February 2019 Oregon Cattleman

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ft& Hereford Maag OAngus Vallad Bull Sale MARCH 21, 2019 • 1 P.M. Maag Ranch Headquarters • Vale, Oregon Offering 200 head of top quality registered Angus and Hereford bulls.

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ANGUS BULLS SELL SIRED BY: WR Journey 1X74 KM Broken Bow PA Fortitude 2500 Baldridge Command C036 Leachman LA Certainty G066A McKellar Now Look RB Tour of Duty ...and more!

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Bob & MaryAnn Maag (541) 473-2108

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Sons of these breed-leading herdsires sell March 21!

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Terry & Susan Oft (541) 889-6801

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TEIXEIRA CATTLE CO. PRESENTS

Performance Plus Bull Sale February 18, 2019 • 1:00PM • Terrebonne , OR

Family Owned and Operated

140 BULLS BEING SOLD

TEX Cavalry 8042 | Reg: 19085171 • Son out of Rita 1C43 • Half brother of TEX Playbook • 14 Calvary sons

TEX Payweight 7447 | Reg: 18959107 • Full sibiling to TEX Playbook • 2 full brothers • 4 half brothers

32 sons of TEX Playbook offered in the sale.

TEX Playbook 8056 | Reg: 19103054 • Sired by TEX Playbook out of a full sister to TEX Demand • This TEX Playbook son has a $B of 200 • 32 Playbook sons

32 TEX PLAYBOOK SONS 14 JVC CAVALRY SONS 7 PAYWEIGHT 1682 SONS

Seven sons of Rita 1C43 offered in the sale.

The Teixeira Family

John, Heather, Nathan, Allan and Cee Teixeira Joseph and Ben Teixeira Allan’s Cell: 805-310-3353 John’s Cell: 805-448-3859 Be sure to ask about our TCC Igenity DNA Program.

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TAX SEASON

OCA LEADERSHIP PRESIDENT

Nathan Jackson, Myrtle Creek..... (541) 591-2758 PRESIDENT-ELECT

Tom Sharp, Burns......................... (541) 589-3317 TREASURER

Todd Nash, Joseph.......................(541) 263-0426 AT LARGE VICE PRESIDENT

Jacob Bingham, North Powder..........(541)403-1735 DISTRICT VICE PRESIDENTS DISTRICT 4 DISTRICT 1

Chris Christensen Vale (541) 473-3096

James Collins Mitchell (541) 980-0508

DISTRICT 2

DISTRICT 5

Cheryl Martin North Powder (541) 898-2361

Joe Villagrana Paisley (541) 363-2989

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Jerome Rosa • Jerome.Rosa@orcattle.com OFFICE ADMINISTRATOR

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LEADERSHIP LEDGER AGRICULTURE “DOWN UNDER” IN NEW ZEALAND

by OCA President-Elect Tom Sharp

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The day after finishing OCA’s excellent annual convention in Bend in early December, my wife Pat and I were en route to the Boise Airport to begin a longplanned 17-day tour trip of the “clean and green” country of New Zealand where that country’s summer season was about to begin.

Slightly larger than Oregon, New Zealand has a land area of 66 million acres versus Oregon’s 62 million acres and a population of 4.8 million people versus Oregon’s 4.2 million. Likewise, the 45th parallel south runs through New Zealand while the 45th parallel north crosses Oregon for which vineyards in both areas (Oregon’s Willamette Valley and New Zealand’s Otago Region) attribute their success for their pinot noir appellations. And somewhat similarly, annual precipitations vary widely in both Oregon and New Zealand with some coastal areas receiving more than 200 inches of precipitation, and some arid areas receiving less than 10 inches of precipitation annually.

Unlike Oregon, New Zealand’s land area is composed of two major islands surrounded by ocean and sea, resulting in New Zealand receiving significantly higher overall amounts of average annual precipitation and more moderate seasonal temperatures as compared to Oregon.

These advantages in climate and precipitation as compared to Oregon’s are what has driven New Zealand’s agricultural industry and specifically the sectors of dairy products, beef, lamb and wool to represent New Zealand’s No. 1 economy and export product sector to

its top five respective markets of China, United States, United Arab Emirates, Australia and Japan. Perhaps less surprisingly, tourism next represents New Zealand’s No. 2 economic driver which is often combined with the country’s agribusiness amongst producers who provide (for visitor entrance fee) interesting “on the farm” experiences for its international tourists.

This marketing technique effectively helps showcase New Zealand’s various agriproducts while cleverly helping to stimulate the visitor’s desire and preference for New Zealand product exports. And I think it’s effective!

New Zealanders (Kiwis, as they are called) are very socially friendly and approachable people that are easy to like, and they are very proud – but not bragging – of their agricultural roots and produced product quality.

With significantly higher livestock population numbers than Oregon, New Zealand currently has greater than 10 million head of cattle: dairy cows (6.7 million) and beef cattle (3.7 million). And not surprisingly, almost 30 million sheep (meat and wool) which is actually down from almost 70 million sheep in the country’s peak during the 1980s. Dairy products are New Zealand’s top export sector totaling almost $12 Billion (in U.S. dollars) in the 2017-18 year – largely to China led by whole milk powder (US$4.1B), butter (US$1.5B), cheese (US$1.4B), infant formula (US$.9B), and skim milk powder (US$.8B).

Good herding dogs are valuable and extensively used to gather and pen.

Dairy products from 6.7 million dairy cows are New Zealand’s #1 economic sector and export commodity.

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arthritis in the younger calves and can be transmitted through direct contact of hosts or secondary through water, food or other vectors.

The source of this disease introduction into New Zealand is still unknown but suspected through semen or embryo transfers coming from outside the country or possibly from infected cattle brought illegally into New Zealand without required EID tracking from another country source (Australia is a suspect). Unfortunately, this incident has demonstrated a breach of compliance with New Zealand’s EID tagging and cattle ownership movement tracking requirements as intended to mitigate such herd biosecurity detection.

In 2018, new government laws were passed toughening both the requirements and penalties upon New Zealand’s cattle owners for non-compliance. And since detection of the m.bovine disease is only effective at the herd rather than individual cow level the New Zealand government has ordered the eradication (slaughter) of over 150,000 cows in efforts to eliminate this disease from its cattle herds. When we visited the dairy farm, I asked the owner what it cost to EID ear tag his cows and he said approximately US$2 per head and he fully supported the government’s requirement for cattle EIDs. I could continue and tell more learnings experienced with New Zealand’s use of Compound 1080 lethal pesticides to eradicate small predators (like rats, weasels and possums) and how no large predators like coyotes, wolves, bears or even snakes naturally exist within New Zealand therefore enabling high lambing and calving success rates without fear of predator losses. But I’ll close for now and simply say that I would highly recommend New Zealand be added to any U.S. rancher’s bucket list of places to visit. It’s a beautiful country with eye opening differences to learn about, and a great place for any cow to graze!

During the 2017-18 market year, New Zealand red meat exports (beef and lamb) grew 21 percent from the previous year totaling US$4.8 Billion (with China overtaking the US as the major New Zealand export market).

Because of New Zealand’s favorable climate of precipitation and temperatures greater than 90 percent of the country’s livestock grazing occurs on pastures utilizing rotational grazing over a nearly 10-month grass growing year. Consequently, organically grown dairy products and grass-fed beef products are predominant.

As example, we visited a small (130-acre) family owned organic dairy farm near Rotorua on New Zealand’s North Island that stocked 150 (mostly Holstein) dairy cows that were rotated each day to one of 32 available fenced pasture paddocks (each with watering troughs) utilized for grazing. Manure management was said not to be an issue because of the cow’s rotational pasture area distribution for waste matter decomposition.

Cow feeding efficiency with the available pasture grass regrowth throughout most of the year was said to result in a low stress environment, available resting time, and high milk production during each of the cow’s 12-hour milking intervals.

Beef cattle were also predominantly grazed on pasture on a grass-fed diet. Few New Zealand beef cattle are grain finished because of the added higher producer expenses required to provide grain products and because of the most-of-the-year availability of ample green pastures which typically provide a naturally tender New Zealand beef product. Beef cattle are often grazed in the hill country of New Zealand and mixed together with the sheep herds. Interestingly, the producers will often combine both beef and sheep operations together and then make inventory adjustments according to market demand dynamics and to optimize their income according to favorable market price differences.

Since dairy and beef products represent New Zealand’s leading agricultural exports, biosecurity of the more than 10 million head of cattle within New Zealand is of highest importance to the national government, international market protection and economic gross domestic product.

In 2012, the parliament government of New Zealand passed law requiring that all cattle (both dairy and beef) be tagged with electronic ID (EID) tags. The primary data to be managed, recorded onto, and readable from the EID is livestock owner identification and livestock location change if livestock is sold or transferred to a new owner.

In July, 2017 a bovine bacterial disease outbreak named “Mycoplasma bovis” (m. bovine) was detected within New Zealand. This disease affects primarily Tom and Pat’s New Zealand tour included a visit to Hokitika dairy cows with symptoms of mastitis, pneumonia and on the west coast and the Tasman Sea 10

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PAST OCA PRESIDENTS

John O’Keeffe, Ray Sessler, Curtis Martin, Bill Hoyt, Bill Moore, Sharon Livingston, Coy Cowart, Bob M. Skinner, John Hays, Sharon Beck, Fred Otley, Mack Birkmeyer, Lynn Lundquist, Don Gomes, Bill Wolfe, Robert H. Skinner, Louis Randall, Sam Dement, Ray French, William Ross, Bert Hawkins, Ernie Davis, Charlie Otley, Fred Phillips, Denny Jones, Larry Williams, Bill Marshall, Walt Schrock, Don Hotchkiss, Irvin Mann, Jr., Kent Magruder, George Russell, Garland Meador, J.C. Cecil, William Kittridge, Harry Stearns, O.J. Hotchkiss, Sherman Guttridge, Herbert Chandler, Wayne Stewart, Warren Snider, Herman Oliver, William Steward, Fred Phillips, W.A. Pollman

OCA COMMITTEE LEADERSHIP

ANIMAL HEALTH & BRAND COMMITTEE

John Flynn, Lakeview.......................(541) 947-4534 ASSOCIATE COUNCIL

Greg Roush, La Pine........................(541) 954-6397 BEEF CATTLE IMPROVEMENT COMMITTEE

Jon Elliott, Medford...........................(541) 601-5622 ENDANGERED SPECIES COMMITTEE

Tom Sharp, Burns.............................(541) 589-3317 LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE

Nathan Jackson, Myrtle Creek.........(541) 591-2758 MARKETING COMMITTEE

Zach Wilson, North Powder..............(541) 898-2288 MEMBERSHIP COMMITTEE

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Craig Herman, Bandon.....................(503) 347-0699 PUBLIC LANDS COMMITTEE

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Matt McElligott, North Powder..........(541) 805-8210

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Stephenson Herefords, Salmon, Idaho Sullivan Herefords, Stanfield, Ore. TDF Cattle Co., Connell, Wash.

Tonne Cattle Co., Ephrata, Wash.

Wilcox & Family Cattle Co., Spangle, Wash.

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Mary Woodworth, Adel.....................(541) 219-0245 WATER RESOURCES COMMITTEE

Curtis Martin, North Powder.............(541) 962-9269 WILDLIFE COMMITTEE

Dennis Sheehy, Wallowa.................(541) 398-0224

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Keith Nantz, Maupin.........................(541) 910-5179 Alec Oliver, Seneca..........................(541) 620-4098

Auctioneer: C.D. “Butch” Booker

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OCA YOUNG CATTLEMEN’S COMMITTEE

70 bulls Horned and Polled, 8 pens of 3 commercial replacement heifers

74 Livestock, New Plymouth, Idaho Barry Ranches, Madras, Ore. Bird Herefords, Halfway, Ore. CBA Livestock, Tonasket, Wash.

Cox Herefords, Jefferson, Ore. CX Ranch, Pomeroy, Wash.

Gohr Cattle Co., Madras, Ore. Ruben and Amanda Harris, Echo, Ore.

Co-Chair Rusty Inglis, Princeton...................... (541) 493-2117 Co-Chair Myron Miles, North Powder..............(541) 898-2140

WOLF TASK COMMITTEE

Western Region, Veril Nelson...........(541) 643-9759 Eastern Region, Roger Huffman......(541) 805-1617 Hereford.org

Friday February 22nd, 2019 1 pm Green Spot Arena, Madras Oregon RANCH BRONC to follow 6 PM Offering 130 Charolais Bulls: 100-15 month old Fall Yearling Bulls 10 of Which are Charolais, Red Angus Composite “Range Fire Bulls” 30 Spring Coming 2 Year Old Charolais Bulls

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NOTEWORTHY NEWS FROM THE CAPITOL STEM CELL-CULTURED PROTEIN

by Executive Director Jerome Rosa pleasure to have Curtis Martin, a former president of our By now many of you have heard about the new association and Oregon Beef Council Chief Executive polarizing product that is being referred to by many Officer Will Wise in attendance to help answer the many different terms such as: Animal-free meat, in vitro meat, cell-cultured protein, questions that were asked by the group. I also discussed artificial meat, fake meat, clean meat, non-meat or artificial a legislative concept that OCA is working on with Sen. Bill Hansell (SD 29, Athena) regarding these kinds of muscle protein are a few of the terms used to describe immitation products. this new product. Unfortunately, much of the process to Speaking of the upcoming legislative session, OCA manufacture this product is proprietary information. One thing that generally is agreed upon by those in our industry has a very aggressive set of bills that we are proposing, and we will be contacting some of you and asking you to please is: DO NOT REFER TO THIS PRODUCT AS MEAT OR come to Salem and testify. Legislators see our legislative BEEF. Some of what we know about the product, according to advocate Rocky Dallum and I daily in the capitol ,so bringing in ranchers from around the state really helps our the Genetic Literacy Project, is that stem cells from living effectiveness. animals are expanded in a BIOREACTOR (a bioreactor Our next quarterly meeting is March 28 and 29 in used for carrying out chemical processes). These cells are Salem.

We hope you will be there to discuss and learn fed nutrients in a growth medium containing such things about some of the imporant issues beef producers in our as; glucose, synthetic amino acids, ANTIBIOTICS, fetal state are facing. bovine serum, horse serum and chicken embryo extract.

It is reported that more than 90 percent of the beef in the U.S. is processed by four large packers and unfortunately, two of these packers have invested millions of dollars into this product, which with new technological break throughs is price-competitive with real meat. We have heard reports that this product may be in grocery stores before the end of 2019. If you’d like a closer look at this product, you can go to Youtube and search “Tasting the World’s First Test Tube Steak,” for an interesting and unappealing example.

So, what is being done to make sure this product is being accurately labeled and inspected? Recently, it was decided on the Federal Level to have both Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and U.S. Department of Agriculture (UDSA) provide oversight on the product.

In early January, I did a presentation to the Oregon Tammy Dennee, legislative director, Oregon Dairy Farmers Food Advisory Committee which provides feedback to Association (left) with Jerome Rosa and Val Hoyle at Hoyle’s the department about the Food Safety Program. It was a swearing in ceremony as the new Oregon Labor Commissioner.

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NICE TO MEET YOU DISTRICT 3 VP ANDY VANDERPLAAT

During the 2018 Annual Convention, Andy Vanderplaat was elected to the position of District 3 Regional Vice President, replacing Steve Puntenney.

District 3 encompasses Wasco, Sherman, Gilliam, Morrow and Umatilla counties. Regional Vice Presidents are a link between county membership and statewide communication and Andy will do an excellent job of facilitating the needs of his region’s members.

As an OCA member for more than 20 years, I am excited to give back to a cause I genuinely believe in. I decided to step into this role for District 3 because I believe OCA represents all beef producers in the state, whether or not they are members. The Oregon Cattlemen’s Association is the only organization that speaks specifically for the beef industry’s issues and concerns and it’s important those who are involved in the industry participate and support it.

I grew up in Oregon City and now live on irrigated acreage south of Pendleton. My wife, Karen and I started our small cow-calf herd after we got married over 40 years ago. With my job at Northwest Farm Credit Services, we moved, but still maintained the herd,

mostly raising 4-H and FFA calves.

When we moved to Pendleton, we began leasing the herd to our daughter Amy and her husband, Ryan. Today, we occasionally fatten calves for customers who want natural grass-raised, grainfinished beef.

