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Non-Black Cattle Have Natural Resistance by Heather Smith Thomas 2014 Ranch Family of the Year 2014 New Mexico State Fair Hereford Results Simplot Hereford Study by Jack Ward, American Hereford Association Aggie Notes / Ranch Planning – Where to Start by Nick Ashcroft, PhD, NMSU Extension Rangeland Management 2014 New Mexico State Fair Angus Results 2014 New Mexico State Fair Junior Steer Show Results 2014 New Mexico State Fair Junior Heifer Show & Calf Scramble Results 2014 New Mexico Bred & Raised Steer Show 2014 New Mexico Junior Cattle Growers' Showmanship Contest 2014 New Mexico State Fair Judging Contest 2014 New Mexico State Fair Lowline, Mini Herefords & Other Breeds 2014 New Mexico State Fair Queen Results 2014 New Mexico State Fair Texas Longhorn Results 2014 New Mexico Farm Family of the Year New Mexico Youth Ambassadors Irreparable Damages – Cibola Controversy One Year Later by Julie Carter Riding Herd by Lee Pitts N.M. Small Businesses Blast US Fish & Wildlife Service Backroom Wolf Deal Arizona Game Department Tries to Provide Cover for Backroom Deal on Wolves A Leadership Program Worth Exploring by Claudia Trueblood, NMAL Program Director The Cowbelles by Caren Cowan How to Fulfill the Promise of the Endangered Species Act by Brian Seasholes, Reason Foundation
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N.M. Cattle Growers’ Association President’s Letter by Jose Varela Lopez, President Farm Bureau Minute by Mike White, President, New Mexico Farm & Livestock Bureau N.M. Federal Lands Council News by Frank DuBois New Mexico’s Old Times & Old Timers by Don Bullis News Update N.M. CowBelles Jingle Jangle To The Point by Caren Cowan My Cowboy Heroes by Jim Olson The View from the Backside by Barry Denton In Memoriam NMBC Bullhorn On the Edge of Common Sense by Baxter Black Seedstock Guide Real Estate Guide Market Place ON THE COVER . . . Ad Index This content Hereford bull was captured by THE MAGAZINE
Jordan Spindle at Bill King Herefords/ Charolais. Jordan purchased her camera with proceeds of her livestock showing. This year Jordan entered her work at the Junior National Hereford Expo. She won the Hereford Enhanced category; won a first place in the Hereford Cattle category, Junior Divisions (ages 14-17); and a second place in the Hereford people category.
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by José Varela L ópez
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NMCGA PRESIDENT
Dear Fellow Members and Industry Supporters, all is definitely in the air. Not only has the State Fair come and gone but the trees have started to change color and there’s a nip in the air. And in rural New Mexico the surest sign of fall is that everyone is either branding large calves or remnants, moving cattle to lower elevation pastures or shipping cattle, purchasing winter hay, selling calves, or simply canning food and chopping firewood before winter starts to settle in. There are also some folks out there who are trying to play catch-up because they received several years of rain in a few short weeks, losing lots of infrastructure, crops and other things. I want you all to know we’re praying for you. I hope everyone was able to take the time to comment on the Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) and final revision of the 10(j) rule that proposes to expand and amend the Mexican wolf program in New Mexico and Arizona. Normally, the DEIS comments are reviewed by the agency over several months while the Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) is written to tell the public, and specifically ranchers and other natural resource users, how the selected alternative will impact their businesses and families for years to come. Anyway, that’s how the process is supposed to work. It came to our attention, however, a day before the comment period closed, that the US Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) along with the Arizona Department of Fish and Game had decided to move forward with an unpublished plan which would allow for more than 300 wolves in Arizona and New Mexico. This “deal” not only circumvents the public process that is set out in the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) but it also ensures that, if enacted, there will be renewed controversy and unwarranted economic impacts to our rural communities. NMCGA and a number of other organizations let the FWS Director know in no uncertain terms that it would be unadvisable to continue with the “deal” outside of the normal public process. Undoubtedly there will be more movement on this issue in the days to come. Notwithstanding the apparent lack of transparency in the FWS process, I still believe that the importance of letting federal agencies understand how their proposed actions impact you cannot be overstated. Such is the case with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)/US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) “Waters of the United States” proposed rule which closes on the 20th of this month. In short, the agencies are attempting to remove the word “navigable” from the Clean Water Act. By doing so, the EPA and USACE would greatly expand their jurisdictional authority by pulling in any ditch, acequia, stock pond, isolated wetland, arroyo or intermittent stream that have a nexus or adjacency to what historically have been considered navigable waters. The proposed rule is an infringement on private property rights, creates uncertainty in carrying out everyday work activities, usurps states rights, lacks a valid scientific basis and directly contradicts Congressional actions that have refused to discard the word “navigable” from the Clean Water Act on two separate occasions. Please submit your comments identified by Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OW2011-0880 by one of the following methods: ■ Federal eRulemaking Portal: http://www.regulations.gov. Follow the instructions for submitting comments. ■ Email: ow-docket@epa.gov. Include EPA-HQ-OW-2011-0880 in the subject line of the message. Show citation box. ■ Mail: Send the original and three copies of your comments to: Water Docket, Environmental Protection Agency, Mail Code 2822T, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20460, Attention: Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OW-2011-0880. Let these agencies know that this rule is an unconstitutional land grab that would severely hamper your ability to manage your business. In closing, you should know that NMCGA along with various cattlemens’ associations, property rights groups, and others, have filed a legal action against the United States Department of Agriculture, of which the Forest Service is a part, on the issue of fencing riparian areas in the Lincoln and Santa Fe National Forests for the meadow jumping mouse without having completed a NEPA Environmental Assessment to support their actions, nor proposed actions. What we are saying is that before someone’s livelihood is jeopardized there needs to be science that is brought to bear justifying the action. A hearing on the matter should be scheduled soon.
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Until next time, take comfort in your faith, family and friends. José Varela López www.nmagriculture.org NEW MEXICO CATTLE GROWERS’ ASSOCIATION OFFICERS José Varela López President La Cieneguilla
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Rex Wilson Past President Carrizozo
Caren Cowan Executive Director Albuquerque
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Non-Black Cattle Have Natural Resistance to Salmonella & E. Coli
determine whether cattle possess desirable genes, such as genetic resistance to disease. Steve Carlson, DVM, PhD (Associate Professor, College of Veterinary Medicine, Iowa State University) and Tim Day, PhD (Professor of Pharmacology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Iowa State University) recently became involved with PSR Genetics, founded six years ago in Scott by HEATHER SMITH THOMAS City, Kansas, with research facilities in Reprinted courtesy of The Cattleman Iowa. The PSR stands for Phenotype Salisease caused by Salmonella and monella Resistance. This company has a E. coli can be life-threatening in proprietary genetics platform allowing calves. Contamination of food with them to uncover various SNPs (single these pathogens is a food safety issue. nucleotide polymorphisms) as the basis for Pathogenic strains of Salmonella cause identifying cattle that have natural resisapproximately 40,000 documented cases tance to Salmonella and E.coli O157:H7. “SNPs are small genetic changes that of foodborne illness annually in the U.S. Many cases of “food poisoning” are due to can lead to significant changes in the anicontamination of poultry, vegetables and mal,” explains Carlson. SNPs are the fruit, but some cases are caused by eating underlying factor in many unique and desirable traits, including the myostatinundercooked ground beef. Much of this problem has been success- inactivating SNP found in Piedmontese fully addressed by improved methods of cattle, and the SNP identified in certain handling carcasses at slaughter to prevent breeds that gives them resistance to contamination from dirty hides, but Sal- spongiform encephalopathy (“mad cow monella can also be present in lymph disease”). Carlson was asked to serve as a consulnodes of cattle. Some nodes may be incorporated into hamburger even when car- tant in the search for cattle that have SNPs that lead to resistance to Salmonella—a casses are meticulously clean. Finding ways to eliminate or reduce disease he has studied for most of his bacterial infections in cattle is a challenge, research career. After three years in private but recent research in genetics—discover- practice as a large animal veterinarian, he ing natural resistance in some cattle to returned to school and received his PhD in these pathogens—has opened another pharmacology, then had more training in option. We now have tools to identify spe- pathogenic bacteriology, focusing on Salcific genes that affect various traits and dif- monella. He worked as a Veterinary Medferences in animals, and can test individu- ical Officer with USDA doing research on als and select for (or against) certain traits. antibiotic-resistant Salmonella and is an Genetic tests allow us to discover whether international expert on the virulence of certain animals carry genetic defects. antibiotic-resistant Salmonella in liveSome tests are now being developed to stock. “In my work with USDA, I performed infection experiments in cattle,” he says. Dr. Dayna Harhay, microbiologist/molecular biologist at Meat Safety and Quality Research Unit at USDA’s Meat Animal Research Center, Clay Center, Nebraska, sent Carlson various strains of Salmonella to create experimental infections in 400-pound calves. Carlson sent lymph nodes from those calves to Harhay to check, to see if SalmoThere is nothing prettier than a newborn Hereford calf. Thanks nella was present. to Barbara Copeland for sharing this with the Stockman.
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MORE RESEARCH NEEDED In the research that sampled lymph nodes from carcasses in slaughter facilities around the country, the hides were off. Researchers didn’t know the breed or color of the animals. It would be interesting to do a study to identify red cattle in feedlots where we know Salmonella is present in the environment—and different color coats in the cattle. Salmonella prevalence could be checked, to see what the different percentages of positive lymph nodes might be. “A few black cattle have two copies of the PSR gene and are partially resistant to Salmonella; there is a moderate level of resistance in these animals. The PSR gene does help, in black cattle, but helps the most in non-black cattle with two copies of the PSR gene,” says Carlson. All of the non-black cattle with two copies of the gene are resistant to Salmonella, whereas about 5 to 10 percent of black cattle with two copies are resistant. This data was obtained after the researchers looked at samples from more than 2000 animals in the following breeds: Angus, Barzona, Braunveih, Hereford, Peidmontese, Pinzgauer, Simmental, Shorthorn and Tarentais. “We have now found some black cattle that resist Salmonella and E. coli O157:H7. They have the PSR/PSR genotype plus an unknown complementary genotype (PSRc/PSRc). We are now seeking investors in the company to fund the research to identify this complementary genotype so that we can create a test for it as well,” he says. “Some of the calves became very ill, but we occasionally noticed an animal that was hard to infect,” says Carlson. “These individuals had natural resistance and were always non-black. Some were Red Angus, Hereford, Shorthorn, Red and White Holsteins, Piedmontese, Tarentaise, Salers, Simmental, etc.” After this discovery, the new company was formed, to find a SNP that leads to this disease resistance. “Through trial and error and lab tests continued on page 15
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they found a SNP that conferred this resistance, so they asked me to oversee research in which live cattle were infected with Salmonella. I guided a number of experiments, which showed significant natural resistance through what they called the PSR SNP,� says Carlson. These animals were also resistant to infection with E. coli O157:H7. The company found this SNP to be more prevalent in non-black beef cattle. The first tests were in the lab, using blood cells. “Salmonella resistance is easy to determine with blood cells, because Salmonella likes to invade these cells. This was a good way to screen for this trait, using blood samples from cattle and counting the Salmonella bacteria invading these cells,� he says. The next step was to infect cattle with virulent strains of Salmonella. “We found it difficult to make the naturally-resistant animals sick, but their cohorts were succumbing to the disease. The naturally resistant individuals have two copies of this PSR SNP and are non-black,� Carlson explains. After being experimentally infected with a virulent strain, the cattle lacking any copies of the PSR gene were so ill they had to be euthanized. Cattle with one copy of the gene were susceptible, but resisted illness and death for twice as long. Black cattle with two copies of the gene survived for up to 10 days. Non-black cattle with two copies of the gene were significantly more resistant; the researchers could not produce illness (nor any shedding in feces) in these animals, even using 10 times the typical challenge dose of bacteria. “The non-black genotype and phenotype is conferred through a gene called MCR. Non-black is a recessive phenotype; you must have two recessive alleles (one from each parent) for the animal to be non-black,� says Carlson. Black is always dominant. The dominant MCR gene encodes a receptor needed for black pigmentation, and has other functions. The recessive mcr/mcr cattle are not only non-black, but research suggests that they metabolize antibiotics faster (shorter withdrawal time needed) and also have an elevated pain threshold—less likely to go off feed when ill. Cattle with less resistance may have the
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bacterium in their intestines and shed it and may have intermittent diarrhea. “The company also looked at less virulent strains of Salmonella and lower doses of the pathogen. They found that the nonblack cattle with two copies of the PSR gene do not shed Salmonella when infected, and had very few bacteria colonize in the intestine,” Carlson says. Therefore these resistant cattle don’t pass the disease to susceptible cattle. The few Salmonella bacteria found in the intestinal tract of resistant cattle tend to be inactive and unable to cause disease. FOOD SAFETY ISSUES – The next thing the company wanted to investigate involved a phenomenon that has become recently evident. At slaughter many cattle lymph nodes contain Salmonella, even in healthy animals. “Researchers found infected lymph nodes in up to 30 percent of carcasses at some facilities,” says Carlson. These numbers vary by season and region, and may be higher during summer in southern feedlot cattle. “What probably happens is some cattle get a low-grade Salmonella infection in their intestines and the immune cells
engulf the bacteria and escort them to the lymph nodes where the immune system is supposed to kill them. But Salmonella is good at resisting this defense,” says Carlson. Lymph nodes collect bacteria, viruses and other infectious agents, where they are eventually destroyed by the lymphocytes. But certain bacteria, especially Salmonella, are able to survive inside the immune cells and lymph nodes. So this immune system tactic simply moves Salmonella bacteria from the intestinal tract to lymph nodes. “Some of these nodes get incorporated into hamburger when the animal is slaughtered and processed,” Carlson says. Many of these lymph nodes are small, and hard to sort out. Beef packers can’t effectively decontaminate them or efficiently cut them out. It is also difficult to irradiate them or chemically treat them. He explains that each animal has about 20 lymph nodes that could contain Salmonella, and these are closely associated with muscles. They often become incorporated into hamburger. We don’t know if this is a new problem—new strains of Salmonella—or something we weren’t aware of earlier, or if there are more cattle marketed today that
E. COLI CONTAMINATION VERSUS SALMONELLA
Feces on hides are the primary sources of carcass contamination. Efforts in recent years to control surface contamination at harvest have reduced incidence of E. coli in beef; the prevalence of E. coli O157:H7 in ground beef has declined more than 70 percent since 2001. By contrast, Salmonella contamination has stayed the same— probably due to Salmonella hiding in the lymph nodes. have poor resistance to Salmonella (more black cattle). “PSR Genetics was able to acquire a couple of the problematic Salmonella strains from the Clay Center researchers and do experimental infections. They found that the non-black cattle with two copies of the PSR gene had no detectable Salmonella in their lymph nodes,” says Carlson. By contrast, all other genotypes of cattle they worked with had some Salmonella in their lymph nodes. “Three primary continued on page 18
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lymph nodes were checked, because they are fairly easy to get at and represent potential sites for contamination into hamburger,� he says. The next step was to look at E. coli. These two bacteria are closely related, and E. coli has become an increasingly prevalent problem in processed meat during the past 25 years—about the same length of time black cattle have dominated the market for beef. The first major hamburger recalls coincide with the influx of black cattle. “The company wanted to assess intestinal colonization by E. coli 0157:H7. They did experimental infection with cattle, and found a marked reduction in colonization of E. coli 0157 in the non-black cattle with two copies of the PSR SNP.� These cattle have resistance to E. coli as well as to Salmonella.
