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TABLE OF CONTENTS NEW MEXICO STOCKMAN Write or call: P.O. Box 7127 Albuquerque, New Mexico 87194 Fax: 505/998-6236 505/243-9515 E-mail: caren@aaalivestock.com Official publication of: ■
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PRODUCTION Production Coordinator: Carol Pendleton Editorial & Advertising Design: Kristy Hinds
F E AT U R E S by Tressa Lawrence, from the Angus Beef Bulletin
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Great People, Good Brangus & New Mexico... The Match For Success by Callie Gnatkowski Gibson
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Cattleman of the Year Bill Sauble
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2013 Joint Stockmen’s Convention Program
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N.M. Cattle Growers’ Association President’s Letter
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Farm Bureau Minute
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N.M. CowBelles Jingle Jangle
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ears of experimenting with different breeds and genetics have boiled down to one thing for Jimmy Richardson: high-quality Angus cattle. His family lives east of Carlsbad, New Mexico, where they have been ranching since 1986, but he grew up in the business, helping his dad run Herefords north of Fort Stockton, Texas. Engineering degrees led to another career for a while, but when Richardson and wife Linda moved west, they stocked the place with Beefmaster cows. “After a while we realized we were getting docked at the sale for too much ear, so we started crossing those up,” he explained. Charolais, Limousin, Brangus “. . . kind of the same thing as a Beefmaster — we followed all the popular things.” Other docks on value for poor grading led to a move to Red Angus bulls for awhile, until the rancher noticed black cattle were selling at a premium to reds in his area. Could they adapt to the hot, dry range? In 2000, he began to buy bulls from Gardiner Angus Ranch, Ashland, Kansas, which had customers in similar environments. More than a decade later, his 1,000 high-percentage Angus commercial cows
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are proof enough. Richardson’s loyalty to the breed comes from that adaptability, consistency and ever-growing demand from auctions to feedyards. “It just seemed like everybody wanted them, especially if you had the kind that fed and graded well,” he says. “You had less trouble finding a home for the feeder calves and if you wanted to feed them yourself, you didn’t feel like you were taking such a risk.” Weather, like the recent drought that pushed his range closer to a desert environment, provides risk enough without having unpredictable cattle. Quality is more important than ever, now that the next generation has joined the business.
Son Clay and his wife Lauren recently moved to the ranch with children Dalainey and Solomon. That brought a new enterprise in the form of a few registered Angus cattle, and a get-serious shift in the artificial insemination (AI) program Richardson had practiced more as a hobby for 20 years. First, he got serious in AI’ing all replacement heifers for the main herd, using proven sires from the catalog and following with herd sires of similar genetics. The focus has been on growth, calving ease and carcass quality. “Since Clay has moved back we have really been able to expand our operation as far as technology goes,” Richardson says. “I couldn’t do it without him, the extra help you know. You get going on something else — and we always have some
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highway. Now with the two of us, we can cover those things and make it work.� And it’s still fun. “I really like the reproductive part of it,� he says. “Synchronizing them, checking heat and AI. It’s just really neat and something I like to do. So we’re doing that now with the registered cattle, too, and we’ll see how it goes. “I don’t see us striking out to become a pure registered operation, but just a few of them. We like the cows,� Richardson says. “They’re gentle, and they’re pretty, and
“What is great about Jimmy is he makes sure all of his cattle are in excellent health. Health is critical, especially around here & Jimmy always sends healthy ... high quality cattle to us.� that’s fun. We like raising those calves.� The herd’s main product is still feeder cattle. “I know that our goal is to raise cattle that qualify for the Certified Angus BeefŽ [CABŽ] label because it pays premiums. We target genetics that will fit that grid, and that’s what we’re trying to do,� Richardson says. “We’ve got room for improvement but we’ve come a long way
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“What is great about Jimmy is, he makes sure all of his cattle are in excellent health,� the feeder says. “Health is critical, from where we were. Certified Angus Beef especially around here and Jimmy always has come a long way, too, and the demand sends healthy, consistently high-quality for that product is on the rise. We’re trying cattle to us.� Those calves come in so regularly that to participate.� there are some finished RichardsonThe family feeds with Rex McCloy of McLeod Farms near Morse, Texas. Over the source cattle on most of the loads that go last five or six years, McCloy says he’s to National Beef on the U.S. Premium Beef enjoyed working with both the people and grid. “They usually bring in $100 per head in premiums and raise the quality of the their cattle. loads that go 85 percent to 90 percent Choice and up to 40 percent CAB,� McCloy says. “As our quality goes up — and especially if it would rain — we’ll have more opportunities to sell replacements and breeding stock,� Richardson says. Locally and across the U.S., herd liquidation has led to a shortage of feeder cattle, especially A good Richardson momma. the kind that make
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money on expensive feed. “We try to stay flexible, where you know you’ve got the kind that will do well in the feedyard, and then try to sell some replacements to somebody who’s rebuilding their herd, we’ll do that, too,� Richardson says, noting a load of bred heifers sold to a ranch a few hundred miles north in November.
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drought has kept a lid on herd numbers, so they want to make sure the heifers kept have the genetic potential for gain and grade as indicated by the GMX scores. “Two things we’re looking for [besides the maternal traits]. One is that it grows efficiently, feeds efficiently so it’s going to eat and grow and, you know, convert well. So we target bulls with those kinds of EPDs (expected progeny differences). Then another thing is we need one that has good marbling and is going to grade well,� he says. That makes the GMX tool a good fit. Richardson admits, “I don’t really understand all of the DNA technology. I know that we watch NCIS on TV and they use DNA to tell who did what, but on these cattle, I’m trusting CAB and the Angus Association.� They have started using the full-panel 50K DNA test on herd sires, too. “We want to be able to use the sire matching feature of GeneMax,� he says. Eventually, Richardson wants GMX scores to characterize the entire herd. “Every heifer that isn’t a feeder, that we
keep or sell for breeding, is going to have see how much money you make over that that test,� he says. “As this catches on, offer, then use the information,� he you’re going to see more cattle in the feed- advises. That’s what his family has done. “If yard with those results, too. It’s going to you want somebody to bet on your cattle to bear out, the proof will be in the pudding do well, try it yourself. There’s a lot of ways and people will pay more for the above to add value through genetics, by weaning, backgrounding, getting the health issues average GeneMax heifers.� The DNA testing, like the small regis- worked out. “Those are some things I learned,� tered enterprise, is “an investment in our future,� he says. Besides money, time Richardson says. “Not fast, and maybe the investments from the next generation of hard way, but today, you can do all that ■Richardsons will be the key to making pretty fast if you want.� those investments pay. “It takes time to keep up with all the records, and we’ll keep adding information, too,� Richardson says. Ultrasound pregnancy testing and sexing embryos may be next, not just to know on the ranch, but to inform buyers. “A lot of people say their calves didn’t bring near what they were worth, but do they know? Take the New babies arrive small and grow big. calves, feed them and
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N.M. Farm & Livestock Bureau 2013 Annual Meeting, November 21-23 Embassy Suites, Albuquerque Thursday, November 21 9 am Young Farmers & Ranchers Comm. Mtg. at Roadrunner Food Bank 10 am Early Registration 1 pm Pres. Mike White, Year in Review 1:15 pm Range Conditions Dr. Sam Smallidge, NMSU Range Improvement Task Force 1:45 pm Agroterrorism, Kelly Hamilton, SW Border Food Safety & Defense Ctr. 2:45 pm Break 3 pm Media Training, Johnna Miller, AFBF Communications 4:30 pm Adjourn 5:30 pm Vespers Albuquerque Christian School Choir 7 pm Showing of movie “Wolves in Government Clothing� free admission Friday, November 22 7:30 am Women’s Leadership Committee Meeting 9 am Look Ahead to the 2014 Legislative Session, Chad Smith, NMF&LB 9:15 am Obamacare and You Steve Kammeyer, FBL, Director Health Insurance Services 10 am Writing Effective Comments, Joanne Spivack 11 am AFBF Update, Julie Anna Potts, EVP 11:30 am Garrey Carruthers NMSU President (Invited) 12 pm General Membership Luncheon Guest Speaker: Sharlae Brown - 4-H State Winning Speech, Media Person of the Year, Educator of the Year 1 pm County Corporation Requirements Dick Ritter, CPA, Socorro, County Farm Bureau 2 pm County Caucuses, Districts I, III & IV 2:30 pm Annual Business Session Financial Reports, County Awards, NMAITC Update, Election of State Board FBL Update, Jim Brannen, CEO 4 pm State Board of Directors Reorganization Meeting (or) 4 pm Idea Harvesting: Who Grew My Soup? NM Ag Literacy Day Project, Traci Curry, Dir. NMAITC (Volunteers
needed, everyone invited) 6 pm Social Hour 6:30 pm 95th Annual Banquet Sponsored by: Farm Credit of NM Recognition of Outgoing & Incoming Board Members, Volunteer of the Year, Farm Family of the Year, Dr. Scott Vernon, Cal Poly University Sponsored by: BNSF Railway Saturday, November 23 7 am State Board and County Presidents Breakfast (ticketed event) 8:15 am Collegiate Discussion Meet Finals 8:45 am Adoption of Policy Resolutions HOTEL INFORMATION Embassy Suites, 1000 Woodward Pl. NE Rooms are $83 a night & you can make reservations by calling 505-245-7100 8am – 5pm before November 1, 2013. Ask for the N.M. Farm & Livestock Bureau rate. NMF&LB 2013 Annual Meeting Registration Form Name:________________________ Address:______________________ _____________________________ County:_______________________ #_____Early Registration $100, after Nov. 8 - $150 (One person - all inclusive) #_____Child Registration $35 after Nov. 8 - $50 (age 6-15, under 6 are free) #_____Collegiate Farm Bureau Member $75 (membership must be current) #_____Additional Friday Night Annual Banquet tickets $35 (tickets are limited) Total Payment Due:________ ____Check (#)_____________ ____Bill County:___________ Mail to: NMF&LB, 2220 N. Telshor, Las Cruces, NM 88011 Questions? Call Theresa Widner at 575-532-4703
American Angus Association announces 10 N.M. breeders who registered the most Angus he 10 producers who registered the most Angus beef cattle in the state of New Mexico recorded a total of 1,230 Angus with the American Angus AssociationŽ (AAA) during fiscal year 2013, which ended Sept. 30, according to Bryce Schumann, Association chief executive officer. The 10 top recorders in N.M. are: Robert & Mitzi Miller, Floyd, 216-head; U Bar Ranch, Gila, 196; High Valley Angus, Moriarty, 170; Bill Gardner, Estancia, 150; Diamond Seven Angus Ranch, Newkirk, 111head; Dan & Glenda Field Revocable Trust, Lovington, 88; Arthur R Porter, Mule Creek, 74; Greg Smith, Elida, 63; McCall Land & Cattle Co, Albuquerque, 58-head; JC Angus, Moriarty, 52; Scott & Brooke Bidegain, Montoya, 52. Angus breeders across the nation in 2013 registered 288,822 head of Angus cattle. “Our year-end statistics continue to demonstrate strong demand for Angus genetics, and solidify our long-held position as a leader in the beef cattle industry,� Schumann says. “These results underscore our members’ commitment to providing genetic solutions to the beef cattle industry.� Angus Means Business. The AAA is the nation’s largest beef breed organization, serving more than 25,000 members across the U.S., Canada and several other countries. The Association provides programs and services to farmers, ranchers and others who rely on Angus to produce quality genetics for the beef industry and quality beef for consumers. For more info about Angus cattle and the Association, visit ■www.ANGUS.org.
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jinglejangle Ladies, he leaves have turned and blown away, the weather has turned cooler and 2013 has been quite a different year. At our place it has been just like a fantasy world. The first six and a half months of 2013 the wind blew and the dirt was in the air, then came the later part of June and the heavens opened up and blessed us with rain and the grass grew. Now our cows have had a bath and have grass to eat for the winter. We have a lot to be thankful for. We have been blessed. November is the month we celebrate Thanksgiving. We have a lot to be thankful for. We live in America, and live in the best location in America. We have had moisture, some more than others, but every drop counts. Don’t stop praying, the man up above is in control. Thanksgiving is being thankful for what we have, but it is more important to share. We have the best product in the world, BEEF. I have a friend who had a great suggestion. Prepare a basket for a family in need for Thanksgiving, put in a roast or a large steak, depending on the size of the family you are giving your basket to. Include all of the trimmings, vegetables and dessert, and then deliver it for Thanksgiving. This can also be done in conjunction with your local FFA or other organization in your community. This is a great time to share and do something for others. This is a time to help others in need and do something for them. They will appreciate what you do, maybe not in words but by the expression on their face. It is amazing how great you feel when you do something for someone else. Hope all of you have a great Thanksgiving; remember what thanksgiving is really all about. Always a CowBelle Friend, – Sharon King, New Mexico CowBelle President
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A handout on beef cuts and a recipe booklet “30 Meals in 30 Minutes” were donated by CowBelles. A credit card guard was donated by New Mexico State University. Vendor booths by Gladstone Mercantile, Mary’s Flowers, Espy’s/3 West, Stanley Products, and New Mexico CowBelles were available for shopping. The day was opened by mistress of ceremony, Violet Brockman of Lariat CowBelles. Allen Jackson from Micro Beef Technologies of Amarillo, Texas, spoke on “Value Added Ranching.” Of note, the average rancher now feeds himself and ten times more people on fewer animals than ten years ago. Barbara Jackson, President of American National Cattle Women, from Tucson, AZ, spoke on “Future Trends for Beef Production.” Beef promotion has turned into advocacy. Society is now 2, 3, and 4 generations removed from the ranch. Urban and even rural adults and children think their food comes from the grocery store. Ranchers need to give the consumer permission to eat meat; be transparent in their practices; become Beef Quality Assurance certified; join Masters of Beef Advocacy; screen and train all employees to weed out the extreme activist plants; become a local source to their news media outlets; become politically active; and go out and ‘tell your beef story.’ They should always be ready to speak to anyone, anywhere, about their beef stories; being fact and science based, but personalize it. Most consumers think cattle spend their entire lives in the feedlot, which are labeled ‘factory farms.’ Cattle are bred for improved nutrition. The more lean meat you eat the lower your cholesterol. Beef’s environmental footprint is shrinking. Global hunger is steadily rising and technology is increasing the amount of food produced using fewer resources. GMO in the beef industry is merely crossbreeding to improve the final product. Studies have shown there is no nutritional difference between ‘organic’ and traditionally raised beef. ANCW’s top goals are legislation, youth development, and beef promotion. 80 million ‘Millennials’ won’t believe what they hear unless it comes from their peers. ANCW’s goal is to bring the consumer onto the ranch and into the home through social media, via Twitter Parties, Facebook, and Mommy Bloggers. Ten million people in one hour are reached through Twitter Parties. The National Beef Cook-Off will no
UPCOMING EVENTS November 15 – State Officers, State Committee Chairman and Local Presidents, 50 copies of your activities with 2014 officers on the back to Presidentelect Madalyn Lee 15 – Volunteer Time Sheets due to President-Sharon King December 5-8 – Joint Stockmen’s Convention & NMCB Annual Meeting CALL TO MEETING 6 – New Mexico CowBelles Board of Directors, 2 p.m. 7 – New Mexico CowBelles General Membership Meeting, 7 a.m. February 4-7 – 2014 Annual Cattle Industry Convention in Nashville
longer be an on-line recipe competition. Emphasis is on grocery store demonstrations to interact directly with the consumer. After the second presentation a style show was presented by Espy’s/3 West. The afternoon session was titled “The Future Ranch Technologies,” by Allen Jackson of Micro Beef Technologies. They recommend finding the right maternal bull for the heifers and also consider using sexed semen. DNA can be tested to identify economic traits which can be considered in crossbreeding (GMO). Crossbreeding has been around since the 12th century and is nothing new. Beef DNA is not being manipulated as the consumer thinks. Other technologies being developed are ranch keeping programs for iPhone that can connect with the ranch office computer program and can be backed up to an off-site company that is password protected. Feed efficiency is being worked on as are feed needs based on the DNA of the specific animal. All the presentations were very informative and enjoyable for the cattlewomen who attended from the states of New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, and Colorado. The women and attending men were able to renew friendships, start new ones and network with others from the beef industry. Marianne E. Rose, Lariat CowBelles Reporter The September 21, 2013 meeting of the Berrendo CowBelles was held at the Cowboy Cafe. There were six members present and President Genora Canon presided. The minutes were read and approved as read. continued on page 25
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Treasurer’s Report: Carmen Barbe’s report was read, approved, and filed. Unfinished Business: Betty Solt will take the 20 donated brand napkins and 1 donated NM Cook Book as a prize and the $150 as donations to the Lincoln County Cowboy Symposium and Chuck Wagon Cook Off. This event will be held October 11 – 13, in Ruidoso, NM. Beef recipes and educational material will be handed out at this event. The group sold the old Berrendo CowBelles Fair trailer for $5,000 to a local church group as previously decided on. The money will go toward college scholarships for local students. Berrendo donated $500 as ‘add ons’ to all youth participating in beef projects at our Berrendo County Fair. New Business: Election of Officers: It was decided to elect the current officers for another term. The slate of officers was elected: Genora Canon, President; Joyce Darrough, Vice President; Genora Canon, Secretary; Carmen Barbe, Treasurer. Submitted by Genora Canon The Powderhorn CowBelles met on October 8, 2013. Mary weaved a variety of beautiful colored scarfs for door prizes. Gretchen Gurtler, MPA, Museum Director Mesalands Dinosaur Museum in Tucumcari, and Axel Hungerbeuller, PhD, Natural Science Instructor/Museum Curator, Mesalands Dinosaur Museum presented a program on the Triassic period of 206 million years ago. With the downturn in the economy Tucumcari and Mesalands was hunting for a way to bring about a different image, decided to put the emphasis on the Museum although the research area remains the primary curriculum area. They have the only two-year paleontology program in the United States. Some members had brought pieces of fossils and other treasures and a period of questions and answers was enjoyed. The group did not hold a meeting in September because of a lack of a quorum, so the August minutes were read and approved with one correction. Courtesy cards were sent to Ginger Howe, Judy Byrd and Aspen Achen. A nominating Committee of Carolyn Bedford, Nancy Schade and Karen Kelling was formed. Karen Kelling reported on the Five States meeting. The main speakers were Barbara Jackson, President of ANCW with an update on mom’s millennial programs of ANCW. Allen Jackson, Microtechnologies, spoke on the new technologies in beef production. He stated that 100 percent of profits come from 20 percent of the cows. The Pumpkin Patch is coming up October 19-20 and Oct. 27-28. Leigh Ann
Marez called attention to the 2013-14 New Mexico Rancher’s Workshops conducted by the Guadalupe County Extension will continue with the meals connected with them being sponsored by the First National Bank of New Mexico. Ellen Vaughan stated that the De Baca County Farm & Livestock Bureau will hold the Annual Meeting at 6:00 p.m. October 21 with a meal, election of officers and resolutions to take to the State Meeting. All Farm Bureau members are welcome. Dorothy Vaughan, Secretary The Chuckwagon CowBelles met at the Valencia County Extension Service in Los
Lunas, on October 8, 2013 with 13 members and one guest present. Toni Barrow introduced Laura Bittner who gave a presentation entitled “An Attitude of Gratitude.� Attitudes are contagious. Is yours worth catching? She said we become like the five people we are around the most. Gratitude functions as a psychological immune system that bulletproofs us in times of crisis. She said that an optimist is someone who figures that taking a step backward after taking a step forward is not a disaster. It’s a cha-cha! ANCW, State, and continued on page 26
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Local dues now total $85. State and Local dues together are $35. They are due now. March 12, 2014, will be the Districts 1 and 3 combined meeting in Socorro. Mesilla Valley CowBelles would like to split a shipment of agricultural children’s books for distribution to local classrooms. www.agbooksforkids.com is the link. It was decided to purchase a half box of books and offer a portion to other local CowBelle groups, and then distribute the balance among locals in the Chuckwagon CowBelle District. It was decided that the children’s Ag books will go to the libraries of local schools. Mountainair will have a Christmas craft show on November 9, 2013, at the Dr. Saul building. It was decided that the group will have a table there. Lyn presented the NMCB trailer hitch cover that is now available for $30 each, great item to order for Christmas presents. Please place orders with Lyn Greene to be delivered to the December 7th Annual Meeting. Toni also mentioned that this year is an election year for officers. Anyone interested in serving should run. Bec Campbell and Elaine Aschbacher volunteered to be on the nominating com-
mittee. The New Mexico CowBelles will be working the Pumpkin Patch on October 19 and 20, and also on October 26 and 27 at the Santa Ana Star Center. The next meeting will be at Babbi Baker’s house on November 12. It will be a potluck. Please also bring volunteer miles and hours for the entire year. There was discussion about the Annual Meeting on December 5–8. The Chuckwagon December meeting will be on the 10th. Donating beef to the Camino Retirement Apartments instead of the ornament exchange at December meeting. The group decided to donate $100 from checking and then donate an addition of whatever is collection during the December meeting. The Horses for Heroes’ account currently has $360.50. Babbi will email Rick with Horses for
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Heroes to come to the November meeting. Respectfully submitted by Babbi Baker Borderbelles, September 24, 2013, Report-Borderbelles will have a booth at the Southwestern New Mexico State Fair – the theme is Family Fair fun. Set up will be at 9:00 on Wednesday October 9, 2013. The group will man the booth on Friday and Saturday afternoon from 12 to 4. There will be games with the cuts of meat and Dr. Seuss’ Steak for Supper will be read. The drawing for Borderbelles’ scholarship raffle will be on Saturday, October 12 before the livestock sale. First prize is a 270 hunting rifle with $100 and $50 Beef gift certificates for 2nd and 3rd place. Five States is October 2, 2013 and Beverly will be attending. The Pumpkin Patch is the last two weekends in October. Beverly will be attending the second weekend. Nominations for Cowbelle of the year are due by October 15, 2013. We need to be thinking about 2014 officers. Membership dues are now due and they are $25. Respectfully submitted, Tamara Hurt, Reporter New Mexico CowBelles: Thank you to all who have submitted their news to “Jingle Jangle.” Please send minutes and/or newsletters to: Jingle Jangle, Janet Witte, 1860 Foxboro Ct., Las Cruces, NM 88007 or janetwitte@msn.com by the 14th of each month.