Right now, an industry issue that I believe is important, is improving the image of our producers in the public’s eye and educating them as to the benefits beef producers provide to our economy and environment. I’m also interested in how we can improve the profitability for producers through improved financial marketing tools.

My goal for 2019 is to get to know the county presidents and their members. I want to go to their meetings and hear their concerns and issues. Long term, I want to increase membership, communication, and engagement for the members of District 3.

Karen and I have two daughters. Amy and Ryan Raymond have two sons they are raising on the ranch in Helix. They own and manage a successful registered Angus and cow-calf operation, Rollin’ Rock Angus.

Abby and Jason Graybeal live in Pendleton with two daughters and they just started their own herd this past year. I enjoy spending

Andy and Karen Vanderplaat with grandsons Pace and Colter and granddaughters Emma and Miller.

time with my family, working, and traveling a bit. We are OSU Beaver Alumni and enjoy watching Beaver sports, particularly baseball.

Over the past 40 years, I have worked with Northwest Farm Credit Services financing farmers and ranchers. Our family is passionate about agriculture and rural Oregon.

I’d like to thank OCA and its membership for this opportunity because it’s important for me and my family to contribute to the beef industry. Steve Puntenney did a great job in District 3 and I want to continue his effort to represent our producers and their concerns.

I believe the best way to contribute is to participate.

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LEGISLATIVE LIAISON BACK IN SESSION: WHAT IS AHEAD FOR OCA

by Rocky Dallum

Oregon’s 2019 legislative session kicked off on January 14, bringing a fresh crop of new faces and some musical chairs as several committee and party leadership positions changed as we kicked off session. While overall, the balance of power hasn’t changed, stronger Democratic majorities and several key leadership positions will make for a few interesting new dynamics in the legislature this year.

Democrats holding supermajorities in each chamber will certainly dictate the major decisions and storylines in 2019. The House Democrats 38 member majority may be the largest ever in Oregon. On the Senate side, the Democrats hold 18 seats, meaning every Democrat’s vote will be needed to approve tax increases. Senator Betsy Johnson (D-Scappoose), a long-time champion for ag and natural resource industries, is known for taking independent stances regardless of party lines and will likely be the key vote on any revenue raising measure.

On the leadership front, the presiding officers, Senate President Peter Courtney and Speaker Tina Kotek remain the same. Republicans elected new leaders on both sides of the building. OCA member Herman Baertschiger (R-Grants Pass) takes the helm as the Senate Minority leader and will continue to advocate on behalf of and hold an open door to ranchers in the Capitol. Representative Carl Wilson (R-Grants Pass) takes over as the House Minority Leader.

Turnover continues as a major theme as many new members will be learning the legislative process. In the House, eleven of the 60 members will be new, with several others serving their first “long” session after being appointed during the last cycle. On the Senate side, where there’s typically less turnover, two new members were sworn in and two others will start their first full terms as well.

Oregon’s march towards better gender balance in state politics continues as a record 28 house seats are now held by women, including new members (both Republican and Democrat) from Central and Southern Oregon, the Willamette Valley and the Gorge. Val Hoyle became our 18

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Labor Commissioner last month and women now hold three of the five statewide elective offices.

The Legislature also will feature new chairs holding the most important gavels outside the Senate and House floors. Three (instead of the traditional two) new faces will lead the budget writing Ways & Means Committee.

For the first time, the Senate will have two budget writing chiefs as the Senate President appointed Senator Johnson and Senator Elizabeth Steiner Hayward (D-Northwest Portland) to share the role of Senate Ways & Means “Coco-chairs.” Democrat Dan Rayfield, an attorney from Corvallis, steps in as Ways & Means Co-Chair for the House of Representatives. He takes that position from Nancy Nathanson (D-Eugene) who now will lead the House Revenue committee, the key House committee charged with reviewing new tax measures and policy.

Conversely, not much will change with policy committees OCA works with, allowing us to continue to work with the same leaders we’ve developed relationships with over the past few cycles. In the House, Brian Clem (D-Salem) continues to lead the Agriculture Committee, Brad Witt (D-Clatskanie) chairs the Natural Resources Committee, and Ken Helm (D-Beaverton) chairs the Energy and Environment Committee. In the Senate, Michael Dembrow (D-NE Portland) keeps his gavel as the Environment and Natural Resources Chair. Notably, given the focus on carbon policy, Senator Dembrow will also chair a joint Carbon Reduction committee with Senator Cliff Bentz as vice co-chair. Senator Bentz will provide a powerful and knowledgeable voice for ag stakeholders in the carbon discussions.

Governor Brown’s office’s natural resources staff remains the same and has shown a willingness to seek feedback and discuss OCA issues.

The new political environment will provide many challenges for agriculture, natural resources, and the business community at-large. OCA will continue to work with leadership and is fortunate to have several tireless advocates on both sides of the aisle, and in leadership positions, to address our concerns as the session develops.

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TAX CODE UPDATES IMPACTING YOU

by Robin Pickard, LTP, Athena Income Tax

While rules change within the tax code from year to year, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act is being considered as the largest overhaul in the American Tax code since 1986. While change is not always a bad thing, change does leave a lot of questions and uncertainties. The TCJA biggest appeal is that it is suppose to simplify your tax return. While I agree that for some it may, I feel that for others it will create more of an investment in getting the return filed correctly. That being said I hope that if you’re one that falls in the category of non-simplistic you have already had multiple conversations with your Tax Professional.

One of the biggest areas of uncertainty under the TCJA has been the 20 percent deduction under Section 199A, which took the IRS till August of 2018 to issue proposed regulations to help explain the deduction.

The basis of this deduction is, that those eligible to take a Section 199A deduction include pass-through entities (such as S corporations, LLCs, LPs, GPs, Ect.), sole proprietors, and certain trusts and estates. A basic example would be for someone who owns their own business and made $100,000 in 2018, could potentially get a $20,000 cash-free deduction and only pay tax on the remaining $80,000 of taxable income. As with all tax codes there are exceptions to this rule, so please discuss with a professional.

Farmers, Ranchers, and Small Business owners have hopefully had multiple conversations with their tax professional throughout 2018, as tax planning is, or should be a vital part of your management of the business.

I don’t say this to create more work for myself, but from my professional standpoint I would rather assist you all year long than have you deliver your stuff in February and say here is what I did, then I have to give you the bad news that you could have done something differently to reduce your tax liability.

Going with the theory that you all did a diligent job of having multiple conversations with your tax professional in 2018 you already know that for most business owners there were two avenues you could take your business, first being more income may have been the best advantage to reach the taxable income target for the most advantageous deductions, and the second may be that your business had a better than average year so you might need the advantage of reducing taxable income.

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the year is over now, I need to do some tax planning, don’t fret you still have a few options that may be beneficial to you. One option may be looking long range to your retirement, I know what you’re thinking Farmers and Ranchers don’t retire, I grew up on a cattle ranch I know that you work them forever. However, in this case it may be beneficial to tuck some money away to reduce your tax liability. There are multiple different retirement options available for you to contribute to for the 2018 tax year even though we have moved into 2019. Some will reduce your current year income taxes, there are also nondeductible plans. It is best you consult your tax preparer and a financial advisor for the option that will best fit your needs. A second option is the increase amount of IRC Section 179 expensing to $1 million with an investment limit of $2.5 million. A third option may be the bonus depreciation of 100 percent for new and used depreciable assets purchased in 2018. While there are more options out there it is best to consult with your tax professional what is going to be the best option for you.

All of this talk of the TCJA and how to plan for it accordingly to optimize your business on a Federal level is great, but I think that people are missing the fact that in a state that collects Income Taxes for the most part we aren’t going to see the same changes. I hope that your pre-year-end tax planning took that into consideration as well. I also would say that from a professional standpoint some tax returns will take longer to prepare because of this.

Again, every change has good qualities and bad qualities and the best we can do is roll with them, making the best, most informed decisions we can for our businesses. I highly recommend multiple conversations a year with your team of professionals; tax preparer, financial advisor, and lawyers, in order to keep your business growing and striving year to year. If you don’t have these people in your hip pocket it would be my recommendation that you find people who specialize in ag business, that you feel comfortable with and can openly talk with. I tell most of my clients I have to ask the nosy, personal questions in order to best serve you, so find someone you feel comfortable telling everything to.

Disclaimer: Every tax situation is different and the above article is just a general statement not advice for specific situations.

Jerry Baker: 208.739.3449 Samuel Mahler: 208.739.0475

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STAYING THE COURSE

Oregon Wolf Plan update as OCA holds firm at stakholder table

by OCA Communications Director Robyn Smith Christmas and there was much to discuss in the new year.

It seems a weekly routine, reading about new depredations on livestock in the Capital Press, hearing However, in true fashion, the day before the stakeholder neighbors talk about sightings over breakfast at the meeting, an article on Oregon Live detailed that The local café, and finding ourselves in heated Center for Nelson Biological Diversity, Defenders of Wildlife,

by OCA Wolfconversations Committee Members Veril and Todd Nash about the “wolf problem.” Ranchers are restless without Oregon Wild and Cascadia Wildlands would be pulling answers on this habitual issue, a terror in many rural out of the stakeholder process due to the lack of their communities. When I share an article about wolf attacks recommendations being accepted. on OCA’s Facebook page, the comment, what is the Oregon Mark Bennett, a stakeholder representative for the Cattlemen’s Association doing to fix this problem, becomes Oregon Farm Bureau and Baker County Commissioner, ever more prevalent. says there is a 33 percent average growth rate per year The Oregon Wolf Plan revision was due in 2015, in the wolf population, but even with this growth, the but stakeholders including OCA, ODFW, Defenders of management strategies remain stagnant. The Oregon Wildlife, Oregon Wild, OFB, Oregon Hunter’s Association Cattlemen’s Association and other like-minded groups and Rocky Mountain Elk have failed to find middle ground such as Oregon Farm Bureau, Oregon Hunter’s and Rocky on this plan and here we are, 2019, with no plan in place Mountain Elk refuse to ignore the need for a new system to and no answers for the hardworking citizens of this state. handle the rapidly growing population of wolves.

OCA continues to put ranchers first and refuses to OCA Treasurer Todd Nash has been a vocal ignore these shattering attacks on cattle producers by representative for OCA throughout this stakeholder compromising on a plan that brushes concerns under the process and he says there are three points cattlemen will table. Roger Huffman, OCA’s Wolf Task Force Committee not compromise on in this negotiation: 1) all wolves should Chair from Union, calls the current situation “chronic be collared or tracked; 2) clear management zones should depredation” because multiple attacks are occurring with be created; and 3) local biologists should have control of no response or resolution from ODFW and so the problem lethal take circumstances. Likewise, OCA is pushing for all continues to amplify. non-lethal measurements to be paid for by the government Many of you may have read the Capital Press article because farmers and ranchers should not be responsible for about Ted Birdseye in Jackson county, who awoke on those exorbitant costs on top of their suffered losses. Where New Year’s Day to find an injured, 5-month old calf with is the accountability for farmers and ranchers? Where is two feet of intestines hanging out of its backside. This has the governmental protection for state citizens? It has been become “just another day at the office” for Birdseye as he made clear, through the years, those rights and protections has suffered at least five calf kills and one guard dog kill in are not valued when it comes to wolves.

2018. If Birdseye’s situation is not “chronic depredation” With environmental groups refusing to come to the then what is? table, it’s unclear how ODFW will proceed with stakeholder Birdseye is not permitted to take lethal action recommendations. On Jan. 8, the stakeholder meeting against the wolves who are scarfing down his property went on as planned and the groups that participated gave for supper. The wolves are still federally protected under their final opinions on ODFW’s proposal, which may be the Endangered Species Act along highways 395, 78 and adopted in March. OCA is now focusing on bringing this 95. This is the story for ranchers across the state, some of conversation to Washington, D.C., with the help from whom may face $20,000 or more in losses from wolves in members across the state. a given year. So, the question returns to stakeholders, what If you have suffered property loss or distress as a result are you doing to protect the ranchers of Oregon? of wolves, please write a letter to Oregon Cattlemen’s or The Governor’s office has failed to answer that email me at robyn.smith@orcattle.com. Personal statements question and the monthly stakeholder meetings have only are encouraged because those who have power over the fate been a means to delay the response further. On Jan. 8, a of the Wolf Plan need to hear directly from the people with stakeholder meeting was planned in Portland, a draft of the revamped Wolf Plan from ODFW was sent out before the most at stake.

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TRUMP ISSUES EXECUTIVE ORDER TO DEAL WITH WILDFIRE IN WEST On Dec. 21, Donald J. Trump issued an executive order that expands logging on public lands to curb the devastation caused by wildfires.

The executive order instructs the USDA Secretary and Interior Secretary to consider harvesting a total of 4.4 billion board feet of timber from forest land managed by their agencies on millions of acres, and put it up for sale. The order would translate into a 31 percent increase in forest service logging since 2017.

In addition to removing trees, Trump asked his secretaries to remove forest brush and debris that help fuel fires from more than 4 million acres and treat another 1.5 million acres to control treedestroying pests.

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today praised President Donald J. Trump’s Executive Order, “Promoting Active Management of America’s Forests, Rangelands, and other Federal Lands to Improve

Conditions and Reduce Wildfire Risks”. Perdue issued the following statement: “As we’ve seen in Paradise Valley, California, wildfire can have devastating lasting effects on our people and our towns. More than 70,000 communities and 46 million homes are at risk of catastrophic wildfires. Today, based upon the feedback he received from Federal, State, County, and Tribal leaders, the President outlines a shared vision to make our communities safe. This executive order empowers states and federal land managers to more effectively clear the excessive fuels threatening their homes and businesses. Along with the authorities passed in the 2018 Omnibus and Farm Bills, Congress can further help this effort by passing legislation that gives the USDA Forest Service and Department of the Interior the ability to expedite these sorely needed forest treatments before another Paradise Valley-like fire occurs.”

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Baker County Drew Martin, North Powder.............. (541) 889-5368 Clackamas County Michael Bruck, Milwaukie................. (503) 659-8195 Clatsop County Tim Meier, Birkenfield....................... (503) 791-8258 Crook County Tyler McCormack, Prineville............. (541) 576-2826 Douglas County Kristina Haug, Glide.......................... (360) 747-0172 Gilliam County Tanner McIntosh, Condon................ (541) 910-8682

Grant County Alec Oliver, Seneca........................... (541) 620-4098 Harney County Jeff Maupin, Burns.............. jeffmaupin@icloud.com Jackson County Marty Jackson, Eagle Point.............. (541) 890-7696 Jefferson County Mark Wunsch, Madras...................... (541) 419-9944 Klamath County Terri Bloomfield, Klamath Falls......... (541) 883-3874 Lake County Bret Vickerman..................................(541) 943-3119 Lane County Ron Weiss, Dexter............................ (541) 726-8826 Malheur County Matt Rockwell, Vale...........................(541) 473-4183 Marion County Dwight Cummins, Silverton............... (503) 559-5679

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3. Bulls must ration in top 75% of each breed.

Matt Macfarlane: 916.803.3113 4. Low-Birth EPD for Angus (2.0 BW EPD or less, CED 8 or greater, actual BW 80 or m3cattlemarketing@gmail.com less and BW EPD of 2.0 from both dam and sire). m3cattlemarketing.com 5. All bulls will have individual ultrasound carcass data results.

THD 6. All bulls tested PI-negative for BVD. © 7. Angus and Angus-Composites identified as potential carriers of genetic defects will be identified in the sale catalog.

8. Calving-ease Hereford bulls must have an actual birth weight of 80 lbs. or less, a BW EPD of 2.0 or less and a CED of 2.0 or greater, and both the sire and dam must have a BW EPD of 3.5 or less, based on updated EPDs at the conclusion of the test to quality for the low-birth EPD division.

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by Lane Geiss, Director of Commercial and Nontraditional Data Programs, American Simmental Association

The commercial programs offered by the American Simmental Association (ASA) are an effort to provide genetic tools the largest of theof beef industry— the cattle by to Lane Geiss,sector Director Commercial operations.

These efforts are supported through multiple and Nontraditional Data Programs ASA programs and the world’s largest beef genetic database.

The three pillars to ASA Commercial Programs are the: Total The commercial programs offered Cow

by Herd Herd Enrollment — Commercial option (THE-CM), DNA Roundup (CHR) and the IGS Feeder Profit CalculatorTM the American Simmental Association (ASA) (FPC).

