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Reserve Chi Heifer, 2013 Oklahoma Youth Expo Reserve Middleweight, 2013 Arizona National Champion Hereford Steer, 2013 Indiana State Fair Shown by the Bender Family, Indiana Shown by the Derryberry Family, Oklahoma Shown by the Davis Family, New Mexico

Reserve Overall, 2013 Jingle Bell Classic Shown by the Skiles Family, Texas

Champion Maine Steer, 2012 Kansas State Fair Shown by the Griffen Family, Kansas

Champion Steer, 2010 Arizona National

Shown by the Davis Family, Colorado

Champion Market Heifer, 2013 NWSS Shown by the Nicholas Family, Colorado

Champion Hereford Steer, 2013 Michigan AGR Shown by the Pastryk Farmily, Indiana

Champion Steer, 2009 State Fair of Texas Shown by the Carter Family, Texas

4th Overall, 2009 Kansas Beef Expo Shown by the Hanza Family, Oklahoma

Champion Steer, 2013 & 2014 Oklahoma Spring Livestock Show Class Winner Ring A & B, 2013 Kansas Beef Expo

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5th Overall Steer, 2014 NWSS 3rd Overall Steer, 2014 Missouri AGR Show Champion Steer, 2014 Kansas AGR Show Shown by the Hodges Family, Kansas Sold with Lucky Strike Cattle, Oklahoma 6

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Champion Division Chi, 2014 FWSS Reserve Division Chi, 2014 San Angelo Stock Show Reserve Champion Chi, 2013 Fall Classic Shown by the Goodrum Family, Texas Sold with Jeffs Cattle Company, Texas please visit our web site at www.copelandshowcattle.com to view all our past champions

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F E AT U R E S NEW MEXICO STOCKMAN Write or call: P.O. Box 7127 Albuquerque, New Mexico 87194 Fax: 505/998-6236 505/243-9515 E-mail: caren@aaalivestock.com

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New Mexico Cattle Growers’ Association Email: nmcga@nmagriculture.org; 2231 Rio Grande NW, P.O. Box 7517, Albuquerque, NM 87194, 505/247-0584, Fax: 505/842-1766; President, Jóse Varela López Executive Director, Caren Cowan Asst. Executive Director, Michelle Frost New Mexico Wool Growers, Inc. P.O. Box 7520, Albuquerque, NM 87194, 505/247-0584 President, Marc Kincaid Executive Director, Caren Cowan Asst. Executive Director, Michelle Frost ■

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Charolais: The Ancient & Profitable by Sharon Niederman New Mexico Representative Dodge Selected as CSG Toll Fellow Lean Beef: Building on a success story from the High Plains Journal AICA 50K Genotype Project Could Abandoned Homesteads Keep the Sage Grouse Off The Endangered Species List? by Brian Seasholes, Reason Foundation Come to the Fair... Every Fair! by Sharon Niederman New Mexico State Fair Livestock Schedule Eastern New Mexico State Fair Schedule Southern New Mexico State Fair Schedule From The Calf Scramble To Life’s Work ENMSF to Offer Johnny Ogden Memorial Scholarship The Hidden Persuaders of the Environmental Elite by Ron Arnold, Washgintonexaminer.com Pat Nowlin Scholarship Winners Ross & Thomas Retire from NMSU Central Nevada Ranchers Fighting BLM Over Grazing Rights by Thomas Mitchell Spring 2014 NMSU Animal Science Graduates

EDITORIAL & ADVERTISING Publisher: Caren Cowan Publisher Emeritus: Chuck Stocks Office Manager: Marguerite Vensel Advertising Reps.: Chris Martinez, Melinda Martinez Contributing Editors: Carol Wilson Callie Gnatkowski-Gibson, William S. Previtti, Lee Pitts Photographer: Dee Bridgers

PRODUCTION Production Coordinator: Carol Pendleton Editorial & Advertising Design: Kristy Hinds

ADVERTISING SALES Chris Martinez at 505/243-9515, ext. 28 or chris@aaalivestock.com New Mexico Stockman (USPS 381-580) is published monthly by Caren Cowan, 2231 Rio Grande, NW, Albuquerque, NM 87104-2529. Subscription price: 1 year - $19.95 /2 years - $29.95. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to New Mexico Stockman, P.O. Box 7127, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87194. Periodicals Postage paid at Albuquerque, New Mexico and additional mailing offices. Copyright 2008 by New Mexico Stockman. Material may not be used without permission of the publisher. Deadline for editorial and advertising copy, changes and cancellations is the 10th of the month preceding publication. Advertising rates on request.

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N.M. Cattle Growers’ Association President’s Letter by Jose Varela Lopez, President News Update Estrays New Mexico’s Old Time & Old Timers by Don Bullis N.M. CowBelles Jingle Jangle N.M. Federal Lands Council News by Frank DuBois In Memoriam Farm Bureau Minute by Mike White, President, New Mexico Farm & Livestock Bureau To The Point by Caren Cowan On The Edge of Common Sense by Baxter Black My Cowboy Heroes by Jim Olson NMBC Bullhorn Market Place Seedstock Guide Real Estate Guide Ad Index

ON THE COVER . . . Ranch Rodeo, an 18"x14" oil painting by Idaho’s Jason Rich tells the story on this month’s cover. For more information on Jason and his work, visit jasonrichstudios.com or his Facebook page.

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by José Varela L ópez NMCGA PRESIDENT

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Dear Fellow Members and Industry Supporters, t’s hard to believe that we’re already saying goodbye to summer, but with the 76th edition of the New Mexico State Fair almost underway and green chile roasting in backyards and store parking lots alike, I realize that it’s true. Hopefully that means that you’ll have a chance to spend a day or two at the Fair supporting the youth who are proudly displaying their show animals and demonstrating the maturity and confidence that comes with hard work and dedication to a project. Maybe you’ll have time to partake in an authentic New Mexico green chile cheeseburger too. Quite apart from our time honored traditions it seems that we spend an inordinate amount of time fighting the incompetence of federal agencies who are charged with the protection of endangered species and the ever present perception that livestock somehow negatively impact the habitat needed by the species du jour. Last month I addressed the New Mexico Meadow Jumping Mouse listing. Since then I’ve attended several meetings with allotment owners, the US Forest Service and the US Fish & Wildlife Service to discuss the perceived need of the US Forest Service to take “affirmative action” to protect the mouse. I’m sorry to say that there is a complete lack of scientific integrity associated with both the proposed and newly implemented actions which take into account only a few of the potential factors relevant to the overall species protection equation. In light of the unnecessary impact it has on the folks who are trying to make a living while being good stewards of the land, I think the current preference to build exclosure areas is bound to fail both mouse and man. I just wonder if a federal agency can be held accountable for the taking of an endangered species if the proposed action is fatally flawed? That same lack of scientific integrity is also evident in the latest proposal by the US Fish & Wildlife Service to expand the Mexican Gray Wolf recovery area and proposed rule change. The Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) contains many significant flaws, the first of which is the lack of information concerning an available prey base to support additional wolf numbers. Another major issue that is not addressed is the social and economic impact to the rural people of New Mexico and Arizona to grow a wolf that is of questionable genetics and of no benefit on the landscape in this day and age. Again, looking at an incomplete picture of all the factors relevant to the proposed action is both arbitrary and capricious. I don’t know how else to make the federal agencies aware of what is totally obvious to the ranchers. The comment period on the Mexican Gray Wolf DEIS ends on September 23, 2014. Please take the time to submit comments by going to www.regulations.gov/#!documentDetail;D=FWS-R2- ES-2013-0056-6056. With more than half of our state, plus all the states bordering us, having the potential to be negatively impacted your concerns are very important and should become part of the record. Finally, in preparation for the Joint Stockmen’s Convention in December I’d like to ask a favor of you. I think it would be a wonderful tribute to our families and the industries that we represent to have a slideshow with pictures of the people and places that have allowed us to grow, thrive and even survive the challenges of our 100 year history as an association. Please contact the office at 505/247-0584 or nmcga@nmagriculture.org if you would like to have a few old or new photographs be part of the Centennial Celebration.

Hasta pronto,

José Varela López www.nmagriculture.org NEW MEXICO CATTLE GROWERS’ ASSOCIATION OFFICERS José Varela López President La Cieneguilla

Pat Boone President-Elect Elida

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John Conniff Randell Major Ernie Torrez Jeff Billberry Blair Clavel Shacey Sullivan Vice-President SW Vice-President NW Vice-President SE Vice-President NE Vice-President Secretary-Treasurer At Large, Las Cruces Magdalena La Jara Elida Roy Bosque Farms

Rex Wilson Past President Carrizozo

Caren Cowan Executive Director Albuquerque

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ROSWELL LIVESTOCK AUCTION RECEIVING STATIONS LORDSBURG, NM 20 Bar Livestock Highway #90 at NM #3 – East side of highway. Receiving cattle for transport 2nd & 4th Sunday of each month. Truck leaves Lordsburg on Sunday at 2:00 p.m. (MST) Smiley Wooton, 575/622-5580 office, 575/626-6253 cell. PECOS, TX Hwy. 80 across from Town & Country Motel. Jason Heritage is now receiving cattle every Sunday. For information to unload contact Jason Heritage 575/840-9544 or Smiley Wooton 575/626-6253. NO PRIOR PERMITS REQUIRED. Trucks leave Sunday at 4:00 p.m. (CST) VAN HORN, TX 800 West 2nd, 5 blocks west of Courthouse. Steve Flippen, 254/462-2028. Trucks leave 1st & 3rd Sunday at 3:00 p.m. (CST) MORIARTY, NM Two blocks east and one block south of Tillery Chevrolet. Smiley Wooton 575/622-5580 office, 575/626-6253 mobile. Trucks leave Sunday at 3:00 p.m. (MST) SAN ANTONIO, NM River Cattle Co. Nine miles east of San Antonio on U.S. 380. Receiving cattle for transport 2nd & 4th Sunday of each month. Gary Johnson 575/838-1834, 575/517-0107 cell. Trucks leave Sunday at 3:00 p.m. (MST)

Ex-Im Funds he Export-Import Bank (or, the Ex-Im Bank) distributes taxpayer funds to foreign companies in order to finance the purchase of American products. According to the Heritage Foundation, large multinational corporations are the primary beneficiary of Ex-Im funds: ■ More than 80 percent of Ex-Im financing goes to large firms. In 2013 alone, the Boeing Company benefited from more than 66 percent of Ex-Im loan guarantees. ■ Just 0.009 percent of small businesses receive export financing support from the Ex-Im bank. ■ Ninety-eight percent of American exporters receive no assistance from the bank. Much of the argument in favor of the Ex-Im Bank centers on the notion that the agency creates jobs. But in fact, the subsidies hurt American jobs because they put American firms at a competitive disadvantage: ■ For example, Ex-Im has financed coal mining in Colombia and copper excavation in Mexico. This financing has caused American companies to lose jobs. ■ According to Ex-Im’s Inspector General, the agency’s analyses of its program have omitted important data and failed to consider the impact of subsidies on domestic employment. The Heritage Foundation explains that when Ex-Im funds are distributed, taxpayers are put at risk, because all Ex-Im financing is backed by the federal government. In 2014, taxpayers will be liable for $140 billion in Ex-Im funds.

Source: “Facts About the Export-Import Bank,” Factsheet No. 149, Heritage Foundation, July 28, 2014.

New technologies needed for increasing livestock production by SARAH MUIRHEAD, FEEDSTUFFS FOODLINK n the next 30 years, the world’s population is projected to grow by nearly 2 billion and will become more urbanized, with a more skilled workforce. The good news is that global prosperity and affluence will increase. At the same time, the challenge will be a food supply that needs to be more than doubled in order to meet the increasing demand. Specifically, the demand for animal-sourced foods will need to be more than doubled to meet the demands of the newly affluent. At the 2014 Joint Annual Meeting of the American Dairy Science Association and the American Society of Animal Science, Donald Nkrumah with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation,

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Seattle, Wash., explained that with fewer and fewer people engaged in agriculture, and for the sake of the planet, animal production growth cannot continue to come from the deployment of more animals and land. Some have argued that current organic systems may be for the rich and curious and could not produce enough food to feed the world in the future. Past technologies that allowed us to advance productivity may not be enough to bring about future intensification, especially for small holders who live in areas that require attention to climatic adaptability and disease resiliency, said Nkrumah. Instead, changes in total factor productivity will need to occur through significant changes in current techniques, he said. To transform current near-subsistence small holder production systems, Nkrumah said technological innovation will be required to drive the needed sustainable productivity increases. That means collaborative global research teams must strive to come up with new ways of developing and adapting modern concepts in biotechnology to create the next-gener-

ation of animal genetics, health, and livestock nutrition systems. These technologies will then have to be deployed affordably through context-relevant mobile communication and digital platforms to â&#x2013; increase accessibility.

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Charolais

The Ancient & Profitable by SHARON NIEDERMAN

lthough the black Angus breed sometimes seems to be the most popular, many successful ranchers swear by the big white Charolais. This ancient breed originated in westcentral to southeastern France, in the old French provinces of Charolles and neighboring Nievre located within modern Burgundy. The exact origins of the Charolais are not known but it was surely developed from cattle found in the area. Legend has it that white cattle were first noticed in the region as early as 878 A.D., the time of Charlemange. Tales are also told about warriors during the Crusades bringing beautiful white cows to the shores of France.

