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FEATURES 16 Swinging for the Fences... by J. Neil Orth, American International Charolais Association Executive Vice President

18 Here’s Why Having Breeding Goals Matter by Wes Ishmael, BEEF magazine

20 Vegetarian Men More Likely to Get Depressed: Study by Susan Kelly, meatingplace.com

24 Amazon Beef is on the Horizon Source agnewsfeed.com

33 State Fair Schedules 36 10 Amazing GMOs That You Need to Know About by Dr. Carol Curchoe, www.agdaily.com

40 Retained Ownership Offers Many Benefits by Larry Stalcup

43 Anaplasmosis: Not Just a Southern Cattle Producer Problem by Ann Hess, www.agdaily.com

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57 It’s Not 1870 & Prices Won’t Win the Long Game

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59 Leaders Who Give Trust by Jesus Ancheta Molina

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DEPARTMENTS 10 N.M. Cattle Growers’ Association President’s Letter by Pat Boone, President

12 To The Point by Caren Cowan

21 N.M. CowBelles’ Jingle Jangle 28 Aggie Notes by Craig Gifford, Extension Beef Cattle Specialist; Dairy Science Minor

26 News Update 44 New Mexico’s Old Times & Old Timers by Don Bullis

48 On The Edge of Common Sense by Baxter Black

50 N.M. Federal Lands Council News by Frank DuBois

52 In Memoriam 58 View from the Backside by Barry Denton

63 Farm Bureau Minute by Craig Ogden, New Mexico Farm & Livestock Bureau President

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all works are upon us. We are weaning some this week. The flies are about as bad as I’ve ever seen, but along with washed roads, weeds, and other pests they are not so bad when they are accompanied by substantial rains. We continue our prayers for rain for all. Time is growing short to grow winter grass-hopefully those that have been on the short end will receive some soon. Please keep the folks in South Texas in your thoughts and prayers as they battle back from Hurricane Harvey. Many have lost all they had and face great hardship in the coming weeks and months. The NM Department of Game and Fish Commission presented some changes to the antelope hunt at their August meeting. A completely different procedure for issuing authorizations and overall length of the hunts, along with added hunts, are among the ideas we opposed. If you are not up to date on all the changes, and you participate in the hunt, you need to be informed. Give me a call, or call, or email the office and we will bring you up to speed. We want you all to be aware of what is coming, and need input and direction on how we should proceed. The cattle killings in Eddy County have not been solved. This is criminal activity at its best (worst). The killings have occurred over a large area and are similar in ways but different in others. This senseless stuff has to be stopped. The monetary loss is a major concern but also the thought of someone running around the countryside with a high-powered rifle killing cattle is rather unnerving. If you have any information concerning these crimes, there are substantial rewards offered. Please contact the Eddy County Sheriff’s Office, the New Mexico Livestock Board, or the New Mexico State Police. Thanks in advance for helping solve these crimes. We would like to thank Purina for increasing the amount of their annual scholarship to $1,500, and participating with Purina dealers around NM to offer an additional $1,500 scholarship. The numbers of young people returning to our ranches and farms seems to shrink every year, and we need to offer as much incentive as we can to get them to come back home. Please thank your Purina dealer and/or your Purina rep for helping our young farmers and ranchers get the education they need. I wish you all a great fall. I hope we all have productive fall works and that 2017 is a rewarding year. Go enjoy and support the State fair if you can. See you all soon somewhere. May your horses stay sound ...

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

he afternoon after a New Mexico State Game Commission meeting with the topic of wolves and antelope (two separate items) may not be the best time to start this column, but it may be as good a time as any. The wolf issue seems to be one that will plague me for the rest of my life. The Commission’s discussion at their August meeting was about the draft recovery plan and the need to submit comments. By a vote of six to one, the Commission decided to support the plan, with significant comments on the need for changes in the plan. Stop! Before you throw this magazine, there is some rationale to the thinking of the six who voted for the position. We have all believed that a recovery plan is a necessity. Without a plan no one knows what recovery means and there is no chance for a delisting in our lifetimes or after.

As good a time as any … We got one — be careful what you wish for. The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (FWS) is under a court order to produce a plan before the end of 2017 so this plan or some version close to it is going to be presented the 9th District Count in Tucson and published as final in the very near future. If anyone wants to be involved in litigation on the plan in the future, they must comment on the plan to have standing in the courts. Among the comments the Commission wants to submit is the need to have wolf recovery in the US separated from recovery in Mexico. There may be a fat chance of that happening, but the Commission is on the right track. So, I can probably get over the Commission’s actions. What burns my mind (and other places)

is having to sit through the public comments period. The day could have been worse. The room was not filled with wolf-lovers and there weren’t many fireworks, but the disconnect from reality in those folks never ceases to amaze me. There was the requisite representative from the Defenders of Wildlife, a new guy apparently from Montana. He extolled the virtues of wolves in Montana and how well the program was working there with ranchers. I had two thoughts for that — Dorothy, you aren’t in Montana anymore, and how many Montana ranchers have you talked with? He went well beyond his allotted three minutes extolling the virtues of the wonder depredation payments that ranchers have been and are getting — there is just isn’t a problem, he says. Then there was the bouncy lady who just

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proposal hasn’t drawn much support from the landowner community or the outfitting and guiding community. One long-time outfitter told the NMDGF, after praising them a bit, that “this was the dumbest idea anyone ever had.” For those with checker-board ranches, there would be absolutely no way to control hunting on their property. These are the folks who have cooperated with the NMDGF that will be thrown to the wolves — not literally… yet. The proposal would add hunts and contemplates changing hunt days from three to five. That seems to be a none-starter for everyone. The biologist reported that 85 percent of antelope hunters are successful and that success comes in an average of 1.8 hunting days. When asked by a Commissioner why the additional days were even considered in the face of this data, the answer was that there had been requests for more hunting days so that hunters could just enjoy the land even after that they had bagged their antelope. The new hunts would allow hunting from mid-August until November. In the initial propose there was no consideration of the fact that that is exactly the time that

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Swinging for the Fences Seldom is a Good Strategy for Beef Producers by J. Neil Orth, American International Charolais Association Executive Vice President

iving in Kansas City, home of the KC Royals, it’s too easy to make a beef marketing analogy with the mediocre performance of our beloved Royals season thus far. The team has gone from a halfgame out of first place in the American League Central Division to third in the

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ally decades ago. But being able to direct the cellular breakage and repair processes deck-stacking tool. At the most basic level, involved only became practical in the last producers can use fixed-time artificial few years. insemination to breed cows to specific Gene editing is not to be confused with genetics, in a brief window of time. genetic engineering. The difference is Advanced reproductive technology like in much more than semantics. vitro fertilization means being able to accelBy definition, gene editing refers to harerate the generation interval at rates never nessing natural cellular breakage and repair dreamed possible. processes, resulting in a DNA sequence that Now, the evolution of gene editing could occur in nature’s own time. For that promises to carry all of this a stratosphere matter, it probably has happened, but not further. necessarily in a genetic package deemed Gene editing itself is nothing new. In its worthy of propagation. purist form, nature has utilized it from the Gene engineering, on the other hand, beginning, via mutagenesis, as organisms has to do with introducing DNA from other seek to adapt and thrive. Plant breeders populations and species, something that began introducing mutagenesis intention- could not otherwise be present in the host animal. Already, a company called Acceligen is working to commercialize cattle products that include, among other things, creating polled cattle in naturally horned populations and introducing double-muscling by shutting off a single gene. Depending on your leanings, gene editing is a transformative technology. Just as smartphones provided a new way for SLATON, TEXAS Charolais existing technologies and applications to & Angus be used, gene editing is made possible by Bulls technologies that preceded it, but enables TREY WOOD their use in previously unimaginable ways. 806/789-7312 A few years down the road, gene editing CLARK WOOD might be deemed more transitional than 806/828-6249 • 806/786-2078 transformative. For now, though, it appears to have the potential to be a game-changer. As it is, commercialization of gene editing products for cattle is a work in progress. At the same time, the debate and regulation of such tools is at early stages. Breeding Charolais since 1956 So, if you could build the perfect cow for your environment and resources, what would she be? Not the breed components, but in terms of her ability. What traits would she unfailingly possess? What would her offspring be capable of and what sort of mating would that require? Arguably, establishing specific breeding Spring Yearling Bulls 1460 Penn Road goals is becoming more essential, not Belleville, KS 66935because of narrowing economic returns or Consign ed to T & S785/527-5047 Charolais Sale Cell: 785/527-1269 Home: because you leave potential on the table. www.runftcharolais.com March 24, 2018 • runftmc@nckcn.com It’s because selection and reproductive technology are at a stage where it’s easy to Fall 2016 Bulls Private Treaty take the wrong direction fast.

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egetarian men showed more symptoms of depression than non-vegetarians, possibly due to nutritional deficiencies, a University of Bristol study said. Researchers analyzed data from 9,668 men in the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children in southwest England, of which 350 identified themselves as vegetarians. Those who were vegetarian for a longer period of time tended to have higher depression scores. Deficiencies in nutrients such as iron or vitamin B12 are a possible explanation for the findings, but reverse causation cannot be ruled out, the researchers said. Other possible reasons for the findings include greater consumption of nuts rich in omega-6 fatty acids and lower intake of seafood, factors that may be associated with greater risk of depression, they said. High blood levels of phytoestrogens, a consequence of diets rich in vegetables and soy, and metabolites of pesticides from high intake of fruit and vegetables also could explain the higher depression risk, the study said. The research is due to be published in the J ournal of Af fe c tive Disorders.

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ww! The onset of fall is always welcomed with County Fairs! What a wonderful way to start a season! I love summer… the days of being out in the yard and enjoying the bounty of the local farmers market. But who doesn’t love all that fall has to offer! Trips to pumpkin patches, football games, apple cider, roasting green chile, cozy blankets and gatherings around the fire! I think we are a family of fall traditions and it started when the kids were very young. Friends of ours moved up to Alamogordo and took us to High Rolls to a little family orchard to pick apples and we were hooked! We packed the back of the vehicle with bags and bags of apples to go home and spend the days ahead canning and baking. Well the kids ... five young boys ... enjoyed the experience so much they would sit and eat apples upon apples out on the porch or while hiking among the hills that we had to return the following day to pick again! And so, with this the tradition began the start of our kick off to fall season with nothing but apples. Our beloved New Mexico has so many wonders, that you can spend an entire season going and seeking out the adventures and you would never see them all. We love our traditions and being blessed enough to have friends to share them that I hope you have fall traditions of your own or be inspired enough to go out and start some new ones! Please help us in Cowbelles start a tradition of flooding Galloping Graces Youth Ranch Pumpkin Patch with volunteering. This is a huge outreach for our industry and they have done an amazing job of welcoming us to their family. If you have not signed up to work a shift please contact any of the state officers! We would love to see your beautiful smiling faces. The August meeting of the Chamiza CowBelles was called to order by President, Nancy Phelps, with 11 members and one

guest present. Secretary’s report was read and approved with the correction: Clara Rabenau, guest, is running for NM State Fair Queen. Robbie presented the treasurer’s report and it was approved. Beef raffle ticket sales are going well. Nancy mailed out tickets to members not yet receiving tickets using $16 of her own money for postage. Ticket stubs should be turned in to Nancy; the money given to Robbie. Petersen Memorial Ranch Rodeo and Dutch Oven Cookoff occur this weekend. Cathy will take care of the CowBelle booth for the weekend. Nancy will mail out the new annual dues forms next week. Four members volunteered to attend the Happy Hour reception at the NM State Fair on September 14 hosted by the NM Beef Council: Nancy, Krystie, Susan and Cathy. If anyone uses business cards, Debi Rupe has beef information which can be printed on the back of these cards. Cathy received the application for Sierra County Fair Booth. The cost is $25. She will turn in the application and more discussion regarding the fair will take place at the next meeting. Nancy and Sherry plan to attend the 5 States Meeting being held on September 27. Krystie introduced guest, Clara Rabenau. Clara then presented the speech she plans to use at the NM State Fair Queen competition, followed by questions from the group. Good luck, Clara! Following the recent death of Jack Cain, spouse of one of our founding members Grace Cain the group will donate $100 to the NM State Veterans’ Home and $100 to the First Baptist Church in Jack’s memory. Janet Franklin won the door prize. Meeting adjourned. Submitted by Cathy Pierce The August meeting of the Powderhorn Cattlewomen was called to order by President Kelsey McCollum on August 8, 2017. There were six members and no guests present. In the absence of Joan Key (due to over 2 inches of rain YEA!), Sandy McKenna read the minutes of the May meeting, and they were approved as read. Kathy gave the treasurer’s report. It was decided to pay the

DeBaca 4-H $200 for their work at the barbecue and to pay the Ft. Sumner Chamber of Commerce $100. Discussion of other fundraising options were had including a billboard on I-40. Available wraps will be researched (more discussion at the September meeting). Kathy will collect dues in September with a new enrollment form. Casey Spradley is working hard to clean up NMCB membership and duplicate Stockmen. Dues due by October 15. The Cattlewomen decided to make a $50 donation to the Pat Nowlin Scholarship fund in the memory of Tom Speight, Frances’ husband. The current slate of NM CowBelle state officers have proposed by-law cleanup changes that are in the current Wrangler. To assist NMCBs please attend the state meeting in Albuquerque on December 9 at 7:00 a.m. More discussion as year progresses. As an incentive, the Fort Sumner Chamber of Commerce has moved Winterfest to December 16. There was discussion of a booth with questionnaire as previous and awarding beef gift certificates or other gifts such as cookbooks or knives. Logistics of having a tasting will be pursued and group will participate in Winterfest with the details to be discussed and decided later. The group will meet in Santa Rosa at the next meeting September 12 at the Blue Hole Convention Center with Carolyn, Karen and Brenda as hostesses. Patti Waid will be presenting a program on “What” and “How” for the Cattle Growers and Beef Council. Meeting was adjourned. After a delicious lunch of pot roast and trimmings, Kelsey presented the program on “What, Why and How of Creating a New Perennial Flower Bed” showing ladies the plants and techniques used at Kathy’s home. Much was learned by all. Respectfully submitted, Sandy McKenna for Joan Key The Mesilla Valley CowBelles met August 21, 2017 with five members present. In President Gretchen’s absence Janet led the meeting. The minutes were approved as emailed out and the treasurer’s report was read and filed. Dues are due next SEPTEMBER 2017

meeting; Janet will email out the form and amount to be collected at next meeting which will likely be at the Southern New Mexico State Fair. The group decided to continue their Beef Buckle Sponsorship and discussed sale items for the fair. Janet will get the business license for napkins, cookbooks, limited NMCB inventory and Beef Plates. The SNMSF Ag Tours were discussed with the next meeting date. Ag in the Classroom will continue their partnership with MVC at the fair booth and has signs to put around with the bar codes for Seek and Find for fair goers. The Elementary School Calendar Contest winners will again be displayed among the School Arts exhibits. Fair cleanup and booth set up times will be emailed out to membership. Submitted by Judy Glover President Rachel called the May 2017 meeting to order with 9 members present of the Silver Spurs CowBelles. It was decided to approve the minutes as mailed. No treasurer’s report was available this month. Money collected at meeting will go to Galloping Grace youth ranch. President Rachel attended the ANCW Region VI meeting held in Nevada and gave a brief overview of that meeting. The Union County Leader published names of various commu-

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nity 2017 High School graduates. The Lariat CowBelles are partnering with SilverSpurs for the Beef Supplement. By-Laws update was discussed. It was decided to donate $100 to the Youth Ranch Management Camp held annually in the State. Reminder of the County Fair Theme: Blue Jeans and Country Dreams. Submitted by Lynne Ostrowsky The Grant County Copper CowBelles met on August 15. The Pledge of Alliance, CowBelles Creed and Prayer were recited. Guest Carol Baumgartner was introduced and hostess was Kim Clark. President Pat Hunt presented two items that the Executive Board was requesting motions on: It was decided by a narrow margin to not have the annual Shindig during 2018 due to uncertainties on where and when to hold it. There was much discussion and it was noted that if a member wants to take charge of the event (relieving Executive Board of duties), it can be held. Secondly, it was decided to stop using the post office box; only mail being received is junk mail. The bank statements are sent electronically. Address will be changed to the President’s home address. Rosella was not available to give a report on the Fourth of July Beef giveaway but the pictures and write-up

were given to Judy for the press release. One scholarship application was received and Joan will discuss it with the committee. Kathy will contact Runyans for advice on repairing the highway beef billboard. Linda agreed to be chair of the nominating committee for next year’s officers and Deborah agreed to chair the county fair booth in September. Bobbie announced that the long awaited ranching exhibit at the Silver City Museum has been postponed again to September 2018. Submitted by Pat Hunt New Mexico CowBelles: Thank you to all who have submitted their news to Jingle Jangle. Please send minutes and/or newsletters to Jingle Jangle, Janet Witte, 1860 Foxboro Ct., Las Cruces, NM 88007 or email: janetwitte@msn.com by the 14th of every month.