These programs allow commercial producers are an effort to provide genetic tools to the to maximize genetic awareness in their program andcattle to make largest sector of the beef industry— the better management and selection decisions. operations.

These efforts are supported through Each of these programs are designed to offer assistance multiple ASA programs and the world’s most at three management moments in commercial operations; comprehensive beef and genetic database.

Thewill Breeding, Heifer Selection Weaning.

This article briefly into how eachCommercial program functions. threedive pillars to ASA Programs are Total Enrollment — Commercial — Commercial the:Herd Total Herd Enrollment The THE-CM is the basis to Herd these programs and allows Cow DNA Roundup option (THE-CM), participants to capitalize on the true genetic awareness (CHR), and the IGS Feeder Profit Calcula-of their cow herd. This whole-herd reporting program helps torTM (FPC). These programs allow commercial isolate the genetic potential of every female owned. The producers maximize the genetic awareness industry’s best to metric for understanding genetic merit on surrounding their program and to make better individual animals is through an expected progeny difference (EPD).

Simply put, an EPD describes the difference in management and selection decisions. production value for a given trait compared to other cattle.

Each of these programs are designed to offer These are all calculated through pedigree relationships assistance at three key management momentsand performance records — and genomics. Selection indexes Breeding, Heifer in that commercial operations; take a step further by combining economically relevant This article Selection, and Weaning.

EPDs along with industry costs and thresholdswill into a into how each program functions. briefly dive prediction model.

Seedstock breeders undoubtedly use EPDs and selection indexes to make mating decisions. Why shouldn’t commercial producers have the same technology?

62 TALK SIM Follow this link to learn more about THE-CM: www. simmental.org/commercial Cow Herd DNA Roundup The CHR is an opportunity to push the accelerator on

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female genetic awareness. Every cattleman knows which cow is his best producer, but do they know right away which replacements will fill that role? The field of genomics allows us to gain a better understanding of a heifer’s genetic potential even before she produces. This technology uses known regions on the genome that impact economically THE-CM is the foundation these prorelevantThe traits.

For example, longevity into cattle is known grams and allows participants fully acapitalize once they’ve been in production for to almost generation, but producers hope toawareness know that of information on the would true genetic their cowbefore herd. they invest time money in replacements.

Through This is aand whole-herd reporting program thatgenomics, helps we can use known genetic markers to indicate whether a isolate the known genetic potential of every female female may last in the herd longer (or shorter) than others. owned. The industry’s best metric for understandThe CHR provides years of information before you have to is through ingyears genetic merit on individual animals invest of time.

Follow this link to learn more about an expected progeny difference (EPD).

Simply CHR: www.simmental.org/chr put, an EPD describes the difference in production IGS Feeder Profit CalculatorTM value giventwo traitprograms compared other around cattle. the Whilefor theaother areto focused These are all calculated through pedigree relationcow herd, the FPC is centered around where commercial ships and performance recordsinvested — and agenomics producers make ends meet. They’ve lot of time desired.

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They’ve along with management industry costs and thresholds alsoEPDs invested in their protocols to ensure feeder calves they raise will stay healthy and perform in the feedlot. into a prediction model. Seedstock breeders These investments help producers stay profitable undoubtedly use EPDs and selection indexes toand build a more valuable feeder calf, are theircommercial buyers aware make mating decisions.

Whybut shouldn’t of their commitment?

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As opposed to traditional marketing slogans and empty statements let’s provide true awareness. We can Know or Guess. Choose Know.

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OSU PROFESSOR RELEASES CATTLE INDUSTRY BOOK TO BENEFIT COLLEGE STUDENTS

A book authored by Oregon State Professor emeritus has recently been released and is now available on Amazon.com for purchase by the public.

The story begins in 1887, when Grant Purdy began studying cattle pedigrees and purchased his first purebred Shorthorn cow and bull, and follows four generations and 12 members of the Purdy family who shared a love of purebred beef cattle. At the outset, the Purdys were a close-knit family that lived within a few miles of each other and worked together on Purdy Brothers Shorthorns in northwest Missouri. The sudden death of Grant Purdy resulted in the dispersion of Purdy Brothers Shorthorns, and the subsequent farm depression eventually led all of the family members interested in purebred beef cattle to leave Missouri for other parts of the United States.

The second and third generations served as herdsmen and managers on “model farms” and for wealthy owners of purebred herds. Through this migration, the family impacted Hereford cattle in Michigan and was heavily involved in the growth of Polled Herefords in the midsouth and southeastern United States.

The book also tells the story of the two third- and fourth-generation family members who became college professors specializing in beef cattle and passed on the “Purdy way.” The people they trained and advised include many of the most influential cattle people of the late 20th and early 21st centuries, including one U.S. president. One chapter serves as a biography of the best-known member of the family, Herman Purdy. Professor Purdy served as a consultant to many of the top purebred herds from 1950 until his death in 1985 and was the most influential beef cattle judge of the late 20th century. At the Pennsylvania State University, Herman developed the country’s most successful university-exhibited beef cattle show string.

Finally, the book details the history of beef production in the United States for the past 130 years, from a time when cattle shows were the primary way to influence type and merchandize cattle, through the gradual shift to measurement of performance traits,

and finally to genetic evaluation of cattle. Along the way, the Purdy family history encapsulates the history of the major national livestock shows: The National Cattle Show in Kansas City, which became the American Royal; the International Livestock Show at the Chicago Stockyards; and the North American International Livestock Exposition in Louisville, Kentucky. The influences of World Wars, economic depression, and serious animal health diseases are also part of the Purdy family cattle history.

The book is available on Amazon.com (https:// www.amazon.com/ dp/1723967653). Dr. Males is donating all income from the sale of the book to support scholarships.

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PUBLIC LANDS MESSAGE WORK FALLS TO WAYSIDE AS GOVERNMENT SHUTS DOWN

by Matt McElligott

It’s January 11 and the new 116th Congress has been in session for over a week. So far 10 days of nothing! The government has been virtually on lock down because of the budget impasse. My sincere hope is that by the time this reaches your mail box this whole charade is behind us.

If not, this shut down will begin to affect us all.

Many rural communities throughout the West are heavily dependent on the incomes of government employees, and the work they do. Because so much of the land that surrounds us is owned by the federal government. Those employees who are furloughed, many of which are our daughters, sons, wives, husbands or parents will soon realize that this extended vacation is not much fun!

Schools will not receive their PLT payments, greatly impacting their strained budgets. Cities with USDA grant or loan projects to update their sewer or water systems must stop. Farm and ranch purchases that are using FSA loans will not close. Nutrition service programs that help those less fortunate than you and I have been shuddered just as the dead of winter sets in.

Why, you ask, has it come to this? Because Washington politics have become so polarizing.

There is no compromise. Unlike your kids T-ball team, there are no participation ribbons given in Washington, D.C., only winners or losers. Those that do lose look for the opportunity to punish the winners at all cost. We are in an era of “an eye for an eye” politics. How did we get here, and who is to blame? We all are. In a Democracy the people of the democracy have all the power to guide and direct it. Yet we have become as polarized as the politicians we elect. We listen to, watch or read our favorite news casts, you know the people that we believe. The ones that think like we do. No need to listen to the other viewpoints, because they are wrong, they are the losers.

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be given. Biological assessments and Biological opinions can’t be written, or objected to. This will adversely affect turn out on BLM and Forest Service ground. NRSC programs like CRP and CSP are frozen. All projects on BLM and Forest Service land has stopped and is backlogging. The government will fully fund in due time, it always does, but now is a good time to reflect and ask ourselves, who are the winners?

Speaking of winners and losers, the Farm bill was passed in the last days of the 115th Congress. Winners; grain farmers and nutrition programs. Losers; those that use the forest and communities that are surrounded by National Forests.

Bills like this are formulated by the House and by the Senate. It seems in isolation of each other. They then confer, thus comparing each other’s bill and agreeing on final language. The House version had many things that we had lobbied for that were good for grazers and their intertwined rural communities. Many of them were categorical exclusions (CE) to expedite recovery or resolution. ...CONTINUED ON PAGE 36

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...CONTINUED FROM PAGE 34 A CE can be used to circumvent the NEPA process if the action is deemed to not adversely affect a listed species, plant or animal. NEPA is an environmental analysis of an action.

Such as developing a spring and piping it into a trough to provide livestock and wildlife fresh clean water away from a stream. It seems like common sense to develop off stream watering sources.

Yet, currently, this action requires an environmental analysis. These take time, sometimes years. They also are expensive.

The house version had greater than 10 provisions that granted CEs for better forest management. These were all thrown out in conference.

From simple things like removing hazardous trees, to salvage operations after a catastrophic event, like a fire or a flood. Vacant grazing allotments were to be made available to a current permittee in the case of a natural disaster or a court-issued injunction without the need for NEPA. That also was deleted. Most disturbing is that the Watershed Condition Framework was included in this bill. This provision requires the Secretary of Ag to establish and maintain a WCF for National Forest lands and develop a watershed protection and restoration action plan for priority watersheds. We at PLC feel this is a waste of resources, manpower and time.

The Farm bill needed passed, but for a lot of Oregon communities it will not bring the much-needed economic relief we had all worked and hoped for.

On another front, in December, Senator Wyden passed out of committee a new Wildlands bill, S.1548, called the Oregon Wildlands Act. This bill was not signed into law, if it had been it would have created 86,000 acres of new Wilderness in Oregon. Nearly 120,000 acres of new National Recreation area and almost 250 miles of new Wild and Scenic Rivers. Luckily it was not ratified into law. I fully expect this to be reintroduced this year. If you don’t think we need more wilderness let your elected officials know now. Bills like this will be the norm for the next two years so keep your eyes and ears open.

May your calving go well and don’t forget about that one cow that always tries to eat your lunch right after she calves. Be a winner, tag that calf in the branding pen.

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READY, SET, GO! HERE’S TO A SUCCESSFUL CALVING SEASON

by OCA Beef Improvement Committee Chair Jon C. Elliott

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ost of us calve in the February through April window. We have all heard the advice that we should change our calving season so the cows are on good grass when they calve. That may work for pasture based operations that keep their calves, but it probably isn’t going to work for operations that turn out onto range in April or May, and for those that sell calves.

In our area where we are mainly grazing irrigated pasture or are on oak woodland or oak/pine/fir transition zones, spring rains usually delay turnout until about May, when we can turn out without making mud. If we started calving in May we would finish up in July. By November, when we normally sell calves, these May/June calves would be about three months younger than the normal February/March calves would be, and they would reflect the weight of three months younger calves. If we waited three months to sell them, we would have to feed them for about two of those months. We lose the option to sell them as weaned calves with a similar weight as we sell now unless we want to feed them for two months. If we wanted to keep them through the next summer as yearlings, they could nearly catch up with spring calved yearlings.

I have thought about going to fall calving, but that would put our calves on the ground not too long before we have to start feeding hay and they would be big and old enough to wean by the time we turned out in the spring. There’s pretty good data that shows you are better off feeding harvested feed separately to cows and bigger calves rather than feeding the cow enough for her to sustain herself and make milk for the calf.

If you are interested in early weaning you might think about calving in July and August and then weaning them all about 90 days after the last calf is born; ideally about 10 days after you start feeding so the calves can learn about bunks or panels or hay on the ground or processed feed, and about watering devices and people being around and machinery before they have to go it alone.

This process, of course, means that you will probably keep your calves through the next grazing season, or you might be interested in retaining ownership into the feedlot. If that’s the case, they could go as soon as you wanted to ship them.

It isn’t unheard of to put 500-pound steers in the feedlot and feed them for 200+ days, especially when the price of corn is low and the futures market predicts a reasonable price for slaughter steers when they’re due to be finished. A comparison of the cost of gain that you can put on at home and their value as yearlings with the cost of gain in the feedlot and their value as slaughter steers will help you with this decision.

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The idea of spring calving didn’t just fall out of the sky.

(There’s a 1980s story about several ranchers visiting. One asked the others when they put their bulls in. The answers were pretty uniform about the first week of May, except one. He said, “It was 1947 but I don’t remember the month.”) Once the idea of big, central feedlots proved profitable it immediately became important to provide relatively uniform bunches of steers and heifers to be fed as groups. That was before the time when those who know started telling us that feeding hay is unnecessary and too costly. Calves aren’t ready to be weaned until they are at least 90 days old and weigh about 300 lbs. and before about 1960, most calves were considerably older when they were weaned.

For a calf to be old enough and big enough to wean before the cows went on hay meant that it needed to be on the ground before early April. If the calves were to be branded before turnout, they needed to be about five or six weeks old.

For the cows to flush and be cycling the bulls were best put in about two weeks after the cows were turned out, which was usually late April or the first of May. (Flushing is the term used when cows or sheep are put on an improved plain of nutrition which helps to initiate estrus.)

If you put the bulls in during the second week of May, you get calves about the first of February which are then big enough to wean before the cows go back on hay. Spring calving was born. And it’s still a good and practical idea for most operations despite what we hear from smart people.

In February, most cows are at home where you can see them rather than on a 30,000-acre pasture or off in the trees somewhere. You can watch and help if that’s needed and you can tag the calves. The calves also get habituated to hay and feed bunks or panels or windrows on the ground, and to waterers rather than open canals or creeks or big troughs. The calves usually also get separated once or twice for branding and for mom to be worked, and at least some of them get trailed or hauled. All of these things pay off when the calves are weaned or moved to a new place where their familiarity with various feeds and water sources and the presence of people and machines helps to keep the stress levels down.

Wherever and whenever you calve, there are preparations to be made. For smaller operations, calving cows and heifers together may be the only option available or it may be just as effective as separating them. I think that most bigger

operations feed their heifers separately anyway, so calving cows and heifers separately is a natural extension of that.

We have come a long way since the days before calving ease bulls, but calving heifers separately is probably still a good idea. And calving heifers where they can have a little privacy is also a good idea. Heifers are somehow programmed to be mothers, but the process is sometimes painful to watch and it seems to go better if there aren’t a dozen other calvy heifers standing by and thinking that maybe they should be the mom of this calf.

The normal process I am familiar with and have followed for a long time is that the heifers are together and as they get close to calving they are moved to another field or big pen (but still close enough that help can be provided if necessary) until they calve. Then they and their calf are moved to another pasture where they stay until branding.

After branding, they are or are not comingled with cow pairs until turnout. The cows are treated similarly but in different fields. As the yet to calve heifer bunch and the yet to calve cow bunch get smaller than the pairs bunch, the yet to calve bunch may itself move through the various fields or pens as it diminishes and the pairs bunch grows.

There’s advice now that this process is wrong, especially with regard to calf scours control. The preferred way is to move the cows and leave the pairs behind. I haven’t thought this process through very well, but it doesn’t seem that it would work on our place. We take about nine weeks to calve.

Even if we moved dry cows and dry heifers only once each week, we would need 18 fields or pens. We don’t have that number available.

If any of you have been able to make this process of moving the dry cows rather than the pairs work, I’d like to hear about it. The logic seems good. If you leave the pairs behind, if scours starts in that bunch it won’t automatically be jeopardizing the other calves, both those yet to be born and those already born and left behind earlier. I’ve tried to figure out how to provide that many places, but we simply don’t have that capability.

Regardless of how you move cows and heifers and pairs around, your preparations should include that everyone involved knows what goes where. We find it pretty easy to move one pair at a time, sometimes just hours after the calf is born, and usually through just one gate into a field where there is more room. We also haul flakes of hay to new pairs after we move them, which helps mom to stay away from the bunch and with her calf for those first critical hours. We have even hauled water to heifers and their calves. Two five gallon cans and an empty lick tub work fine. If we can give, especially heifers, a single day pretty much by herself with her calf, they both seem to do better.

The process you use for new calves should also be well rehearsed by everyone involved. We ear tag newborn calves with color coded and numbered tags with a different color for heifer and steer calves and with the heifer calves using consecutive odd numbers and the steer calves using the even numbers. That allows for tags to be made up in advance while still keeping an almost consecutive number order that indicates the calf ’s relative age.

We also use elastrator bands on the bull calves, usually within a few hours of birth and sometimes within about half an hour. Until 10 or more years ago we also gave each newborn a Bo-Se injection since we have a selenium

deficiency in our area. We also gave the cows a Mu-Se injection when we worked them in the fall and again in the spring. We stopped doing that after reading research that reported that injecting selenium does no good because the material isn’t metabolized into serum selenium that can be utilized. We replaced those injections by adding elevated levels of selenium to our trace mineral package which the cows get free choice all year. We don’t see any white muscle disease.