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“It’s a 15 to 20-fold drop in susceptibility—not as robust as what we see in the Salmonella data, but still a significant factor. They have also done studies looking at related E. coli. There are several E. coli serotypes that behave similarly to 0157:H7, as far as being a nasty human pathogen, like 0145 and 0111,� says Carlson. GENETIC TEST – “The next step was to develop a licensable genetic test to offer cattle producers as a food-safety tool to minimize these pathogens,� he says. This might be of interest to producers trying to raise natural, healthy beef but beef packers may have issues making this work, mainly because there are so many black cattle produced today. “The company now offers this test to producers. It’s been a struggle, however, because of the popularity of black cattle. Thus it will probably be a niche market for other breeds and for small producers who want to market animals on their own,� says Carlson. This test might be of interest to producers of non-black cattle, to see if their animals are resistant to two important food safety pathogens—which would be a great marketing tool. PSR is now offering a test in which the prevalence of the PSR SNP can be determined in a herd or in a breed. Hair sam-
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ples from multiple cattle can be submitted—up to 100 animals at a time. “We are not yet offering individual animal testing, but hope to make individual tests available sometime this year,” says Carlson. Many beef producers in the U.S. have bred their cattle black. But this narrows the gene pool when looking at all the beneficial traits a producer might wish to select for. This genetic discovery about disease resistance highlights an important trait that non-black cattle offer in our fight against disease and food safety issues. Carlson says recent research has shown that these resistant cattle are healthier and perform better in the feedlot. “Our research with these cattle in a closed herd reveals that these animals are the healthi-
est ones in the herd; they have the best average daily gains, fertility, longevity, and marbling scores. By identifying and propagating resistant cattle, the beef industry could produce healthier cattle and also dramatically reduce the incidence of beefassociated outbreaks of Salmonella and E. coli O157:H7, and this could increase the demand for beef.” This type of natural disease resistance does not require immunization or prior exposure, so the animals don’t require handling and vaccination to instill this resistance. “This natural resistance is not compromised by stress, unlike immunity that can be compromised during weaning, shipping, co-mingling of cattle, etc.” says Carlson. This resistance is simply part of the animal’s genotype and general ■ makeup.
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he Perez family name has been one of the most renowned ranching names in the state of New Mexico since the early 1900s. The family’s first livestock exhibited at the New Mexico State Fair was a registered Hereford heifer shown by Michael’s parents, Ernest and Jewel Perez in 1940. From that time on, the Perez’s have been raising registered Hereford Cattle that have been seen at the New Mexico State Fair. Michael and Connie are both third generation New Mexico ranchers. They now reside on the ranch that was established by Connie’s parents Don and Mary Helen Kuper in Nara Visa, New Mexico. It was there that they raised their two sons Kyle (age 31) and Drew (age 27). Kyle and his wife Tonya, with their two children Peyton and Libby live on the ranch at Nara Visa and work alongside Michael and Connie. Drew and his finance Lauren work for Rabo Agrifinance and live in Clovis, NM. Michael and Connie began their own registered cattle operation with the purchase of four heifers in 1979 from a tax rebate check they received from Connie’s teaching salary. They have since
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developed C&M Herefords into one of the most recognized Hereford seedstock operations in the nation. C&M Herefords have been offering breed-leading genetics since their existence and the C&M prefix is seen in Hereford pedigree’s from the East Coast to the West. The Perez’s cattle are known for the hardiness and ability to perform in harshest environments while adding growth, muscle, structural sounds and fertility. They offer breeding age bulls for sale each spring at the ranch. Each Hereford female that is registered at the ranch carries the name ‘New Mexico Lady’. C&M raised heifers are annually exhibited at the New Mexico State Fair, across the United States and even into Canada. These heifers have garnered six national championships at the Western Nugget National, in Reno, NV, The American Royal in Kansas City, the National Western in Denver, and The Western Canadian Agribition in Regina, SK. Each fall the family offers elite show heifers and breeding cattle through their annual female sale. The Perez’s are not only known for their registered cattle, they have been
focusing on raising top quality commercial cattle since both Michael and Connie’s family began ranching. Today, the family’s commercial cattle consist of Hereford, Angus, and F1 Baldy cows, all of which stem from the herd that was start by Connie’s father Don Kuper. Michael and Connie purchased the cow herd from Don and Mary Helen in 1992. At that time they began leasing the ranch of approximately 22,000 acres and some of the most fertile grama grass in the state. Raising the best cattle they possibly can has always been important to Michael and Connie. However, they will be the first to tell you raising their children and now their grandchildren has always been their top priority in life. They have always taught their children to work hard, respect their neighbors and always put God first in their life. They are a firm believer that living and being apart of a family ranch instills these qualities in an individual and it’s a tradition they hope to continue for generations to come.
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Performance Matters: Simplot Data Release by JACK WARD, CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER AND DIRECTOR OF BREED IMPROVEMENT n 2011 the American Hereford Association (AHA) and Simplot Livestock Co. partnered on a research project to document the benefits of using calving ease Hereford sires in a large-scale predominately Angus heifer program. Calving ease and calf vigor are two sig-
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nificant traits in the cattle industry. A live calf that is born unassisted and gets up and nurses right away is important in any calving environment but is critical in a heifer program. In Table 1 you will find the results of the 2013-born calves. This project was initially designed to use Hereford sires on virgin heifers, but it has extended into some cows as well. The calves were all DNA sire identified, and data were collected by the Simplot cow-
boys and feedlot staff at all levels of production including feed intake. A few things to recognize with this data: 1) All of the data will be used in the PanAmerican Cattle Evaluation (PACE) even though the females were crossbred because there is a minimum of 70 straws of semen used on each sire continued on page 23
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and the females are randomly mated. 2) A high-accuracy Angus sire is used along with the Hereford sires for comparison. 3) Enhancer has been a heavily used Hereford bull for years at Simplot, so the number of calves sired by him are far greater than other sires; thus, some of the ratios may look a little out of balance because of the number of progeny from each sire. 4) The Angus-sired calves were not fed in the GrowSafe system for individual feed intake. 5) All of the data reported are raw with no dam or age adjustments. These adjustments will be made in the evaluation. This project is starting its fourth year. There are 2014-born calves on the ground, and heifers and cows were bred in the spring of 2014. There are several goals with the project including the identification of Hereford sires that Simplot can utilize long-term in its program. Genomic test sale lots early
Next, I would like to remind breeders to plan ahead for the sale season. If you plan to genotype animals and to provide genomic-enhanced expected progeny differences (GE-EPDs) in your sale catalogs, be sure to collect and to submit DNA in plenty of time. Table 3 depicts the number of requests for DNA by month. As you will notice, the big months are the ones just before bull
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Farm Bureau Minute
Words of Wisdom from the New Mexico Farm & Livestock Bureau by Mike White, President, NM F &LB
Your Voice, Our Policies t’s that time of the year again. The mornings are cool, the leaves are turning, chile is being roasted, and New Mexico Farm & Livestock Bureau members across the state are considering issues that need to be addressed with policy. Our policy book is both our platform and our frame work. Created by you, our members – it is a grassroots effort that is the bedrock of our beliefs. Every time we add, delete or amend a policy we build the future of our organization, carefully going in the direction that most benefits the farmers and ranchers of New Mexico.
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Our policy book informs us on a variety of issues that we face on a day to day basis. For example a New York company – Augustin Plains Ranch, LLC is seeking approval from the State Engineer to drill 37 wells, each 3,000 feet deep in the San Augustin aquifer. This water, an estimated 54,000 acre feet per year, will be transported 142 miles to Rio Rancho to help satisfy its domestic water needs. Users along the route, such as the City of Albuquerque will also be able to purchase the water. What is NMF&LB’s reaction? We rely on policy #5054 “We oppose the interbasin transfer of water.�
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Or take the case where the Wild Earth Guardians recently purchased 28,000 acres worth of grazing rights from a rancher in Catron County. As a result, the National Forest suspended use of the grazing allotment for at least ten years and the permit cannot be reissued without full compliance with NEPA (National Environmental Policy Act) and ESA (Endangered Species Act) requirements. Do we have policy on this? Yes, #5019 states “We oppose any agreements of any nature made between anyone with intent to eliminate livestock grazing on Federal or State lands through financial or political means.� One issue that we faced during last year’s legislative session was the labeling of genetically modified foods, or GMOs. Oddly enough we don’t have a policy on that topic, should we? Agricultural land owners in northern New Mexico have been hit with higher property taxes as their land has been reclassified from agricultural to residential by counties seeking increased tax revenue. We don’t have policy on this, but probably should. Or how about industrial hemp? The most recent Farm Bill contained an amendment to legalize hemp production for research purposes. Should hemp be grown in New Mexico? Are there current issues in your area that impact agriculture? Do we have policy that addresses the issue? If not we encourage you, as county farm bureaus, to formulate relevant resolutions. Resolutions voted on at the county level are then considered at the House of Delegates on Saturday, November 22, following our Annual Meeting. I encourage you to become involved in the resolutions process. Our policy book is a guiding document as we go about achieving our mission of protecting and promoting agriculture. Your participation guarantees that you have a voice in the future of our organization, and ■industry.
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Ranch Planning – Where to Start by NICK ASHCROFT, PH.D., EXTENSION RANGELAND MANAGEMENT SPECIALIST “By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.” – Benjamin Franklin “If you don’t know where you are going, you’ll end up someplace else.” – Yogi Berra “The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.” – John F. Kennedy am frequently asked about ranch plans, or have been in situations where a ranch plan would have helped explain resource conditions, pasture/grazing management, or ranch objectives. Most ranchers have goals and objectives, and a plan in mind on how to manage their livestock and the land. Yet, do most ranchers formalize their goals, objectives and management plans by writing them down? Increasingly, documentation of ranch plans is important on federal and private
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lands especially as it relates to increased federal regulations and agency oversight regarding management of natural resources. Even in the absence of federal regulations, writing a ranch plan encourages ranchers to slow down and consider specific objectives for infrastructure, finance, livestock production, wildlife enterprises, and range management in relation to overall ranch goals, objectives and operations. This newsletter will attempt to address a few of these questions. My colleagues and I are in the process of writing a more comprehensive publication about ranch plans that we hope to have available to you soon. If you have experience or thoughts with ranch plans we would be like to hear from you. Reasons for developing a ranch plan: ■ You are the expert on your ranch. A written plan helps you stick to that plan rather than allowing externalities to dictate management. ■ Economic efficiency and profit. ■ Inform management and provides direction. ■ Encourages annual and consistent documentation regarding budgets, natural resource conditions, goals, and objectives. ■ May assist and inform a successor in
‘how the ranch is/was run’. ■ Could be used to acquire financial credit. ■ Required for federal grazing allotments [e.g., Allotment Management Plans (AMP), National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), Endangered Species Act (ESA)]. ■ Inform and communicate to federal land management agencies when management changes or analysis are required. ■ Required for conservation programs. ■ Required for federal-based programs administered through multiple agencies on private lands. A ranch plan can seem like a daunting task. In fact, just knowing where to start can be a challenge. A simple approach to get started is to break it in to steps, make it a living document, using it, modifying it, and improve it at regular intervals and the task will be become second nature. Most businesses have mission statements, goals and objectives – start with these. Write something, think about it and review or modify it. We hear a lot about goals and objectives, however not everyone may know the differences. Goals are an overarching principle that guides decision making. They are typically broad, general continued on page 54
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Lands News My column asks, “are we under attack or what?”
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■ The Forest Service has issued a policy directive on Groundwater Resource Management. The directive would claim that surface water and groundwater are “hydraulically interconnected” and allow the agency to object to state-regulated projects on “adjacent” land that might harm groundwater. The New Mexico State Engineer has testified before Congress that this is a violation of state water law and several well established Supreme Court decisions. ■ The EPA and Army Corps of Engineers have proposed regulations that would give them control over not only “navigable” waters, but in addition control over ditches, canals and wet spots. AFBF President Bob Stallman says the proposal is a serious threat to farmers, ranchers and other landowners. “Under EPA’s proposed rule, waters — even ditches — are regulated even if they are miles from the nearest ‘navigable’ waters,” Stallman said. “Indeed, so-called ‘waters’ are regulated even if they aren’t wet most of the time. EPA says its new rule will reduce uncertainty, and that much seems to be true: there isn’t much uncertainty if most every feature where water flows or stands after a rainfall is federally regulated.” ■ The U.S Fish and Wildllife Service has proposed a huge expansion of the area in New Mexico and Arizona where the Mexican Grey Wolf would be protected. The Chairman of the Arizona Game Commission says he is “profoundly disappointed” in the proposal and adds that resistance by ranchers, hunters and residents of the towns in the expanded wolf recovery area could doom the program. “The biology of wolf repatriation has been relatively easy. The greatest challenge has been to develop social tolerance for the program,” said the Chairman. “Without social tolerance, Mex-
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ican wolf recovery will never achieve full success.” ■ Under a rule finalized by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service jaguars will have 1,194 square miles of critical habitat in southern Arizona and New Mexico for their recovery. The Arizona Game and Fish Department does not support the designation. Assistant Director for Wildlife Management Jim deVos states, “I find it difficult to justify designating critical habitat for a species that is so rarely found in Arizona. In looking at the available data on the presence of jaguars, there has been no documentation of a female jaguar in Arizona for nearly a century. There have been long periods when no jaguar was even found in the state. Such designations should be based on good science and effective conservation, which are both lacking with this designation.” ■ The President issued a proclamation to create the 243,000 acre Rio Grande del Norte National Monument. Rather than following the precedent in previous proclamations, this one contained new, discriminatory language against livestock grazing in spite of written testimony provided by New Mexico livestock organizations. ■ The President issued a proclamation to create the 496,000 acre Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks National Monument in southern New Mexico, again containing the anti-grazing language. In addition, the designation creates problems for law enforcement and flood control efforts, and was opposed by the Las Cruces Chamber of Commerce, the Hispano Chamber of Commerce, the Sheriff of Doña Ana County, the Mesilla Valley Sportsmen’s Alliance and many other groups. ■ The Bureau of Land Management has issued a management plan for the Sabinoso Wilderness in northern New Mexico. Senator Udall and other members of the New Mexico Congressional Delegation pushed for this designation, with Senator Udall saying the Wilderness “will now be open for grazing, hunting and other recreational uses.” Most recently, however, Senator Heinrich tells us, “It’s surrounded by
private land and there is currently no legal access — not so much as an easement for a trail” and “It’s completely landlocked by private land.” As a result, the Bureau of Land Management has proposed that as a condition of their grazing permit the ranchers must grant public access across their private property. The BLM has the authority to condemn private property to gain access to federal land, but then they would have to pay for it. ■ As a result of an out-of-court settlement, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has declared the New Mexico jumping mouse as endangered, and identified almost 200 linear miles along streams in New Mexico, Arizona and Colorado as critical habitat. The Forest Service is constructing eight foot high pipe fences to restrict livestock access to water, saying “livestock grazing has the potential to jeopardize the species.” New Mexico ranchers have filed a lawsuit challenging the federal government’s moves to block cattle from reaching water in order to protect the habitat of the mouse and doing so without finalizing the critical habitat designation nor completing a required environmental analysis. ■ The Mountainair District of the Cibola National Forest ordered the blanket removal of all livestock based on a weather map and without performing any type of range analysis on the nineteen allotments involved. Five months later and after the appropriate on-the-ground analysis was completed, the Forest Service recanted and allowed the return of livestock. However, the economic damage to the ranch families had already occurred and relations and respect for the Forest Service had been permanently wounded (See Julie Carter’s follow up story in this and next month’s edition of the New Mexico Stockman). ■ The Secretary of Interior issued an order directing the Bureau of Land Management to inventory all lands with wilderness characteristics, administratively designate them as “Wild Lands”, and take action to protect them during the planning process. After a storm of protest from Congress, Western Governors and various user groups, the Secretary withdrew the order. However, that has not stopped the BLM from implementing the policy. Current BLM land use plans are incorporating the lands with wilderness characteristics concept and has changed their field manuals accordingly. continued on page 31
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This is just a partial list. But it’s a list you should keep in mind as you saunter into the voting booth next month. 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 (www.nmsu.edu/~duboisrodeo/).