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Their days as draft animals pretty much came to an end by the seventeenth century. By the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries these white cows were popular in French markets, especially at Lyon and Villefranche. The systematic breeding of Charolais actually began about 15 miles south of Charolles, on the edge of the Arconce Valley in the village of Oyé. In 1747 rancher Émilien Mathieu set himself up breeding, fattening, and transporting Charolais to Paris, at the time a 17-day march The first Charolais cattle reportedly seen in Paris appeared in the market of Poissy in 1747. The first known herd book, which records and registers purebred cattle, was started in Charolles in 1882. Today, all told, there are about 1.6 million inhabitants in Burgundy and 1.4 million head of cattle. But in the heartland of the Charollais, cows, heifers, bulls, bullocks, and calves easily outnumber humans. Not surprisingly, livestock is now the economic mainstay in the Charolais, which for centuries was known for its timber and winemaking. Selection developed a white breed of cattle which, like other cattle of continental Europe, were used for draft, milk and meat. In 1934, the breed was introduced into the US from Mexico. A second herd was introduced around 1960. Lane Grau, who ranches a few miles south of Grady, NM says, “I was three years old when Dad bought the first Charolais cows and bulls,” he says. “Herefords were going to a shorter, more compact size, so Dad looked for another breed. That was in 1965. Dad is passed on, but we’re still raising good Charolais. “The main reason is that you can put Charolais on any other breed and you’ll still get a pretty good calf. You can’t say that about any other breed,” says Lane. “Dad also would say, when we were driving down the road, ‘When you see a black cow, you don’t know what it really is. But when you see a Charolais, you know for sure.” He is proud of the family’s record with Charolais, noting they have tested every year at the Tucumcari bull test since 196364. “We’re always striving to build better cattle,” he says, and he has many repeat customers for his Charolais. Recently, he’s been sending them to Florida, South Dakota, and north-central California. In addition, the Charolais’ appeal to Lane is strengthened by their ability to gain more generally, appealing to the feedlot as well as the stocker-grower. He also

appreciates the feed-efficiency, allowing them to feed on wheat pasture with good result. “You might have to supplement ‘em, but that’s a given for this part of the world.” The rains that have brought relief to many operations around the state this summer have eluded Lane’s place. “We’re particularly dry this year. Here it is late August and it looks like the dead of winter right now.” Myron Runft’s history with the Charolais on his north-central Kansas ranch goes back even further, to the late 1950s. He has nothing but praise for the breed’s disposition. “I enjoy working with them,” the semi-retired Runft says. “They want to please you, like a dog or a horse. Of course, any that might not make excellent McDonald’s burgers.” In 1956, the Runfts started their transition from Hereford to Charolais when they needed to get more pounds on their calves. “We liked the pounds,” he says, and not only the larger calves, but the Charolais’ ability to fatten, “so we upgraded the program as time went on.” Runft’s Midwest rainfall is more generous than New Mexico’s, averaging about 27 inches a year, and his climate less severe, with temperatures below zero about a

week out of the winter and over 100 about a week during the summer. Still, his cattle have to be fed over the winter from about February to mid-April. But the Charolais is well acclimated to conditions in the Southwest as well, according to those most familiar with the hardy breed. “Their white color offsets their body heat in the desert,” says Wesley Grau, also of Grady, in droughty southeastern New Mexico. If they are adapted to these rugged conditions, they can do well anywhere else. “They are extremely intelligent. I’ve handled nearly everything, and they are the best to handle,” he says. “We market coast to coast. Last year the majority went to Florida, and as the reputation grows, they are also going to Illinois and Virginia. Increasingly, they are in demand. “The economic advantage is that they are very feed efficient, they travel well across our terrain, and they calve easier. Their meat is more tender, with less fat, and so they are in demand by many of the world’s top chefs.” Much of the demand for his cattle relies on the Charolais’ ability to integrate well into the herd. “The Charolais-Angus cross is the ultimate cross,” he says. continued on page 16

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Charolais are bred throughout the world today, in over 70 countries. Perhaps nowhere is the breed held in higher esteem than France, its country of origin. The Concours de Charolles , a competition to find the best breeding stock, traditionally takes place in November. At the beginning of December, the Festival du Boeuf is held, its highlight being the competition to find the very best Charolais cattle – the perfect animal with all the attributes of the Charolais breed. These honored centuries-old cultural and culinary traditions still thrive in France. The cattle market at SaintChristophe-en-Brionnais takes place every Wednesday at 7:00 a.m. The day begins with the “ marché au cadran ,” a cattle auction where the producers bid for the young bulls and cattle ready to be fattened up. In the afternoon the traditional cattle market is held for animals destined for meat production. This weekly market was first recorded in 1488. Each week it is the gathering place for cattle farmers and merchants from throughout the region. Australian and Canadian breed standards also recognize cattle possessing a light red color called ‘Red Factor’ Charolais. The term Charbray refers to the offspring of Charolais crossed with Brahmans and is recognized as a breed in its own right. Sharon Niederman is a writer and photographer living in Raton. Her forthcoming book is: The Plate of Enchantment: New Mexico Farm to Table.

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Lean Beef: Building on a success story FROM THE HIGH PLAINS JOURNAL esponding to its market, the beef industry began making important changes in both perceived and actual nutritional properties of its products nearly 40 years ago. Those changes and the resulting impact they have had in marketing beef are more significant than most producers realize. The industry’s first wake-up call came

in 1977 when the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs released the “Dietary Goals for the American People.” Among other things, that document recommended Americans decrease consumption of meat in favor of poultry and fish. “All of a sudden, red meat became demonized,” according to Jeff Savell, Ph.D., university distinguished professor at Texas A&M University, who has been involved in beef industry research since the late 1970s. “We found people’s attitudes were sometimes based on ancient continued on page 18

Representative Dodge Selected as CSG Toll Fellow ew Mexico state Representative George Dodge Jr. is one of 48 state policymakers from across the country selected as a Council of State Governments’ Henry Toll Fellow for the Class of 2014. The Class of 2014 Toll Fellows represents 35 states and Puerto Rico, with 35 serving in the legislative branch, four serving in the judiciary and nine hailing from the executive. A nine-member committee of state leaders, many who are Toll Fellows themselves, reviewed a record number of applications to select the class. “The Henry Toll Fellowship has a distinguished history of cultivating some of the nation’s top leaders and forging lasting relationships among a special few who serve without fear or favor,” said Tennessee Senate Majority Leader Mark Norris, the 2014 CSG national chair and a 2002 CSG Toll Fellow. “This year’s class is drawn from a very deep talent pool, and each of those selected will contribute significantly.” The Toll Fellowship Program, named for CSG founder Henry Wolcott Toll, is one of the nation’s premier leadership development programs for state government officials. Each year, the program brings 48 of the nation’s top officials from all three branches of state government to Lexington, Ky., for an intensive six-day, five-night “intellectual boot camp.” “I have seen alumni from this program,” Dodge said. “I am impressed about what they have learned, how they handle themselves and their expression

of ideas. I want to have their knowledge and attitude. “Everyone has different ideas and ways of doing things. I would like to learn and utilize these methods to better my state.” The program’s agenda includes a lineup of dynamic speakers and sessions designed to stimulate personal assessment and growth, while providing priceless networking and relationship-building opportunities. While each year’s program is unique, previous programs have included sessions on leadership personality assessment, media training, crisis management, appreciative inquiry, adaptive leadership and much more. “The Toll Fellowship remains the oldest and most prestigious of all leadership development programs for elected officials,” said David Adkins, CSG’s executive director/CEO. “Its impact is profound and its quality is renowned. As a Toll Fellow from 1993, I know first hand the impact the program has on elected officials.” Adkins was a 1993 Toll Fellow when he served as a Kansas state representative. Toll Fellows alumni include U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree, a former Maine state senator, U.S. Rep. John Carney, a former Delaware lieutenant governor; U.S. Rep. Colleen Hanabusa, a former Hawaii state Senate president; U.S. Rep. Todd Rokita, a former Indiana secretary of state; former North Carolina Gov. Beverly Perdue and former U.S. Labor Secretary Hilda Solis.

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data.” Savell and colleagues, in fact, found the biggest impediment to establishing dietary recommendations at the time was faulty product information. For instance, Savell says that up until 1986, data for the beef porterhouse steak showed the cut had more than 42 percent fat—and this information was based on just a few heifers from the 1950s. “It was a horrible lag in data,” Savell says. “We had outdated information for decades. Furthermore, we needed to define the concept of lean beef.” Compounding that was the fact the industry was actually marketing beef with too much fat—”dinosaur cuts, as we look at it today,” he says. With the power of Congress against it, and with consumers increasingly viewing beef as unhealthy, the industry knew it had a fight on its hands. Starting in earnest in the mid-1980s and with a battle cry of “War on Fat,” the industry effort intended to find a way of incorporating beef into a new American consciousness focused on fat. It’s important to note the war was not

waged against Congress or consumers. “At the time, just about every man over 50 years old visiting his doctor was being told to quit eating red meat,” says Eric Hentges, Ph.D., who was director of nutrition research at the National Livestock and Meat Board from 1986 to 1995. “We took more of a ‘fit, don’t fight’ approach to attacking the issue.” The results of this war were impressive by any standard. Since the late 1970s, the industry has demonstrated a 44 percent reduction in available fat (from 13 percent to 7 percent) and a 29 percent reduction in saturated fat contributed by beef per capita (from 13 percent to 9 percent). Furthermore, more than 65 percent of whole muscle beef cuts sold at retail today meet government standards for lean, and 17 of the top 25 most popular cuts sold at retail (including sirloin steak and tenderloin) are lean. Since the 1980 Dietary Guidelines for Americans were issued, external fat on retail beef cuts has decreased by 81 percent. Retail data show sales of 90 percent or greater lean ground beef increased by 25 percent between 2008 and 2013.

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leanness involved every segment of the beef chain—cattle ranchers and farmers who raised leaner animals, packers and processors who closely trimmed beef cuts, supermarkets and restaurants that offered a growing number of lean beef cuts to consumers, and researchers who made sure accurate data were used in calculating what was actually in the products. Also playing a critical role was a Beef Checkoff Program that helped fund much of the research and many of the efforts to get information into the right hands. “It was the perfect storm,” said Savell. “The need for good information came at the same time as the availability of funding. And without the checkoff, it would not have been done.” Hentges agrees, saying, “Without the checkoff, we wouldn’t have had the resources to go forward.” “Every pivotal point in this journey has had a checkoff element,” says Shalene McNeill, Ph.D., R.D., executive director of human nutrition research at the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, a beef checkoff contractor. “For instance, checkoff work led to collaboration that updated the entire gold-standard nutrient database for beef.” The Nutrient Database Improvement initiative, in fact, was a unique public-private partnership between cattle producers through their beef checkoff and the government, which established the database. The USDA’s National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference, or SR, has been in place for 115 years and is the official source for food composition information. Through this initiative the checkoff has been able to update the nutrient data for one of America’s favorite foods in the official database used by nutrition professionals, media, marketers, government agencies and others. It’s part of an assurance to consumers that the information they’re getting to make dietary choices is accurate and complies with public health recommendations. Industry meetings about database changes involved USDA staff, which was an enormous benefit, according to Hentges, who is now executive director of the International Live Science Institute, North America. “As soon as the data came in, it became their data,” he says. “We had the luxury of using data to get ourselves out of a hole.” With information in hand, the beef industry made a huge push through its checkoff program in the 1980s and 1990s to reach out to health professionals. For

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instance, a program with state beef councils and the American Dietetic Association (now the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics) starting in the late 1980s and continuing today provides seminars to local and state Academy groups on nutrient density and the new lean data. “The data was accurate and believable, and the program very well received,” says Hentges. “I think we laid a pretty solid foundation.” From a production and processing standpoint, the key milestone was a major checkoff-funded National Consumer Retail Beef Study in 1986 that demonstrated consumers would buy more beef, and pay more for it, if they were offered a leaner product. “That was probably my ‘aha’ moment,” says Savell. At that time, retail beef trim was about .5 inches of external fat. The information from the study created a “domino effect” in the retail industry to reduce external fat on retail cuts, Savell said, with one retailer trying to outdo the other when it came to closer trim. The move by retailers to reduce fat trim led to increased efforts by packers to reduce the amount of fat going into the back of the store, according to Clay Burtrum, a cow-calf producer from Stillwater, Oklahoma, and chairman of the checkoff’s Nutrition and Health Committee. Burtrum worked in a retail meat

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department for about eight years early in his career, and says in 1992 fat would be trimmed extensively before cuts were placed into trays. Today, he says, that step isn’t usually necessary. It also was being supplemented by developments at the production level. Burtrum says on his farm, “We select for different traits, matching attributes of a bull with the dam, figuring out which pasture those animals will run on, and evaluating other options. It really is a pastureto-plate process.” The results were demonstrated by a checkoff-funded National Beef Market Basket Survey in 2005, which found that overall fat thickness for the cuts in individual store packages had been reduced to an average of .09 inches, 81 percent less than it had been just 25 years earlier. “When you go to the meat case today, it’s a sea of red,” says Savell. “There is just no visible fat. Over time, we have seen a redefinition of lean.”

Taking a different tack on lean beef Are there still opportunities when thinking about lean beef? Yes, agree industry experts, but not necessarily in the direction it has taken over the past 40 years. “We’re now to the point we just can’t get any leaner,” according to Savell. “Even if the only grade eaten by consumers was Select, it wouldn’t change fat intake (by Americans) appreciably.”

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The checkoff’s McNeill agrees. “Because today’s beef is so closely trimmed, there’s not much more progress we can make toward leaner product,” she says. “But the availability of lean beef cuts is extremely important in helping consumers feel better about beef.” The industry’s message on lean could hardly be more positive. Today more than 38 cuts, when cooked and visible fat trimmed, have been shown to fit the USDA definition of lean, which is less than 10 grams of total fat, less than or equal to 4.5 grams of saturated fat and less than 95 milligrams of cholesterol per 3 1/2 ounces. This compares to seven cuts just 20 years ago. McNeill says, however, the industry’s best messages may sometimes get lost in the discussion on lean. “While the focus on lean is important, it’s only part of our great beef nutrition story,” she says. “All beef provides 10 essential nutrients, including high-quality protein, important to good health.” Still, she says having the tremendous lean message is very important—even if it isn’t the particular message the industry decides to utilize in every instance. “Historically, it’s been an important focus,” McNeill says, “because unfortunately, when consumers and health professionals think of nutrition and beef, they often think of fat first. “Today we’re suggesting to our state beef council partners they don’t need to talk as much about the numbers, because lean cuts have become so prevalent,” she says. “We need to stress that many popular cuts of beef are lean and all beef has 10 essential nutrients.” While fat is still a leading barrier for consumers choosing beef, “the lean story is giving us many chances to tell a good nutrition story,” says McNeill. “We have a great opportunity to show that beef is surprisingly more lean and nutritious than [consumers] think.” McNeill points to the Beef in an Optimal Lean Diet—or BOLD—Study as a means of doing that. The BOLD Study demonstrated that a heart-healthy diet containing 5 ounces a day of lean beef was just as heart-healthy as the government’s “optimal” diet based on chicken as a protein. It also showed that the heart-healthy diet including beef can lower total and LDL-cholesterol levels by 10 percent. “We found that researchers were surprised not just by the results, but by the terrific nutrition profiles of the beef cuts,”

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AICA 50K Genotype Project he American-International Charolais Association has been working to build a research database of 50K genotypes. This database will serve as the research base to help make the incorporation of DNA into genomically enhanced EPD (GEEPD) for AICA. AICA already has available to them 50K (and High Density, HD) genotypes on some animals through various research projects including the Weight Traits Project and the Bull 2000 project with the Meat Animal Research Center (MARC). The initial recommendation for AICA to move forward is to establish a research database on 1000 progeny proven sires. This should allow AICA to develop an effective panel with the ability to predict GEEPD and improve accuracy of selection, especially on younger bulls and females. Research projects of this size require a breed-wide effort and the cooperation of Charolais breeders is needed to help build the discovery population. The AICA Board of Directors is asking for membership support to submit DNA samples (50K SNP test) on their herd sires as well as those high accuracy sires they’ve owned in the past. The results of this project will be of benefit to every member of AICA and those commercial producers using Charolais

genetics through GE-EPD that have higher accuracy values for animals at younger ages. We have worked to build a list of those animals already known to have 50K genotype available so that as few animals as possible are genotyped more than once. Please see the lists of specific animals that have already been tested in addition to the list of those animals which are of high accuracy and for which 50K’s are desired. This list of desired sires was made available through the Animal Breeding faculty at Iowa State University based on informative accuracy in the current AICA genetic evaluation. Genotypes through this project in the discovery population will be owned by the AICA to be used for research and genetic prediction. While the AICA Board of Directors appreciates that many breeders will cover the cost to 50K genotype those sires listed on the “Desired” list AICA has directed funds get AICA to the targeted number of 1000 informative sires. Check these lists periodically as they will be updated as more animals are genotyped. When possible AICA will add more animals to the “Desired” list as funds permit. For more information regarding sample collection, sample handling and submission of samples please contact the AICA office.