With most of our cows we can simply grab the newborn calf and apply the ear tag and the band while mom doesn’t present any problems for our safety, even if she sometimes has her face right in our face. But with a few of our cows, caution is required. Those of you that have heard Baxter Black’s tale of the cow coming into the cab of the truck to kill him and to get her calf back will know what I’m talking about. We know who most of these cows are and it’s rare that a cow won’t warn you before she tries to kill you. At any rate, it’s just smart to take precautions around cows and their newborn calves, which should include keeping kids and guests and dogs away from them.

I think everybody misses a string now and then. With a bunch of dry cows the stray strings can usually be found later just lying on the ground or in the bunk or panel ring. But with little, and even bigger, calves baling twine can be deadly.

An interesting piece of trivia about cattle is that they can’t (or at least don’t) spit. If a cow gets something in its mouth that it doesn’t want there, it tries to just let it fall out, it doesn’t actively try to eject it. Young calves can chew up a length of twine like it was spaghetti and sometimes they swallow it before the loose end catches on something or they step on it or they lose interest and let the ball they’ve made fall out.

Especially in fields or pens where there are new calves, it pays to keep an eye out for stray lengths of twine.

Now more than ever over the past 50 years, we all need to be aware of predators around the cattle and especially around new calves. Coyotes can sometimes be a problem if a bunch of them are allowed to accumulate around the calving grounds. Usually, though, they don’t pose a threat. Everyone has a few cougars around to be aware of, but unless your local cougars are more aggressive than ours, they usually don’t cause a problem.

We have, as I’m told everyone now has, a pretty big bear population. I’m aware of only one incident on our place when an employee watched a bear drag a calf carcass across an irrigated pasture toward the tree line. We never figured out what killed the calf or if the bear was involved in the killing or was just claiming the carcass. We had problems with eagles once many years ago when everything had been frozen over for several weeks. The eagles would attack as the calves were being delivered. The problem only lasted for a day or two.

That leaves the wolves. One or possibly two packs that roam around the Jackson/Klamath county line have raised havoc with one particular herd and have been implicated in several other deaths and are strongly suspected in several others this fall. So it isn’t just the northeastern counties that are experiencing wolf problems and at least there theESA doesn’t strictly apply. I think we all know by now that wolves will cover the state in a few more years. Our constant vigilance is called for and we are going to have to ...CONTINUED ON PAGE 40

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muscle are unfeeling and unnecessary. I know that calf tables are hated by many, but in many cases, they’re safer for both the cattle and the people.

Some of you have been calving and working calves pretty much the same way for your whole life and some of you are new or nearly new to this annual renewal. Regardless, if watching a bunch of young, healthy calves frolicking on a sunny spring day isn’t one of the highlights of your year, you may be in the wrong profession. These marvelous animals have short lives. I think we are obligated to respect them and to do our best to make their lives as healthy and stress free as possible.

work with ODFW and USFWS through OCA, our county commissioners, our congressional delegation and whoever else we can think of that might help with this problem. This article isn’t meant to be political. It’s important though to remember that as a group we simply don’t have the votes to resolve the wolf problem. We, each of us, need to be ready and willing to educate anyone who will listen to our plight.

Rants aren’t going to help much. We need to develop simple, straight forward narratives that expose the wolf for what it is and to debunk the feeling among many that wolves are just another lovable wild animal.

Most western Oregon ranches no longer brand calves, while nearly all eastern Oregon operations of 75 Angus Long-yearlings & yearlings Sell any size brand all of their calves.

Hot iron branding is criticized for being inhumane, especially because Klamath Falls, Oregon it causes a third degree burn without any pain mitigation. We have stopped branding calves and we now brand only replacement heifers and new breeding bulls.

We do use ear tags on all of our calves.

I think that DNA testing could resolve ownership issues if it came to that. I’m not suggesting that anyone else do this or that it’s any less painful for a replacement heifer to be branded than it is for a sixSale 1 p.m.

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THE OREGON BEEF COUNCIL TODAY THE NIKU BOOM

by Oregon Beef Council Chief Executive Officer Will Wise My friend Tazuko Hijikata is the Consumer Affairs Senior Manager for the U.S. Meat Export Federation (USMEF) office in Tokyo. When she gave her presentation at the USMEF Strategic Planning meeting in Long Beach in November, I perked up because her evaluations of the beef market in Japan are always worthwhile.

This year her message was the fact that there is a Niku Boom taking place in Japan and elsewhere in our Asian markets. Niku means “meat” in Japanese. So the Niku Boom is the rewarding market expansion we are enjoying in that part of the world.

I used one of Tazuko-san’s slides in the Oregon Beef Council board meeting held during the Oregon Cattlemen’s Association annual convention in Bend in December. The board members liked the concept and there was consensus that our export development work with USMEF was among the best things we fund each year.

When I joined the Oregon Beef Council there was less than $2 billion worth of U.S. beef exports that year. Almost a decade later, Japan alone accounts for more than that! In fact, we saw beef exports jump to over $8 billion in 2018. And as noted, it is not just Japan, but other Asian markets that added together are leading the boom in sales.

This is good news for Oregon and U.S. beef producers. For January through October 2018, exports accounted for 13.5 percent of total production and 11.1 percent for muscle cuts – up from 12.8 percent and 10.2 percent, respectively, in that period in 2017. Beef export value equated to $317.53 per head of fed slaughter in October, up 5 percent from a year ago. For January through October, 42

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the per-head average was up 15 percent to $320.50.

“Demand for U.S. beef continues to climb in nearly every region of the world, with annual records falling in some markets,” said Dan Halstrom, USMEF president and CEO. “Per-head export value also easily set a new record in 2018, which illustrates the strong returns exports are delivering for cattle producers and for the entire supply chain. We will be over $ 8.0 billion in Global Beef Sales for 2018 which is a new record and on a per head basis we are running currently (JanOctober 2018 ) at $320/ head.”

What is Oregon doing to ride this wave? We are continuing our regional effort in Japan with our neighboring state beef councils. This is a program called the Pacific Northwest Initiative, or PNI. USMEF Vice President Greg Hanes coordinates funding and strategic planning for the Idaho Beef Council, the Oregon Beef Council and the Washington State Beef Commission. We execute the PNI program jointly with the USMEF office in Tokyo. That means that our region

is involved directly with some of the most highly professional marketing minds possible to support growth of beef exports to Japan from the Pacific Northwest.

TK Kuwahara, who is the Executive Director for the Idaho Beef Council, has a long history of working in Asia and has talked to the Oregon Beef Council about ways to leverage our efforts in Japan even further for 2019. It is exciting to work with all of these professionals and I think it really helps our organization to optimize our resources by leveraging with these strategic partners.

At this time, I would like to thank everyone at the U.S. Meat Export Federation for not only helping the Oregon Beef Council, but all of the exporters, producers and others that continue to benefit from their outstanding work to promote our products in the international marketplace. We will keep all interested Oregon producers apprised as we move forward in this important area.

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CAUSE & EFFECT exploring factors in cow herd management

by Certified Angus Beef Supply Development Director Justin Sexten We sometimes associate cause and effect without knowing the real link, or as an academic buzz phrase has it, “correlation does not equal causation.” A quick search provides a humorous example. Did you know ice cream sales and shark attacks are highly correlated? While true in a broad sense, the actual reason for similar seasonal trends is that hot weather brings greater ice cream consumption as well as more swimming along beaches where sharks lurk.

Examples in the beef production model are many: vaccines’ ability to prevent pinkeye, growth attributed to a change in feed ingredients, treatment success with the most recent antibiotic. Then there’s the supposed link between weaning success and the moon’s position relative to constellations of stars. While I have never seen any data on the relationship between lunar or zodiac signs and calf weaning success, I wonder if another factor comes into play. Those who follow the signs must plan ahead, so this advance planning could be the actual basis for weaning success rather than relative positions in the heavens. Planning ahead can still get us in trouble, however, if we ignore data and hold on to assumptions of

cause and effect.

As many cows across the county enter their third trimester and weather turns colder calving season comes to mind along with birth weights and, especially with heifers, concerns about calving difficulty. Two correlations are often referenced for calf birth weight: weather and nutrition. Data from Nebraska and Oklahoma suggest birth weight increases in cold weather and decreases in hot. That’s likely caused by changing blood flow to conserve heat in the winter and dissipate it in the summer, but it’s a factor we can’t control. That said, those who manage fall-calving herds and should keep in mind the seasonal data suggest their calves are 4 to 5 pounds lighter at birth than spring-born from similar genetics. Calving ease is less important in sire selection for the fall herds.

You can control late-gestation nutrition, and some say putting limits on that can moderate birth weight.

While true, there are many potentially negative effects, such as increased calving difficulty due to weak cows, poor colostrum quality, later puberty in replacements, lower quality grade in finished cattle and increased post-partum interval. It may lower rebreeding rates in cows when the attempt to solve a problem not only fails in the near term but keeps on failing because cows lack adequate body condition scores at calving.

Clearly the associated effects suggest correct sire selection as the more appropriate method to address dystocia.

Another relationship commonly discussed comes up in a recent article from the U.S. Meat Animal Research Center. Warren Snelling and coworkers ...CONTINUED ON PAGE 46

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...CONTINUED FROM PAGE 44 looked at the correlations or relationships of cow weight and productivity. Their paper examined the productivity of cows over time and how the industry trend for increased yearling growth affects reproductive success and retention in the herd. It agreed with past studies, showing a negative relationship between increased cow weight and weaning production traits.

The new wrinkle was Snelling’s suggestion that culling unproductive 2- and 3-year-old females could overcome this negative relationship.

Here’s where discussion among ranchers can lead to different outcomes, depending on their ranch environments. One decides to stop selecting for more growth, citing genetic progress as the cause for larger mature cow size, which in turn has caused declines in weaning performance and longevity in the herd.

Another decides to keep selecting for increased growth and finds minimal reduction in weaning performance.

Unknown is how the rest of the environment—to include management—affects these relationships. Perhaps on one ranch, the 2- and 3-year-olds are given another chance after failing to rebreed while the other indirectly selects for fertility (and females that fit the program) by culling based on reproductive success regardless of age.

When you stop to think about cause and effect in any aspect of herd management, keep in mind many variables influence cow herd productivity. When evaluating alternative practices, remember to consider all aspects of your environment; your management decisions are part of the environment. When comparing notes with neighbors, veterinarians, nutritionists and seedstock suppliers, ask questions specific to your management in combination with the environment to ensure you are not causing undesired effects or blocking the way for desired effects.

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PREPARATION IS KEY TIPS TO TROUBLE-FREE CALF ARRIVALS

by David Bohnert, Oregon State University Now is the time that spring calving operations need to be prepared for calving season. Nutrition of the cow during late gestation (90 days pre-calving) is critical to calf health and vigor. Also, every year some cow/calf producers are caught unprepared by that first heifer or cow that has difficulty or that calf that gets chilled down before it can get up and nurse.

We find ourselves scrambling for supplies and equipment that we should have organized and stocked at least a month prior. In this issue I will provide you with some information and management suggestions that should help decrease calf sickness and/or death loss.

pounds of 6 percent CP grass seed straw is getting 1.5 pounds of CP. To meet a CP intake of 2 pounds/day the producer would need to provide 2.5 pounds of 20 percent CP alfalfa along with the 25 pounds of straw. Also, the Idaho data suggested that for every 0.1 pound of CP below 2 pounds per day, the incidence of weak calf syndrome can be expected to increase by 1 percent.

FEED THE COW FOR IMPROVED CALF IMMUNITY

Providing insufficient nutrients to the cow during the last 90 days of pregnancy has been shown to decrease the immunoglobulin concentration in the blood of newborn calves (Table 1). Immunoglobulins are obtained from FEEDING & MANAGEMENT PRACTICES colostrum, with the majority of immunoglobulins absorbed TO INCREASE CALF SURVIVAL within 12 hours of birth.

PROVIDE ADEQUATE PROTEIN INTAKE TO FIGHT Research has shown that the concentration of WEAK CALF SYNDROME immunoglobulins in the blood of baby calves decreases as Each year a number of newborn calves are lost to “weak cow body condition score decreases from 6 to 3 (1 to 9 scale; calf syndrome.” It is believed to result from inadequate 1 = thin and emaciated and 9 = fat and obese). Also, it takes protein intake by the cow during the 90 days before prior longer for calves from lower body condition score cows to to calving. Some common signs of a “weak calf ” include stand following birth, with the time ranging from 60 minutes depression, can’t stand and/or suckle and difficulty breathing. for body condition score 3 cows to 35 minutes for body Also, arthritis and swelling around the leg joints has been condition score 6 cows. Similarly, other research has noted described in some cases of weak calf syndrome. Research in that feeding cows a nutrient deficient diet during the last Idaho in the early 1970s suggested that providing at least 2 three months of pregnancy results in greater calf death loss pounds of crude protein (CP) per day to beef cows during at calving and from scours compared with cows that received late gestation will greatly decrease the incidence of weak calf adequate nutrition. syndrome (Figure 1). As an example, a cow consuming 25 FEED COWS AND HEIFERS TO OBTAIN A BCS FIGURE 1. INCIDENCE OF WEAK CALF SYNDROME IN CATTLE HERDS CONSUMING DIFFERING AMOUNTS OF CRUDE PROTEIN (adapted from Bull et al., 1974)

OF 5 TO 6 AT CALVING

It is important for cows and heifers to maintain a body condition score (BCS) between 5 and 6 during the final TABLE 1. EFFECTS OF COW BODY CONDITION SCORE AT CALVING ON CALF VIGOR AND SERUM IMMUNOGLOBULIN CONCENTRATION BODY CONDITION SCORE AT CALVING ITEM

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trimester. This allows for improved calving ease, higher quality colostrum, more live calves at birth and weaning, greater weight weaned per cow exposed during the breeding season and improved pregnancy rate (Table 2; Figure 2).

First-calf heifers should have a BCS of 5.5 to 6 before calving. After calving, the “heifers” will still be trying to grow, while also providing milk and preparing to rebreed.

After calving, they really won’t add much body condition so it is key that they are in really good condition before calving.

However, producers should avoid cows or heifers with too much body condition (BCS > 7) since that can lead to calving difficulty.

EARLY EVENING FEEDING HELPS INCREASE DAYTIME CALVING

Research has shown we can increase the proportion of calves born during daylight hours by early evening feeding instead of feeding in the morning. In a series of studies from Canada, Iowa State University and the Livestock and Range Research Station at Miles City, Mont., the proportion of calves born during daylight hours to cows fed early (before noon) in the day was approximately 50 percent compared with 80 percent for cows fed after 5 p.m. This allows producers to better observe the cow herd and assist with calving during daylight hours. However, late-feeding does not eliminate night calving or the need to observe the cows during the late night and early morning.

An added benefit to feeding late in the day is improved performance and ability to maintain body heat in cold environments. Data from North Dakota State University suggests that feeding late in the day allows for cattle to get the most benefit from the heat of fermentation (normally maximizes within 12 hours of feeding) when temperatures are normally the coldest and there is no potential for absorption of solar radiation/heat.

RECOMMENDED PRE-CALVING VACCINATIONS

Three weeks prior to calving consider vaccinating pregnant cows/heifers for: • Clostridial diseases (7- or 8-way depending on area) • Rota/Corona/E. Coli vaccine if a problem exists The immune response developed from the vaccination forms antibodies that pass from cow to calf through the colostrum. Work with your local veterinarian to develop a health program that fits your management style and protects the cow herd from regional disease challenges. It is important to understand that vaccination cannot overcome poor nutrition. Cows and heifers have to be in the right TABLE 2. EFFECT OF BCS AT CALVING ON COW AND CALF PRODUCTIVITY BODY CONDITION SCORE Response

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PREPARATION FOR CALVING EXAMINE CALVING FACILITIES TO MAKE SURE THEY ARE IN WORKING ORDER

Frequently it has been 9 to 10 months since calving facilities have been used. Inspect gates, pens, alleys and head catches, fixing or replacing broken items. Good lighting is an important part of a calving facility. Check lights and have replacement bulbs on hand. Also, calves born during cold, wet conditions can quickly succumb to hypothermia.

