria said, ensures that employers aren’t penalized if they bring a worker back after an injury, only to have the employee engage in misconduct. The employer, however, would face legal penalties if a judge determines that the termination was actually a result of the injury, not unrelated misconduct.

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ecretary of the Interior Mike Zinke’s March 2017 directive to the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), emphasizing the agency’s multiple-use mission and directing the BLM to improve its decision-making and planning processes is welcome news to New Mexico ranchers. “For far too long, the Bureau of Land Management’s planning and decision making processes have been mired in an endless loop of costly, repetitive and often unnecessary paperwork, leaving family ranchers and their livelihoods vulnerable,” said Pat Boone, NMCGA President, Elida. “We appreciate Secretary Zinke’s perspective and common sense approach, and look forward to working with the BLM on this issue.” BLM grazing permits are a critical part of many New Mexico ranches, and have been for generations. When permits are up for renewal, a simple decision that once could be made quickly and

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locally can now take months of cumbersome meetings, paperwork, and analysis, Boone explained. “Worse, activist environmental groups work the system to try to get ranchers off of the land, costing both the agency and the ranchers additional resources. In the end, no one benefits – certainly not the land in question.” In part, the directive reads, “The feedback I have received from many of our state and local partners and the public is that the system is broken, unnecessarily lengthy and burdensome, and does not produce the result demanded by the American people. … I hereby direct BLM, in accordance with its multiple use mission, to immediately begin a focused effort to identify and implement results-oriented improvements to its land use planning and NEPA processes.” “As a rancher, and as a taxpayer, I couldn’t agree more,” Boone noted. “There is nothing wrong with taking a close look when decisions need to be made, but when a bureaucratic process brings the process to a standstill – and special interest groups use that process to make things even worse – something is wrong.”

In his letter, Secretary Zinke also directed the BLM to “make every effort to restore focus, order and efficiency to the Federal land planning process,” and asked for a report from the agency within six months.

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Trichomoniasis Outbreak Hits Kansas Beef Cattle Herds State veterinary lab expert recommends annual bull diagnostic testing to prevent spread of Trich

he Kansas State Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory recently reported an outbreak of Trichomoniasis (Trich) in beef cattle herds with five new cases reported in three counties – leading the state lab to recommend diagnostic testing to help keep the disease at bay. “From early March to mid April, five herds across three counties in Kansas have been reported positive for Trichomoniasis, a highly contagious, sexually transmitted disease caused by Tritrichomonas foetus (T. foetus),” said Gregg Hanzlicek, DVM, Ph.D., at Kansas State Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory. “This is compared to one herd diagnosed in 2016, but this is fairly typical. Just when you think you have Trich contained, it’ll flare up.”

The Kansas herds were found Trich-positive for several reasons. One had a high open rate (non-pregnant) of cows, indicating they had a reproductive issue. Diagnostic testing on the bulls confirmed they had Trich. The second affected herd was a result of cows purchased with pre-existing infection and later failed to become pregnant after more than 120 days or spontaneously aborted their calves. Testing confirmed they had Trich. “We believe the three Trich cases in one county were caused by a positive bull that co-mingled with several herds through grazing association,” Hanzlicek said. “Producers need to use caution when purchasing new bulls or cows. Since Trich-positive animals show no symptoms, routine testing should be conducted on all bulls more than 18 months old.” Bulls are the carriers of T. foetus. Cows become infected when they are naturally bred with an infected bull. The primary symptom in cows is infertility caused by embryonic death, which contributes to repeat breeding and scenarios where cows are in heat when they should be pregnant. Recent wildfires should also cause concern for the spread of Trich, Hanzlicek said. More than 1 million acres have been

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his time of year, 4-H’ers, parents, grandparents, leaders and agents are preparing for the next show season, it is time to purchase the new projects. I would like to suggest another type of preparation – THE SHOW BOX. Everyone has one – some are small, some take up half the trailer, some have two or three. Some have wheels, some have beds and some take four grown men to pack from the trailer to the show pen. Some are plastic, some are homemade and some are well designed portable monstrosities which could serve as a bomb shelter if needed. Regardless of their size, shape or construction they are most certainty a necessity for the show barn. I recall sending our oldest off to “lamb camp” many moons ago with his mom in tow. Now, I grew up showing lambs and mom did not, so my thinking was what a great way to get mom “indoctrinated”. Well, little did I realize how much the show industry had changed in the 20 years I was away. We really did not have a “show box” back then, what we had was more of a “tool box’ for clipper blades, oil cans, tools and shearing hand pieces and then a good old cardboard box for the rest of the stuff. Well after day one of “lamb camp” I received a phone call wanting to know why I did not send a “show box” and where is all the stuff they needed to prepare and show the lambs? I was presented with an arm’s length list of stuff they needed. To save some face, I rushed down to the feed store, grabbed up all I could find and headed to Albuquerque with the insides of a “show box”. I made do with a few plastic containers for our first “show box”. Soon, we purchased a lamb show box, followed by one of the children winning a nice four foot, by three for by three foot metal show box with take-out trays and a padded top (nice for a nap), a nice plastic show box for the horses and we added two hang on the fence pig show boxes over the years. I share my personal story because we didn’t know what we needed when we started but we soon learned and added.

Those with years under your belt in the show barn may not get anything from this, but this is for the rookies and those in the learning stage. I would like to propose that spring is the time to prepare the show box. This time of year you will not have all the stress associated with loading stock before the sun comes up, keeping animals on feed and headed off to the fair just hoping you remembered everything. It is a good time to take everything out of the show box and give it a good wash and sundry. It is amazing what one can find in a show box after the season. For the most part I imagine once the fair is over, everything is tossed in the truck and trailer and unloaded at home without thought to cleaning and removing things from the show box. There is school to catch up on and the season is over and

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I realize you may think why all this and how does it fit. Most all of this will fit in small containers inside a zip lock or plastic snap lid container. You want to try to avoid a bunch of loose stuff floating around inside the show box. Organize it by needs and uses in several containers or color code it. These are only suggestions – make it your box. Now, once you are loaded and ready, make a check list and laminate it. Put it in the show box so all you have to do is clean and restock once you start to prepare for next season. Now your show box is ready to load come fair time. Another added benefit, it is usually less expensive to prepare your show box at home vs depending on vendors at the fair.

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Evaluating Feet & Leg Structure: A Lost & Important Trait

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election used to be entirely phenotypic. Everybody was an expert in structural evaluation and based decisions off what was seen by the naked eye. Then came performance testing and other genetic progresses, and the industry shifted to genomics as a large part of their selection. Producers are now able to determine how efficient an animal will be in the

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he Lazy D Ranch was of the arena, she spotted a man also riding a white founded in 1992 and horse. The man offered rides to the youngsters is located just north of present, and offered Mary a ride as well. “I put my Hobbs, New Mexico. We are in arms around the horse’s neck. He asked me if I the southeastern corner of New would like to have the horse.” When Mary located Mexico about five miles west her father to obtain permission, he instructed her of the Texas/New Mexico line. to stay away from the man. “I reported back to the The elevation is 3,692 feet at a man, who talked to my dad. I took the horse home latitude of 32° 45’ N and longitude of 103° 13’ W. that night from the rodeo.” The climate at our ranch is semi-arid with the averWith a team of two white horses, Mary started to age rainfall of 15 inches per year. The summers are train and experiment with Roman riding. She began hot and dry with daily high temperatures averaging riding professionally at the age of 13, and was schedin the low to mid 90s. At night the temperatures uled to appear at Madison Square Garden as a noveldrop to the mid 60s. Typical winters are clear and ty act. Because Mr. Shipley became ill and wouldn’t cold with nightly low temperatures averaging in the allow her to go to New York with mid 20s and the highs averanyone else, the performance was We had the 2015 Sr. aging in the mid to high 50s. cancelled. Champion Bull & Calf The ranch overlies the In 1993, Mary says she had a Ogalala aquifier which few cows, but not much land, Champion Bull in Ft. allows us to grow our own she knew she couldn’t raise Worth. Out of the 6 bulls and feed. The grazing ranges enough cattle to make money. from winter wheat to jose that were walking for She briefly considered raising wheat grass. In the areas horses, but ultimately opted for Grand Champion , 2 w ere under cultivation, the soil is registered seed stock. “I looked from the Lazy D. We had at several different breeds, and a sandy loam while on the natural grass land it is rocky. Reserve Overall Champion most of the time I was cautioned Red Angus breeder Mary not to get in the pen with a bull. Bull with our Sr. Bull Dobry describes herself as People asked, “Are you by yourself? You don’t want this breed the “chief cook and bottle washer” at the Ranchers’ Steakhouse and Buffet, ... for any number of reasons.” and “number one hay slinger and calf puller” at the Remembering the day she discovered the breed, Lazy D Ranch in Lovington, NM. Mary says, “I’ll never forget it.” Driving in her “You can take the girl out of the country, but you car, she spotted a woman hand-feeding some red can’t take the country out of the girl.” The daugh- cows in a field. “I was wearing a white pantsuit, ter of Oscar Shipley, Mary grew up with animals and I climbed over the fence and went to talk to the and livestock on her father’s farm in Chickasha, woman. She handed me some cubes, and I fed the OK. cows. I decided that this was the breed for me.” A former trick rider, Mary shares her attracMary researched the breed thoroughly, studying tion to her unusual occupation. At a rodeo in genetics and expected progeny differences, known Chickasha, riding a little white horse at the back as EPDs. “I breed to produce a six-foot to six-foot-