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Could Abandoned Homesteads Help Keep the Sage Grouse Off the Endangered Species List? by BRIAN SEASHOLES, REASON FOUNDATION hile the most memorable word from the movie The Graduate is famously “plastics”, a key word for keeping the sage grouse off the endangered species list may be “homesteads.” According to an article in the current issue of Progressive Rancher, by a professor and three extension personnel at the University of Nevada, long-abandoned homesteads in Nevada may well be the solution to the state’s efforts to conserve the sage grouse more effectively in order to keep it off the endangered species list. Much of the effort to conserve the sage

grouse, both in Nevada and elsewhere, is focused on managing livestock that graze in the grouse’s sage brush habitat. Yet, as the article in Progressive Rancher points out: “[A]ppropriate livestock grazing management alone does not seem to be appreciably improving the plight of sage-grouse. Better management of sagebrush ecosystems is always paramount for any number of reasons, including sage-grouse, but the ranching industry should become proactive and look at specific vegetation management actions that could directly improve the sage-grouse habitat in shortest supply: mid- and late-summer brood rearing areas. Instead of lamenting what is out of the ranching industry’s control, let’s ask a very important question. If, according to wildlife biologists, the big general bottleneck for increasing sage-grouse

numbers at population levels in Nevada is a shortage of late-season brood habitat, and if numbers were once much higher than they are today, just what has changed in the intervening period? What on the landscape has changed that may account for the bottleneck and the numerical decline? The answer may be found in one word, homesteads.” According to the article, from the late 1800s to the mid-1900s there were hundreds, perhaps even thousands, of small homesteads scattered across large portions of Nevada. These homesteads almost invariably were located on a spring or stream that the owners used to irrigate meadows in order to feed a few livestock and grow hay. The homesteaders also vigorously shot and continued on page 64

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cake, BBQ, and other tastes of nostalgia that conjure fond memories of life in New Mexico. New Mexico food is celebrated with the Unique Food contest, as last year’s winner, Sun Mountain’s Deep Fried Green Chile Cheese Curds demonstrates. The fair was created to celebrate New Mexico’s agricultural way of life, western heritage, and diverse cultures, and its best ambassador is the State Fair Queen, who excels at horsemanship. This year’s queen is Staci Trehern of Sandoval County. Two other sizable fairs, the Southern New Mexico State Fair in Las Cruces, and the Eastern New Mexico State Fair in Roswell showcase the talents and hard work of the people of those regions. But in many ways, the essence of what makes going to the fair so much fun is best found in the more than two dozen individual county fairs around the state, where neighbors greet each other, shake hands, play “pass the new grandbaby,” and admire each other’s quilts, handiwork, cows, pigs, and chickens. That’s where time-honored customs the larger culture may have forgotten about, like the Knights of Columbus Cakewalk in Springer at the Colfax

young people is a large part of what keeps him going. “I enjoy watching them grow and develop,” he says, and “seeing what they become . . . seeing them become leaders. I see them now and I remember when the animals were bigger than they were.” This year the Colfax County Fair is extending by a day to include Cow Dog Trials organized by Garland King of the King Ranch near Capulin. BBQ and rodeo are among the biggest draws, and Troy says a good sale will mean over 60 animals are sold, including as many as 20 steers. “The challenge has been how to change and adopt while holding on to the traditions people love and expect,” he says. With assistance from the Laird Foundation and many other supporters, this year will showcase a $200,000 facility upgrade to house the fair and its exhibits. He is aware of the economic impact the fair has on Springer, bringing many visitors and families to town. Unlike many other county fairs, the Colfax County Fair is not owned by the county, rather, it is an independent organization. “We work on this event for 11 months out of the year,” he says, “starting in January. We revise the continued on page 27

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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2014 3:30 p.m. Parade Trophies Awarded 6:00 p.m. MEAT GOAT SHOW TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2014 8:00 a.m. MARKET SWINE SHOW 9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. SPECIAL NEEDS DAY

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Southern New Mexico State Fair Livestock Show Schedule October 1 – 5, Las Cruces TUESDAY 12:00 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. Receive, weigh, check pregnancy and classify all Livestock and Ag Mechanics. 6:00 p.m. Begin Junior Exhibitor packet pickup in the livestock office

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small cottage that housed the telephone facility. Mrs. Rooke was engaged in a threeway conversation with the local telegraph operator, Allcutt McNaghten, and his mother, when “a terrific crash of lightening was heard and Sally’s voice ceased.”1 No one will ever know how many lives Mrs. Rooke saved that night, but it is certain that the number of fatalities would have been much greater than the 17 who are known to have perished. Twelve of those who died were from two related families, the Wheelers and the Wengers, all substantial members of the community, who were in their respective homes when the water hit. Bystanders heard their screams of terror and supplications for help. One of those who died was Lucy Creighton who had been visiting at the continued on page 38

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Administrator Lisa Jackson to pay for a plant inside the President’s Council on Environmental Quality to “stake the EPA’s claim there,” and then slip the shill into a pre-arranged EPA job, giving the agency a White House insider on staff — and, not coincidentally, tightening the Rockefeller power grip over the EPA. Jackson wrote her chief of staff Diane Thompson, “I think it’s a fine idea and can only help EPA in the long run” — using her fake Richard Windsor email account – and Thompson replied, “My thoughts exactly. The more inside connections the better.” The Rockefeller shill was Shalini Vajjhala, who agreed to leave her minor position at Resources for the Future, a Washington think tank, for a two-month stint at the CEQ (with the pretentious title of “deputy associate director for energy and climate”). Then the EPA slipped her in as deputy assistant administrator of the Office of International & Tribal Affairs. Vajjhala remained until her 2011 appointment as EPA’s special representative leading a presidential U.S.-Brazil initiative. After Vajjhala cycled through the White House and EPA, she got her personal reward in 2012: approval to found and manage a new investment portfolio supported by the Rockefeller Foundation (the original 1913 John D. Rockefeller philanthropy, not the fourth generation’s Family Fund — there are many Rockefeller tentacles). Vajjhala now contributes to the Huffington Post, funded in part by the Park Foundation. EGA foundations are metastasizing into hundreds of far-left funds. The report drills into the Sea Change Foundation, “a privateCalifornia foundation, which relies on funding from undisclosed donors and funnels tens of millions of dollars to other foundations and prominent environmental activists who strive to control both policy and politics.” There is an incredible seedbed of Sea Change front groups: Bill Gates’ foundation gave Sea Change Capital Partners $2.5 million; eBay’s Omidyar Network Fund gave the same partners $2 million; David Rockefeller’s personal foundation gave to the Center for Sea Change. Walmart’s foundation gave $500,000 to Strategies for the Global Foundation Sea Change, an international tentacle into the White House. But it’s not just the environment. The Crime Prevention Research Center, a nonprofit that tracks gun control activists, reported, “On January 8th, 2013, the Obama Administration met with 23 large

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Hello again Stockman Readers, hope everyone has received something in the way of rain in this “El Nino”. It’s time once again for school to start. I swear it seems like I just told you guys “get your graduation gifts right here.” I have recently returned from Denver with whom my darling Dalton was available to attend. We heard again the importance of getting into that classroom and helping young ones and even a few older ones hear “where does that food come from”? I feel like New Mexico really rates high in the ranks. Thanks to T1 and T2 (Traci and Tracey) with Ag in the Classroom. Tricia Downing was our keynote speaker. Tricia survived a near fatal accident and was hospitalized for four months while recovering. She was a competitive athlete that was hit by a car on her bicycle during a race. Tricia is paralyzed from the waist down but with the help of an incredibly strong will her advice to us was this: Work hard. Continue to try harder. Be patient. And never give up! She was indeed inspiring. Consumption is actually down by one percent while demand remains strong as recent studies reveal that more beef is being sold. So continue to promote our most amazing product as it is the most delicious, nutritious and tasty protein ever.

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everyone in the Pledge of Allegiance and recited the CowBelle Prayer and CowBelle Creed. Both the minutes from the previous meeting and the treasurer’s report were approved as read. OLD BUSINESS: Gloria is trying to pinpoint a date for next year’s district meeting so the Inn can be reserved. Myra has contacted Michelle who will donate to the goody bags. Dolores will contact Sierra Electric. Beef ticket sales are going well. NEW BUSINESS: Cathy reported on prices for printing the size A-2 envelopes. The treasurer uses these to mail out dues notices. After hearing the prices, Robbie and our guest, Mary Gomez, said they would print out 50 to see if they meet with approval. Mary agreed to purchase a box of envelopes in Las Cruces and will be reimbursed for the envelopes and ink. Gloria received a letter from the Boys’ and Girls’ Club requesting donations to send kids to camp. The cost per child is $40 and there are 60 kids eligible to go to camp. After discussion, it was decided to donate $200 to sponsor five kids. Gloria also suggested the possibility of making a field trip next March or April down to the greenhouses at NMSU because you can purchase six-packs of garden plants. Everyone agreed to keep this in mind. Next meeting will be held at Nancy Phelps’ home between Winston and Dusty. Meeting adjourned at 11:40 a.m. Submitted by Cathy Pierce The Otero CowBelles met in August at Stella Vita in Alamogordo. There were 13 members and one guest, Betty Stokes, who recently moved back to Alamogordo from Utah. Betty paid her dues and is the newest member. The Otero CowBelles had a float in the Otero County Fair parade with several CowBelles, children, etc. riding on the 1966 Chevrolet truck provided and driven by Jim Wagner. It was reported that the 2014 parade was the longest parade of record with over 85 entries. The Otero CowBelle booth was manned by members for four days. Debi W. Rupe, Estelle Bond and Barbara Wagner helped with the Buyers’ dinner served Saturday evening. Invitations for the CowBelles to participate at various educational projects continue to come. September 5, 2014 we are to explain the Branding Station to the Children at Kids Night Out at Grace Methodist Church. It seems that the audiences that are hearing and seeing the “BEEF” story are growing and very diverse. We are doing our best to help New Mexico CowBelle President Maddy Lee, “BRIDGE THE GAP.” Submitted by Barbara Wagner

The Chuckwagon CowBelles met at the home of Mercedes Cravens in Encino, on August 12, 2014 with 15 members and four guests present. Toni Barrow called the meeting to order at 10:45 a.m. The invocation, Pledge of Allegiance, and the CowBelle creed were recited. Kayle Miller, FFA State Vice-president was introduced. “On the Road Again” seemed to be the theme for many of the CowBelles as each spoke on monthly activities. Kayle spoke briefly on his future plans. He starts college at CNM soon and will be studying welding technology. His former AG teacher will be teaching some of his classes so he will have more flexibility in keeping up with his FFA duties. The group learned that Kayle presides over District 3 and presented him with a check to help offset some of his FFA related expenses. There were no July minutes to approve. Treasurer’s report was given. Toni thanked everyone for the donation to the Pat Nowlin Fund in memory of her mother. Lyn Greene gave balance of the Pat Nowlin Fund. Five-States will be October 1. Reservations and $25 need to be in by September 15. Please send your checks to: Marianne Rose, 421 Washington Street, Clayton, NM 88415. Annual Stockmen’s meeting will be December 4 – 7 at

the Marriott Pyramid in Albuquerque. Anita Hand will be in charge of the Pumpkin Patch in Rio Rancho. CowBelles will be working the last two weekends in October – 18 and 19, and 25 and 26 from 9:00 – 5:00 each day. Carolyn, Cindy, and Toni will be working at the Valencia County fair on August 16. The 2015 Mid-year meeting will be June 14 – 16 at the Lodge in Ruidoso. Chuckwagon will continue to sell raffle tickets for $1 or 6 for $5. Proceeds will benefit the Pat Nowlin Fund. The winner of the raffle will be announced at the Mid-year meeting in 2015. As tickets are sold, please give the ticket stubs to Carolyn Chance, and the money to Vera Gibson. Caren Cowan brought group up to date on the many events going on in the AG community. Livestock Auction: Farm Credit, 4-H and FFA with help from Cattle Growers will be handling the auction and it will be held on Friday rather than on Saturday this year. Hot Topics: *There was a Mexican Wolf hearing in T or C on August 13 to discuss the proposal for captive-bred wolves to be released in the Gila National Forest and other suitable habitats. • Meadow Jumping Mouse comments continued on page 44

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are due by August 18. • Wolves: please watch the following youtube video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4g-rB2UXk • Written comments on the proposed rule can be submitted electronically at www.regulations.gov. • Clean Water Act comments are due by October 20. Next Meeting: Bring your own salsa and taco bar accompaniments to Margaret McKinley’s childhood ranch home in Gran Quivira on September 9, 2014, at 10 a.m. Welda Grider will provide the basics for the taco bar. If you get a chance, check out YouTube: the Peterson Brothers talking about Chipotle’s. Meeting adjourned at 1:48 p.m. Respectfully submitted by Bec Campbell, acting Secretary