Have facilities, tools and supplies on hand to deal with this type of event. For mild hypothermia, (body temperature between 94 and 100°F) giving a calf warm, body temperature colostrum or colostrum replacement products along with drying the calf off with towels and warm air can quickly bring a calf ’s temperature back to normal. For extreme hypothermia, a combination of warm colostrum with a warm bath or a calf warming box can be used. Calves should be dry, alert and have a normal body temperature before being returned to their mother.

HAVING THE PROPER SUPPLIES AVAILABLE CAN SAVE CALVES

The difference between a live calf and a dead calf is often dependent on having the necessary equipment and supplies readily available. A list of the recommended equipment to have on hand prior to the start of the calving season follows (adapted from OSU Beef Cattle Sciences – Calving School Handbook BEEF020; • Breeding dates and expected calving dates – remember calves can come a week or more early, especially with heifers • Wool calf blankets, heat lamp, hotbox, and/or heating pad – to warm a chilled down calf • Obstetrical (OB) chains or straps • OB handles • OB wire and handles • Calf jack • Clean knife, scalpel, or bander to castrate bull calves • ½ inch tube with funnel or pump (or commercially available esophageal-tube feeder) • Plastic sleeves and latex gloves • Commercial brand lubricants • Umbilical tape and sewing needles • Colostrum – most calves will need 1 gallon within the ...CONTINUED ON PAGE 50 FIGURE 2. THE INFLUENCE OF COW BODY CONDITION SCORE (BCS) AT CALVING AND THE PROBABILITY OF PREGNANCY IN THE SUBSEQUENT BREEDING SEASON.

SEM

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7a

condition to respond to vaccinations.

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...CONTINUED FROM PAGE 49 first 24 hours of life. Fresh colostrum is best but either a commercially available product or properly frozen and thawed colostrum can be used • Clean rags and towels • Flashlight, headlight and handheld spotlight In addition to the standard calving equipment, consideration should also be given to the following supplies.

Consult with your veterinarian in their proper use and purchase • Needles & syringes – variety of sizes to meet potential needs • Dopram (a breathing stimulant) – 2 cc provided either intravenously, intramuscularly, subcutaneously or sublingually (under the tongue) for a newborn calf • Oxytocin – 5 to 10 cc after calving (it contracts the uterus and helps with expulsion of the placenta and fluids following an assisted delivery) • Rompun – ¼ cc provided intramuscularly to help calm down a cow to assist with grafting a calf • Bismu-kote or Pepto-bismol – for treatment (approximately 2 oz orally) of calf scours • Electrolyte powder/solution – for treatment of dehydration • Probiotic paste – helps calf deal with stress of calving and maintain normal appetite • Terramycin powder - for treatment of respiratory disease and bacterial scours • Long acting penicillin • Tincture of iodine (7%) – for calf navel • Nolvasan (chlorhexidine) – a disinfectant GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS FOR HEIFER CALVING MANAGEMENT

Replacement heifers represent at least two years of commitment and hard work, and the future of the cow herd, for most producers. Consequently, we need to do all we can to try and make sure they calve successfully and raise a healthy calf. Heifers that are gaining weight and in good condition at calving will have less calving difficulty than thin heifers. Research has shown that the birth weight of calves from good-condition heifers will be slightly heavier than calves from thin heifers; however, there is no increase in calving difficulty. In fact, thin heifers may actually have more calving difficulty because they won’t have the strength and muscle of well nourished heifers and may “tire out” during delivery. Therefore, don’t underfeed your heifers because you can not “starve” calving difficulty out of them.

The Calving School Handbook from OSU (BEEF020) provides some recommendations for managing heifers.

These include: PRE-CALVING • Heifers should be gaining weight • Calving lots/pens should be clean • Clean calving stalls and barn before, and during, the calving season • Vaccinate heifers for scours and enterotoxemia C & D toxoid

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NEWBORN CALVES • Have 2 to 3 quarts of colostrum available to give the calf within the first 6 hours of birth if it hasn’t stood and nursed • Iodine the navel (7% or tamed) • Selenium injection (Bo Se) if in a selenium deficient area • Vitamin A, D, & E injection – as needed • Oral vaccine for roa/Corona viral scours • Oral E. coli antiserum AFTER CALVING • Move pairs to a large, well-drained post-calving lot within a day or two following calving • Increase amount and quality of feed to account for the stress of calving and increased requirements of lactation • Watch calves daily for signs of sickness (scours, enterotoxemia, etc.)

SUMMARY The calving season is a time of much work and stress; however, it is also the time of year when we see the results of our effort to improve the genetics of our calves. It is an exciting and rewarding experience to see strong, healthy calves running around with their tails in the air playing with their cohorts.

By following the management practices recommended in this article, we can give our calves the best opportunity to be born healthy and strong and gain well to weaning.

For more specific information concerning calving and preparation for calving season see the OSU Calving Handbook at the following link: http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/ beefcattle/files/2016/08/CalvingSchoolHandbook_000-2.pdf.

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TOYS

Traits of Interest (or Yntrest)

by OCA Beef Improvement committee Chair Jon Elliott Before now most of us haven’t known that our selection processes - how we decide which bulls to buy, which heifers to select, which cows to keep or cull, has a name. Academics use the term, “Traits of Interest” to study producers’ preferences in matings, purchases, replacements, culling and to assess performance. What they learn is that what traits we say we want and the traits we select for to realize what we want are often different and even unrelated or sometimes even opposed to one another: We say we want 600-pound weaned steers and then we select our bulls by using the $B metric. We say we want highly productive, early calving cows and then we select for high milk EPDs and big frame sizes.

So the question is what are the Traits of Interest (TOYS) that are important to a cow/calf/yearling producer who keeps replacement heifers, but rarely retains ownership beyond selling calves and/or yearlings?

The fundamentals of our business, for those of us making a living through our cattle, are pretty simple: 1) Match our cows to our resources and our management; and 2) Produce enough pounds of calf, yearling, cull cow, cull heifer, and cull bull to show a net profit. Repeat.

Of course, each of these simple fundamentals is fraught with complexity. Matching cows to 40-acre range and a shoeing hammer is quite different from matching cows to 5-ton irrigated pasture, automatic gates, and ATVs. One operation may have little overhead and another may have power and fuel bills that are staggering to behold. Both or neither of them may be profitable, and both or neither of them may provide an enjoyable lifestyle for their owners.

I think that most of us are somewhere between these two extremes, but there’s still much difference between the inputs and expectations on a cowboy centered range operation and on a vehicle centered, irrigated pasture operation. No matter how many of us really focus on the TOYS that will make our cows be more productive, our operation run more smoothly, and the overall operation be more profitable and enjoyable?

If you sell calves in load lots there are several concerns, but the two most important TOYS are early calving cows and heifers, and an ever increasing percentage of weaned

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calves from cows and heifers exposed to the bulls. Even if you have only a few cows, having a uniform bunch of 10 steers is much better through the auction ring than having 10 steers that get classed into three or four groups.

The importance of early calving is hard to overstate. No matter what your operation is like, you can easily see a difference in weight between your early calves and your later calves.

Whatever your normal weaned calf weights are, if you could get all of your cows and heifers (and second calvers) to calve in 40 days or less your average weights would improve and your uniformity would improve without any additional inputs. To achieve a 40-day calving season, every cow and second calver and heifer must breed back or breed on her first or second estrus after the bulls go in. And to achieve a 40-day breeding season requires that the females be healthy and cycling and that the bulls are healthy, fertile, and interested.

Cow Condition Class (CC) is directly related to cows getting bred; below CC-4 conception rates are lower than they are in the CC-5-6-7 range, and conception rates begin to fall off as the females get obese at CC-8-9. Those who know always tell us to keep our cows at or above CC-5 and below CC-8 to realize their best performance.

On lots of operations this is a problem. What if CC-5 and above just doesn’t happen under your conditions and management? What if most of your cows come in and winter at about CC-4? Condition Class is the only reliable indicator we have.

There are no EPDs in any breed that indicate early calving. There are especially no EPDs or genetic indicators that can be said to indicate when a cow is cycling. And most research is done on cattle that are well nourished and not stressed. If reducing numbers or providing improved nutrition at critical times aren’t viable options on your operation, what can you do?

First of all, you will get some benefit from adaptability.

If you read the National Research Council (NRC) nutrition requirements for maintaining a cow in her various stages through the year, and then compare those requirements with the reality of the nutrition provided in many herds, you have to wonder how any of those cows

are even alive, let alone producing and raising a calf and breeding back. Just as millions of humans have adapted to live and thrive in environments that would be lethal to other millions of us, cattle adapt to their environment.

There’s no doubt that a cow receiving NRC mandated nutrition will probably perform at her potential. But hardly any Great Basin range cows or Coast Range cows or most other cows even come close to receiving NRC levels of nutrition without some form of supplement. None-theless, these cows have adapted to their environment and they thrive. Our task is to help them produce at the highest level that circumstances will allow. If your cows and second calvers and heifers are able to breed and raise a calf, they can be early calvers.

You can achieve a more compressed calving season, maybe even 40 days. Raising a 600-pound weaned steer may not be achievable, but we can wean a uniform bunch of calves that will reflect their short calving window and the resources available. Adaptability is also a reason to keep your own replacement heifers. They have been adapting to your conditions since the moment of their inception.

As most cattle producers know, under almost any level of nutrition there are always cows that do better than the bunch as a whole. Some may be crossbred cows and some may be a single breed. One thing these cows are telling you is that they are better adapted to your conditions than are most of their herdmates. Also, as everybody knows, some cows always calve early, some calve later, and some are unpredictable.

Generally, given the same conditions from year to year, cows will calve at about the same time each year provided that there are enough fertile and interested bulls to go around; an early calving heifer and second calver will generally be an early calving cow. These two TOYS are important in selection and culling decisions. Select and keep those cows that are always in better condition and select and keep those cows that are always early calvers, and most importantly, select their heifer calves as replacements unless there’s some other consideration that disqualifies them. There is, of course, a caveat to everything. Sometimes, not as rarely as you’d hope, the cow that’s always in better condition is sucking other cows. No matter what else you do, get rid of her.

Whether you have lots of good feed or especially if you don’t, be sure to provide some semblance of a balanced mineral intake. Without the expense of testing your own forage and feed, you can pretty well know what’s lacking or out of balance in the vegetation in your area. A local trace mineral (TM) package, while not as focused on exactly your conditions will probably be preferable to no TM package. Cattle on limited forage or feed are prone to utilize free choice minerals and/or other free choice supplements in much greater quantities than they would if their forage or feed was adequate.

They may also consume much greater quantities of a free choice supplement if it is available only sporadically.

If you offer any free choice supplement, having it be always available will usually prevent over intake by most cattle.

For unknown reasons, there are always some that will consume too much and some that will consume none. If

you must limit feed your cows you will want to closely monitor their supplement intake. You may have to figure out a way to limit feed the supplement as well.

The TOYS for bulls needed in a cow/calf/yearling operation that keeps heifers and sells calves and yearlings, but rarely if ever retains ownership into or beyond the feedlot are also, not available as EPDs or genetic indicators.

Of course, you do want calving ease bulls for your heifers and there are quite reliable EPDs for selecting those bulls.

There is also the Scrotal EPD (SC) for Angus bulls.

Scrotal circumference has been directly related to early maturity in daughters, but not necessarily early calving. I read a paper a month ago that said scrotal circumference differences in younger bulls (7 months of age) are more indicative than circumferences in older bulls (12 or more months), so, depending on when the measurement is taken, the scrotal EPD may be worthy of note or not.

Beyond that, you first want an early calf from every cow.

Libido is a fancy word for sex drive. There is no EPD for that. You do, though, have a chance to judge this TOY in your bulls by observations. If you turn out a trailer load of bulls into a bunch of cycling cows, you would hope that they would all become immediately active. If one or two go lie down under a tree or wander off to graze, these two are projecting a TOY that you do not want. Even if they’re car sick you want them to express an interest. It isn’t enough to have one bull for every 20-25 cows. If you have too few fertile and interested bulls to service the cows and heifers you will not get to a 40-day calving season. An infertile bull is worse than too few fertile bulls. He may be the most dominant among the bulls and cause cows to be serviced with blanks rather than bred.

So, even though it costs to check, the expense to semen test and evaluate your bulls every year is worth the money.

And, as you already know, include your new bulls in the evaluation and semen testing. If you buy bulls from reputable breeders, of any breed, you might want to couple smaller bulls (Frame Score 4.5 to 5 or so, but not above 5) with breed average or above weaning and yearling weight EPDs; selecting for smaller bulls that sire calves that are at or above the breed average weight at weaning and as yearlings. Reputable bull people just don’t offer cull bulls for sale any more. Look at the TOYS that are important to your operation and use the saved money to semen test and evaluate your bull battery.

Once you have reduced your calving season to 45 days or less and you have improved the level of nutrition so it is no longer a limiting factor (remember Leibig?), then it might pay to look at higher priced bulls. Until then, fertility and libido are the TOYS you should look for. (NOTE: I’m advocating that you buy your bulls from reputable bull breeders. You will have to judge for yourself the quality of the bulls and the seller of bulls offered out of the back of a trailer.)

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...CONTINUED FROM PAGE 53 the bulls are fertile and interested if they don’t find each other. It’s important to monitor the distribution of bulls.

Cows are known to seek out a bull when they cycle, but there needs to be a bull where she will find him when she needs him.

Maybe the hardest thing to remember about buying bulls is that there’s really no need to get caught up in the numbers in a bull sale catalog. Of the 39 separate performance numbers based on the breed as a whole and the seven within the herd numbers shown in a recent sale catalog, there are about six that you need to pay attention to. The first thing to do when you get ready to study a bull sale catalog is to download the most current breed averages for the breed of bulls being offered.

Individual herd numbers have no meaning outside of the herd being measured, so a really good bull from a really good herd might have a lower ratio than a not very good bull from a not very good herd. Breed averages are compiled from across the entire breed, so those two bulls can be compared even though they are not from the same herd and the bulls from any individual sale can be compared to that year’s sale bulls from across the entire breed.

Hybrid vigor (heterosis) in a crossbred cow, think black baldies, may add as much as 50 pounds to a calf at weaning compared to a straight bred cow. That’s a great TOY, but if there isn’t a viable plan to produce these crossbred heifers or cows for your operation’s conditions, these pounds are illusory. Wihout even one academic study to cite, I think you are better off keeping your own replacement heifers and spending your efforts to get the 50 or more pounds by shortening your calving season and getting a weaned calf from more of your cows. One additional 500-pound weaned calf is the same as having 10 F1 black baldy cows.

What TOYS are important for selecting replacement heifers? Conformation, size, feet, pelvic score, teat and bag formation, demeanor, color, mother, sire, others?

Within the conformation category do you sift out unacceptable heifers as soon as you see something you don’t like? Do you sift on color? Do you count teats? Do you look at the mother’s records and her EPDs? Do you factor in the sire records?

I think many of us simply have a vision of what we want a replacement heifer to look like and we choose those that come closest to our ideal until we have chosen the number we want.

We have condensed the various TOYS we value into an overall look which makes a heifer look one of about three ways: 1) She fits our vision; 2) She doesn’t fit our vision; or 3) She doesn’t show the entire package but she is okay. But if we’re selecting replacement heifers mainly by this vision in our head, we’re missing out on valuable TOYS; i.e. early calving moms, mother always in good condition, etc.

So how do we know that the 30-60 percent of our heifers that we choose are the ones that will do the best under our environment and management? Some really knowledgeable people tell us we should keep and breed all of our heifers and choose our replacements as we preg check. Furthermore, our choices should simply be the first heifers to calve, up to the number we need. By the time 54

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we can preg check a spring calved heifer it will be July or August of the next year, or more likely it will be September or October of the next year. A February 2018 calf will go with the bulls around the first week of May 2019 to become a spring 2020 calver. If we leave the bulls for 45 days that puts us at mid to late June.

Some people claim they can differentiate between due dates about 30 days after conception. If you or your checker are that confident, you could wait until late July or early August and pretty well know which heifers are going to calve earliest and in about what order. At the same time, the heifer’s pelvic score can be determined and recorded.

I think a pelvic score of four and above is considered acceptable. If you take the advice that early calving is the only thing to consider, you’re done, you don’t even need the pelvic score.

I personally think that method is too rigid (and so do the people who advocate it when they go on to tell you what else they consider.) I don’t want any grumpy heifers or cows. I don’t want squat, broad heifers. I don’t want tall, skinny heifers. I don’t want heifers with conformation problems in their hips or legs. I don’t want heifers with low pelvic scores, below 3.5. I don’t want heifers that aren’t showing the rudiments of a good bag and four good teats.