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New Mexico’s Old Times and Old Timers
The Crash of the City of San Francisco The First Overland Domestic Airliner Crash in U. S. History
n 1929, for one wishing to get from New York to California in the shortest time, he or she could make the trip in about two days by way of a very circuitous route that involved both airplane and railroad travel, including an air jaunt across New
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Mexico. One first took the overnight train from New York City to Columbus, Ohio. The next leg the next morning was by air, to Waynoka, Oklahoma, with stops along the way in Indianapolis, Indiana, St. Louis, Missouri, and Wichita, Kansas. From there one took another overnight train, this
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time to Clovis, New Mexico. In Clovis, the second morning of the trip, one boarded a Ford Tri-Motor aircraft for a flight to Albuquerque, then on to Winslow and Kingman, Arizona, before arrival in Los Angeles on the evening of the second day. This system took about two days less than just train travel. The night train rides were necessary because airplanes at the time did not fly at night. It was along the leg of the trip between Albuquerque and Winslow that an event occurred which became significant in United States aviation history. A Transcontinental Air Transport (T.A.T.) Ford TriMotor airliner called “The City of San Francisco” disappeared. It was the first civil airliner to be lost while flying overland. Earlier planes had been lost at sea. At 10:20 a.m. on the morning of Tuesday, September 3, 1929, the City of San Francisco, piloted by Captain J. B. Stowe, took off from Albuquerque west-bound with five passengers and three crew members. It was scheduled to land in Winslow, Arizona at about 1:15 p.m. The Tri-Motor never made it. Throughout the next few days, there were several news reports concerning the whereabouts of the plane including numerous false sightings. One headline on Wednesday, September 4, read, “8 killed When Air Liner Hit By Lightening, Falls in New Mexico Wilds; Wreck of Transcontinental Craft Found 26 Miles South of Gallup, N. M.” The problem was that almost nothing in the report was correct. The plane had not been found, so no location or cause could be reported. The search was extensive. T. A. T. sent every available plane in the fleet to assist in the search; civilian planes and pilots arrived from all over the southwest; Army and Navy commanders assigned all available planes to the search. The aviators became an “aerial armada,” according to one source. More than 500 Pueblo and Navajo people along with peace officers and cowboys participated on horseback and in pickup trucks. Even so, the search was futile, with false reports and false sightings continuing to pour in. Rewards totaling $10,000 didn’t help, and neither continued on page 35
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did reports that Charles Lindbergh was on his way. Lindbergh was an officer in T. A. T., Inc. and took a personal interest in the plane’s disappearance. On Saturday morning, September 7, George K. Rice, a pilot for the Western Air Express, while making a run between California and Albuquerque, flew low over the south side of Mt. Taylor, northeast of Grants, New Mexico. Near the peak he found The City of San Francisco; that is, he saw what remained of a wing, with a number which identified it. Then he saw the entire debris field. He took aerial photos and headed for Albuquerque where he spread the word. Even though there were no roads or trails to the area around the wreck, ground
parties started up the mountain later that day, but nightfall and cold weather slowed them down and they didn’t reach the scene until the next day. By 9:00 a.m. on Sunday, though, there were seventy-five men at the horrible scene. All eight of the plane’s passengers remained in their seats, burned beyond recognition. An official inquest was held before the bodies were removed from Mt. Taylor by horseback. Since commercial aviation was in its early stages, there were no such things as black-boxes or other flight records, and no radio communications. The pilot had a radio, but he could only receive communications, not send them. Several theories were advanced concerning the cause of the accident, however. One was that Captain Stowe observed a fast-approaching storm
and determined to return to Albuquerque rather than try to go through it or around it. The storm caught him, however, and he crashed while flying blind. This notion was supported by the fact that the crash site was some distance north of the route he should have been following. Another was that the storm so quickly overwhelmed the aircraft that Capt. Stowe was flying blind when he flew into the mountain. No one will ever know for sure. Selected sources: Don E. Alberts, Balloons to Bombers: Aviation in Albuquerque 1882-1945 Albuquerque Journal, September 6, 7, 8, 9 & 10, 1929 Richard Melzer, “La Historia del Rio Abajo,” Valencia County News Bulletin, April 1, 2006 Mark Thompson, 1929 Airliner Crash on Mt. Taylor . . . New Mexico Office of the State Historian
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New Tool for BVD Management by MICKY BURCH, NEBRASKA CATTLEMAN FEATURE WRITER any of us have heard the saying, “Don’t judge a book by its cover.” That lesson can be taken to heart when managing your cow herd for bovine viral diarrhea (BVD). BVD is a transitional disease, which means you can’t tell by looking if an animal has the virus. Years of research has helped identify the disease as having significant effects on productivity, especially reproductive and respiratory health, and now a new tool – BVD CONSULT (Collaborative Online Novel Science-based User-friendly Learning Tool) – has been introduced to the industry to help manage the virus at the cow-calf level.
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BVD Background In his article “Use of a BVD Management Tool: BVD CONSULT,” Bob Larson, DVM, Ph.D., Kansas State University, explains that the virus is costly to cattle producers, because it causes immune suppression, respiratory disease, infertility and fetal infection. One of the most detrimental effects of BVD takes place between (approximately) Day 45 and Day 135 of gestation – when the fetus hasn’t fully developed an immune system. If a fetus contracts the virus from its dam during this window of time, it becomes persistently infected (PI) with the BVD virus. Shortly after this time frame and up to about Day 160 of gestation, if the fetus contracts the BVD virus, congenital defects can result. “There can be skeletal, eye or brain defects or stillbirths may occur,” explains Dale Grotelueschen, DVM, MS, University of Nebraska Great Plains Veterinary Educational Center. “Cerebellar hypoplasia is an example of a brain defect resulting from a fetal BVD virus infection where the calf may be born alive, but is unable to rise and is uncoordinated.” Most calves that contract BVD in utero get it when their dams are exposed to and are undergoing acute infections of BVD, often following nose-to-nose contact with another animal that has the disease. PI calves can also seem perfectly healthy, and healthy-appearing replacement females that are PI may enter your herd. In this instance, a PI dam will always give birth to a PI calf. PI cattle carry the disease their entire lives and shed the virus from every orifice of their body, especially through nasal discharge, saliva and feces. “Preventing the birth of PI calves is a major focus for control in herds and in the cattle industry,” Grotelueschen explains. He also says that an extensive study found herds with PI calves had five percent lower pregnancy rates than herds without infected calves. continued on page 37
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Because you can’t tell by looking, PI BVD cattle must be identified through lab tests. According to the National Animal Health Monitoring System’s (NAHM’s) 2007-2008 beef cow-calf study, 8.8 percent of U.S. cow-calf ranches identified one or more PI animals, meaning that one in every 11 to 12 herds have PI calves, and most are not aware of their presence. In recent years, Larson adds, the cattle industry has made huge strides understanding BVD. “Our current knowledge of BVD, the availability of effective vaccines, and the improvement in diagnostic tools have made the control of BVD feasible,� he says. The key to using these resources, Grotelueschen continues, is to design individualized herd-control plans for the disease. That’s where BVD CONSULT comes in.
ans to develop BVD control and prevention plans. For herds that currently have PI cattle present, the tool helps create a plan to identify and remove those cattle and establish a strategy to reduce the likelihood of the herd becoming infected again, Larson explains. For herds that are currently virus-free, BVD CONSULT can be used to
decide how to minimize the likelihood of the disease entering the herd and to reduce the impact if the herd is exposed. “Using BVD CONSULT is simple,� Larson continues in his article. “The system is set up online as a series of questions with continued on page 69
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(bottom left) Senior Top Ten (l to r) 6th Daniel Lujan 10th Clell Bays 8th Sydney Pearce 1st Ky Drummond 4th & 1st in reasons Abby Spindle 7th Abram Chaparro 2nd Jordan Spindle 9th Sayer Shupe 3rd Sadie Shupe 5th Rebekah McCarty
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2014 NMSF Farm Family of the Year New Mexico Secretary of Agriculture Jeff Witte (far left) presented the New Mexico Farm Family of the year award to the Woelber family recently at the New Mexico state fair. Pictured (left to right are, front row: Secretary Witte; Katy Woelber (daughter of John and Holly); Becky Woelber (daughter-in-law of John and Holly, and wife of Luke); James Woelber (Becky and Luke’s 3 year old); Holly Woelber; Patrick Woelber (2-year- old son of Becky and Luke); Danielle Woelber (daughter of Becky and Luke). Back row: Luke Woelber (son of John and Holly) and John Woelber.
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The Woeblers started the dairy in 2000, following Luke’s graduation from Texas A&M. John and Holly also are Texas A&M graduates. “We take great pride in caring for our animals with proper nutrition, cow comfort in our corrals, milking barn, our heifer operation and calf operation,� Holly told Southwest Farm Press. “We also are proud of our employees and the job they do every day, rain or shine, in caring for and milking our cows. We all live on our dairy; John and Luke are both hands-on and are there, with our employees, every day. All three are active in the dairy industry. John served on the New Mexico Dairy Producers board of directors for several years, serving as secretary and vice president. He now is a director and serves as secretary for the Southwest Agency of DFA. Luke recently completed three years as president of New Mexico Dairy Producers and continues to serve on the board as past president. He is a delegate to COBA/Select Sires, Inc. for the area. He has served as the resolution delegate for DFA and also on the New Mexico Beef Council Board. Holly has served as a delegate for GENEX Cooperative, was an officer of the Belen Chamber of Commerce and member and past president for the New Mexico ■Extension Support Council.
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jinglejangle Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all. – Stanley Horowitz love autumn best of all. I think of pumpkins as in (Pumpkin Patch). I love the colors; our weather makes our state one of the prettiest of them all. Harvest time for chile, pistachios and some of our other state’s finest crops come to fruition. I hope all has been well for you this fall. I hope everyone who went to Five States Round-Up in Clayton thought it was as great as I did. Thanks again to Lariat Cowbelles and all the volunteers who make this event possible. I want to reach out to anyone who thinks that they might want to serve in an executive position for the NMCB. We would love to have you please contact Sharon King chairwoman of our nominating committee. Have a great month and remember the
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average hide of one steer makes 14 Footballs — Go Dallas! – Maddy Mesilla Valley CowBelles met August 19, 2014. Members Present: Janet Witte, Fita Witte, Dalene Hodnett, Mary Sanchez, Melissa Woodall, Traci Curry, Janelda Richardson, Gretchen Lindsay, Lily Woodall (Jr member) Kids of CowBelle: Annie and Grady Hodnett. Group will be taking up donations to donate to the Pat Nowlin Memorial Scholarship in memory of Dorothy Vaughan. Would like to gather all donations by fair time and send off. Ag Day at NMSU-Cal Poly Football Game: NMCB will have a booth at the tailgate on Thursday, August 28, 2014. Dalene is in need of volunteers to help handout items. If you are able to help, please let Dalene know (via email or Facebook). SNMSF – clean up is Saturday, 9 a.m. September 20, 2014. SNMSF this year is October 1-5,
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2014. MVC will need to set up for the calendar art contest winners. Mary Esther will bring all of the items to clean up. Beef Sponsorship – It was decided to once again sponsor the beef show. Sponsorship is $250. It was decided to purchase a vendor’s license to sell items (license plates, pins, etc.). The group will not be selling any food/drink items. An ad will be sent to the 4-H office asking for kids to conduct demonstrations at the booth. Traci Curry will be at SNMSF this year – she will utilize the east side of the booth with NM Ag in the Classroom items. Dues are due! continued on page 52
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Annual meeting is December 5-7, 2014, in Albuquerque, NM. Mesilla Valley is the host this year. Will discuss in-depth once fair is over. The next meeting will be on September 20, 2014, at the SNMSF cleanup. Submitted by Gretchen Lindsay BorderBelles Report for August 27, 2014. Group will be raffling a Shoofly limited edition print for the fundraising raffle. The print will be 1st place, a $100 beef gift certificate for 2nd and a $50 beef gift certificate for 3rd. The tickets will be $2 each or 3 for $5. The local will be having a booth at the Southwestern New Mexico State Fair and will focus on Rancher – Caretakers of the land. The fair is October 8-14, 2014 and the group will be awarding a belt buckle to the youngest steer exhibitor at the Southwestern New Mexico State Fair. The BorderBelles Father’s Day promotion was a great success and lots of beef was sold that day. The local served brisket and it was delicious! Respectfully submitted, Tamara Hurt, Reporter The Chamiza CowBelles’ September 4, 2014 meeting was called to order at 11:25 a.m. by President Gloria Petersen in the atrium of the Elephant Butte Inn, with seven members and two guests present. After reciting the Pledge of Allegiance, Nancy Phelps led group in the CowBelle Prayer and CowBelle Creed. Minutes from the previous meeting were approved as read as well as the Treasurer’s report. Gloria reported that all 60 kids from Appletree were able to attend summer camp thanks, in part, to the group’s donation. The A-2 envelopes requested by Dolores were printed by Mary Gomez. Cathy brought one of the envelopes to show everyone. Because 50 envelopes were printed and this is sufficient for the time being, it was decided to table further discussion or action concerning the envelopes. The county fair is held in October and setting up and manning the booth will be in lieu of an October meeting. Several members volunteered to help at the booth. Jodell said she would be able to open each day as
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she lives very close to the fairgrounds. Nancy will help on Friday and Sunday. Gloria reported there will be 16 steers shown at the fair this year which means there will be no trouble purchasing a beef for the raffle. Both Jean and Nancy have said they’ll purchase the half of beef that is not used for the raffle. It was decided to purchase PVC piping to construct a permanent framework for fair booth. Payment for booth rental is due and Gloria offered to carry the check for payment as she was going that way after the meeting. It was decided to sponsor a belt buckle award at a cost of $125. Meeting adjourned at 11:50 a.m. Submitted by Cathy Pierce The Chuckwagon CowBelles met at the girlhood home of Margaret McKinley in Gran Quivira, on September 9, 2014 with 18 folks present. It was lovely to hear the sound of the windmill cranking in the breeze! It was tirelessly accomplishing its appointed task as it has done for 100 years. The ranch speaks softly of its rich heritage and history. The CowBelles’ Invocation, Pledge of Allegiance and CowBelle Creed were recited. Knollene McDaniel, Janice Higg, Kay Lindsey, Nancy Brinkley and Welda Gaye Grider were introduced. Bobby Neeley then gave a presentation on Cowboy Poetry. He presented two paintings by Ron Kil featuring cowboys, Jack Thorpe, author of “Little Joe the Wrangler,” and black cowboy, Addison Jones, from the last part of the 19th century. Kay Lindsey gave the group a very wise piece of advice that should be included in all estates, wills and trusts: “If anyone contests this will (trust/estate), he or she will be left out of it completely.” She said this one little sentence might save a lot of future headaches to the heirs. Toni Barrow read a note from Marilyn Mignery. How the group miss her! Toni announced that the 5 States meeting will be on October 1st at the Clayton Airpark. She brought an article that was written about Rick and Nancy Innanucci with Horses for Heroes. She also mentioned tickets for the raffle and the Pumpkin Patch event in October. There was discussion about the EPA water issue and possible ways to effect change. Carolyn admonished all to contact Caren Cowan to get on her email list so that we can contact our legislators. Margaret and Welda Gaye awarded door prizes. Meeting adjourned at 2:22 p.m. Respectfully submitted by Babbi Baker New Mexico CowBelles: Thank you to all who have submitted their news to Jingle Jangle. Please send minutes and/or newsletters to: Jingle Jangle, Janet Witte, 1860 Foxboro Ct., Las Cruces, NM 88007 or email: janetwitte@msn.com on the 14th each month.