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Pat Nowlin Memorial Scholarships Winners ourtney Lane Hurt is from Deming and a BorderBelle CowBelle. She attends New Mexico State University beginning in the fall of 2012 to the present. Courtney plans to finish her degree in Agricultural Business Management then attend Law School at Texas Tech University. She will pursue a practice as a Water Rights Attorney advocating for agriculture. Courtney served as the New Mexico Beef Ambassador; she is a member of the Collegiate Farm Bureau, Collegiate FFA and a delegate on the ACES Council. She has accepted the difficult challenge of becoming a lawyer and will see it through. Janna Elizabeth Mills is from Eagle Nest and her mother is Jackie Mills, a Silver Spur CowBelle. Janna attended Cimarron High School graduating in May 2014. Janna was very active in school offices and special activities from Student Council President to FFA Secretary. She played the flute and French horn in the band, played basketball for the Cimarron Lady Rams and student assistant to several teachers in the elementary and high school. Janna plans to attend University of New Mexico achieving a degree in education. She has a passion for helping kids and looks forward to teaching hands on experiences so her students can learn planting, horse riding and making a fish hatchery. Lillian Maria Woodall is from Mesilla Valley CowBelles and is Courtney Lane Hurt, the daughter

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of Melissa Woodall. Lillian attended Woodall Academy from August 2010 to May 2014. Community service has been a big part of Lillian’s life and includes activities such as Operation Christmas Lillian Maria Woodall, Child, Soldiers Boxes, and Christmas Caroling in Senior Centers and Doña Ana 4-H service. Lillian plans to continue her education at New Mexico State University, Majoring in Animal Science. This major will help in her future plans to become a Physician, or a Veterinarian. Whatever career she chooses, Lillian plans to continue helping kids through the 4-H program and to educate people about agriculture. The New Mexico CowBelles through the Pat Nowlin Memorial Scholarship are proud to be able to help CowBelle members and their children to further their education. The Scholarship fund is availJanna E. Mills able through donations from CowBelle members and locals in memory or in honor of loved one, friends or anyone they want to recognize as special people. Thank you to everyone for continuing to support the Pat Nowlin Scholarship Memorial Fund. ■ – Anne Ferguson, Chairman

Genetic Engineering Can Help Fight the California Drought alifornia continues to battle extreme drought, with water usage restrictions being levied throughout the state. According to Henry Miller of the Hoover Institution, it is agriculture that is especially affected by the problem. Of all of the water consumed in California, farming uses 80 percent of it. There is one technology that could do much to lessen the impact of the drought on California’s farmers: genetic engineering. Genetic engineering (also known as genetic modification, or GM) can tweak plant properties – including making crops more drought-resistant by engineering them to conserve more water. But genetic engineering has continuously faced strong opposition, despite the opportunities that it offers. Miller provides a few facts about GM: ■ Over the past 20 years, over 3.7 billion acres of GM plants have been cultivated by over 17 million farmers worldwide, without causing a single environmental or health problem.

■ Globally, the economic benefits of GM farming have amounted to $116.6 billion from 1996 to 2012. ■ Herbicide-resistant GM plants allow farmers to plant crops without plowing the soil, reducing soil erosion and chemical runoff. ■ No-till crops also reduce the use of farm equipment, thereby lowering carbon emissions. Shifting to GM crops reduced carbon emissions by 19.4 billion kilograms from 1996 to 2012, equivalent to removing 8.6 million cars from the road for one year. ■ GM crops allow for high levels of production that would otherwise require tens of millions of additional acres of land to achieve. The ability of GM plants to become more drought-tolerant, writes Miller, could be the greatest achievement of genetic plant modification. Such GM varieties are able to grow using less, and lower quality, water. Unfortunately, instead of receiving widespread support, these technologies have been misrepresented and discredited by the media, writes Miller.

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s the Endangered Species Act (ESA) ripe for some reasonable reform? The ESA was passed four decades ago and hasn’t been renewed by Congress since 1988. Under its authority over 1,500 species and subspecies have been listed. Unfortunately there has only been a two percent recovery rate, which doesn’t say much for the effectiveness of the Act. Furthermore, any objective observer will admit the ESA has become a litigation-driven monstrosity. The Department of Justice reports that more than 500 ESArelated lawsuits were filed or opened against federal agencies since 2009, and more than $21 million has been awarded

in taxpayer funded attorneys’ fees to environmental lawyers through the Judgment Fund and the Equal Access to Justice Act. For federal fiscal years 2009-2012, concerning cases in Region 2 of the Fish & Wildlife Service (which includes New Mexico), environmental groups received $2.5 million in attorneys’ fees. The championship for raiding the federal treasury during this time period, however, goes to Region 8 (Nevada & California) where environmental groups received $7.2 million. Which environmental groups are filing all these lawsuits? You can probably guess, but here is a list of the top five and the number of cases filed during the time period under consideration: 1) Center for Biological Diversity – 117 2) WildEarth Guardians – 55 3) Sierra Club – 30

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4) Defenders of Wildlife – 29 5) Western Watersheds Project – 21 Adding urgency to all this is the socalled 2011 “mega-settlement” negotiated behind closed doors by the Department of Interior and the Center for Biological Diversity/WildEarth Guardians, which may result in an additional 799 species being listed as threatened or endangered. In the year following the settlement the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service listed 107 more species. Most recently has been the listing of the meadow jumping mouse which is wreaking havoc on livestock grazing across Forest Service lands in New Mexico, Arizona and Colorado. Then there is the transparency issue. The ESA requires listings to be based on the “best available scientific and commercial data” but in many instances the public is denied access to this data. Doc Hastings, Chairman of the House Committee on Natural Resources, has stated, “It is troubling that hundreds of sweeping listing decisions by the Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Marine Fisheries Service cite unpublished studies, professional opinions, and other sources that are inaccessible to the public yet this data would continued on page 47

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be used to regulate the very people who don’t have access to this information. This secrecy goes against the grain of good science and transparency.” Not only is the ESA ripe for reform, its actually rotting on the vine, and in response the U.S. House of Representatives has just passed H.R. 4315, the Endangered Species Transparency and Reasonableness Act. This is no huge reform of the ESA, but is an attempt to make the Act’s implementation more reasonable for humans and more effective for wildlife and plants. According to a release by the House Natural Resources Committee, H.R. 4315 would specifically: ■ Require data used by federal agencies for ESA listing decisions to be made publicly available and accessible through the Internet, while respecting state data privacy laws and private property. ■ Require the federal government to disclose to affected states data used prior to an ESA listing decision and it would require the “best available scientific and commercial data” used by the federal government to incorporate data provided by states, tribes, and local county governments. ■ Require the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to track, report to Congress, and make available online the federal taxpayer funds used to respond to ESA lawsuits, the number of employees dedicated to ESA litigation, and attorneys’ fees awarded in the course of ESA litigation and settlement agreements. ■ Prioritize species protection and protect taxpayer dollars by placing reasonable caps on attorneys’ fees to make the ESA consistent with existing federal law. For example, the federal government limits the prevailing attorneys’ fees to $125 per hour in most circumstances, including federal suits involving veterans, Social Security, and disability. But under the ESA, attorneys are being awarded huge sums, in many cases, at a rate as much as $600 per hour. When an environmental lawyer is awarded four times as much for defending jumping mice and long-eared bats as other attorneys are awarded for defending our veterans and the handicapped, I’d say its way past time for “reform”. The House of Representatives agreed and passed these simple reforms on July 29. Some apparently didn’t agree, as New Mexico rep’s Ben Ray Lujan and Michelle Lujan Grisham voted against the bill.

The EPA stands for an Ever Present Attack on liberty. Recall how hard it is to get the data on endangered species. Well that’s certainly not the case if you are an environmental group and request data on farmers and ranchers. Many folks were surprised last year when the Environmental Protection Agency, in response to a Freedom of Information Act request, publicly released to three environmental groups a huge database of personal information about thousands of livestock producers and their families in 29 states. What kind of information was released? The database included the names of the producers and other family members, home addresses, GPS coordinates, telephone numbers and emails. How would you like HSUS, PETA, ADF or some other agriterrorist group to have that kind of info on your property and family? Thankfully, the American Farm Bureau Federation and others have filed suit to stop the EPA from future releases of this type. We’ll keep a close watch on that.

leaders, is planning to “storm the Hill”and “bring out the big guns for the kids” when Congress comes back to town in an attempt to save Michelle Obama’s increasingly unpopular changes to the National School Lunch Program. The military brass says the obesity epidemic is seen as a “threat to national security.” Now we have a War on Obesity? Attention Mr. Generals: Do not deploy. This will go the same way as the War on Poverty and the War on Drugs. Besides, one educational group points out that based on a 180-day school year, a school lunch only amounts to 15 percent of a child’s meals. Better to aim your “big guns” at adequately funding P.E. programs and forget about this silly, sissified, anti-meat program. Besides, do we really want a bunch of tofu toughies running the military? 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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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)

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inMemoriam Duane E. Webb, 78, Phoenix, Arizona, passed away quietly on August 16, 2014. Duane was born November 13, 1936 in Miami, Arizona, to Jack J. and Helen M. Webb both Arizona natives. Jack was son of E. J. Webb a native Arizona Rancher in Gila County. Duane was raised at the A Cross and Reynolds Creek with his family until he was nine. The family moved to the Tempe area, where his father had a dairy operation up until 1962. Duane graduated from Tempe Union High School in 1955, and received his BS degree in Livestock production from Arizona State University in 1961. Duane married Louise Thompson on June 1, 1959 in Tempe. After college they moved to Tonto Basin and ran a ranch for a year, then moved back to Tempe in 1962. Duane went to work for Arizona Livestock PCA for five years as a livestock loan officer. He spent a total of 15 years with Arizona Livestock PCA, three years with the Federal Land Bank and six years with Hebbard & Webb Co. In 2002 he retired after 16 years with Headquarters

West Ltd, and formed his own appraisal firm with Steve Pendleton, Southwestern Ag Services, LLC doing appraisals and selling agricultural real estate. Duane was a member of the Arizona Cattle Growersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;, Arizona National Livestock Show, American Society of Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers, was a Jaycee in Tempe, and a DeMolay in Tempe, he was a staff Sargent in C Battery Artillery for six years with a field artillery unit. He is survived by his wife, Louise, Scottsdale; son, Dennis Webb (wife, Jenny); daughter, Tracee Dwyer (husband, Tim); son, Brian Webb, Austin, Nevada; son, Shannon Webb, Henderson, Nevada; sister, DeeOn Kuspert (husband, John), Renton, Washington and Mesa, Arizona; and eight grandchildren. Glenn Powell, 62, Denton, Texas, passed away on August 16, 2014. Born on August 27, 1951 in Denton to Howard and Bonnie Rowe Powell, he married Angie Reynolds on March 22, 1985 in Denton, Texas. Born and raised in Denton, Joe graduated from Denton High School in

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Words Matter hat do you think of when you hear the word “comment?” Such a mild word, seems harmless, like having a comment on something doesn’t really matter. A passing expression of opinion that doesn’t have a lasting impact. But to the Bureau of Land Management, the Forest Service, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, and all governmental agencies whether State or Federal, a comment is a big deal. Submitting a comment is your only opportunity to voice your opinion about proposed actions by governmental agencies. Comments are so important to us as food producers, members of rural communities or as just a citizen they should be renamed to “protests” or “objections.” These are stronger words that carry emotion and meaning. It’s easier to motivate someone to protest an issue because that means they are taking it personally. Maybe that’s why the bureaucracy chose the word comment so as not to raise your ire. So that you wouldn’t get fired up. But agriculture needs you to be fired up.

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ccording to the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (FWS) Draft Environment Impact Statement (DEIS) on Mexican wolves, not at all. Unless you have been living in a cave – and where we sit today – we may want to move into that cave with you, it is well known that the FWS has been working to expand the Mexican wolf recovery program… despite the fact that in the 16 years wolves have been being released, the Service has been unable to come up with a viable plan for these zoo raised predators. And, despite the fact that there is no recovery plan in place. The FWS is working under a courtmandated settlement to do something – anything that looks like progress by 2015. Clearly, they will be sued again by both proponents and the people they are forcing wolves on as soon as they complete the current processes. The document is open for comment until September 23, 2014. Although requests have been submitted for an extension of the comment period for this sweeping plan, it is not expected that one will be granted. We expect the Final EIS to be published in January 2015 and implementation of the preferred alternative to begin immediately after that. We don’t have to reach too far back to remember when there was a comment deadline one afternoon on an environmental assessment and the action was take less than 24 hours later. You can find the entire DEIS at www.fws.gov/southwest/es/mexicanwolf/p df/Mexican_Wolf_DEIS_July_2014.pdf and I strongly encourage you to spend some time looking at this voluminous document. I will caution, however, that this is not bedtime reading unless you plan on not sleeping or at least having significant nightmares. In case you don’t have the time to spend on the document, I am going to share what I consider to be significant pieces of the proposals with you here as well as come of the choice comments made at the hearing on the proposal held in midAugust in Truth or Consequences, New

Mexico. It is reported that similar comments were made at the hearing in Pinetop, Arizona two days earlier. It is worth explaining the setting for the hearing. In a first for any government hearing, we were greeted at the door by five (5) uniformed police officers who wanded every person for weapons every time they entered the building. Once you walked into the building, there were two (2) sign-in tables. As you signed in, you were told that commenters would be selected via a lottery and only two (2) minutes would be allowed for comments. We learned later that part of the two minutes was to be used for self-introduction including the spelling of your name.