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two frame to get the leg-length ranchers want.” Similar to the Black Angus in size, but described as gentle and easy to handle, Mary has sold many to people who are tired of working with other breeds. Finding that the Red Angus cattle halter-break and trailer easily, Mary says, “ I love them, and I’m ’hands-on’ with my animals – I’ve been called the ‘cow whisperer’. I can walk out in the pasture with my bulls, and walk right up to them,” but cautions that their gentle nature wasn’t the only reason she selected this breed. “They are easy-keepers,” gleaning the best from available feed. And, maybe most importantly, Lazy D bulls are educated professionals, adapting quickly to their surroundings and says Mary, “They go straight to work.” The Lazy D Ranch is home to some of the finest Red Angus breeding stock in the Southwest, and Mary and her award-winning Lazy D bulls have been featured in private and invitation-only national sales, including one private sale where only two bulls were featured. Asked what makes her most proud, Mary responds that she is most pleased with the continued support from local ranchers and cattlemen. She has always been a “hands on” owner with the attitude that “even if you’re the best you can still get better.” She also strongly believes in the “two horse” method of success, hard work and grace from above. Mary, along with the rest of the Lazy D bunch, would like to invite you to see some of the finest Red Angus breeding stock available in the Southwest. — Thanks to our friends/partners at The Lea County Tradition

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deviations. He said they will likely drop their head if they are too straight in their front-end because it’s physically and naturally more painful to get their neck and head up out of the top of the shoulder. Angle of the shoulder – The ideal angle for the shoulder in relation to the ground is approximately 45 degrees. This angle allows for the appropriate range of motion. As the angle becomes larger, it restricts the movement in the animal, resulting in shorter steps. Bedwell said the animal should be able to “fill their track,” meaning they place their hind foot where their front foot had just been. The stride up front is important, but where the track is measured is at the hind leg, he said.

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Leg structure – There are a number of terms used to describe the leg structure of an animal. There is pigeon-toed or bowlegged, splayfooted or knock-kneed, cow hocked, sickle hocked, post legged

and buck kneed (all shown in the illustration below). Bedwell suggested the easiest way to look for these structural imperfections is to study the animal’s dewclaws from behind. He said if the dewclaws are pointing out, you probably have a bowlegged problem. If they are pointing in, the animal is probably cow hocked.

Evaluating legs Of these, Bedwell said he would choose cow hocked over bowlegged because a bowlegged animal is going to put too much pressure on the outside of the animal’s hoof wall, causing the hoof wall to grind down with the outside toe becoming small and the inside toe growing out. He would also choose sickle hocked over post legged because those animals will have better longevity. ЇЇ Feet structure – A critical aspect to consider is the depth of the heel, Bedwell said. If there is not enough depth in the heel and strength in the pastern, it starts to grow out. Producers just don’t have the time to be trimming feet, especially in larger operations. The hoof should be dense and able to support the weight of the

animal. He also explained that the ideal hoof should have two symmetrical claws that both point forward. A producer should look for a big, even, square foot, he said. continued on page 32 >>

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Consider the Consequences of Bad Behavior

by Dr. Justin Rhinehart, Assistant Professor, UT Beef Cattle Extension Specialist

emperament of cattle has long been recognized to influence production efficiency by having an impact on cattle handling and performance. More recently, scientists have suggested that flighty behavior of individual cattle can also affect the performance of the entire group. So, letting just one flighty calf slip passed the sort could decrease the performance of the entire group. For humans, temperament is defined as the way a person thinks, behaves or reacts. For cattle, a good definition for temperament is the intensity of their “fight or flight” instinct. Some of the performance measures that are impacted by temperament are health, feed efficiency, weight gain, dressing percentage and meat quality. Before discussing trials that have reported the effects of temperament on performance, it is important to understand how it is measured in research settings and how that translates to real-world application. Scientists that study disposition in cattle often use three methods to grade temperament: 1) pen scores, 2) chute scores and 3) exit velocity. Pen and chute scores use a 1 to 5 ranking where 1 is calm and 5 is flighty. Pen scores are taken by a person entering a pen with a group of cattle and applying a score between 1 and 5 where a score of 1 indicates that the cattle are not excited by humans and a score of 5 signifies that the cattle run into fences or charge humans when approached. Chute scores evaluate cattle on how they react to being secured in a working chute. Exit velocity is a measurement of how quickly cattle cover a set distance when released from a working chute. The faster they leave the chute, the more temperamental they are expected to be. Sierra Lockwood, a graduate student in Animal Science at the University of Tennessee, analyzed the effects of temperament of bull performance at the UT Bull Test facility at the Middle TN AgResearch and Education Center in Spring Hill. One of the results was that high-headed bulls became less excitable during the testing period. But, it is important to note that extremely aggressive bulls were sent back to the producer’s farm at delivery rather than being

accepted into the test. This could mean that produce dark cutting beef that is considerculling cattle for extreme temperament and ably less valuably. But dark cutters are not working to acclimate those in the mid- the only negative result from temperamenrange is a sufficient approach tal cattle. A calf that is more flighty, and Excitable feeder cattle do not eat more severely stressed by handling or enough feed, they gain slower and less effi- human presence, will produce less marciently, and require more health treatments. bling and tougher beef when finished. The effects of poor temperament on feeder The negative effect of excitable tempercattle performance is obvious as you see ament is not limited to the individual flighty the bidding stop early when high-headed animal. Most observant cattlemen have calves come through the sale ring. Poor seen this in the cow herd and calf crop alike. temperament lowers fertility in heifers and If this influence of excitable temperament mature cows. It always seems like the most persists through the stockering and feeding high-headed cow in the herd check preg- phases, the negative influence of temperanant when we are looking for one more mental cattle on performance will be reason to cull it. But, that is more likely per- amplified. In essence, one bad apple can ception because the research shows that spoil the barrel. temperamental cows and heifers, of any All these examples illustrate the fact that breed or breed type, are less likely to breed flighty cattle hurt the bottom line for cow in a reasonable amount of time. calf producers, stocker operators, backCarcass quality potential is becoming a grounders, and feeders. Most experienced more important measure for cow/calf and buyers and managers avoid purchasing stocker operators regardless of whether or notoriously temperamental cattle but this not they retain ownership through the selection criterion should also be applied feeding phase. Especially as that informa- to groups of cattle with only one or two tion flows back “upstream” when packers “high-headed” cows or calves. Paying close place more pressure on feedlots to source attention to temperament should stimulate cattle that will produce a more desirable cow-calf producers to use it as a genetic end product. It is common knowledge that selection tool that will eventually bring extremely excitable cattle are more apt to calmer calves to the sale.