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eff Bezos is a beef stakeholder. The founder of Amazon with a net worth of $87 billion—give or take a billion—has a vested interest in how your cattle are raised. This summer Amazon announced it intends to acquire Whole Foods Market for $13.7 billion, news that sent a shudder through the grocery business. Already operating on razor-thin margins, grocery retailers are now facing even more competition in a sector that generates about $1 trillion in annual sales. Amazon’s acquisition of Whole Foods is seen as a direct challenge to Wal-Mart’s supremacy, and the 20-year-old Internet sensation is now the fourth most valuable public company in the world and the eighth-largest employer in the U.S. For consumers, analysts believe the

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entry of Amazon into the food business will mean more food choices, faster home deliveries of groceries and lower prices. Yet, Amazon was making its presence felt in the beef industry even before the Whole Foods announcement. Amazon Technologies has filed at least 110 trademarks related to food, with the focus primarily on pre-made meals. Ten of those trademarks are related to the phrase “single cow burger.” Amazon already sells Wagyu beef burgers made from grass-fed cattle raised in California. The company promotes the product as made from a single cow, unlike most burgers which are made from the trimmings of multiple animals. “How many cows does it take to make one burger? Thanks to Amazon, just one,” the company touts in its promotions. “Our high-quality patties are made from one source and are available exclusively on AmazonFresh.” And now, thanks to Amazon, a seed has been planted among consumers that burgers made from multiple sources are somehow tainted. There is no evidence that burgers from a single source are safer, tastier or greener for the planet, but you

can bet Amazon will not attempt to correct consumers who draw that conclusion. Amazon’s foray into the food business is another giant step by a savvy company led by a savvy businessman. The company will soon be selling enough beef and other proteins that it will hold incredible leverage on our industry, the kind of leverage that will force changes to many production systems. Ready or not, Amazon beef is on the horizon. High quality and product safety will be guaranteed from those who will supply beef to Amazon in the future. So will humane animal treatment standards, and probably mandatory animal identification to trace products back to the farm of origin. Other Amazon demands could involve environmental stewardship and sustainability. Amazon, and other food marketers, are implementing strategies to provide their customers what they want—affordable, quality food products delivered quickly. In other words, Amazon will soon be your customer. Are you ready?

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t the outset, allow me to establish that I fully understand the significance of depression and the impact it has on people’s lives. I don’t suffer from, nor have I ever battled, depression. But I’ve witnessed and experienced its influence first-hand. Both my parents suffered from depression throughout their life – and one of my very best friends committed suicide 14 years ago (I miss him every day). I share all that because it’s a serious topic. And based on my experience, given the discussion that follows, it’s easy to anticipate the potential scolding that could ensue had I not established that foundation. Enough said. Now, many of you are likely asking why the topic of depression is even being addressed in a Feedstuffs column. It results from a recent Daily Mail headline that caught my attention: “...vegetarians are almost twice as likely to be suffering from depression…” The article explains that, “Vegetarians are often fond of preaching the healthy virtues of their meat-free diet. But giving up chicken and beef in favor of carrots and broccoli is making them more miserable, say experts.” The findings are based on a study by Bristol University published in the Journal of Affective Disorders. The explanation for higher depression scores included: lower intake of vitamin B12 and increased intake of omega-6 fatty acids. Additionally, there exist other potential causative agents including elevated blood levels of phytoestrogens associated with soy- and vegetable-based diets. The findings, however, aren’t unique to England. Case in point, Women’s Health published an article in 2015 entitled, “The Scary Mental Health Risks of Going Meatless (Vegetarianism Can Come With Some Unexpected Side Effects). The discussion featured research from Australia in which vegetarians were found to be less optimistic about the future, more likely to report depression and suffer panic attacks and anxiety. Similarly, U.S.-based Lierre Keith, author of The Vegetarian Myth, reports that she, “…hear[s] from vegetarians every day; they have this terrible depression and they don’t understand why.” The topic reminded me of a column I wrote about four years ago in Feedstuffs. It focused on a TV ad produced by Red Robin touting that, “We even have a Gardenburger – just in case your teenage daughter is going through a phase.” The vegetarians and vegans took to social media berating the ad as insensitive and proclaiming their decision to not eat meat or animal products was much more than just a “phase.” The company subsequently issued a formal apology and explained the ad was simply an attempt to promote their veggie burger – intended only “to increase awareness in an irreverent, lighthearted way.” But to no avail. And at the time I explained all the hullabaloo seemed “like a lot of misplaced indignation.” Given the new research, it now appears the vitriolic response to Red Robin is likely indicative of a larger, more serious issue. As I read the Daily Mail article I kept thinking, “But what if it works the other way.” And there in the final sentence I found my answer: “…the authors did not rule out that the decision to adopt a vegetarian diet may be a symptom of depression.” Meanwhile,

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the Women’s Health article also addresses that topic. Emily Deans, Boston psychiatrist explains that “We don’t know if a vegetarian diet causes depression and anxiety, or if people who are predisposed to those mental conditions gravitate toward vegetarianism.” As such, there needs to be more research to fully understand the relationship between vegetarianism and depression. More specifically: are vegetarians depressed because they don’t eat meat, or are people prone to depression more likely to become vegetarians (and if so, maybe vegetarianism confounds the depression)? Alternatively, there are also inherent questions about the continuum: people who eat very little meat – where are they in terms of outlook and perspective? Whatever the answers, it appears the lifestyle choice, at minimum, accentuates depression. The research trend is hard to deny: avoiding meat has serious consequences. Many of us remember well the enduring dairy promotion proclaiming, “Milk – it does a body good.” Turns out there’s a parallel for meat – it does the mind good.

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goals of any vaccination program is to ensure that healthy calves are being sold. However, high stress animals or animals handled in a high stress manner are more likely to experience increased rates of morbidity and mortality. NMSU recently hosted Ag Days Degree and had the opportunity to bring in Curt Pate to discuss stockmanship. Curt is a world-renowned expert in horsemanship and stockmanship and has hosted clinics throughout the U.S. and internationally. I had the opportunity to sit down with Mr. Pate and discuss a few questions. Q: What do you feel is the area with the most room for improvement in livestock handling/husbandry on large rangeland operations?

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ost people are familiar with just three types of “GMOs” corn, soy, and beets (usually they can even cite glyphosate resistance or the Bt trait!). But dozens of GMOs exist and they have been used to benefit human health, animal welfare, and to safeguard the environment for over 30 years. Here are some GMOs you may have never heard about, or realized why they were created in the first place! 1) Cheese — Do you eat cheese?! Who doesn’t!? Once upon a time, the veal calf industry was booming, and we used calf stomach rennet (enzymes that coagulate milk into curd) to make cheese. But as our concern for animal welfare grew, and our use of veal calves fell, we needed to find an alternate source of cheese-making enzymes. We now use bioengineered chymosin to protect the welfare of veal calves and to have a cheap and virtually limitless supply of enzymes, responsible for over 90 percent of cheese consumed today. 2) Insulin — For 60 years after the discovery that injected insulin could treat diabetes, diabetics relied on insulin purified

from animals, primarily cattle and pigs. those who are interested in an in-depth Animal insulin works well on the whole, but explanation, these potato varieties each is not an exact match with the human involved transformation for two traits (the hormone, and it sometimes causes adverse genes related to expression of black spot reactions, such as skin rashes. In 1978 insulin bruise and asparagine, and the genes became the first human protein to be man- related to reducing sugars in tubers) for a ufactured through biotechnology. Today all total of 10 events, which were done sepainsulin for human use is manufactured from rately by RNAi (RNA Interference). Reducing GM bacteria. food waste from bruising and browning will 3) Vaccines — Indisputably life saving, save hundreds of thousand of pounds of vaccines are produced in chicken eggs, carbon emissions per year! human cell lines, or bacteria, all genetically 7) Interferon — A protein used to treat modified to produce the antigen of choice! multiple sclerosis, autoimmune disorders, 4) Golden Rice — This is a great example and in some cancer treatments. As a society of improving a non-nutrient dense, staple we rely on drugs produced by GM food source that is heavily consumed in bacteria! very poor countries. One hundred and 8) Blood clotting treatments — For ninety million children and 19 million preg- strokes, blood clots, and blood clotting nant women are at risk for vitamin A disorders — example, the drug, ATryn, is an deficiency. The genes to make vitamin A in anticoagulant that reduces the probability Golden Rice were transferred from daffodils, of blood clots during surgery or childbirth. a bacterium, and maize. It is extracted from genetically modified 5) Papaya — The entire papaya industry goat’s milk. in the U.S. was nearly decimated by the 9) Cotton — 50 percent more cotton is papaya ringspot virus. GMOs saved the produced worldwide today on the same entire industry! amount of land as compared to 40 some 6) Potatoes — GMO potatoes were years ago. Some countries have reduced approved by the FDA last year. Potatoes their cotton insecticide use by up to 90 naturally contain a precursor to acrylamide, percent! a cancer-causing chemical that is produced 10) Salmon — it’s no secret that wild when potatoes are cooked at high tempera- salmon populations have been overfished tures (just like we enjoy them, fried!). The and stressed by climate change. Commergene was modified so the potatoes will cial fishing, and human-caused habitat produce less of the chemical precursor. destruction have contributed to the lowest Nothing was added, that is why they are salmon population observed since the called “Innate.” Additionally, a gene was 1970s. A new genetically engineered Atlanmodified to reduce bruising and browning. tic salmon variety contains a gene from This was the same gene that was modified Pacific Salmon to increase the growth rate in the “Arctic Apple” (a variety of GM apple from the usual 3 years to 18 months. This that doesn’t turn brown when it is cut). For and other technological advances, enables the fish to be grown on land, which could help us to build a U.S. based salmon industry (95 percent of our salmon is imported) and also help us to protect our oceans from over fishing.

GMOs in development Some of my favorite GMOs currently under development include: A “polled” (hornless) variety of dairy cattle: A stunning 9 million of which are currently deformed with hot irons, clippers, or caustic paste each year, causing much animal suffering (farmers hate doing it, too!). Hornless cows are lousy milk producers and traditional breeding has not been able to crossbreed a great milking and hornless variety. This technology works by disabling a gene, instead of adding one from another species. There are many other genetic modifications in development currently to reduce animal suffering!

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The Florida Orange crop is currently being decimated by blight, a “citrus greening” plague sweeping through Florida. More than 80 percent of Florida’s orange trees are infected. A gene from spinach has been inserted into citrus trees to prevent this disease, and the citrus industry is only a few years away from complete collapse. However, approvals for new GMOs take a long time. Spider silk from goats milk: Spider silk is tougher than Kevlar, incredibly light and resilient! But spider silk, as useful as it may be to industry, is very hard to farm from spiders (they cannibalize each other…).

Some persistent GMO myths While we are at it, let’s also talk about some stuff I hate, m’kay? “Genetic modifications are genes that are not found in nature.” False!!! These genes (every gene) are found somewhere in nature, for example, when a gene from spinach is put into citrus trees. Synthetic biology and the de novo creation of genes or proteins has not quite made it out of the lab yet :). Watch out for it though. It’s coming for you! “Genetically modified wheat caused the rise of Celiac disease and gluten intolerance.” The fact is, there is no such thing as “GMO wheat.” Wheat has been modified by human hands since the dawn of agriculture. The only modifications that have been made have occurred through natural breeding. Not through bioengineering, i.e. the insertion or deletion of genes. “Monsanto is making billions of dollars off the backs of poor farmers” False! Golden rice is distributed for free to subsistence farmers. Monsanto Co. was one of the first companies to grant free licenses for golden rice. The cutoff is $10,000 in profit — if farmers make more than $10,000 per year, then they are expected to buy the seeds.

santo. They each own around 36 percent of it. Genes engineered into DuPont Pioneer products include the LibertyLink gene, which provides resistance to Bayer’s Ignite/ Liberty herbicides; the Herculex I Insect Protection gene which provides protection against various insects; the Herculex RW insect protection trait which provides protection against other insects; the YieldGard Corn Borer gene, which provides resistance to another set of insects; and the Roundup Ready Corn 2 trait that provides crop resistance against glyphosate herbicides. (Not only that, but DuPont has manufactured its share of dangerous pesticides, herbicides, and other chemicals, including coatings like C8. By the way, DuPont also

manufactured Agent Orange, DDT, and PCBs … just like Monsanto did (the oldMonsanto chemical company — not the new seed company). In conclusion, I love GMOs and biotechnology. We do this to help solve the world’s problems. If you are interested in GMOs check out a guest blog post I wrote on GMO basics, where you can find out what happens to DNA after we eat it, or you can watch me on YouTube (how embarrassing), or for more advanced info, check out another post I wrote on what types of technologies Monsanto is developing next. Dr. Carol Lynn Curchoe is the founder of 32ATPs, and is a scientist, teacher, consultant, advisor, and author.

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he second annual Legacy Ranch Horse Sale is scheduled for Saturday, September 16, at 6:30 p.m. at the Prescott, Arizona, Rodeo Grounds. Once again, three of Arizona’s largest, most historic ranches – the K4 Ranch, Campwood Cattle Company, and O RO Ranch – have teamed up to present a unique offering of using horses carrying the brands of ranches with over 300 combined years of tradition. The sale is being held in conjunction with Olsen’s Equifest Arizona, a three-day equine extravaganza that includes barrel racing, team roping, clinics, demonstrations, a trade show featuring 40 vendor booths, and more, all free to the public. The offering of 31 horses includes broke ranch horses, roping and ranch prospects, and broodmares. All have been raised by these traditional working cattle ranches on some of the roughest, rockiest country northern Arizona has to offer. “These horses are bred and trained to perform every job a big working ranch has to offer, and they are used daily,” says Rick Kieckhefer, manager of the K4 Ranch. “They are asked for a lot, and they give a lot. They are the backbone of our operations, and without them we could not be successful.” The K4 Ranch, established by the Kieckhefer family in 1941, runs 3,200 mother cows on 200,000 acres of rangeland, as well as a farming operation and feedlot. They have been raising registered Quarter Horses for racing, performance and ranch work since 1943. The nucleus of Campwood Cattle Company is the 7 Up Ranch, which was established in the late 1800s. Overall the operation runs more than 2,000 mother cows and stockers on 134,000 acres. The current horse program was begun over 20 years ago. The history of the O RO Ranch dates back to the early 1800s and the 100,000-acre Spanish Land Grant known as the Baca Float #5. Now comprised of 257,000 acres and 5,000 head of cattle, the ranch has been breeding Quarter Horses since the American Quarter Horse Association was formed

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is State Engineer Tom Blaine, who will provide an update on state water issues. William Alley will give Tuesday’s luncheon address. He was chief of the Office of Groundwater for the U.S. Geological Survey for almost two decades and is currently the director of science and technology for the National Ground Water Association. Alley’s presentation is, “Meeting the Challenges of t h e W o r l d ’s D e p e n d e n c e o n Groundwater.” Several panel discussions will feature experienced water specialists addressing questions about farmland retirement, innovations in watershed management, underground storage and recovery projects, use of brackish and impaired waters in New Mexico and the Rio Grande Compact. The Wednesday luncheon will feature an update on the NM WRRI’s major water initiative, the Statewide Water Assessment. Conference attendees are encouraged to take part in one of two optional field trips scheduled for Monday, Aug. 14. Hosted by the Bureau of Reclamation, one trip is to the

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exception. New Mexico State University’s entire time at the feedyard and then its (NMSU) Aces High and Aces High+ Val- performance at the packer.” ue-Added Calf (VAC) program puts That data can be highly valuable to the producers on the right path to profits by producer. “We collect a lot of data,” Fanning providing preconditioned calves for feed- says. “We measure their average daily gain, yards, says NMSU Extension beef cattle dry matter intake, ribeye area, dressing perspecialist Craig Gifford. centage, yield grade, quality grade and Aces High has seen about 1,000 calves other things that come together to deterentered in the new certified calf program mine the final value of the animal. by ranchers across the Land of Enchant“Ranchers can use that information to ment. The first Aces High and Aces High+ judge the quality of their cows and the sale is scheduled for November 15 in Clovis. quality of their bulls. They can use that And you can bet that feedyard operators information to make culling decisions to like Fanning will be paying attention to the reinforce or increase a certain bloodline types of calves being marketed. they may be using. Individual animal manFanning’s yard has a 30,000 capacity. agement is the key we use to help a rancher Many pens are filled with rancher-owned in his retained ownership program.” cattle from Oklahoma, New Mexico, Texas, Ranch to Rail – Aces High NMSU has Kansas and several other states. “In our always promoted sound calf production. It retained ownership programs, we have enhanced its program to help producers quite a few ranchers that wean their calves, prepare their calves for the feedyard in the whether in the fall or spring, and maintain 1990s. That’s when NMSU and Texas A&M a VAC 45 program in which they wean their University conducted the Ranch to Rail calves at least 45 days before selling them program. In the programs, ranchers would or placing them on feed,” Fanning says. enter about 10 head in the feed-out test. “A lot of those calves have either elec- They were recommended to use preconditronic ID ear tags or other tags that tioning and vaccination programs. correspond with the mother cow. We enter Ranch to Rail exposed calves that were the tag number in our computer system continued on page 42 >> and track each individual animal during its

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Preparations are in full swing as we gear up for our 26th National Conference in Washington D.C. – Animal Nation! This year promises to be more informative and impactful than ever before. In addition to a robust line-up of renowned presenters and professionals who will introduce new ideas and innovative strategies for achieving success. The conference will kick-off Monday evening, October 2, with a reception on Capitol Hill. Members of Congress and their staff members will be among those in attendance. Tuesday, October 3, will be a day of fascinating presentations by world-class experts about cutting edge topics. A networking lunch will be held mid-day Tuesday with dinner and music to follow in the evening. Wednesday, October 4, is Lobby Day on Capitol Hill. The morning will begin with an educational breakfast workshop on effective lobbying, followed by pre-arranged appointments for you to meet with your federal representatives. All meals are included in the conference registration fee.