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After sign-in you were stamped on the inside of your left wrist with an illegible stamp. We still haven’t figured out the purpose of the stamp. It washed off easily… unless there was invisible ink contained as well? Just kidding! There was a two-hour question and answer period, followed by a two-hour break and then a three-hour hearing where verbal comments were put into the record. There was no interaction between the FWS and the commenters. There was a hearing officer who ran the hearing portion. The pro-wolf folks were well organized as usual, but they were unable to turn out the number in T or C that they have in past gatherings in Albuquerque. Although there was promise of buses to haul people to the hearing, it didn’t appear that any were needed. At one point the cowboys may have outnumbered the wolfers, but that wasn’t reflected in the people who commented. Names for testimony were called out in groups of 10. Ranching families and their supporters called ranged from two to four out of every 10. Unfortunately many of ranchers became frustrated with the hearing early in the process and went home before their names were called. There are four (4) proposed alternatives ranging from the “preferred alternative” to the “no action” alternative. If we have to pick an alternative, Alternative 1, the preferred alternative, would appear to hold the most promise because of the management abilities suggested. Unfortunately we have 16 years of broken promises and outright lies from the FWS to outweigh the potential good of that alternative. Additionally there is virtually no prey base to support the wolves in the expansion zones created by Alternative 1. In 1998 we were told that the wolves would life mostly off deer and some elk. That was questioned at the time and what the expectations of those who live on the land have continued on page 54 SEPTEMBER 2014

which will result in the depredation of more cattle in a larger area than would occur under the No Action alternative. xx cattle per 100 wolves are projected to be lost annually due to wolf depredation. Should the experimental population reach approximately 300 wolves at the end of 12 years as projected in Appendix F a loss of approximately xx cattle due to depredation in proposed Management Zones 1 and 2 could occur. Short-term losses of livestock are expected to be variable between years and between areas and could therefore have a disproportionate impact on an individual rancher/livestock producer. In the short term, an individual rancher/livestock producer could sustain a substantial loss of livestock in a given

study area. These numbers defy logic. We are told that there are 83 known wolves in the occurred. There hasn’t been enough deer “wild” now. Those living on the ground for the predators to live on so there has believe that number is much larger. We been much more livestock, pets and elk were told at the hearing that there is a eaten alive to support the wolves. As the record number of pups this year… program expands to everything south of Ialthough they won’t count unless they are 40, there are almost no elk for prey so the part of a pack (including a male and a wolf diet cannot help but be made up by female) at the end of the year. livestock and pets, or worse. Let’s just take the 83 wolves… that’s 83 We are often tricked into the lesser of percent of the 100 used in the statement. the evils with these sorts of proposals – That 83 percent of 118 equals 98 head of and at the ballot box. We must be cautious livestock just this year. While we believe not to be enticed by false promises or to the number of losses is higher, let’s just go acquiesce the lesser of the evils in this wolf with the FWS number. The statement conproposal and think hard about who suptemplates that over they next 12 years the ports us on this an other issues as we head number of wolves will only triple to 300. to the ballot box in OctoBiologists tell us that ber and November. wolf numbers will The no action alternaincrease exponentive would leave things as “We are often tricked into the lesser of the tially from here on in they are, which is intolerso 300 is certainly a evils with these sorts of proposals – and at disputable able for the people who number. are now forced to live with the ballot box. We must be cautious not to The FWS says that animals who have little over 12 years the loss be enticed by false promises or to choice but to kill livestock of cattle will be 337. I and pets to survive. don’t know how they acquiesce the lesser of the evils in this It is worth noting that get to that number. If wolf proposal ...” many other alternatives you take the 98 head were proposed during the that are projected to process, including one be killed with the from the Arizona Game & Fish Depart- year. The continuation of an existing com- wolves that are out there now and multiply ment, the Arizona Cattle Growers’ Associ- pensation program will help reduce mon- that by 12 you get 1,176 head. I am not ation and others in Arizona and another by etary losses of individual livestock opera- mathematician enough to figure out the the Arizona/New Mexico Coalition of tors and no significant long-term effects expanding number year by year in the Counties as well as others. None of these on overall livestock production in the pro- FWS projection over 12 years, but their alternatives were even considered by the ject study area is expected. 337 head number just don’t make sense or FWS. As we testified at the hearing, calves are reflect reality. worth $1,000 to $1,200 a head today, while Just taking one year at 300 wolves and About that significance… cows are worth toward $3,000 a head. Take multiplying the 98 head one time comes Here is just one place that your that out of your wallet 10 or 12 times or out to 29,400 head of cattle (and I used a insignificance is pointed out in the DEIS. more a year and just see how insignificant calculator). That may remain an insignifiPlease note that the xx areas are blanks left that is. Unfortunately that means little to cant number when they are using a two by the FWS apparently because they folks who are being paid by your tax dollars million head number for the southern porhaven’t finished that portion of the docuand who have insurance and retirement tions of Arizona and New Mexico. But if we ment… guess those numbers are not sigpaid for by you as well. There are no conse- are just pulling numbers out of the air, nificant to us insignificant people. Not quences to them or their children if they let’s take that 29,400 for 12 years and we only do the xx not reflect what is really make mistakes in these processes. We pay get 352,800 head of cattle. happening on the ground, but there is no We are told that cattle are only eight to for those mistakes too. mention of the value of the at least xx,xxx It must be noted that the next section of 17 percent of the wolf diet. Let’s have a and is taking $xxx,xxx out of ranching famlook at wildlife impacts. The DEIS says: the DEIS states: ilies’ pockets annually at today’s cattle Wild ungulates are the primary prey Approximately 118 cattle per 100 prices. wolves are projected to be lost annually species utilized by Mexican wolves and elk 4.9 RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SHORTdue to wolf depredation. Should the exper- makes up approximately 77 to 80 percent TERM USES OF MAN’S ENVIRONMENT imental population reach approximately of their diet. Less than significant impact AND THE MAINTENANCE AND 300 wolves in the project study area at the to wild prey populations, specifically elk ENHANCEMENT OF LONG -TERM end of 12 years as projected in Appendix F populations is expected from implementaPRODUCTIVITY a loss of approximately 337 cattle due to tion of the proposed action and alternaWe expect implementation of the prodepredation could be expected. This is a tives. 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project study area and are considered to be widespread, abundant, and secure at the global, national, and statewide levels, according the U.S. Forest Service. Please note that the game management agencies in Arizona and/or New Mexico are not cited. And does this not beg the question why we are not looking at wolf populations at the global and national levels in this process? There was a choice statement that further pointed out the insignificance of the people of Arizona and New Mexico. It said something to the affect that no populations of concern would be impacted by the DEIS. Clearly, young families, the elderly, Hispanics or Indians are not of concern. The state of Texas appears to be out of the woods if you read the DEIS. It says that the small portion of Texas that was in the 1998 Final EIS is being taken out. What that really means that a much larger (but insignificant) portion of Texas is now in harms way. Any wolf that crosses into Texas from New Mexico or Mexico will be fully endangered. That means that there

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are NO management alternatives that can be applied. Wolves are free to prey on anything and everything they want. Finally, in Alternative 1 there is a section that allows private property owners to release wolves on their property with the proper oversight. A request to allow wolves to be released on the Vermejo has been turned down under the current rules. The new proposal will clear the way for that. I am out of space and have only looked at two pages of the DEIS in depth. The wolf advocates are not happy with the document either. Their standard message was that Alternative 3 was the only viable alternative… and that needed expansion into the northern Arizona and the Grand Canyon. As they commented at the hearing, they each did their own rancher bashing after the standard points. There were two folks from Valencia County who simply cannot wait to have wolves among their chickens, goats and horses. Let’s just start with those folks first with releases.

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“Teaching Award of Merit,” WestNorth Carolina State ern Section, American Society of University. Courses Animal Science (WSAS “Distintaught at NMSU include guished Teacher Award,” College Introductory Animal of Agricultural, Consumer and Science, Sheep and Environmental Sciences “DistinWool Production, Dairy guished Teaching Award”, New Production, and EnviMexico Wool Growers’ “Amigo ffective July 1, 2014, Drs. Tim Ross ronmental Physiology. Award,” and the University of and Jack Thomas will officially retire His research has been Arkansas, Department of Animal towards from the Department after 32 and 34 directed Science “Graduate of Distinction” increasing ewe producyears, respectively. award. Tim has served as coach of tivity in range and farm Dr. Ross, a the Wool Judging Team, President native of Hope, flocks and methods to of WSASAS, member and chair of increase embryonic and Arkansas, Dr. Tim Ross numerous departmental, college joined the fac- neonatal lamb survival. ulty in February He has served as major advisor to 39 grad- and university chairs during his tenure at of 1982 as sheep uate students. Among his many awards are NMSU. He has also served as faculty adviphysiologist. He being named a Distinguished Achievement sor to Block and Bridle, Alpha Zeta, and received his B.S. Professor, receiving FFA Distinguished Pre-Vet clubs. He and his wife Paula have and M. S. Service Award, Honorary State FFA four children and three grandchildren. Dr. Thomas grew up in Woodward, degrees from Degree, Gamma Sigma Delta “Distinthe University of guished Graduate Teaching/Advisement Oklahoma and received his B.S. degree Arkansas and Award,” National Association of Colleges from Oklahoma State University. His M.S. his Ph.D. at and Teachers of Agriculture (NACTA) degree was earned at Kansas State University and received his Ph.D. from University Dr. Jack Thomas of Missouri. He came to NMSU in 1980 as Meats instructor. He has taught Livestock Slaughter and Processing, Live Animal and Carcass Evaluation, Livestock, Meat and Wool Evaluation, Meat Technology and Agricultural Animals of the World. While most of his assignment has been in teaching, he has mentored six graduate students in researching carcass characteristics and meat quality. Jack served as Faculty Senate Chair, advisor to the FarmHouse Fraternity, Block and Bridle, Meats Judging Team, and was the NCAA Faculty Come raise your hand high & often to support the future of New Mexico! Athletic Representative. His awards and recognitions include Ag/Home Ec Week “Outstanding Teacher Award,” Collegiate FFA “Teacher of the Year,” “Donald Roush Award for Excellence in Teaching,” College of Agricultural, Environmental and Consumer Sciences “Distinguished Teaching Award”, “Distinguished Service Award” and “Outstanding Advisor Award,” and Join New Mexico’s OLDEST Livestock Trade Organization “Who’s Who Among American Teachers.” The FarmHouse Fraternity has awarded him the “Daryl Snyder Alumni Award for Outstanding Service” and the “Master Builder Award”. Jack and Cathy have two Representing the interests of the sheep industry for over 110 years... ■ children and one grandson. at the Roundhouse, on Capitol Hill and everywhere between. Dues 3¢ per pound of Sheared Wool – Minimum $50 New Mexico Wool Growers, Inc. POB 7520, Albuquerque, NM 87194 505.247.0584 phone • 505.842.1766 fax D V E RT I S E nmwgi@nmagriculture.org Follow us on the web at www.nmagriculture.org in the New Mexico Stockman.

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Veterinary Medicine Ain’t What It Used To Be! ver the years the number of large animal veterinarians has steadily declined. It is most evident in rural America and Canada. Many factors have contributed to this decline; the greatest is the change in the profession itself. The cost of schooling is daunting. The severe decline of male students till they are only 20 percent of the enrollment. The low number of “farm kids” that are interested in vet school, and the changing attitude of the graduates themselves. Back in the “good ol’ days” a rural veterinarian was on call 24/7. His life was controlled by the phone. It was was hectic; days off, vacations, meetings, birthday parties and church were always planned with the knowledge that dad might not be there. These vets were, what some would call dedicated, but most would recognize as workaholics. The new generation wants to “have a life!” Family time, days off, no night calls and a decent wage are part of their plan. All of these factors have combined to fuel the decline in the number of rural veterinarians. But there is another large factor that has always been discouraging to rural vets, that is the reluctance of farmers and ranchers to willingly pay the vet a “reasonable fee.” Livestock have a calculable value,

expressed as per head or dollars per pound. With the exception of the occasional ranch horse, there is no anthropomorphological attachment as exists in the pet world. This has always lead the cowman to try and treat the animal himself. If the critter dies, it only evens out what the vet would charge . . . no loss. But in the last three years things have changed! Droughts, herd depletion, and demand for beef of all kinds have caused the value of cattle to soar! Business for rural veterinarians has picked up and continues to grow. Maybe there’s hope. But the good cowman is being backed into a corner. He considers himself capable of pulling a calf, or treating the scours, deciding what vaccine to use, at least he always has . . . he even did a Caesarian once . . .’course the cow was dead. He’s a hard workin’, stubborn, do-ityerself, thrifty cowman and it bothers him to ask for help, especially if it costs money! It goes against his cowboy mentality. What are the odds? “Harold, she’s been tryin’ to calve since noon. He’s worth 500 bucks when he hits the ground. It’s time. Unhook those chains and put down the comealong.” “But . . .” “Call Doc Smith.” “But . . . but . . . what if he charges mileage?”

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“Tad Lucas – First Lady of Rodeo” ad Lucas was known for many years as “The First Lady of Rodeo.” She competed, not only in the United States, but in Canada, Mexico, England and Australia as well. She was an expert horsewoman who performed in trick riding, bronc riding and relay racing. She was best-known for her “daring and courage” in the trick riding event. Born Barbara Inez Barnes on September 1, 1902, at Cody, Nebraska, she was the youngest of twenty-four children! Her parents were Lorenzo White Barnes and Hannah Garthside Barnes. She claimed her father gave her the nickname “Tadpole” (later shortened to Tad) because she never really crawled like other children as a baby, she just seemed to slither along. Before long, she moved from “slithering along,” to riding. She started a-horseback at such a young age, that later in life she could never remember a time when she was not an equestrienne. She and her brothers rode colts from an early age and they often rode calves just for

the fun of it. She participated in various informal contests and horseback races against other local ranch children and Sioux Indian children from the area. Tad entered her first rodeo at the Gordon, Nebraska, Fair in 1917. It was reported she won the girls’ steer riding event. She was only fourteen. Tad had made up her mind to follow rodeo as a career after seeing her first one a few years prior. By the time she was twenty, she hired on with a Wild West Show. She became a professional cowgirl. For a couple of years she toured the United States and Mexico with a group of Wild West performers and Rodeo Cowboys. Along the way, she met James Edward “Buck” Lucas who also worked for the Wild West Show. The two were among a group of performers who were selected for Tex Austin’s Wild West Troupe to perform in London, England in June of 1924. While in New York City, awaiting departure, Tad and Buck were married. Their honeymoon was the voyage to London. It

was also in London that Tad first debuted as a trick rider, wowing the crowds. After returning from England, Tad and Buck built a home near Fort Worth, Texas. She would live there the rest of her life, raising two daughters along the way. From the 1920s through the mid-40s, Tad competed at just about every major rodeo across the country. She won titles at the Cheyenne Frontier Days in trick riding as well as relay racing and bronc riding. She also won at rodeos in Boston, Chicago, Houston, Fort Worth and even Sidney, Australia, to name a few. From 1928-30, Tad won the All-Around Cowgirl title at Madison Square Garden and was awarded the Metro-GoldwynMayer trophy as a result which remained one of her most prized possessions. Sometime in the mid-20s, Tad and Buck became partners in the Triangle Rodeo Company and produced shows for a few years. One of their most famous bucking horses was called Fiddle Face. Her favorite trick horse was a little black horse called Candy Lamb. A story once told by Tad: “Five Minutes to Midnight was once saddled for me in place of a black horse that looked like him. Jim Massey discovered the mistake just in time and suggested I forget the ride!” She also said, “In the early 1930s, at Madison Square Garden, a girl told a gentleman she was Tad Lucas. She asked to wear his coat because she was cold, but never brought it back. Next day, the police came looking for me!” Tad said they were big pranksters back in those days while killing time at the longer shows back East. She has told many stories of calling people at their hotels and pretending to be a reporter from such and such newspaper, asking for an interview. The cowboys (or cowgirls) would get all dressed up in their best duds to go and meet the reporter at a certain spot, usually a cafe. When the contestant arrived, lookcontinued on page 59