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n the Brangus world, everyone knows the Brinks Brangus and Camp Cooley names. Although that herd was dispersed in 2010, the Brinks Brangus cattle, name and tradition of performance-based cattle live on at the Westall Ranch near Arabela, New Mexico. Ray and Karen Westall bought the ranch in October of 2009. Located in the central part of the state, it’s rough, rocky, high desert country, which is why they went with the Brangus breed, said ranch manager Tate Pruett. “This can be the best country in the world, and it can be the worst. Right now, it’s beautiful. Brangus cattle are able to adapt to this country. We don’t have foot problems, we don’t have bug problems, and the cattle will work in these rocks.” Pruett came on board as manager in December of 2009, and they bought their
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Acoma Pueblo aaku is the traditional name of Acoma Pueblo, which is also popularly called “Sky City”. According to Pueblo officials, the word “Acoma” and related words which are equally correct and historically applicable—Akome, Acu, Acuo and Ako—denote “a place always prepared.” The Pueblo is a member of the Keresan language group along with Cochiti, Laguna, San Felipe, Santa Ana, Santa Domingo and Zia. Acoma is the oldest continuously occupied village in the United States at about 1,000 to 1,300 years. Located sixty miles west and a little south of Albuquerque in Cibola County, the village occupies a mesa top some 350 to 375 feet above the surrounding plain although according to tribal legend, the tribe previously lived on Enchanted Mesa a short distance to the north. The reservation covers about 450,000 acres—702 square miles—adjacent to Laguna Pueblo. The Spanish first heard of Acoma when
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Fray Marcos de Niza visited New Mexico in 1539. He traveled as far north as Hawikuh near present-day Zuñi where he was obliged to halt, and he never actually saw Acoma. Francisco Vásquez de Coronado and a large party of conquerors marched into New Mexico in 1540. Captain Hernando de Alvarado, a Coronado subordinate, visited Acoma, and was not impressed with what he found. “We regretted having climbed up to that place,” he later wrote. The community was not molested by that party of Spaniards. Spanish colonizer Juan de Oñate arrived in New Mexico in July 1598. After he established his capital at San Gabriel, near modern-day San Juan Pueblo, he visited Acoma in October. He thought he secured agreement from the Acoma people which called upon them to subjugate themselves to the Spanish Crown and to the Catholic Church. While several of what he thought were Acoma chiefs seemed to
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agree, according to history writer Howard Bryan, one of them, named Zutucapan, opposed the idea. It is an historical footnote that historian Ward Alan Minge, in his book Acoma: Pueblo in the Sky, makes no mention of a leader by that name. In early December of 1598, Oñate’s nephew, Captain Juan de Zaldivar, and a troop of Spanish soldiers visited Acoma. They were set upon by Pueblo people, and nearly a dozen of them were killed, including Zaldivar, who, according to Bryan, was killed “in single combat” with Zutucapan. In January 1599, an avenging troop of Spaniards was organized by Zaldivar’s brother, Vincente. They arrived at Acoma on January 21, and soon attacked and defeated the Acoma belligerents. One source reported that 600 Indians were killed, while another reported that only 600 were left alive when the melee was over. Many of the survivors were taken continued on page 38
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possible, today the herd is about 70 percent Brinks cattle. We bought the best blood, best marbling, best Brinks cattle we could find,” Tate explained. “We have continued to breed our cattle for quality, and have spent the past two years building our program. We’ve gone from turning bulls out just to get calves on the ground to an extensive AI and embryo transfer program, transferring between 300 and 500 embryos a year,” he continued. Their marketing director, Cheramie Viator, came to the ranch after working eight years with the Brinks herd at Camp Cooley. “The Brinks program was based on performance, producing bulls that worked for both commercial and registered producers. Here, we are very focused on rebuilding that premise of a performance based herd. “We are building our numbers while improving the herd, focusing on easy fleshing, good footed, good muscled cows.” Viator, who covered the western United States for Camp Cooley, says that the adaptability of the breed is impressive. In the process of rebuilding the Brinks herd, they have brought cows to Arabela from all over the country, and they’re doing well. The ranch markets their registered Brangus cattle to both seedstock and commercial producers. While they have sold bulls private treaty from the ranch, the World Series of Brangus Sale, set for November 15 and 16 in Palo Pinto, Texas, will be their first large sale. Bred cows, bred heifers and bulls will be offered by the Westall Ranch. “We want to raise the best bulls we can, for either the commercial or seedstock producer,” Tate noted. “We want to help the commercial cowman get the best value for his money. If he can get more pounds on the ground come shipping time, it’s easier for him to earn a living.” As part of their continued effort to improve the operation, Tate said, they are in the process of building a 250-head feedyard at the ranch where they will be able to feed out calves and bulls, track feed efficiency, scan carcass data, and incorporate that information into their breeding program. “We want to produce bulls that will perform and get results for our customers, but won’t cost an arm and a leg to feed.” The Westall Ranch, along with Lack Morrison Brangus in Clovis and others, is also part of a program that helps give FFA students in San Simon, Arizona, the opportunity to learn about livestock and
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agriculture by raising and showing cattle. Tate says that this program gives these students a new experience and valuable knowledge. “Youth today don’t know how to go outside, and part of that is that their parents just can’t afford to let them do a lot of things.” Each year, the ranch provides four heifers for the program, along with feed and funding for show and travel. Participating students come to Arabela to select their heifers, then care for and show them all year, finishing up at the Arizona National. At the end of the year, the heifers come back to the Westall herd. “I would like to see something like this get started in communities in New Mexico, and I think that there are other ranchers out
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there who would be willing to participate,” like Ray made every day,” he continued. he explained. “I read the other day that the “He will help a kid, help a family, he has average age of a farmer in the United States helped me. He loves kids, and loves cattle, is 62 years old. If we don’t teach kids how to `and likes to put the two together and put ■ get food on the table, how smiles on faces.” are they going to provide? How are they going to feed America?” The generosity of ranch owners Ray and Karen Westall has made a big difference to a lot of people, according to Tate. “Ranching is something I always wanted to do but never thought I would be able to. Ray and Karen have given me that opportunity.” A good crop of Westall Brangus Bulls “There aren’t people
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EPA Study Could Be Used To Expand Reach of Law Over Waters by AMENA H. SAIYID, WWW.MODBEE.COM ederal regulators may be able to assert Clean Water Act jurisdiction over more waters and wetlands than are now protected on the basis of a draft scientific study that links all streams and certain wetlands with larger, downstream navigable waters, attorneys and policy analysts say. The Environmental Protection Agency’s draft study finds that all tributary streams, including perennial and the previously unprotected intermittent and ephemeral streams, are physically, chemically and biologically connected to downstream rivers. The study, released September 17, also finds that wetlands and open waters in flood plains of rivers and riparian areas also are connected in the same way as streams are to downstream rivers. The study, however, was unable to generalize that a connection exists between isolated wetlands and open waters, such as playa lakes and prairie potholes, that are located outside flood plains and downstream waters. Instead, it said the EPA and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers could, on a case-by-case basis, evaluate whether these isolated wetlands have an aggregate impact on downstream waters. The EPA said the study provides the first comprehensive link between headwater streams, which make up the most abundant type of streams in the U.S., and downstream navigable waters. The study, which the EPA Science Advisory Board is now reviewing, will serve as the scientific basis for a rule developed jointly by the EPA and the corps to clarify Clean Water Act jurisdiction over the nation’s waters and wetlands. The EPA on Sept. 17 sent a proposed rule to the White House Office of Management and Budget for interagency review. At the same time, it withdrew draft guidance on the issue that had been at the White House since 2012 .
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The issue of jurisdiction carries a great deal of significance. The fact that a water is covered by the Clean Water Act has implications for permitting of pollution discharges, filling of wetlands and streams, certifications by states that activities such as dambuilding or other federally permitted activities do not harm water quality and cleanup of oil spills. Under the Clean Water Act, the EPA or responsible state authorities have responsibility for issuing permits under the Section 402 National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System program, while the corps issues Section 404 dredge-and-fill permits for construction and other development projects. The EPA oversees the Section 404 program. Attorneys said the study could allow the agencies to assert jurisdiction in a blanket fashion over ephemeral and intermittent streams, rather than force them to try to find a significant nexus for each non-navigable tributary in question with downstream continued on page 33
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navigable waters. The so-called significant nexus test was established by the 2006 U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Rapanos v. United States, 547 U.S. 715, 62 ERC 1481 (2006).
rate,� Carson said. Don Parrish, senior regulatory relations director for the American Farm Bureau Federation, said that “the study appears to give EPA the justification to regulate all waters, not just those that are navigable waters. That is contrary to what Congress authorized.�
Scientific Justification
Brian Glass, an attorney with Bryn Mawr, Pa.-based Warren Glass LLP, said the report “is plainly an attempt to provide scientific justification for finding that certain categories of waters possess a ‘significant nexus’ to navigable waters and for asserting jurisdiction over them.� Glass added, “I would expect the joint draft rule that EPA and the Corps submitted to OMB to assert federal jurisdiction over all tributary streams and all wetlands and open-waters in riparian areas and floodplains.� Brent Carson, a Seattle-based attorney and partner with Van Ness Feldman LLP, agreed. “As you read the tea leaves, that’s exactly the conclusion we believe is likely—that the agencies will use the draft study to provide the scientific basis to argue all streams should be considered jurisdictional no matter the size or flow
2008 Guidance
Under current policy, as set out in joint EPA-Army Corps guidance issued in 2008, Clean Water Act jurisdiction extends to traditional navigable waters; wetlands adjacent to traditional navigable waters; non-navigable tributaries of traditional navigable waters that are relatively permanent, including those tributaries that typically flow year-round or have continuous flow at least three months of the year and wetlands that directly abut such tributaries. As a result of the new study, the EPA and the corps could propose to bring all wetlands in flood plains and riparian areas, including those that abut ephemeral and intermittent streams, under federal protection. Ephemeral and intermittent streams also could fall under federal protection. Patrick Parenteau, a professor of environmental law at Vermont Law School,
and Natural Resources Defense Council attorney Jon Devine pointed out that asserting jurisdiction over waters does not automatically translate into requiring permits for dredge-and-fill activities and discharges of pollutants. “Even if a water is jurisdictional, there needs to be proof of addition of a pollutant, be it dredge and fill or discharges, before a state or federal regulator can even require a permit under the Clean Water Act,� said Parenteau, who was formerly the regional counsel of the EPA Region 1 1984 – 1987. In general, Devine said in an e-mail, “an activity typically only triggers Clean Water Act permitting requirements if it results in an ‘addition’ of a ‘pollutant’ from a ‘point source’ into a ‘water of the United States.’ “ Permitting cannot be sought for waters that aren’t under the act’s jurisdiction, they said. Supreme Court Confusion
Asserting jurisdiction over waters and wetlands and the question of what is considered a water of the U.S. have been sources of much uncertainty, litigation and confusion because of two U.S. Supreme Court decisions that attempted to circumscribe Clean Water Act jurisdiccontinued on page 34
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tion. The first was Solid Waste Agency of Northern Cook County (SWANCC) v. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, 531 U.S. 159, 51 ERC 1833 (2001), and the second was Rapanos. The court in SWANCC said the agencies couldn’t assert jurisdiction over geographically isolated wetlands as waters of the U.S. merely because they served as habitat for migratory birds. In Rapanos, the Supreme Court split on defining a standard to establish jurisdiction. Justice Anthony Kennedy issued a concurring opinion, which said the agencies must prove on a case-by-case basis that a particular water or wetland has a “significant nexus� to a navigable water. Meanwhile, Justice Antonin Scalia’s plurality opinion said the Clean Water Act should apply to waters and wetlands with a “continuous surface� connection to navigable waters. Kennedy said he articulated the significant nexus standard to enable the agencies to assert jurisdiction over intermittent and ephemeral streams and wetlands without a direct connection to navigable waters because the two agencies had failed to promulgate a rule that would clarify and iden-
tify which waters fell under federal protection. Response to Rapanos
The two agencies have chosen to use Kennedy’s concurring opinion and Scalia’s plurality opinion as the bookends for asserting jurisdiction, first through the 2008 guidance document and then through the draft guidance in 2011. Developers, builders, and environmental groups have termed these documents vague and confusing and sought additional clarification as well as rulemaking. The confusion also had an effect on government regulatory policy, according to the EPA Office of Inspector General. The inspector general said in an October 2009 report that the EPA dropped 77 potential Clean Water Act Section 404 cases between July 2006 and December 2007 because it was uncertain whether it could establish jurisdiction. “In some cases, the jurisdictional uncertainty that resulted from the Rapanosand SWANCC cases makes it unclear whether a §404 violation has even occurred,� the IG report said. Significant Nexus Test Not Needed
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connectivity study obviates the need for conducting a significant nexus test on intermittent and ephemeral streams. “The draft report is clearly a response to Justice Kennedy’s concurrence in Rapanos,� Glass said, “What the report appears to attempt to do is provide the scientific justification for a rule asserting blanket jurisdiction over certain broad categories of waters (tributary streams and wetlands and open-waters in riparian areas and floodplains) without having to make case-by-case ‘significant nexus’ determinations for those waters.� According to Carson, the main conclusion in the draft study concerning streams and wetlands and open waters in flood plains makes Scalia’s direct, continuous surface connection test superfluous. “EPA and the Army Corps may rely on this conclusion to create a ‘bright line’ test for regulating all wetlands located in flood plains and riparian corridors as being ‘waters of the United States’ and avoid the need for any ‘significant nexus’ analysis,� Carson and other attorneys with Van Ness Feldman wrote in a Sept. 19 issue alert. One of the key aspects of the study that is causing much concern among home continued on page 35
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builders and farmers is the possibility that geographically isolated wetlands and waters located in uplands could be considered waters of the U.S. if regulators were able to demonstrate that those upland waters have a cumulative impact on downstream navigable waters. Those waters were deemed not to be under Clean Water Act protection by the EPA and the corps in a 2003 memorandum following the SWANCC decision. Wetlands Data Insufficient
The draft connectivity study finds the data are insufficient to conclusively link isolated wetlands—though they provide flood retention and nutrient and sediment trapping benefits—to downstream waters. However, the study suggests that the agencies could evaluate these wetlands individually or consider their cumulative impact on downstream waters on a case-by-case basis. Glass said he would not be surprised if the forthcoming rule proposed a set of factors for determining whether all other wetlands possess sufficient connectivity to downstream waters to assert federal jurisdiction over them. Those factors would most likely be challenged in court, where the key question would turn on whether this study provides the necessary scientific justification to satisfy the significant nexus standard set by Kennedy, he said. Devine said he expects there will be much discussion on the impact of waters that are physically removed from flood plains. “Where all of the available science supports a finding that any of these kinds of waters collectively have a meaningful impact on other waters, they must be protected,� he said. Parenteau doesn’t expect the EPA will make prairie potholes—freshwater marshes found in the Upper Midwest that provide the benefit of absorbing snowmelt and floodwaters—jurisdictional, even in the aggregate. Instead, he said, he expects the EPA will consider such waters on an case-by-case basis. Devine said the study, after being fully vetted by independent scientists, would provide the science for a rule that would resolve the uncertainty over which waters are protected. Moreover, “such a rule would remedy the current approach to law enforcement, for instance, where officials have largely abandoned efforts to enforce the law in the headwaters of watersheds,� ■he said.