Here’s a preview of speakers and topics scheduled for Tuesday, October 3

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Alison Frase, Founder and President of Frase Foundation;

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Casey Childers, DO, PhD, Rehabilitation Medicine Professor and Investigator at the University of Washington Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine: Why Dogs?

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Candace Croney, PhD, Director of the Center for Animal Welfare Science and Professor of Animal Behavior and Well-Being at Purdue University: Advancing Canine Welfare in Commercial Breeding Operations: Science-Based Approaches to Assessment and Continuous Improvement

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David J. Waters, DVM, PhD, Director of the Center for Exceptional Longevity Studies at the Gerald P. Murphy Cancer Foundation: To be Kind You Need to Know What is True: Research as the Root of Re-thinking

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Mark Dunn, Sr. VP AKC: National Security at Stake: The AKC Addresses the Growing Need for Explosive Detection Dogs (with Detection Dog Demonstration)

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Doug Ljungren, VP Sports and Events AKC: Preserving Canine Instincts While Having Fun: The Evolution of AKC Sports and Events

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Cindy Buckmaster, PhD, Director of the Center for Comparative Medicine at Baylor College: Homes for Animal Heroes: Ask Me Why I’m a Hero

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Kendal Frazier, CEO, National Cattlemen’s Beef Association: Challenges, Opportunities and Success

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not preconditioned. Many had excessive medical costs, didn’t gain as well as preconditioned calves and had higher costs of gain. The program continued in one way or another up to 2006. Many things involved in Ranch to Rail have been worked into the new Aces High and Aces High+ programs. “Any time we can add value to our calves it helps us out,” notes Glenn Duff, superintendent of the NMSU Clayton Livestock Research Center. “New Mexico once had a bad reputation, one that calves would perform poorly at the feedyard. That’s not the case. “When our state’s cattle have the proper vaccines and weaning, they perform as well as other cattle. Aces High provides producers with a certification program that calves have had a recommended vaccine and weaning protocol.” Gifford points out that marketing opportunities, such as all natural, export or even grass-fed require age and source verification. “For age and source verification, cattle require an official ‘840’ EID tag, which is an official USDA tag for animal traceability,” he says. Aces High and Aces High+ cattle have such an ear tag. Vaccination Protocols The NMSU certified calf program requirements are similar to other strict vaccination programs. Requirements include: ЇЇ ЇЇ ЇЇ ЇЇ ЇЇ ЇЇ ЇЇ

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BQA Certified (required by branding) Program tag at branding Castrated and dehorned at branding Clostridial (7-, 8- or 9-way) three weeks before weaning MLV-IBR, BVD, PI3, BRSV three weeks before weaning Mannheimia Haemolytica three weeks before weaning Internal and external parasite control – recommended for Aces High, required for Aces High+ 840 EID tag at weaning Weaned 45 days+, required by Aces High+ Booster weaning shots, required by Aces+

Gifford says the NMSU Extension Animal Sciences & Natural Resources Department will help formulate weaning rations as needed to maximize gain and minimize cost. In collaboration with IMI Global, age

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and source verification will be offered for the Aces High and Aces High+ programs. NMSU will assist with the marketing and promotion of the special Aces High and Aces High+ sales at regional sale barns. Gifford says NMSU will also work with any buyer, should a producer choose to market elsewhere. Feedyard Ready “I can’t emphasize the importance of herd health and nutrition,” Fanning says. “That includes a good vacci-

nation and nutritional program for the cow or heifer before she is bred, after she calves, and then the vaccination program for the calf. “This all increases the level of building resistance to stress by building up the calf’s immune system. That is accomplished through the proper vac program and getting the steer or heifer used to the feed bunk. “When you build up the immune system and wean that calf at home, by the time it is trucked to my location, the steer or heifer calf or yearling is better able to handle

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being co-mingled with hundreds or thousands of other cattle in the feedyard. It sets them up for good performance at the feedyard and at the packer.” Fanning says ranchers who retain ownership for the first time may be as unaware of how his or her cattle will perform as the feedyard operator. “After we determine the age, sex, weight and health care of the cattle, we work with ranchers to determine their projected out-weight, the estimated cost of feed, their conversion rate and then establish a value for the cattle,” he says. “That value can be important for both potential buyers and producers eager to profit from feeding out his calves. While retained ownership may not always provide the profit potential of selling calves after weaning, it can pull producers through market declines. “Last year was a perfect example where retained ownership was important. We had the huge decline in calf prices. If people who moved calves in October and November had retained ownership, the value of those calves would have increased by $300 to $500 per head. That’s not always the case, but retained ownership can become a marketing alternative to selling calves in a down market.” Fanning advises ranchers to make sure they have a good risk management program on their cattle to protect their breakeven prices, as well as take advantage of upswings in the market. Buffalo Feeders and other custom feedyards often provide risk management services. They also often partner with ranchers, taking over one-third or a half of the ownership. That can add confidence to a producer who is unsure about how his cattle will be cared for and fed to top performance. Fanning adds that ranchers should visit with their neighbors and cattle association members to learn more about selecting a feedyard for retained ownership.

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Anaplasmosis: Not Just a Southern Cattle Producer Problem by Ann Hess, www.agdaily.com

hink anaplasmosis can’t affect your herd? Think again. While the highest prevalence has generally been in the Southern states, anaplasmosis has been identified in all 50 states, and with increased cattle movement over the last decade the footprint has spread. It’s something cattle producers should be watching out for now through the fall. “Since the insect vectors are more active during this time of year, we will see the disease when they are active,” said Douglas Hilbig, DVM, Beef Technical Services, Zoetis. “The symptoms of the disease will start to show up 60 to 120 days after infection, more often in the older and weaker animals first.” An organism primarily spread by vectors, such as ticks, biting flies, and needles, anaplasmosis invades red blood cells and causes severe anemia. The cattle disease tends to occur most commonly in mature cows and bulls during the summer and early fall. Hilbig said symptoms usually show up in the old, stressed, and weak first, and can include abortions, weak cows, weight loss, unthrifty cows, and cows that go down and can’t get up. Sometimes the animals may appear as aggressive due to anemia causing lack of oxygen transport to the brain. Findings on the animals will be pale mucous membranes, icteric appearance of eyes and mucous membranes, and blood that is drawn will be thin and reduced in red blood cell counts (RBCs) – anemia. Cattle that are infected with anaplasmosis may recover, but they remain chronically infected carriers and a source of infection to the rest of the herd. Cattle infected early in life may never show signs of disease, but they serve as a source of infection for herdmates. In fall-calving herds, heavy bred cows and recently calved cows seem to be at greatest risk of death or abortion. Anaplasmosis causes a rapid onset of profound anemia, and those cows experiencing the extra metabolic requirement of advanced pregnancy, or the stress of early lactation are less capable of managing that anemia. In spring-calving herds, cows are getting

bred during the peak of vector season, so bull health and fertility are of particular concern. Cows nursing calves at this time are also at risk. Since VFD came into place, Hilbig said he has seen cattle producers trying several different strategies to keep the disease at bay. “Some producers have worked with their veterinarians to continue to include Aureomycin in their feed/mineral for protection of their herds. Others have tried to include a vaccine to help with protection in their herd or done nothing at all and hoped to have positive results by doing nothing,” Hilbig said. “The risk of the last two is their cows may have no prior immunity and won’t have idea of disease presence until it is in an advanced state in the herd.” Hilbig recommends working very closely with your veterinarian on the best choice for your operation. If not working with any veterinarian, find one that can help develop a program to control the disease. “Many times a control program will include Aureomycin fed to cattle via a hand fed feed/mineral of an approved free choice mineral,” Hilbig said. “The ideal level and form to use can be done with your veteri-

narian, who can then write you a VFD that meets your individual needs.” Finally Hilbig advises producers to be proac tive in their approach to anaplasmosis. “Anaplasmosis is a subtle, chronic, progressive disease that when a threshold of damage to RBCs has occurred, the animal will appear to have an acute onset of disease. In other words, the onset of disease occurs months after infection happened,” Hilbig said. “Be sure to work with your veterinarian to establish a plan to control anaplasmosis. Also monitor your cattle for changes in your herd or individual animals that display any negative attitude or conditions that may indicate the presence of anaplasmosis. Your veterinarian can diagnosis the disease by examination of the animals and/or use of blood tests.”

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NEW MEXICO’S OLD TIMES & OLD TIMERS

“The Infamous Greer Gang”

by Don Bullis, New Mexico Author DonBullis.biz

t is a misnomer to refer to John Greer and one or two others as a “gang,” but several writers have done so. John Greer himself was a killer and a thief as was his pal, John Gates, who was also known as Irvin Frasier. The two of them were the gang. Some years later they were called the Chino Bandits by a few writers after a failed attempt by one of them to rob a Chino Mines payroll in early 1911. Sometime in the early 1900s, John apparently departed the town of Pecos, Texas, with people firing guns at him. Some observers aver that the matter had to do with a gambling dispute. Given the events of his future, it seems safe to believe that he either got caught cheating or tried to rob the game. Reportedly, he ambushed and killed two of the men following him after that

affray. He seems to have resumed a gambling career in Lincoln County, New Mexico, where his family had settled along the Rio Bonito. He soon became involved in another shooting mess and fled south to El Paso. There he hooked up with John Gates,

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Sometime in the early 1900s, John apparently departed the

town of Pecos, Texas, with people firing guns at him ...” another gambler, and the two of them pulled a series of armed robberies. In June 1910, John Greer, acting alone,

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successfully robbed a train—he got an estimated $5,000—but that crime got the attention of law enforcement in general, and Greer and Gates deemed it wise to cross the border into Mexico. They joined the revolutionary army under Francisco Madero (1873-1913) fighting against the forces of President Porfirio Díaz (18301915). Even then, though, John Greer managed to sneak across the international border long enough to rob and murder an El Paso merchant named C. E. Graham. Madero’s forces moved west, and Greer and Gates were present at the Battle of Casas Grades in March of 1911, during which John Greer was wounded in the hip. Gates rescued him. Back in the United States, the two of them parted ways, and agreed to meet in Deming, New Mexico, later in the year. John recovered from his wound enough that by August 1911, he was able to attempt the Chino Mine payroll robbery near Silver City. He fled east to Deming and learned that Gates was in the Luna County jail on a burglary charge. John Greer then recruited his 16-year-old brother, William Randall (sometimes referred to as Reynold) Greer, to assist in the jail break. On November 11, 1911, they were successful in freeing John Gates at gunpoint, and the three of them fled to the north from Deming, into the area that is today part of the Gila Wilderness. A posse led by Luna County Sheriff Dwight Stephens soon took up pursuit and on November 18, about sundown, they came upon the outlaw’s hideout not far from the town of Fairview (now Winston). Shooting soon began. Details of the fight vary considerably, depending on the source, but when the gun smoke cleared, John Greer was dead. So were two of the posse men: Thomas H. Hall and Alan L. Smithers. William Greer and John Gates managed to escape. William managed to walk to his home around Carrizozo where his family protected him until he could escape to Texas. He worked there as a cowboy until he joined the army during World War I. He died of influenza while in the service. John Gates,

aka Frazier, was captured in El Paso and lawmen returned him to Socorro for trial (the scene of the fatal gunfight was inside the Socorro County line). It took a jury mere minutes to convict him and on April 25, 1913, he was hanged in the Socorro County courthouse. That was simply the final coup; the “gang” had already died when John Greer bit the dust. There was nothing redeeming about this bunch and that may be the reason they were never lionized like William Bonney, “Billy the Kid.” It is also true that they committed their crimes between heydays of outlawry in the 1870s and 1880s and the rise in fame of the so-called social bandits —i.e. Bonnie and Clyde, et al—in the late 1920s and early 1930s. It is fair to note that according to a Greer

family neighbor, banker Johnson S. Stearns, who knew them well, “…the Greers were good people.” There were, after all, 10 children born to Green Berry and Mary Ann Adams Greer and John was the only one to go bad, and he corrupted younger brother William. Justice seems to have been done and the other members of the Greer family were well regarded members of the community. Notes: One source alleged that Mary Ann Adams Greer, John Greer’s mother, was the daughter of Martha James, a relative of Jesse and Frank James of Missouri; famous thieves and killers. Some writers insist on making those kinds of connections, no matter how tenuous. Also: A writer of the Greer tale, James D. Julia, had the gall to assert that New Mexico, at the time of the fatal

gunfight mentioned above—that is autumn 1911— was considered to be a part of the “Arizona Territory!” His reliability is bound to have suffered. Sources: Albuquerque Morning Journal, March 12, November 20 & 24, December 6, 1911 & April 25-26, 1913 Howard Bryan, “Off the Beaten Path,” Albuquerque Tribune, November 11, 1957 Bullis, New Mexico’s Finest: Peace Officers Killed in the Line of Duty, 1847-2010 Carrizozo News, November 22, 1918 Gilbreath, Death on the Gallows James D. Julia, provenance, Sheriff Dwight Stephens’ Colt pistol Santa Fe New Mexican, April 8, 1912 Johnson S. Stearns of Carrizozo, correspondence with Don Bullis, January 15 & 27, 2010

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Sheep Expansion: Know Before You Grow Four areas to consider before increasing your sheep numbers

re you thinking about expanding your sheep flock? Whether you plan to grow by breeding your ewes this fall or buying lambs next spring, adding more sheep to your farm can be exciting and fun. And like all things in life, preparation is key to being successful. “Whether you’re an experienced sheep raiser or new to having a flock, take time to research and plan before making your decision,” says Julian (Skip) Olson, DVM, technical services manager for Milk Products. Here are four areas to consider before expanding your flock:

Once you’ve selected a sheep breed, decide which age is best for you. Are you interested in raising lambs or would you rather have adult sheep? Whichever age you decide, make sure it fits your lifestyle. Lambs are typically born in early spring, and available at that time. Pregnant ewes can often be purchased in the fall so they can become accustomed to your farm before lambing. 2. Do you plan to continue breeding your sheep? If you plan to breed sheep, you may consider adding a ram. If breeding isn’t your goal, however, it is best to keep only ewes and wethers (castrated males). Rams can be aggressive and require additional nutrition and care during the breeding season. You’ll also need a separate housing facility if you choose to own a ram manage mating. “If you decide to have a ram, be sure to have an experienced sheep owner help guide you along your journey,” says Olson. “Rams can be dangerous to inexperienced sheep owners and should be handled with caution.”