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FARM BUREAU MINUTE by Craig Ogden, President NMF & LB

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was informed that this newsletter goes out to all the Farm Bureau membership, those classified as agricultural and associate (non-ag). I have addressed the agricultural members before, so I would like to take this time to visit with our other members that are also an intricate part of what we do and why we do it. New Mexico Farm & Livestock Bureau is an advocacy organization that supports all types of New Mexico agriculture, but I believe what we do also benefits all the citizens of New Mexico. Whether it is protecting your private property rights, keeping regulations in check, working on tax issues, educating our youth, or just helping farmers and ranchers supply locally grown, safe and affordable food and fiber

to you. This year is NMF&LB’s Centennial. I hope you will consider attending some of the events that will be going on throughout the state because you are Farm Bureau also. There are member benefits that I am sure you are aware of, like discounts with CAT, GM, Grainger, and Choice Hotels, just to name a few. I would like to think these are just perks to you as a member. The real benefit for being a member is not these benefits or in some cases a requirement for services, but the mere fact that being a member of our organization has a greater stand-alone value. You are part of the history of the New Mexico Farm and Livestock Bureau, from the beginning, where it started in Doña Ana County, to its present state. I hope you feel proud to belong to

such a historic and philanthropic organization. Presently, we are assisting and considering other avenues to help the fire victims in our bordering states. Farm Bureau members and the state organization are giving supplies to help build fences, send feed, and monetary contributions to assist in this catastrophic fire. Seeing the pictures and reading the stories pulls on the heart so deeply that is difficult to describe. But we all come together, individuals, other ag related organizations and businesses. It is the way rural communities work and you are a part of that effort. There is a disaster fund set up in the state office if you would like to be of further assistance. There are many funds being set up, do your homework and give to one you feel confident with even if it isn’t ours. As we evaluate the past 100 years it is evident that our progress is a result of the combined efforts of people in all facets that support agriculture. Each of us can make a difference. Let’s all work together with purpose and meaning to make the next 100 years as notable as our first. D o Jus tly, Love M erc y, Walk Humbly.

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(CAFOs) from reporting when large quantities of hazardous materials such as ammonia and hydrogen sulfide are released

into the air from animal waste. EPA had reasoned that such reports were unnecessary because a federal response was “impractical and unlikely,” the appeals court noted in its ruling. A number of environmental groups, including Waterkeeper Alliance, objected to the EPA’s interpretation, arguing the agency is not authorized to grant reporting exemptions, and they petitioned the courts to overturn the rule. In vacating the EPA rule, the D.C. court said, “We find that those reports aren’t nearly as useless as the EPA makes them out to be.”

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NMSU’s College of ACES Dean Flores Receives KSU’s Outstanding Alumni Award

s an engineer and scientist in grain processing, New Mexico State University’s Rolando A. Flores, dean of the College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences, has been selected to receive the Kansas State University Depar tment of Grain Science and Industr y ’s Outstanding New Mexico State University Alumni Award. College of Agricultural, Consumer & Environmental “This award Sciences Dean Rolando A. Flores recognizes Grain Science alumni who have made a significant positive impact on or contribu-

tion to the field of grain science,” said Gordon Smith, professor and head of Grain Science and Industry at KSU. Smith said the award “represents the values and mission of the department on behalf of our alumni, faculty, staff and students.” “The faculty, staff and students of the Grain Science and Industry department take great pride in the accomplishments and contributions of our alumni,” Smith said. “Dean Flores’ impact on our industry not only positively reflects, but also extends and enhances the visibility and reputation of our department.” Flores has been invited to receive the award at the Grain Science and Industry Student and Industry Awards Banquet on April 20 at KSU. The event also will highlight the awards and scholarships received by the department’s students, faculty and staff at the banquet. “For me, the award means a lot,” Flores said. “First of all, it’s my alma mater. I did work on my dissertation there and I later taught grain science and was involved in their international grain program. This recognition is very rewarding. Also, it’s a very strong recognition for our college and very prestigious for NMSU. It’s a great recognition from the only formal grain science

program in the U.S.” Flores earned his Ph.D. in Grain Science at KSU in 1989, becoming one of only six Ph.D.s in grain milling in the world at the time. His areas of research included processing systems simulation, economic feasibility studies of processing operations, product quality, and heat and temperature movement in stored grain. Flores’ career was heavily influenced by his time at KSU, which included several professional posts. From 1988-1990 at KSU, he taught the Management Factor in Milling Technology II in the Department of Grain Science and Industry. He taught the Processing Factor in the Agroindustrial Project Analysis Short Course, as well as Grain Storage and Marketing; Grain Grading, Storage and Handling. During that time Flores went to Haiti as a leader of a technical assistance team to evaluate the milling operations of La Minoterie D’Haiti. From 1990-1993, Flores worked in the Cooperative Extension Service’s Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering at KSU as an assistant professor and Food Engineering Extension Specialist. He developed and implemented programs to provide information and technical assistance to food producers and processors related to the design, selection, maintenance and utilization of processing equipment for enhancing agricultural products for food and non-food markets. During that time, Flores also pursued funds for and directed the construction and operation of the Kansas Value-Added Thermal Processing Laboratory at KSU. He taught milling simulation and management short courses in the Department of Grain Science and Industry and conducted research on wheat processing, adding value to low-grade agricultural products, the development of thermoplastics from wheat and corn starch, the uses of foodservice processing waste, and the measurement of physical properties of biomaterials. Flores later worked as an associate professor at KSU from 1996-2001 and held the G.M. Ross Professorship. He taught graduate and undergraduate courses in grain milling engineering, grain processing and mill management systems. Flores conducted research on the simulation and optimization of the wheat milling process, dry/wet sorghum milling, waste/residues from food industries, and the utilization of grain processing byproducts. He also taught grain processing courses in Mexico and Chile.

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Trump Border Wall Bemoaned as Destructive to Jaguars by Cheryl K. Chumley, The Washington Times

n an act of 11th hour desperation, wildlife conservation groups have ramped up efforts to stop the building of the U.S.-Mexico border wall by claiming construction would impede the roaming of the jaguar. Hey, who doesn’t like a jaguar. Right? But on a scale called American Policy, with a cat on one side, and — oh, I don’t know — the fate of the nation’s security, borders, economy, crime and counterterrorism operations on the other, think the natural conclusion might be: bye jaguar. Don’t let the border wall hit ya on the way home. Cut People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals’ tears. But wait just a minute. Turns out that argument — build walls; jaguars will die — isn’t even based in fact. The left, apparently blinded by anger over the wall, is not only making a case for open borders based on the needs of an animal, but also making a case for open borders based on the perceived needs of 1 percent of population of said animal. Talk about a special interest.

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Application Deadline Approaching for Cattle Growers’ Graduate Scholarship

une 1 is the deadline to apply for the New Mexico Cattle Growers’ Association’s (NMCGA’s) Young Cattlemen’s Leadership Committee (YCLC) $1000 Graduate Scholarship. “With this scholarship, we want to help young people who come from an agricultural background further their education,” said Pat Boone, NMCGA President, Elida. “As they pursue those advanced degrees, we hope to also broaden production agriculture awareness in non-typical agricultural fields.” Applicants must be New Mexico residents, have a background in beef cattle production, and pursuing a post-graduate degree. Financial need will be considered, but is not a prerequisite. Preference will be given to NMCGA members and their families.

“We encourage all interested students to apply,” said Boone. “There’s nothing easy – f inancially or other wise – about post-graduate studies, and we want to do all we can to help students who are making that effort.” Applications must be received in the NMCGA office by June 1, 2017. They should be sent to: New Mexico Cattle Growers’ Association, Attention: Graduate Scholarship Committee, P.O. Box 7517, Albuquerque, NM 87194. The scholarship will be awarded at the NMCGA’s Mid-Year Meeting, scheduled for June 19-21 in Ruidoso. The NMCGA has represented the ranchers in New Mexico and the West since 1914 and has members in all 33 of the state’s counties as well as some 19 other states. The Association participates in venues necessary to protect beef producers and private property rights including litigation, state and federal legislation and regulatory affairs. For more information, or to join the NMCGA online, please visit www.nmagriculture.org.

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Battle Over Landmark Law Already Raging Out of Public Eye

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took his first Hill job as counsel in September 2016, are two of Barrasso’s lead ESA reformers. Leggett began working for the chairman in 2012 as policy counsel for the Senate Republican Policy Committee, which Barrasso then led. The University of Virginia and Vanderbilt University Law School graduate also worked in corporate law and served on the House Agriculture Committee and in the offices of Rep. Tim Murphy (R-Pa.) and former Sen. Jesse Helms (R-N.C.). As an intern, Leggett worked with Robert Spencer, when he was U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, and Erskine Bowles, when he was chief of staff to President Clinton. Soon after joining the committee, Harding helped get last year’s water infrastructure bill (S. 612) passed into law. He is now mainly focusing on wildlife and oceans policies. Harding previously worked for corporate law firms, President George W. Bush’s Energy secretaries and USA Synthetic Fuel Corp., a bankrupt coal liquefaction company. He earned his bachelor’s degree at Washington and Lee University and graduated from the University of Virginia School of Law, according to LinkedIn.