NM Youth Beef Ambassadors Chosen at Summer Conference ewly chosen senior and junior New Mexico Beef Ambassadors, Sage Mijares of Jemez Pueblo, and Kynzi Creighton of Elida, received first place honors at this years’ state contest held June 8, 2014 at the New Mexico Farm and Ranch Heritage Museum in Las Cruces. The contest, which is sponsored by the New Mexico CowBelles, was scheduled in conjunction with the Joint Summer Conference of the CowBelles, New Mexico Cattle Growers, NM Farm and Livestock Bureau and the NM Wool Growers. Creighton is the 16-year-old daughter of Garland and Leslie Creighton of Elida. As NM Junior Beef Ambassador, she and Mijares will travel throughout the state to educate youth and adult consumers at county and regional fairs, beef industry events such as Ag Fest, and agricultural based workshops, tours and presentations in an effort to educate others about the positive aspects of beef.
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Mijares, daughter of Tim Harmann and Laura Mijares, previously served as the NM Junior Beef Ambassador in 2012, competing in the National Beef Ambassador contest in Wooster, Ohio where she placed third overall. This September, Mijares will travel to Denver, Colorado to compete on the senior level with other 17- to 20-yearold contestants from across the United States. The national contest is sponsored by the American National CattleWomen (ANCW) and funded in part by the Beef Checkoff Program under contract with ANCW. Additional sponsors are Certified Angus Beef, Farm Credit, Monsanto, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, among others. The National Beef Ambassador Program (NBAP) is a national, competitive youth public speaking program for the beef industry. NBAP strives to provide an opportunity for youth to educate consumers and youth about beef nutrition, food safety and stewardship practices of the beef industry. The senior age contest will consist of four areas 1) education & outreach via social media / a campus event / or youth presentations, 2) consumer promotion, 3) media interview and 4) issues response. The top five seniors will earn a position on
the prestigious National Beef Ambassador team receiving $1000 each in cash prizes as well as a $1000 educational scholarship given by the American National Cattle Women Foundation, Inc. upon fulfillment of contest requirements. The 2014-2015 team will travel across the nation promoting beef and the beef industry at fairs, seminars, conferences and events such as the Boston Marathon and the National Harbor Wine & Food Festival in Metro DC. The NM CowBelles, the NM Beef Council, NM Cattle Growers and Nunn Ranches have all contributed funds to support the New Mexico youth beef ambassadors who also receive monogrammed award jackets and shirts as well as an all-expense paid trip to compete in the national contest. Mijares will also be eligible to apply for a $500 college scholarship from the New Mexico CowBelles once her senior ambassador term has been completed. Shelly Hathorn, NM Beef Ambassador Chair and National Beef Ambassador Program working committee member, serves as advisor and chaperone to the NM beef ambassadors. For more information about the youth beef ambassador program, call 575/447-7447 or email at shporter@nmsu.edu.
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ranch planning process and stabilizes ranch management. Note that plans change and by actively using your ranch plan and making changes when needed, it will assist in improving efficiency of ranching operations and attaining goals for the ranch business. Next gather or record historical information on the ranch, many people know the history of their ranch, but few have written it down. This information should be included throughout the ranch plan to help explain why conditions may exist, to document climate or management, or demonstrate an improvement / degradation in resource conditions. You now want to develop and inventory of the ranch and a physical description of the ranching operation. With current and historical information or data you can begin to identify where you are now and what is necessary to accomplish new or existing goals. Developing and accomplishing objectives will begin moving you towards attaining ranch goals. Below are a series of questions you may ask to get started and headed in the right direction. Consider both the historical and current conditions. What do you want the ranch to look like in 5, 10, 20, or 50 years? What is the land base for the ranch? ■ Locational description ■ General description of vegetation communities ■ How many deeded acres? Federal acres? Leased acres? What are your management options or restrictions on these lands? ■ Past and present management, Allotment Management Plans (AMPs). ■ What other multiple uses may affect the ranching operation? ■ How involved were you in these plans and how do they work with the current goals and objectives? ■ Existing right-of-ways? ■ Agreements or leases? What are the current and historic conditions of the land? ■ Soils1 – Soil type ■ Potential vegetation ■ Forage production ■ Timber production ■ Identify issues areas (excessive erosion, toxic plants, invasive or noxious plant) ■ Precipitation2 – Annual average – Seasonal average – Fluctuations
– Locations – Precipitation form (snow, rain) ■ Temperature – Highs and lows – Duration – Seasonal – Wind ■ Other climate conditions – flooding, droughts etc. ■ When does the ranch receive precipitation and where (historical records)? ■ How has vegetation responded to historical precipitation? What are the natural resources on these lands (forage production, timber, fuelwood, wildlife )? ■ How has vegetation changed on the ranch, what trends have been observed? ■ Current composition, production, condition, and cover of vegetation. ■ What are the current uses? ■ What is the potential vegetation for the soil type, slope, aspect, and climate? ■ What is the forage trend by pasture or site? ■ What areas have riparian vegetation types? ■ What are the wildlife resources on the ranch? ■ Has a wildlife enterprise been part of ranch diversification? ■ Have there been changes in wildlife populations? ■ Are there threatened or endangered species? What water resources exist and are available? ■ Location by pasture, water type (spring, dirt tank, well, live water). ■ What are the priority dates of the water? ■ What is the dependability and volume of each water source? ■ Have water rights been filed on the ranch? ■ Where do water developments need to be repaired/replaced? ■ Where should new water developments be located? What have been the current and historic grazing practices or grazing systems of the ranch (seasons, timing, stocking rates, intensity, and duration)? ■ Number and size of pastures ■ When each pasture is grazed and for how long (currently and historically) Soil Surveys, Ecological Site Descriptions (ESDs), historical records or data) websoilsurvey.sc.egov.usda.gov/App/HomePage.htm
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by JULIE CARTER he initial gut-wrenching shock has worn off over the course of the past year, but the financial and emotional impact to the grazing allotment owners in the U.S. Forest Service Mountainair District may never be far from the raw edge that it is still today. In the February 2014 issue of the New Mexico Stockman, Frank DuBois wrote “The Cibola Controversy” detailing the devastating June 11, 2013 order to 19 allotment owners for the blanket removal of livestock from the entire Mountainair grazing district “due to severe drought conditions.” The letter from District Ranger Karen Lessard came in the mail with no meaningful discussion a clear mandate that there was no appeal process available to the allotment owners. They were given approximately six weeks to completely vacate their allotments. The
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Mountainair District is made up of two separate mountain ranges. The Gallinas range is to the southeast of Mountainair blanketing the county line between Lincoln and Torrance County. The Manzanos run north from Mountainair and are primarily in Torrance County with relatively small parts spilling over into Valencia and Bernalillo Loretta and Mike Sanchez with son Frankie (far left) at ranch Counties. The unilateral deci- headquarters in front of the mountainside razed by fire in 2004. sion for complete livestock removal attributed to “drought” in their cattle herd to the point they could be such a vast area made no logical sense and proud of the uniform conformation, fertilultimately would be found to have no basis ity and hardiness bred into them. It only in documentable science. Never before in took one “by my authority as the District the history of the Mountainair District or Ranger” letter to undo those decades of presumably in the state of New Mexico had planning and sacrifice. “It completely destroyed me,” said a a district-wide removal been ordered and frustrated Mike Sanchez sitting at the table certainly not without at least some indiin his home tucked up against the Gallinas vidual area assessments. and surrounded by U.S. Forest land. “Right And then it rained now we are fighting to survive, but I don’t Mike and Loretta Sanchez have spent know if we are going to make it.” their entire married life (37 years) building continued on page 56
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Sanchez’s Gallinas Springs Ranch, home to four generations of the family, is comprised of 18,000 acres of U.S. Forest and 320 acres of private. The 244 head of cattle allowed by his grazing permit had already been substantially reduced during the previous two years of drought. The allotment grazing numbers represented 90 percent of Sanchez’s total operation. “And if they’d told us to cut down more,” said Loretta, “we would have. But to just move them all off was the end of us. We didn’t have anywhere to go with the cattle. ” Mike Sanchez added, “We had plenty of forage to wait for the rains that, if they were going to come, would come a little later in the summer. If they didn’t, we’d have taken the cattle off ourselves. This wasn’t our first drought.” Adding salt to the fatal wound, it rained two weeks after the order to remove went out. And it rained again and again. Inches of rain. By the time the July 30 deadline rolled around there was a good stand of grass, tanks were full of water and there were muddy roads to navigate in moving out the cattle. But still no reprieve, no reversal, no discussion ever came from the
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tle for 15 years on what was the Joe Atkinson permit in the Gallinas. By 2013 they had already voluntarily cut their numbers from the 245 allowed on the allotment to 120 due to drought conditions. Then the letter from Ranger Lessard came in the mail. “There was no discussion, no warning, no opportunity for any input from us,” Bob said. “They (the Forest Service) had no value for our opinion or to hear the plans we had for surviving the drought. They never asked. It was very difficult to accept knowing that there was never any science involved in the decision on the part of the Forest Service. Ranchers assess their range every day. It’s how they survive.” Because of the general drought in the state, there was no place to go with the cattle. “I did find a little farm land so I could keep a very few head, but most of those pairs went for $1100 and it will take three times that to replace them now.” The Hudgens said this has been financially devastating to them. Had they been able to predict the surge in the cattle market, they would have done things differently. “We worked so hard to just maintain during the drought and then to get that letter with no recourse to us, it completely undid all we worked for.”
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Rand Perkins cares for the DuBois Family allotment where the obliteration is not just financial, but in the years of building a herd with the desired genetic traits. “We had planned for drought,” he said. “We were still supplemental feeding and knew that if it didn’t rain when the monsoons usually come, we’d have to cut numbers again.” Ironically, they gathered the cattle for removal off the allotment in mud and shin-deep grass. “It broke my heart,” said Rand. “It’ll take years to recover. A lot of years.” These three ranchers are representative of several more with forest allotments in the Gallinas mountain range where drought had not been absent but the monsoon rains quickly brought forgiveness as ranchers know it will do. Their science of survival has sustained them for decades and yet was so easily erased with an unyielding directive. The losses in dollars and cents quickly tally into the hundreds of thousands dollars. There is no price that can be put on the grievous wounds to the spirit of the families that will now try to hang on to a way of life, a family heritage. (Part 2 of this follow up from the Mountainair district will be in the Nov. 2014 N.M. Stockman.
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ealizing they have an untapped resource for making money, many ranch families have extended their operations to include income streams besides livestock. Some have resorted to wrangling dudes, guiding hunters or renting out their ranches for weddings. After all, there is a certain symmetry, whether you’re trying to find a buck or you’re getting married, both have about the same odds for success. You also have to have a license for both and there is a bag limit, so to speak. As with a contractor who builds a house, the real money to be made in marrying or hunting is in the “add-ons� you can charge for. For example, if you have to be at the scene of the accident anyway, you might as well get paid to be the one who marries the lucky couple. Granted, it does require some sort of certification but the barrier to entry is quite low. When my sister wanted me to marry her, not in a literal sense, I got my certification from the Rose Ministries of Las Vegas, Nevada, for $35. And I got to pick whether I wanted to be known as Pastor Pitts or Reverend Lee. (For a few dollars more I could have received a framed certificate instead of the cheap plastic card I settled for.) After the wedding at the reception you could charge for being the DJ who spins the country western music. (I’m assuming the young couple aren’t going to want hip hop or rap music, and I use the word “music� with great reservation.) What better to serve at the barbecue afterwards than your own branded beef, mountain oysters and jerky. You could also charge for the bouquets and boutonnieres made out of leafy spurge, sagebrush or kudzu. If your wife can sew, why not sell the bride and bridesmaid’s dresses or rent out footwear like they do at the bowling alley. And what guests wouldn’t pay for valet parking, umbrellas and pay toilets, after all, I don’t think wedding guests should be expected to use nature’s facilities. I think many affluent guests would also pay a pretty penny for upgrading their seating arrangements from a hay bale to a plastic chair.
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You could sell grass seed in cute little sacks to throw at the couple afterwards instead of rice. This brings in more income and will also reseed a pasture. If the party goers imbibe too much you can provide wagons and carriages with designated drivers to haul them home. Because they got their car dirty on your dirt road, of course you’re going to want to offer car washes as they exit your property. And if the father of the bride can’t pay for all these add-ons, why not serve as his loan shark or bookie by carrying a note at an exorbitant rate of interest, or by placing his bets? After all, any man who lets his precious daughter marry a cowboy has got to be a BIG gambler. Granted, there are not so many opportunities for add-ons with hunting. Oh
sure, you can charge a consultant fee to advise the hunter when he’s about to shoot one of your cows instead of a moose. You can also charge for a sleeping bag, guide services, port-a-potty, field dressing and for carrying out his buck. Speaking of carrying, if you can’t get to the buck or elk your guest shot you would quite naturally add on a charge for cleanup services performed by the carrion that patrol your place. Naturally, if your guest killed an animal out of season, or an endangered species, I’m quite sure they’d expect you to charge for burial services too. I can envision a fee for dog rental, tree stand or duck blind rental, ammunition and artillery, cutting and wrapping, bribing the game warden, taxidermy, and tee shirts and caps advertising your ranch. To really hit the jackpot you could combine marrying and hunting by offering a hunting honeymoon after the ranch wedding. Or a dude honeymoon by charging them for fixing your fence, flanking calves at your branding, or putting up your hay. Just think my ranching friends, the world is your oyster and all you have to do is not be afraid to charge for them. The ■oysters, I mean.