3. Do you have enough space? 1. Why are you raising sheep? How much space you have available will Sheep breed and age should both play be a driving factor in your flock size. a factor in your expansion decision. “Sheep are social animals and ruminants, “Before you decide which breed is best so plan to meet both their social and nutrifor you, think about what you’d like to do tional needs with your space,” says Olson. with your sheep,” says Olson. “Do you want “Your sheep will be happiest grazing on to use their wool? Are you hoping for meat pasture and with at least one other sheep.” or milk? Do you plan to breed them? Or are A general rule is four sheep per acre, but you expanding to add more fun to your this can vary greatly depending on the farm?” pasture type, rainfall and sheep size. PasSheep breeds generally fall into three tures can include a mixture of grasses, general categories: wool, meat and dairy. legumes, brush and trees. It’s a good idea Many breeds are dual-purpose, while some to be familiar with what’s in your pasture; breeds can fall into all categories. For wool sheep will typically avoid poisonous plants, consider Merino, Lincoln, Rambouillet or but proactive planning can prevent Romney. Popular meat breeds include problems. Suffolk, Hampshire, Dorset and Southdown, “Inclement weather and predators can while East Friesian and Lacaune are well- both cause a threat to your flock,” says known for dairy production. If you’re Olson. “Make sure to have enough shelter looking for a dual-purpose breed – a breed to keep them safe.” valued for wool and meat production – a A simple, south-facing, three-sided shed Columbia, Corriedale or Polypay may be the is often enough to protect them from the breed for you. elements and predators. They should each “Choose a breed that best fits into your have 15 to 20 square feet of indoor space. lifestyle. Consider the use, cost and man- Build a permanent fence around the shelter agement of each. For instance, a dairy and consider a moveable fence so you can breed will require consistent milking, while rotate grazing areas. you’ll need a plan for the wool and meat of other breeds,” says Olson. “Seek advice 4. How will you feed them? from local sheep breeders – it can be Health and nutrition will be key factors helpful to know why they chose their spe- in keeping a happy flock. If you’re raising cific breed.” lambs, start them on a lamb-specific colos-

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trum replacer. Then transition to a lamb milk replacer on day two through weaning. After you transition them to a starter feed, introduce them to forage or pasture. “Besides forage your sheep will need supplemental feed to complete their diet,” says Olson. “Sheep supplements include minerals, vitamins and other components your sheep would miss if they were only consuming forage.” Your flock’s ration should contain protein, fat, fiber, minerals, roughage, concentrates and water. Make sure to select a feed formulated specifically for sheep as they can’t tolerate much copper in their diets. As you expand your sheep flock, taking time to plan will help set your farm and flock up for success.

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American Sheep Industry Adds $5.8 Billion to U.S. Economy

he American Sheep Industry Association released its 2017 Economic Impact Study, showing that the nation’s 88,000 sheep producers generated a total economic impact of $5.8 billion in 2016. With over $500 million in farm gate receipts for sheep and lambs, value added from processing, wool, and retail; the American sheep industry contributes over $2 billion directly to the U.S. economy, with a multiplier impact of nearly three times the initial investment. Through the commission of this study and periodic updates, Peter Orwick, Executive Director of the American Sheep Industry Association says the industry is better able to evaluate its role as a part of the larger agricultural economy. “The American sheep industry is a major sector of livestock production in the United States,” said Orwick. “From large scale operations in the west, on private and public

lands, to smaller farm flocks in the east, raising sheep and wool fosters economic growth that supports rural communities and provides food and fiber for the nation.” In addition to the monetary economic impact, the study also found that every job in sheep production supported nearly a second full time position in foodservice, retail, or fabrication. “As small business operators, we have long understood the importance of animal agriculture to the U.S. economy,” said Orwick. “Not only do sheep producers purchase feed and agricultural equipment, they are engaged in every aspect of commerce in their communities. By purchasing U.S. lamb and wool, consumers are supporting jobs and families throughout the nation.” The updated numbers demonstrate to consumers and legislators how important the sheep industry remains to American agriculture, especially as debate begins on the next farm bill. “This study reinforces the significance of the sheep industry to the U.S. economy,” said Orwick. “While disaster assistance and safety net programs remain top priorities, keeping U.S. sheep producers competitive worldwide and export promotion programs are also important in building and maintaining opportunity for greater economic growth.” While the updated study followed closely with prior findings, further market consolidation was noted, offset economically by increases in hosiery exports, lanolin and wool values contributed to increased values.

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

he women stood in line. Her eyes stared vacantly. Her face was gaunt. A thin film of dust covered her clothing. The weight of the world lay on her shoulders. She was muttering under her breath. A fly touched her cheek. She brushed it off, unthinking. “So, how’s it going?” I asked, interrupting her quietude. “Clint just showed his pig, Tanya can’t find the sheep clippers and Justin’s rabbit was disqualified ‘cause it had a black toenail.” “How much longer you think the hog judgin’ will go on?” I asked. “Ten or eleven. Who knows? It doesn’t matter because we’ve got to be here to close the petting zoo for the night.” “Look out!” I shouted as a loose pig shot by her blind side followed by a

The Yellow Ribbon sweaty boy with sawdust on his pants and a number flapping on his back. She didn’t pay it any mind. She looked past me. “Tanya. Where have you been? I told you to check with me at 8:30. You need to work on your lamb—I don’t know who has the clippers—Borrow somebody’s. Where are you going? You check with me at 9:30! The last two sentences were spoken to her daughter’s disappearing back. She turned and spoke to the two kids manning the Purple Circle 4-H Club Food Booth, “How’s the ice holding up? Set out more cups.” I drifted back to the bleachers to watch the hog judging. It looked more like kids and pigs at the Ice Capades! Only a parent would be able to match the

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careening swine with their pursuing herdsman. I saw the judge pick his way through the melee and award a purple ribbon to a beaming teenager. The man next to me applauded. “Your daughter?” I asked. “No,” he replied. “That’s mine in the red shirt with the Hamp. She really tried. Practiced showing him at home for weeks. He needed a little more weight, I guess. I know she’s disappointed but I’m proud of her.” I spotted his daughter. She stood with great dignity near the fence, pig at her side and watched the ribbons being passed out. She looked to be about ten. In time the judge approached her and handed her a yellow ribbon. She broke into a wide grin, reached down and patted the pig. Dad nearly knocked me off the seat with his clapping! “Congratulation,” I said after he settled down. “Yeah,” he said with a silly smile on his face, “That’s what county fairs are all about...kids.”

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Fat Polar Bears (and lots of them) Drive Public Confidence in Future of the Species Source: polarbearscience.com

hat is causing the death of the polar bear as a climate change icon? Fat bears are part of it, but mostly it’s the fact that polar bear numbers haven’t declined as predicted. Western Hudson Bay polar bears around Churchill, Manitoba appear mostly in good shape this summer despite the very late freeze-up last fall. Not only have we been seeing pictures of fat bears rather than starving bears in recent years but there are lots of them, in

Western Hudson Bay and other seasonal ice ecoregions like Western Hudson Bay and sea ice regions where there should be none Baffin Bay didn’t die off due to climate (if the models had been correct). No wonder change as people were told would happen polar bears are falling out of favor as an icon — why should they believe any of the other for catastrophic human-caused global scare stories? warming. In and around Churchill, where tourists Excuses for why the public is no longer flock to see Western Hudson Bay polar worried about the future of polar bears bears up close and personal, one bear in include a recent claim by climate scientist good condition recently ran through town. Michael Mann that “by making polar bears Overall, there have been fewer problems and penguins the poster child for climate or conflicts this year in Churchill compared change, we have wrongly conveyed that to last (after six weeks of onshore living). this is some exotic problem far off.” Polar bears are no longer a useful global But none of these apologists acknowl- warming icon because they are thriving edge the simple truth: the models that despite diminished sea ice: Churchill area predicted catastrophe for polar bears due polar bears are a good example. to diminished summer sea ice turned out to be wrong. The sea ice declined but polar bears flourished. Polar bears in seasonal sea

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NEW MEXICO FEDERAL LANDS NEWS by Frank Dubois

A monument fiasco & more BLM law enforcement abuses

verything was building up to August the best path forward for the American 24, the day Secretary Zinke was to people.” send his final recommendations on Rest assured that even though the national monuments to President Trump. “report” had no specifics, the enviro groups That was the day we were to find out, finally, and their supporters in Congress were what modifications, if any, were in store for highly critical. the Rio Grande del Norte and the Organ League of Conservation Voters President Mountains-Desert Peaks national monu- Gene Karpinski says Interior Secretary Ryan ments. The buildup was intense, as many, Zinke’s review of the national monuments including this writer, waited with “has been a complete sham” and a pretext anticipation. for “selling out our public lands and waters” On that fateful day Secretary Zinke to the oil industry and others. issued a press release and a summary report Jamie Williams, president of The Wilderwhich told us exactly – nothing. A lot of ness Society, is urging President Donald gibberish about the process, listing the Trump to “ignore these illegal and dangermonuments he had visited, listing the mon- ous recommendations and instead act to uments already taken off the review list and preserve these beloved places.” the Secretary saying he had recommended Howie Dash with the Southern NM Sierra boundary modifications to a “handful” of Club says, “A whopping 99 percent of the monuments. Which monuments? We don’t 2.7 million public comments asked the Inteknow. The type of modifications? We don’t rior Department to keep these special know. When will the President act on these places intact. It’s clear what the communirecommendations? We don’t know. A White ties surrounding Organ Mountains Desert House official said Trump is reviewing Peaks and Rio Grande del Norte want. His Zinke’s “recommendations to determine vague statement makes clear that Secretary

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Zinke doesn’t care.” And the cheerleader of the enviros in New Mexico, Senator Martin Heinrich, headed up a press conference in Albuquerque, saying, “New Mexicans have spoken with a loud and unified voice. We like our national monuments like they are. Any changes that reduce their protection would be disrespectful to everyone who worked so hard to establish them and could put at risk the vibrant economies that we are building around monument recreation and tourism. I will continue to stand up for our nation’s conservation legacy and oppose any effort by the Trump Administration to turn back the clock on the progress we’ve made to protect the places we all own and love.” I would like to be supportive, or critical if warranted, of the recommendations, but how can I if we don’t know what the specific recommendations are? It’s frustrating to have to wait even longer, but I will hold fire till then. Here’s what I do know. If Zinke strickly follows the criteria set out in Trump’s E.O., he will certainly diminish the boundaries of the monuments. Let’s take a look at the first criteria on the list: (i) the requirements and original objectives of the Act, including the Act’s requirement that reservations of land not exceed “the smallest area compatible with the proper care and management of the objects to be protected”; The Antiquities Act requires the President to identify the objects, the objects then become the national monument, and then the President reserves “the smallest area compatible with the proper care and management of the objects to be protected”. Even a casual observer knows both New Mexico monuments started out as wilderness proposals, and had nothing to do with protecting historical objects. When it became evident these proposals would not pass Congress, the hunt was on to find objects that would justify the alreadydrawn boundaries. In other words, the process was exactly opposite of that envisioned in the Antiquities Act, and both monuments should be diminished accordingly. They don’t even meet the very first criteria. If Zinke does not follow the criteria, and instead listens to the caterwauling of the politicians and succumbs to the wellfunded, Madison Avenue-style media campaign of the enviro groups, then he will do nothing.

My fear is it will be the latter.

BLM agent misconduct I’ve written before about BLM Supervisory Agent Dan Love. Recall that Love was in charge of the highly controversial undercover sting concerning looted artifacts and of the bungled operation at the Bundy ranch. An investigation by the Office of Inspector General found that Love had abused his authority to obtain preferential treatment for his girlfriend and family members at a Burning Man event and that he had improperly intervened in a hiring process to benefit a friend. The report said: We found that the agent violated Federal ethics rules when he used his influence with Burning Man officials to obtain tickets and special passes for his family. He also directed on-duty BLM law enforcement employees to escort his family in BLM-procured vehicles, drove his BLM vehicle with his girlfriend, and directed his employee to make hotel reservations for his guests. We also confirmed the supervisory agent’s intervention in the special agent hiring process to benefit a friend.

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Warren Harris, 76, Bosque, joined his beloved wife Rose Marie August 21, 2017. He was on the Board of Directors of the Santa Gertrudis Breeders International and prior to retirement was a respected attorney in Albuquerque. At one time he served as the attorney for the New Mexico Livestock Board. In lieu of flowers, the family request your donation gift be sent to a scholarship fund for the Santa Gertrudis Junior breeders. Joie (Joan) Anderson Lee, 92, Lovington, passed away on July 22, 2017. She was born in Rochester, Minnesota to Julian Frances (Chris) Anderson and Florence Nupson Anderson on October 27, 1924. She was raised in Preston, Minnesota and growing up was an active swimmer, ice skater and skier. She graduated from Preston High School and attended St. Cloud Community College for one year after which time she followed her family to New Mexico. There she enrolled in Eastern New

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Peterson and family, Sierra Vista Arizona; and nephew, Mark Wayne Bond and family, Carlsbad. Margie grew up on the Bond family ranch east of Carlsbad. During the severe 1950s drought, the Bonds temporarily moved their cattle and family to Henrietta, Oklahoma, where Margie attended high school. Margie earned an Associates’ degree at Oklahoma State University then moved to Las Cruces in 1961 when Bob was employed at NMSU. Margie studied art and completed a Bachelor’s and a Master’s degree in Education at NMSU.

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She was passionate about education and was a beloved and award-winning teacher for many years in Las Cruces at University Hills and Hillrise Elementary schools. Her love for teaching carried over to many years of service in the First United Presbyterian Church where she was a member and leader since the 1960s. Due to Margie’s ranching roots, agriculture remained an important part of her life. Her students enjoyed her Ag in the classroom programs, she was a member of the NM Farm Bureau, NM Cattle Growers, and NM CowBelles. Following retirement from each of their first careers, Bob and Margie ranched in Colfax county, east of Springer. Margie also served on NMSU Foundation Board in the past and energetically supported the ACES and the NMSU Art Departments. William “Bill” Norris, 70, Ute Park, passed away on July 23, 2017. He was born on June 8, 1947 in Washington, D.C., to Priscilla and Bill Norris. A Vietnam era U.S. Navy veteran, Bill moved to his beloved New Mexico in 1980 where he served our great state as a physician recruiter in Albuquerque and hospital district administrator in Springer. He is survived by his wife, Pam Pearson; father, Bill Norris; daughter, Treya Segura (John); two grandsons, Gideon and

Gannon; along with sisters, Terry Malerba and Wendy Dungan (Lynn); and brother, Bob (Pam); four nieces, Lauren Lessard (Eli), Mandy Madler (Bill), Melissa Malerba (Frank), Molly Malerba; one nephew, Mike Norris (Katie); and other loving relatives. Few New Mexicans know the nooks and crannies of our state like Bill, who logged well over one million miles as a physician recruiter for Presbyterian Hospital while enticing and inspiring adventurous medical experts to serve its remote regions. When it came time to settle down, Bill tackled the immense challenge of developing, funding, and running healthcare services for the remotest areas of Colfax County (over 3,100 square miles serving 6,000 residents). During his 23-year tenure directing healthcare operations, Bill leveraged the experience gained from persuading physicians to relocate to New Mexico’s boondocks in the annual quest to convince state legislators, hospital financial officers, and local taxpayers to contribute scarce funds. Renowned for his fiscal management, Bill husbanded every penny of budgets so tight that the end of year balance typically totaled less than one hundred dollars. Most importantly, Bill’s legacy to the communities he loved so

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une 11, 2017, 24 ranchers arrived at the CS Cattle Company in Cimarron, New Mexico. Three of them including myself returned to camp for the second time. Participating in the 2017 New Mexico Youth Ranch Management Camp was truly an experience that will never be forgotten. Every day was intense learning from instructors that were very well known in the agriculture industry. Every student had a desire in their eyes and enthusiasm in their attitude to learn. The desire only grew even more as the week progressed. The night we arrived to the ranch, we were asked what problems that the industry faced. One, which can easily be fixed by young ranchers like myself. The average age of a producer is increasing every year. As young ranchers, it is our obligation to get educated and help the industry. We were introduced to so many careers in the agriculture industry has to offer us. If science isn’t our interest, there’s so much the industry has to offer! It ranges from the economics of a ranch to becoming a ranch manager. After the week was over, I really started to seek an interest in majoring in Ranch management. Not only were participants excited to further their education in the industry, our instructors were too! Nobody left the session without understanding what the topic was about. Many of our instructors got to our level of knowledge. With what little or no knowledge of the topic we always left class with more knowledge of the topic. Topics which included: beef day, economics day, natural resources day, and wildlife management day. My personal favorite was beef day. Not only because I won the Top hand award. Beef day was really fun and had so much hands on activities that we did. We went to a butcher shop, watched how meat is cut and packaged, put our arms in a fistula cow, and dissected a cow’s uterus. The Navajo Reservation, where I have

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he Wild West gets the glory, but Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday have nothing on the industrial tycoons of the late 1800s. The rapid development of the oil, steel, railroad and related industries is enough to make your head spin, especially when you layer on the fast and loose ways the tycoons took hold of entire industries and bent them to their will. Basically 1860-1890 is just a single story on continuous loop: a guy buys controlling interest in a company, drives down prices to take market share and bleed competitors, buys controlling interest in competitors, raises prices across the board, then buys a yacht or ten. Rinse, repeat. The main storyline — regardless of the commodity — is gaining market share by competing on price. That is the path to empire building. Or at least it was back then. But it’s not 1870. You are not John Rockefeller. And in the modern meat industry, you have far more profit inducing levers to pull than just lowering price. Three levers other than price:

Pie Growth Mindset Having a fixed pie mindset in a growing pie era is crippling. When you lower prices to gain market share, you are foregoing profit. This isn’t hypothetical lost profit. If the market is at $2 per pound and you sell at $1.75 per pound, then you can calculate how much it cost to buy the market share you were chasing. Was it worth foregoing that profit when you could have gained market share by adding value and differentiating to bring in new demand rather than just (expensively) reshuffling existing demand in the short

run? Because that market share will have to be bought again and again if that’s your tactic.