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The counselors’ efforts are overseen by staff director Richard Russell, who earned a bachelor’s degree in biology at Yale University, and deputy staff director Brian Clifford, who has worked for Barrasso in a variety of roles over the past decade. Any reform legislation Barrasso’s team produces will need to secure the votes of at least eight Democrats on the Senate floor to beat a filibuster. Their first challenge, however, will be winning over Mary Frances Repko, Carper’s deputy staff director. “If you have dealt with the environment, if you have dealt with energy, or if you have dealt with the history of the Senate and the House on energy legislation and environmental legislation over the last 20 years, you know Mary Frances Repko,” House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer said in a January floor speech honoring her for a decade of service in his office. The Maryland Democrat also noted she had worked closely with Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-California) on “fighting partisan anti-environment riders.” Repko headed to the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee the following month, the committee she staffed from 2003 until 2007, when she left to join Hoyer. She has also served on the

staffs of Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) and former Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wis.). Prior to coming to the Hill, Repko worked on water issues for the World Wildlife Fund, a conservation group, and the Great Lakes Commission. The native of East Lansing, Mich., earned her bachelor’s degree at Johns Hopkins University and a master’s from the University of Michigan School of Natural Resources and Environment.

Outside voices Republicans’ push for an ESA overhaul is likely to draw support from the Western Governors’ Association. Under the leadership of Wyoming Gov. Matt Mead (R) in 2016, the conservative-leaning organization began advocating for ESA changes. At the same time, WGA endorsed a policy position urging Congress to reauthorize the law and this year convinced the National Governors Association to adopt a similar resolution (E&E News PM, March 2). While Mead is no longer WGA chairman, policy adviser David Willms is still leading a series of meetings with a broad coalition of participants that aim to produce a specific set of recommendations that could make the ESA work better. “We took some of the ideas that came out of that first year and have made them the subject of work sessions during the second year of this initiative,” Willms said in a phone interview from Cheyenne, Wyo., which he, his wife and two young daughters call home. The sessions will wrap up in May, and the WGA hopes to have a list of fixes ready to promote by midsummer. “Whether that is a set of recommendations that is taken to the Fish and Wildlife Service for regulatory changes, whether it includes recommended statutory changes, policy changes — all of that is to be determined,” he said. “But that’s what we’re moving towards, is seeing if there are places where there is consensus.” The recommendations are being put together by representatives from state and federal government as well as groups representing sportsmen, environmentalists and the energy, lumber and agriculture industries. But Willms, who has also served in the Wyoming attorney general’s office and worked in private practice, declined to say exactly who is involved at this point. One unlikely participant: the conservation group Defenders of Wildlife. “I certainly believe fundamentally that the Endangered Species Act could work

better,” said Jamie Rappaport Clark, the president and CEO of Defenders. “And if there are ways to work better, we want to help that effort.” Rappaport Clark, who was President Clinton’s Fish and Wildlife Service director, and her staff are also involved in the initiative in hopes that they can steer it more toward administrative reforms. That way, she said during an interview in her glass-encased corner office suite, “we can maybe save the battle legislatively, because it’s going to be pretty dramatic.” But if a GOP reform bill emerges, Rappaport Clark — who often works seven days a week and uses a treadmill desk when she’s in the office — is ready to lead the fight against it. “I don’t see a reform effort strengthening the law” in this Congress, she said. “I can only see a reform effort that will undermine and weaken the law’s ability to achieve its purposes.” Rappaport Clark, an avid equestrian who lives in Virginia horse country with her husband and teenage son, is already working to educate Democratic senators about the damage that Defenders fears Republicans could do to vulnerable species and habitats. She is also attempting to rally other more broadly focused conservation groups, which are busy fighting to prevent the rollback of climate protection regulations and other environmental policies. Her pitch is that the ESA is essentially the law of last resort for the environment. “When the Clean Water Act fails, when the land laws fail, the Endangered Species Act will save enough,” she said. “We’re not going to allow extinction.” That should be enough to rally the progressive community of Democratic lawmakers, environmentalists, minority groups, labor unions, religious groups and human rights organizations, Rappaport Clark reasoned. “If — maybe I should say, when — the Endangered Species Act is truly under an assault, I have every expectation that folks will be there with us,” she said, before tapping her desk for good measure. “Knock on wood, please. They’d better be.”

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Census of Agriculture Countdown Begins for Farmers and Ranchers

merica’s farmers and ranchers will soon have the opportunity to strongly represent agriculture in their communities and industry by taking part in the 2017 Census of Agriculture. Conducted every five years by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS), the census, to be mailed at the end of this year, is a complete count of all U.S. farms, ranches, and those who operate them. “The Census of Agriculture remains the only source of uniform, comprehensive, and impartial agriculture data for every county in the nation,” said NASS Administrator Hubert Hamer. “As such, census results are relied upon heavily by those who serve farmers and rural communities, including federal, state and local governments, agribusinesses, trade associations, extension educators, researchers, and farmers and

ranchers themselves.” The Census of Agriculture highlights land use and ownership, operator characteristics, production practices, income and expenditures, and other topics. The 2012 Census of Agriculture revealed that over three million farmers operated more than two million farms, spanning over 914 million acres. This was a four percent decrease in the number of U.S. farms from the previous census in 2007. However, agriculture sales, income, and expenses increased between 2007 and 2012. This telling information and thousands of other agriculture statistics are a direct result of responses to the Census of Agriculture. Producers who are new to farming or did not receive a Census of Agriculture in 2012 still have time to sign up to receive the 2017 Census of Agriculture report form by visiting www.agcensus.usda.gov and clicking on the ‘Make Sure You Are Counted’ button through June. NASS defines a farm as any place from which $1,000 or more of agricultural products were produced and sold, or normally would have been sold, during the census year (2017). For more information about the 2017 Census of Agriculture and to see how census data are used, visit www.agcensus.usda.gov or call 800/727-9540.

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Puyé: A Place to Hunt Rabbits

ituated atop a mile-long mesa about thirty miles northwest of Santa Fe on the Santa Clara Pueblo Indian reservation is the ancient cliff dwelling of Puyé. It contains more than 700 rooms, a ceremonial kiva and a sizeable community house, all of which was surround by a large ceremonial common and a residential area. There are dwellings on the side of the mesa as well as those on the top. Anthropologist Edgar Lee Hewett wrote this about Puyé early in the twentieth century: “It is not an exaggeration to speak of Puyé as a ‘cliff city,’ though it must be understood that the term ‘city’ does not imply anything of a civic organization comparable to that of our modern municipalities. Nevertheless, there were, in

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the social organization that existed here, elements of collective order that characterize the civic group that we designate by the term of city. There were closely-regulated community life, definite social obligation, and in point of numbers the population was ample to constitute a modern city.” The age of the ruins is subject to some question. One source says this: “… [Puyé is] an Anasazi village built between 1400 and 1450.” Another says that the community was occupied from about 1250 to 1550. Yet a third reports that the “[The Santa Clara Indians] claim the ruins are the homes of their ancestors from which they were driven by the drought.” The great drought occurred in the late 13th century. Some scholars believe that the ancestors of the modern Pueblo Indians, the Anasazi, migrated eastward toward the Rio Grande and its feeders from the Mesa Verde and Chaco Canyon areas around 1290 to 1300 because the great drought made corn raising and other crop - growing impossible. Historian Paul Horgan wrote, “Their departures were orderly. Not all occurred at the very same instant, but all took place late in the thirteenth century and early fourteenth, and all gave evidence of having