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Orndorff Ranch, Fall 1979 by CURTIS FORT
t was good to have a camp at the Question Mark all those months. On one of our trips to help neighbors, we helped Jim Patterson who ran the Orndorff outfit twenty miles north of Bingham, NM. There was a little post office at Bingham, and Mrs. Wrye was the “post lady”. She and her husband had a ranch a few miles north on the road to the Orndorff. The Orndorff was a sand and cedar range, a long way from anywhere. Socorro was thirty miles to the west, and Carrizozo, thirty miles to the east. It had a neat headquarters with some cottonwood trees, houses, corrals, that all seemed an oasis in that big range. I started doing some day work for Jim. I remember one day Jim’s wife Mariann had a great lunch fixed for us. I’ve loved pinto beans as long as I can remember, and she had some that were a little different. She said they were beans some friends had given them from an Anasazi ruin in the Four Corners area, and they had raised them in their garden there at the ranch. As I found out later, these were Anasazi beans, much a cousin to our pinto beans. They are great, and from studying my books on New Mexico’s history, it seems the beans were already here before the Spaniards. I used to think the Spaniards brought them, but it seems the Native Americans already had them. The Spaniards may have brought the chiles, but the corn, beans, and squash were already here on this continent. Jim asked me to keep day working, and I agreed. I helped them a few more times and Jim offered me a job. I liked that range and Jim and his family, so I hired on in September of 1979. It would be a week or so before I could move there, and I was still driving out each day. One morning when I pulled in Jim had our horses saddled, a rifle in a scabbard for me, and he was wearing his hog leg. We loaded our mounts in a trailer and drove to H. Pender’s, the neighbor to the
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south, and he loaded his horse in the trailer. We headed for Nogal, a little village in the mountains east of Carrizozo. As we unloaded, my amigo Larry Dean pulled in with his mount, and was wearing his pistol. The city policeman of Carrizozo had been shot and killed in Nogal canyon the day before, and the “law” figured the killer was still in the area. The officer that was killed was Tom Bedford. I had attended high school with him at Tatum in 1966 and 67, as his folks bought the Dennis Peveler ranch north of Tatum, which is now part of the Diamond Half outfit. The “law” had called Jim, H. and Larry to bring mounts and help look for the fugitive. We showed up at Nogal in the edge of the Mountains, unloaded our mounts and were informed of the area they wanted us to ride. In today’s world they would have sent in a lot of special “law”, loaded down in special equipment, and bullet-proof vests. None of us were excited about being there, but we felt we were serving as a citizen. Larry and I made a circle to the north, and Jim and H. to the south. The “law” had given us those bright orange vests to wear, and as soon as we were out of sight in that brush, Larry and I each threw our vest away. This guy we were looking for was a bad “egg” and I told my amigo Larry, that I figured the first one that rides up on him in this brush is going to get shot. I’m sure I made him feel better by saying, “I hope it’s you, instead of me, but I’ll shore get him.” Luckily, we didn’t ride up on that outlaw as he would have killed somebody! He made it through those hills (about 50 miles) to Corona, NM, over the next week, and was caught there. I got moved to the Orndorff Ranch by mid-September, and we did get busy. I still love that ole ranch. We had good neighbors (the McKinley, Bursom, and Monte Prieto ranches), and it still is a big range. At night, even from a high point you might see a light or two from a ranch ten to
twenty miles away. Will Orndorff owned the outfit, and had run mother cows for years. Jim Patterson was the manager, wagon boss, wind miller, and chore boy. Will decided to change and winter two to three thousand yearlings, so Jim needed help. We did keep some mother-cows to stock the Long Ranch, which Will had leased, and it joined the Orndorff on the west. It was going to be a lot of horseback work. They also hired my amigos Sammy Roper and Gary and Rhea Loveland, whom I worked with at Vermejo, as well as a couple hombres to feed and do chores. Jim and family lived in another nice home at headquarters. I liked working for Jim. He was like working for Bill John at Vermejo, Leo at the Bells or Larry Dean . . . all good bosses and fun to work for. Jim is all cowboy, loves the life, and likes to laugh. If something needed to be roped. he was all for it and would probably beat you to it. We started receiving cattle, and they were crossbred four- to five-weight cattle. We branded, gave shots to all, and prowled through them every day to watch for sick ones. Once we located them in the big pastures that were plenty brushy, we wanted them to come to the cake wagon. There was a big set of pens several miles to the southeast of headquarters called East Well, where three big pastures joined and had a couple of traps for the sick ones. We received and processed the bulk of those cattle there. On the west side of the outfit were the Wilson Pens, where we received and branded a lot of cattle. The ones we processed at these pens, had a good open trap to get them on cake before we drifted them all to the Wilson and Indian Pastures for the winter. These cattle were branded T Bar. The ranch had a good summer and grew a lot of grass on that outfit, so it was
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as good as you wanted going into the fall and winter. Every morning we caught fresh mounts and Jim scattered us in lots of directions . . . or we all headed to one place to unload more cattle and process them. Thankfully those yearlings came in over several weeks, a steady stream from late September to Christmas Eve so we could process and get a few loads lined out before another bunch came in. On horseback, we would throw them to the cake wagon that one of the hombres would be driving, and it didn’t take long for the cattle to like that feed. We’d pick up any sick ones and keep them in the pens to doctor. A lot of those fall evenings we’d unsaddle just before dark, and the Patterson kids, their folks, and the cowboys would have a baseball game in the sandy lane in front of headquarters. Jamie, and Leah were the girls, ten to twelve years old. Loren was their brother and was all of seven. Loren was and still is all cowpuncher. While I was at the Orndorff, Mariann home-schooled her children so Loren got to make a lot of circles with us. One day in November, we unloaded our mounts
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hero of mine ever since. We were a few days working all those cows and calves at the Long Ranch. We threw the calves we weaned and the cuts in a well fenced trap. We let them set a week or so, while we were receiving cattle at the home ranch, then went back and trailed them ten miles to the Orndorff. Another good bunch of men to work with . . . men who rode for the ■ outfit!
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prisoner. A relatively few Spaniards were killed. Legend holds that for their rebellious behavior, the captured Acomas were tried at Santo Domingo Pueblo, where Governor Oñate ordered the amputations of the right feet of adult Acoma men over the age of 25, plus 25 years of personal servitude. Men under that age were sentenced to 25 years of personal servitude. Two Hopi men who were present at Acoma during the fight were sentenced to have a hand cut off. Many modern historians acknowledge that Oñate gave such an order, but note that it was probably not executed. After all, many have reasoned, the Spaniards enslaved the Acomas, and how much good is a one-footed slave? Historian Minge, however, wrote: “The sentence was carried out in Santo Domingo Pueblo and other nearby towns. Beginning on February 12, hands and feet were cut off on different days. On February 15, Oñate distributed the slaves at San Juan Pueblo, where the main army was stationed.” Whatever the fact of the matter might be, it resulted in hard feelings which continued until modern times. The Acoma Indians were not converted to the Catholic Church until some years after the Spanish conquest of New Mexico and by 1621 “the pueblo was still a pagan refuge for malcontents from other pueblos….” The first mission church at Acoma, San Estevan Del Rey Mission Church, was built between 1629 and 1640, under the direction of Fray Juan Ramírez. All construction material—stone, wood, and enough dirt for a cemetery of 200 square feet—was carried up the steep path on the backs of the Indian people. What happened to the structure during and after the Pueblo Revolt of 1680 is not clear. Eleanor B. Adams and Fray Angélico Chávez in The Missions of New Mexico wrote, “The exact date of the building of the Acoma church is not known, but the weight of the evidence indicates that the greater part of the structure [was] described by Domínguez [in 1776].” That would mean that the present church dates from the late eighteenth century. San Esteban del Rey Mission church remains standing today though it received considerable renovation during the 1920s. About 300 multi-storied residences remain atop the mesa, but only a few
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Acoma people live there year around. Much has been written about Acoma Pueblo, and what follows is but a sampling of it. Warren A. Beck & Ynez D. Haase, Historical Atlas of New Mexico Howard Bryan, “Off the Beaten Path,” Albuquerque Tribune, December 2, 1954 Edward P. Dozier, The Pueblo Indians of North America Bertha P. Dutton, American Indians of the Southwest Robert Julyan, The Place Names of New Mexico Howard Lamar, The New Encyclopedia of the American West Ward Alan Minge, Acoma: Pueblo in the Sky Richard Melzer, Buried Treasures Alfonso Ortiz, Ed., Handbook of North American Indians, Vol.9 Joe S. Sando, Pueblo Nations Marc Simmons, “The Enchanted Mesa: myth or true tale?” The New Mexican, May 20, 2006 Don Bullis’ newest book, Unsolved: New Mexico’s American Valley Ranch Murders & Other Mysteries, is now available by contacting www.LPDPress.com
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young calf grazes along the Santa Fe Trail. To the west, the Sangre de Cristo Mountains are silhouetted against the flaming setting sun. Grass waves in the slight breeze and the scene is quiet. But the land shelters the past. Arrowheads and artifacts are left to remind the present stewards of the Native Americans who roamed the Llano Estacado. They were joined by Mexican conquistadores and sheepherders 400 years ago. In 1821, American traders who followed the Santa Fe Trail risked the harsh weather, dry passages and the hostile Comanches and lurched across this sod to get to the lucrative Santa Fe markets. The calf wearing the Circle Dot brand grazes the short grass prairie, impervious to the rich history of the land, and even the special significance of the brand he wears. But Bill Sauble, the man who uses the Circle Dot, knows the history of the land and the history of the brand. He knows that he ranches on some of the finest short-grass prairie in the world, and that his careful stewardship will help ensure that the prairie stays strong. And he knows that the Circle Dot brand was used as a road brand on cattle drives because it is impossible to alter. Likewise, it is impossible to turn the Circle Dot upside down. In many ways, Bill’s life is a reflection of both the history of the land and the Circle Dot brand. Like his land, Bill has been described by fellow ranchers as “the best of the best”. And like the brand, Bill has lived a life according to personal convictions that were impossible to alter. He has also weathered storms in the cattle industry and its people with an unflappable calm and resolve to do the best for all involved. His life has been branded by integrity and
service to others. Bill Sauble never set out to be wellknown or to be applauded for his accomplishments, but his steadfast dedication to seek the truth, do the right thing for all involved, and serve others from positions of authority, has made him well-known and respected far beyond northeastern New Mexico. For his service, his leadership, and his selfless dedication to the cattle industry, Bill’s peers named him the New Mexico Cattle Growers’ Cattleman of the Year for 2012. In a world where ranchers either have to “show up at the table” or “be on the menu”, Bill has for years set aside his personal needs and desires to represent cattlemen at meetings, on boards, and at hearings. He has shown such fairness that he has been appointed by four different governors to be on the New Mexico Livestock Board. (This is unheard of!) Bill is probably the only New Mexican alive who can and has served in position of great authority under the leadership of both Democrat and Republican governors, over and over. His integrity and work ethic are unsurpassed. His intellect is legendary and his ability to solve tough problems is admired. And he does it all with a gentle humility. “Bill can say less and get more done than almost anyone,” according to Rex Wilson, president of New Mexico Cattle Growers’ Association. “When he speaks, everyone listens.” Besides his legendary leadership on the Livestock Board, Bill has also served in leadership roles in the New Mexico Farm and Livestock Bureau, New Mexico Cattle Growers, Colfax County Commission, New Mexico Association of Counties, United continued on page 42
THANK YOU, BILL! We know we speak for everyone when we say “Thank You!” for everything you’ve done for us over the years.
Rex & Carol Wilson Bill ...we are all so proud that your many years of hard work and dedication have been recognized this way. Bob & Jane Frost & Families
We’re Proud of You
Bill Sauble You’ve earned the honor as New Mexico's Cattleman of the Year. We appreciate all you've done for the livestock industry during the past many years. ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆
Moore Land and Cattle Co.
Cattleman of the Year
BILL SAUBLE You have earned the enduring respect of cattlemen everywhere. We admire you for what you have done for all of us.
Pat & Cindy Boone Circle Dot Ranch, Colfax County, New Mexico, February 15, 1959 NOVEMBER 2013
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States Animal Health Association, and American Farm Bureau Federation. The previous list is just a starter list which doesn’t even include his reserve and active duty military service and his long list of honors, bestowed from the 1970s to 2012. Most of these honors start with the word “outstanding” because to the industry he serves, Outstanding is just about the only word to describe Bill Sauble.
“We need about a thousand more just like him,” noted Jess Peterson, Montana rancher and Executive Director of US Cattlemen. “Bill Sauble is just steady as you go. He has a little grin, and when he is faced with a problem he just says, ‘we can figure these things out.’ And he does!” Whether he is chatting with a member of the New Mexico Congressional delegation or a private rancher, a Democrat or Republican, a governor or a lobbyist, Bill brings credibility to the issues facing the livestock industry. “I’ve always known that he was one of the smartest, brightest guys we’ve ever had looking out for our industry,” noted former Cattle Growers’ president Bill Humphries. “I’ve never heard his intelligence or integrity questioned, and that is pretty rare when you serve in the public arena.”
(l to r) Martha & Roy Sauble, brother & sister-in-law, & their daughter Carla, Becky, Bill’s mother; Tara, Bill’s daughter & Bill.
The land and the brand
The Circle Dot is a family ranch. On work
days, it isn’t unusual for the family to mount 14 cowboys. The crew can ride most of the morning and still deliver steaming hot coffee and coffeecakes to the scale house in time for the weighing. If two neighbors are shipping at once, the Saubles send one trailer load of cowboys one way and another bunch of cowboys in the opposite direction. It is the kind of ranch where the old cows eat cake out of the rancher’s hand and most of the pastures are named after the families who homesteaded the land 100 years ago. The Circle Dot’s western boundary is the Maxwell Land Grant, a full 1.7 million acres once granted to settlers by the Spanish king. The Dorsey Mansion, built after the Civil War by Stephen Dorsey, who had political aspirations in New Mexico, is less than 20 miles from the Circle Dot. The wagons that traversed the Santa Fe Trail left deep ruts in the prairie 150 years ago, and Eagle Tail Peak and Tinaja Peak dominate the skyline to the north. It is a pretty drive from Springer to the ranch, especially if the rains have been good and the gramma and buffalo grass are headed out. First-time visitors traveling the 13 miles of dirt road to the Circle Dot crest the hill to see the Rio del Plano threading through the meadow, with a cluster of houses and outbuildings on the other side. Instead of a single ranch home, there are various homes which house the Circle Dot’s work force: Bill and his wife Debbie, son Troy, Bill’s brother Roy and his wife, Martha, and their daughter, Cathy Allmand. Gayle, Bill and Roy’s sister, drives a United Parcel Service truck and also lives at the ranch and helps as time allows. Bill and Debbie’s daughter, Tara, along with her husband and twin sons, make the trip as often as often as they can, and when all the family is home, the Saubles can have up to three ropers and four ground crews all branding at once. One year, a neighboring cowboy wanted a certain animal roped and isolated from the Sauble herd. “He approached 10 different riders trying to get someone to rope the animal, and all 10 riders were females,” remembers Debbie. “He was pretty surprised he couldn’t find any cowboys.” The Sauble family history in the Land of Enchantment started when Bill’s grandfather, Frank Sauble, left his family ranch in Kansas for the less-populated pastures of New Mexico in 1914. Frank owned the Rayado Ranch before he sold it to Waite Phillips, who eventually donated the land to the Boy Scouts of America as part of the
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Philmont Scout Ranch. In 1942, Frank bought the Circle Dot, which is actually one of the oldest cattle ranches in the Springer area, according to a 1942 edition of the New Mexico Stockman magazine. A New England syndicate, the Portsmouth Cattle company, established the ranch in 1883. At that time, it was known as “Screwplate Ranch.” In 1915, Ed Brown of Raton bought the ranch and changed the brand to the Circle Dot. When the ranch was purchased by Sauble, it was billed by the Stockman as “one of the best sodded ranges in the state which can accommodate 2,500 head of cattle.” Gene Sauble, Bill’s father, was a junior
in Springer High School when his father Frank bought the Circle Dot. The Stockman reported that Gene “is a capable ranchman who devotes all his spare time and vacations to active work with his father on the ranch.” Like his father before him, Bill grew up wanting to be a rancher. From the time he was old enough to ride, he skipped school to help drive the calves to the train for shipping. Bill graduated from Springer High school and four years later graduated with honors from New Mexico State University with a B.S. in Animal Science. He married Debbie, his high school sweetheart, and moved her to the east coast, where he was on active duty in the United States Navy. Debbie got a job at a seafood continued on page 44
Debbie, Troy and Bill Sauble
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restaurant while her dry-land ranching husband spent time deployed on the open seas. When he was home, he liked to go shopping with Debbie. His bride didn’t realize that at the grocery store, Bill was surreptitiously procuring two grapes, slipping them into a bag, and secreting the bag among her groceries. At the checkout counter, he watched with a grin as the clerk weighed the pair of grapes and charged the flustered Debb a couple of pennies for the fruit she had never selected. After two years on the high seas and a lot of seafood, Bill left active duty and the couple returned to full time ranching along the Rio del Plano. Join and serve
Bill and Debbie hadn’t been home for more than a couple of months before Alvin Stockton, president of Cattle Growers, paid a visit to the Circle Dot. Alvin’s invitation to get involved in the industry and the association was accepted and Bill spent increasing amounts of time traveling with
We Salute you
BILL SAUBLE Cattleman of the Year Thank you for your consistent & effective efforts on behalf of our industry!
Alvin. These trips provided a good foundation, especially when it came to dealing with tax issues. Bill was also influenced by Dub Martin and Les Davis, two other mentors who knew and cared about industry issues. His uncle, Pete Gaines, was president of the local Farm Bureau; so naturally, Bill also became involved in Farm Bureau. One type of involvement just led to another. When their children, Troy and Tara, began showing animals, the family became involved in the New Mexico Simmental Association and the Colfax County Fair. They held field days for New Mexico State University and could easily feed 200 people at the old cottonwood grove on the ranch. State Fair became the family vacation, with Cattle Growers and Farm Bureau meetings providing the only other days off of the ranch. Booster Clubs, schools, and industry organizations all knew that the Sauble family would lend a helping hand . . . or several. “Anytime anyone wanted something, they would call Bill,” smiled Debbie. “After a while, the whole family is working on the project, whatever it is.” Troy remembers 100 pounds of pinto
Thank You
Bill Sauble ...for representing the cattle industry, exhibiting strength & character as a leader of your community & for your unselfish dedication to the values we all hold dear.