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ing like they just stepped out of a western movie (of course that was very out of place back East), they would sit around for a while waiting on the reporter who never showed all the while receiving a ton of stares from the other patrons. Eventually, the pranksters would show up and let the poor subject off the hook, with a big hooray of course. By all accounts, Tad was a woman of great humor, talent on a horse, and having plenty of spirit, courage and compassion. Starting in the late ‘30s and through World War II, women’s events were dropped from most major rodeos. However, Tad remained active through a new organization. She was one of the charter members of the Girls’ Rodeo Association formed in 1948, the predecessor to the Women’s Professional Rodeo Association (WPRA). She supported the fledging organization as a performer, contestant, officer and rodeo official through her retirement in 1958. In 1966, she was also one of the founders of the Rodeo Historical Society. She served as its president from 1970 to ‘74. She was elected to the board of directors for another ten years and became an honorary board member in 1984. Tad was the first, and only person, honored by all three rodeo halls of fame. She was elected to the National Rodeo Hall of Fame in 1967 (the first woman elected), the National Cowgirl Hall of Fame in 1978, and the ProRodeo Hall of Fame in 1979. Tad is still considered one of the greatest rodeo cowgirls of all time and one of the most successful, popular, and famous women of rodeo history. In her will, she made provisions for a memorial award to honor women who excel in any field related to our Western heritage. After her death, daughter, Mitzi Lucas Riley made that dream come true by establishing the Tad Lucas Memorial award. Barbara Inez “Tad” Lucas died on February 23, 1990, in Fort Worth leaving behind the legacy of a cowgirl not soon to ■ be forgotten.

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n the most comprehensive study ever rendered about the Return on Investment (ROI) of beef checkoff assessments, Dr. Harry Kaiser of Cornell University concludes that each dollar invested in the Beef Checkoff Program between 2006 and 2013 returned about $11.20 to the beef industry. “The news for beef checkoff investors couldn’t be better,” said Kaiser, the Gellert Family professor of applied economics and management at Cornell and director of the Cornell Commodity Promotion Research Program, who is sharing study results this week at the 2014 Cattle Industry Summer Conference. “It is clear to me that activities funded through the Beef Board budget have a substantial impact on beef demand in the U.S. and in foreign markets. The return on producers’ and importers investments into this program is vastly greater than the cost of the program.” Commissioned through the checkoff’s Joint Evaluation Committee, this new ROI study could be a useful tool for producers who make decisions about how to invest checkoff dollars. “This really tells us that we’re on the right track with how we plan our checkoff programs,” said cattleman Ted Greidanus of California, who chairs the checkoff’s Evaluation Committee. “We are accountable to beef producers and importers who fund the work we do with checkoff dollars, so we wanted to know how much difference we were really making in the marketplace, good or bad – and I must say that I am quite pleased at how good the news really is.” Some additional key findings in Kaiser’s benefits-cost analysis include: ■ Had there not been any CBB-funded marketing between 2006 and 2013, total

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domestic beef demand would have totaled 15.7 billion pounds – or 11.3 percent less than it was with the checkoff programs in place. Holding the effects of all other demand drivers constant, the activities funded by the CBB resulted in an increase in beef demand of 2.1 billion pounds per year. ■ Had the national Beef Checkoff Program not invested in foreign-market development between 2006 and 2013, foreign demand for U.S. beef would have been 6.4 percent lower. ■ The statistical results indicate that all eight CBB demand-enhancing activities – generic beef advertising; channels marketing; industry information; new-product development; public relations; nutrition research; beef-safety research and productenhancement research – have a positive and statistically significant impact on increasing per capita beef demand. ■ At the bottom line, the increase in beef demand due to CBB-funded marketing efforts resulted in higher prices for beef producers and importers, which means higher net revenue than they would have experienced without those checkoff programs. Given the tremendous budget challenges of the checkoff in recent years, the Cattlemen’s Beef Board commissioned the all-encompassing study to provide a more thorough evaluation possible of checkoff activities than it traditionally has. As a result, this new study presents a more complete and accurate picture of checkoff returns and pro-

vides a new benchmark. “Let me caution against trying to compare the results of this study with the 2009 study, which reported a return of $5.55 on each checkoff dollar,” Dr. Kaiser said. “This time around, the Beef Board asked for a more comprehensive study than ever before, so I evaluated all commercial beef disappearance, including retail, foodservice, and international data over eight years, whereas the 2009 study looked solely at domestic retail data for a five-year period. “Furthermore,” Dr. Kaiser continued, “my study analyzed individual categories of nine marketing categories separately, and then brought the categories together to identify an overall beef checkoff return on investment. In 2009, the Beef Board commissioned a study analyzing only the checkoff as a whole.” Greidanus said he is quite confident in the study results. “As chairman of the Evaluation Committee, I know that Dr. Kaiser’s research methods are well-respected, so we are very confident about the analysis and very pleased with the results,” Greidanus said. “And this tells us that the benefits of all CBB programs are 11.2 times more valuable than their costs. As a cattleman who pays into the program, it’s invigorating to know that my investment is making a difference.” Kaiser, who has performed similar analyses for other checkoff programs, said the results should be encouraging to the country’s beef producers and importers. “If I was investing my hard-earned dollars into the checkoff, as beef producers and importers are, I would be proud to do so, based on the findings of this study,” Kaiser said. “Most of us probably wish we could get that kind of return on all of our expendi■ tures!”

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he 2014 Youth Ranch Management Camp is over, but not the memories for the campers attending this summer’s week-long educational event at the Valles Caldera National Preserve. New Mexico State University Cooperative Extension Service organizes and runs the camp, providing Extension Agents and Specialists to teach the campers. The New Mexico Beef Council and other N.M. agriculture organizations help sponsor the camp.

1. Steve Lucero, Sandoval Co. Extension Agent, teaches campers about the bovine reproductive tract and advanced technologies to increase the effectiveness of reproductive management. 2. Blair Clavel, Harding Co. Extension Agent, makes Grid Marketing easier for YRMC students to understand and utilize. Blair serves on the YRMC Committee. 3. Tom Dominguez, Otero Co. Extension Agent and Co-Chair of the 2014 YRMC, advises students as they prepare their Ranch Management Plan for presentation and judging. 4. Dennis Braden, General Manager of Swenson Land and Cattle Co., in Stamford, TX instructs the students about “Cattle Marketing Methods to Maximize Ranch Profit Ability”. Dennis is a past director and Chairman of the NMBC and loyal supporter of the camp. 5. Chad Davis, son of Rebecca & Chad Davis, past NMBC director, learns about the bovine digestive system and developing a cost effective nutrition program for his cow-herd. 6. Students were given a budget to purchase cattle for their operations at a “live auction”. Jack Blandford, Luna Co. Extension Agent and YRMC Co-Chair, served as the auctioneer.

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Central Nevada Ranchers Fighting BLM Over Grazing Rights by THOMAS MITCHELL, FROM THE WESTERN BLOG n May the Bureau of Land Management relented and announced it had come to a year-long deal with ranchers on the Argenta allotment on Mount Lewis in the Battle Mountain District to allow grazing. The BLM reneged. At the end of July the BLM told ranchers using Mount Lewis that “drought triggers” had been met and cattle must be removed in seven days. “We must remove the cattle from our summer grazing country on the mountain, where there is ample feed and adequate water, to the flat, where there is very little of either,” rancher Pete Tomera told the Elko Daily Free Press. Bob Schweigert of Intermountain Range Consultants in Winnemucca says ranchers had to sign new grazing agreements with the BLM in May and the BLM is violating terms of those agreements. The BLM agreed to review key monitoring locations in coordination with permittees in early June, but the scheduled joint monitoring was canceled. Instead days later a rancher came across BLM employees conducting monitoring without any ranchers present. Another monitoring outing was scheduled on short notice while permittees were away from the area, and testing again was done without ranchers present. “They lied to us again,” rancher Eddyann Filippini told the Elko newspaper. “(Battle Mountain BLM manager Doug) Furtado can’t be trusted and we don’t trust the data they collect from the range monitoring sites when they don’t allow us to accompany them.” John Carpenter, chairman of the Committee for Sustainable Grazing, said temporary electric fences should be erected around the “postage stamp” riparian areas as provided by the BLM’s own Drought Management Environmental Analysis. “These small riparian areas, as administered by the BLM, are preventing the livestock users from using their private land and water rights,” Carpenter said, but added that the BLM appears to be unwilling to follow those recommendations.

The ranchers say delays in getting cattle out on the range and what fencing they were required to do by BLM has cost them half a million dollars. Reportedly some ranchers chose to defy the latest order to remove their cattle, contending the BLM breached the agreements made with ranchers. A demonstration similar to one in May, dubbed the “Cowboy Express,” is scheduled in September — in which riders are to carry a petition to Washington, D.C., seeking the local BLM manager’s firing. Of course, this prompted a writer with the Huffington Post to huff and puff about how scofflaw ranchers in May had bullied the poor BLM bureaucrats with peaceful horseback protest rides and petitions. He compared this with the standoff at the Bundy ranch in Bunkerville and made no mention of the fact the ranchers documented that grass on the allotment in May was nearly two-foot tall in places. “Like Cliven Bundy and his supporters, these ranchers think they are above the law. They refuse to be held accountable for the condition of public lands after degradation by their livestock,” the Huffington writer pontificates. “When the ‘Cowboy Express’ arrives in DC, those who sit in offices in Washington should know that it is not the arrival of heroic stewards of the western land. Instead, it is the descent upon the Capitol of an extremist group of rogue ranchers who refuse to acknowledge the authority of the federal government, while simultaneously demanding that the government continue its handouts in perpetuity.” Handouts? Who does he think really maintains the land and the vegetation and the water access so his beloved sage grouse and wild horses can even exist? As for federal authority, that is debatable under the U.S. Constitution. The controversy is now in front of an administrative law judge in the U.S. Department of the Interior’s Office of Hearings and Appeals. On federal land the BLM basically writes the law, polices the law and adjudicates the law. No separation of powers there. Thomas Mitchell is a former newspaper editor who now writes conservative/libertarian columns for weekly papers in central Nevada and blogs at 4thst8.wordpress.com/ Twitter: @thomasmnv watchdogwire.com/nevada/2014/08/25/centralnevada-ranchers-fighting-blm-over-grazing-rights/

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on October 7, 1996 in Amarillo, Texas to Chip Wood and Sammie (Britt) Wood. Clare attended school in Clayton where she was involved in Clayton High School volleyball, FFA and Cheer and was a member of the National Honor Society. Clare was a member of St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church in Clayton. She is survived by her parents; brother Guston Wood; sister Sally Rastogi (husband, Raghav), Dallas, Texas; maternal grandparents Sam and Rosalie Britt, Pasamonte; paternal grandparents: Eddie Frank and Barbara Faye Wood, Meade, Oklahoma; aunts Sandy Wyley-Vaughn (husband, Barry), Amarillo, Texas; and Shelley (husband, Ross) Carter, Clayton; many cousins, and many friends that she loved. Debora Jo Nunez, 53, Las Cruces, passed away August 13, 2014. Debbie was born to Tomasita Valenciano and the Thomas Fraser on January 13, 1961 at White Sands Missile Range. On June 6, 1987, she married Darrel Nunez. She has been his best friend, traveling companion and partner as they traveled around the world through her husband’s military career. After seeing the world, they decided to make Las Cruces their home once again. Debbie is survived by her husband Darrel Nunez; mother Tomasita V. Fraser; three children: Jennifer Duran, Joleen Marquez, and Jared Nunez; her two brothers: Jerry Fraser and Michael Fraser; her three grandchildren as well as numerous nieces and nephews Melanie Rose Evans, 57, Las Cruces, passed away at Mountain View Regional Medical Center on July 30, 2014. Melanie was born December 22, 1956 in Morocco Africa at the Nouasseur Air Force Base, to William S. Gilliss and Rosemary Ann Mathes Gilliss. Melanie graduated from Mayfield High School in 1975. She also attended New Mexico State University. Melanie married Carl Bunch in 1975. Melanie married Kenneth E. Evans in September 1983. Melanie worked at Montgomery Wards for many of years, moving on to different opportunities. Melanie’s parents were members of Eastern Star, where she was a Rainbow Girl. Melanie was also a member of Faternal Order of Eagles. Melanie is survived by husband Kenneth; daughter Sharlotte R. Tellez (husband, Eddie) and son Daniel E. Evans; brothers Leo and Billy Gilliss; sister Marilyn continued on page 67 SEPTEMBER 2014

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trapped predators, such as coyotes, ravens and badgers. The result, according to the article, was a higher sage grouse population than exists today and a distinct geography to the grouse’s high quality water-dependent habitat: lots of it in small pockets scattered widely across the landscape. As it turned out, families could not eke out a living from these small landholdings, and as a consequence during the early-tomid-1900s these homesteads were either abandoned or bought-up and combined in to bigger ranches. Without people to maintain the land, the meadows often became overgrown and were no longer suitable, or were of much lower quality, sage grouse habitat. The intriguing point raised by the article in Progressive Rancher is that if many of these meadows were restored they could provide an enormous amount of the crucial late-season sage grouse habitat that is currently in short supply and perhaps the most important limiting factor for the bird’s population. If these meadows are to be restored, ranchers are the crucial link, as the article explains: “It is our contention that efforts to increase sage-grouse populations in Nevada will be marginal unless the ranching industry comes to the rescue. Ranchers own much of the land that provides a significant part of the answer. They control many of the homestead sites that were once productive meadows and they own the water needed to improve those meadows. Animal agriculture to a large degree created the conditions that allowed sagegrouse to darken the skies, and animal agriculture holds at least one important key to solving the riddle today. Furthermore, the redevelopment of historic homestead meadows can provide additional feed for livestock, and research has clearly shown that sage-grouse prefer moderately grazed meadows over both ungrazed and heavily grazed meadows.” Note the attribution of higher historical sage grouse populations to the meadows managed by homesteaders. The article also has more general insight on how the Endangered Species Act’s punitive nature is counterproductive to conservation, including creating uncertainty, one source of which is the behavior of federal regulators. According to the article: “If we are going to manage sagebrush ecosystems as though the greater sagegrouse is listed as threatened or endangered, in order to keep it from being listed, then what’s the difference? When people ask this question in public meetings, it has 64