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he political season is rapidly coming to a close. In New Mexico absentee voting began on October 7. Early voting begins on October 18. The national General Election is on November 4. As the disclaimer, the New Mexico Cattle Growers’ Association (NMCGA) does not endorse candidates or make campaign donations. However, the Association does encourage their members to do both. It used to be a tradition in our family for everyone to load up in the car and drive to town for Daddy and Mom to vote. We usually got to eat out that evening as well. It is a fond memory, but not one that I can recommend anymore. Don’t wait until the last day to vote. Figure out who you are going to vote for and get those votes in as early as possible. Stay home and sitting this election (or any election, but especially this one) out is not an option. There may not be a great choice in every race, but there is a best choice in each of them. There was a time that we had statesmen. Today we may have more politicians than statesmen representing us at every level of government. But whose fault is that? As I have given this lecture, I have had folks roll their eyes. When I call them on that, they ask if I really think anyone can make a difference. That’s the attitude that has put us in the fix we are in today. Maybe no one (1) vote can make difference but if we would all just make sure that our one (1) vote is in the ballot box we are headed to success. There was a U.S. President; I cannot remember which one, that was elected by the amount equaling just one (1) vote per precinct. That was a pretty larger number, but manageable when you think of it as just one (1) vote at a time. When you have got your one (1) vote under control, then reach out to 10 other people and make sure that they get their one (1) vote in. Ask each of them to contact 10 people. Before very long YOU have amassed enough votes to make the difference YOU want. We can all go vote and think that is the
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end of the privilege and the responsibility. sentative is doing just fine. It is all those When the population was smaller, before others that are the problem.” That fits well media, before social media, before multi- with the definition of insanity . . . doing the million-dollar campaigns that might have same thing over and over and expecting a been true. Not so today. That was also different result. I am not saying that your governmental when Americans knew and appreciated where their food, fiber and shelter comes representative is doing a bad job. What I from. They knew who was tending to the am asking is that you know why you are voting for that land, livestock person or any and wildlife and other. Politics they trusted is a pretty that care. Don’t wait until the last much “what Today people have you done want the full day to vote. Figure out for me lately” selection of food who you are going to vote business. What available at an are the issues affordable price for and get those votes in critical to you and they want and how did to tell you how as early as possible. your represento produce it. tative vote? Do There is no conyou know what cept of what “public” really means and they have no they voted that way? Again with all due respect to the statesrespect for what “private” means . . . on so men and politicians that we enjoy the privmany levels. All land is public in the minds of many. ilege of working with every day, there are Wilderness is a term applied to anything some pretty tired responses to votes: “I knew you had the votes to win, so I that is larger than their own neighborhood. The popular media have fully didn’t need to alienate anybody.” “I don’t decide my position on an issue bought into this misconception. The best analogy that I have ever been until it gets to the Floor, so no I cannot able to come up with in explaining public sign on to a letter/write a letter/take a pubversus private (and if you have read this lic stand.” “I needed to vote that way so somebody before, please bear with me) is a bathroom. When you have a choice between using a would vote with me on my really imporpublic bathroom versus a private one, tant bill.” “I cannot cross party lines.” which one do you choose? The list goes on, but you get the drift. I must admit that my father wasn’t too impressed when I used this on him, a 32- Life was so much easier when things were year-school board member, when dis- black and white and we could all think and cussing public education versus private act that way. But I guess being part of education. Please understand that I am not maturing adult is the recognition that knocking public schools. I am a product of there are up sides and down sides to virtuthem and I don’t think I turned out badly. ally everything and you have to weigh (If you have other thoughts please feel free what causes the least amount of harm. Here are some issues that you might to keep them to yourself . . . no public consider as you are making your voting expression necessary.) But I am getting off point. Back to the election. One malady that many Americans seem to suffer is “my elected reprecontinued on page 59
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choices: ■ Who is standing up against regulatory oppression and government overreach? Are they taking that stance in public for all the world to see? ■ Who is pushing back on Endangered Species Act aggression? ■ Who is speaking out against wolf expansion, fencing off riparian areas and meadows for a jumping mouse, 700,000+ plus acres of critical habitat in the US for male jaguars, a critical habitat for the lesser prairie chicken that will cripple ranching as well as oil and gas production . . . (the list is endless)? ■ Who thinks the IRS should treat every American equally? ■ Who stands for a health care system that will provide you and your family adequate health care, no matter how young or old they are? ■ Who thinks federal government employees should be held to the same standards as state and local employees? ■ Who thinks the courts should be land managers? ■ What should drive creation of additional animal cruelty laws? ■ Who thinks you should be able to
trap, hunt and fish? ■ Who thinks horses are livestock? ■ Who thinks radical environmental groups should be able to buy out and retire grazing allotments? ■ Who thinks the federal government should be in charge of all water in the US? ■ Who thinks the powerful ag lobby is threatening citizens? ■ Who thinks the Environmental Protection Agency should have the power to garnish wages without a court order? ■ Who thinks our veterans are getting adequate and appropriate care? ■ Who stands up for production agriculture? ■ Who supports trade policies that will protect American agriculture? I could go on and on. There are too many issues we are facing every day to count and it gets longer every day. Please get answers that satisfy you on each one of these and all those that are on your mind. Then vote for the people whose answers suit you. Share that information with your family, friends, neighbors, business associates. Take responsibility for getting 11 or more votes in the ballot box. You might be surprised at just how much power YOU do have.
There is good news As we list the negatives on some socalled endangered species, we would be remiss if we didn’t share the wins we have seen in the past weeks. I will caution you that there will likely be litigation on these species, but at least some common sense is beginning to prevail. The US Fish & Wildlife Service (FWS) has determined not to list the Rio Grande Cutthroat Trout as threatened or endangered. They made the same decision with the wolverine. On the lynx, the agency had determined that there will be no critical habitat designation in New Mexico. The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia found in favor of the FWS’s 2012 decision not to list the dunes sagebrush lizard, which lives in eastern New Mexico and western Texas, under the Endangered Species Act and against a lawsuit brought by the Center for Biological Diversity and Defenders of Wildlife seeking to reverse the agency’s decision.
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bird uses the same habitat as the Southwestern willow flycatcher and is found in 12 Western States. A half a million acres of critical habitat is being considered for designation, tying up most riparian habitat in the greater Southwest. This is despite the fact that over 1,200 stream miles has already been designated as critical habitat for the flycatcher. The comment period on the proposed cuckoo (no pun intended) critical habitat closes on October 13, 2014. NMCGA members in Southwestern part of New Mexico tell us the birds are already abundant there. You might want to take a long look at page 61 of this Stockman where the details of the latest wolf deals are chronicled. We haven’t heard a whisper out of the FWS on the letter that was sent to them asking for action on the matter. The Arizona Game & Fish Department is claiming that because there is nothing in writing, there is no deal. (I guess common law marriage doesn’t exist in Arizona.)
Down to the wire The deadline for comments on the EPA’s Waters of the US Clean Water Act
Rule is October 20, 2014. It is essential that EVERYONE and their dog (yes, my dog has an email address and water availability is of critical interest to her) comments on this attempt on the part of the federal government to claim all water in the country. The address to comment is in Jose’s letter on page 10. We will be posting draft comments on the web at www.nmagriculture.org and Facebook as well as sending out emails. The American Farm Bureau Federation has set up a “Ditch The Rule� website at: http://ditchtherule.fb.org that is helpful as well. Great news came in early October that the US Small Business Administration has asked the EPA to withdraw the proposal.
It’s not too early . . . To reserve your room for the 2014 Joint Stockmen’s Convention slated for December 4 through 7 at the Albuquerque Marriott Pyramid North. We have the same $81+ tax rate and you can be sure that there will be a lively program. Call 505/821-3333 to make your reservations now. Schedules and registration materials will be hitting you email and mail boxes within a month. Remember that the NMCGA is celebrating its 100th Anniversary. There are plenty
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New Mexico Small Businesses Blast US Fish & Wildlife Service Backroom Wolf Deal
Arizona Game Department Tries to Provide Cover for Backroom Deal on Wolves
ew Mexicans were outraged to learn that the U.S Fish & Wildlife Service (FWS) and the Arizona Game & Fish Department (AGFD) have entered into a deal to accept an unpublished plan for Mexican wolf management in Arizona and New Mexico, according to Jose Varela Lopez, New Mexico Cattle Growers’ Association President, La Cieneguilla. “It is incomprehensible that a federal agency would engage in such an action,” said Varela Lopez. “We learned on September 22 that the deal had been made. Comments on the Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) and final revision of the Endangered Species Act 10j rule didn’t even close until September 23.” The Mexican wolf reintroduction has been the subject of great controversy for more than 20 years and has had significant economic impact on rural communities in the reintroduction areas of New Mexico, noted Ric Thompson, Northern New Mexico Safari Club President, Edgewood. Sources indicate that the deal cut between FWS and AGFD will do the following: (I) A Service commitment of no wolves north of Interstate 40. Wolves that are identified north of I-40 will be trapped and returned to the Mexican Wolf Experimental Population Area utilizing a 10(a)1(a) permit. (II) An expressed upper population limit in the rule of 300-325 Mexican wolves in NM and AZ. When the population objective of 300-325 is reached, strict removal will be implemented to reduce the population to the maximum of 300-325 individual animals. (III) Mexican wolves would be removed if impacting wild ungulate herds at a rate higher than 15 percent as determined by the States using state methodologies of population measurement. (IV) Zones of occupancy that are similar or the same as proposed by the Arizona Game and Fish Department in their previous comments and alternative. These items were all contained in an alternative for the EIS from Arizona that wasn’t even published in the EIS, Thompson continued, so members of the public
rizona noticed a Commission meeting on September 20. Four state game department directors were told of the deal on September 22. The Arizona Commission met on September 23. This release came out on the 24th. Arizona Game and Fish Commission demands resolution of three primary concerns in Mexican wolf rule proposal The Arizona Game and Fish Commission voted unanimously this week [week of September 22] to have the Arizona Game and Fish Department negotiate with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to find agreeable resolution to three primary points of contention in the draft Environmental Impact Statement (dEIS) on the 10(j) rule for Mexican wolf recovery. The commission directed the department to address three primary concerns in their negotiations with the Service. The current proposal:
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My Cowboy Heroes by JIM OLSON
Samuel Thomas Privett
“The Legend of Booger Red” he legend started in Texas, but soon grew across the West. The legend was Booger Red, who reportedly could ride any bronc alive! There are so many stories about Booger Red that it is sometimes hard to separate fact from fiction. One writer wrote, “It is estimated he rode between 25,000 to 40,000 broncs in his life.” Well, since he was fifty-nine when he died, that would be an average of 424 to 678 per year for every year of his life, or one to two broncs per day for every day he lived! Across the West there are bars, eateries, shops, bucking and even breeding horses named after him. The legend of Booger Red continues to grow to this day, even though most do not know who he really was. Samuel Thomas Privett was born in Williamson County, Texas on December 29, 1864 into a ranching family. His father, Sam Privett Sr., moved the family to Erath County, Texas when young Sam was six. There they established the SP ranch. According to rodeo historian, Willard
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Porter, “At ten, while gathering wild horses for his father, young Privett was nearly captured by Indians. He escaped by securing his rope to a stout bush and lowering himself into a cave. At twelve, he was already a bronc buster of considerable reputation in his area.” He was known as “that Redheaded Kid Bronc Rider” because of his flaming red hair. Another event involving the local Indians puts young Privett in a rock throwing battle with some of them. They say the only thing saved his skin that day was the appearance of some of his father’s cowhands who helped put the odds in Sam’s favor. His father reportedly had trouble with the Indians over that event for some time to come and was not happy about it. Something happened when Privett was only thirteen years of age that forever changed his life. A person of lessor spirit may have lived a life, wallowing in self-pity had this happened to them. But he made the best of a bad situation instead.
Young Sam and another kid were playing around with gunpowder. They packed a hole in a tree stump full of it, intending to make a sort of fireworks display for Christmas. However, the gunpowder ignited, badly burning Privett’s face (the blast reportedly killed Sam’s friend). On the way to the doctor, another youngster jumped up in the wagon to get a look at “Red” and commented, “Gee, Red sure is a booger now, ain’t he?” It took several months for his badly burned face to heal. His lips, nostrils and area around his eyes were disfigured from burning. People kept commenting that Red was sure “Boogered” up. He took the comments good naturedly however, and even started calling himself, “Booger Red, the ugliest man alive.” From then on, folks just knew him as Booger Red. He did not care about the nickname, or the fact he was disfigured, he decided to let his uncanny ability riding broncs speak for him. By the time he was fifteen, his father had died (his mother passed before) and Booger Red moved to West Texas where he had an uncle. He started riding broncs for a living on big ranches there. It was not long till his reputation spread. He was a top hand where it came to bronc riding. At one point, he was hired by the US army to break horses. They started off paying him “by the head,” but soon learned he could ride way to many broncs in a day and his paycheck was off the charts. The Army then switched him to a regular salary. During this time period, Booger Red won many contests and side bets for his ability to ride the bad ones. He also met and married Mollie Webb. The couple had seven children together. They purchased a ranch near San Angelo, Texas with money gained from riding broncs. It has been said that Red had a standing offer of $100 (some rumors even say $500) to anyone who could bring a horse who continued on page 63
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could buck him off. Legend has it, he never had to pay off. One such horse brought for him to ride was a bad bronc from Montana. He rode the horse to a standstill at the San Angelo Fair. Afterwards, Red purchased the horse and named him “Montana Gyp.” With this horse, Red started his own Wild West Show, the “Booger Red Wild West Show.” For many years during the early 1900s, Red and Mollie put on Wild West Shows where they and their children would perform. Red’s bronc riding exhibitions were always the star attraction. Fog Horn Clancy, an early-day announcer, writer and contemporary of Reds, once wrote, “Booger Red was the originator of looking back on a bucking horse. Up to that time bronc riders either had to, or thought that they had to, keep their eyes right on their bucking mount and try to anticipate in advance the way the animal was going to jump next, but Booger just seemed to get in time with the bucking bronc and would look over his shoulder and make jokes with spectators while the horse was bucking. For more than a quarter century, Red was regarded as the greatest bronc rider in the world.”
After several years of putting on Wild West Shows, Booger Red took the opportunity to disburse his company among some of the larger productions then touring. He knew the smaller, family owned operations, were a thing of the past. He and Mollie then hired out their talents and performed for some of the better-known Wild West productions including the Miller Bros., Buffalo Bill and Tom Mix. Booger continued to ride broncs in exhibition all the way up into the 1920s. It got so that spectators were not satisfied with a show unless Red put on a bronc riding show. Having his name on the program was definitely a draw. Along the way, the Privett family moved to Miami, Oklahoma, where he lived until his death. He is one of the few men who actually became a legend in his own time. As Red got older, his bronc riding exhibitions slowed down a bit, but not by much.
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He was a timeless bronc rider. In 1924, at the Fort Worth Stock Show and Rodeo, Red was attending the rodeo as a spectator. He witnessed a bad bronc toss his rider high into the sky. The crowd then starting hollering that “Booger Red could ride that horse” and chanting, “Bring on Booger!” So Booger Red jumped over the fence and appeared in the arena, much to the delight of the crowd. The horse was caught again and brought around for Booger to ride, which he did to a standstill. At fifty-nine years of age, he could still outride the younger cowboys on the baddest of horses. Folks who witnessed that ride could not tell it, but Red’s health had been failing him by then. He suffered from Bright’s Disease (Kidney Disease) and actually died from it a few weeks after his famous last ride. On his death bed, he told his family, “Always be honest for it pays in the long run. Have all the fun you can while you live for when you are dead, you are a long time dead.” The great Booger Red died in March of 1924. Samuel Thomas “Booger Red” Privett was posthumously inducted into the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum Rodeo Hall of Fame in 1975.