The Clavels
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Thank You Bill.
Our sincere thanks to you Bill, for representing our industry energetically & credibly for so many years. We’re extremely proud to call you our friend.
On behalf of cattlemen everywhere, thank you Bill, for your years of dedication to our cause. Congratulations on being named Cattleman of the Year.
The Graus ~Wesley & Elnabeth~
Don & Abby Hofman
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beans on the dining room table. “Sis and I used to hate to see those beans come home,” he noted. “But we’d clean them, and cook them in a pit. We were good at it because we had lots of practice.” The years passed in an activity-filled blur. Circle Dot has land in three separate school districts. When Troy and Tara were little, Bill and Debbie elected to drive the 16 miles of dirt road to a school in Maxwell instead of the 13 miles of dirt road to access highway 56. Troy graduated from school in Maxwell, but Tara moved to Springer for her Junior and Senior year of high school. Debbie was actively involved in the New Mexico CowBelles and served as CowBelle president in 1986 and 1987. Bill was on the Beef Council and spent a lot of time with wildlife, tax and animal health issues. “For a couple of years, we waved to each other as we passed on I-25,” Debbie recalls. “Bill had Farm Bureau and Cattle Growers meetings. I was busy with CowBelles. Bill’s Mom Becky would take the kids and we’d go off to fulfill our obligations.” The Sauble children learned to give continued on page 45
Bill Sauble CATTLEMAN OF THE YEAR ...a well deserved recognition! We appreciate the dedication. ✮ ✮ ✮
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from their parents. As Troy noted, “Dad is the person that I use as a sounding board when I need someone to help me put together ideas, proposals or figure out the right course of action for many of the boards that I serve on. I always make it sound like a joke but Dad has through example taught me that when someone comes asking for you to help or to serve the community, industry, a neighbor or do something that you believe in that you do not say no and that you pitch in and help out.” An industry influencer
Though Bill Sauble has served in many capacities in many different agriculture organizations, he is best known as the longest-serving, most influential member of the New Mexico Livestock Board. As Bill remembers getting the news, “Bruce King was governor, and he called my sister-in-law and said, ‘oh, by the way, tell Bill he is on the livestock Board.’” Bill went to work with his usual intellectual brilliance and thoroughness, and he has been re-appointed to the Board by four different governors. He served on the board under Bruce King, was chairman for eight years under Gary Johnson, was vice-chairman with Bill Richardson, and is again chairman with Susana Martinez as governor. Senator Pat Woods sums things up this way, “All of my life, I’ve known that if you were chosen to be on the New Mexico Livestock Board, you had to be above reproach. You had to be willing and able to make the decisions that were right for everyone.” According to Senator Woods, “So many administrations and governors have seen that trait in Bill. He is beyond reproach and is able to make the tough but fair decisions for the entire industry. Any time money changes hands, it means potential conflict, and those conflicts have to be solved. Most times when someone is involved in a conflict resolution, there is a feeling that they have ‘won’ or ‘lost.’ Bill tries to make everything so fair that everyone in the dispute says they can live with the decisions, He really looks at the facts and consequences and tries to deal with all issues with integrity.” Ray Baca, executive director of the New Mexico Livestock Board, stays in close communication with Bill. “He takes his job as chairman of the Livestock Board seriously,” reported Ray. “He really fights
CONGRATULATIONS TO BILL SAUBLE ON THIS WELL-DESERVED HONOR – AN AWARD TRULY GIVEN TO THE BEST OF THE BEST!
Congratulations
BILL SAUBLE ... and thank you for your leadership
— John Garcia
THANKS FOR ALL YOU HAVE DONE BILL! ~ BAYS FAMILY ~
Bill, I’m proud to have known you and worked with you over the years. Thank you for your service! Bob Homer Robert L. Homer & Associates LLC
Congratulations
Bill
We Appreciate You! —VAL & JIM JACKSON—
CONGRATULATIONS! Bill you’re a great neighbor, public servant, and cattleman – well deserved Philmont Scout Ranch, Cimarron, NM
Phil & Laurie Bidegain, General Manager, 575/868-2475 Scott & Brooke Bidegain, Ranch Manager, 575/403-7557 Donnie & Lacey Bidegain, Farm Manager, 575/403-6971 Yetta & Phillip Bidegain Julie & Dana Coffman • Louis Carman
CATTLE COMPANY MONTOYA, NEW MEXICO • SINCE 1902
Congratulations to our friend
Bill sauble cattleman of the year We appreciate your tireless efforts and the many personal sacrifices you’ve made on behalf of the livestock industry during the past 20 years!
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Congratulations & Thank You
BILL SAUBLE! ...for your many years of leadership and service to New Mexico agriculture. We’re proud of you!
Tom & Ann Mobley Sierra Alta Ranch LLC Dona Ana, NM
Bill has Served the Cattle Industry with Honor. I have seen his communication skills at work in the hallways of many a convention. He is one of the most intelligent leaders I have ever met.
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for the rights of the ranchers and the industry. He knows how to get things done. And he takes his own time to come to Santa Fe and fight for the cause. He helps get revenue for the Livestock Board and for Cattle Growers.� As Director of Boards and Commissions for the Office of the Governor, Nick Piatek works extensively with Bill in in coordinating the actions of the Livestock Board and the agency it oversees. He reports, “I have had the pleasure of watching Bill Sauble guide the Livestock Board through difficult times that involve budget cuts and extreme drought. His deliberative and thoughtful approach to difficult issues has served the industry in this state well.� Nick added, “Bill is a statesman. He is the longest serving member of the Livestock Board. Bill takes it upon himself to ensure that the operations of the Livestock Board effectively regulate the industry in a way that strengthens its credibility and honors its position in our culture and economy. “If anyone has a chance to attend a Livestock Board meeting, it is clear how respected Bill is by his peers. His leadership and his ability to view all sides of an issue make him an effective chair,� Nick noted. Bill was on the New Mexico Farm and Livestock Board which hired Paul Gutierrez many years ago. Paul later became executive director of the Association of Counties and worked with Bill as a Colfax county commissioner. Paul says, “An issue
that speaks to Bill’s integrity was that when the drought hit hard at the Livestock Board had to confiscate some cattle because the rancher had neglected them, Bill didn’t just sit back and let the neglect continue. He stepped up and made sure that the Board moved forward and the cattle were taken care of. He wasn’t afraid of making those tough decisions. But while he was going through the channels, he was always respectful of private property.� Beyond the Livestock Board
Bill served on the State Land Office advisory board twenty years ago and is now back on the board. “Bill just brings a lot to anything he does,� commented SLO Commissioner Ray Powell. “He is humble and quiet, but when he says something he has given great consideration and thought to the issue that is at hand, so he adds great value to any conversation that he is a participant in.� Commissioner Powell also appreciates the credibility Bill brings to any issue he is addressing. “He is the type of individual that what you see is what you get,� Powell stated. “He treats everyone the same, with respect and courtesy, yet he is honest and forthright in his opinions. “In New Mexico, honesty is a real big deal,� Commissioner Powell concluded. Bill Humphries, also a former Cattle Growers’ President and Land Commissioner, concurs. “At times, Bill has had to put himself in a position that he doesn’t like to help the industry. He does so just continued on page 47
~ Pat Woods, Senate District 7
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because it is good for the industry, not because he gets any personal gain or recognition from it.� “He does a thoughtful job and has devoted more time to assist the industry in the last 20 years than anyone has,� agreed Linda Davis of the CS Ranch. She continued, “Bill works well with people. he listens, and when he does talk, it means something.� Lifelong learning
Senator Pat Wood’s first recollection of Bill was when both were in Alpha Zeta, the honorary ag fraternity at New Mexico State University. “I realized real quick that some of those guys were quite a bit smarter than me, and that was Bill,� Senator Woods remembers. “If we were studying chemistry or another pretty scientific topic, Bill could sit in the Aggie Snack Bar and explain the topic in 15 minutes. He’d do a better job and you would know more from listening to Bill than you would from hearing a professor’s two-hour lecture. He had such an intellect that he made class a lot easier for a lot of us.� According to Senator Woods, Bill has never lost the ability to explain highly technical information in a way that the masses can understand. “He can do more in the hallway than most people can when speaking in front of a large group,� Woods
claimed. For example, he was one of the influencers able to talk scientific with the United States Department of Agriculture when the state was quarantined for TB. Bill has such a good grasp on animal diseases and what causes them that he helped bring the state-wide quarantine down to something that just affected a few counties.� Bob Rickleffs, former Cattleman of the Year, has noticed the same thing. “Bill gets on our local radio station and explains agricultural issues and what is going on in the legislature. He is good at helping the public understand agriculture and the problems it faces. Bill is still doing his homework. When he heard a presentation on carbon sequestration at a Cattle Growers meeting, he saw it as a good source of income for New Mexico ranches. He did the paperwork and went through the long, involved process to make the Circle Dot the first ranch in the nation that went through the verification process. When Obama became president, the bottom fell out of the carbon sequestration market. Bill still has a huge notebook full of rangeland data he collected for the process . . . and the optimism that nothing is wasted. Presently, he is researching a pasture insurance program. “He takes the ball and runs with it and figures out if it is good for the rest of us or not,� noted neighbor Frank Burton. “If we have problems, whether it is with the county or the brand board or something else, we have a lot of confidence that Bill will take care of things the way they should be done.� Paul Gutierrez agrees, “Bill doesn’t care about the credit, he wants to show up and do the work. When we look for volunteers to show up for the legislature or write Congress on behalf of the Association of Counties or Farm Bureau or Cattle Growers, you can always count on Bill.� When Bill was elected to the Colfax County Commission, he went back to school with NM EDGE (Education Designed to Generate Excellent in the Public Sector) and graduated with these certificates: Certified Public Official, Certified County Commissioner, and Certified Advocate for Public Ethics. Why take the time to learn all of this? As his son, Troy, explains, “I have learned from
Young Bill Sauble... before he found motorbikes.
Congratulations
Bill,
FROM YOUR NEIGHBORS AT
Diamond Arrow Ranch
Larry, Zita, Boe, Brian, Blair, & Joey
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To Our Dear Friend
Bill Sauble For years you have effectively represented our industry at every level while actively participating in your local community. You are an inspiration to all of us. CS Cattle Company, Cimarron, NM
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“HANG IN THERE!�
YOU’VE DONE A GREAT JOB BILL. Thank you for being there for all of us!
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Dad that you need to research and learn as much about issues and problems that come up and most importantly you listen to people’s opinions, then make a decision and work with people to come up with a solution that works to solve the problem now and for the future. He has taught me that leadership is not standing in front of a crowd giving directions, it is often being the person behind the scene making sure everything is running smoothly and that the right people are where they need to be at the correct moment in time.” Still doing his homework
Bill learned so much about disease and animal health with the Livestock Board that it was just natural that the United States Animal Health Association (USAHA) tap Bill as one of their at-large delegates for the western region. USAHA isn’t a rule making body, but they decide how the United States will address animal disease issues. “This is the place where they have the really complicated disease discussions that have implications locally, nationally, and internationally,” noted Bill Humphries. “This isn’t just a philosophical debate because the outcome
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determines whether or not people can market their cattle.” Jess Peterson and Bill worked together to help shape the animal identification system. “Emotions ran high, the feds came up with a lot of ideas, but we knew that we needed a workable solution,” Peterson reported. Bill had a vision for the cattle industry, and he knew how to work with the Department of Agriculture and the Animal Plant Health Inspection Service and the ranchers. Because of input like his, we have a workable animal ID system in place today.” Peterson summarized, “Bill is soft-spoken and says the least in the room but gets the most done. He is a voice of reason.” Facing Fears
Those who know Bill as an influencer would probably be surprised to know that when Bill was moving up the leadership ranks in a youth ag organization, he realized that he’d have to speak in public if he became president. His fear of speaking in public was so great that he dropped out of the organization before he had to become president. Years ago, Bill was appointed Federal Lands Chairman of the American Farm Bureau Federation. At the time, Jeff Witte was a young employee of Farm Bureau. Witte and Sauble drove to Denver together to attend the Federal Lands Meeting. “The whole way to Denver, he quizzed me about meetings and agendas,” Jeff remembers. “We had a great discussion about protocol and running a meeting. He did a terrific job of chairing the meeting. It wasn’t until the way home that he admitted that he had been terrified of the meeting and had never chaired one before.” A good neighbor
The cowmen who neighbor with the Sauble family are grateful for good neighbors. Frank Burton has partnered with Bill and his family for years. “If I am not there when the cattle are shipped, I know they will be weighed fairly,” he noted. Bo Lopez, Colfax County Extension Agent, noted that Bill has always been very helpful. “He’ll split load of cake with me, or load of minerals, or put me in touch with a man who has good hay,” stated Bo. “He is a good neighbor who lends us whatever he has that we need. Of course, we would do the same for him.” Bo remembers a time when a new brand inspector’s daughter showed a goat at the Colfax County Fair. The goat made the sale, and as is customary, the bidders mostly bid on animals raised by their customer’s chil-
dren. “This little girl wasn’t known by many in the county and the bidding on her goat was kind of slow,” remembers Bo. “Instead of letting the bidding die, Bill stepped up and ran up the bid. The goat brought the same price as the other sale animals and Bill Sauble was the buyer.” “He does what needs to be done,” stated Bo. “Good deeds are just doing the right thing to Bill.” But that doesn’t mean he is a pushover. Neighbor Frank Rice remembers a time when Saubles were shipping cattle and the order buy cut 65 calves off of the shipment. After the calves were sorted off, the buyer remarked, off-handedly, that he’d still be willing to buy those calves. Bill allowed as how he’d be willing to sell them. By the time the two men came to an agreement on price, the buyer ended up paying an eight cents per pound premium on the calves he’d sorted off of the main load. Bill’s neighborliness isn’t limited to the cattle industry. When a historic hotel in Raton was destroyed and city crews were banned from dumping the remnants due to asbestos, the asbestos-filled remnants of the hotel sat in the middle of Raton for more than a month. Bill called the governor’s office and asked if they would rather have the asbestos in the middle of Raton or in a dump where it could be covered. City crews were quickly given permission to clean up the mess. Bill’s daughter, Tara, noted, “Dad has a tremendous work ethic that never ceases to amaze me. He has always tackled all kinds of extra jobs outside of his ranching “job”. It’s never about money for him, just what is going to make his family, his community and agriculture in general better.” His six-year-old twin grandsons, Tyson and Cole, would agree that their grandfather is one of a kind. The boys like going to meetings with Poppa. The agenda is always the same. Poppa goes to a meeting, the boys go swimming. When the meeting is over, however, Poppa has to show up at the pool, ready to swim. A legendary leader
Cattlemen will agree that Bill Sauble is a legendary leader, the rarest of the rare, one who listens to all sides of an issue, acts with conviction, and works with others, even those whose politics are strongly opposed to his own. His friends and fellow cattlemen call Bill Sauble one of most futuristic leaders they have ever known. His past work and his present endeavors are still ensuring a future for New Mexico cattlemen. It is a legacy of which even the ■ humblest of men can be proud.
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CONGRATULATIONS
Colfax County is proud of its native son
BILL Thank you for your
BILL SAUBLE New Mexico Cattleman of the Year
dedication & service to the industry.
Thank you Bill for all you do!
Bob & Rachel Ricklefs Colfax County Farm & Livestock Bureau
NIKKI & KATHY HOOSER RANCH
MyFriend Bill Sauble... Thank you sincerely for your leadership, guidance & your many unselfish sacrifices on behalf of the cattle industry. You have set the highest standards for all of us who follow in your foot-steps.
JosĂŠ J. Varela LĂłpez
The Beef Industry Salutes You — Bill Sauble — on this welldeserved honor.
YOUR COMPADRES AT THE NEW MEXICO BEEF COUNCIL
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– PRESIDENT-ELECT • NMCGA
Congratulations Bill, on a well deserved tribute for the many selfless years you have devoted to our industry. Best wishes, John & Linda Keck Alamo Ranch Company Deming, New Mexico
Pat & Cindy Boone
We’re Proud of You, Bill. We’re proud to call you friend & family. You’ve accomplished so much & contributed greatly to your industry, your community, & your family.
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JOINT STOCKMEN’S CONVENTION December 5-8 — Albuquerque Marriott Pyramid North
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Joint Stockmen’s Meeting Dear Members, Supporters and Friends! 013 has seen many history making moments: the US Senate and House last minute budget deal to avoid a fiscal cliff, “Multiple bombs exploding during the Boston Marathon”, the standoff over Obamacare resulting in a government shutdown, record droughts, catastrophic fires, historic rains with major flooding in some areas as well as an early deadly blizzard, and the continued attacks on our livelihood, just to name a few.
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While facing all the disasters, the government shut down, as well as governmental agencies and special interest groups attacking agriculture, we as producers were expected to provide food for the shelves for the American people and the world. And what did we do… what any true American Rancher and Farmer would do, we “Tied Hard and Fast”. We stepped up to the plate and made sure that we produced our wholesome, nutritious, inexpensive food and fiber. We fought hard in the halls of Congress, the Roundhouse and in the courts. We may not have won every fight, but we made sure that our voices were heard. The 2014 Elections are looming upon us. We must step up and make sure that our VOICES continue to be heard, not only here in New Mexico, but at a national level as well. We cannot sit back and think that people like us because we are “Ranchers” – we need to tell them what and who we are. We need to educate not only elected officials, but the public where their food comes from! We need your presence at the 2013 Joint Stockmen’s Convention to help identify issues and develop policies that will guide us through 2014. We need your voice and support as we carry out our policies to decisions makers and to tell our story, Your Life Story, to the American people. In 2014 New Mexico Cattle Growers’ Association will be 100 years old, a fact that we are proud of! It’s a fact that pulling together and standing our ground, we will be here for another 100 years. Together we will Tie Hard and Fast for our heritage, way of life and New Mexico Agriculture.
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2013 Joint Stockmen Convention Schedule ROOM KEY:
GR…Gallery Room SF…Santa Fe KOKO…Kokopelli AZT…Aztec MAR…Marbella
HS...Hospitality Suite YUC…Yucatan RG…Rio Grande ATR…Atrium SR…Santa Rosa
POLICY & RESOLUTIONS SESSIONS: There will be three (3) Policy & Resolution Sessions during the convention. One at the conclusion of each General Session. If you have policy issues discussion or resolutions to bring forward, this is the time and place to do that.