I do want some heifers almost solely because of their mother’s performance. I do want some heifers almost solely because I like them.

That may sound like I’d get about ten replacement heifers. Surprisingly, we manage to get as many as we want, but granted, not every one is perfect. And I would like to have them all calve in 20 days but we’re settling for about 60 right now.

Even if you have the luxury of keeping all of your heifers and breeding them for two or three cycles and then preg checking them, I think earliest calving still isn’t the only TOY to look at. I don’t disagree that early calving is important, but I think we can have that and still look at other TOYS to work toward a herd of fairly uniform cows with generally good traits. Still, if your calving season is in the 90+ day range you will do yourself more good by concentrating on early calving than anything else you can do.

What about the rest of us who run under less harsh conditions? What TOYS should we be using to achieve our goals?

• The first thing to remember in whatever environment you run in is that the unassisted birth of a healthy, vigorous calf, early in the calving season trumps nearly everything else.

• The second thing to remember is that early calving heifers and second calvers will usually remain early calvers in their years as cows. It’s better to cull a late heifer or second calver than it is to put up with her late calving for 10 more years.

• The third thing to remember is that calving ease bulls from reputable breeders for your heifers are worth the cost.

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...CONTINUED FROM PAGE 54 Bull selection for herds that retain replacement heifers should, in my opinion, select for smaller bulls with good numbers, at or above the breed average for weaning and yearling weight. If you purchase replacements, they should be from similar bulls. The breed average for an Angus or Hereford cow is about 1,380 pounds and still increasing every year.

Many ranches have Angus and Hereford cows that average less than that, but those lighter weights may only mean that the cows aren’t able to express their genetic potential because the conditions on that operation are not suitable for them to grow as big as they might, not that they are somehow naturally smaller. The goal here is to reduce the mature size of your cows until their mature size matches the ability of your resources and management to let them express their potential.

The next time you look at a calf or a heifer or a cow or a bull you might find it interesting to tick off each of the traits that you normally aggregate into one experience based assessment. You may be seeing more traits than you think, and you may be omitting some that could help your operation.

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MARKET MINUTE SPRING MARKETING SEASON HAS ARRIVED

by M3 Marketing’s Matt Macfarlane

As the spring bull-buying season approaches we are currently getting some much needed moisture across the west, especially in California. Warm temperatures and spread out storms over the month of December have certainly got the grass going and a well-known life-long, well known producer said this was the best December he could remember at a recent Western Video Sale.

With a new year, we are also looking at new challenges as an industry. We will again produce more beef than the prior year. Cow herd growth is forecast to increase threetenths of a percent higher this in 2019, marking the near end of unprecedented herd growth.

The dairy industry was growing but is now on the down side of their expansion and in the midst of a fullon liquidation. Dairy producers have reached their limit, producing milk at a loss the entire year. This will send more cows to the slaughter markets and has really driven the slaughter cow and bull market down. They have been producing milk at a loss for over a year, so I’m not sure how far the dairy liquidation will continue, but that market will be negatively affected until it slows down.

With the stock market taking a dive in December along with our government shutdown, we could see people tighten the purse strings and look for cheaper protein sources. Hopefully the administration and Congress can get sit down and get the federal offices open again and stabilize the economy, and let the market continue the unprecedented growth we’ve seen the last two years.

Getting markets open with Japan could be more challenging in the future. A unilateral agreement with Japan to lower high tariffs on beef is desired by the current administration. In 2018 Japan purchased over $2 billion in

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U.S. beef. The Trans-Pacific Trade Pact (TPP), which the current administration pulled out of, went forward without U.S. participation. Australia and New Zealand will have lower tariffs starting at 27.5 percent and falling down to 9 percent over a period, going into Japan. The U.S. tariff is still at 38.5 percent, which will have a huge impact on Japanese beef sales. Export markets have been a bright star for the beef industry and have remained strong. But the TPP could change all that.

As far as the current seedstock marketing events coming up this spring, I am always excited to see the next batch of genetics commercial producers can put into their programs. I am starting to travel quite a bit and see some awfully good sets of bulls and females of multiple breeds throughout the west.

I am very lucky to get to work with such a progressive set of seedstock suppliers in the Western U.S and beyond.

There is so much information out there for you to utilize in purchasing bulls. Utilize all of it. Remember to do your due diligence and have a plan and goal for your program and where you want it to head. Then find a supplier that has similar production goals and parameters, similar environments that would require the least amount of time to adapt and adjust, and most importantly customer service and reliability that you can count on.

As always, I would like to thank the advertisers we have had over the past year and look forward to working with you in 2019. I will be traveling exensively across the country over next two months, if you see me and have any ideas, comments or suggestions, I would love to hear them.

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ONGOING INVASION

Wallowa County ranchers continue to face elk impacts on cattle forage

by Katy Nesbitt for the Oregon Cattleman Wallowa County’s elk herds have long attracted hunters, but the treasured big game species compete for forage with cattle, the county’s main agricultural commodity.

Wildlife biologists say that elk were indigenous to the area, but when numbers dwindled in the early twentieth century Rocky Mountain elk from Wyoming were introduced. Today elk are found from the low elevations of Hells Canyon to the heavily wooded Wenaha wilderness bordering Washington, to the high peaks of the Eagle Cap range of the Wallowa Mountains.

Pat Matthews, district biologist for the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife Enterprise, said over the past 20 to 30 years the elk numbers have stayed the same in Wallowa County but the distribution has changed.

This distribution change has meant more pressure on crops, hay and rangeland. In recent years elk from the Sled Springs wildlife management, the largest in the county, started spending more time on private land at the edge forest.

South of Sled Springs is the Minam wildlife unit where a large property is managed for elk habitat, providing a corridor from the high mountain meadows to the Wallowa River. Elk are often seen in winter pastures alongside livestock.

“They own that ranch for elk and they spill over to the neighbors,” Matthews said. “It’s been an issue.”

To the east of Sled Springs is the Chesnimnus unit the redistribution of elk from the forest to private land is the most noticeable. Where there were once 300 to 700 head of elk on the Zumwalt Prairie, numbers from 3,500 to 5,000 have been reported over the last 20 years.

Rod Childers runs cattle on private and public land in the Chesnimnus unit. He said when he first started ranching there in the late 1970s there were up to 350 head of elk on his rangeland. By 1995 there were only 187 head of elk on Childers’ range and numbers continue to dwindle.

“In today’s world, if you can find a herd of 100 out there I’d be surprised,” Childers said.

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Childers said the decline is due to the lack of cattle grazing in Hells Canyon, arguing elk graze the new grass growth after livestock have eaten the “wolfy” or old grass; timber encroachment on meadows, a result of declining timber harvest after the endangered species listing of chinook salmon and steelhead trout in the 1990s; and the increase of predators when bear baiting and hunting cougars with hounds were both outlawed around the same time.

Matthews agreed that predator pressure on elk is a big reason why they tend to spend so much time on the prairie and added that vehicle traffic on public land, especially during hunting season, is another. Whatever the reasons, many of the Chesnimnus elk have taken up nearly permanent residence on the prairie.

By 2008 the elk numbers were in the thousands on the Zumwalt. Rancher Tom Birkmaier turned to the local OSU extension agent John Williams for help organizing a coalition of landowners and Fish and Wildlife biologists to find ways to reduce the number of elk competing for forage with cattle.

“When we do good range management we use a deferred or rest rotation system, but when 4,000 head of elk are grazing in the same place most of the year there is no rotation system,” Williams said.

The largest landowner on the prairie is The Nature Conservancy. Rangeland specialist Mike Hale said the Conservancy manages its 33,000 Zumwalt Prairie Preserve for both wildlife and cattle.

“Most stock growers have to realize they are sharing resources with wildlife and understand the carrying capacity for both,” Hale said.

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to our assumptions with ‘evidence-based’ management,” Hale said.

While the Preserve is like a large laboratory in the middle of prime grassland, other ranchers on the prairie wanted to push the elk back onto public forestland and into Hells Canyon. An Access and Habitat grant through the state paid for hazers to move big herds of elk off the prairie.

Matthews said hazers on ATVs pushed elk toward the canyons five days a week for several winter months.

The hazers got the elk going in the right direction toward the national forest, but the elk kept returning to the prairie.

The first problem with hazing, Williams said, was while some landowners manage their prairie land for cattle others attract elk for hunting or wildlife viewing.

“Hazing is not effective if you don’t have most everybody in agreement,” Williams said. “I don’t know how much good we did. We moved them around, but they are still there today.”

Chad Dotson was one of the hazers employed by the Access and Habit money. He now works for The Nature Conservancy managing their hunting program. He said another problem with hazing was that it became a “babysitting” job.

“Elk will respond to pressure, but that doesn’t mean they are going to change their home range,” Dotson said.

“From an elk’s perspective it is a generational thing – a calf born to a mother who doesn’t migrate won’t migrate.

All it knows is the prairie and that becomes its fish bowl.”

Ultimately, hunting proved the best method to move elk off the prairie and reduce numbers. Dotson said there has been a definite distribution shift in the past couple years.

Dotson said, “We get reports back from hunters whether or not they were successful and where they were successful.”

Williams said today hunters are harvesting about 450 cow elk a year out of 700 issued tags.

“I do believe hunting stopped the increase of the Zumwalt herd, but we need to wait and see if over time we are reducing them,” Williams said.

And that, he said, could take another 10 if not 20 years.

Most of the tags issued for the Zumwalt are through the state’s scheduled control hunts. Matthews said those hunts are in areas where there are known elk problems and include several properties within a boundary area, but it is up to hunters who draw tags for those hunts to get permission from the landowners.

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five tags can be issued of at a time and they can go to whomever the landowner chooses. When those tags are turned in, an equal amount can be re-issued.

In extreme situations, Matthews said emergency hunts are allowable both deer and elk when several property owners are experiencing crop or hay loss.

The state has a list of hunters at the ready, alleviating landowner from having to organize hunts.

Kill permits can be issued to a landowner or adjacent landowners, who want to work together, Matthews said. Landowners and any affiliated agents listed on the permit are allowed to shoot a specified number of elk, determined by the district biologist.

Since so much of the damage to hay stacks, crops and grazing pastures occurs overnight, Matthews said it is permissible to shoot at night with a kill permit.

If any elk or deer are harvested with a kill permit, the landowner is not allowed to keep the meat.

Matthews said, “It is the responsibility of the landowner to make sure any elk they kill is gutted, skinned and the meat transported to a meat processor.”

The meat is then donated to a charity, which pays for it to be cut and wrapped.

Outside of organized hazing on the Zumwalt Prairie, Matthews said the state issues hazing permits allowing landowners to scare elk and deer away with shot guns used as noisemakers. Elk can also be chased with ATVs or frightened with the use propane cannons outfitted with timers that let off periodic loud noises.

Matthews said his office provides wire and steel posts to fence off hay stacks and rolls of eight-foot high plastic mesh if the problem is specifically deer-related; elk can easily tear down plastic fencing.

When farmers lose permanent crops like alfalfa or grass hay on a regular basis Matthews said the state’s green forage program shares the cost of a new seeding.

A long-term measure to keep elk off crop lands and hays stacks are feeding areas, like the Wenaha Wildlife Area on the Grande Ronde River near Troy.

Matthews said timing is important when it comes to feeding the Wenaha elk. Usually the hay bales are put out by late November, but it depends on the weather conditions.

“If we don’t start feeding them quickly enough and they get into someone’s hay stack it’s hard to move 300 or 400 head back to the wildlife area with a bait line,” Matthews said.

Back on the prairie, Hale said the years of hunting pressure from mid-August to early January has helped reduce numbers, but moving the elk off the prairie could be merely moving the problem onto someone else.

“Now there are more elk on the toe slopes of Imnaha Canyon, but some are pushing west into private land to the west near Elk Mountain and Swamp Creek,” Hale said.

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TRADE SPOTLIGHT

CUSTOM MOBILE SLAUGHTER Compiled by OCA Communications Director Robyn Smith Andrew Turner established his own custom mobile slaughter business, Turner Custom Harvest Solutions, LLC in 2014 after graduating with an Ag Science degree from Oregon State University. Based in Washington County, Andrew serves customers throughout Northwest Oregon including Clatsop, Yamhill, Clackamas, and Marion counties.

Turner Custom Harvest travels to farms with a 15’ stainless steel lined box truck equipped with rails for hanging hogs, lamb, alpaca, and quarters of beef. Andrew says most of his clientele are small-scale cattle producers.

What is your background and how did you develop your skills?

I learned the foundation of sanitary and humane slaughter practices while at Oregon State University through my classes and working at OSU’s Meat Lab. After graduating, I honed my skills while working for a USDA Inspected Mobile Slaughter Unit in Northern Washington. Learning to run this business was trial by fire. Thankfully, I had a lot of support and a great mentor in the owner of the butcher shop that I contract with.

What inspired you to start your own business?

I learned to love the slaughter side of the meat industry while working at the Clark Meat Lab at OSU. I always wanted to be in business for myself and starting a custom mobile slaughter service aligned with my goals and passions.

How would you describe your typical work day?

Depending on the time of year (and daylight) I’ll be on a farm between 6:00-8:00 a.m. and I usually have 3-5 stops in any given day with a variety of livestock species to harvest. I aim to deliver the slaughtered carcasses to the butcher shop by no later than 3 p.m. and earlier when temperatures rise near the end of the summer.

Who is your typical customer?

Many of my customers are not typical “ranchers”. Most of my customers raise beef for farm deferral and sell locker shares of meat to cover the cost of filling their own freezer. The majority of my time is spent slaughtering cattle. Usually I service 1 to 3 cattle per farm per stop and a few of my customers may have 10 or more cattle in a given year.

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What are the benefits of your business being mobile?

Custom slaughter is unique because harvest takes place where the animal is familiar and comfortable with their surroundings. It’s often seen as the most humane way to slaughter because the animals avoid the stress of transportation and new surroundings. Being mobile is very convenient for my customers because they don’t have to worry about how their livestock are being handled through the process.

Can you describe a challenge you have encountered?

Sometimes my biggest challenge can be dealing with live animals. Depending on the layout of the property and herd management on the farm. Some customers will have cattle contained when I arrive, but other times I have to get creative about securing them. It’s all about making the most of the tools at hand.

Is there a high demand for people in this trade?

There is a HUGE demand for custom slaughter and meat processing. There are many smaller farms and ranches that want to have this service on their property, but my intake of customers is often throttled by how much the butcher shop can cut and the available cooler space on a given day. All of the beef I slaughter will hang a minimum of 10 days in the cooler.

What’s your best advice for someone interested in the profession?

It can be difficult to carve out your market share, but it’s worth the time and effort to establish a productive business that caters to personalized service. I gained my customers through reputation (I’ve never advertised).

Often my customers come to me after they find major processing errors from the butcher they used in the past.

Andrew says that he loves his job and takes pride in the quality meat processing he offers to livestock owners.

One of his favorite parts of this trade is the opportunity to meet and have conversations with people from all walks of life. Andrew says with all of the species, farms, and crazy situations that come with being an on-the-farm slaughterman, there is never a “boring day at the office”.

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PUBLIC LANDS COUNCIL LOOKS AHEAD TO 2019 AGENDA

by Ethan Lane, executive director, Public Lands Council The Public Lands Council (PLC) logged a year of progress in 2018. We focused on modernizing the Endangered Species Act (ESA), enacting critical reforms to the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), and working to correct chronic problems that have plagued federal grazing regulations since the bad old days of Bruce Babbitt and “Range Reform ’94.” Our needs were anything but modest, and we walked away with many accomplishments the western livestock industry should be proud of.

These accomplishments included progress on ESA. Going into the 115th Congress, PLC knew we need to bring common sense back into the implementation of ESA. We launched a campaign that emphasized the benefits of ranching to the environment, habitats of many endangered species, and the work of ranchers to recover and save many species in the United States. Our voice helped.

The Administration proposed three comprehensive rules this summer targeting Sections 4 and 7 of the act to reform how species are listed, critical habitat designations, and interagency consultations. Final rules are just around the corner.