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been our experience that they receive blank facial expressions from those tasked with the determination.” Nevada, like all eleven states in the sage grouse’s range, has a very robust conservation program. Nevada published its first sage grouse conservation plan in 2004, which was updated in 2012 by separate plans for the greater sage grouse, the bistate sage grouse population that inhabits the Nevada-California border, as well as a detailed action plan for implementing sage grouse conservation measures (all these documents are available online from the Public Lands Council’s Sage Grouse Conservation Library). While the article in Progressive Rancher is critical of federal officials in charge of determining whether the sage grouse will be listed under the Endangered Species Act, the article also recognizes that ranchers need to take a more proactive role to prevent the sage grouse from being listed. “The critical question is what can public land ranchers and the Nevada livestock industry do for sage-grouse that would also improve their odds of maintaining viable businesses, and perhaps even increase the production and efficiency of their operations?,” the article asks. It adds: “Is it time that Nevada ranchers, as a professional community, realize they have an important role to play in removing the greater sage-grouse from either consideration or actual listing as a threatened or endangered species? We believe the ranching industry may control much of its own destiny. A concerted movement by the industry, accompanied by an appropriate public relations effort, would go a long way toward delisting efforts.” There are several larger implications of this thought-provoking article. First, much of the focus, especially by the federal government, is on sage brush habitat, which is largely on federal lands. But so much focus on sage brush may be misplaced because of the importance and high potential for dramatically improving the historical meadows that played such a key role sustaining the sage grouse in Nevada and likely elsewhere. Second, sage grouse conservation, at least in regions like those in Nevada where there are historical meadows, could potentially be much more effective if these meadows were restored. The meadows that remain today on working ranches are still crucially important to sage grouse, but the prospect of substantially more of this habitat is a tantalizing prospect. Third, ranchers are the linchpin to successful sage grouse conservation because they own almost all the crucially important

water-dependent meadow habitat. Furthermore, ranchers, by dint of living on the range, are best positioned to implement actual “boots-on-the-ground” conservation measures over the vast majority of the sage grouse’s habitat—as opposed to the armchair “paper” conservation (e.g., listing petitions and lawsuits) at which advocates of listing the sage grouse under Endangered Species Act excel. Conservation is often difficult work that occurs far from the urban areas in which many proponents of the Endangered Species Act live and work. Driving ranchers off the land, by making it difficult if not impossible for them to earn a living due to increasingly onerous regulations combined with reductions in grazing lands and the number of cattle allowed on these lands as a result of laws like the Endangered Species Act, is not in the best interests of the sage grouse. The grouse needs people to implement conservation measures for it. For evidence, look no further than the article in Progressive Rancher about the importance of ranchers maintaining meadows. Without people living on and working the range, the sage grouse has diminished prospects. Furthermore, a key part of conservation, in addition to protecting and improving habitat, is monitoring data on species. No matter what business you’re in, whether it’s oil and gas or wildlife conservation, good data on which to base decisions is essential. Conversely, bad data generally leads to poor decisions. Unfortunately, because the Endangered Species Act punishes conservation, landowners with endangered species on their property or even habitat suitable for endangered species have enormous incentives to keep quiet and hope they go undetected by regulatory authorities and groups that support the Act. Such is the fear of being clobbered by the Endangered Species Act. As a result, data on endangered species is generally of very poor quality, which contributes to flawed decisions about what to protect and why, as well as how to conserve species effectively, both before and after they are listed under the Act. Fourth, if the sage grouse is listed, or even proposed to be listed, under the Act, much of the outstanding work done by states like Nevada, and especially by its ranchers, will be undone as ranchers withdraw from state and federal conservation initiatives for the grouse and take shelter from the coming Endangered Species Act storm. Let’s hope for the sake of the sage grouse and this country’s increasingly embattled western ranchers that this does not happen. More at: http://reason.org/blog/show/could-abandonedhomesteads-help-kee#sthash.dFXZG8Vo.LgKwj9nH.dpuf

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Vaughan (husband, Lawarence,); two grandchildren as well as many nieces and nephews. Phala Ann Whitaker, 54, Dexter, New Mexico, passed away on July 30, 2014. Phala was born January 30, 1960 in Duncan, Oklahoma, to Frank and Meredith Lindeneau Whitfield. Her parents survive her. She married Harold Whitaker on April 4, 1992 in Levelland, Texas. When she met Harold, she was a bookkeeper for Great Western Meat Co. in Whiteface, Texas. They moved to Roswell in 1994, and Phala was employed by A.T&T., as a bookkeeper, where she retired as an Administrative Assistant. She also worked for Harold Whitaker Livestock. She is survived by husband, Harold, two daughters, Kelsey Whitaker, Lubbock, Texas and Taylor Whitaker-Ellis, Dexter, New Mexico, a granddaughter, by five brothers, Scott Tipps and family, Levelland; Jay Thornton and Doug Thornton and their families, all of Albuquerque; Brad Whitfield and family, Tulsa, Oklahoma; and Russell Tipps and family, Bokoshe, Oklahoma; by her stepmother and father, Geneva and Frank Whitfield, Tulsa, Oklahoma. Phala had been very active for many years in the Chaves County Sheriff’s Posse, in the New Mexico 4-H program. She donated many hours to assisting youth organizations, where she was a rodeo announcer among other things. Henry P McKinley, 85, Santa Fe, passed away on August 12, 2014 surrounded by friends and family after being sick for several months. Henry was born in Lynn, Massachusetts and when very young was brought out West by his parents ending up at the Ghost Ranch near Abiqui, New Mexico. He lived many years of his youth on the Ghost Ranch before attending New Mexico Military Institute, the University of Arizona and graduating with an Agriculture degree from what is now New Mexico State University. He served in Korea during the war where he took his rope to practice and teach other soldiers how to rope a dummy. When he returned after Korea he worked jobs in northern New Mexico and later began a career in Range Management working for the US Bureau of Land Management in southwest New Mexico and later moved on to be a Range Manager for the Bureau of Indian Affairs in northern New Mexico. He has been working his own cattle for over 50 years having had several continued on page 79

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Little Cayuse Ranch – This ranch operation outside Cedarvale & north of Corona can be used for a 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. Traditionally carries 32 cows year round. Located 44 miles east of Las Vegas on Hwy 104. Owner will finance!

C6 Ranch: Sonoita/Patagonia AZ. 165 head, 45 acres deeded, 8700 acres forest lease great water, good improvements. $725,000. Sam Hubbell-Tom Hardesty

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Stockton Pass: Beautiful SE AZ Ranch North of Willcox, Mountain Ranch 145 head AU, Deeded Surrounded by forest. Reduced to $975,000. Walter Lane

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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 – Historical 65 acre irrigated farm w/ditch rights. Has a bunkhouse, storage shed, shop + irrigation & 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! 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. Asking $82,500 Come see this money maker! 58,000 Acres north of Roswell, NM for sale – includes BLM, NM State Lease, Pecos river frontage & very nice HQ home! Price reduced to $204 per acre... call for details!

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192.17 Acres, Tijeras, NM, Bernalillo County. This acreage consists of open grassy prairie meandering to a hilltop forested in pinon and juniper with incredible views. Perfect acreage for a sprawling estate in the East Mountain area near the city of Albuquerque or ready for residential development. Attention developers: it is paved on 2 sides, telephone and internet underground, electric and water available. $2,498,210 Mountain Retreat – Lincoln County, NM! 644.7 deeded acres located approx 15.5 miles North of Capitan, NM. Grassy rolling meadows nestled at the base of the majestic Capitan Mountains. Paved frontage, 1 BR, 1BA, log cabin, 12x40 bunk house, 1 landowner elk tag, 1 water well, neighbors Lincoln National Forest & an elk preserve. Magnificent Views! $1,400,000

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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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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.

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Harden Cienga Ranch, Mule Creek NM. 36,000 acres, 716 head yearlong, great improvements. Priced at $3,500,000 with cattle Lazy NJ Ranch, Gleeson AZ. 7060 acres, 150 head yearlong, strong grass country. Priced at $1,350,000 Slash TL Ranch, Tombstone AZ. 14,000 acres, 300 head yearlong, improvements need attention. Priced at $1,500,000 Hunt Ranch Douglas AZ. 2462 acres with 2500 state lease, 103 head yearlong, well watered, easy to operate, paved access. Priced at $1,245,500

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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 with about 16.5 miles of new pipeline and 11 storage tanks & drinkers, 8 dirt tanks. Good year round spring. Great country. Good mix of browse and 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 midsize ranch with great prospects. Operating as a private hunting retreat, and a purebred Angus and Paint horse ranch. +/-1200 deeded acres, +/-80 acres of NM lease, and +/-5220 acres BLM. 4BR, 2BA, mfg. home. Trophy elk, antelope, deer. Elk and 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 $698,000. 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

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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. *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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Miami Horse Training Facility. Ideal horse training facility w/large 4 bedroom 3 bathroom approx 3,593 sq ft home, 248.32± deeded acres, 208 irrigation shares, 30' X 60' metal sided shop/ bunkhouse, 8 stall barn w/tack room, 7 stall barn w/storage, 10 stall open sided barn w/10 ft alley, 2 stall loafing shed, 14 11' x 24' Run-In Shelters, 135' Round Pen, Priefert six horse panel walker. Many more features & improvements. All you need for a serious horse operation in serious horse country of Miami New Mexico. Additional 150 acres available on south side of road. Miami is at the perfect year round horse training elevation of 6,200. Far enough south to have mostly mild winters. Convenient to I-25. $1,550,000. Miami Horse Heaven. Very private approx. 4,800 sq. ft. double-walled adobe 4 bed., 3 bath home w/many custom features, 77.5± deeded acres & 77.25± water shares, large 7 stall horse barn, large insulated metal shop, large haybarn/equipment shed, all for $1,650,000, plus an additional 160+/-

deeded acres w/142 water shares avail. $560,000 (subject to purchase of 77.5± deeded acre parcel.) Krause Ranch. 939.37 +/- deeded acres. 88 Springer Ditch Company water shares. Mostly west of I;25, exit 414. Big views. $725,000. Miami Mountain View. 80± deeded acres w/80 water shares & house. $550,000. Miami. 10± deeded acres, awesome home, total remodel, awesome views $295,000. Miami WOW. Big home in Santa Fe Style great for family on 3 acres. $274,900. Miami Tangle Foot. 10.02± deeded acres w/water shares & meter. $118,000. Maxwell. 19.5± deeded acres, water, outbuildings, great horse set up. $269,000. Canadian River. 39.088± deeded acres, w/nice ranch home & river. $279,000.

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NEW MEXICO RANCHES — West of Logan: Secluded, Scenic, Rugged Private Domain with private access. 5,000 Deeded Acres & 1,240 Acres of scattered State Land. Excellent wildlife habitat along with about 100 head of cows. Beautiful, panoramic views from mesa rims with numerous intermittent canyons! — North of Roy: mixed land status combines to 14,680 Total Acres. Excellent grass country capable of running 800 to 1,200 yearlings or 250 to 300 Cows. Open country, and easy to operate! — West of Santa Rosa at Milagro: approx.. 15,000+ Deeded Acres plus some uncontrolled acreage. Open, rolling country with a few scattered Juniper Trees. Good for 300 to 350 cows or 600 to 900 yearlings. Co-Listed with Dave Kern, Kern Land, Inc. 575-760-0161. – Southeast of Silver City: by San Lorenzo. Very Scenic and easily accessible. 1,273 Deeded Acres and 1,320 Acres of State Land. Joins the Gila National Forest. Major Price Reduction!

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fuels our economy, and it better positions America for the future.” From the 1940s through the 1970s, local communities using NRCS assistance constructed more than 11,800 dams in 47 states. These watershed management projects provide an estimated $2.2 billion in annual benefits in reduced flooding and erosion damages, and improved recreation, water supplies and wildlife habitat for an estimated 47 million Americans. Weller said that funding provided through today’s announcement will provide rehabilitation assistance for 150 dams in 26 states. Funds will be used for planning, design or construction. Also, 500 dam sites will be assessed for safety through NRCS’ Watershed Rehabilitation Program. For a complete list of the projects, visit www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/detail/national/programs/landscape/wr/?cid=stelprdb1257659. The projects were identified based on recent rehabilitation investments and the potential risks to life and property if a dam failure occurred. Overall, an estimated 250 thousand people will benefit as a result of improved flood protection made possible by these rehabilitated dams. “These funds will go a long way towards improving the safety and continued benefits provided by these watershed structures,” Weller said. “We will work closely with the local project sponsors to ensure that these dams continue to protect and provide water for communities and agriculture.” For more information, visit the Watershed Rehabilitation webpage or local ■ USDA service center.

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McNeill says, noting that even beef cuts that don’t fit the government’s definition of lean can fit into properly balanced diets. “The unintended consequences of such emphasis on lean cuts of beef might have contributed to a ‘good cut/bad cut’ perception,” says McNeill. “Beef has become leaner overall, and any beef cut can be part of a healthy and balanced diet. “People are really open to a balance of fat today,” she says. Savell says it’s a matter of providing the right type of fat. “Consumers want taste fat, not waste fat,” he says. “We can’t avoid the need for a certain amount of fat for eating acceptability.” Of most importance, according to Savell, is the industry must ensure data being used on packaging, in dietary recommendations and in other venues stays up-to-date with the product. “We need to make sure that every product carries current information,” he says. “There’s more of a problem with out-of-date information than there is with the product itself.”

Brave new approaches It’s great the industry has developed a positive message about its lean products, but it isn’t necessarily one it will use predominantly in the future. “The nutrition landscape is getting more complicated,” says McNeill. “Now instead of ‘eat less fat,’ there’s more guidance to ‘eat a plant-based diet.’ So we have to start understanding how beef benefits the changing philosophies in diet and health. “It also raises the question, what is the future optimal diet? We need to stress the point that beef is simply better than ever— a great tasting, nutritionally valuable food for a satisfying eating experience,” she says. McNeill says it isn’t necessary for beef to push aside other proteins to do that. “Forty percent of many Americans’ diet is junk food,” she says. “It’s not about replacing other proteins.” Staying engaged in the nutrition arena is still critical for the industry, says Clay Burtrum, who serves on the 20-member Beef Promotion Operating Committee representing the Federation of State Beef Councils. The Committee determines what programs to fund with national beef checkoff dollars, and at what amounts. It’s still very much an important issue because of today’s health awareness,” he says. “Consumers are increasingly aware of their diets.”