TAM…Tampico CAN…Cancun PBR…Pyramid Ball Room PDR…Private Dining Room TBA…To Be Announced
COZ…Cozumel LC…Las Cruces COR…Coronado SAN…Sandia TS…Taos 6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.
Ag Leadership Alumni Reception SAN Sponsored By NMCGA, NMWGI, NMFLC, DPNM, NMFLB
6:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Cowboy Christmas
7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
N.M. Angus Association
8:30 p.m. - 12:00 a.m. Hospitality Suite
Thursday, December 5, 2013 7:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.
Trade Show Set-up
8:00 a.m.
Registration
9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Hallway TS / LC GR
Cattlemen’s College Sponsored by Zoetis Animal Health
9:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
New Mexico Livestock Board
9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Range Improvement Task Force
SAN Sponsored by Allied Industries
6:30 a.m. - 8:00 a.m.
NMCGA Nominating Committee
7:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Children’s Lounge TBD Sponsored by New Mexico Stockman Magazine
7:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. / Awards
YUC
AZT
N.M. CowBelles General Membership Meeting KOKO
TAM
8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Registration
GR
AZT
8:00 a.m.- 12:00 p.m.
Trade Show
Hallway / TS / LC
5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. Trade Show Reception Hallway TS / LC Sponsored by New Mexico Beef Council & Trade Show Exhibitors
8:00 a.m.- 10:00 a.m.
NATURAL RESOURCES GENERAL SESSION
8:00 p.m. - 12:00 a.m. Hospitality Suite Sponsored by Allied Industries
9:00 a.m. –11:00 a.m.
Cattlegrowers’ Foundation Meeting
9:00 p.m. -12:00 p.m.
M-44 School
10:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Dairy Producers of New Mexico Board Meeting 5:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
NMCGA Past President’s Meeting
SAN
YUC
9:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. Silent Auction
GR PDR AZT
Friday - December 6, 2013
9:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. Clayton & Corona Research Center Boards Meet
6:30 a.m. - 7:45 a.m.
CAN
9:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. Government in Wolves Clothing Video
PDR
10:10 a.m.- 11:40 a.m. POLICY & RESOLUTIONS SESSION Wildlife Committee; Oil & Gas; NMCGA Legislative; NMCGA Water Committees YUC
NMCGA Board Breakfast
MAR RG
7:45 a.m. - 8:15 a.m.
NMCGA Finance Committee
8:15 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Children’s Lounge TBA Sponsored by New Mexico Stockman Magazine
8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Registration
GR
8:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon New Mexico Horse Council
SF
8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Trade Show
Hallway TS / LC
10:30 a.m. – 11:15 a.m. NMCGA Feeder Committee
MAR
11:00 a.m. - 11:45 a.m. NMCGA Resolutions Committee
SAN
8:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. AG POLICY GENERAL SESSION Opening Speaker: Todd Johnson, NCBA 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Silent Auction
9:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. Scrapie Task Force Meeting 9:30 a.m. – 10:15 a.m. Government in Wolves Clothing Viewing
YUC GR AZT
10:10 a.m. - 10:40 a.m. NMCGA Young Cattlemen’s Leadership Committee
RG
11:45 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Stockmen’s Luncheon CAN Sponsored by Hi Pro Feeds & Animal Health International Governor Susana Martinez
SF
1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
M-44 School
MAR
1:15 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
NMCGA Board Meeting
2:05 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
NMCGA General Session
KOKO
YUC
5:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
NMCGA 2014 Board Meeting
KOKO
11:45 a.m. - 1:15 p.m. Family Luncheon CAN Sponsored by Farm Credit of New Mexico
6:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
Attitude Adjustment
10:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. Dairy Farmers of America Meeting 10:10 a.m. - 11:40 a.m. POLICY & RESOLUTION SESSION Promotion & Marketing Theft & Health; Research & Improvement Committees
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PROPERTY RIGHTS GENERAL SESSION
YUC
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N.M. CowBelles Board of Directors Meeting
TAM
3:00 p.m. – 3:45 p.m.
Government in Wolves Clothing Video
3:40 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
POLICY & RESOLUTIONS SESSION Private Property, Federal & Trust Lands; Tax & Special Issues; Public Relations Committees YUC
3:45 p.m. - 4:40 p.m.
Allied Industries Committee
SAN AZT
4:00 p.m. – 4:45 p.m.
NMCGA Cross Cultural Committee
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N.M. Hereford Association Meeting
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N.M. Beef Cattle Performance Association
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Who’s Who New Mexico Cattle Growers’ Officers EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Rex Wilson, Carrizozo President Jose Varela Lopez, La Cieneguella President-Elect Lane Grau, Grady Vice President at Large Ty Bays, Silver City Southwest Vice President Pat Boone, Elida Southeast Vice President Blair Clavel, Roy Northeast Vice President Ernie Torrez, La Jara Northwest Vice President Shacey Sullivan, Los Lunas Secretary/Treasurer Bert Ancell, Wagon Mound Past President Alisa Ogden, Loving Past President Caren Cowan, Albuquerque Executive Director
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Deming Cuervo Pinon Capulin Animas Tucumcari Mountainair Springer Magdalena Roswell Roswell Yesa Dona Ana La Plata Springer Roswell Cimarron Clovis Albuquerque Santa Fe Medanales Maxwell Tucumcari Stanley Capitan Newkirk Roswell Magdalena Albuquerque Las Cruces Bell Ranch Broadview
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Allied Industries Committee Allied Industries Committee Dean, College of Agriculture, Consumer and Environmental Sciences at NMSU N.M. Beef Council N.M. CowBelles NMCGA Insurance Administrators Insurance Services of N.M.
New Mexico Cattle Growers’ Past Presidents * DECEASED *1914-1916 *1916-1918 *1918-1920 *1920-1922 *1922-1924 *1924-1926 *1926-1928 *1928-1930 *1930-1932 *1932-1934 *1934-1936 *1936-1938 *1938-1939 *1939-1941 *1941-1943 *1943-1946
Calvin Glenn Wm. Ray Morely Victor Culberson T.E. Mitchell Hugh L. Hodge C.M. O’Donel Tom P. Talle T.A. Spencer Robert H. Royall Albert K. Mitchell Lee S. Evans A.D. Brownfield Oliver M. Lee Con W. Jackson Tom Clayton E.G. Hayward
Pinos Altos Datil Silver City Albert Silver City Bell Ranch Las Vegas Carrizozo Tyrone Albert Marquez Deming Alamogordo Las Vegas Separ Cimarron
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George A. Godfrey G.W. Evans Roy Forehand Ed Heringa Sherwood Culberson Dick Snyder W.I. Driggers John Stark Will Orndorff J.L. (Les) Davis Noel Rankin W.O. Culbertson, Jr. Reuben E. Pankey Charlie T. Lee Albert J. Mitchell Phil Harvey, Sr. Phillip Bidegain Bob Jones Don Hofman Peter T. Mocho W.F. (Dub) Martin H.W. (Bud) Eppers Bill King Wesley Grau Bill Humphries Bob Frost Jimmy R. Bason Phil H. Bidegain Don “Bebo� Lee Bill Sauble Alisa Ogden Bert Ancell
Animas Magdalena Carlsbad Clayton Lordsburg Clayton Santa Rosa Deming Roswell Cimarron Silver City Las Vegas Santa Fe Alamogordo Albert Cave Creek, AZ Tucumcari Crow Flat Tucumcari Belen Santa Fe Roswell Stanley Grady Tucumcari San Jon Hillsboro Tucumcari Alamogordo Maxwell Loving Wagon Mound
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Cattleman of the Year 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978
George Ellis George Cureton Prof. John Knox J.L. Doak Mrs. Linda Lambert A.B. Cox A.D. Brownfield George A. Godfrey Lee R. Hammond G.W. Evans Lee S. Evans Albert K. Mitchell Marshall Sellman Floyd W. Lee J.C. Neafus Joe Pankey Alvin M. Stockton Sherwood Culberson Noel Rankin W.O. Culbertson, Jr. George Pendleton R.E. Pankey Fred Daugherty Bill Littrell J.L. (Les) Davis Jasper Koontz Ike Wiggins
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Jerry Clayton A.F. (Frank) Flint Charlie T. Lee Von Cain Dick Snyder Jiggs Dinwiddie Tom Linebery Edith Pankey Bob Jones Phillip Bidegain H.W. (Bud) Eppers Don Hofman Linda Davis Peter T. Mocho Felicia Thal F.F. (Chano) & Stella Montoya Ben & Jane Cain Frank Dubois Huling “Jupe” Means Rob Cox Bill Humphries Rusty Tinnin Oliver “Sato” Lee Bob and Jane Frost Don Cullum R.C. (Dick) Manning Joe & Vivian Culbertson
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Tim Cox Jeff Witte Larry Dominguez Andrea Buzzard Clint Harden
Bloomfield Las Cruces Las Cruces Santa Fe Clovis
The Bud Eppers Memorial “Bud’s Contract” Award Winners 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012
Frank DuBois John Fowler, Ph.D. Howard Hutchinson Ron White Caren Cowan Karen Budd-Falen Chris Allison Mike Casabonne Lewis Derrick Alice Eppers Nick Ashcroft Dr. Jerry Schickedanz
Las Cruces Las Cruces Glenwood Monticello Albuquerque Cheyenne, Wyo. Mesilla Park Hope Artesia Roswell Las Cruces Las Cruces
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Bruce and Alice King Service Memorial Award 2009 2010 2011 2012 2012
Bangkok, Thailand Las Cruces Cimarron Roswell Hatch
Chuck Stocks Frank DuBois Linda Davis Timothy Jennings Andy Nunez
Cattle Growers’ Committees (Note: Unless otherwise noted (*), all NMCGA members are welcome & entitled to vote in the committees of their choice.)
Ag Policy Committee Theft & Health Sub Committee Curt Kelling, Cuervo Mark Whetten, Newkirk
Chairman Vice-Chairman
Promotion & Marketing Sub Committee Alicia Sanchez, Belen Justin Knight, Tucumcari
Chairman Vice-Chairman
Research & Improvement Sub Committee Stan Jones, Broadview Kris Wilson, Bell Ranch
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Bebo Lee Sato Lee Alisa Ogden Bill Sauble Matt Rush
Allied Industries Committee Ryan Perry, Roswell Susan Navarro, Los Lunas
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Alamogordo Mountainair Loving Maxwell Las Cruces
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Membership Relations Committee Feeder Committee Greg Moore, Wagon Mound Bill King, Stanley Bruce Davis, Springer
Cross Cultural Sub Committee Chairman Vice-Chairman Treasurer
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Membership Sub Committee
Bert Ancell, Wagon Mound Chairman Tom Payne, Roswell Vice Chair All Past Presidents as well as NMCGA Executive Committee
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Public Relations Sub Committee Becky Spindle, Stanley Scooter Sanchez, Belen
Litigation Committee Mike Casabonne, Chairman Jim Jackson, Vice Chairman Howard Hutchinson Jim Grider
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Chairman Co-Vice-Chairman Co-Vice-Chairman
Chairman Vice-Chairman
Young Cattlemen’s Leadership Sub Committee Hope Albuquerque Glenwood Carrizozo
Boe Lopez, Springer Amanda Culbertson, Amistad Kayla Drummond, Reserve
Chairman Co-Vice-Chairman Co-Vice-Chairman
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Wildlife Sub Committee
Legislative Sub Committee Jose Varela Lopez, La Cieneguella Nikki Hooser, Springer Pat Woods, Broadview
Jeff Bilberry, Elida John Diamond, Winston
Chairman Co-Vice-Chairman Co-Vice-Chairman
Chairman Vice Chairman
Renewable Energy Sub Committee Tom Sidwell, Tucumcari Shane Goemmer, Willard
Natural Resources Committee
Oil & Gas Sub Committee Bob McCrea, Roswell Irvin Boyd, Eunice
Natural Resources Sub Committee Bob Ricklefs, Cimarron Tracy Drummond, Reserve
Chairman Vice-Chairman
Chairman Vice-Chairman
Water Sub Committee Blair Dunn, Albuquerque Randell Major, Magdalena
Chairman Vice-Chairman
Chairman Vice-Chairman
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Hope Mesilla Springer Magdalena
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New Mexico Wool Growers’ Inc. Officers Marc Kincaid, Hope Leroy Cravens, Encino Punk Cooper, Mayhill Mark Sultemeier, Corona Jim Cooper, Tinnie Caren Cowan, Albuquerque
Cattlegrowers Foundation Phil H. Bidegain, Chairman Linda Davis, Vice President Sunny Nixon, Secretary Laura Hall, Treasurer John Conniff, Nikki Hooser, Tom Mobley, Kay Payne, Jack Roberts,
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Los Lunas Springer Los Lunas Roswell Magdalena
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2013 Joint Stockmen’s Convention Cattleman of the Year Farm Credit of New Mexico / CoBank
Trade Show Reception New Mexico Beef Council & Trade Show Exhibitors
Cattlemen’s College Zoetis Animal Health
Family Luncheon Farm Credit of New Mexico
Stockmen’s Luncheon Hi-Pro Feeds Animal Health International
Awards Banquet Council for Biotechnology Information
Speaker Sponsor Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway
Registration SW Border Food Safety & Defense Center & Agro Guard
Cowboy Christmas Party Dee Bridgers
NMCGA Board of Directors Breakfast Clovis Livestock Auction & Ag New Mexico, FCS, ACA
Agriculture Industry Supporter & Champion Ag New Mexico, FCS, ACA Custom Ag Solutions, Inc. USDA/RMA - LRP Livestock Freeport McMoRan Monsanto Nationwide Agribusiness New Mexico Farm and Livestock Bureau Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association
Purina Mills Scholarship Purina Animal Nutrition
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Maverick Animal Health Express
Ayudando Siempre Alli Award Farmway Feed and Equipment Company
Children’s Lounge Caren Cowan, New Mexico Stockman
Livestock Inspector of the Year USDA/ APHIS Wildlife Services Western Region Sauble Ranch
Private Property Rights Alisa Ogden DTMC Limited New Mexico CowBelles
Water Rights CS Ranch Hermanas Ranch Tucumcari Ranch Supply
New Mexico Stockman /Caren Cowan
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Livestock Board Wildlife Committee: R.L. Cox Company
ADM Alliance Nutrition Hooser Ranch New Mexico State University Cooperative Extension Service New Mexico Association Conservation Districts Tru Test Wilson Ranch
Hospitality Suite AC Nutrition Animal Health Express Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica, Inc. Dow AgroSciences Farmway Feed and Equipment Company Farm Credit of New Mexico Gold Standard Labs Hi-Pro Feeds Horse and Hound Letcher, Golden & Associates, Inc. Micro Beef Technologies O’Neill Agricultural Land LLC Tom & Kay Payne Robert L. Homer and Assoc., LLC T & T Trailers Williams Windmill, Inc. White Herefords Zinpro Corporation Y-Tex
General Session Dairy Farmers of America, Inc. Farmway Feed & Equipment Company Zinpro Corporation
Committee Sponsors Federal & Trust Lands Committee: Hat Ranch, Inc. Membership Committee: Clayton Ranch Market Private Property Committee: Williams Windmill, Inc. Promotion & Marketing Committee: Nutrition Plus Theft & Health Committee: New Mexico
Coffee Break AC Nutrition Alan P. Morel, P.A. Animal Health Express Inc. B & H Herefords – Pinon, NM Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica, Inc. Dairy Producers of New Mexico Dow AgroSciences Farm Credit of New Mexico Gold Standard Labs Insurance Services of New Mexico Leavitt Group Southwest, Inc. Major Ranch Realty Merck Animal Health New Mexico Agricultural Leadership New Mexico Forest Industry Association New Mexico Hereford Association New Mexico Society for Range Management Norbrook, Inc. O’Neill Agricultural Land LLC Robert L. Homer and Assoc., LLC Sierra Alta Ranch, LLC Tamara G. Hurt, CPA PC Jerry & Fita Witte Stone Manufacturing
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The Beef Checkoff: Addressing Consumer Demand Attend the Friday General Session and learn about your beef checkoff program’s efforts to increase consumer demand for beef. he checkoff delivers promotion, research and education efforts, all focused on the Todd Johnson, demand drivers of Vice President, Taste, Safety, Federation Services, National Cattlemen’s Value, ConveBeef Association nience and Nutrition. Reaching influential audiences, including the older millennial consumer, with positive beef information is critical in increasing demand. It’s equally as important to protect the Image of beef and the beef industry and cattle producers’ Freedom to Operate when negative issues arise in the media that threaten consumer confidence or demand in beef. Todd Johnson, Vice President, Federation Services for the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA) will discuss how a coordinated plan involving state beef councils and national checkoff contractors builds on beef’s strongest attributes, while also protecting and defending beef’s image on behalf of producers As Vice President of Federation Services for the NCBA, Todd oversees services provided to the 45 State Beef Councils, works closely with the Federation officers, Executive Committee and members of the Beef
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Cowgirls vying the title of Miss Rodeo America 2014 or 59 years, the Miss Rodeo America Pageant has hosted hundreds of beautiful and talented cowgirls from across the country. Hopefuls converge annually for a weeklong competition to select one deserving young woman to represent and promote America’s Original Professional Sport — RODEO. This year, the Miss Rodeo America Pageant welcomes 28 fabulous cowgirls, ages 19-25, to Las Vegas to compete for the prestigious title of Miss Rodeo America 2014. Each year a new Miss Rodeo America serves as the official spokesperson for the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association. The 2014 Miss Rodeo America Pageant is Monday, Dec. 2, through Monday, Dec. 9 to coincide with the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo, the PRCA’s year-end championship event also held in Las Vegas. Pageant activities will be held at the MGM Grand Hotel & Casino, official sponsor and host hotel of the 2014 Miss Rodeo America Pageant. The horsemanship competition, Sunday, Dec. 8, will be held at the Las Vegas Convention Center in the FanFest Arena. A complete pageant schedule of events and pageant ticket information can be found online at www.missrodeoamerica.com One highlight of the pageant is the midweek Fashion Show Luncheon, held on Friday, Dec. 6 in the Conference Center of the MGM Grand Hotel & Casino. The contestants model the latest fashions from Wrangler, Justin Boots, Bailey Hats, Reata Ranch Gear and Rod’s Belts. This year contestants will also model the latest fashion trends from some of the famous western design icons in the industry today! Contestants are judged in the categories of personality, appearance, horsemanship, knowledge and presentation. Each contestant will demonstrate her skills in public speaking, personal interviewing, horsemanship, knowledge of rodeo and general equine science, current event awareness, photogenic qualities, visual poise and overall professionalism. Miss Rodeo America 2013, Chenae Shiner of Roosevelt, UT, will crown her successor during a formal coronation ceremony on Monday, Dec. 9, 2013, in the MGM Grand Hollywood Theatre. A media conference with the newly crowned Miss Rodeo America 2014 will follow the ceremony at the MGM Grand Hotel & Casino.