You are not a price taker; do know who is pricing your product? Published market prices are (by definition) based on your competitors’ self-reported prices. So if you are religiously relying on USDA or another published price, aren’t you in effect letting your competitors price your product? Another common approach is talking with customers to “see what the market is doing.” In that case, aren’t you by definition allowing your customers to set your prices? There’s got to be a better way that puts YOU in control of pricing.

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trainer’s office and watched slow motion films of this great horse that I was supposed to shoe. I thought the foot flight problem was obvious and would be quite easy to fix. In no time, I was under the horse just working away. When I completed the horse they saddled him up and we all went to the training track to see how he went. Just about that time the owner Alfonso arrived to watch his horse perform. He seemed to be in a terrible mood, but the horse worked great as we had solved the problem. Alfonso asked what he owed me so I gave him my bill. He pulled out the largest wad of $100 bills that I had ever seen. He paid me and gave me a couple of extra hundreds for doing a good job. My plane did not leave until the next morning, so I needed to hang around a couple of more hours. While hanging the trainer finally asked Alfonso what was bothering him so much. He replied “tonight is the Annual Downtown Beauty and Fashion Show of which I am the chairman. We lost one of our judges and my secretary has been on the phone all day trying to find a replacement to no avail.” Bobby the trainer said “I bet Mick will do it for you, he does not have anywhere to go tonight.” Being of Irish decent, everyone on the east coast called me Mick. I had no idea what to say as I knew nothing about the subject. Alfonso looked at me and of course I agreed. He said I would be well taken care of so why not? Off we went to the tailors for a tuxedo. They got me measured up, made some alterations and I was amazed at what they could do in a short time. When we got to

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peaking with confidence and frankness among ranchers is something of a day to day process and it can be difficult to achieve a relationship or that everything is a simple proposition.The Binational Meeting, which was held by Arizona, New Mexico, and Sonora in the framework of the ExpoGan Sonora 2017 and the Inter-American Meeting of the Sonora-New Mexico Commission, promoted by the Governor Claudia Pavlovich from May 1 to 3 of the current year was an excellent opportunity to demonstrate to the different sectors outside our cattle guild that accompanied us, the simple and honest way our leaders deal with issues of mutual interest: Without reservations and with all the frankness possible. The three-day agenda begins with a visit on May 1st to the cattle crossing stations at the Douglas-Agua Prieta border to visit the “La Volanta” ranch in the municipality of Bacoachi, where we received its owner, Mr. Hector Durazo Proud Corella a unique producer of Hereford cattle in the state. At the end of the interesting visit and having enjoyed a delicious Sonoran food (Chilean chile and more) we travel via Rio Sonora to Hermosillo, not without ceasing to visit some of the tourist points of that historic and fascinating region. The following day the work meeting took place in our Union, Hermosillo, with the three leaders of the livestock organizations, Jay Wetten for Arizona, Tom Sidwell for Nuevo Mexico, and Sonora for Hector Platt Martinez, who were accompanied by ranchers and authorities related to the sector. In this important event we have the distinguished presence of the Secretary of SAGARPHA of the state of Sonora, M.S. Julio Cesar Corona Valenzuela and his counterpart from New Mexico, Jeff Witte. In the same way we were accompanied by the state delegate of SAGARPA federal, Ing. Jorge Guzman Nieves. The meeting was of great importance to the participants, because they heard loudly the needs and concerns of the farmers who expressed their opinions and concerns on the different topics that were addressed, such as NAFTA, repopulation of the Mexican wolf, documentation for crossing of cattle for raising and fattening, and health, among others of equal importance. Finally, our organization has an objec-

tive in this type of meeting to inform the visitors about how the Regional Livestock Union of Sonora works in coordination with the authorities to promote the cattle raising of the state, to promote productivity and to guarantee the health of the Sonoran herd. For such a reason two presentations were made to visitors on those topics. Ganaderos (cattlemen) from Sonora, Mexico; N.M. & AZ gathered At the end of the meeting, we for a session on joint problems & solutions in Sonora. visited the livestock area of the Sonora Farm, which allowed them to appre- Family, “Santa Lucia.” The visit allowed ciate the genetic quality that is produced in them to see the process of pinching, drying the state and the one that is also acquired and packing of buffel grass seed, and how outside it. good black Brangus is produced in the state The last day of their stay in Sonora, the in an improved and natural Agostadero. visitors were at the Patrocipes Ranch, in the Routes like this permit our visitors to municipality of Carbo. The visit was guided understand more and better how we work by the president of own Patrocipes, Eng. in Sonora in favor of livestock, family and Marco Antonio Camou L. They could appre- the world consumer. ciate the different breeds of cattle that are We are grateful for the support provided handled, the cinegetic reserve and the by all those involved in such an important improvements that are made in the agost- work agenda, which allowed us to amplify aderos among other productive and the knowledge of the farmers and authortechnological activities that take place in ities who visited us. this experimental center. A well-informed sector is a guarantee of Already on the way to the border, we g o o d un d er s t an ding, tr us t an d visited the ranch of the Gandara Camou prosperity.

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Beans Instead of Beef? Sounds Half-Baked by Hannah Thompson-Weeman, Animal Ag Watch

rade in your beef for beans, and you can save the world…the latest meme to make the rounds in media outlets and on social media. But this idea seems pretty half baked. Discussions of how meat production impacts the environment are nothing new – to the industry or to our detractors. Environmental impact is one of the many angles that activist groups and detractors use to attempt to undermine the industry and encourage consumers to eat less meat (and restaurants/other foodservice institutions to serve less). When a prompt to “go vegan” simply because these groups believe it is the moral thing to do doesn’t work, which it seldom if ever seems to do, they turn to a stable of other talking points – food safety, environmental impact, health and many more. Estimates of greenhouse gas emissions from the livestock sector are typically overstated, with the beef industry receiving most of the finger pointing. According to the EPA, the agriculture industry as a whole is responsible for nine percent of all emis-

sions, with the livestock sector contributing 4.2 percent and the beef industry specifically contributing 2.2 percent. With transportation making up over a quarter of all emissions, why is the beef industry getting so much focus? It’s also worth noting (as it was by Dr. Jude Capper on Twitter – @Bovidiva if you aren’t following her) that this most recent study looked at substituting enough beans to balance energy and protein from beef – but not protein quality or other nutrients. Capper also points out that the research does not account for the fact that there are some poor-quality areas of rangeland used to graze cattle where beans can’t be grown, and that unlike beef (which is delicious on its own), beans typically need some dressing up to be tasty (tomatoes, spices, etc. – all which have environmental impacts of their own). Of course, none of this is to say that continuous improvement in the area of sustainability hasn’t been and won’t continue to be a priority for the beef industry. Today’s beef industry uses 19 percent less feed, 12 percent less water, 33 percent less land and has a 16 percent lower carbon footprint than it did in the 1970s. These are the numbers we need to be communicating over and over again to customers and other influencers. No offense to beans – I’ll keep eating them in side dishes and burritos, but I’m not kicking beef off of my plate.

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Late Weaning – Wintering Calves with their Mothers by Heather Smith Thomas

eaning time varies from ranch to ranch and sometimes year to year due to many different factors. Ranchers who have tried various weaning times/methods have learned some of the advantages and disadvantages of weaning early or weaning late, and as an industry we are gaining more knowledge about when these options might work best. John Maddux, Maddux Cattle Company (Wauneta, Nebraska) did several years of early weaning. “We run 2000-2500 cows and have been in business here in southwestern Nebraska since my great-grandparents started here 131 years ago. Our rangeland is on the edge of a large irrigation area so our two major resources are native range, and a lot of corn stalks the cows can winter on. We generally don’t have to feed anything to our cows; they graze year-round,” he says. Fifteen or so years ago when the drought began, this ranch was feeding and finishing all their calves. “We had a small feedlot where we fed our calves plus some purchased calves. When we got into the drought, we started taking those Marchborn calves into the feedlot earlier—looking at ways to keep our cow herd together and not have to sell down. At that point in time, the real driver for early weaning was to get the calf off the cow,” says Maddux. The early-weaned calves responded very well to a high concentrate diet. Starting out that young, feed conversions were fantastic, more like a hog with a simple stomach— since the calves’ rumens were not developed very well yet. They were very efficient at digesting grain. The dry cows were limit-fed a concentrate diet, since there was no grass. “This worked extremely well as a strategy to get us through the drought without having to liquidate cow numbers. The early

weaning was very successful and we did it ranchers’ view of early weaning. “Early straw on a dry matter basis. The cows and for about 10 years. Then feed grain costs weaning is not beneficial for calves running calves were eating this ration, with the increased, and the early weaning model out at pasture. They do better if the rumen calves eating quite a bit of this,” says was not as feasible. It was not cost effective is more developed by weaning. If we are Maddux. to limit feed cows the hot ration, due to going to wean a calf early, we need to move “The cattle did well with this, but a person higher corn prices. This also created more him into a backgrounding environment so needs to be careful about adjusting the pressure to put more weight on the calves he can grow bigger before he goes to grass ration, in terms of what the calf might be outside the feedlot rather than in the the next year—as opposed to having him eating,” he says. Calves start eating it fairly early (following feedlot,” says Maddux. “As a result, we started mom’s example) We have now come to a renewed appreciation for the calving later, in May instead and eat more as of March, and eliminated all they get older. value of mother’s milk. We got along so well feeding feed for our cows—making “We moved away them graze corn stalks in the from early weaning a high energy ration to those pairs that we took about 700 winter and grass in the and tried to leave summer. So we went from the calf on the cow pairs to corn stalks fall and didn’t wean those calves,” feeding calves to running a as long as possible. yearling operation. We elimThis is because of inated all feeding from the cow end of it as running out on pasture with a supplement. our disappointment in the inefficiency of we moved to May calving. With a May calf, It’s more expensive to do that.” roughing a light calf through winter, and to however, we were under some pressure to So the past few years Maddux has done the work Terry Klopfenstein has done at the wean those calves by at least the first of things a bit different. “We were dry, so we University of Nebraska. He’s done some October so we could get our cows onto took about 2/3 of our cow-calf pairs and confinement studies on pairs and has corn stalks. We did that for a few years, since locked them up on the edge of a field and shown that there might be some added we had decent moisture and good grass, started feeding them underneath a hot efficiencies to letting that calf get some just weaning the calves in the fall. We no wire. We fed them a ration that was ground feed ration and still nurse the cow—which longer had the feedlot so we were just wheat straw and distillers grains. 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anyway, with a 9- to 10-month old calf of winter program is also a concern and nursing them. Some of those cows start something that needs to be monitored. weaning the calves on their own,” he says. Another issue is that calves don’t end up the “This has been an interesting experience same weight; there is more variability.” and the University is helping us monitor the The calves that wintered with their heifers that winter with their mothers— mothers weighed about the same as the looking at their breedup as yearlings and calves that were fed a total mixed ration. what they do as cows. We want to see if “This means our wintering costs for the there is any difference in their performance calves on their mothers is about half what

it cost for the calves on a total mixed ration. This experiment is in response to our dissatisfaction with early weaning, and having to put a lot of feed into those calves to get them to weigh 700 pounds by the next spring,” he says. “I now have more appreciation for what the milk does for these calves,” says Maddux. Traditional wisdom over the past few decades told us that it is more efficient to wean the calf and feed the cow and calf separately, but we are now discovering that maybe this isn’t true. Doing it Mother Nature’s way—leaving the calf on the cow until she’s ready to kick him off before the next calf arrives—may have advantages for that calf that we were not aware of. Even if the cow isn’t milking very much through winter, the milk does something good for that calf’s development, and he also gets the benefit of learning how to forage through winter. The dam teaches that calf a lot.

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FARM BUREAU MINUTE by Craig Ogden, President NMF & LB

had Smith and I recently attended Legal Center talked about some of the the 2017 Western Presidents and litigation their center has been involved Administrators Meeting in Laramie, in and how they attempt to train their Wyoming. The Western States are basi- interns to look at all aspects of a case. cally New Mexico up through Montana Followed next by Wyoming State Veterand everything west of there, including inarian Dr. Jim Logan who gave a Alaska and Hawaii. This gives administra- presentation on brucellosis and Big Horn tors a chance to review situations and Sheep. coordinate responses to situations that It was a very educational and informaare unique to the west, primarily public tive session in Laramie. The Western lands and ESA. Governors meeting was held not long The majority of the presidents before our Farm Bureau Presidents meeting was devoted to discussing meeting. The west is just a special place American Farm Bureau Federation con- to be from and cooperation makes it cerns. This was the last time to meet with better. some outgoing presidents from other The Ag Group met this week to start states. There will planning for the be at least two next legislative new presidents session. I got there We all must work elected from the just in time to wish western region, together to keep rural e ve r yo n e s a f e Kev in R o g e r s travels home. life sustainable. Whether it Funny how baling from Arizona and Paul Wenger from rained-on hay can be the Western Governors, California whom mess up your b oth will b e entire week. The Farm Bureau Western termed out this Anyway, we all year. They both must work Presidents or even the Ag have contributed together to keep greatly to the rural life sustainGroup here in New Mexico.” able. Whether it be west and their knowledge and the Western Goverexpertise will be dearly missed. AFBF nors, The Farm Bureau Western President Zippy Duvall and Julie Anna Presidents or even the Ag Group here in Potts joined us on Monday to give us an New Mexico. It is great to have a support update on issues and financial matters group that work together to better New related to AFBF. Mexico. Cooperation and trust, two The next day was packed with speak- important principles for any relationship ers, first to address all of us was a report to exist. Hope your summer is going well. from Karen Budd-Falen who is part of Do justly, love merc y, walk President Trump’s Interior Team. Caroline humbly. Lobdell with the Western Resources

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Pasture management after wildfires can take many shapes by Kay Ledbetter, Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service

hort-grass native prairie to Old World bluestem-seeded pastures, grazed and ungrazed pastures, herbicide-treated to untreated pastures — a traveling caravan made its way across the Panhandle five months after a March 6 wildfire to see how the burned land was healing. Tim Steffens, Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service range management specialist in Canyon, traveled with the producers to discuss pastures in Roberts and Lipscomb counties. “A wildfire is never a good thing, but we had good subsoil moisture and good follow-up moisture afterward, and the fire was moving swiftly, so it didn’t just cook plants, so recovery should be relatively quick,” Stef-

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plants, some forbs are actually higher in lovegrass and 200 acres of native grass protein, which can improve diet quality and inside the same fence, you really only have animal performance when mixed with 200 acres to graze,” Steffens said. “If part of grass. Plus, their deep roots loosen the soil a pasture burned, the burned part is how up and break up compaction. They provide much will actually be grazed, because that cover and help get more water into the is where the cows are going to go unless ground eventually. they are fenced off. You need to take this “Might we need to kill those weeds/forbs into consideration when you are deciding at a later date? Possibly. But often, as you stocking rates.” heal things up, they tend to go away,” StefWrapping up, he said the take-home fens said. “Don’t worry so much about what lessons are: “We are not saying don’t ever you don’t want in the pasture. Worry more spray weeds; we are not saying always about taking care of the stuff you do want. come in and graze, or don’t come in and “You might get three awn, scurfpea, graze, or to stay out for a set period of time. curlycup gumweed, annual broomweed. If What I feel comfortable saying is that right they aren’t after a fire, I spreading too don’t think quickly, a few are the forbs are No matter what has been okay. Ask yourself causing a lot if anything you’re of problems. done, no threshold has been doing may be “You have affecting them. If to crossed because of the wildfire that d rbea wcareful you are getting in g less and less with sweeping cona pasture can’t come back. ” what you are clusions when doing, you are there are a lot good.” of factors that enter into every situation,” He said the questions to ask are: What Steffens said. “There are a lot of things that does it take to kill it, and what else might enter into the decisions, everyone doing come in? what they think is best. Try to be sure it is “Be careful what you wish for,” Steffens going to pay for itself over the course of said. “Make sure you know why you are using herbicides. You need to understand why things are how they are and fix that before treating. Is it a problem with lack of cover as a result of repeated grazing or other disturbance or what?”