From a statutory perspective, we were encouraged by draft legislation that incorporated the recommendations of the Western Governors’ Association’s ESA Initiative. This was led by Senate Environment and Public Works Chairman John Barrasso (R-Wyo). Barrasso’s legislation did not advance, and progress on the “Barrasso bill” specifically is unlikely in the new Congress. That being said, the finished product was a huge step forward and initiated a productive dialog with conservation groups, states and others that could lead to statutory relief down the road.

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can be burdensome and threatening, particularly management directives brought from initiatives like Range Reform ’94 during Bruce Babbitt’s tenure at the Department of the Interior. Our leadership organized a working group to examine ways to repair the tremendous damage done to the federal grazing system over the years. We collected voices from every state in the west, the heart of a grassroots organization like PLC. The recommendations stemming from that working group will help us push for key reforms with the Department of the Interior, and we hope to make strides on this in the coming year.

A special PLC working group also provided direction for modernizing NEPA. We worked with the Administration to ensure key decisionmakers understood how NEPA is abused, and how this impacts federal lands ranchers. In response to our concerns and those of other regulated industries, the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) this summer initiated a rulemaking to update and streamline NEPA implementation across the entire federal government. This rulemaking brings hope for progress on categorical exclusions, recognition of socioeconomic impact in decisions, and other changes benefiting the industry. Of course, a final rulemaking is required to move forward, a move I expect to occur very soon.

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...CONTINUED FROM PAGE 66 away from draconian grass height requirements and grazing reductions and toward wildfire fuels management. This is positive for ranchers, providing a better environment to operate in the sage grouse country. I anticipate Forest Service to be closely behind, carrying through similar action to benefit the industry.

Speaking of wildfire, 2018 was a devastating year for fires across the west. With blazes consuming forests, grazing land, livestock and human lives, our producers were hit hard last season. We pushed this issue hard on the hill and finally saw some progress with the elimination of “fire borrowing”, the practice of diverting in heavy fire years to make up for budgeting shortfalls.

Absent from this fix, unfortunately, was critical language needed to increase the use of categorical exclusions in the forest. We pushed again to address this issue in the farm bill, only to see the finished product stripped of almost all critical forest management tools at the demand of Senate Democrats.

PLC spoke out about this failure, and our disappointment that the 2018 Farm Bill ended up being a bad bill for the west. That hasn’t made us very popular with some corners of the agricultural community, but we thought it important to have at

least one voice speaking for the needs of western ranchers that have been pummeled by wildfire. To ease the sting of Congress’ failure in the Farm Bill, the Administration came through at the end of the year with an executive order promoting active management of forests, rangelands and federal lands. This was a great way to end the year and a positive step toward better forest management. This move from the Administration adds pressure to government to truly reform wildfire management, drawing attention back to needed categorical exclusions.

Lastly, we beat the drum on feral horse and burro issues across agencies and coalitions. We were also instrumental in advising the Interior Department on strategies to curb the unsustainable growth, brining solutions that worked for the conservation community, sportsmen groups, and other industries. These efforts led to the gather of more than 11,000 horses and burros last year – the most in recent memory.

While there is still much to do, progress always puts our minds at ease. Thanks to all who helped PLC achieve success in 2018. I look forward to the upcoming year, and hope to see you all in Washington, D.C., this April for the Public Lands Council and NCBA Spring Legislative Conference.

ROCK’N D RANCH D

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Spring Bull Session

SECOND SATURDAY OF M ARCH

at the Ranch near Junction City, Oregon

Livestock Handling Equipment Headquarters Hydraulic Chutes

“OK Corral” Portable Corrals

by Titan West

SATURDAY, M ARCH 9, 1 P.M. 2019 SELLING

Yearling Black Angus Bulls AND Open Yearling Heifers.

Carcass • Calving ease Docility • Longevity Feed efficiency

SONS & DAUGHTERS OF: Baldridge Command C036 Rock Creek Rancher 1495 Crouthamel Protocol 3022 Deer Valley Old Hickory TEX Playbook 5437 CTS Remedy 1T01 PA Fortitude 2500

View Our Offering Online at: www.rocknd-ranch.net Pam Detering 541-913-2128 or 541-998-2796 • rockndbulls@gmail.com Donald Fleckenstein 971-219-6729 • dynamite.farms@gmail.com

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Continuous fence panels & pipe posts

Wrangler Portable Corrals

Arrow CattleQuip Q-Catch Chutes

Daniels Manufacturing Alleys & Chutes

Pictured is an “OK” Corral

Martin Arritola Oregon Trail Livestock Supply 3931 10th Street • Baker City, OR 97814 541-523-3089 • 888-331-9786

Orion Beef Group

Western Classic Bull Sale

Friday, March 1, 2019 80 Yearling Red Angus Bulls

Reputation Red Angus and Hybreds

F819 • #4021278 PLATINUM X FINAL ANSWER X P707 203HB, 53GM, 14CED, -2.3BW, 67WW, 113YW, 26MILK, -5ME, 12HPG, 7CEM, 17ST, 0.63MB, 0.15RE Top Herd Bull that is a Maternal Brother to Acquisition!

Symons Development Center • Madras, Oregon • 1 PM PST

F806 • #4021240 PRESTIGOUS X EXPECTATION X SOUTHERN KING 154 HB, 51GM, 8CED, 0.8BW, 65WW, 101YW, 25MILK, 1ME, 12HPG, 4CEM, 14ST, 0.51MB, 0.12RE Really Long Thick Made Prospect!

F820 • #4021398 F821 • #4021286 BEST BET X CHARISMATIC X LEADING EDGE PLATINUM X ALLIANCE X CAPSTONE 211HB, 50GM, 16CED, -3.7BW, 60WW, 94YW, 27MILK, 2ME, 191HB, 54GM, 8CED, 0.9BW, 70WW, 119YW, 23MILK, -2ME, 11HPG, 9CEM, 19ST, 0.60MB, 0.29RE 13HPG, 4CEM, 17ST, 0.55MB, 0.13RE Very Complete Herdbuilding Bull!

Great Pedigree with Excellent Balance Across the Board!

F803 • #4021384 REDEMPTION X ATLAS X EXPECTATION 196HB, 51GM, 15CED, -3.9BW, 62WW, 103YW, 27MILK, -4ME, 8HPG, 9CEM, 18ST, 0.64MB, -0.03RE Heavy Made Massive Stud!

F825 • #4021328 REDEMPTION X TRILOGY X CHARISMATIC 205HB, 51GM, 16CED, -4.6BW, 59WW, 98YW, 26MILK, 5ME, 6HPG, 9CEM, 18ST, 0.71MB, 0.12RE Deep Soggy Made Herdbuilder!

F812 • #4021376 PRESTIGOUS X BLACK GOLD X LEADING EDGE 170HB, 50GM, 15CED, -2.4BW, 55WW, 87YW, 22MILK, 3ME, 10HPG, 6CEM, 15ST, 0.61MB, 0.27RE Great Outcross Pedigree to Today's Sire Lines!

F822 • #4021364 ACQUISITION X REDEMPTION X DYNAMITE 164HB, 47GM, 15CED, -4.1BW, 51WW, 81YW, 27MILK, 3ME, 9HPG, 7CEM, 15ST, 0.40MB, -0.05RE Great Profiling Calving Ease Bull!

F813 • #4021402 PRESTIGOUS X FUTURE DESIGN X AVALANCHE 176HB, 50GM, 11CED, 1.6BW, 67WW, 100YW, 19MILK, 1ME, 13HPG, 3CEM, 17ST, 0.72MB, 0.08RE Really Clean Made Bull!

Contact us to be put on our mailing list! www.ludvigsonstockfarms.com Ryan Ludvigson Billings, Montana (406)534-4263 office • (515)450-3124 mobile rl_ludvigson@hotmail.com

Park Ludvigson Cushing, Iowa (712)384-2200 office • (712)229-3431 mobile parkludvigson@hotmail.com February 2019 OREGON CATTLEMAN

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PRODUCT PROMOTION GIVING AND MORE

by Oregon CattleWomen’s Association President Jenny Coelho Cowbell Bake Sale, the KCCW Silent Auction and Friday Night, Feb. 1, the Jackson County CattleWomen Klamath Cattlemen’s Association and (JCC) held their Annual Business KCCW Annual Bull Sale Dinner will Meeting on Jan. 12, and installed take place to raise money for their their new officers. Congratulations scholarship program. Scholarships are to Dianna Gifford, Jackson County given out to college sophomores and CattleWomen President. I was able above from the Klamath Basin who are to attend and meet all the new JCC majoring in an agricultural program. officers and spread the word about Another event that will happen what OCW has on the horizon for this this month is the two-day Farm Expo next year. where KCCW will have a booth At the Jackson County Stockmen’s about cattle production and cattle Dinner, the same evening, the JCC by-products that 900 or more fourth auctioned off a few items to raise grade students will go through. scholarship funds. JCC also has a KCCW will also prepare a tri-tip “Poker Night” each November to dinner for the Farm Expo House raise funds for scholarships. These Evening. During their December scholarships are given to recipients meeting, KCCW purchased $500 of whose parents belong to the Jackson Beef Gift Certificates and presented County CattleWomen or the Jackson them to Nikki Sampson, the Director County Stockmen’s Association. of the Klamath Lake County Food Klamath County CattleWomen Bank.

(KCCW) President Melissa Ladner, Harney County CattleWomen said their next big event is the (HCC) President Elisha Miller said the Klamath Bull and Ranch Horse Sale Jan. 31 through Feb. 3. There will be a Harney County CattleWomen have been busy over the past two months providing beef for the local Elks Lodge Beef Baskets that are given out each year by the Elks Lodge members during the holidays. HCC also prepares handmade bibs throughout the year and adds beef gift certificates to give to new Moms in Harney County. In 2018 HCC gave out 37 Bibs with Beef Gift Certificates. Way to go Harney County CattleWomen for getting the HCC name out there and giving to your community!

Elisha said they are gearing up for their Membership Drive as well as planning for the HCC Table at the Chamber of Commerce Banquet this month.

Baker County CattleWomen Jenny Coelho, Nicki Sampson and Melissa Ladner with beef gift certificates (BCC), made and sold their Cow Pies

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and BCC merchandise to raise funds for their county projects in December.

In January BCC held their Annual Membership meeting and this month they will be do Beef Promotion as February is BEEF MONTH for the BCC. Umatilla County CattleWomen (UCCW) just had their second installment of UCCW officers last month. UCCW is OCW’s newest County Affiliate and OCW is proud of all the hard work these ladies have done to start their organization!

ANCW NEWS

The American National CattleWomen’s meeting was held this year in New Orleans at the Hilton New Orleans and since Tony and I had never visited this great city, we decided it would be a fun trip to experience. We were able to attend a tour of the Ardoyne Plantation Home and USDA Sugar Research Center and had a fantastic barbecue at the Zero Brahman Ranch in Thibodaux, LA, learning all about their Brahman cattle production program.

Katharine Jackson, who is our OCW area vice president for the west side of our state, was able to travel to New Orleans for the ANCW meeting as well. A shout out to Katharine for being our OCW Superstar this month!

She not only holds a full-time job and runs her kids to all their events, but she takes the time to participate in our state and national meetings. Katharine also represents OCW as our Oregon Beef Council Board Member and is the ANCW Membership Chairman and has served on several other OCW and ANCW committees.

Remember, ladies, Don’t forget to contact Melodi Molt if you want beef

gift certificates to give out as gifts!

We also have OCW Merchandise that makes for great gifts or additions to your home, like these amazing cutting boards shown below!.

Check out our cool items that we have for sale online at www.orcattlewomen.org

OCW UPCOMING EVENTS

LEGISLATIVE LUNCHEON AT THE SALEM CAPITAL • MARCH 28 •

Contact Sarah Liljefelt if you would like to help prepare and serve a tri-tip luncheon to about 500 or so legislative members. Way to go Sarah to make this all happen and get the Oregon CattleWomen’s name in the spotlight!

AG FEST AT THE SALEM FAIRGROUNDS • APRIL 27 AND 28 •

Contact Jenny Coelho or Katharine Jackson if you would like to help in the Beef Booth and to also help Julie Hoffman with the Oregon Beef Council do some Beef cooking demonstrations. There is usually about 20,000 people who come through our booth with their kids and we will have the opportunity to get information about our product, our beef -by-products and our way of life to the general public.

Private Treaty Bull Sale OFFERING INCLUDES 23 YEARLINGS & 6 TWO-YEAR-OLD ANGUS BULLS

Available Mid-February 2019 Introducing progeny of Kessler’s Generation 6559, with bulls also sired by RAA Top Shelf and Kessler’s Dependabull 0570.

RAA GENERAL

RAA GENESIS

OCW COMMITTEE CHAIRS Ag Fest (Salem) Jenny Coelho and Katharine Jackson Beef Gift Certificate Melodi Molt Collegiate CattleWomen Liaison TBA

Fundraising Tillie Flynn Junior CattleWomen Heidi Gorden Legislative Sarah Liljefelt Public Relations & Website Angela Faryan Sage Center (Boardman) Wendy Bingham Scholarship Melissa Ladner Team Beef Wendy Bingham

Actual Weaning Weight 800 lbs

Actual Weaning Weight 761 lbs

Tag # J3 • Reg # 19225194 • DOB: 2/7/18

Sire: Kessler’s Generation 6559 MGS: TC Aberdeen 759 BW +2.5

WW +76

YW +130

MK +29

$W $F $G +65.23 +102.88 +41.04

DOC +22

$B +159.46

Tag # J4 • Reg # 19225192

• DOB: 2/11/18

Sire: Kessler’s Generation 6559 MGS:Holiday Improver 3033 BW +1.2

WW +60

$W +60.33

YW +104

$F +64.68

MK +33

$G +26.99

DOC +17

$B +148.55

As in former years, the bulls will be gain tested, ultra sounded, semen tested, and priced according to pedigree and performance.

Volume discounts, free delivery, and will carry until April 1, 2019.

Contact us for more details!

ROLFE’S ANGUS ACRES Fred & Nancy, Thomas & Lauren Rolfe 63329 Hwy 97 • Grass Valley, OR 97029

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MORE THAN JUST A

MEMBERSHIP

The Oregon Cattlemen’s Association protects & enhances your bottom line

DID YOU KNOW, AS AN OCA MEMBER, YOU HAVE EXCLUSIVE ACCESS TO THESE MEMBER BENEFITS? • Monthly mailed subscription of the Oregon Cattleman magazine • Active legislation updates & representation • E-newsletter on news, issues & industry deals • Personal invitations to events, meetings and the annual OCA Convention • 10% of dues goes back to your county association

• Opportunity to join the Young Cattlemen’s Club with guidance and education • Access to wildfire relief fund and resources • Access to scholarship opportunities • Opportunity to join committees regarding wolves, public lands, water, resources, animal health and many more!

In addition to having a full-time staff working for you in Salem and beyond, OCA also provides you tangible benefits that you can take to the bank!

TASC AGRIPLAN

This HRA (Health Reimbursement Arrangement) Plan enables you to take 100% of your family’s medical expenses as a business tax deduction instead of a personal deduction, which saves you a considerable amount of money on your federal, state and self-employment taxes.

ED STAUB & SONS

Members receive a .02 cents per gallon discount off posted delivery price at bulk plants in Harney, Lake, Klamath, Malheur and Crook Counties. Will include Pacific Pride and CFN cards issued through Ed Staub & Sons. Deliveries are from 100 gallons to 10,000 gallons.

CARSON FUEL PROGRAM

Members receive a .02 per gallon discount on grades of fuel and diesel. Carson branches are in Portland, Albany, Prineville, Grants Pass, Hood River, North Bend, Tillamook, Newport, and Toledo. Discount is available at all Carson owned CFN and Pacific Pride Locations. Deliveries are from 100 gallons to 10,000 gallons.

STAR OILCO

Members receive discounts on fuel in the Western part of the state. Provided services such as tank tests and precision fuel management to insure clean and dry fuel. Discount is available at all Star Oil owned CFN and Pacific Pride Locations. Deliveries are from 100 gallons to 9500 gallons.

CENTRAL OREGON RANCH SUPPLY

Gives our members the opportunity to buy Zoetis Animal Health products at their premier producer level which equates to a 25% discount from retail. Other store promotions throughout the season.

CATTLE THEFT REWARD

OCA offers a reward of up t0 $1,000 to assist authorities in the apprehension and conviction of cattle theft. This reward also provides a very effective deterrent to the theft and stealing of cattle.