been agreed upon. Their houses were left standing. Their rooms were neat and emptied of possessions needed for travel and new life elsewhere. But for occasional bits of corn and stalk and tassel the food bins were bare. The dead were left in peaceful burial according to regular custom. Few personal objects—clothing, jewelry, ceremonial effects—were left behind. Fires died in their proper places. There was no sign of the applied torch. Sudden natural calamity—earthquake, flood, lightning-set holocaust—played no part. The cities, one by one, at the point of their highest development, were left to time and the amber preservative of dry sunlit air.” And drought may have had nothing to do with the outward migration, either. One source says that there is evidence indicating that some Anasazi communities were actually being built during the years of the great drought. Another pointed out that while there was a drought in the late 13th century, the fact is that the area around Chaco Canyon was (and is) quite arid and barren to begin with. The drought probably didn’t change things much. And yet a third source questions why Chaco Canyon was abandoned by about 1150 and Mesa Verde continued until about 1300, if the drought was indeed wide-spread. There is very little to suggest that warfare with other Indians had anything to do with the migration, and it is unlikely that disease was the cause, either. Some archaeologists today think there was no proximate cause but rather the migration was a natural extension of an Anasazi lifestyle that involved moving every few generations. One source says this was as natural as a snake shedding its skin. The concept was difficult to grasp by scholars with roots in European thought where civilizations evolved from nomads to villages to cities to city-states to countries and empires. Periodic relocations by the Anasazi were effectively halted with the arrival of Spanish Europeans in the 15th and 16th centuries. So, Puyé may have been a home to the ancient Anasazi or it might have been the later ancestral home to the modern Tewa people of Santa Clara Pueblo. It would not have been unusual for them to have lived on the easily defensible mesa top, and then to have moved down when the danger passed. That’s what the Acoma Pueblo people did after living for many generations on their mesa west of Albuquerque. The Tewa name for the area around Santa Clara is k’hapoo which means “place

where roses grow near the water.” Puyé is a Tewa word that is defined as pu, meaning “cottontail rabbits,” and ye, meaning “to gather.” The mesa was probably a place to hunt rabbits. There is one other story, a legend, about Puyé. Seventy or so years ago, while archaeologists were examining the ruins, eerie voices were heard which warned that the place should not be molested by outsiders. Some of those who continued working there died mysteriously. In spite of that, work continued and Santa Clara tribal dances and an arts and crafts fair was held annually on the mesa. In 1981, though, lightning struck during the dancing and killed two women, one of them from Santa Clara. Others were injured. In May and June, a conflagration called the Cerro Grande Fire caused severe damaged to the cliff dwellings. They were reopened to the public in 2009. Puyé is indeed worth visiting.

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hy did the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (FWS) waste over $100 million taxpayer dollars to save the Preble’s meadow jumping mouse from extinction when the little critters are alive and well from Colorado to Alaska? The Pacific Legal Foundation, a conservative public interest law firm based in California, has asked FWS that question by filing a delisting petition to remove the mouse from the “threatened” list of the Endangered Species Act. New scientific findings confirmed that the mouse, far from being “threatened,” is not meaningfully different from other populations of jumping mice with healthy populations in a huge swath of Western North America. PLF senior attorney Damien Schiff said in a statement that the Preble’s mouse is a small rodent that FWS bureaucrats listed as a “threatened” subspecies in 1998, based on a 1950’s study and an unpublished 1997 review. FWS scientists welcomed the familiar mouse as a “subspecies” since each new slice of an ordinary species into “subspecies” or “populations” counts as something new to regulate that comes with a budget increase and expanded regulatory power. The Endangered Species Act does not regulate species but habitat, which is landuse control. The Fish and Wildlife Service uses its power to separate land from use. The Preble’s mouse listing prohibited public and private landowners from disturbing its “habitat” in any way, costing landowners about $18 million each year, which ignited endless rancorous debates. Fish and Wildlife would not relent.

But now there is an Achilles heel. The previous mouse studies focused narrowly on populations in the Eastern Front Range regions of Colorado and Wyoming. More recent studies have moved beyond that limited territory with new biogeographical techniques, more sophisticated genetic analyses and dramatically wider sampling. In 2013 the peer reviewed journal Molecular Ecology published a comprehensive analysis of North American jumping mouse populations conducted by biologists Jason L. Malaney and Joseph A. Cook. They concluded that the Preble’s mouse is “part of a single lineage that is ecologically indistinct and extends to the far north.” To the victims of bogus subspecies listings, and who suffered under this one, “them’s fighting words.” PLF submitted the petition on behalf of a broad coalition of agriculture, business, and sound science advocates, including: wildlife biologist Dr. Rob Roy Ramey II; Colorado Cattlemen’s Association; Colorado Association of Home Builders; and Housing & Building Association of Colorado Springs; Wyoming Stock Growers Association; and the Center for Environmental Science, Accuracy & Reliability. It’s not industry attacking their problems with piles of money. Schiff told me by phone that PLF represents these petitioners free of charge, as with all of its clients. Will the Trump Fish and Wildlife Service heed the Pacific Legal Foundation petition and remove this spurious listing? Petitioner Dr. Rob Roy Ramey is the most qualified to answer that. He’s the wildlife scientist who first challenged the Preble’s jumping mouse as a subspecies. He suffered Inquisition-like intimidation by bureaucrats seeking to silence him and was subsequently forced out of his job. Now that his work is vindicated, he is looking forward to

settling what he calls “unfinished business.” Ramey told me, “The Fish &Wildlife Service has consistently demonstrated an inability to reverse listing decisions that they are deeply vested in, even when the data have consistently proven them wrong.” But how can that be? Ramey said, “The FWS modus operandi on contested ESA listings typically involves three key elements: obfuscation, intimidation, and ignoring contrary evidence. And then, if it looks like they are going to lose badly, they will simply move the goalposts and call for more research. The answer is not to give the Fish and Wildlife Service more money.” Does that mean Ramey is unconcerned about endangered species? Hardly. He has risked his life to save endangered wildlife, testified before Congressional committees on ways to improve their conservation, and does elephant research in Africa. He’s like a real life Indiana Jones. Ramey’s final judgment: “We need an Endangered Species Act. However, if we are ever going to make the ESA more effective and less burdensome, the federal agencies in charge of it need to do a better job at prioritizing efforts and require a businesslike accountability in the decision making. And if they can’t, then we will need a legislative solution. But we need a solution.” The Pacific Legal Foundation Preble’s jumping mouse delisting petition may be the beginning of that solution. Are you listening President Trump? Ron Arnold is executive vice president of the Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise.

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anuary exports of U.S. beef were up significantly year-over-year, maintaining the solid momentum established in the fourth quarter of 2016, according to statistics released by USDA and compiled by the U.S. Meat Export Federation (USMEF), a contractor to the beef checkoff. Beef exports totaled 212.7 million pounds, up 17 percent from a year ago, valued at $515.5 million – up 18 percent and the highest ever for the month of January. Exports accounted for 12.2 percent of total beef production and 9.5 percent of muscle cuts – with both ratios being fairly steady with January 2016. Export value per head of fed slaughter was $256.62, up 7 percent from a year ago. “The red meat industry entered 2017 with an optimistic outlook, confident that we can continue our recent strong momentum in the international markets,” said Philip Seng, USMEF president and CEO. “The January results certainly

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y time as American Sheep Industry Association (ASI) president kicked off with a bang in March as I traveled to the National Lamb Feeders Association’s Howard Wyman Sheep Industry Leadership School in Oregon. You can read more about the school on the ASI website at http://www.sheepusa. org in the Sheep Industry News section at the bottom of the page . Most certainly, the price of wool was a hot topic as two dozen sheep producers from all across the United States came together for two days in the Willamette Valley. As a wool buyer, if I’m not busy in March and April, then I’m doing something wrong. Lots of parts of the country have already sheared their sheep, or are gearing up to shear in the near future. I’m all too aware that the price of wool is soaring in Australia right now. We definitely have a better market now than we did at this time last year. However, there are things you need to be aware of. The micron count on your wool will matter more this year than ever before. Fine microns in the 19-20 range are bringing anywhere from 15 to 20 percent more on the market than at this time last year. But 21-23 micron wool is up just 5 to 10 percent. Courser wools might even be less than last year, depending on the market at the time you sell your wool. Keeping this in mind, I would encourage you to do the best possible job of pulling the course wool from the end of your clip. Work from the bottom up, and you’ll be much better off. The good news is that buyers are buying. They have orders for as much wool as they can get their hands on – which is the complete opposite from where the wool industry stood at this time last year. One group that might not be buying American wool in the near future is the U.S. Navy, which has decided to replace the traditional pea coat with a parka made from mostly synthetic fibers. ASI is working with various manufacturers and trade groups to reverse this unfortunate decision. With budgets, legislative agendas and plans from the new administration all taking shape in the last month, we’re also continuing to monitor a variety of situations that affect the American sheep industry. ASI accepted an invitation to provide sheep-specific testimony to the members of the U.S. House of Representatives, Com-

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150 ACRE – HORSE RANCH This property is set up for a someone who wants to live in the privacy of Ranch Country and have some horses. There’s one older residence, in very good condition and with a lots of “artistic appeal” and a second dwelling that could serve as a guest house or office or whatever. There’s a barn, corrals, loafing sheds, round pen and the property is fenced. Good water, electricity and privacy – You will see no lights at night except for Yours, the stars and sometimes the moon. A mile and half from a paved State Highway. Located between Hillsboro and Nutt; Las Cruces is 68 miles, TorC is 50 miles.