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21st Century Cowboyin’ by BARRY DENTON certainly enjoyed astronauts and thought I was going to be one for the longest time. When I was a boy the “Space Age” was just beginning and what a marvel it was. Now that I have seen much of the equipment the astronauts used, what they accomplished is even more astonishing. Being propelled by several hundred gallons of jet fuel and located in a bucket of bolts is just not too sophisticated. I happen to have a friend that spent over twenty years of his career as a rocket scientist developing the engines for the Lunar Module. He is perhaps one of the smartest people I know and he is amazed at what did not go wrong on that moon landing. The bottom line is that our astronauts were brave hardy Americans that liked to gamble because the risk was worth the prize. Our ranch here in Arizona was started in 1945 by my in-laws. They were tough hardy people with a vision of the future. Their goal was to build a cattle ranch known for having the best stock you could find. These hardy folks bought a run down ranch with an inherited string of pearls put up as collateral at the bank. With some money they had saved up they were able to seek out some good horses and fresh cattle. They worked side by side for several years until they accomplished what they had set out to do. Many people came from near and far to buy good Hereford cattle and top American Quarter Horses. The cattle herd supported the race and show horses easily for nearly 50 years. Then in the 1980s things began to change. Cattle started to drop in price and horses started to go up. Within ten years the ranch changed completely to stay alive. Horses became the mainstay and cattle became secondary. It’s incredible how for over 40 years cattle paid the bills, but then the horses had to take over most of it. The most important lesson is if you are running your own business you must embrace change. I know many cattle and horsemen that are very traditional by nature. That is a fine
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thing to preserve the old ways, but when it comes to paying bills you may have to change some of that to make a living in the present. We all know that the forces are against the small independent family ranch or farm. Large corporations have taken over agriculture and don’t have much sympathy for the little guy. They have even imposed a tax on the independent that he has to pay at the auction house when he sells his cattle. You have no choice to opt out of this ridiculous tax that probably goes to something that will never help you or your livelihood. The only choice is to not sell your cattle at auction. It is one thing to be taxed by government as you know they will gladly waste your tax dollars protecting some turtle from the evil cattle. However, it’s doubly insulting when you have to pay a tax to a cattle lobby you do not believe in. There is no sense complaining about something you can’t control. You should use that energy in a positive manner to be successful in spite of the government and the cattle lobby. There are a few outfits here in Arizona that still run a wagon and I’m glad they do. However, those big ranches that do that are owned by large corporations and are used as tax havens. There may be a few private ranches that run a wagon, but I’m not aware of them. The good things that corporation owned ranches bring to cowboys are better wages, an insurance plan, a more stable working environment, and better working conditions. We that are traditional may not want to see corporation owned ranches, but many of our family and friends are doing well working for them. This has been a big adjustment for traditional cowboys. However, cowboys are still getting hired and not eliminated all together. One eye opening experience you can have is visiting an agricultural university and see what they are teaching. The courses are now geared much more to getting a good job working for an ag corporation than they are toward starting up your own ranch. It would be nice to see a course in catching wild cattle or tying wild cattle to trees at Texas A&M. The realization is that government doesn’t want you working for yourself anymore. Somehow you are supposed to fit into the system and behave yourself. There are no differences in trading television sets on a computer or trading cattle on a computer. We normally are ranchers because
we like the lifestyle and the freedom that it brings. There are bigger powers at work that don’t want you to have that freedom. Like those first astronauts that went to the moon we ranchers and cowboys have to be very dedicated to what we do. We have to be so dedicated that we have to find new ways to survive when forces are against you. Being a gambler also helps as you are gambling with your well being, sanity, and livelihood. We may not be on the moon, but it certainly feels like it compared to ranching just twenty years ago. Keep going forward and “May The Horse ■ Be With You”!
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A Leadership Program Worth Exploring by CLAUDIA TRUEBLOOD, NEW MEXICO AG LEADERSHIP PROGRAM DIRECTOR s I walked the pavilions and exhibits at the New Mexico State Fair and shared with a variety of people highlights about the NM Ag Leadership program, I was once again reaffirmed by the interest they showed. Regardless of the length of their careers, cattle growers, dairy and crop farmers, beef producers, food makers, and representatives from Future Farmers of America, 4-H, NM Department of Game and Fish, NM State Parks, NM Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Agency, NM Tourism and Travel Department, were intrigued by how they saw NMAL could boost their careers. The NM Ag Leadership program (NMAL) was founded in 2001 with the purpose of identifying and supporting effective leadership within the food, agriculture and natural resource industries of New
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Mexico. This is, individuals who were then, and are now, interested in heightening their leadership potential for their future and continuing careers. With this in mind, the program facilitates visits to agricultural and non-agricultural businesses and industries, and meetings with public functionaries at local, state, national, and international levels.
A Wider World In order to become stronger and more effective leaders in our industries and in our communities, we need to develop a good understanding of the “world around us,” its people, resources, business activities, societal, political and economic structures and organizations. That is why NMAL offers participants the opportunity to interact with a variety of businesses, social settings and political environments, both domestically and internationally. Our approach is practical and action-oriented. Over a period of eighteen months, participants meet eight times for six in-state seminars, a Washington, DC learning experience, and a seminar in an international location. The seminars are not conducted with a
traditional format where people sit for hours-on-end listening to speakers. Instead, NMAL participants travel as a group to places to visit with people knowledgeable in their respective fields who are open to share details about what they do, how they do it, and why. There is a constant exchange between the host and the NMAL group, and rich conversations occur. At the end of each seminar, there is time for group discussions. These enhance participants’ knowledge and understanding of issues that are relevant for today’s leaders.
What Issues? In the past it could have been “okay” to know about your own business and a few things about your community, but now that is not enough. Well-rounded people, need to be informed about the world, be genuinely interested about what is going on beyond the “end of their nose,” be curious about learning new things and growing, and helping others around them do likewise. NMAL participants want to explore and understand interrelations, how their ‘worlds’ and interests connect with those of others, and how they can be continued on page 66
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Editor’s Note: Email caren@aaalivestock.com. Memorial donations may be sent to the Cattlegrowers’ Foundation, a 501(c)3, tax deductable charitable foundation serving the rights of ranch families and educating citizens on governmental actions, policies and practices. Cattlegrowers Foundation, Inc., P.O. Box 7517, Albuquerque, NM 87194. The New Mexico Stockman runs memorials as a courtesy to its readers. If families & friends would like to see more detail, verbatim pieces must be emailed to us, & may be printed at 10¢ per word.
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have had no opportunity to review and comment on it. “This deal clearly violates the spirit, the intent, and the letter of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA),” noted Tom McDowell, New Mexico Trappers Association President, Corrales. While the deal will have tremendous impact on New Mexicans and land within New Mexico was included in the alternative developed by the AGFD, the effort had absolutely no support from any New Mexicans, said Kim Talbot, Southern New Mexico Chapter of the Safari Club. The New Mexico Department of Game & Fish withdrew from the wolf program two years ago because it was being run over by the FWS, he said. A dozen sportsmen and livestock organizations in New Mexico put FWS Director Dan Ashe on notice that the actions of the federal and state agency are pre-decisional and recommended withdrawal of the entire process with a letter on September 25, 2014. “The rush to judgment on this issue is a result of a multi-species settlement entered into by the US. Department of Justice more than two years ago with
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– Phase 3: No translocations would occur west of Highway 89, but wolves could disperse throughout the MWEPA. Evaluations of the phase-in approach would be conducted after the first five years of the rule and then every three years to determine if the next phase is needed. Evaluations would consider: ■ Adverse human interactions with wolves, ■ Impacts to ungulate populations, ■ Whether the wolf population is achieving an average of 10 percent annual growth, based on the end-of-year population count. “The commission and department have always sought a balanced approach to Mexican wolf reintroduction. The Service’s current proposal has the potential for unregulated wolf population growth that would clearly have great impact on the people and other wildlife species of Arizona. The com-
mission’s latest action seeks to pursue a managed approach to Mexican wolf reintroduction rather than the uncertainty provided by the Service’s preferred alternative,” said Commissioner Kurt Davis. The commission is concerned that the dEIS failed to include any elements from an alternative proposal developed and submitted to the Service by 28 cooperating agencies and stakeholders. The commission adamantly believes that any successful proposal must address and balance the needs of all stakeholders and other wildlife species in the state. The commission has indicated that if the Service fails to address their three concerns, they will consider legal and congressional remedies to resolve the failings of the dEIS. The rule proposals currently being considered will govern the future direction of the Mexican wolf reintroduction effort in Arizona and New Mexico. The alternative developed by the cooperators’ group is scientifically-based and would further cooperation between federal and state agencies and stakeholders to achieve a self-sustaining wolf population. For more information on the Cooperator’s Alternative and the Mexican wolf reintroduction effort, visit www.azgfd.gov/wolf.
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The Cowbelles by CAREN COWAN t has been said that you can’t know where you’re going until you know where you’ve been. Another variation is “Who knows only his own generation remains always a child” which is attributed to Cicero. Since 1939 The Cowbelles have provided a beacon for women and men across the West and the nation. Not that this is what it was ever intended to do. There may be some descrepancies in the details, but by all accounts the seed for The Cowbelles seed was planted by Mrs. Will Glenn when Cochise County, Arizona ranch families gathered at the Ira Glenn home for occasional dances. These gatherings provided companionship for many who had not seen each other for weeks or months to get together and exchange “cattle talk” — rains, droughts, markets and such. Mrs. Ralph (Mattie) Cowan offered her home for a gathering of cattle women to form the club suggested by Mrs. Glenn. Accounts differ as to whether that meeting took place in the Cowan home in Douglas or in the living room that was once a stage stop of the Cowan’s 4Bars Ranch near McNeal. That ranch house and surrounding land remain in the Cowan family today. One thing was certain. There was a delicious meal served and no matter where you are today, you can count on a great meal at every Cowbelle meeting. The first meeting was held on October 17, 1939. According to the minutes of that first meeting 15 women made the decision to hold monthly meetings on the third Tuesday of the month, a tradition that has been carried on for just short of 75 years. Monthly dues were 25 cents. To be a member of the group you had to be the wife, daughter or mother of a cattlemen or you had to own cattle yourself. It is these women and their kind that were the fabric of today’s ranch industry. But their purpose wasn’t to punch cows or show off their horsemanship skills, although they all could keep up with their husbands and cowboys and had done so for years. Their purpose wasn’t to make a name for themselves or even to change the world. Their husbands were being elected to leadership positions and were forging an industry to pass on to their children. They and their children were in serious need of socializing between trips to town for supplies that sometimes didn’t occur for weeks or months at time. But they didn’t plan to waste their time just visiting. At
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attended that first meeting: Mary Ella (Sproul) Cowan Christian, Tombstone, who was two years old at the time, and her older sister Ruth Sproul Williams, Elfrida. Mary Ella’s three daughters are double bred third generation Cowbelles. On the manly side of things, Billy Ben Snure, Amarillo, is a third generation double-bred descendant of Cowbelles. His grandmother Mrs. Ben Snure and his mother Florence Cowan Snure were both original Cowbelles. It was Florence who came up with the pin for the The Cowbelles while attending the University of Arizona. She found a wood pin wearing a tiny cow bell that became the sign for The Cowbelles that has been handed down for generations. Mattie Cowan was elected the first president of The Cowbelles at that first meeting. It was a job that took her on a journey that she couldn’t have imagined throughout Arizona and then the nation as Cowbelles and their mission spread. The selection of a name for the group didn’t happen until the second meeting, which was held on November 21, 1939. According to the minutes of that gathering there were 20 ladies present who considered the names “Cattle Ladies Club” and “Cowbelles.” A vote was taken and Cowbelles won by one vote. Since then every meeting is called to order with the ringing of a cow bell. The membership grew to 31 before the end of 1939 and didn’t stop growing for decades. In 1940 the secretary of the Wyoming Stock Growers wrote for permission to organize Cowbelles in their state. Greatly flattered, The Cowbelles graciously gave permission. In 1947 the Arizona Cowbelles began with Mattie Cowan serving as its first president. The first local chapter of New Mexico CowBelles was founded in 1957, when Pat Nowlin, an Arizona Cowbelle moved to New Mexico with her family. She was instrumental in getting a group of likeminded women together and served as the New Mexico CowBelles first president. The American National Cowbelles were organized in 1952 as an affiliate of the American National Cattlemen in Fort Worth, Texas. There were already nine states with Cowbelle groups. The first president of the national group was Mrs. O.W. Lyman, Kansas. Mattie Cowan served as first vice president. She then served as president in 1953. The main objective of this new Cowcontinued on page 74 OCTOBER 2014
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belle group was to improve the relations between beef cattlemen and the general public, according to the book Arizona Cowbelles This Is Your Life written by Betty Accomazzo in 1972. Accomazzo was extremely active in Arizona and National Cowbelles during her life. Sadly, in 1986 the American National Cowbelles decided that the moniker was not representative of the â&#x20AC;&#x153;modern womanâ&#x20AC;? and voted to change the name to American National Cattlewomen. The vote took place a few months before Mattie Cowanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s death. She was never told of the change. New Mexicoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Pat Nowlin did attend that meeting in San Antonio, Texas and was eventually granted time to speak to the group assembled. Since 1986, all but two states have changed their names, one by one, to Cattlewomen. Arizona and New Mexico proudly hold up their heritage and mission, although some local clubs have opted for â&#x20AC;&#x153;modernizationâ&#x20AC;? just as locals in other states have held on to the Cowbelle name. Meanwhile back in Douglas, Arizona, The Cowbelles live on. In 1951 the group purchased its own home â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a building that
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Farm to Fork . . . A Taste of Arizona he Arizona National Livestock Show will present the 1st annual Farm to Fork, A Taste of Arizona which will be held on December 30, 2014 at the Arizona State Fairgrounds from 12:15 pm â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 1:45 p.m. This event is a new culinary experience showcasing Arizona will provide fresh product, local farms, local families and locally owned Arizona restaurants and Arizona Wineries. Attendees will have an opportunity to sample, sip, compare and enjoy a tasting experience. We are thrilled to have the Arizona Farm Bureau, Arizona Wine Growers Association and the Arizona Restaurant Association as partners for the event. A sampling of the local family owned operations showcasing their product in the inaugural event include Dinsmore Farms, Crows Dairy, Arizona Stronghold Winery, Lawrence-Dunham Vineyards and Local Alternative Inc. Tickets may be purchased on-line or at the Arizona National office. Members of the Arizona National Livestock Show and Arizona Farm Bureau will receive a $5 discount on pre-sale tickets. Pre-sale ticket prices are $25 prior to December 29 and $30 the day of the event so be sure to purchase your tickets early while supplies last. Online tickets sales close December 29 at noon but you will still have an opportunity to purchase a ticket onsite based on availability.