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2019 MEMBERSHIP FORM STEP 1: SELECT MEMBERSHIP MEMBERSHIP LEVEL Producer (more than 50 head, 3000 cap)

DUES $150.00 +$1.00 per head over 150

Small Producer (fewer than 50 head)

$50.00

Stocker/Feeder

$250.00

Additional Family Member: (w/ voting rights)

$25.00

Additional Employee: (w/ voting rights)

$25.00

Associate Council Business (w/ voting rights)

$110.00

Associate Business or Individual (w/out cattle; w/out voting rights)

$50.00

Student or Young Cattlemen’s Club Member (w/out voting rights)

$15.00

STEP 2: CONTACT INFORMATION MARK Name: _______________________________________ (X) Ranch: ______________________________________ Family Members: ______________________________ _____________________________________________ _____________________________________________ Employees: ___________________________________ ____________________________________________ Mailing Address: ______________________________

List all aditional names under contact information

List all aditional names under contact information

City/State/Zip: ________________________________ **Email Address: ______________________________ (MUST INCLUDE EMAIL ADDRESS)

STEP 3: ADDITIONAL CONTRIBUTIONS Cattlemen’s Stewardship Fund Donation: $_________ OCSF is a public charitable organization (IRS Section 501 C-3), which supports and encourages education, training, & research in the field of agriculture & provides funding for legal defense of cattle indurstry interests. OCSF supports local Ranchers Feeding Kids & Beef Heifer Replacement Programs. Contributions may be tax deductible for Federal Income purposes.

Oregon Cattle PAC: $_________ Is a non-partisan action committee which supports natural resource friendly government officials and legislators. Contributions may be used as an Oregon Income tax credit up to $50.00 per individual for political contributions.

Phone #: _____________________________________ County Affiliation: _____________________________ Recruited by: _________________________________

STEP 4: PAYMENT INFORMATION __ Check __ Visa __ Mastercard/Discover Credit Card #: ________________________________________ Exp. Date: ___________

CSV: __________

Attached Check #: _____________________________________ Mailing address: ______________________________________ Signature ____________________________ Date:__________ Return form & payment to: Oregon Cattlemen’s Association 1320 Capitol Street NE Suite 150 Salem, Oregon 97301 Questions? Call 503.361.8941 February 2019 OREGON CATTLEMAN

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CATTLEMEN’S

CLASSIFIEDS N5 NELSON RED ANGUS N5 VERIL & BARBIE NELSON 10387 Driver Valley Road Oakland, OR 97462

WOOD

V BAR X

RANCH

BAR BAR KD KD RANCH RANCH Elevating Angus to Greater Horizons

(541) 643-9759

n5redangus@gmail.com

Leonard & Naomi Wood • 481649 Hwy. 95 • Sandpoint, Idaho 83864 Home: (208) 263-5246 • Cell: (208) 290-7782 • treemeatreds@aol.com www.woodvbarxranch.com

Look for our “Distinctly Different” Angus Bulls at the 2019 Red Bluff & Modoc Bull Sales

KENNY & DIANNE READ

1485 SW King Lane • Culver, OR 97734 Ranch: (541) 546-2547 Cell: (541)480-9340

9498 NE 9th Terrebonne, OR 97760 e-mail: doubleeagle@uci.net Phone: (541) 923-1705 Fax: (541) 923-5005

E-mail: barkdranch@msn.com visit us online at: www.barkdangusranch.com

ANNUAL BULL SALE IN FEBRUARY

Kessler Angus Over 55 Years in the Business

—Low Birthweight Bulls A Specialty— Randy Kessler Family

49838 Fruitvale Road • Milton-Freewater, OR 97862 (509) 520-3281

Join us March 2 for our annual spring bull sale!

Bull Sale February 2018

LAUTENSCHLAGER & SONS “A Legacy of Innovation”

Carl Lautenschlager (509) 657-3301 • Endicott, WA

Robert & Kathleen Buchanan (541) 883-8471 13490 Algoma Rd buchananangus@hughes.net Klamath Falls, OR 97601 www.buchananangus.com

TOP QUALITY RED ANGUS

Freeman Angus Ranch

INC.

Registered Angus Since 1932

Conformation & Rate of Gain

Dave & Twila Freeman

Seth Freeman

36831 Sutton Cr Rd • Baker City, OR 97753 (541) 523-6881 • mobile: (541) 403-0524

HANG’N CATTLE COMPANY Hang’n A A Cattle Company Alan & Leslie Alexander

Alan and Leslie Alexander (509) 727-9151 Pasco, WA (509)727-9151

Rancher’s ChoicePasco, BullWA Sale • Feb. 23, 2019 E-mail: hangna@owt.com www.hangnacattle.com Rancher’s Choice Bull Sale •February 24, 2018 Follow uswww.hangnacattle.com on Facebook! email hangna@owt.com

Follow us on for Facebook Your Northwest Source Quality Charolais Cattle

Your Northwest Source for Quality Charolais Cattle

email: mcahayherefords@centurytel.net

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CATTLEMEN’S

CLASSIFIEDS

Thank you to our 2018 bull buyers!

Ron and Barbara Jones 685 King Ave. Ontario, OR 97914 541- 889-4563 “ Real Deal Bulls for All the Right Reasons”

(541) 524-9322

Performance Plus Bull Sale President’s Day 2019 • Terrebonne, OR • 1:00pm

John Teixeira: (805) 448-3859 Allan Teixeira: (805) 310-3353 Tom Hill: (541) 990-5479

Production Sale March 12, -2019

Westfall, Oregon (541) 358-2921 romanscharolais.com

CATTLE COMPANY REGISTERED RED ANGUS

Jim, Kelly & Bryce Doherty • 68812 Wilson Rd • Boardman, OR 97818

(541) 481-2866

Registered Hereford Cattle & Quarter Horses

-Annual Sale First Monday in March-

597 S Pacific HWY, Woodburn, OR • (503) 981-9497

Join us for our regular sale every Tuesday!

42500 Salmon Creek • Rd Baker City, OR 97814 Ranch: (541) 523-4401 • Bob Harrell, Jr.: (541) 523-4322

HINTON RANCHSimmentals

Cattle available private treaty off the ranch and at top consignment sales in the West!

John & Shauna Hinton 2916 Kuck Rd Montague, CA 96064 (530) 459-3928

Lester & Paula Hinton

11200 Kern Swamp Rd. Klamath Falls, OR 97601 (541) 882-1218

Jared Patterson Western Region Field Manager (208) 312-2386 Call AHA today for assistance or information on buying or marketing of Hereford cattle!

11500 N Ambassador Drive, Suite 410 | Kansas City, MO 64153 | (816) 842-3757 | aha@hereford.org

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CLASSIFIEDS Your classified ad could be here and reach all members of the Oregon Cattlemen’s Assocition and producers throughout the west!

BALE WAGONS New Holland self propelled and pull-type models/parts/tires

sell/buy/deliver

(208) 880-2889 35 Years in the Bale Wagon Business!

®

Livestock Intelligence

Jesse Odom

Northwest Sales Manager

Jim Welsh Windermere Real Estate 1165 Pearl St. Eugene, OR 97401

3408 McAllens Way Madison, WI 53718 USA O: (608) 237-3170 jesse.odom@scrdairy.com M: (209) 241-3734

(541) 554-8043- cell jimwelsh@windermere.com

It’s more than the iron you use.

For graphic design, marketing and print solutions totalisdesign.com

Branding at Traynham Ranches

“Branding”

Tamra Thompson 541.723.2268 tami@totalisdesign.com

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www.allflexusa.com

Jim Wilhite, Caldwell, ID

FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT ADVERTISING IN THIS PUBLICATION OR GAINING EXPOSURE FOR YOUR BUSINESS OR CATTLE OPERATION, CONTACT M3 MARKETING TODAY! SALE MANAGEMENT & MARKETING PHOTOGRAPHY & VIDEOGRAPHY ORDER BUYING PRIVATE TREATY SALES PRODUCTION SALE RING SERVICE OREGON CATTLEMAN ADVERTISING

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DEPARTURES GARY GRIEB

Gary Grieb of Hermiston was born July 23, 1940, in Spokane, Wash., the son of Bert and Gertrude Grieb.

He passed away after a brief illness in Hermiston on Saturday, Dec. 8, 2018, at the age of 78.

Gary grew up on the family wheat farm near Hatton and attended schools in Lind, graduating from Wa-Hi in Walla Walla, Wash. He spent most of his teenage years showing cattle across the Northwest. As an adult, he farmed in Condon and Stanfield before settling on the current family wheat farm north of Lexington, Ore. He later moved to Hermiston where he did custom haying until his retirement.

Besides farming wheat, Gary was a well respected Angus cattle breeder. He raised and exhibited numerous champions at cattle shows throughout the country. He always encouraged his kids as they showed cattle at the county, state and national levels.

He was a member of the American Angus Association, Morrow County Cattleman’s Association, Morrow County Grain Growers Board and the Oregon Wheat League. He was in the stands for as many ball games that he could attend to watch his children and then grandchildren and was an avid supporter of Heppner and Hermiston athletics.

Gary married Virginia Nelson in 1959; from this union three children, Ken, Julie and Geri, were born. The couple later divorced. Many years later he married Sue Riddle and they later divorced.

He is survived by his son Ken (Carri) Grieb; daughters Julie (Mark) Weimar and Geri Grieb; and six grandchildren: Paige, Logan and Claire Grieb, Halle, Parker and Brandon Weimar.

He was preceded in death by his parents and a brother, Dan Grieb.

At his request, no service will be held.

Burns Mortuary of Hermiston is in care of final arrangements. Memorial donations in his memory can be made to the Heppner Booster Club P.O. Box 917 Heppner, OR 97836.

DAYTON “HAWK” HYDE

Dayton Ogden “Hawk” Hyde Sr., was born March 25, 1925, to Rhoda Mott Williams and Frederick Walton Hyde II in Marquette, Mich. He died Dec. 22, 2018, at Yamsi Ranch, Chiloquin, Ore., with family at his side.

He leaves behind Dayton and Sally Hyde of Sisters, Ore., Ginny Jayne of Chiloquin, John and Jerri Hyde, Yamsi Ranch, Chiloquin, and Taylor and Becky Hyde of Beatty, Paisley and Brothers, Ore., and numerous nieces, nephews, grandchildren and greatgrandchildren and special friend Susan Watt, the Black Hills Wild Horse Sanctuary, South Dakota.

Including his parents, Hyde was preceded in death by a brother, Frederick William “Ted” Hyde III; sister, Elizabeth “Liza” Barton Meyer; spouse, Gerda Virginia Isenberg Hyde; daughter, Marsha Gerda Hyde Tschosick, and great-uncle, Dayton Ogden “Buck” Williams.

No services are planned. Memorial donations can be made to the Hyde Family Scholarship fund at Oregon Institute of Technology, Klamath Falls, OR 97601, or to the Black Hills Wild Horse Sanctuary, care of Susan Watt, P.O. Box 932, Hot Springs, S.D. 57747.

TO PLACE AN OBITUARY, BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT OR WEDDING ANNOUNCEMENT, IN THIS PUBLICATION, CONTACT THE OCA OFFICE AT OCA@ORCATTLE.COM OR (503) 361-8941.

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Maag-Oft-Vallad Bull Sale..................................... 2 5J Angus................................................................. 75 9 Mile Ranch......................................................... 65 9 Peaks Ranch....................................................... 74 Ag Insurance......................................................... 76 All West-Select Sires............................................. 57 Allflex, USA........................................................... 76 Allison Hay & Herefords..................................... 74 American Angus Association............................. 55 American Hereford Association......................... 75 American Simmental Associatoin...................... 29 Angus Alliance Bull Sale...................................... 22 Athena Income Tax Service, LLC....................... 22 Baker Angus.......................................................... 21 Bar 6 Charolais “Cowman’s Kind” Bull Sale...... 13 Bar CK Cattle Co.................................................. 74 Bar KD Angus Ranch..................................... 17, 74 Basin Bull Fest....................................................... 40 Beefmaster Breeders United................................ 67 Buchanan Angus Ranch................................ 20, 74 Byrd Cattle Co....................................................... 75 Camas Prairie Angus Ranch............................... 33 Central Oregon Ranch Supply............................ 45 Chandler Herefords.............................................. 59 Corsair Angus Ranch..................................... 32, 74 Crouthamel Cattle Co.......................................... 23 Crystalyx................................................................ 26 Double Eagle Ranch............................................. 74 Flying U Angus Ranch......................................... 15 Freeman Angus Ranch........................................ 74 Hang’n A Cattle Company.................................. 74 Harrell Hereford Ranch................................... 9, 75 Herd Builder Bull Sale......................................... 36 Highview Angus Ranch....................................... 75 Hinton Ranch Simmentals.................................. 75 Hufford’s Herefords.............................................. 75 James Wilhite Bale Wagons................................. 76 JR Ranch................................................................ 36 Kessler Angus.................................................. 25, 74 Lambert Ranch..................................................... 17 Lautenschlager & Sons......................................... 74 Loop Ranch........................................................... 12 Lorenzen Ranches.............................................. 6, 7 Ludvigson Stock Farms........................................ 69 M3 Marketing....................................................... 76 Multimin, USA..................................................... 35 Nelson Red Angus................................................ 74 Noahs Angus Ranch....................................... 74, 77 Northwest Farm Credit Services........................ 43 Northwest Hereford Breeders............................. 12 Northwest Livestock Supply................................ 56 O’Doherty Cattle Co...................................... 30, 75 Oregon Trail Livestock Supply............................ 68 Pendleton Cattle Barons...................................... 50 Price Cattle Co................................................ 19, 74 Quail Valley Ranch............................................... 75 Rancher’s Choice Bull Sale.................................. 46 Rock’n D Ranch.................................................... 68 Rolfe’s Angus Acres........................................ 70, 74 Rollin’ Rock Genetic Partners............................... 5 Roman’s Ranches Charolais........................... 51, 75 Sackmann Cattle Co............................................. 36 Scales Northwest................................................... 80 Schuster Herefords............................................... 75 Simplot Western Stockman’s............................... 75 Spring Cove Ranch............................................... 37 Sunny Okanogan Angus...................................... 47 Teixeira Cattle Co............................................. 3, 75 Thomas Angus Ranch.................................... 41, 75 Totalis Design & Print......................................... 76 Traynham Ranches............................................... 75 Udy Cattle Company............................................ 63 V-A-L Charolais Ranch....................................... 74 VF Red Angus................................................. 61, 74 Washington Cattlemen’s Bull Test Sale.............. 27 Western Video Market......................................... 11 Windermere Real Estate...................................... 76 Wood V Bar X Ranch.......................................... 74 Woodburn Livestock Exchange.......................... 75 Wooden Shoe Farms............................................ 31

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Burgess Angus Ranch Bull Sale Homedale, Idaho PABCO Angus Bull Sale Madras PABCO Angus Bull Sale Madras South Mountain Ranch Bull Sale Marsing, Idaho Meadow Acres Angus Bull Sale Echo Lambert Ranch & Bar KD Ranch Modoc Bull Sale Alturas, Calif.

Hoffman Ranch Thedford, Neb. Angus Alliance Bull Sale Lewiston, Idaho Teixeira Cattle Co. Bull Sale Terrebonne Kessler Angus Bull Sale Umapine V-A-L Charolais Bull Sale Nyssa Cowman’s Kind Charolais Bull Sale Madras Price Cattle Co. Bull Sale Echo Baker Angus Ranch Bull Sale Vale Rancher’s Choice Bull Sale Eltopia, Wash.

Crouthamel Cattle Bull Sale Stanfield Lorenzen Ranches Bull Sale Madras Ludvigson Stock Farms Bull Sale Madras Camas Prarie Ranch Bull Sale Lewiston, Idaho VF Red Angus Bull Sale Terrebonne Trinity Farms Bull Sale Ellensburg, Wash.

Harrell Hereford Ranch Bull Sale Baker City Thomas Angus Ranch Bull Sale Baker City Northwest Hereford Breeders Bull Test Sale Stanfield

Due to the number of events held in the spring, this calendar is only updated one issue in advance. To include your event on this calendar, contact the OCA office at (503) 361-8941

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MArch 28 & 29

OCA Spring Quarterly Salem

OCA MIDYEAR CONFERENCE JUNE 24-25

SEVEN FEATHER S CASINO

CANYONVILLE, O R

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NCBA

Legislative Conference

April 2-4 Washington, D.C.

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