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Schaake Shocked ‘Em at the NMSF . . . or NOT! TY BAYS, SILVER CITY, NEW MEXICO r. Scott Schaake, an Associate Professor at Kansas State University (K State), judged the steer show at the 2013 New Mexico State Fair (NMSF). Dr. Schaake has coached several successful judging teams and teaches animal science classes at K State. The man has plenty of experience as he has judged several major shows and his kids have been very successful in the show ring. He began the day by using and talking about thick, powerful, soggy cattle. Personally that is the type I like as well but in the show ring, pretty often helps immensely. That is not everybody’s type but the judge is the judge and who could argue with a man with his credentials. He used this type “thick and soggy” in the Angus, Shorthorn, Charolais, Maine, Limousin, Chianina, and Simmental classes. But when he got to the third Crossbred class, “typically the tough class of the day” and the origin of many champions over the past years, he changed his type and kind with an about face. Following him all day we all expected him to use the yellow calf. The yellow calf was a big thick soggy calf with lots of bone, sound and good to look at. The shock came when he put the obvious trend second and used the solid black calf. The calf is good in his own right but nobody that knows anything about cattle would call him thick, soggy or muscular. To some judges he would be the type but Schaake buried plenty like him all day and instead took the massive soggy cattle with plenty of meat and bone. It shocked the crowd but we all assumed he saw something we did not and besides he had plenty of his type left to choose from in the champion drive and possibly something else in the Cross class to be champion Cross. But no, we were shocked again when he used the black calf for Champion Cross, though he did redeem himself slightly by using the yellow calf as Reserve Cross. In the Champion drive he had plenty of his type of cattle and for once we thought maybe something other than cross would be champion over all. The Angus, Maine, Simmental, Shorthorn, Chianina and Limousin had more power than the cross. During his selection Schaake broke down and almost cried when talking about the youngsters who had been through the ring that day and the great experience they were receiving. Maybe he was crying about
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what he was about to do but who knows. make his champion. He chose to line up his top four steers The following morning he judged the which included the Cross, Chianina, Sim- heifers and watching him I got the feeling mental and Limousin. The Limousin, Chi- he regained his confidence. He made some anina and Simmental had power and nice comments that would have shocked us all to look at as well. The Cross did not fit in again but after what he had done the day this line up at all as he was easily the light- before, not much could shock us. He told one young lady that she was est muscled least powerful calf in his top four. Was he good yes, but a heart stopper very pretty, but her heifer had the ugliest no, and the other steers had just as much head he had ever seen. Although the stateeye appeal. When he walked up to slap the ment may have been true, it leads one to champion we were amazed when he question is he judging the animal or who slapped the Cross. The crowd was so is holding the animal? Yes, a little criticism shocked there was very little reaction, we is good for all of us, but some comments were in shock and could not believe what are better left unsaid and if said, would he had done. He spent a short amount of have been better if they were said off the time and then selected the Limousin calf microphone. as Reserve Champion. I realize this has been all about the The Limousin was a really nice calf that steer show and yes, I understand the same by all rights fit what Schaake had done all games are played in the sheep barn and pig day and nobody could have argued with barn. I have heard how you need to buy him using the calf as Champion over all. from the right breeder and put in your Please refer to the picture and you will see dues with the right people to be successful the Champion on the left and the Reserve in the sheep barn. Why do we allow these games to be on the right. As anybody that knows anything about cattle can see these two calves played in New Mexico? Do these highly are completely different in their type and educated professors/judges from far away make. Most of us in the steer barn have think we are so backwards that they can done a fair amount of livestock judging. It get away with it, I do not know . . . Or is it would be tough for anyone to have these that we are so respectful that we take our two calves in the same pair, when there licking and keep our thoughts to ourwere two other thick soggy calves like the selves? I think it is the latter and I know Limousin. In fact I would bet Schaake this article goes outside the norm and I would have a discussion with someone apologize to anyone I offend. Who could judging for him if they would have done look at a Grand Champion Banner with the same thing. Yes, I know the show ring pride knowing that influence helped them is different, and maybe it should be, but win? Not 99 percent of the people in New this pair was a real shock when he could Mexico. Buy the best you can, work as hard have gone on with the Limousin and used as you can and let the chips fall where they either of the other two in his top four fall. If you can’t breed the best or take care of them the best get better, don’t play besides the Cross. However, if you do a little research on games. Schaake, you will find his kids have been very successful with continued on page 98 Steve Bonham calves, he obviously likes Bonham show cattle and for good reason, his calves have dominated several major shows. As it turned out the Champion was indeed a Bonham calf and thus fit Schaake like a glove. After all he may know Bonham calves as good as anyone in the show ring today. He was able to find one of only two at the Fair New Mexico State Fair Grand Champion Steer, left; Reserve Grand Champion Steer, right out of 103 steers to NOVEMBER 2013
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t a recent Congressional hearing concerning the government shutdown and federal lands, a Congressman asked a stupid question. Do these lands belong to the government or to the people? John Jarvis, Director and 40 year veteran of the National Park Service replied “They are the people’s land.” What a bunch of outhouse soup. If the sixteen-day partial shutdown demonstrated anything, it’s that these are nationalized lands under the control of federal politicians and the federal establishment. Here’s a rundown on some of the events that occurred. ■ The Park Service erected barriers to prevent WWII veterans from visiting their memorial. This created national media coverage, as the veterans, some in wheelchairs, stormed the barricades. The Washington Times quoted an angry Park Service ranger as saying “We’ve been told to make life as difficult for people as we can. It’s disgusting.” Similar removal of barricades by veterans took place at the Iwo Jima & Vietnam memorials. Keep in mind these are open air memorials with no gates or walls. Later the veterans protested at the White House where they were met by U.S. Park police and ten mounted officers. While all this was going on, Camp David and the President’s favorite golf course were kept open. ■ During the aforementioned Congressional hearing, Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) hammered Director Jarvis and wanted to know why the Park Service was writing tickets and putting up barricades against veterans when the Park Service failed to issue a single citation when Occupiers camped out at D.C.’s McPherson Square for 100 days. ■ A tour group, including many elderly, was in Yellowstone National Park when the shutdown went into effect. Their bus stopped on a road and the senior citizens filed out to take pictures of a nearby herd of bison. A Park Service ranger said this was “recreating” and ordered the folks back on the bus. The tour guide argued he had just paid a $300 fee to bring the group into the park, but to no avail. The bus then returned to the Old Faithful Inn, located
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adjacent to the famous geyser. That was as close as they would get. Barricades were up at the geyser and the seniors were locked in the hotel with armed Park Service personnel guarding the door. They left on their two and a half hour trip out of the park the next morning. The tour guide had made arrangements for a restroom stop at an in-park dude ranch. Nope. The dude ranch had been warned that its license to operate would be revoked if it allowed the bus to stop. ■ The Alabama Yellowhammer Pioneer Endurance Ride is a popular event for horse enthusiasts that takes place each year on the Talladega National Forest. Though the government shutdown started days before the endurance ride, riders were told they could bring their horses and compete anyway. After completing a 50 mile ride on a Friday, nearly 100 riders had set up camp in the Talladega National Forest, expecting to leave Saturday morning after their horses had rested and rehydrated. One of the riders said, “Around about 8 o’clock on Friday evening, we were told there were law enforcement people on their way and we needed to pack up and leave”. “We were threatened that our vehicles would be impounded and our horses would be confiscated if we didn’t pack up and leave right now,” she said. ■ State officials in South Dakota didn’t expect the shutdown to block people’s view of Mount Rushmore, but it did. Park Service personnel placed cones on roads so that tourists couldn’t pull over and enjoy the view. The Governor’s office was told this was for “safety” reasons. The Governor’s office said, “reasonable people can disagree about that.” I say it’s another bucket of outhouse soup. Senator John Barraso (R-Wyo) said, “No money has been saved by doing this.” “Maybe the Park Service could study how to drop a large curtain in front of the mountains to block the view from the road,” he said. The cones were eventually removed, but only because a blizzard hit and plows needed access to the road. ■ During the first week of the shut-
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down the Forest Service said that privately managed recreation areas on the forests could continue to operate. The Forest Service then issued an “unprecedented” order closing these areas. According to a wire story private concession operators run hundreds of recreation areas within the National Forests, including the majority of the largest and most popular sites. These privately-run concessions typically are funded solely via the user fees paid at the gate, which go to paying for the employees, utilities, trash collection, maintenance, and even insurance on the site. These privately-operated areas do not require any federal funding, and in fact these concessions pay millions of dollars into the Treasury each year in the form of concession fees. “We were certainly taken by surprise by this closure order,” said Warren Meyer, CEO of Recreation Resource Management. “In all past government shutdowns, such as those in the mid-1990s, concession recreation operations have always remained open. This only makes sense, since our operations don’t use any government funds or employees. While we do partner with the US Forest Service on certain activities, none of these are critical to day-to-day operations. We are convinced this closure is an unjustified and unnecessarily punitive action that hurts the recreating public while doing nothing to reduce government spending.” I can’t help but wonder what the Forest Service would do if the next shutdown happens while the Rainbow Family is having their annual get together. ■ Other private businesses were closed, this time by the Park Service. One example would be the Claude Moore Colonial Farm which sits on federal land but for which the Park Service provides no resources for its operation or maintenance. The farm’s manager said the Park Service sent law enforcement agents to the park to remove staff and volunteers from the property. The manager, Ann Eberly said, “You do have to wonder about the wisdom of an organization that would use staff they don’t have the money to pay to evict visitors from a park site that operates without costing them any money.” ■ Then there’s the cases where private individuals own homes on federal land. An example would be what happened at Lake Mead. Joyce Spencer is 77 years old and her husband Ralph is 80. The Spencers never expected to be forced out of their Lake Mead home, which they’ve owned
since the 70s, but a Park Service ranger said they had 24 hours to get out. ■ In probably the most spiteful action during the shutdown, the Park Service “removed handles from water spigots along the Chesapeake and Ohio canal where bikers and joggers exercise as well as along the Great Allegheny Passage, just to ensure people don’t get any water . . .” There’s much more but I’ve run out of
space. So now tell me, do you really think these are “the people’s lands”? Till next time, be a nuisance to the devil and don’t forget to check that cinch. Frank DuBois was the NM Secretary of Agriculture from 1988 to 2003, is the author of a blog: The Westerner (www.thewesterner.blogspot.com) and is the founder of The DuBois Rodeo Scholarship (http://www.nmsu.edu/~duboisrodeo/).
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CH E R R Y CA NY O N R A NCH : Secluded ranch located in the foothills of the Capitan Mountains in southeastern New Mexico. 10,000± total acres located in limestone hill country. Grazing capacity estimated at 200 A.U.s year-long. Improved with a two residence, mobile home, barns and corrals. Livestock water provided by three wells and pipelines. Abundant wildlife to include mule deer and Barbary sheep. Price: $1,800,000 – call for more information.
Come see this 3 Bedroom, 2 bath home in Melrose. Complete with garage, carport and 30x40 barn. Arena style pen for boarding horses and/or roping. All on 2.2 acres.
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J A CK SON R A NCH : Southeastern NM cattle ranch for sale. 8,000 total acres located in good grass country. Owner controlled grazing capacity at 200 ± A.U.s yearlong. Improved with one residence, barns and corrals. Livestock water provided by two wells and pipelines to four pastures. Easy to manage and operate. Price: $1,750,000. Call or view the information on my website.
Enjoy country living and spectacular views in this beautiful 3100 plus square home containing many custom features overlooking the far west reaches of Ute Lake on 33 acres, or build your own dream home on choice of eight 40 +/- acre lots.
Paul Stout, Qualifying Broker (575) 760-5461 pkstout@gmail.com
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Little Cayuse Ranch – Horse & cow ranch operation north of Corona has 1,680 deeded acres + 280 ac state grazing lease, HQ home, foreman’s home, barn, sheds, tack room, 3 excellent wells, 4 pastures. 80 acre irrigation pivot incl. Priced reduced $798,900
C6 Ranch: Sonoita/Patagonia AZ. 165 head, 45 acres deeded, 8700 acres forest lease great water, good improvements. $725,000. Sam Hubbell-Tom Hardesty Stockton Pass: Beautiful SE AZ Ranch North of Willcox, Mountain Ranch 145 head AU, Deeded Surrounded by forest. Reduced to $975,000. Walter Lane Red Top Ranch: 3,800 deeded acres in SE AZ. Priced at $225 per deeded acre. Walter Lane Perkins Ranch: Yavapai County, NE of Chino Valley, 214 deeded acres, 51,625 acres forest lease, 266 AU, located on the Verde River $8,575,000. Andy Groseta Wildhorse Basin Ranch: Yavapai county, 864 deeded, 6701 State Lease, $3,900,000. Con Englehorn La Cienga: Mohave county, 122.83 deeded acres, 166,234 State/BLM Lease, 490 head $1,200,000. Paul Groseta Crooked H: Central AZ, 126 Sections, 450 head Winter Range/664 summer Range. $2,375,000. Traegen Knight Lazy EH: Western AZ, 122.5 deeded, 300,000 BLM/State Lease, 17,486 AUM ephemeral/500 AU yearlong. 18 wells, 4 pumps on CAP Canal. $600,000. Con Englehorn NI Ranch Tombstone AZ: The ranch consists of 6555 deeded acre & 6650 state lease, 250 head annually; all improvements are in top condition, the ranch is well watered w/8 wells, & pipelines. Good strong grass country. The Ni Ranch is one of the last working cattle ranches in the state with the majority of the land being deeded. Priced at $3,150,000
Villanueva Ranch – is a working cow ranch on Hwy 3. It has 285 deeded acres + 4,450 acre NM state grazing lease. Its fenced & has stock tanks full of water, 10,000 gallon water storage tank & pipeline drinkers. Fenced & cross fenced! Price reduced $698,900
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Anderson Ranch – south of Villanueva has 9,024 total acres w/HQ home, Foreman’s home, Quonset equipment shed, 3 wells, 3 pipelines, working pens & 1,000 deeded acres all for $1,850,000. Can’t ranch this much land any cheaper than this... La Cueva Canyon Ranch – 1,595 deeded acres w/240 acres of BLM attached. Apache Mesa parcel has tall pines, canyon springs, stock tanks, new fence on NE corner. Turkeys, deer & other native species abound. Price is $677,875 & Owner will Finance!
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Ledoux, NM – Perimeter fenced 60 acre dry land terraced farm has overhead electric, subirrigated pasture & county road access! Located ½ mile N. of Ledoux. Price is now: $228,000 Anton Chico – 65 acre irrigated farm has 100 + ac/ft ditch rights. HQ home on historic register. Bunkhouse, storage shed, shop + irrigation & some farm equipment go w/sale. Great value in this sale price! Price is below appraisal at $698,900 Owner may finance! La Loma – farm has ~18 acres of irrigated alfalfa plus 3 bedroom home, barns, corrals, & equipment & storage buildings. New listing, call for details! Sunshine Road – parcel near Ribera, NM has 77 acres w/drill stem fence along the county road, two cold water wells, perimeter fence, building site cleared & ready to go. Lot can be subdivided too! Price is $299,900 North of Roswell, NM – 58,000 acre cow operation has reduced price to $204 per acre. Call for details. HQ Home, fenced, cross fenced, Pecos River frontage & water rights available!
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19.18 acres of farm land in La Mesa, NM – Located in La Mesa, NM. Paved road frontage and EBID surface water rights. Call for aerial map & EBID water rights info. Has ground water rights but no well. Farm located west of intersection of Lister Road & San Jose Road off Hwy 28 on north side of La Mesa. Sellers will divide. $326,060. 27.50 Acre Farm – Consists of 3 tracts – 8 Acres, 8 Acres, & 11.5 Acres – will sell separately. Full EBID & shared irrigation well. Community water, electric, telephone & gas on Camunez Road to adjoining property. Beautiful farm land, great mountain & valley views. Take Highway 28 south to San Miguel, east or left on Highway 192, first right or south on Las Colmenas, then left or east on Camunez to end of pavement. Priced at $467,000. Arrington Ranch – Located just west of Las Cruces, NM, between Interstate 10 and Afton Road on County Road B006. 182 head permit. 81 acres deeded, approximately 3090 state lease and 32,760 acres BLM (approximately 37,508 acres total). 5 pastures, 4 wells and 2 dirt tanks. 1940 adobe home with 3 bedrooms, 2 baths and 1526 square feet. Reasonably priced at $399,000. Fancher Ranch – Located southwest of Las Cruces, NM off Afton Road. 198 head permit, 210 acres deeded, 19,224 acres BLM and 4666 acres state land. 2 pastures, 3 wells, 1900 square foot home with 3 bedrooms and 2 baths, bunk house, green house, horse barn, corrals, round pen, etc. Easy access - 45 minutes from El Paso and Las Cruces. $550,000. “If you are interested in farm land or ranches in New Mexico, give me a call”
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O’NEILL LAND, LLC P.O. Box 145, Cimarron, NM 87714 • 575/376-2341 • Fax: 575/376-2347 land@swranches.com • www.swranches.com Good inventory in the Miami, Springer, Maxwell and Cimarron area. Great year-round climate suitable for horses. Give yourself and your horses a break and come on up to the Cimarron Country.