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FLORES CANYON RANCH: 3,290 acres located in the foothills of the Sacramento Mountains just 30 minutes from Ruidoso, NM. Access is gated and locked from U. S. Highway 70. Improvements include a sprawling 3 bedroom residence with an enclosed metal shop and equipment shed. Fantastic views of Sierra Blanca and the Capitan Mountain range. For more information give is a call for a color brochure. Price: $3,000,000

DOUBLE L RANCH: Central NM, 10 miles west of Carrizozo, NM. 12,000 total acres; 175 AUYL, BLM Section 3 grazing permit; Water provided by 3 wells and buried pipeline. Improvements include house and pens. Price: $1,500,000 RHODES FARM: Southeastern NM on the Pecos River east of

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RITO SPRINGS RANCH A Good diversified Ranch for 250 – 275 Cows, Excellent Elk & Mule Deer Hunting and with LOTS of WATER (200 Acres of Irrigation from free-flowing Springs & other sub-irrigated acreage & a 15 Acre Lake stocked with fish)! Ranch has apprx. 18,800 Total Acres: Deeded 9,600 Ac, State 8,040 Ac. & BLM 1,180 Ac. Pastures are watered by wells, pipeline troughs, dirt tanks and/or the live water from Rito Springs Creek. This Ranch is very easy to operate, the country is open to gently rolling hills with some areas covered with Juniper and Pinon Pine Trees. All of the Ranch is under controlled access, with the gates kept locked except for one 800 Acre pasture during hunting season. This is an ideal Ranch property for a long-term investment! Located in the Quemado area, Unit 12 where the big Elk (350+ Point) are found! It also has a 15 Acre LAKE stocked with Fish!

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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 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 928-830-9127 *SOLD* 1450+/- Head Ranch, Vicksburg, AZ – Desert ranch with great improvements and access. 442.54+/deeded acres, 21,814+/- acres State lease, and 257,000 +/- acres BLM. Includes HQ with home, bunkhouse, tack house, workshop, and horse corrals; 17 corrals with wells; shipping corrals with hydraulic squeeze and tub. $1,498,400

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*SOLD* 90 Head, Agua Fria Ranch,

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

Quemado, NM – This is a scenic mid-size ranch with great prospects. Operating as a private hunting retreat, & a purebred Angus & Paint horse ranch. +/-1200 deeded acres, +/-80 acres of NM lease, & +/-5220 acres BLM. 4BR, 2BA, mfg. home. Trophy elk, antelope, deer. Elk & mule deer permits. Candidate for a conservation

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easement or land exchange with the BLM. $1,490,000

*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 *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.

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

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

*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* 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 *MAJOR REDUCTION* 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. HORSE PROPERTIES/LAND

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

*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, records indicate it is 70’ deep with static water at 35’. Flood irrigated and

*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

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WANTED: RANCH TO LEASE IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEW MEXICO 200 to 400 cow capacity year around with good improvements and good water. Three to five year lease with the option to buy. Wanting to relocate from Southern Colorado. Stroh Ranch/Dave Stroh 719-738-3111 719-568-5570 cell

O’NEILL LAND, llc P.O. Box 145, Cimarron, NM 87714 • 575/376-2341 • Fax: 575/376-2347 land@swranches.com • www.swranches.com

WAGONMOUND RANCH, Mora/Harding Counties, NM. 4,927 +/- deeded acres, 1,336.80 +/- state lease acres, 2,617 +/- Kiowa National Grassland Lease Acres. 8,880.80 +/- Total Acres. Substantial holding with good mix of grazing land and broken country off rim onto Canadian River. Fenced into four main pastures with shipping and headquarter pasture and additional four pastures in the Kiowa lease. Modern well, storage tank and piped water system supplementing existing dirt tanks located on deeded. Located approximately 17 miles east of Wagon Mound on pavement then county road. Nice headquarters and good access to above rim. Wildlife include antelope, mule deer and some elk. $2,710,000 MIAMI HORSE TRAINING FACILITY, Colfax County, NM. Ideal horse training facility, 4 bedroom 3 bathroom approx. 3,593 sq-ft home, 332.32 +/- deeded acres, 208 shares of irrigation, all the facilities you need to summer your cutting horse operation out of the heat and far enough south to have somewhat mild winters. Approximately 6,200 ft elevation. $1,790,000 MIAMI HORSE HEAVEN, Colfax County, NM. Very private approx. 4,800 sq-ft double walled adobe 4 bedroom, 3 bathroom home with many custom features. 77.50 +/- deeded acres with 77.25 water shares, large 7-stall horse barn, large insulated metal shop with own septic, large hay barn/equipment shed. $1,500,000

MAXWELL FARM IMPROVED, Colfax County, NM. 280 +/- deeded acres, 160 Class A irrigation shares, 2 center pivots, nice sale barn, 100 hd feedlot. Depredation Elk Tags available. Owner financing available to qualified buyer. Significantly reduced to $550,000 MIAMI 80 ACRES, Colfax County, NM. 80 +/deeded acres, 80 water shares, expansive views, house, shop, roping arena, barns and outbuildings. $485,000 COLD BEER VIEW, Colfax County, NM 83.22 +/deeded acre, 3,174 sq ft, 5 bedroom, 3 ½ bathrm, 2 car garage home situated on top of the hill with amazing 360 degree views. $485,000 RATON MILLION DOLLAR VIEW, Colfax County, NM. 97.68 +/- deeded acres, 2 parcels, excellent home, big shop, wildlife, a true million dollar view at end of private road. $489,000 FRENCH TRACT 80, Colfax County, NM irrigated farm with home and good outbuildings, $350,000 MIAMI 20 ACRES, Colfax County, NM. 20 +/deeded acres, 20 water shares, quality 2,715 sq ft adobe home, barn, grounds and trees. Private setting. This is a must see. $425,000 Reduced to $395,000 COLMOR PLACE, Mora County, NM 354 +/- deeded acres, I25 frontage, house, pens, expansive views. Ocate Creek runs through property. $275,000

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

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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. Now Priced at $1,998,900 Ribera Farm: 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 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 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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is located in Southeastern New Mexico, west of the community of Hope. The ranch is composed of 1673 deeded, 6295 NM State Lease, and 7194 BLM lease acres. The carrying capacity is 378 AUYL. This is a working cattle ranch with gentle rolling hills with the grass to cover it. Whether you have a registered herd, need AI facilities, or run a yearlong cattle operation, this ranch has the facilities. The ranch also includes approximately 80 acres of farmland that is irrigated with water from the Penasco River and includes water rights. This is a great opportunity to own a turnkey operation with the added benefits of water rights. Price: $3,500,000 Call Joe (575) 361-5269 or Jodie at (575)361-0494 for more information on this property.