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Recovery stocking rate considerations He said in cases where the fire only burned a portion of a pasture and the cattle need to be grazing there, it might be prudent to fence off the burned area, at least temporarily, to help it recover. “When the cattle are brought back into a pasture, they will pick the burned area first to graze because it has a higher proportion of green material and less old dead grass,” Steffens said. “They will be hard on it because that’s where they concentrate. If you don’t want them there, you have to do something to keep them off until the cover is back. I have seen the preference for these burned areas last as long as two years.” Another thing to understand, he said, is cattle will usually graze the native pasture before they will graze the introduced grasses like Old World bluestem or weeping lovegrass. “If you have 200 acres of weeping

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MOUNTAINAIR RANCH Located 5 miles east of Mountainair lies a 295 acre parcel that is developed perfectly. Property has a custom built Ranch style home with artistic features, NM landscaping and a one car garage. At the headquarters is a Fabulous horse barn with indoor stalls and outdoor runs as well as turn out pens and a large tack room. Also at the horse barn is a garage area. Property also features a shop, storage building, separately fenced pastures, shipping pens and an arena. At the arena and shipping pens is a Rustic style cabin. This property is immaculate and the setting is beautiful. Shown by appointment to qualified buyers. Call Becky to schedule a showing, 575-748-4722.

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2 center pivots, nice sale barn, 100 hd feedlot. Depredation Elk Tags available. Owner financing available to qualified buyer. Significantly reduced to $550,000 MAXWELL FARM W/HOUSE, Colfax County 400 +/deeded acres with 101.2 water shares. Seller would consider split. $495,000 RATON MILLION DOLLAR VIEW, Colfax County, NM. 97.68 +/- deeded acres, 2 parcels, excellent home, big shop, wildlife, a true million dollar view at end of private road. $489,000. House & 1 parcel $375,000

MIAMI 80 ACRES, Colfax County, NM. 80 +/- deeded acres, 80 water shares, expansive views, house, shop, roping arena, barns and outbuildings. Reduced MIAMI HORSE TRAINING FACILITY, Colfax County, $485,000 NM. Ideal horse training facility, 4 bedroom 3 bathCOLD BEER VIEW, Colfax County, NM 83.22 +/room approx. 3,593 sq-ft home, 332.32 +/- deeded deeded acre, 3,174 sq ft, 5 bedroom, 3 ½ bathrm, acres, 208 shares of irrigation, all the facilities you 2 car garage home situated on top of the hill with need to summer your cutting horse operation out of amazing 360 degree views. Reduced $425,000 the heat and far enough south to have somewhat mild winters. Approximately 6,200 ft elevation. $1,790,000 MIAMI 20 ACRES, Colfax County, NM. 20 +/- deeded acres, 20 water shares, quality 2,715 sq ft adobe MIAMI HORSE HEAVEN, Colfax County, NM. Very home, barn, grounds and trees. Private setting. This is private approx. 4,800 sq-ft double walled adobe a must see. Reduced to $375,000 4 bedroom, 3 bathroom home with many custom features. 77.50 +/- deeded acres with 77.25 water FRENCH TRACT 80, Colfax County, NM irrigated farm shares, large 7-stall horse barn, large insulated metal with home and good outbuildings, $350,000 shop with own septic, large hay barn/equipment COLMOR PLACE, Mora County, NM 354 +/- deeded shed. $1,500,000 acres, I25 frontage, house, pens, expansive views. MAXWELL FARM IMPROVED, Colfax County, NM. Ocate Creek runs through property. $275,000 280 +/- deeded acres, 160 Class A irrigation shares,

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DOUBLE L RANCH – Central NM, 10 miles west of Carrizozo, NM. 12,000 total acres; 175 AUYL, BLM Section 3 grazing permit; Water provided by 3 wells and buried pipeline. Improvements include house and pens. Price: $1,500,000 X-T RANCH – Southeastern NM cattle ranch 40 miles northwest of Roswell, NM on the Chaves/Lincoln County line. Good grass ranch with gently rolling grass covered hills. 8,000 total acres, 200 AUYL grazing capacity. Partitioned into four pastures watered by 2 wells with pipelines. Call for brochure. Price: $1,750,000 RHODES FARM – Southeastern NM on the Pecos River east of Hagerman. Comprised of 480 total acres with 144 irrigated acres. Unique private drain water rights. Call for a Brochure. Price Reduced: $1,000,000 L-X RANCH – Southeastern NM just ten minutes from Roswell, NM with paved gated and locked access. 3,761 total acres divided into several pastures and traps. Nice improvements to include a site built adobe residence. One well with extensive pipeline system. Well suited for a registered cattle operation. Price: $900,000

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WAGONMOUND RANCH, Mora/Harding Counties, NM. 4,927 +/- deeded acres, 1,336.80 +/state lease acres, 2,617 +/- Kiowa National Grassland Lease Acres. 8,880.80 +/- Total Acres. Substantial holding with good mix of grazing land and broken country off rim onto Canadian River. Fenced into four main pastures with shipping and headquarter pasture and additional four pastures in the Kiowa lease. Modern well, storage tank and piped water system supplementing existing dirt tanks located on deeded. Located approximately 17 miles east of Wagon Mound on pavement then county road. Nice headquarters and good access to above rim. Wildlife include antelope, mule deer and some elk. $2,710,000

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Apache Mesa Ranch: 5,280 + - acre rim rock ranch on Hwy 84 SW of Las Vegas, NM. 3,520+- deeded acres & 1,760 acres of State & BLM land, has cedar, pinon & ponderosa tree cover, rim rocks, mesas & grassy meadows. HQ w/bunk house & Foreman’s home & plenty of scenery. Price at $1,998,900 OBO & OWC Romero Ranch: 920 acres plus a 40 acre BLM parcel. Mesa top location has grammas, side oats, sacatone, cedars, pinons & tall pines. 6 stock tanks, close to power. North & east sides include La Cueva Canyon bottom & Owner will carry! List Price is $400,000 Trujillo Rancho: Off Hwy 104 is 567 deeded acres 32 miles east of Las Vegas, NM. 3 stock tanks, perimeter fenced, rim rock views, spring fed tank and good grazing. Very scenic parcel with easy county road access. Asking $345,000 El Valle – Hwy 3: Alfalfa Farm has 32+acres on Pecos River w/adjudicated senior ditch rights. Averages 3,200+ bales “premium” alfalfa annually. Includes immaculate 3 bedroom adobe home, hay barn and outbuildings. Priced at $769,000. Call Catherine 505 231-8648 or Alexander.catherine@gmail.com Dilia Loop Road: Fenced 20+ acre parcel raises alfalfa & sweet grass, 4 irrigated sections w/20 ac/ft ditch rights & Pecos River frontage. Excellent farming opportunity for organic vegetable gardens, alfalfa or sweet grass. Priced at $225,000 obo Upper Anton Chico: Amazing alfalfa production comes from this 7.5 acres. Fenced & Irrigated with under ground pipes, perimeter fenced, easy farm to work and water. Pecos River frontage too... Asking $82,500 Bernal, NM: 20 acre view home site is fenced on 3 sides, overhead electric, telephone on the lot line and has great valley views & Mfg homes allowed. Reduced price of $48,900 Bernal, NM: 100 deeded acres for sale on north I-25 frontage road. Electric & phone at property line. Good water wells in the area. Hilltop parcel with view. Asking $100,000 Apache Mesa Road: Two 80 acre parcels, both have water wells on site. West parcel has septic system, solar array, storage containers and a travel trailer, priced at $185,000. East parcel has two dirt tanks, two sides fenced, mountain views, priced at $165,000 White Lakes Road: 1,100 deeded acres grass land, nice mountain views, over head electric on site, county road access. Basin fringe water! Has Solar array farm lease income potential. Make an offer... Stanley, NM: Two 40 acre tracts w/power & water $65,000 each, Two 80 acre Tracts w/power - $89,900 each. Located on Calle Victoriano off Simmons Road. 640 acre tract also available in the basin & can be subdivided.

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•Rocky Ridge Ranch – Just Listed almost 6 sections with 41% Deeded, 44% BLM and 14% State Lease. Very few ranches are improved in a manner comparable to this ranch, regardless of size and the location and is within close proximity to Roswell, NM as an added bonus. Call Cherri Michelet Snyder for more details and check out the website. Reduced by $200,000

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Free-flowing Spring Water A tremendous asset on this western NM Ranch! About 400 Acres irrigated & sub-irrigated. Runs 250+ AUs with calves weaning at 550+. Controlled Elk, Mule Deer & Antelope Hunting Plus Bird, Water Foul, Hunting & Fishing. Gates on 95% of the ranch are kept locked – with no public access. 9,579 Deeded Acres – 9,181 Lease Acres State & BLM.

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RANCHES/FARMS *NEW* 400 Head Alamosa Ranch, Tolar, NM – +/-10,982 Deeded acres, +/- 4,000 acres State of NM Grazing Lease, +/-700 acres adverse grazing. 2 homes, barns. The HQ consists of a 3 BR, 2 BA, double wide mfg main home, yard with fruit and shade trees. Second double wide mfg home, set of scales, pipe corrals, pipe loading chute, saddle house, shop, cedar picket and wood horse pens. 13 Wells, 80 to 200 feet deep, 12 windmills, 4 miles of pipeline and 2 storage tanks. Ephemeral increases in wet years ($370/ac) $4.064M *NEW* Hunting and 125 Head Cattle Ranch, Lindrith, NM – Laguna Seca Ranch is set against scenic bluffs with expansive views of open meadows and rolling hills covered in pines, juniper and oaks in the Santa Fe National Forest. Abundant elk and deer. Includes deer and elk permits, two homes, steel shop with equipment shed partially insulated and heated, hay barn, tack room, storage, second hay barn, steel corrals with sorting pens, steel lead-up and crowding tub, squeeze chute, scales, calf table and loading chute. Well watered with 7 wells, 8 dirt tanks, 2 storage tanks, and 10 drinkers. $2,120,000 490 Head La Cienega Ranch, Yucca, AZ – Solid working desert ranch with a well improved recently remodeled headquarters. Includes a home, bunk house, shop, tack house,

good corrals. 122.83+/- deeded acres, 13,483+/- acres State Lease, 69,390+/- acres BLM, and 86,302+/- acres adverse grazing. Good water with miles of pipeline, 9 wells, 2 dirt tanks and springs. $1,690,000. Call Tamra Kelly at 928-830-9127 *SOLD* 90 Head, Agua Fria Ranch, Quemado, NM – Scenic midsize

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ranch. Private hunting retreat, and purebred Angus ranch. 1200+/- deeded ac, 80+/- ac of NM lease, and 5220+/- BLM. $1.49M

*NEW* 300 Head South Clem Ranch, Harquahala, AZ, – Solid working desert ranch. 40 deeded acres, +/-32,000 acres BLM, +/17,600 State, +/-34,800 adverse. 3 Wells, 5 dirt tanks, 9 - 10,000+/- gal storage tanks. Shipping corrals at HQ and 3 sets of working pens and traps. Ephemeral increases in wet years. Includes cattle and rolling equipment. $1.45M *SOLD* 1388 AUMs - Deadman Ranch, East of Reserve, NM – In the Ponderosas with open grassy meadows. Turnkey operation with a fully improved and equipped HQ. 115+/- Ac deeded forest inholding w/ USFS permit. Cabin, guest and cowboy quarters, mgrs house, corrals, stable, shop, creek, well with pipeline to all pastures. $1.2M w/cattle & equip. *NEW* 150 Head White Mountain Ranch, Show Low, AZ – Situated in the beautiful White Mountains includes a 3 BR, 2 BA manufactured home on +/- 42 deeded ac, +/-320 ac BLM Permit, +/-6,720 acres State Lease, & +/-12,800 ac adverse grazing, 5 wells, 6 dirt tanks, 2 storage tanks. Includes 50 head of cattle and equipment. $1.1M *NEW* 220 Head Black Mountain Ranch, Deming, NM, – +/- 784.3 deeded ac, +/-640 ac BLM Permit, +/-13,822 acres State of NM Lease & +/-2,560 ac adverse grazing, 2 irrigation wells and 13 ac of water rights, 3 livestock wells, 4 dirt tanks, 2 steel storage tanks and large in ground concrete tank, 2 sets of working corrals. Desert ranch, flat to rolling with Black Mtn located on the ranch. Well improved HQ w/site built 2 BR, 2 BA home, single wide

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mfg home, shop, tack room, seed house and large barn, good steel shipping corrals. $995,000 *SOLD* Bar LR Homestead Multi Parcel Auction, St. David, AZ ~ Sold at Auction April 22, 2017 122.87 +/- Acres with panoramic valley and mountain views, irrigated pasture, white vinyl fencing, mature pecan trees, multiple homes, workshop all in a beautifully treed, quiet rural town setting.

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*NEW* 98+/- Acre Farm, Pomerene, AZ – 70 plus irrigated acres with an 800 gpm well that has a 16” casing, records indicate it is 70’ deep with static water at 35’. Flood irrigated and fenced. Suitable for crops, pasture, or nut trees. Located close to I-10, town, schools and services with easy access. A great value at $400,000 *REDUCED* +/-29 Acre Farm, Sheldon AZ – This preppers paradise includes a large 4 BR 3 BA home; canning studio; root cellar; large workshop with covered outdoor work area; irrigated pasture with 600 gpm well, fenced and cross fenced for cattle/ horses; corrals; barn; chicken houses and pens; rabbit pen; garden area, fruit trees, pond and other various outbuildings. The property includes tractor implements; backhoe; and RV. $410,000 $375,000 HORSE PROPERTIES/LAND +/-14 Ac Horse Property, Sonoita, AZ Custom 2,861 s.f. home in the Oaks with matching outbuildings including a 2-car garage w/upstairs apartment & a charming vintage carriage house/stable. Modern 4- stall horse barn with a front portico, tack room, and wash area. Two arenas, access to USFS. $760,000 *REDUCED* San Rafael Valley, AZ – Own a slice of heaven in the pristine San Rafael Valley, 152 Acres for $304,000 & 77 Acres with well for $177,100

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Ben G. Scott Scott Land Company, LLC / Krystal M. Nelson – CO/NM QB #15892 1301 Front Street, Dimmitt, TX 79027 / 800-933-9698 / 5a.m. -10p.m. www.scottlandcompany.com

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■ BANKRUPTCY COURT SALE (bottom limit for bidding has been established, the time for additional bidding has been extended. Please call our office for details!) - DVR LAKE RANCH - 22,639.44 ac. +/- ranch (10,254.44 deeded – 12,385 State Lease) - Quay/Harding Co., NM – Located on both north & south shores of the Ute Lake reservoir, Logan, NM. Ranch is watered not only by wells & pipeline but also by the lake itself. Excellent location and access via all-weather roads & pvmt. ■ UTE LAKE SUBDIVISION – beautiful, new custom built home, over 5,000 sq. ft. on 3.230 ac. +/-, 4 bdrm., 3 ½ bath, 3 fireplaces immaculate w/view from every room, located adjacent to the DVR Lake Ranch. ■ MINE CANYON ROAD (paved) – Quay Co., NM – 1,063 ac. +/- native grass, well watered w/a good set of pens, located between Ute Lake & Hwy. 54, located adjacent to the DVR Lake Ranch. ■ BUY THE IMPROVEMENTS – LEASE THE LAND! Union Co. – 640 ac. +/-, nice home w/landscaped yard w/matured trees, nice shop, cattle pens & modern pivot sprinklers. ■ EXCELLENT OWNER FINANCING! ABERCROMBIE RANCH

– Huerfano Co., CO – 7,491 ac. +/- of choice grassland watered by wells & the Cucharas River, on pvmt.