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Sponsorship opportunities are available for the Farm to Fork event. Please contact the Arizona National office at 602/258-8568 for more info. The Farm to Fork event is held in conjunction with the 67th Annual Arizona National Livestock Show, Inc. which is a non-profit charity organization with a mission of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Growing the Future.â&#x20AC;? The Arizona National Livestock Show will be held December 2731, 2014 at the Arizona State Fairgrounds. For more information call the Arizona National office at 602/258-8568 or visit www.anls.org
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MOATS RANCH: The Moats Ranch is located 30 miles northwest of Roswell, NM along and on both sides of U.S. Highway 285. Acreage includes 12,025 deeded, 4,080 federal BLM lease, 3,240 NM State lease and 1,280 uncontrolled. Modern residence that has been completely remodeled along with other functional improvements. Price: $2,600,000,00 BUCK SPRINGS RANCH: The Buck Springs Ranch is located 35 miles northwest of Roswell, NM all within Chaves County. U.S. Highway and State Road 20 divide the ranch. Acreage includes 15,133.5 deeded acres and 8,590 federal BLM lease acres. Improvements and pasture fences were in good repair. Price: $3,300,000 EAST RANCH: The East Ranch is located in southeastern New Mexico within the east-central portion of Lincoln County. The Capitan Mountain range to the south and the Jicarilla Mountain range to the west. The ranch is comprised of 22,000 ± deeded acres and 4,000 ± federal BLM lease acres. Price: $6,200,000 SHANKS BROTHERS RANCH: The Shanks Brothers Ranch is located in the foothills of the Capitan Mountains within historic Lincoln County, NM. The ranch is comprised of 5,400 deeded acres along with 4,617 Federal BLM lease acres. Modestly improved with two residences and adequate livestock working facilities. Good mule deer hunting. Price: $1,800,000 SIX SHOOTER RANCH: Central NM, 10 miles west of Carrizozo, NM. 12,000 total acres; 175 AUYL, BLM Section 3 grazing permit. Modestly improved with one residence, hay barn and livestock working facilities. Water provided by 3 wells and buried pipeline. Improvements include house and pens; $1,300,000 BORDER RANCH: The Border Ranch is located approximately 10 miles east of Columbus, New Mexico along and on both sides of State Highway 9 in both Luna and Dona Ana Counties. The ranch is comprised of 1,910 deeded acres, 11,118 NM State lease acres and 52,487 Federal BLM lease acres. This is a big desert ranch with a grazing capacity of 613 Animal Units Yearlong. Price: $1,100,000 MOUNT RILEY RANCH: The Mount Riley Ranch is located 30 miles northwest of Santa Teresa, NM along and on both sides of NM State Highway 9. The ranch is comprised of 160 deeded acres, 6,921 NM State lease acres and 74,977 Federal BLM lease acres. Adjoins the Border Ranch on the west. Grazing capacity is 488 Animal Units Yearlong. Price: $725,000 Scott McNally, Qualifying Broker Rosw ell, NM 88202 Office: 575- 622- 5867 • Cell: 575- 420- 1237
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â&#x2013; AN OCEAN OF GRASS â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Almost 200 sections, mostly deeded, well improved w/homes, barns, several sets of pens w/scales, watered by solar & electric powered subs, windmills, an extensive pipeline system, springs, spring-fed draws & canyons, earthen dams & river frontage, pvmt. & all weather roads. â&#x2013; GREAT LOCATION â&#x20AC;&#x201C; East Edge Of Santa Rosa, NM â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Hwy. frontage on both sides of I40, hwy. frontage on both sides of Hwy. 156 & hwy. frontage on Hwy. 84, 12,718.06 ac. +/- deeded, 640 ac. +/- state lease, well improved, excellent water system provided by a large spring at the headquarters, wells equipped w/subs & windmills providing water for an extensive pipeline, cow/calf, yearling country. â&#x2013; FRESH AIR & MOUNTAIN SCENERY! yearling or cow/calf country - amazing improvements, 9,200 ac. +/- deeded, 193 ac. +/- state lease, I-25 frontage on the west, Hwy. 56 on the north, Springer, NM. â&#x2013; CAPITAN, NM â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Minutes from Ruidoso. A multi-purpose property w/15.6434 ac. +/-, laboratory/office, covered pens, home. Ideal for use for horse or cattle breeding, embryo transfer facility, vet clinic or many other uses in a beautiful area of NM. â&#x2013; UNION CO., NM â&#x20AC;&#x201C; CLAYTON HORSE RANCH â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 640 ac. +/, very nice horse boarding & training facilities w/lighted arena & neat bunk house. â&#x2013; UNION CO., NM â&#x20AC;&#x201C; EAST UNION CO. RANCH â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 2,030 ac. +/of good ranch country w/home. â&#x2013; YOU CANâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;T IMAGINE HOW NICE THIS RANCH IS â&#x20AC;&#x201C; DeBaca/ Guadalupe, Co., NM - 9,385.81 ac. +/-, excellent improvements, fences, watered, cow/calf, yearling country in excellent condition, on pvmt. â&#x2013; GUADALUPE CO., NM â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 1,760 ac. +/- well improved w/homes, barns & pens, well watered, pvmt. & all weather roads from the interstate. â&#x2013; OWNER LOOKING IN A DIFFERENT AREA â&#x20AC;&#x201C; MOTIVATED TO SELL! Cimarron Co., OK - 1382 ac. +/- native grass northwest of Dalhart, Texas, large draw through south part of property affords good hunting & winter protection for livestock & wildlife, watered by a mill & a sub, steel pens, irr. potential on north portion. PRICE REDUCED! â&#x2013; BUY ONE PASTURE OR ALL (pastures run in size fr. 7-900 ac. each up to 3,300 ac. w/lake) pick the size of ranch that you want w/a total of 10,432 ac. +/-. Motley Co., TX. ranchland w/a large, permitted dam providing a huge, beautiful lake w/water backed up in a number of smaller canyons for boating, fishing & other recreation together w/good hunting on the ranch. On pvmt.! â&#x2013; 12 MI. OF THE PENASCO RIVER â&#x20AC;&#x201C; East Slope of the Sacramento Mountains , trout fishing, mule deer, Barbary sheep & turkey, beautiful, new custom-built home w/exceptional landscaping, guest house/office newly remodeled, nice employee housing, barns, steel pens, woven + barbed wire fences, 35,309 ac. +/- (deeded, state & BLM leases) on pvmt. â&#x2013; CIMARRON RANCH â&#x20AC;&#x201C; COLFAX CO., NM â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 1,854 ac. +/-, 5 pivots, ditch water rights, elk hunting, on pvmt. â&#x2013; LA ESQUINA RANCH â&#x20AC;&#x201C; GUADALUPE CO., NM â&#x20AC;&#x201C; well located on Hwys. 54 & 60, 34 ½ sections +/-, excellent pipeline system w/municipal water, open, rolling reputation yearling country, cow/calves also run in the area, double-wide modular home, 2 large metal barns, pens & a scale. â&#x2013; ALAMOSA CREEK RANCH â&#x20AC;&#x201C; QUAY/GUADALUPE CO., NM â&#x20AC;&#x201C; on pvmt., reputation area for winter wheat prod. & grazing, 2,551 ac. +/- native grass, 1,895 +/ farmland, fully fenced & watered for grazing. â&#x2013; CAPROCK FARM â&#x20AC;&#x201C; QUAY CO., NM â&#x20AC;&#x201C; excellent cattle/farming opportunity for winter wheat grazing & spring/summer milo production to be harvested or grazed out, 917 ac. +/- incl. 757 ac. +/- cropland, balance native grass for excellent area on which to precon. calves for winter grazing. â&#x2013; WOODS RANCH â&#x20AC;&#x201C; TUCUMCARI, NM â&#x20AC;&#x201C; just out of town, , corners the Hitson Creek Ranch, 480 ac. +/- incl. 292.64 cropland, balance native grass for livestock grazing, 332 ac. +/- water rights out of the Arch Hurley Water District, watered by domestic well w/sub. electric motor & pump, great for a combination grazing/farming operation, all weather road. â&#x2013; ADA OK. AREA â&#x20AC;&#x201C;3,120 ac. +/- of choice grassland w/houses, barns & steel pens, lays in 3 tracts, priced separately! Please view our websites for details on these properties, choice NM ranches (large & small), choice ranches in the high rainfall areas of OK, irr./dryland/CRP & commercial properties. We need your listings on any types of ag properties in TX., NM, OK or CO.
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400 Head Ranch, adjoining Leslie Canyon, Cochise Co., AZ – Highly improved & maintained w/4 homes; horse barn; hay barn; equipment sheds; workshop; roping arena; excellent shipping corrals w/scales; extensive water distribution w/wells, storage & pipelines. Scenic w/rolling grasslands and mountains. Easy country. +/7,346 deeded acres, State lease & USFS permit. This is a top quality ranch & a rare opportunity. $3,900,000. 150 Head Ranch, Near Willcox, AZ – +/- 2,976 deeded acres, and State Grazing Leases. One bedroom home, corrals, well, and electric at headquarters. Well watered w/about 16.5 miles of new pipeline & 11 storage tanks & drinkers, 8 dirt tanks. Good year round spring. Great country. Good mix of browse & grass $1,950,000. *NEW* 253 Head Andrada Ranch, Vail, AZ 271+/- deeded ac & 16,237+/- ac State Grazing Lease. Historic HQ w/3 homes, bunk house, horse barn, hay barn, equipment shed, tack rooms, extensive corrals, scale, arenas, round pen and, spring and well at HQ. Scenic desert ranch with good mix of grass and browse, great location close to Tucson, airport and interstate. $1,858,500 *REDUCED* 90 Head, Agua Fria Ranch, Quemado, NM – This is a scenic mid-size ranch with great prospects. Operating as a private hunting retreat, & a purebred Angus & Paint horse ranch. +/-1200 deeded acres, +/-80 acres of NM lease, & +/-5220 acres BLM. 4BR, 2BA, mfg. home. Trophy elk, antelope, deer. Elk & mule deer permits. Candidate for a conservation easement or land exchange with the BLM. $1.65M $1.55M *NEW* 112 Head, Bar 11 Ranch, Lake Roosevelt, AZ – 83 deeded acres,
36,000 acres of US Forest Grazing Permit (possible increase of 112 head). 6 corrals, 13 stock tanks, 6 steel tanks, 9 wells. 9 acre feet of water rights from a spring to deeded, home, restaurant, shop, barns, corrals. $1,100,000 *REDUCED* 52 Head Ranch, San Simon, AZ – Indian Springs Ranch, pristine & private, only 12 miles from I-10. Bighorn sheep, ruins, pictographs. 1480 acres of deeded, 52 head, BLM lease, historic rock house, new cabin, springs, wells. $1,300,000 $975,000, Terms. *REDUCED* 335 Head Ranch, Greenlee County, AZ – +/- 20 Deeded acres, w/two homes, barn & outbuildings. 58 Sections USFS grazing permit. Good vehicular access to the ranch – otherwise this is a horseback ranch. Scenic, great outfitters prospect. $850,000 $760,000. * REDUCED* 314 +/- Acre Farm, Pearce, AZ – Two pivots, three irrigation wells, charming +/- 2100 s.f. home, four car garage, large metal workshop, both with concrete floors, two railroad cars with cover between for horse stalls, hay and feed storage. $750,000 Now $685,000. Graham Co, AZ 78 Plus Head Cattle Ranch – Approx. 640 deeded acres, 3633 acres USFS and 5204 acres BLM; 1 BR, 1 Bath home/camp. Foothills of the Santa Teresa Mountains. $650,000 *REDUCED* Virden, NM +/-78 Acre Farm, with 49+ acres of irrigation rights. Pastures recently planted in Bermuda. 3 BR, 2 Bath site built home, shop, hay barn, 8 stall horse barn, unique round pen with adjoining shaded pens, roping arena. Scenic setting along the Gila River. Great set up for raising horses also suitable for cattle, hay, pecans, or pistachios, $550,000 Terms.
*REDUCED* Young, AZ, 65+ Acres – Under the Mogollon Rim, small town charm & mountain views. 2100 s.f., 3 BR, 2 Bath home, 2 BR cabin, historic rock home currently a museum, shop, & barn. Excellent opportunity for horse farm, bed & breakfast, or land development. +/- 65 acres for $1,070,000; home & other improvements. $424,500. 240 Acres with Irrigation Rights, Elfrida, AZ – Suitable for hay, crops, pecans, irrigated pasture, homesite or future development. Includes 130 acres of irrigation rights, partially fenced, with corrals, & 1200 gpm well. $336,000 Terms. *NE W* 128+/- Acre Farm near Duncan, AZ – Two properties combined, +/- 45 acres farmable. Terraced farm fields, shared well, 12” irrigation pipe with alfalfa valves, recently leveled. 29+/- Acres for $80,800,+/- 99 Acres for $195,000. All for $275,800. *NEW* 900+/- Acre Farm Bowie AZ – 21 registered shallow wells and 4 deep wells. Good supply of quality ground water. Potential pistachio, pecan, or organic farm. Rested for some time and as such qualifies for “organic” status. $2,900/acre. HORSE PROPERTIES/LAND San Rafael Valley, AZ – Own a slice of heaven in the pristine San Rafael Valley, 152 Acres for $380,150 & 77 Acres with well for $217,000 40 Acres Beautiful Turkey Creek Area – An amazing opportunity to own 40 unique acres in an incredibly bio-diverse location, in the foothills of the Chiricahua Mountains, with end of the road privacy. $340,000.
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Little Cayuse Ranch – This ranch operation outside Cedarvale & north of Corona can be used for a horse, cow calf or yearling operation. There are 2 homes, hay barn, sheds, tack room, 3 excellent wells, 4 pastures & 80 acre irrigation pivot with water rights. Good fences & views. Priced reduced $798,900 Sombrero Ranch – near Tremintina, NM, 1,442 deeded acres, 3 pastures, 1 solar well, 1 submersible pumped well and 1 windmill well. Will carry 32 cows year round. Located 44 miles east of Las Vegas on Hwy 104. Owner will finance! La Cueva Canyon Ranch – 1,595 deeded acres w/240 acres of BLM lease land. Located SW of Las Vegas off Hwy 84 on Apache Mesa. Look for tall pines, canyon springs, stock tanks, new fence on NE corner. Off the grid, secluded and pristine. Owners will finance. Price is $677,875 Trigg Ranches – 720 deeded acres lies adjacent to La Cueva Canyon Ranch on Apache Mesa. Off the grid in the tall pines & power is close by! 720 acres priced at $288,900 & smaller 200 acre parcel available for $124,000! Other parcels available & Owners will finance... Ledoux, NM – Perimeter fenced 60 acre dry land terraced farm has overhead electric, sub-irrigated pasture and good all weather county road access! Located ½ mile north of Ledoux. Price reduced $228,000 & Owner will finance... Anton Chico – Historic 65 acre irrigated farm w/ditch rights. Has adobe home, bunkhouse, storage shed, shop + irrigation & some farm equipment go w/sale. Priced below appraisal at $698,900 & Owner can finance! La Loma (near Dilia) – 12.8 acre farm has 2,400 s.f. 3 bedroom home, barns, corrals, and equipment and storage buildings. Improvements are in good condition, water rights go with sale. Alfalfa is the cash crop! Anton Chico residents only! Price is $248,900 Dilia Loop Road – Fenced 20+ acre parcel is planted in alfalfa & grass, has 4 irrigated sections plus ditch rights and Pecos River frontage. Excellent farming opportunity for organic vegetable gardens. Price is $231,500 Upper Anton Chico – This parcel has outstanding alfalfa production for a small parcel, 7.5 acres are irrigated with under ground pipes, perimeter fenced, easy farm to work and water. Makes 375 bales per cutting! Asking $82,500 – Come see this money maker!