For that reason, Burtrum says he believes the Beef Checkoff Program needs to be involved. “We have to be forwardthinking about what is going to happen next,” he says. “We know there will continue to be Dietary Guidelines from the government, and we need to make sure that we publicize the most current, most accurate data. At the same time, we need to educate consumers about the nutritional benefits our products offer. Not just the lean, but the entire package. “With a shrinking budget, we need to focus on those areas that are most important,” Burtrum says. “Nutrition is important. We’re fortunate to have this kind of research and foundation to use in telling ■ our story.”

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ranches, the latest being Rancho Viejo on the south side of Santa Fe. Henry trained his own roping horses and trained horses for others. Henry won numerous championships and buckles for roping events over the years. He was a member of the New Mexico Old Timers Rodeo Association. His love of roping led him to help begin and support the Deaf Rodeo Association. He was very involved in that organization as he had a multitude of friends in the deaf community due to his son Forrest becoming deaf as a child due to measles. If you visited Henry you were just as likely to pick a bow for a ‘stump shoot’ as to pick up a rope. He taught a lot of kids and adults archery and if you looked close you could see arrow holes in his hat that he would throw in the air as a target for fledgling archers. Henry will be sorely missed by hundreds who he helped and befriended as he is one of the last real old-time cowboys left. Henry is survived by his wife Margaret (Peg), son Ward McKinley as well as three step-children, two grandchildren, two step-grandchildren and numerous cousins. In lieu of flowers please remember Henry through is favorite organizations, the New Mexico School for the Deaf and also a program for combat veterans, Horses for Heroes at www.horsesforheroes.org. A memorial will be held at Henry’s home arena, 13B Bonanza Creek Rd., Santa Fe, N.M. on Sept. 20 at 10:30 ■ a.m. 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 & educating citizens on governmental actions, policies & 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. SEPTEMBER 2014

BRD scoring for timely diagnosis JOHN MADAY, MANAGING EDITOR, DROVERS CATTLENETWORK n limiting losses from Bovine Respiratory Disease (BRD), early diagnosis and appropriate treatment play a major role in success. During the BRD conference taking place in Denver, several presentations outlined new diagnostic tools, some involving emerging technologies and others simply making better use of existing diagnostic techniques. University of Wisconsin veterinarian Sheila McGuirk, DVM, PhD, ACVIM, says beef and dairy producers often do not routinely screen calves for respiratory disease. Eventually, producers and veterinarians will have access to comprehensive, practical and affordable respiratory disease screening tools such as accelerometers, pedometers, appetite monitors, feed consumption detection systems, remote temperature recording devices, radiant heat detectors, electronic stethoscopes, and thoracic ultrasound. But until these systems are validated and available, producers can improve their timely diagnosis of BRD by using a standardized scoring system.

McGuirk and her team have developed a scoring system that attributes severity scores to each of four clinical parameters: rectal temperature, cough, nasal discharge, ocular discharge or ear position. A total respiratory score of five points or higher can be used to distinguish affected from unaffected calves. She recommends using the scoring system twice weekly in pre-weaned dairy calves to facilitate early detection. Coupled with effective treatment protocols she says, this scoring system will reduce post-weaning pneumonia, chronic pneumonia and otitis media. In this clinical signs-based respiratory scoring system, respiratory disease is determined to be present when two or more examination parameters are moderate or severely abnormal. The examination parameters and graded scale evaluation criteria are available online from the University of Wisconsin’s Vetmed website. The scoring system’s points range from 0 to 3 as clinical signs progress from normal (0), to mildly abnormal (1), to moderately abnormal (2) to severely abnormal (3). Calves with a total respiratory score > 5 or that have 2 or more clinical parameters with score 2 or 3 are considered to have respiratory disease. For calves in group pens, the respiratory screening

process can be modified, and a form for group pen screening is available from the University of Wisconsin. McGuirk says a farm’s calf-health screening program should include daily observations, twice-weekly screening tests and a defined exam process. Respiratory scoring is part of the twice-weekly health screening program but also should be applied when workers doing daily observations note individual calves that need a more detailed examination. She recommends setting up daily observations for high-risk calves and those that have shown early signs of BRD but have scored below 5 in the scoring system. She also notes that BRD prevalence increases with age in preweaned calves so strategic use screening of calves just prior to weaning can positively impact the occurrence of postweaning pneumonia. Implementing a routine screening process entails some labor costs, but the benefits can pay for a dairy. A University of Wisconsin Extension study indicated that that, on average, one full time equivalent (FTE) employee is needed to perform the routine daily chores for each 100 calves. continued on page 82

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McGuirk estimates an additional 0.5 FTE is needed for every 100 calves to perform these daily and weekly health screening procedures. Initially, farms likely will see an increase in number of calves treated, treatment costs, respiratory morbidity and calls to the veterinarian. Mortality rate from BRD however, likely will decline, and over time, the farm will benefit from decreases in calf treatment rate, number of days of treatment, treatment relapses, treatment costs, morbidity and mortality. Over the long term, producers can achieve better productivity and profitability of replacement heifers, better employee morale and motivation and reduced employee turnover. Veterinarians can work with clients to enter individual calf scoring results into a record system to track performance and cost, monitor disease incidence, analyze treatment efficacy or create valuable health reports. When these records indicate a change in prevalence of respiratory disease, the veterinarian can focus diagnostic testing on the most recent, ■ untreated diseased calves.

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reports supported, rejected or were uncertain about the cause of global warming. Of the studies examined, 66.4 percent of the abstracts expressed no position whatsoever on human-caused global warming. Of the abstracts that did express an opinion on human-caused warming, 97.1 percent endorsed the notion that it was human-caused. Stroup likens the 97 percent claim to a survey of 10,000 ice cream lovers. Imagine a survey that asked respondents what their preferred ice cream brand was, but more than half of those surveyed do not respond to the question. If 97 percent of those who did respond to the question report that their favorite ice cream is Haagen Dazs, asks Stroup, is that proof that all ice cream lovers support the consensus view that Haagen Dazs is the best ice cream? Stroup cautions policymakers to engage in logical analysis when crafting environmental policies, not spin misleading statistics.

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Organization and Native American Business Student Association. Palmira Caro, El Paso, Texas, plans to apply her animal science degree to gain experience in her field to later expand her career and studies. Thatcher, Arizona is the home of animal science major, Bryce Carter who plans to own and operate a cattle grow yard in southern Arizona. He was a Crimson Scholar and recipient of numerous scholarships while at NMSU. Joseph Castro of Clint, Texas, majored in animal science. He would like to attend graduate school with a future goal of enhancing all areas of beef cattle health, performance, and influence both biological and ecological factors in a positive manner. Matthew Crouse will attend graduate school at North Dakota State University. The Anderson, Indiana native majored in animal science with an equine emphasis and minored in chemistry. Matthew was a member of the NMSU Horse Judging Team and was Champion Collegiate Horse Judger at the U.S. Arabian Nationals. He was also a member of the NMSU Horseman’s Association and participated in the departmental Academic Quadrathlon. He was recipient of the American Society of Animal Science Scholastic Achievement award, the Dean’s Award of Excellence, and the departmental “Graduate of Distinction” medallion. Matthew graduated with Honors. El Paso, Texas native, Jorge Flores majored in animal science and minored in chemistry. He plans to become a veterinarian. He served as Vice-President of the NMSU Pre-Vet Club. Genaro Guerra, Chihuahua, Chihuahua, Mexico, received his degree in animal science. He plans to help and expand the family business and open a chain of restaurants where he supplies his own beef. He also plans a successful beef operation promoting not only commercial but also grass fed beef. Complete a Master’s degree and then attend veterinary school is the career goal of Lady Raisa Gonzalez, animal science major from Rio Rancho, New Mexico. She was a member of the Horse Judging Team at NMSU. Kaitlyn Gorman of Peralta, New Mexico received her degree in animal science with a minor in business administration. She would like to work with equines or possibly animal rescue. Kaite was recipient of the American Society of Animal Science Scholastic Achievement Award, High

Achiever’s Scholarship, and served as President and Campus Liaison for Christians United for Israel. She was also a competitive rifle shooter and was a U.S. Collegiate Silver Medalist and All-Star medalist. She was an Honors graduate. Receiving her degree in animal science with a minor in range science was Consuelo Gurulé of Standing Rock, New Mexico. She will be attending graduate school at Kansas State University. While at NMSU, CiCi was a member of NMSU Wool Judging Team, ACES Ambassador, and participated in Academic Quadrathlon. She also served as assistant coach for the Wool Judging Team, was named to the Dean’s List, and recipient of Alumni Student Delegate Internship with Agricultural Research Service and Zoetis. Consuelo was named the “Outstanding Student in Animal and Range Sciences” for Spring 2014 and was recipient of the departmental “Graduate of Distinction” medallion. She was a Crimson Scholar graduate and graduated with honors. Animal science major, Holly Howard is from Phoenix, Arizona and plans to attend graduate school at NMSU in reproductive physiology. She competed as a barrel racer with the NMSU Rodeo Team, was a member of the NMSU Therapeutic Riding Association, and held a student campus ministry position in the Newman Catholic Student Organization. Jack Martinez, Roy, New Mexico, majored in range science (rangeland management) with minors in livestock production and agricultural business management. He will begin working for Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS) in Santa Rosa immediately after graduation. He will also return to the family ranch and attempt to build the enterprise. Jenica Moore will be attending Washington State University Veterinary School this fall and plans to return to New Mexico to become a rural, mixed animal practice veterinarian. The Mogollon, New Mexico native was a member of the NMSU Pre-Vet Club, NMSU Therapeutic Riding Association, and the NMSU Polo Club. She was named to the Dean’s List and was a Crimson Scholar for four years, and was recipient of the American Society of Animal Science Scholastic Achievement Award. Jenica graduated with Honors. Returning to his home in Willcox, Arizona, will be animal science major Jimmy Moss. He plans to start a business doing background checks on calves for a local continued on page 86

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Belize during Spring Break of 2014. David Villalobos, animal science major from Parral, Chihuahua, Mexico, will return home to work in the family business. He thanks his parents, brothers, relatives, and friends for their support in making his college degree a reality. Animal science major with emphasis in companion animals, Claren Wilson of Rio Rancho, New Mexico, will continue working as head trainer at the Cloud K-9 Dog Training Services. She was recipient of the departmental “Graduate of Distinction” medallion. Other students completing their degrees in the department were Stephanie Aguilar (ansc, Las Cruces), Samuel Ault (rgsc, Rio Rancho), Desiree Chavez (ansc, Las Cruces), Dallas Greenbury (Albuquerque), Fatima Guaderrama (ansc, Las Cruces), Jillian Henry (ansc, El Paso, TX), Martin Meairs (rgsc, Glenwood), Gilbert Orosco (ansc, Las Cruces), and Daniel Torres (rgsc, Angel Fire). Advanced Degrees Fathi Amraga of Albayda, Libya, completed his Master’s degree in animal science under the direction of Dr. Sergio Soto-Navarro. His thesis was titled “Effect of wheat middling supplementation on metabolizable protein of heifers grazing winter wheat pasture.” Fathi was an active participant of the Animal and Range Sciences Graduate Student Association and will return to his home country to work in agriculture. Receiving her Master’s degree in animal science with ruminant nutrition emphasis was Colleen Buck from Stevensville, Montana. Serving as her advisors were Dr. Eric Scholljegerdes and Dr. Shanna Ivey. “Effects of ad libitum supplement containing increasing levels of microalgae, Scendesmus Sp. on site and extent of digestion in beef heifers” was her thesis title. Colleen was a member of the Animal and Range Sciences Graduate Student Association and plans to serve the agricultural industry by working in extension or as a nutrition consultant. Megan Coleson from Albuquerque, New Mexico will complete her Master’s degree in animal science with an emphasis in reproductive physiology this summer. Her research studied increased serum progesterone concentrations and corpora lutea as a result of hCG administration to ewes day 4 post-mating and potential mediators. Dr. Tim Ross served as her advi-

sor. Megan plans to pursue a PhD in reproductive physiology and hopes to return to New Mexico and teach future AGGIES. Megan served as assistant coach for the 2013 and 2014 NMSU Academic Quadrathlon teams, was a member of Animal and Range Sciences Graduate Student Association, American Society of Animal Science, and Gamma Sigma Delta Honor Society of Agriculture. She received the Dean’s Award of Excellence for Graduate Students in Spring 2014. Finishing his Master’s degree this summer in animal science with emphasis on ruminant nutrition will be Clayton Gardner of Estancia, NM. Dr. Eric Scholljegerdes serves as his advisor and his thesis will be titled “Effects of rumen protected Arg on performance of cattle.” While at NMSU, Clayton served as the livestock judging team coach, was a member of Animal and Range Sciences Graduate Student Association, and Gamma Sigma Delta Honor Society of Agriculture. He plans to return home to ranch. James Graves is from Amarillo, Texas and received his Master’s degree in animal science with emphasis in ruminant nutrition. He will continue at NMSU pursuing his Ph.D. degree with plans of becoming a Beef Cattle Extension Specialist. “Relationship of serum antibody titers to the bovine respiratory disease complex and feedlot morbidity and performance” was his thesis title and his study was guided by Dr. Eric Scholljegerdes. James was a member of the Animal and Range Sciences Graduate Student Association and served as Western Section, American Society of Animal Science Graduate Student Director. He placed 2nd in the 2013 A. L. Neumann Graduate Student Paper Competition at NMSU. He also received the Texas Cattle Feeders Association scholarship. “The role of livestock suppressing rangeland weeds and sustaining traditional agropastoral communities in Northern New Mexico” was the title of Stephanie Lopez’s Master thesis. The range science major from Las Cruces was advised by Dr. Andrés Cibils. She plans a career as a rangeland specialist in natural resource management working for either a federal or state agency. Stephanie received the New Mexico Higher Education Graduate Fellowship Award, the A. L. and Lorena P. Neumann Memorial Endowed Scholarship, and was a participant in the Natural Resource Career Track Program. She was also a member of Gamma Sigma Delta Honor Society of Agriculture. Carolina Rivera completed her Master’s

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