■ MESA DEL GATO RANCH – 6,423.45 ac. +/- in two tracts of 3,735 ac. & 2,688.45 ac., all deeded, approx. 7 mi. apart offered as one ranch, broker will assist w/contracts on either or both of the tracts, good country for year-round cow/calf operation or summer yearling grazing, located in close proximity to the Grey Fox Ranch for addtl. acreage. ■ GREY FOX RANCH – Guadalupe Co., NM – 2,919.85 ac. +/- of deeded land, all native grass, located in close proximity to the Mesa Del Gato Ranch for addtl. grazing. ■ ALFALFA & LIVESTOCK – Tucumcari, NM – 255.474 ac. +/-, state-of-the-art huge hay barn & shop (immaculate), steel pens, Arch Hurley Water Rights, two nearly new sprinklers, alfalfa established. ■ AIRPORT DRIVE – Tucumcari, NM – Choice 160 ac. +/-, on pvmt. w/beautiful home, roping arena, steel pens & 139.5 ac. +/- of water rights.

■ TUCUMCARI VALLEY – 480 ac. +/-, w/292 ac. classified as cropland fully allotted to wheat & milo, 365.9 ac. of Arch Hurley Water Rights, nice, combination farming/cattle operation, presently in grass for grazing. ■ CANYON VIEW RANCH – 1,533 deeded ac. +/- just out of Clayton, NM, beautiful, good country, well watered, volcanic rock mining operation offers addtl. income, on pvmt.

■ 24 MI. FROM TEXAS/NM STATE LINE – Box Canyon Ranch – Quay Co., NM – well improved & watered, 2,400 ac. +/-deeded, 80 ac. +/- State Lease, excellent access from I-40. ■ LAKE VIEW RANCH – San Miguel Co., NM - 9,135 ac. +/(6,670 +/- deeded, 320 +/- BLM, 40 +/- State Lease, 2,106 +/- “FREE USE”) well improved, just off pvmt. on co. road., two neighboring ranches may be added for additional acreage! ■ LITTLE BLACK PEAK - 37.65 sections +/- Central NM ranch w/good, useable improvements & water, some irrigation w/2 pivot sprinklers, on pvmt. w/all-weather road, 13,322 ac.+/- Deeded, 8,457 ac. +/- BLM Lease, 2,320 ac. +/- State Lease. Please view our websites for details on these properties, choice TX, NM, CO ranches (large & small), choice ranches in the high rainfall areas of OK, irr./dryland/CRP & commercial properties. We need your listings on any types of ag properties in TX, NM, OK & CO.

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John D iamo nd, Qu ali fying Bro ker john@beaverheadoutdoors.com Cell: (575) 740-1528 Office: (575) 772-5538 Fax: (575) 772-5517 HC 30 Box 445, Winston, NM 87943

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Buyers are looking for a ranch. If you have a ranch to sell, give me a call. Lincoln, New Mexico: Historic Vorwerk home with 33+/- acres . Rio Bonito river with 16.5 acre feet of historic water rights dating to 1853. Elk, mule deer, turkey, barbary sheep. Brochure at: www.sidwellfarmandranch.com SIDWELL FARM & RANCH REALTY, LLC Tom Sidwell, Qualifying Broker 6237 State Highway 209, Tucumcari, NM 88401 • 575-403-6903 tom@sidwellfarmandranch.com • www.sidwellfarmandranch.com

Bent & Kiowa Counties, Colorado

Now featuring this big cattle ranch with recent rains, making it look rested. Almost 50,000 (+/-) acres under fence. No federal lands. About 25% deeded with balance Colorado State Leases. Currently stocked with good cows and big calves. Same family for several decades. Has miles of Adobe Creek and canal water through it. About 170 acres irrigated for hay ground. Seldom is one like this available in the well-known Arkansas River Valley community. Don’t miss it if you are in the market for a desirable cattle ranch in Colorado! Asking Price $7.5 million

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L BAR RANCH ››› 36,460 Deeded Acres +/Sandoval County, New Mexico

Located approximately 40 air miles west of Albuquerque, the L Bar Ranch features some of the most dramatic and stunning 360° views to be found in the state. The terrain varies from high elevated Ponderosa Pine mesas with steep fractured rock ledges descending to lower wide valley bottoms. Several massive volcanic cones protrude, giving the ranch the perfect “Land of Enchantment” charm. Elevations vary from 6,100 feet in the valley bottoms to 8,300 feet on the upper mesas. Brush and tree cover includes Juniper, Oak, Mountain Mahogany, Piñon, and Ponderosa. The property is watered by wells, waterlines, ponds, seasonal creeks and springs. Improvements include a newly remodeled manager’s home, beautiful two-story log lodge, shop/ apartment building, barns and pens. No hunting is allowed on the ranch, but the property has received 30 bull elk rifle permits, 7 bull elk muzzle loader permits, 22 either sex archery permits and 56 cow elk permits. Other game species includes mule deer, black bear, mountain lion, bobcat, barbary sheep, turkey and waterfowl. This scenic ranch is offered at $550 per acre.

SUMPTER RANCH ››› 872 Deeded Acres +/Colfax County, New Mexico The Sumpter Ranch has been owned by the same family for approximately 75 years and this is the first time the property has been offered for sale. This quality ranch is well located on Johnson Mesa, approximately 20 miles east of Raton, New Mexico. The ranch has paved highway frontage. Johnson Mesa is widely known as one of the most productive ranching areas of the state, but also offers the benefit of recreation and hunting. Elevations vary from 8,000 – 8,150 feet, with a major drainage way entering the property on the northwest side. This drainageway becomes a deep timbered canyon along the east boundary of the ranch. Most of the ranch has a lush cover of high elevation native grasses, with scattered Oak Motts, Mountain Mahogany and Locust Trees found on the rocky hillsides and side slopes. Ponderosa Pine, Spruce and Fir are found in dense concentrations in the rugged canyon areas. The Sumpter Ranch is well watered with pockets of natural water in the bottoms, good earthen ponds and two electric water wells. The ranch receives two elk permits and also features bear, mule deer and antelope. This outstanding offering is priced at $1,400 per acre.

‹‹‹ EL RITO TIERRA AMARILLA RANCH 423 Deeded Acres +/- Rio Arriba County, New Mexico The El Rito Tierra Amarilla Ranch is ideally located about 30 minutes south of Chama and 2 hours north of Santa Fe, New Mexico. The property is accessed by paved highway frontage. The centerpiece of the ranch is the live water El Rito de Amarilla Creek, which is not only extremely scenic but also offers outstanding trout fishing. Elevations range from 7,800 to 8,400 feet. The terrain varies from lush meadows to mountain side slopes. The tree canopy includes Blue Spruce, Aspen, Ponderosa Pine, Piñon and Oak Brush. Improvements include a custom two-story owner’s home featuring 6 bedrooms, 7 baths, 5 fireplaces and many extras. There is also an attractive guest house with a fireplace, 2 bedrooms and 2 full baths. Other improvements include a two-story barn and livestock pens. All improvements are very well maintained and user friendly. This scenic mountain retreat receives several elk permits and also has mule deer, bear, cougar, turkey and grouse. This scenic mountain get-a-way is reasonably priced at $1,850,000.

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‹‹‹ MIDDLE ARROYO RANCH 4,373 Deeded Acres +/1,591 NM State Lease +/-

15,162 BLM Acres +/21,126 Total Acres +/-

Lincoln County, New Mexico The Middle Arroyo Ranch is located northwest of Roswell, New Mexico. The headquarters includes a hacienda style owner’s home, manager’s home, barn, shop, and pipe pens with scales. The topography is open rolling with very little waste country. The ranch is well watered by wells and waterlines with drinkers and storage. Besides being good cattle country, the ranch features mule deer, aoudad, and pronghorn antelope. This working cattle ranch is priced at $3,750,000 and is rated at approximately 400 - 450 animal units.

‹‹‹ HUTCH SEPTIMA RANCH 5,463 Deeded Acres +/Rio Arriba County, New Mexico This pristine top of the mountain ranch is located in the highlands of the famous Brazos Ridge of Northern New Mexico along US Highway 64. Elevations range from 9,750 feet – 10,650 feet. This scenic ranch features quaking Aspen, Blue Spruce, and Douglas Fir, highlighted by small mountain streams with native cutthroat trout. Additional water sources include many mountain springs and ponds. Wildlife is abundant and includes elk, mule deer, bear, cougar, turkey and grouse. The ranch receives many elk permits. The property is improved with two cabins. This live water mountain hide-a-way is priced to sell at $1,850 per acre.

‹‹‹ HIGH TIMBER RANCH 3,497 Deeded Acres +/Rio Arriba County, New Mexico This Northern New Mexico scenic mountain property lies just below the Brazos Summit and some of the best views of the mountains are found on this ranch. Access is by paved highway. The highlight of the High Timber Ranch is the abundance of live mountain stream water. The ranch supports some of the best big game hunting opportunities, which include elk, mule deer, black bear, mountain lion, turkey and grouse. The ranch receives numerous elk permits. The ranch supports an abundant canopy of Aspen, Spruce and Fir, but also has productive open meadows and parks. Elevations range from 9,000 feet to 10,300 feet. Improvements include two mountain cabins. Realistically offered at $2,140 per acre. g e Farmin Serving th g Industry in & Ranch 1920 Since

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DRIPPING SPRINGS RANCH , MULE CREEK, NM - 232 deeded acres with 13,000 Gila National Forest allotment for the grazing of 150 head of mother cows a 4 horses yearlong. Nice improvements, beautiful country. Priced @ $2,500,000

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THE FOURR RANCH DRAGOON AZ – 1280 deeded acres, 11610 AZ state, and 3689 NF Acres. Runs 300 head, Well-watered, lots of grass. Priced @$4,250,000 RAINBOWS END RANCH, SUNIZONA, AZ – 315 head yearlong, 5588 deeded acres 15000 state and BLM lease. Good easy grass country. This is a nice ranch in a very productive area of Arizona. Priced @$3,500,000

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BAR B RANCH, TUBAC, AZ – 75 head yearlong, 526 acres with 75 acres irrigated, owned by the same family since 1914, large grandfathered water right. Last large tract of land in the area. Improvements need attention. Priced @$1,950,000 – reduced from $2,350,000

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FORT FILLMORE ROAD – South of Las Cruces, NM, 5 acre pecan farm with 5 enclosed horse pens and pipe fencing. Property does not include an irrigation well but does have ground and surface water rights. $159,900 OFF CAMUNEZ ROAD IN SAN MIGUEL, NM – 27.5 acre farm for $14,500/acre. Full EBID & ground water rights with irrigation well. Community water, electric, telephone & gas on Camunez Road to adjoining property. Beautiful farm land, great mountain & valley views. Priced at $399,000 PERRIN ROAD – Deming, New Mexico - Approx. 200 acres with 121.2 acres of irrigation rights. Irrigation well and pond. Cattle pens, shipping chute, barn, bunkhouse, equipment sheds and large insulated shop. Recently remodeled home with multiple living areas. Great view of Cooke’s Peak. Beautiful stonework and tile. Refrigerated air, pellet stove & 2 wall furnaces, seamless metal roof. Also includes single-wide mobile. $1,150,000

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FORT FILLMORE ROAD – South of Las Cruces, NM, 15 acres of mature pecan trees, cement ditches, irrigation well and both surface and ground water rights. DAN DELANEY REAL ESTATE, LLC Beautiful 2500 sq. ft. 3 bedroom / 2 bath 318 W. Amador Avenue home. $775,000 “If you are interested in farm land or ranches in New Mexico, give me a call.”

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is conveniently located in central NM. 105 miles from Ruidoso or 71 miles from Albuquerque. The 3,200 acre Mesa Draw Ranch offers excellent improvements which includes a beautiful 2,400 sf house, pipe roping arena, horse facilities, and shop. 2,900 acres are contiguous and offers private land hunting. The ranch receives 5 rifle Elk tags. The country is in great shape with plenty of grass and low enough in elevation which makes this a good year round cattle ranch. $1,975,000

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ST. JOHNS OFFICE P.O. Box 1980, St. Johns, Arizona 85936 Ph. 602-228-3494

RIVER RANCH: Located in central Apache County, Arizona, northwest of St. Johns the property includes 1,280 deeded acres with 320 acres BLM grazing lease for 20 animal units yearlong. The Little Colorado River (locally ephemeral) is located along one mile of the deeded land. There is one livestock well on the property with a small set of corrals. This is a nice, private and secluded gentlemen’s ranch with good winter browse and spring season grasses. Price $675,000 OLD GREER PLACE: St. Johns, Arizona. The ranch is located directly west of the town of St. Johns. US Highway 180 runs through the center of the ranch. Deeded land includes numerous live water springs and sub-irrigated meadow lands adjacent to the Big Hollow Wash. There is a total of 1,330 deeded acres with an additional 1,300 acres Arizona State Lease and the ranch will run approximately 35 animal units yearlong. Price $735,000

HUNT VALLEY RANCH: 12 miles Northwest of St. Johns in Apache County, Arizona, includes 1,173 deeded acres with 320 additional acres of private lease for 23 animal units yearlong. The property includes an older cowboy house and paved frontage along US Highway 180. There is an irrigation well which provides water to a small orchard and a two acre improved pasture. This ranch is a nice rural home site with close proximity to the county seat in St. Johns. Price: $595,000 ALPINE 85 PROPERTY: One of the finest properties in Alpine because of its beauty, and location near town while offering complete privacy. The property lies at 8,000 feet elevation and includes 85 deeded acres. With tremendous views overlooking the Bush Valley, San Francisco River and surrounding mountain tops the property backs up to national forest and includes paved access from US Highway 180/191. Public water and sewer access is available to the property boundary. Alpine is an authentic small western mountain town, a quiet getaway with spectacular scenery with easy driving distance to many fishing lakes and streams. The area is also located on the boundary between the famous hunting Units 1 & 27 known for large herds of elk and world-class 400+ point bulls. With the large ponderosa pine and beautiful oak trees scattering the property there is great potential for a private, secluded home-site in the pines or possibly development into smaller tracts. Price: $1,200,000 offers for a partial purchase will be considered. CONTACT ST. JOHNS OFFICE: TRAEGEN KNIGHT www.headquarterswest.com email: info@headquarterswest.com

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Purina Ups the Ante for New Mexico’s Youth in Agriculture

urina has long been supportive of furthering the education for youngsters by providing an annual $1,000 scholarship via the New Mexico Cattle Growers’ Association’s (NMCGA) Young Cattlemen’s Leadership Committee (YCLC) for more than 20 years, according to Pat Boone, NMCGA President, Elida. “Purina and its dealers in New Mexico have tripled the size of that invest for 2017,” Boone proudly stated. “This year the YCLC will be awarding a $1,500 Purina Scholarship plus a second $1,500 scholarship sponsored by several Purina Dealers across New Mexico.” “In total, the YCLC will be able to award four scholarships to graduating seniors or undergraduates pursuing a higher education degree in agriculture,” he said. “There are two $500 scholarships that are also available.’ One scholarship is sponsored by the NMCGA Allie Industries, the other from the coffers of the YCLC, Boone explained. Scholarship applications are now available from the NMCGA on their website at www.nmagriculture.org , by calling the NMCGA office at 505/2470584, or from local county extension agents and FFA advisors. The deadline for applications is November 1, either by postmark or delivery via email up until 11:59. The scholarships will be awarded at the annual Joint Stockmen’s Convention at the Crown Plaza Hotel in Albuquerque November 30 through continued on page 86 >>

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December 3, 2017. “NMCGA wants to thank Purina and these dealers for their generosity and vision for the future of New Mexico Agriculture,” Boone stated: ЇЇ Gary & Ginger Creighton 408E. 16th Street, Portales NM 88130 ЇЇ Dickinson Implement Co. 1301 E. Route 66 Blvd, Tucumcari NM 88401 ЇЇ Creighton’s Town & Country 1621 S Ave. D, Portales NM 88130 ЇЇ Cortese Feed Supply Box 25, Fort Sumner NM 88119 ЇЇ Circle S Feed Store 2907 S Canal, Carlsbad NM 88220 ЇЇ Horse N Hound Feed N Supply 991 W. Amador, Las Cruces NM 88130 ЇЇ Roswell Livestock & Farm Supply Box 1753, Roswell NM 88130 ЇЇ Bunks Feed Barn, 3128 South Eunice Hwy., Hobbs, NM 88240 The NMCGA has represented the ranchers in New Mexico and the West since 1914 and has members in all 33 of the state’s counties as well as some 19 other states. The Association participates in venues necessary to protect beef producers and private property rights including litigation, state and federal legislation and regulatory affairs. For more information, or to join the NMCGA online, please visit www. nmagriculture.org.