Miami Horse Training Facility. Ideal horse training facility w/large 4 bedroom 3 bathroom approx 3,593 sq ft home, 248.32± deeded acres, 208 irrigation shares, 30' X 60' metal sided shop/ bunkhouse, 8 stall barn w/tack room, 7 stall barn w/storage, 10 stall open sided barn w/10 ft alley, 2 stall loafing shed, 14 11' x 24' Run-In Shelters, 135' Round Pen, Priefert six horse panel walker. Many more features & improvements. All you need for a serious horse operation in serious horse country of Miami New Mexico. Additional 150 acres available on south side of road. Miami is at the perfect year round horse training elevation of 6,200. Far enough south to have mostly mild winters. Convenient to I-25. $1,550,000. Miami Horse Heaven. Very private approx. 4,800 sq. ft. double-walled adobe 4 bed., 3 bath home w/many custom features, 77.5± deeded acres & 77.25± water shares, large 7 stall horse barn, large insulated metal shop, large haybarn/equipment shed, all for $1,650,000, plus an additional 160+/-
deeded acres w/142 water shares avail. $560,000 (subject to purchase of 77.5± deeded acre parcel.) Krause Ranch. 939.37 +/- deeded acres. 88 Springer Ditch Company water shares. Mostly west of I;25, exit 414. Big views. $725,000. Miami Mountain View. 80± deeded acres w/80 water shares & house. $550,000. Miami. 10± deeded acres, awesome home, total remodel, awesome views $295,000. Miami WOW. Big home in Santa Fe Style great for family on 3 acres. $274,900. Miami Tangle Foot. 10.02± deeded acres w/water shares & meter. $118,000. Maxwell. 19.5± deeded acres, water, outbuildings, great horse set up. $269,000. Canadian River. 39.088± deeded acres, w/nice ranch home & river. $279,000.
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Water Controlled by Owner State Lease 49,260 acres; Federal Lease 60,818 acres 40 Sections Deeded Lease 4 Camp Houses, 1 Large Shop & Bunkhouse
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Scouts and Ranches join forces to honor dreams of legendary New Mexico Cattlewoman he Chase Ranch Foundation, owner of the historic Chase Ranch near Cimarron, New Mexico, and the adjacent Philmont Scout Ranch, the world’s largest private camp that hosts more than 25,000 young adults annually, announce their joint signing of a long-term lease and operating agreement to preserve the Chase Ranch’s 146year heritage and to fulfill the last wishes of its late owner, legendary cattlewoman Gretchen Sammis. The agreement, effective November 1, 2013, provides that Philmont will assume full responsibility for operation and management of the Chase Ranch, protection and preservation of its historic structures, and development of educational programs for both its own youth participants and the general public. The parties envision that the historic ranch house and surrounding area will become a museum through which the rich history of the Chase family and their
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western cattle ranching way of life will be displayed for generations to come. Founded in 1867 by Manly and Theresa Chase, who crossed the Raton Pass in a wagon loaded with all of their worldly goods to establish a new home in New Mexico, the Chase Ranch remained continuously owned by their descendants until the death of their great-granddaughter, Gretchen Sammis, in August 2012. Subsequent to Gretchen’s death, ownership of the ranch transferred to the Chase Ranch Foundation, which she had created for the purpose of preserving the 11,000acre property and her family’s heritage in perpetuity. “Long before she died, Gretchen mapped the future for Chase Ranch and facilitated this lasting legacy,” according to Thelma Coker, one of the foundation’s directors. “Gretchen was a fourth-generation rancher, a teacher and educator, a conservator, a lover of young people and
of the land, a community member who delighted in sharing Chase Ranch with others and helping them appreciate its history, beauty, and generational worth. She wanted Chase Ranch to continue for generations as a historic model cattle ranch, and she wanted her family’s history to be preserved.” Former U.S. Congressman Ed Pease, president of the Chase Ranch Foundation, says that “Gretchen’s old fashioned common sense and pragmatism led her to create a structure (the Chase Ranch Foundation) which she gave wide latitude to work with others to accomplish her goals. Philmont has decades of experience doing exactly the things she wanted done – preserving historic structures, managing high-quality museum collections, creating educational programs through living history presentations of New Mexico and American continued on page 101
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– A Premier Ranch, Approx. 30,000 Ac. with 1/3 Deeded & 2/3 State Lease, two great headquarters, running creeks and irrigated pasture, runs 800 Animal Units, Union County. – Mixed land status on this good summer yearling operation for 850-1,200 hd. 14,680 acres, open rolling country, well watered, good corrals with scales. – Private Hunting Retreat, 5,000 Ac. Deeded + State, no public access, Mule Deer, Elk, Bear, Lion, Quail & Turkey, beautiful & rugged, electricity & phone. – Just east of Moriarty, 1,365 Deeded & 1,810 State, Mobile Home, barns & small set of corrals, has irrigation rights for 50 Acres, good accessibility. – San Lorenzo, only 15 miles SE of Silver City, beautiful, treed country, fronts on paved highway, has over 63 Acre Feet of very valuable water rights, for residential development, 1,273 Deeded Ac. & 1,320 Acres of State Lease. – Nogal Canyon, between T or C and Socorro just off of I-25, a scenic ranch with complete headquarters offering fantastic views, 2,068 Deeded Ac., 837 Ac State & a small Forest Permit. Good Hunting in this area, especially in the Canyon!
SCOTT THACKER, Assoc. Broker • P.O. Box 90806 • Tucson, AZ 85752 Ph: 520-444-7069 • Email: ScottThacker@Mail.com www.AZRanchReaIEstate.com • www.SWRanch.com
New Listing – Buckhorn Ranch 350 head ranch spread over 19,000 acres with 2,163 deeded acres, plus State, BLM and Forest. The ranch is found in one of Southeast Arizona's prime ranching valleys with picturesque setting and steeped in very old history. Asking $2,500,000 Reduced Price: Dripping Springs Ranch – Globe AZ, 202 Head Year Long, 1687 Deeded Acres plus State and BLM, some irrigated pasture, manufactured home, mineral rights. $1,479,680. Call Agent for Details! Beloat Ranch – 300 head yearlong, plus increases with rain. Asking $615,000 New Listing – Rock NV Natural Farm – Willcox, AZ, Organic or Natural Farm w/145 acres, home, barn, possible retail shop, w/ many irrigated pastures. Asking $580,000 Ranches are SELLING! d buyers looking We have many qualifie us if you’re for ranches. Please call considering SELLING!
New Listing: K Bar W Ranch – 640 Deeded, 4880 State, Nicely remodeled stone and adobe home located at the end of the road in the middle of the ranch. 56 head year round. This is a perfect lifestyle ranch. Asking $500,000 New Listing: CK Ranch – Tonopah AZ, 50 acres deeded, 237 head year-long on state and BLM. The waters were recently reworked, and ephemeral increases can bump the numbers with rain. This ranch makes sense. Asking $425,000 Pomerene Ranch – Benson AZ, 81 head yearlong, 92 Acres Deeded, 7650 acres AZ State Lease, nice ranch with many new improvements. Reduced Price to $399,000 We have more ranches available, please check our websites. All properties are listed by Arizona Ranch Real Estate, Cathy McClure, Designated Broker
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MOLERES RANCH We got rain! Dirt tanks are full of water and grass is growing ... No cattle stocked on ranch since end of 2012. • 11,733 Deeded acres. (18½ deeded sections, 1 section State of NM) Located 53 miles north of Milan, NM. • Nice cattle producing ranch. 3 large fenced pastures. 3 smaller traps, all watering off the headquarters. Year round operation or good winter country. • Native grasses consist of galleta, blue grama, Indian rice grass, alkali sacaton and also fourwing saltbush. Partially wooded in pinon/juniper. Small sandstone mesas and outcroppings. Amazing Mesa top ruins with kivas and rooms. Near Chaco Canyon National Historical Park. • 4 producing windmill wells. Pumping from 250’ to 500’. 9 pit dirt tanks strategically placed throughout the ranch. Great water storage. 4 miles of pipeline. • Wildlife consists of Elk, Mule Deer, Antelope, Quail and Rabbits. Ranch received 2 Bull Elk tags and 2 Cow Elk tags in 2012. • Modest headquarters: Ranch house with kitchen, den and bunking quarters. 30x40 metal sided barn/ hay storage/tack Corrals with guard rail, squeeze chute, and certified scales/house, semi chute/ramp. Call for photos and brochure. Price reduced to $199 per acre! HOWARD MICHAEL, QUALIFYING BROKER Coldwell Banker Legacy 617 W. Santa Fe Ave., Grants, NM 87020 Office 505-876-2222 • Cell 505-290-0761 Email: howmi7cities@yahoo.com www.coldwellbankerlegacy.com /howard.michael Serving NW New Mexico, ranch, recreational, residential & commercial real estate for sellers & buyers!
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C6 Ranch – This ranch is located at Patagonia AZ. The ranch consists of 40 deeded acres & 8,000 plus acres National Forest Lease. This ranch is rated at 165 head annually. Great water system & good strong grass. Improvements include 1600 sq. ft. home built in 2006, barn & corrals. The Ranch has easy access to town & beautiful views. $725,000. Santo Nino – This Ranch is located 7 miles south of Patagonia on the western edge of the beautiful San Rafael Valley. This ranch consists of 62 deeded acres & 12,000 plus National Forest Lease. The ranch is rated at 185 head annually. The land contained in the ranch consists of steep sided ridges to rolling hills along the side of the valley floor. Improvements include 3,000 sq. ft. owners home, cowboy house, barn & corrals. Rarely does a ranch in this area come on the market. $899,000 including cattle. NI Ranch Tombstone, AZ – The Ranch consists of 6555 deeded acres and 6650 state lease, 250 head annually; all improvements are in top condition, the ranch is well watered with 8 wells, and pipelines. Good strong grass country. The Ni Ranch is one of the last working cattle ranches in the state with the majority of the land being deeded. Priced at $3,150,000. K Bar Ranch Datil, NM – 160 deeded acres, 6000 forest permit. Rated for 70 head year-long. Nice improvements, close to town. $950,000
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■ YOU WILL BE AMAZED at how good this almost 200 section (almost all deeded) Central NM ranch will look to you after the drought! This ranch is well improved w/nice owner’s home (4,400 sq. ft. +/-), three fire places, large master bedroom. Near the owner’s home is a saloon fashioned after the late 1800s/early 1900s era with two bedrooms and a bath. The foreman’s home is comfortable with either three or four bedrooms as needed. There are three additional homes in good condition on the ranch. There are four large sets of pens with a scale at each set of pens. There are several barns, shops and out buildings at the headquarters and other locations on the ranch. Fencing on the ranch is average to above average with some woven wire & is divided into a number of pastures. It is well watered by 55 water wells +/- which range in depth from very shallow to just over 300 ft. w/typical drinking tubs at each well coupled w/numerous pipelines, large storage tanks and drinking tubs. Most wells are equipped w/windmills, some are equipped with submersible electric motors & pumps powered by electricity or solar power. There are springs, spring-fed draws & three areas of the ranch that are sub-irrigated or partially sub-irrigated.
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People who run fairs should take the job seriously and we appreciate all of those who do. This is a thankless job and most often is unpaid and I have never been at a fair where most in the barn were disappointed except the winner. That is not what this article is about! Anybody that is happy about losing is either lying or not in the game for the right reasons. This country was built by people trying to win and people that wanted the best for their families and that is what makes this country so great. The New Mexico State Fair belongs to everyone in New Mexico. The current administration has made some very positive changes, the sale is better, the Fair is not losing money or at least as much. However, there are problems and if the Commission is willing to listen I think the people who participate are willing to help. Many of us run very successful county fairs at home and would be willing to help make the NMSF the best it could be. There is probably not much we can do about the Schaakes and others of the world and maybe we should not blame them at all. It is the people who choose these type of individuals to judge. As an avid supporter of our Governor I would like to inform her that we need a change at the NMSF. I believe that our Governor has no idea, but attempts by others to inform her of such have been shrugged off as not that important. I realize the Governor has bigger issues to deal with that matter more to the people of this State, but we do expect more and that is why so many of us were so pleased to see her win and the former Governor gone. It is her job to put the best people in place who are open and willing to accept help. Lastly I’m not accusing anyone of cheating or playing politics but I will say, one can only hope there is a real special place for judges and others who cheat kids. I know kids across the state work their tail off. We teach them their hard work will be rewarded and it will regardless of what happens in the show ring, it just makes our job tough when they see and hear what has been happening. A good friend reminded me that this is part of it and part of the education, and yes he is right, but it does not make it right and personally I feel compelled that we need to do something about it. If anyone from the State Fair Commission or the higher ups are willing to listen and willing to accept some help, we are ready to do so. I’m hoping for a change and ■ look forward to next year’s fair.
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he Mountain West as pictured by the European immigrants in the days of Lewis and Clark, was covered with immense healthy forests that had recycled themselves naturally for centuries. They grew from seeds, matured, reproduced, died, burned and prepared the land for a fresh seeding. Fire was not the enemy. Explorers first saw the forests holding their place in the bio-system of the West. Settlers came and built forts and fences, houses and dams, cities and freeways. Forests were harvested for fuel and construction. They had to be cleared so man could build on the ground. Timber companies, ranchers and railroaders thought the virgin forests were unending. In the latter part of the 19th century they were allowed to recycle. During the early 20th century timber companies and government agencies began to replant clear-cut forests to sustain timbering. Then mid-century came the conservationists, politicians, environmentalists and tree huggers. They took the stand that thinning, clear-cutting, grazing, hunting, improving water tanks, roads and settlers just harmed the forest. So they instigated restrictions. They chose forest fire as the enemy, Smokey the Bear told them so! For the next 50 years of forest management they fought forest fires. This encouraged people to build beautiful homes in the tall pines. Any attempt to utilize the crowning, crowded timber or deadfall as a private industry resource was scorned. The trees kept growing and seeding, seeding, shedding, dying and falling on the forest floor. In the 1980s the pine-bark beetle became an obvious factor and large stands of pine trees turned yellow and died.
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And what happened to the environmentalists & conservationists & politicians who lead the battle to drive lumberjacks, cowboys and miners out of the woods? ted owl and their incestuous sycophant, the EPA, to shut down sawmill towns and grazing permits and road builders . . . the greasy politicians parading their magnanimous influence like circus monkeys in a side show shutting down the West by decreeing it a wilderness. Where are they now? Now that, through unintended consequences, they have helped savage the West, I expect they’ve moved on. They’ve taken their Sierra Club calendars, endangered species T-shirts, fundraising bumper stickers and nonprofit lawyers to work on bombing horse slaughter plants, protesting GMO grain, burning animal research laboratories, sabotaging modern animal agriculture and, as always, trying to save the old reliable whale. Ignorance repeats itself.
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APOLOGY & CORRECTION: Regrettably, this column misspelled the Schmitz family name in the October 2013 Memoriam for Tony Schmitz.This was an inexcusable error. The N.M. Stockman offers sincere apologies to the Schmitz family. Mary Evelyn Neville was born January 1, 1926 in Vernon Texas to Charlie and Bernice Wilson. She grew up in the oil fields of Texas and Oklahoma where Charlie worked as a lease manager. While living near Holiday, Texas on an oil lease managed by her father, she met a cowboy who was working the cattle that grazed the same acreage. Frank and Evelyn were married in 1947. The family cattle business expanded to New Mexico with the purchase of two ranches south of Santa Fe. Frank and Evelyn moved to New Mexico in 1948 to run those cattle operations. They raised three sons on the ranches; Steve (wife, Tammy), Farmington; David (wife, Virginia) and Alan (wife, Merlinda), Santa Fe. The ranch life wasn’t always easy but Evelyn adapted by being active in CowBelles, Extension Club, 4-H Leader and Quilters Guild, all while raising three sons, and a menagerie of calves, horses and assorted dogs and other critters. In addition to her sons, Evelyn is also survived by six grandchildren; four greatgrandchildren, Hilory George Bedford passed away on October 9, 2013. He was born June 24, 1926 to the Midland pioneer ranching family of Nita Hill Bedford and Hilory Green Bedford. He attended Midland schools and the New Mexico Military Institute (NMMI) in Roswell. While attending NMMI, he played on the varsity polo team. He graduated with honors in 1944. He then entered the U.S. Navy. He served in the Philippine Islands on the Navy destroyer, the USS Frank Knox, and was honorably discharged in 1946. He felt honored to have served his country as a member of The Greatest Generation. Following discharge, he attended Texas Tech University, graduating with a degree in Business Administration. While at Tech, he served as the President of the Rodeo Club, where he pursued his love of calf roping and team roping. H.G. was one of the founding members of the National Intercollegiate Rodeo Association (NIRA). He married Dorothy Sue “Sudy” Wright in San Angelo, Texas in July 1948. Following graduation from Texas Tech in 1950, H.G. and Sudy moved to the ranch outside Springer, New
Mexico. For the next 50 years, he continued to own and manage ranches in West Texas and New Mexico, where he raised both purebred and crossbred Hereford cattle and registered Quarter Horses. He raised and owned respected horses for ranch work, arena performances, and running Quarter Horses. In 1999, the 12th annual Midland Ranch Rodeo was held in his honor. In 2011, H.G. was honored as a recipient of the Foy Proctor Memorial Cowman’s Award for a lifetime of cattle ranching achievement. H.G. was actively engaged in the Permian Basin oil and gas industry. He served on the board of directors of numerous oil and gas, real estate and banking organizations. He was a lifetime member of First Christian Church of Midland. He served on the church board and many committees and was honored as an Elder Emeritus. He served on many community boards of directors, including 11 years, the Chairman of the Quarter Horse Division of the Sand Hills Hereford & Quarter Horse Show. H.G.and Sudy had three daughters, Beverly Drummond (husband, Gene), Lisa Sams (husband, Lourcey), and Nita Bedford Fradenburg. They have eight grandchildren, two greatgranddaughters His sister, Anna Beth Farr, Midland, also survives him. His surviving brother-in-law is Harry D. Wright (wife, Elizabeth), San Antonio. The family extends special thanks to Mary Leon and Hospice of Midland for their dedicated care Pearl Sowers, 84, Union County, died Friday, October 25, 2013 in Amarillo. She was born in Union County, New Mexico on October, 23, 1929 to Fred and Verda (Leighton) Lawrence. During her early years, the family moved many times, but they always moved back to Union County. Pearl married James A. Sowers (Jim) in Clayton, New Mexico on February 8, 1947. They moved to the Sowers farm and ranch and lived there for 56 years. Pearl moved to Amarillo in 2004 to be near her family and her mother. She is a member of the First Baptist Church in Clayton. She was a member of the CowBelles since 1976 and was the New Mexico CowBelle of the Year in 1997. She was a rancher’s wife who worked along side her husband for 55 years. Pearl served as a 4-H leader and fair and contest judge for many years. She worked with the Child Find Program for 11 years. She volunteered at Bivins Nurscontinued on page 106 NOVEMBER 2013
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hile the shutdown of the federal government has been and is being criticized, there were some good things that came as a result. One of the most important ones, in the Southwest, is the push back of deadlines and hearings on the Mexican wolf proposals and hearings that are on the table. The new date for the Albuquerque hearing is Wednesday, November 20, 2013 at the Embassy Suites. Registration is set for 5:00 p.m. with the hearing slated to begin at 6:00 p.m. YOU need to be there by 3:00 p.m. for a gathering to get primed for the hearing. Remember that NMCGA has
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In today’s market what is the value of your livestock? Please answer these questions and others that you may have of your own to develop oral and written comments for submission. Asking questions of the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (FWS) is fruitless, another lesson learned. Agency personnel will only be listening and reading, at least that is the hope. They have no answers for us – and they haven’t ever. The New Mexico Cattle Growers’ Association (NMCGA) will be providing these additional questions on the website (www.nmagriculture.org ), on our Facebook pages (NMCGA, New Mexico Cattle Growers’ Association and New Mexico Stockman) and will be emailing them out as well. If you need questions mailed to you, just call the office at 505/247-0584. If you need additional assistance the office staff is there to help you. Members of the New Mexico and Arizona Legislatures and numerous County Commissions and Board of Supervisors have become deeply involved in the wolf issue. Please take the time to thank these folks and make sure that they attend the hearings and speak on behalf of their constituents. If your legislator or commissioner/supervisor isn’t involved, contact
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Scheduling for the Joint Stockmen’s Convention with some 22 committees and the need for high profile speakers to keep folks abreast of current issues is no easy trick. Some time ago NMCGA changed its’ committee structure in the By Laws to make most committees subcommittees that fall under broad committees. The idea was that at the Joint Stockmen's Convention speakers could be clustered under Ag Policy, Natural Resources and Property Rights. After each General Session, the subcommittees that fall under each committee would then meet following each General Session. At the conclusion of each General Session there will be POLICY ISSUE RESOLUTION SESSION that will work through the subcommittees in an attempt to ensure that everyone has the opportunity to address issues of concern. Be sure to see the Convention Schedule to make sure you are in the right place ■ at the right time! See you there.