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S BAR V RANCH • 201 deeded ac just in San Rafael Valley approx 80 mi south of Tucson Int’l Airport and 18 mi southeast of historic Patagonia • Oaks, private well, valleys of short prairie grass with sweeping views beyond imagination, stunning sunrises and sunsets • USFS on 2 borders -- excellent ride-out, fully equipped barn with apartment and pole turnouts & plenty of pasture fenced and cross fenced • Charming 3BR/2BA 2100sf ranch house w/extended covered porches, orchards and gardens to enjoy • Priced at $1,800,000

Z TRIANGLE RANCH 13+ ac in the Canelo Hills SE of Sonoita. Overlooks riparian area and protected by nature conservancy. Sprawling 1720sf 2BR/2BA renovated ranch house dates back to 1926. Separate apartment & guest house for family/friends/caretaker. Classic 2-story well-appointed barn, 8-stalls & turnout. Abundant wildlife and excellent ride-out. Price: $695,000 Carol L. Ford Designated Broker 3316 Hwy 82, Sonoita, AZ 520-604-0162 cford@longrealty.com

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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The Fourr Ranch Dragoon AZ – 1280 deeded acres, 11610 AZ state, and 3689 NF Acres. Runs 300 head, Well-watered, lots of grass. Priced at $4,250,000 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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•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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Southwest New Mexico Farms & Ranches FORT FILLMORE ROAD – South of Las Cruces, NM, 5 acre pecan farm with 5 enclosed horse pens and pipe fencing. Property does not include an irrigation well but does have ground and surface water rights. $159,900 27.5 ACRE FARM IN SAN MIGUEL, NM – consists of 3 tracts (two 8 acre tracts & 11.5 ac tract) will sell each tract separately for $19,000/acre. Full EBID & irrigation well, community water, electric, telephone & gas on Camunez Road to adjoining property. Beautiful farm land, great mountain & valley views. Priced at $399,000

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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 (10,044.44 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 PRICE REDUCED! NM STATE LEASE – Union Co. – buy the improvements & irr. equip. on the property & lease a NM State Leased section, 640 ac. +/-, w/ nice home, landscaped yard w/matured trees, nice shop, cattle pens & pivot sprinklers. n THIS ONE HAS IT ALL – Union Co., NM – 4,270.39 acres deeded +/-, 3,357 acres State Lease +/-, abundant wild life (mule deer, whitetail deer, antelope, turkey, quail, dove, occasional elk, bobcat, mountain lion & many other varmints), fishing, wildlife habitat & excellent grazing for livestock is found in & along two large, year-round, live-water creeks & solid-turfed open, rolling pastures, fenced for rotational grazing, well watered by wells, pipeline & two live creeks, beautiful improvements, pavement & all-weather roads, winter protection for year-round cow/calf operation, great gains for summer yearling operation. 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 G BAR FARM – Tuc., 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.

PERRIN ROAD – Deming, New Mexico - Approx. 200 acres with 121.2 acres of irrigation rights. Irrigation well and pond. Cattle pens, shipping chute, barn, bunkhouse, equipment sheds and large insulated shop. Recently remodeled home with multiple living areas. Great view of Cooke’s Peak. Beautiful stonework and tile. Refrigerated air, pellet stove & 2 wall furnaces, seamless metal roof. Also includes single-wide mobile. $1,150,000 11000 DOÑA ANA ROAD - LAS CRUCES, NM 88005 – Beautiful 3203 sq ft custom home w/3br (plus office and playroom) & 3ba on 16 acres. 50’X30’ insulated shop, large roping arena, covered horse pens, 400 sq ft efficiency apartment, combined water rights & shared well. Priced at $875,000. Home could also be DAN DELANEY REAL ESTATE, LLC purchased on 6 acres for $625,000 “If you are interested in farm land or ranches in New Mexico, give me a call.”

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eorge and Vera Curtis came to New Mexico as small children in the early 1900s. Their parents, arriving in a covered wagon, homesteaded in rural Quay County, New Mexico, on the Llano Estacado. Forrest, New Mexico, was the nearest place of commerce, a community built around a rural schoolhouse where their children of the 1920s and 1930s era received their education. George heard of the Aberdeen Angus breed, and much improved genetics that the breed was known for, and made the decision to acquire a registered Angus herd of his own. Traveling across the U.S. in search of the best genetics that money could buy turned out to be quite an adventure for Mr. Curtis but also a memorable quest for the Curtis children of the era. George Curtis and his youngest son James V. Curtis accepted the challenge of competing with the other top Angus breeders of the 40s and 50s at numerous State and regional competitions including the Denver and Ft. Worth livestock shows. When James V. Curtis (Rip) returned from his world travels, sponsored by the U. S. Air Force, with his wife, a North Carolina native and Air Force registered nurse, Thelma, the Curtis team resumed their Angus breeding venture. As cutting edge technology became available in the form of artificial insemination and embryo transplant, the Curtis family began to utilize these new tools to improve the herd focusing on the genetic traits that most needed improvement both in the industry and on the Curtis ranch. George Curtis’ passing in 1977 and his son’s passing in 1994 left the responsibility of sire selection and herd genetics to the present generation of Curtises. Tamara, Blake and Tye Curtis still operate George Curtis, Inc. today. The Curtis family takes pride in completing three generations in the Registered Angus cattle business. Our pledge is to continue to meet our customers’ expectations of excellence. The easy calving, top gaining, moderate framed stock that the Curtis family has been known for in the past is still available today at George Curtis Inc.

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used to work with this feller, I’ll call him “Einstein.” Well ol’ Einstein always had a bigger and better idea. He was always trying to reinvent the wheel. Any time we had a job to do, he’d spend a whole bunch of time figuring out ways to do it easier. I think most of the time he was just trying to figure how to get out of actual work. Sometimes, he would come up with an idea on how to do it easier, but then would spend more time thinking about it and talking about it than it actually took to just do it. There was the occasion however, when he had a really good idea. One day we were laying water pipeline to a new drinker in a rough pasture—and this was not an above ground pipeline. We were required to bury it two-feet deep to keep from freezing in the winter. It was about a mile project—and shore enough mean work. We went right to work on it, figuring the best way to “git ‘er done,” was to just “get on with it.” As usual, Einstein hung back and studied on it a bit. After considerable time had passed, he had this bright idea on how we could do this process more efficiently. I won’t go into technicalities, but it was a pretty good idea. We told him to get busy and implement the idea—it just might work. Ol’ Einstein got pumped up with pride at the thought of us actually liking one of his ideas. He bragged about how great it was gonna be, how he would save everyone some work and how he’d thought of it all by himself. As a matter of fact, he was still talking about it at the end of the day. He was even bragging about his idea that night in the bunkhouse. By then, there was talk about him patenting it—seriously! Finally, one ol’ cowhand who had ridden many miles in his time—and usually made a lot of sense, looked at ol’ Einstein and said, “Pardner, yer ideas don’t work less you do!” Truer words had never been laid upon Einstein before. We laughed heartily at the expense of our embarrassed compadre, but that old puncher had said a mouthful! I’ve always remembered that, “Ideas don’t work unless you do!”

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by Barry Denton

hings are beginning to change in America in a dramatic way. On Monday March 27, 2017 President Trump signed a bill under the Congressional Repeal Act that eliminated federal rule planning on 245 million acres of public lands in the West. The way I understand it, is that the bill was designed to get rid of the Obama administration regulation that would have taken local control of federal lands and would have those decisions made by Washington bureaucrats instead. I think we all agree that Washington bureaucrats are probably the biggest problem that this country faces. They certainly have been the enemy of the hard working person the last eight years. It just makes sense to let locals make local decisions that affect them. I will bet there are probably not ten politicians in Washington that know anything about running a ranch or a mine on public land. I have not met many as of yet. Soon after Mr. Trump’s inauguration he banned Environmental Protection Agency employees from updating the press or social media about EPA actions or plans. He also put a stop to any new awarding of grants or contracts. In the last days of the Obama administration there were 30 new directives put into place which included new air pollution rulings for several states, renewable fuel standards, etc. This is the first step to eliminating these new rules that would choke business and the working person. The new head of the EPA, Scott Pruitt, says that we need to exit the Paris Accord because it is a bad deal for America. The Paris Accord is an agreement between the world’s nations to lower carbon emissions. While we would be implementing it here in the United States, China and India, two of the worst offenders, would be exempted from it until 2030. It looks like the newly approved Keystone XL pipeline from Canada will be providing 42,000 new jobs building it and even more jobs when the oil reaches the refineries on the gulf coast. A few years ago

in 2014 the State Department issued the opinion that the pipeline would have no additional impact on greenhouse gas emissions as the same amount of oil would be extracted whether or not there was a pipeline. Another thing that ought to help us here in the West is our withdrawal from the Trans Pacific Partnership trade deal. This was basically an expansion of the North American Free Trade Act, which has been crippling the United States cattle industry by allowing foreign beef to be sold in the United States without regulation or labeling. The TPP trade deal was set to open up trade even more from Japan to Chile. Besides hurting the United States cattle market with imported beef it also would be flooding other American markets as well to say nothing of the job market. Mr. Trump has a protectionist attitude toward the American worker and we can be thankful for that. One thing I have noticed here in our area is the amount of people that have gone back to work since Election Day. I have a good friend who is a developer that just restarted eight projects in three states that had been on hold for the last eight years. Another friend of mine in the manufacturing business just doubled his work force to keep up with new orders. I can see an increase already in the amount of business my family is doing compared to before Election Day. People are finally starting to feel good about the future and starting to spend some money, instead of living in fear that they may never make any again. When America is put back to work we all prosper. Our business happens to be training horses and raising cattle. The last horse show that we just came back from in the first part of March was the largest they have had by far, in the last 40 years. If we can just keep this trend going and not allow those big government politicians to be elected to jobs back in Washington. We must keep the momentum going to allow the average American to earn a good living and not be restricted by too much government regulation and taxes. America is supposed to be about freedom. That should be our most important word and kept foremost on our minds. If the government leaves people alone and lets them work, we will all be better off. When American workers earn good money, they spend it as well. Capitalism has made this country exceptional and we need to remain along the same path for many more years to come.