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How to Fulfill the Promise of the Endangered Species Act The Case for an Endangered Species Reserve Program BRIAN SEASHOLES, SEPTEMBER 25, 2014 he Endangered Species Act (ESA) has become one of the most controversial pieces of U.S. environmental legisla-
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tion. Proponents claim the ESA is a success because it has saved many species from extinction. Others question its record, especially in terms of conserving species on private lands. Controversy over the ESA increased significantly following the 2011 settlement of a lawsuit between the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and several environmental pressure groups, under which Fish and Wildlife is required to consider for listing under the Act a total 757 species by 2018. There is a significant risk that, in response to the threat of these listings landowners will make their lands inhos-
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pitable to endangered species, as they have in response to other listings. That would be a truly perverse and unfortunate outcome. The Endangered Species Act, passed in 1973, aims to help prevent rare species from going extinct and improve their prospects. Since then, it has become apparent that: 1. On private lands, which comprise the main habitat for the majority of endangered species, the Actâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s strong penalties have turned endangered species into financial liabilities. As a result, landowners seek to rid their property of endangered species and their habitat. 2. Reforms ostensibly enacted to address this problem, for example by adding incentives and giving landowners assurances against future regulation, have fallen short because they ameliorate but leave largely intact the Actâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s perverse and counterproductive penalties. 3. Published research and other evidence point away from the Endangered Species Actâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s punitive approach by showing that landowners are generally willing to conserve imperiled species so long as they are not punished for doing so, their autonomy and rights are not substantially infringed, they are compensated, and people they trust are involved. This study proposes a new approach, called the Endangered Species Reserve Program, which would be a far more successful approach for conserving endangered species. The Endangered Species Reserve Program would remove the counterproductive penalties and replace them with an entirely voluntary system in which landowners are compensated for investing in habitat and species conservation. The Endangered Species Reserve Program would essentially function as a contract program like the Conservation Reserve Program. The ESRP would compensate landowners for periods of around 10-15 years in exchange for agreeing to conserve endangered species habitat. There is also a wide range of innovative proposals, such as rewarding landowners for producing endangered species, or for providing cash bonuses to groups of landowners who manage contiguous land parcels for the benefit of endangered species. The Endangered Species Reserve Program would function best by being flexible enough to allow for a wide range of approaches to compensate landowners. Flexibility is also needed because ecological conditions can change over time and
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What could the beef industry do differently? The beef industry has several key subjects that are relevant to the industry. They are growth, maintenance, reproduction, and carcass. I differ with two of the subjects and they are growth and carcass. There are a couple of things they could do differently. With growth, first time heifers exceed milk production and it creates open cows and heifers. Cows should have less milk and a higher butter fat and protein. Less milk would also get cows to breed in a 60- or 90-day breeding schedule. With a higher butter fat and protein test you will achieve a higher weight on a 7-month-old calf. Growth milk should be tested for 4-5% or above on butter fat and protein. If you were able to test a set of same sex twin calves you would see the difference. Given you could put one calf (the smaller calf) on a cow with a higher butter fat and protein test you would clearly see the difference. The smaller calf on the higher butter fat and protein milk will catch and even surpass the other calf in growth. For the best meat, a cow should be butchered at 12 to 15 months. In my lifetime of 78 years I have processed a lot of meat including many different breeds. Even lots of other types of meat such as pig, horse, goat, wild game, and some others I’ve tasted. There is too much fat marbling that goes into a prime carcass. Higher marbling is used for beef meat tenderness and taste which is a visual appraisal. How many times have you gone to the store and bought a nice piece of meat with great marbling and after you cook it you bite into it and its tougher than leather? Tenderness and tastes are acquired through genes. A higher marbling content creates cholesterol. Every cow herd has lean tenderness and taste bred for them. There are breeders and breed associations that know this and they are not touting marbling as a cure all for taste and tenderness. There are meat services from colleges that go with conventional thinking. Fifty years ago I graduated from college, and the beef mortality was high. The tools we have today help some but they are not enough. People fib about their calf mortality rate and breeding time schedule. With all the tools modern herdsmen have at their disposal, why can’t they do as well as other cloven hoof creatures? They deliver an offspring that stands as soon as it hits the ground and begins to suckle right away. All cloven hooved animals have no trouble with weak offspring except for western cattle. Take the following test: 1. How many calves did you wean? 70% - 80% - 90% - 101%? 2. How many of your cows have been sold because they didn’t conceive during a sixty or ninety day breeding schedule? 3. How many calves were treated with medicine in the first two weeks of life? 4. How many calves have you given colostrum? 5. How many breech births, retained afterbirth, or prolapsed uterus’ have you had? 6. Have you had to treat for uterine infections? 7. How many calves did you have to sell because they were underweight or did not fit the 60- or 90-day breeding schedule? 8. Wouldn’t you like to have calves born in a 60- or 90day period or less? 9. Does your calving schedule leave you exhausted? If you are using a bull with a weak loin and he’s posed up on a hill or a mound of soil, you are canceling out calving ease. There is more to calving ease than a large pelvis and a small birth weight because that is just a band aid fix for calving. There is much to learn about calving ease, read William B. Tegtmeier’s book to acquire more knowledge. What a disaster it has become for the western world of cattle!
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because landowners strongly dislike initiatives that lock them in to long-term or permanent arrangements, such as perpetual conservation easements. The Endangered Species Reserve Program has four additional aspects that would appeal to those who are truly interested in conserving imperiled species. 1. It would eliminate the wasteful lawsuits that have increasingly driven the process by which the Endangered Species Act is administered. Over the past ten years, the Endangered Species Act has become increasingly bogged down in petitions by activist groups to list hundreds of species, which result in lawsuits against the Fish and Wildlife Service over technicalities that have nothing to do with actual conservation, such as the agency’s inability to meet statutory deadlines for responding to the ever-growing mountain of petitions. This has earned these groups, in particular the Center for Biological Diversity (CBD), the ire of conservationists, especially because the group is often reimbursed by the federal government for its many successful procedural lawsuits. “The amount of money CBD makes suing is just obscene,” Amos Eno, a prominent conservationist and founding president of the Resources First Foundation, reportedly said. “They’re one of the reasons the Endangered Species Act has become sodysfunctional.” According to Eno, the federal government could, “recover and delist three dozen species,” with the money and staff time spent dealing with lawsuits from the Center for Biological Diversity. The Endangered Species Reserve Program would eliminate this waste because there would be no citizen suit provision. The Endangered Species Reserve Program would put the Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Marine Fisheries Service back in the business of being able to devote significantly more resources to actual conservation. 2. The Endangered Species Reserve Program would free-up the Fish and Wildlife Service and National Marine Fisheries Service to make more rational decisions about which species to protect, instead of being required to respond constantly to lawsuits from activist groups. The federal government and non-profit groups like the Nature Conservancy have extensive data on what species and habitats are most in need of conservation. These data could be used much more effectively if the endangered species con-
servation process were driven more by science rather than lawsuits. The aspect of the Endangered Species Reserve Program that may be hardest for some to grasp, especially those steeped in the intricacies of the Endangered Species Act, is its simplicity. Instead of micro-managing issues as currently occurs under the Endangered Species Act, such as the definition of species’ distinct population segments or what constitutes “harm” to species, the Endangered Species Reserve Program would not specify these issues. Rather, it would employ a system to score habitat for endangered species, much like the Environmental Benefits Index used under the Conservation Reserve Program. Such a scoring system would incorporate both the biological value and the financial cost of conserving endangered species habitat to determine the most efficient and cost- effective expenditures. 3. The Endangered Species Reserve Program would most likely result in tens or even hundreds of thousands of landowners emerging from the shadows and volunteering that they have endangered species on their land. If landowners were free from the fear of being clobbered by the Endangered Species Act, then the most significant barrier standing in the way of a more successful approach to conserving endangered species would be removed. 4. From a political standpoint, the Endangered Species Reserve Program is very feasible because there are landowners in every state but Arizona enrolled in the Conservation Reserve Program. As a result, many members of Congress, as well as state legislators, already have constituents enrolled in the program and therefore can easily understand applying a Conservation Reserve Program approach to endangered species. Federal and state legislators are often hesitant to stick their necks out on an issue, especially if it is a hot- button issue like protecting endangered species. Fortunately, the presence of the Conservation Reserve Program gives politicians a good deal of the cover they will need to champion the Endangered Species Reserve Program. Only substantive reform of the Endangered Species Act will work. That means removing the punitive regulations that cause landowners to destroy habitat, kill species, and to go silent in efforts to avoid being whacked by cocked-two-by- fours. There are several reasons why a non-punitive approach to endangered species protection would work better than the current law. continued on page 94
What You Need toKnow Now About Your Family’s Health Insurance FROM BOB HOMER, New Mexico Cattle Growers’ Insurance Administrators
Here are the answers to the five most asked questions I hear from New Mexico stockmen Q. I’m over 65 and have Medicare and a Medicare supplement policy, do I need to do anything? 1. No action is necessary. If you want to change your Medicare supplement plan for next year, you must make your change between October 15 and December 7, 2014.
Q. I’m under 65 and am currently covered by health insurance what are my options? 1. If you are covered by an employer group policy, no action is required unless your employer is changing the company plan or discontinuing the plan. 2. If you are under 65 and have individual (non-group) coverage for you and your family or you have your own small group plan. a. If your policy was purchased before March 2010 and you have not made changes to the policy [no increased deductible, etc], this policy is grand fathered and you can keep it as long as the insurance company keeps renewing that plan. b. Your policy was purchased after March 2010. If your policy is from Blue Cross Blue Shield or Lovelace, you can keep it until December 1, 2014. Please contact our office to select a new plan during the next open enrollment period between November 15, 2014 and February 15, 2015. 3. If you are covered under the New Mexico Cattle Growers member group policy with Blue Cross Blue Shield, your coverage will continue until August 1, 2014. Some policies can continue after that date. If you need to change your policy, our office has already contacted you.
Q. I do not have health coverage, what are my options? 1. You may sign up for health coverage during the next open enrollment period which begins on November 15 and runs through February 15, 2015, through our office, with one of the following companies: i. Blue Cross Blue Shield ii. Presbyterian iii. New Mexico Health Connections iv. Molina (only for those eligible for Medicaid)
2. How do you do it? Call our office: 1-800/286-9690 or 505/828-9690 or email me at rhomer@financialguide.com
Q. If you want to know if you & your family qualify for a government subsidy, go to www.kff.org [Kaiser Family Foundation]. Q. I do not want any coverage, what are my options? 1. Penalty for 2014 = $95 per adult and $47.50 per child or 1% of your family income, whichever is greater. 2. Penalty for 2016 = $695 per adult and $347.50 per child or 2.5% of your family income, whichever is greater.
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1. Common sense dictates that if you want more of something, you reward it. At the very least, you don’t punish people for providing it. 2. There is now a large and growing body of evidence, some of which has been documented in this paper, showing how the Endangered Species Act discourages species conservation. 3. America’s amazingly successful tradition of private conservation, as well as initiatives such as the Conservation
Reserve Program, prove landowners across the country will willingly conserve wildlife, including endangered species, so long as they are not punished. 4. For those not convinced about the viability of a non-punitive Endangered Species Act, there is a practical consideration: it is simply impossible for enforcers and supporters of the Endangered Species Act to patrol this country’s hundreds of millions of acres of endangered species habitat. Short of turning the U.S. into a police state, private landowners will always be able lawfully to make habitat unsuitable for species that are already listed or pro-
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posed for listing, and most will be able to break the law without detection by destroying species and habitat. 5. Some Endangered Species Act advocates think the ideal approach is to reward good landowner behavior with carrots and discourage bad behavior with sticks. But given landowners’ enormous advantage when it comes to evading or breaking the law, the use of sticks will fail more than succeed. Therefore, it is in the best interests of all those concerned about conserving endangered species to get rid of the penalties. 6. Any legislation, be it for endangered species or other issues, must be based on a positive vision of the future in order to capture the public’s imagination and garner widespread support. People, including members of Congress, like supporting initiatives they see as optimistic, constructive and good for the country. Fortunately, an Endangered Species Reserve Program presents just such an opportunity for the public, legislators, non-profit groups and business interests to support actions that are uplifting and elicit sympathy: endangered species, landowners, especially those who make a living from the land, America’s long and proud tradition of private conservation, and the amazing job American landowners and citizen-conservationists are doing to conserve this country’s land and wildlife. This Study’s Materials Full Study — Fulfilling the Promise of the Endangered Species Act: The Case for an Endangered Species Reserve Program, PDF, 4.3 MB, Brian Seasholes
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Chas S. Middleton & Son . . . . . . . . . . . . . .83 Monfette Construction Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . .88 Montoya Farm and Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . .39 Motley Mill & Cube Corporation . . . . . . . . .75 Mountain View Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18 Paul McGillard / Murney Associates . . . . . .85 N National Animal Interest Alliance . . . . . . . .63 New Mexico Beef Council . . . . . . . . . .71, 72 New Mexico Beef Industry Initiative . . . . . .76 NMCGA Centennial Quilt . . . . . . . . . . . . . .97 NMCGA Membership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .94 New Mexico Cattle Growers’ Insurance . . . .93 New Mexico Cattle Growers’ Pres. Letter . .10 New Mexico 4-H Foundation . . . . . . . . . . .66 New Mexico Hereford Association . . . . . . . .14 New Mexico Premier Ranch Property . . . . .83 NMSU Animal & Range Sciences . . . .42, 50 New Mexico Property Group . . . . . . . . . . .84 New Mexico Purina Dealers . . . . . . . . . . .100 New Mexico Wool Growers . . . . . . . . . . . .66 Nine Cross Hereford Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . .15 No-Bull Enterprises LLC . . . . . . . . . . . . . .56 O Olson Land and Cattle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .78 Jim Olson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .62 P Perez Cattle Company . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .21 Phillips Diesel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .88 Pinnacle Cattle Development Cen . . . . . . .26 PolyDome . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .29 Power Ford . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .43 Pratt Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18, 79 Cattle Guards / Priddy Construction . . . . . .69 Pure Energy Expo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .90
Southwest Red Angus Association . . . . . . .80 Stockmen’s Realty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .83 Straight Shooter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .83 Strang Herefords & Black Angus . . . . . . . .15 Joe Stubblefield & Associates . . . . . . . . . . .84 Swihart Sales Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .88 T T&S Manufacturing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .91 TechniTrack, LLC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .89 Terrell Land & Livestock Co. . . . . . . . .82, 86 Texas Hereford Association . . . . . . . . . . . .18 The Ranches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .70 2 Bar Angus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .80 U United Country Vista Nueva, Inc . . . . . . . . .87 USA Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .80 V Virden Perma Bilt Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .88 W W&W Fiberglass Tank Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . .42 Allen Weh for Senate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .25 West Star Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22, 78 West Wood Realty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .87 Westall Ranches, LLC . . . . . . . . . . . . .11, 80 Westway Feed Products, LLC . . . . . . . . . . .33 Willcox Livestock Auction . . . . . . . . . . . . . .77 Williams Windmill, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . .41, 88 WW - Paul Scales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .46 Y Yavapai Bottle Gas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .41, 88 Z Zia Agriculture Consulting, LLC . . . . . . . . .89 Zinpro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .38
R D.J. Reveal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22, 88 Tom Robb & Sons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18 Robertson Livestock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .88 Rocking Chair Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .89 Roeder Implement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .89 Roswell Brangus Bull & Female Sale . . . . .46 Roswell Escrow Services Inc . . . . . . . . . . . .27 Roswell Livestock Auction Co. . . . . . . . . . .36 S James Sammons & Associates, Inc . . . . . . .83 Sandia Trailer Sales & Service . . . . . . . . . .88 Santa Rita Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .79 Sci-Agra Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .67, 88 Scott Land . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .82 Singleton Ranches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .88
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CORTESE FEED & SUPPLY Fort Sumner, NM Aaron Cortese 575-355-2271
DICKINSON IMPLEMENT Tucumcari, NM Luke Haller 575-461-2740
OLD MILL FARM & RANCH Belen, NM Corky Morrison 505-865-5432
CIRCLE S FEED STORE Carlsbad, NM Walley Menuey 800-386-1235
COWBOYS CORNER Lovington, NM Wayne Banks 575-396-5663
HORSE ‘N HOUND FEED ‘N SUPPLY Las Cruces, NM Curtis Creighton 575-523-8790
ONE STOP FEED INC Clovis, NM Austin Hale 575-762-3997
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CREIGHTON’S TOWN & COUNTRY Portales, NM Garland Creighton 575-356-3665
ROSWELL LIVESTOCK & FARM SUPPLY Roswell, NM Kyle Kaufman 575-622-9164
STEVE SWIFT Account Manager Portales, NM 575-760-3112 GARY CREIGHTON Cattle Specialist Portales, NM 800-834-3198 or 575-760-5373
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