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RIDING HERD by Lee Pitts

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espite having lived in, or near, rattlesnake country my entire life I’ve never known anyone who actually got bit by one, let alone got bit and lived to tell the tale. Until now, that is. We’ve lived in our house for over 30 years and never saw a rattlesnake on our place up until two years ago. Since then I’ve killed six on our place. One was under a trash can, two were in our driveway, two were in my wife’s flower garden and I ran over one in front of our house, although I don’t think I get a notch in my shovel for that one. Our neighborhood has become a Rattlesnake Social Club and whenever two neighbors meet the discussion always turns to snake sightings. We think the influx of rattlers is because three years ago the CCC came in and made a fire break between us and the 8,000 acre state park next door. It was much appreciated at the time but it drove all the moles, gophers and rats on to our property, which the rattlesnakes eat like candy. Now many of us hate the firebreak, thinking we’d rather take our chances in a fire rather than die an ugly death caused by a venomous rattlesnake. Count my neighbor as one of the firebreak haters. That’s because he’s the one who was bitten by the rattlesnake. One day last month his dog had a snake in her mouth and was shaking it violently, which is how dogs kill snakes. Unfortu-

nately my neighbor didn’t see the diamonds on the snake’s hide and he reached down to separate it from his dog. El biggo mistake-o. Do not pet the snake. I repeat, DO NOT PET THE SNAKE! I’m glad to report both victims lived. My theory is the snake injected all its venom into the dog so there wasn’t any left for my neighbor. The vet thinks both bites were “dry”, as a quarter of all rattlesnake bites are. That means there was little venom injected. You can’t tell that to my neighbor, or his dog, because they both suffered through three of the worst days of their lives. You’d think my buddy and his mutt married into the Kardashian clan or something with all the publicity they are getting. My neighbor is now a celebrity and he has started selling his autograph followed by two fang marks, all written with the snake-bitten hand. I was talking to a large animal vet shortly after the newsworthy incident and he told me he gets about five dogs a year that were bitten by a rattler and about half of them live. He says the deciding factor on whether they live or die is the location of the bite. A paw is definitely better than the nose. And he’s heard all the rumors about rattlesnakes, including... ЇЇ September venom is the worst. ЇЇ A rattler will never bite a pregnant

woman. The best way to treat a bite is to extract the gall from one and place it over the bite. If you place a hair rope in a circle ЇЇ around your bed roll before you go to sleep you will NEVER be rudely awakened by a rattler alarm clock. ЇЇ When a rattlesnake takes a drink of water it takes out its poison sack and if it is carried away or lost the rattler will commit suicide. Probably by biting its own lip. (Just kidding.) Hogs are the only domestic animal ЇЇ that rattlesnakes can’t hurt. To a Duroc, a rattlesnake is like eating a Milky Way bar! Hogs will eat all rattlers that invade their territory. (My neighbor is considering becoming a hog farmer.) ЇЇ The best place to get bit (if there is one) is in the knee because snake’s venom can’t penetrate the knee cap. ЇЇ After a dog is bitten, such is their intense hatred for snakes that it will dedicate its life to their worldwide extermination. ЇЇ The vet also told me anti-venom treatments for humans can easily cost over $30,000. Being a cheapskate, I’d have to carefully weight my options. My neighbor didn’t have anti venom shots and he didn’t die. (He just felt like it.) And a quarter of all rattlesnake bites are dry. Let’s see... three days of violent purging, or spend thirty grand? I’m a tough guy, I think I’d take my chances. ЇЇ

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he United States Beef Academy (USBA) is an educational event for young men and women who are motivated to learn about the beef industry. The academy is held at the Corona Range & Livestock Research Center in Corona, NM. It is a five day, intensive educational opportunity and focuses on current methods and technology used in beef production. Each day of the Academy focuses on a different scientific area of beef production. This event is under the direction of New Mexico State University Department of Extension Animal Sciences and Natural Resources, Texas Agri-Life Extension, and Colorado State University. The US Beef Academy was formed to provide a unique, intense educational experience for the students that attend. The faculty of the Academy consist of Extension Specialists and Professors from the three collaborating universities. Day one focuses on the consumer of beef and their desire to purchase a safe and wholesome product. We have several speakers on food safety, proper cooking methods, how genetics and production methods can influence the quality of the product, and conduct a taste panel for the students to witness for themselves these differences can make on the final product. This day is sponsored by the New Mexico Beef Council. Day two focuses on animal health and welfare, with topics such as low stress cattle handling techniques, preventative health care, immune function and how the immune function can be enhanced with proper husbandry practices and vaccination procedures, including becoming BQA certified. This day is sponsored by Zoetis Animal Health. Day three focuses on beef cattle reproduction. Topics include anatomy and physiology of the reproductive tracts of the cow and bull, the estrous cycle, production practices that can influence reproductive function, current technologies that are employed in industry and cutting edge technology such as genomic information and how to use it. This day is sponsored by Zoetis Genomics. Day four focuses on nutrition. Topics include feeds and feeding, anatomy and physiology of the ruminant animal, the rumen microbial environment, range cattle nutrition, the role nutrition plays in production and how to maximize nutrition in an arid environment. This day is sponsored by ADM Nutrition. Day five focuses on marketing, systematic resource management and the global picture of US beef. Topics include marketing options, cattle futures, value added marketing programs, an overall systems approach to resource management and the role US beef plays in the global demand for beef. This day is sponsored by IMI Global. In 2017, the roster included students from Indiana, Wisconsin, Oregon, California, Texas, New Mexico, Florida and Mexico. Attending were two veterinary students, seven graduate students and six undergraduate students. John Wenzel, NMSU Extension Veterinarian said, “The US Beef Academy is truly a national program. The last two years we have had students from nine states and Mexico. The opportunity for students to interact with others from outside their home area greatly enhanced their educational experience and hopefully provided an opportunity for them to form lasting friendships with students that have a different background, experience and viewpoint of the beef production industry.” The faculty of the US Beef Academy hopes that the future leaders of the beef industry will have received at least a portion of their knowledge in Corona, NM.

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1. Shad Cox, NMSU Corona Ranch, assists students with beef fabrication. 2. Tom Bertelle, NM Beef Council, discusses grades of beef with academy participants. 3. Students taste and differentiate select, choice, prime and grass-fed steaks. 4. It’s BEEF Day! 5. Kenneth McKenzie, NM Beef Council Director, tells the students about the importance of the Beef Checkoff and explains the difference in beef councils across the country.

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Adam Petersen Memorial Ranch Rodeo & Dutch Oven Cookoff

he 6th Annual “Adam Petersen Memorial Ranch Rodeo & Dutch Oven Cook Off” was held August 5th in Winston, NM. This event is held in honor of LCPL Adam Donovan Petersen, USMC and is a tribute to all who have served in uniform with selfless sacrifice. The NM Beef Council and Chamiza CowBelles sponsored the beef for the Dutch Oven Cookoff. The teams were charged with cooking a beef entrée, side dish, chile (red or green), bread and a dessert that included red or green chile. The teams were also judged on “Creative Camp,” a fun way to depict their team’s theme and ranch/group. Dina Reitzel, New Mexico Beef Council, and Caren Cowan, New Mexico Cattle Growers’ Association, served on the distinguished panel of judges from neighboring communities. “I was pleasantly surprised by the creativity shown not only on the beef main dishes, but on all the courses. The beef was delicious, and I enjoyed the enthusiasm of the teams!,” said Reitzel. The teams are scored on both the cookoff and ranch rodeo, with the highest scoring team taking home the honors. The Adam Petersen Memorial Fund was established to provide support and assistance during times of need for veterans and various individuals at a local or national level. The proceeds of the weekend’s events supported Operation Wounded Warriors, and has become a crisis fund for local families and individuals during times of need.

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1. “Woodstock Wranglers” with their painted ponies present their beef meal to the panel of judges. 2. Caren Cowan & Dina Reitzel deliberate on the beef dishes. 3. Local “cowboys” enjoy the fun-filled family day. 4. The Slash Ranch Hounds exhibit, was a tribute to the legacy of the ranch and founding family. 5. Family cooks take a break to show off her 1st Lost Tooth! 6. Beef Lasagna, dutch oven style. 7. Delicious Beef Cabbage Rolls served with all the fixins’

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Animal Rights Activists Change Tactics

of video. But if activists can tie the video to a household brand name or a company, the activist groups will use it to pressure the company. “It’s the quickest way for them to get attention,” said Thompson-Weeman, and the quickest way to force a company to sever ties with a farm. Activists also may be moving away from targeting and eliminating only “factory farms.” In targeting only large farms, small farms are left unharmed. In activists’ minds, all farms are equally cruel and need to be eliminated.

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AC Nutrition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Aero Tech, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Ag Brokers, Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 Ag New Mexico FCS, ACA . . . . . . . . 94 Ag Self-Insured Workers Compensation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Ken Ahler Real Estate Co., Inc . . . . 76 American Angus Association . . . . 93 American Water Surveyors . . . . . . . 37 Ken Babcock Sales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 Bar G Feedyard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Bar M Real Estate . . . . . . . . . . . . 76, 79 Beaverhead Outdoors . . . . . . . . . . . 79 BJM Sales & Service Inc. . . . . . . . . . 68 Border Tank Resources . . . . . . . . . . . 68 Bovine Elite . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 Bradley 3 Ranch, Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 Brennand Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 Brand – Nony Navar . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 Brand – Pyle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 R.A. Brown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 C Bar Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20, 71 Caprock Real Estate Services . . . . . 79 Casey Beefmasters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 Cates Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 Cauthorn & Griffin Insurance . . . . 88 Caviness Packing Co., Inc . . . . . . . . 28 Circle H Headquarters, LLC . . . . . . 68 CKP Insurance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Clark Anvil Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Clovis Livestock Auction . . . . . . . . . 29 Coba Select Sires . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 Chip Cole Ranch Real Estate . . . . . 82 Copeland Show Cattle . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Cox Ranch Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 R.L. Cox Company . . . . . . . . . . . 35, 68 CPE Feeds Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

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Davis & Sons Hatting Co. . . . . . . . . Dan Delaney Real Estate . . . . . . . . . Denton Photography . . . . . . . . . . . . Desert Scales & Weighing Equipment . . . . . . . . . . Diamond Nutrition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Diamond Seven Angus . . . . . . . . . . Domenici Law Firm, PC . . . . . . . . . . Dunn Ranches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Eastern New Mexico State Fair . . . Eepshgrip Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Fallon-Cortese Land . . . . . . . . . . . . . FBFS / Monte Anderson . . . . . . . . .

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FBFS / Larry Marshall . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 Farm Credit of New Mexico . . . . . . . 8 Farmway Feed Mill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Five States Livestock Auction . . . 55 Flying W Diamond Ranch . . . . . . . . 53 Genex / Candy Trujillo . . . . . . . . . . . 70 Giant Rubber Water Tanks . . . . . . . 60 Grau Charolais . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18, 70 Grau Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19, 70 Hales Angus Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 Hargrove Ranch Insurance . . . . . . . 86 Harrison Quarter Horses . . . . . . . . . 54 Hartzog Angus Ranch . . . . . . . 71, 95 Harwell & Associates Real Estate . 75 Hay Rake, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Headquarters West Ltd. / Sam Hubbell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 Headquarters West / Traegen Knight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 Henard Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 Hi-Pro Feeds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Hubbell Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 Hudson Livestock Supplements . 31 Hutchison Western . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94 HydraBed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

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Inosol Castrator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Insurance Services of New Mexico . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Isa Beefmasters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52, 70 JaCin Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 Lex Jaramillo Alfalfa & Lazer Leveling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Steve Jensen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 Kaddatz Auctioneering & Farm Equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 Bill King Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 L & H Manufacturing . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Lack-Morrison Brangus . . . . . . . . . . 72 Lazy D Ranch Red Angus . . . . . . . . 70 Lazy Way Bar Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 Major Ranch Realty . . . . . . . . . . 79, 83 Manford Cattle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 Manzano Angus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 Matlock & Associates . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 Mesa Tractor, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 15, 67 Mexican Cattle Order Buyer . . . . . . 68 Michelet Homestead Realty . . . . . 77 Chas S. Middleton & Son . . 80, 81, 84 Monfette Construction Co. . . . . . . 67 Multimin USA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Paul McGillard / Murney Assoc. . . 77

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National Animal Interest Alliance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 NM Ag Leadership Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 NM Cattle Growers Insurance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 NM Federal Lands Council . . . . . . . 87 NM 4-H Foundation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 NM FFA Foundation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 NM Horse Breeders Association . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 NM Mutual . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 NM Premier Ranch Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 NM Property Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 NMSU Animal & Range Sciences . . . . . . . . 12, 47, 59 NM Wool Growers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Purina Animal Nutrition . . . . . . . . . 96 Olson Land and Cattle . . . . . . . . . . . 70 O’Neill Land . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 Perez Cattle Company . . . . . . . . . . . 69 Phase-A-Matic, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Pratt Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 Cattle Guards / Priddy Construction . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Professional Predator Control . . . . 36 Ramro LLC / RJ Cattle Co . . . . . . . . . 16 D.J. Reveal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14, 68 Rio Grande Scales & Equip. . . . . . . 67 Robertson Livestock . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Runft Charolais . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Roswell Livestock & Farm Supply 92 Roswell Livestock Auction Co. . . . 26

The Ranches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 3C Cattle Feeders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Truby Ranches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 Tucumcari Main Street . . . . . . . . . . . 49 2 Bar Angus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61, 71

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United Fiberglass, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . 57 USA Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 Virden Perma Bilt Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 W&W Fiberglass Tank Co. . . . . . . . . 43 Walker Martin Ranch Sales . . . . . . . 82 West Wood Realty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 Brinks Brangus / Westall Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56, 72 Western Trading Post . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Westway Feed Products, LLC . . . . . . 7 Willcox Livestock Auction . . . . . . . . 23 Williams Windmill, Inc. . . . . . . . 30, 67 WW - Paul Scales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Yavapai Bottle Gas . . . . . . . . . . . 39, 67 Tal Young, P.C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Zia Agriculture Consulting, LLC . . 68

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James Sammons III . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 Sandia Trailer Sales & Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66, 82 Santa Gertrudis Breeders International . . . . . 45, 69 Santa Rita Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 Scott Land . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 Sidwell Farm & Ranch Realty . . . . . 79 Singleton Ranches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Southwest Red Angus Assoc. . . . . 70 Spike S Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 Stockmen’s Realty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 Joe Stubblefield & Associates . . . . 77 Swihart Sales Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 T & S Manufacturing . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 TechniTrack, LLC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Terrell Land & Livestock Co. . . . . . . 77

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