RED ANGUS A Breed On The Move by SHARON NIEDERMAN
Enthusiasm for Red Angus continues to grow. Two ranchers sold on the breed explain why. MCGINLEY RED ANGUS — lthough ranching was not a family business, the industry has become McGinley Red Angus is focused on raising Marshall McGinley’s passion. Mar- great bulls for the commercial cow/calf man. shall, 36, got his start in 1997 working for Roberts Red Angus Ranch, near Las breeding program since 2008 and his cusCruces. In 2002, he purchased his first set tomers testify to the genetic improveof cows. Since that time his focus is on ments they’ve seen year over year. raising heifer bulls for commercial cattle- “Between the AI and collecting Ultrasound men, though the Mesilla rancher also mar- data, we’ve been able to improve the carcass while maintaining calving ease and a kets females and semen. Until about a year ago, Marshall was moderate framed, low maintenance anistrictly a one-person show. That’s when mal,” Marshall says. “My goal is to effecthe NMSU Ag-Econ major wed Morgan tively and efficiently utilize all the tools Switzer, and the two became partners in provided by RAAA for continual herd improvement.” the growing “We see great potential for operation, “About 15 years ago, Red Angus and Red Angus with Morcross cattle. With drought gan taking following a heart impacting so much of the on the marattack, Tim Head nation and our animals keting side being heat-tolerant and of the busilistened to his doctor low maintenance, more ness. “Mar& found himself a less and more people are calling us to learn more about shall and I stressful occupation the breed and our specific are really herd. We pride ourselves in excited – ranching.” top-quality, work anywhere about our genetics, plus calving ease updated website and how we can utilize social and rapid growth calves.” This year his bull media to reach customers all over the calves averaged a 70 pound birth weight United States,” she says. “Platforms like and a 600 pound weaning weight. YouTube allow buyers to see our cattle just as if they were standing in the pasture Q U A L I T Y G E N E T I C S — About 15 years ago, following a heart beside us.” McGinley favors Red Angus for the attack, Tim Head listened to his doctor and breed’s disposition, calving ease, and over- found himself a less stressful occupation – all low maintenance. “It’s my goal to create ranching. Now Head, 65, operates Quality Genetthe most efficient animal I can,” says Marshall. “Although I primarily run on irri- ics twenty miles south of Van Horn, Texas, gated pastures, many of my customers and he is president of the Southwest Red have desert or mountainous ranches. Angus Association. “About three years ago Good genetics are going to work anywhere.” continued on page 110 McGinley has been using a timed AI
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watering and where you can only run two or we got SRAA fired back up to make the three cows per connection between seed stock breeders, square mile, he commercial cattle raisers and Red Angus says. “By applying commercial cattle raisers with feedlots and stockers interested in Red Angus,” he says. scientific study, He discovered the breed when he went we’ve advanced to looking to buy a bull for his small com- where we are now. mercial herd. He found the Reserve Cham- We now have an pion Red Angus from New Mexico out of EPD for calving Lazy D in Hobbs. “We were so pleased with ease direct and him we decided to raise our own Red birth weight, to Angus,” he says. “He was very gentle, easy what the bull will to manage, and he took care of his busi- pass on to his The McGinley’s are using their website & social media to reach cusness. He produced outstanding calves. We heifers. Out of 270 tomers all over the United States, as well as YouTube to allow buyers were able to use him because we began to births, we’ve only to see cattle just as if they were standing in the pasture beside them. buy Red Angus females around the U.S. for had to pull two calves, and that was because the calf was and information on “what will put the a good genetic mix.” And reds are rather adaptable, even in presented backward.” Additional EPDs most meat in the trailer.” the marginal desert, with infrequent include weaning weight, yearling weight, The Red Angus +Association of America (RAAA) was formed in 1954 by seven breeders of reds cropped from best black Aberdeen Angus herds in the United States. RAAA was designed around the new scientific principles of performance testing. Membership in the Association requires performance data for registration www.fivestateslivestockauction.com Box 266 of all cattle with the goal to initiate a sysClayton, NM 88415 tem to objectively evaluate and select catTo Our Longtime & tle based on traits of economic imporSALE BARN: Trusted Friend Bill Sauble tance. 575/374-2505
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Total Herd Reporting (THR), initiated in 1995, requires the production of every registered Red Angus female to be reported annually, as well as the performance of every Red Angus calf raised through weaning, as a requirement for registration. RAAA has shown industry leadership with its commitment to objectively describe traits related to reproduction. Released in 1995, the first of this new class of EPDs was Red Angus’ Stayability estimate. Based on data that can only be gathered with a THR system, in 2001 Red Angus published the industry’s first comprehensive reproductive sire summary. Included in the summary were genetic predictions for Calving Ease Direct, Heifer Pregnancy, Maternal Calving Ease, and Stayability. One of the big new EPD’s from RAAA is maintenance energy, that is, precisely how much feed it takes to produce a good calf. Through the RAAA registry, that information is available on virtually every animal. The Mature Cow Maintenance Energy Requirement EPD (ME) predicts the energy required for a bull’s daughters to maintain their body condition. In 1995, Red Angus unveiled the industry’s first genotypic and source verification program, the Feeder Calf Certification Program (FCCP). FCCP is the first USDA Process Verified Program (PVP). Today, calves wearing the Red Angus FCCP tag, come with the three USDA process verified claims of: Traceability to minimum 50 percent Red Angus bloodlines, Source Verification to Ranch of Origin, and Group Age Verification. Rather than stack up EPDs, RAAA’s goal was to comprehensively describe reproduction, growth and carcass traits with the fewest EPDs possible. To achieve this goal, the concept of Economically Relevant Traits (ERT) was pioneered in which only EPDs directly related to a revenue or expense would be developed. In 2004, Red Angus became the first breed to provide a genetic selection tool for the expense side of ranchers’ profit equation. According to Head, Red Angus is the fastest growing breed and is producing the best quality beef per carcass. “Every five years, USDA runs an annual survey of beef grading,” he says, and according to the 2007 figures (the most recent available), Red Angus ranked #1 in terms of carcass grade, with more than 88 percent choice,” he says. Black Angus followed closely with ■ 86 percent choice.
port for honest effort and determination. She was a cowgirl, beautiful on a horse, at home in the saddle and with her dog. Fiercely independent, she and her longtime companion, Ruby Gobble (49 years), prided themselves on being self-sufficient.” Those values and traits will be reflected in Philmont’s use of the Chase Ranch property for years to come, according to Philmont Director of Program Mark Anderson. In addition to operating the main ranch house and surrounding area as a public museum, he sees potential use of an old cow camp on the property as another of Philmont’s many “living history” camps. “What a wonderful opportunity this gives us to offer young people coming to Philmont a chance to experience life as it actually was many years ago on a historic working cattle ranch,” he says. “Working with the Chase Ranch Foundation to help promote the wishes and dreams of Gretchen Sammis is one of the greatest things that has been asked of Philmont Scout Ranch,” said John Clark, Philmont’s general manager. “Gretchen served on the Philmont Ranch Committee for many years and has given guidance and support for our Ranch and Conservation Task Force. Together we have made the dreams of thousands of participants come true. Now we have an opportunity to make her dreams come true.” Those dreams have actually been in the Chase family for almost a century, as it turns out. Coincidentally, Philmont museum staffers recently discovered a previously unknown brochure for “The Kit Carson Camp,” operated on the Chase Ranch by Mason and Stanley Chase, sons of ranch founders Manly and Theresa. From information in the brochure, it appears to have been printed around 1925, and invites guests to come to the camp for “a real ranch vacation.” “The aim of the camp is to provide a happy and interesting summer place for those who want to see the West,” the brochure states. “Here they will be met by guides with gentle saddle horses and taken to one of our mountain camps where they can fish and hunt and explore the mountain trails in all directions through beautifully timbered country, watered by crystal
streams, and where they can thoroughly enjoy the outdoor life.” That description almost exactly mirrors the vision of Waite Phillips, who donated his Philmont Ranch to the Boy Scouts of America in 1938 and 1941 with the idea that it would become a “university of the outdoors” for young people. “Gretchen wanted Chase Ranch to educate young people in the ranching experience and lifestyle, inspiring them to love and care for the land and to appreciate its history,” says Coker. “When she spoke of the ranch, she said, ‘It will always be here.’ This agreement between the Chase Ranch Foundation and Philmont Scout Ranch is ■ an effort to assure that truth.”
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A AC Nutrition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .114 Ag New Mexico FCS ACA . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12 Agrow Credit Corporation . . . . . . . . . . . .113 Ken Ahler Real Estate Co. Inc . . . . . . . . . .92 Albuquerque Marriott Pyramid North . . . .106 American Angus Association . . . . . . . . . . . .16 American Galloway Breeders Assn . . . . . .103 American Water Surveyors . . . . . . . . . .42, 77 American West Real Estate . . . . . . . . . . . .95 Arizona Ranch Real Estate . . . . . . . . . . . .95 Artesia Trailer Sales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .74 B Ken Babcock Sales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .101 Bale Buddy Manufacturing Inc . . . . . . . . . .76 Bar G Feedyard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .68 Bar M Real Estate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .92, 96 Tyson Bays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .45 Beaverhead Outfitters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .94 Best in the West Brangus Sale . . . . . . . . . .22 Big Mesa Realty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .92 BJM Sales & Service, Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . .101 Black Angus “Ready For Work” Bull Sale . .19 Pat Boone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .41 Bovine Elite . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .100 Bradley 3 Ranch LTD . . . . . . . . .14, 71, 102 Brand/Jeff Cornay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .100 Brennand Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18, 104 Jeff Budz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .70 C C Bar Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .21, 103 Carter Brangus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .21, 102 Mike Casabonne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .50 Casey Beefmasters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .103 Cates Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .103 Cattleman’s Livestock Commission . . . . . . .35 CattleMax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .100 Caviness Packing Co. Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28 Don Chalmers Ford . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .29 Clavel Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .44 Clovis Livestock Auction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .43 Coba Select Sires . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .104 Coldwell Banker Legacy/Howard Michaels . .96 Chip Cole Ranch Broker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .96 Colfax County Farm & LS Bureau . . . . . . .50 Conniff Cattle Co LLC . . . . . . . . . . . . .14, 66 Cornerstone Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18 Cowboy Sign . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .70 Cox Ranch Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .102 R.L. Cox Fur & Hide . . . . . . . . . . . . .71, 101 CPI Pipe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .72 CS Cattle Co . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .47 Culbertson-Whatley Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . .50 D D Squared Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .29 David Dean/Campo Bonito . . . . . . . . . . . .96 Dees Brothers Brangus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .26 Dan Delaney Real Estate . . . . . . . . . . . . . .93 Denton Photography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .106 Desert Scales & Weighing Equipment . . . .69 Diamond Arrow Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .47 Domenici Law Firm PC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .77
Frank & Sharon Dubois . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .49
F Farm Credit of New Mexico . . . . . . . . . . . . .8 Farmway Feed Mill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .64 FBFS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .45, 88, 110 Ferguson Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .50 Five States Livestock Auction . . . . . . .78, 110 Fort Worth Stock Show . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35 4 Rivers Equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4 Four States Ag Expo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .72 Freeman Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .102 Bob & Jane Frost . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .41 Fury Farms, Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .65
H Hales Angus Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13, 103 Harrison Quarter Horses . . . . . . . . . . . . .101 Hartzog Angus Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . .15, 103 Hat Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .47 Davis Hats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .60 Headquarters West Ltd . . . . . . . . . . . .92, 96 Henard Ranches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .89 Hi-Pro Feeds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 Don & Abby Hofman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .44 Bob Homer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .45 Nicki & Kathy Hooser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .50 Hubbell Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .21, 23 Hudson Livestock Supplements . . . . . . . . .33 Huguley Co. Land Sales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .93 Hutchison Western . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12
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N New Mexico Ag Expo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .75 New Mexico Angus & Hereford Assn . . . . . .89 New Mexico Bank & Trust . . . . . . . . . . . .108 New Mexico Beef Council . . . . . . . . . . . . .50 New Mexico Beef Industry Initiative . . . . .112 New Mexico Cattle Growers’ Insurance . . . .57 New Mexico CowBelles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .63 New Mexico Hereford Association . . . . . . . .34 New Mexico Livestock Board . . . . . . . . . . .46 New Mexico Property Group . . . . . . . . . . .97 NMSU Animal & Range Sciences . . . . .56, 69 Purina-Land O Lakes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .116
I Inn of the Mountain Gods . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7 Insurance Services of New Mexico . . . . . . .53
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R Ramro LLC / R J Cattle Co . . . . . . . . . . . . .30 The Ranches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .79 RBS True Value Hardware . . . . . . . . . . . . .49 D.J. Reveal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .58, 101 Frank Rice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .50 Bob Ricklefs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .50
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P P Bar A Angus Cattle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22 Phase-A-Matic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .108 Phillips Diesel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .100 Philmont Scout Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . .45, 100 Pratt Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .104
K Kaddatz Auctioneering & Farm Equipment 101 John Keck . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .50 Kern Land . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .93 Killian Ranch Australian Shepherds . . . . . .73 Bill King Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3, 44
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O Old Mill Farm & Ranch Supply . . . . . . . . . .82 Jim Olson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .98 Onate Feed Mill LLC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .74 O’Neill Land LLC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9
J J - C Angus Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17 JaCin Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .103, 109 Jim Jackson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .45 JC Metal Art . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .58 Steve Jensen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .66 Jimbar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22 JMT Pipe & Service Company, LLC . . . . .100 Joe’s Boot Shop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .37
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M Major Ranch Realty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .93, 98 Manford Cattle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20, 104 Manzano Angus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17 Mathers Realty Inc/ Keith Brown . . . . . . . .96 Matlock & Associates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .66 McGinley Red Angus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .109 Paul McGillard / Murney Assn. . . . . . . . . . .97 McKenzie Land & Livestock . . . . . . . . . . . .14 Merrick’s Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .62 Mesa Feed Co . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .81 Mesa Tractor Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .67, 100 Mesilla Valley Commercial Tire . . . . . . . . .59 Michelet Homestead Realty . . . . . . . . . . . .97 Chas S. Middleton & Son . . . . . . . . . .91, 96 Miller Angus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18 Monfette Construction Co . . . . . . . . . . . .100 Moore Land and Cattle Co . . . . . . . . . . . . .41
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lan (husband, Troy), Shamrock, Texas; two sons, Larry Sowers (wife, Daphne), Lubbock, Texas and Jimmy Sowers (wife, Addie), Hutchinson, Kansas; eight grandchildren, seven step-grandchildren; 11 great-grandchildren and 13 step-great grandchildren; Donna Hall, Blackwell, Oklahoma; Lula Traves (husband, Bill), Clarendon, Texas and Kay Stanley (husband, Jim), Amarillo; brother Dan Lawrence (wife, Gail), Lumberton, Texas; sister-in-law Joyce Lawrence, Logan, an aunt and an uncle; numerous nieces, nephews and cousins and her long time friend: Owaissa Heimann, Clayton. Juan Encarnacion (John Carnie) Rivera Sr., 86, Tererro died on August 20, 2013. A descendant of a Spanish Conquis-
tador who came with De Vargas in the Reconquest of Santa Fe, John was born on March 12, 1927 at the family ranch that gave Tererro (Salt Lick) its name. He lived there his entire life. Johnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s education began at the Tererro Mine School until it closed. He continued to the 8th grade at the one room school in La Posada. He received his high school diploma from the American School of Correspondence. He continued his correspondence in forestry, fishery and wildlife, taxidermy, real estate, radio broadcasting, theology, ranch economics and livestock breeding. A genuine cowboy raising Appaloosa horses and Longhorn cattle, John loved knowledge, philosophy and wisdom. He was a fierce defender of the Constitution, property and water rights. In 1949 John married Alicia Roybal, Pecos, who preceded him in death.
In July 1961 he married Lee Neille Hicks, Louisville, Kentucky who survives him along with sister, Ramona Lawson, Cleveland, Tennessee; son Roland Rivera (wife, Sherri), Albuquerque; daughter Sarada Gutierrez (husband, Damian), Tijeras; daughter Chanda Rivera, Lacey, Washington; sons Monte Rivera (wife, Melody), Pecos and John Rivera Jr., Tererro; 10 grandchildren, a step-grandson, four great-grandchildren and two step-great grandchildren. Please send In Memoriam announcements to: Caren Cowan, N.M. Stockman, P.O. Box 7127, Albuq., NM 87194, fax: 505/998-6236 or email: caren@aaalivestock.com. Memorial donations may be sent to the Cattlegrowersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Foundation, a 501(c)3, tax deductable charitable foundation serving the rights of ranch families and educating citizens on governmental actions, policies & practices. Cattlegrowers Foundation, Inc., P.O. Box 7517, Albuq., NM 87194.
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Congratulations to the State Champion Roosevelt County 4-H Livestock Judging Team. (l to r) Jasi Roberts, Kenzee Criswell, & Kynzie Creighton. Team members not pictured are Koby & Kaly Cone. They will represent New Mexico at the National Contest.
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