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The “Clean Water Rule” Is About Federal Authority, Not Water Megan Ingram, Research Assistant, Armstrong Center for Energy & the Environment

The rule defines eight categories of waters of the U.S. Six categories include traditional navigable waters, interstate waters, territorial seas (these three are called “jurisdictional waters”), impoundments of jurisdictional waters, “tributaries,” and “adjacent” waters. These are jurisdictional by rule in all cases, requiring no additional analysis in order to be regulated. To be adjacent, the rule uses the rubric of “neighboring,” which can be met by waters in the 100-year floodplain— meaning land which might be wet one out of every 100 days is a water of the U.S. and can be federally controlled. Texas coastal prairie wetlands are another type of water automatically considered adjacent, and

n late Februrary, President Trump signed an executive order to reconsider the Clean Water Rule, commonly known as the Waters of the United States (WOTUS) rule. Some claim the rule is needed to ensure water quality. On a closer look, the WOTUS rule has less to do with clean water and more to do with asserting federal authority over private land use. The Clean Water Act of 1972 prohibThe Clean Water Act of 1972 its polluting the “navigable waters of the United States.” For decades, debate prohibits polluting the has raged over what is—and what isn’t —meant by “navigable.” The law does “navigable waters of the United not provide a precise definition. Waters of the U.S. were originally States.” For decades, debate has considered to mean waters that are navigable in fact—rivers, lakes, and raged over what is — and what large streams upon which one could navigate a water-going vessel. Federal isn’t —meant by “navigable.” regulation has since hinged on the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) therefore subject to regulation. changing waters of the U.S. definition, with The final two categories can, upon the Supreme Court holding the agency at “case-specific analysis,” be determined to bay each time it tried to recreate its own have a “significant nexus” either alone or in statutory authority. combination with “similarly situated waters The 2015 adoption of the WOTUS rule in the region.” The concept of a significant attempted to shed light on the key lan- nexus was created by Supreme Court guage in the Clean Water Act. Rather than Justice Anthony Kennedy in 2006 and is not clarify what waters are subject to federal a scientific term, “but rather a determinajurisdiction, however, the new rule added tion made by the agencies.” more ambiguity and left landowners across The WOTUS rule relies on the “connecthe country vulnerable to unpredictable tivity gradient”—the idea that hydrologic regulation. connection of streams and wetlands to

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downstream waters shifts “in response to changes in natural and anthropogenic factors” and can “predict effects of different degrees of connectivity over time.” In other words, the ability to use one’s own land is dependent on the natural world, which exists in continual flux of countless and often misunderstood factors. While the rule was intended to provide clearer standards, expansive rubrics like these further inconsistency, leading to what the late Justice Antonin Scalia referred to as the “‘Land Is Waters’ approach to federal jurisdiction.” Section 3 of the new executive order calls for an interpretation of “navigable waters” in keeping with another of Justice Scalia’s opinions, where he argued that waters of the U.S. are “permanent, standing or continuously flowing bodies of water.” He noted that the Clean Water Act does not empower the EPA to “authorize intrusion into such an area of traditional state authority as land-use regulation,” nor “federal action that stretches the limits of Congress’ commerce power.” Regulatory definitions should be crafted to facilitate consistent application, no matter who or what administration is enforcing it. The U.S. Constitution gives the legislative branch the authority to make laws, delegates agencies to implement laws in rule, and charges the executive branch with enforcing those rules. WOTUS’ interpretation of the Clean Water Act asserts expansive authority never anticipated by the federal law as enacted over forty years ago. Its reconsideration will make way for clearer expectations within which Texans and Americans alike can live, work, and create accordingly. Megan Ingram serves as a Research Assistant with the Texas Public Policy Foundation’s Armstrong Center for Energy & the Environment.

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The Magic Disappearing $100 Billion Climate Fund Source: www.the-american-interest.com

hocking news—the magic $100 billion climate fund appears not to be taking shape! Even optimistic estimates say the fund is $40 billion short, and developing countries say that understates the problem. The Financial Times: “Climate ministers from Europe, India, Brazil and South Africa have gone to Beijing in recent weeks, hoping to sustain momentum from the Paris talks despite the Trump administration’s dismantling of US regulations meant to limit American emissions. “But discussions have quickly run up against the issue of financing. “Developed countries have not met their commitments.

In their reports a lot of their commitment is in the form of development aid. That doesn’t meet the commitment to contribute to new funds,” China’s top climate change negotiator, Xie Zhenhua, told a briefing on Tuesday. “A lot of countries don’t want to chip in. I said to the European minister: that’s your problem as developed countries. It’s your responsibility to work together and sort it out.” First world donors have been busily relabeling other foreign aid as contributions to the climate kitty. For developing countries, this is a cheat—they expect $100 billion in new money. Or, to put it more accurately, they are not nearly stupid and naive enough to believe the lies Western diplomats tell when trying to bamboozle naive green voters at home

that they are “Doing Something” about climate change. So they don’t really expect all that money, but hope to use these commitments to pry something out of the West. Also, since the West will certainly default on these bogus commitments, developing countries have all the justification they need to blow off their own commitments when the time comes. In any case, China, who the clueless Western press has tried to spin as the new hero and leader of the climate movement, is craftily working to widen the north south rift, piously calling on the selfish northern countries to make good on the $100 billion in new money. This failure will, of course, provide China with justification to walk away from any targets it wishes. After all, the West welshed first.

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

Who’s in Charge?

ometimes we forget who’s in charge. There has been so much concern lately regarding man’s ability to change the environment. We worry about cutting down the forests, damming up the rivers, endangering the species, warming the globe and paving the wetlands. We have begun to wonder, somewhat self-righteously, how on earth the earth ever survived without us! Then we have extreme weather. We watch floods in Arizona, avalanches in the Rockies, blizzards in the breadbasket and the mother of all storms closing airports from Albany to Atlanta! Secretar-

ies of State, lettuce growers, Sierra Club members who always paid their dues, cowboys, geniuses and self-made millionaires all huddled in their little holes waiting for Public Service to turn the lights back on. Human beings are pretty small potatoes when Mother Nature decides to put us in our place. And those of us who live on the land seldom need reminding of our status in the pecking order. When you have to leave your fourwheel drive out on the road for a week and walk the 1/2 mile to the house, it’s a humbling experience for both you and for General Motors. When you can’t feed for three days and only lose two cows, you are thankful. When the flood washed away the machine shed but spares the house, you consider yourself lucky. When the temperatures in your orchard doesn’t reach freezing as predicted, you know you’ve been spared. It has to do with deadlines. People of the land meet a different

kind of deadline. It is not man-made. A reporter must meet an arbitrary deadline. Like this column. I must have agreed on the deadline and it can’t be changed. But every livestock producer, fruit grower or wheat farmer plays the odds. He gets his work done on time only to find that God has changed his deadline! We can only do the best we know how and hope for a little luck. I was a grown man the first time I saw the ocean. I watched the waves wash upon the shore. The timeless inexorable cycle of nature impressed me to the bone. I realized that in spite of our good intentions, our technological advancements and our privileged place on earth, that man, is just a water skipper on the pond of life. From the smallest snowflake to the most awesome volcano, we are reminded that someone else is in charge.

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