Ag & Ranching 2022

The Final Gavel Hits At Bulls For The 21st Century Bull Sale

By Celeste Settrini

The gavel hit for the final time on March 13th at the Snyder Livestock Bulls For The 21st Century Sale. Lucy Rechel made the announce ment at the conclusion of the bull sale that this was the final year for the year ly spring event. It was also the last purebred sale for Colonel John Rodgers, 1986 World Champion Livestock Auctioneer. Though it was an emotional day filled with chapters closing it was also filled with the hope of new stories being created as two greats within our industry take some time to rest and revel in all the good that they have been blessed with over their many combined years within the beef industry.

The weekend kicked off with Dr Dave Daley sharing his story of loss during the

Bear Fire in Butte County, California where he and his family lost a large portion of their cowherd due to the devastating wildfire. Dave shared the importance of bridging the gap between people who may have dif fering ideas than we ranch ers do. He encouraged us to continue to share our stories but listen to the other side and see how we can best connect to come to better solutions.

Saturday evening a lovely dinner/dance/auction raised money for the Boys and Girls Club in Yerington but on by the local Rotary. The night was filled with good music, delicious food and thousands of dollars raised for a great cause.

Sunday brought the bull sale where a packed house was on hand to bid on a variety of bulls from ranch

es throughout California and Nevada. Westwind Angus owned by Dave and Paula Holden was the Hi Point Angus Bull also winning the Champion Angus honors. The following were also honored: Champion Calving Ease Angus - Lancaster Ranch Champion ContinentalGudel Cattle Co

Champion Continental Calv ing Ease - Tom Easterly

Champion Red Angus/ Bran gus - Lana Trotter

Champion Red Angus/Her eford/ Brangus - Romans Angus and Brangus

The Lucy Award was award ed to Lana Trotter

Colonel John Rodgers was honored for his years of ded ication and service to the bull sale. John has been with the bull sale since it began. Lucy along with some of the ring crew John has worked with shared their short stories of

all he has contributed not only to the industry but to them personally. An emo tional John Rodgers shared his love for the industry but most of all the people, he loves the people and was so thankful for the support he has gotten over his 50 years of being an auctioneer.

Diana Cardey of Cardey Ranches summed it up best sharing, “ We love coming to this sale, we love the out come, they do an outstanding job feeding the bulls and the cattle learn to adapt to cold and warm temperatures. We have brought bulls for 20 years and so enjoy it. The people are great and so is the food.”

No matter who I visited with throughout the week end the sentiments seem to mirror the thoughts from Diana. Everyone loves Lucy and the job she has done

over the years caring for the bulls, she treats them like they are her own. That in itself is success and why Sny der Livestock Bulls For The 21st Century has proven to be so successful over the years.

Though the sale will not

be happening in the years ahead we all can relish in the fun, the top notch bulls, the great tri-tip lunch and the endless hospitality of the Snyder Family. Like the bull sale tagline says, it really is “ the best damn bull sale…… period.”

PHOTO BY CELESTE SETTRINI

Colonel John Rogers and Lucy Rechel exchange a good bye hug as they end an era.

Part of the crew since 1967

Meet the Breeders

Matt and Leah Mori

By Leah Mori Special to the Rancher

Paradise Valley, Nev.— We live in Paradise Valley with our 3 kids, Isaac, Wade and Natalie. Matt trains hors es both for ourselves and customers, as well as day works for some of the local ranchers. We have a small farm where we raise hay, horses and our family. Leah works full time for USDA Natural Resources Conser vation Service in Winnemuc ca. Our kids are involved in every aspect of our opera tion, from halter breaking to starting and riding the colts to helping with haying and irrigating. The kids are active in High School Rodeo, FFA, Wrestling and Basketball. They each have a mare that they breed and its always exciting to see what they choose to breed them to and the result.

We had a few mares when we got married that we used

to breed to local stallions by programs we admired. When we were able to purchase our own stallion (Bert Bot tom) in 2006, that changed our program for the better. We then grew from there by adding another stallion (Berts Star Command) in 2014. We knew what we liked in the horses we rode and tried to replicate that with our pro gram as best we could. We try to raise horses that the public can get along with and do the job that they set out to do. Not every customer wants a high-powered show horse with lots of buttons, they want something they can go brand some calves on or make a circle on. As time has gone on, we have tried to increase the quality of horses

as well as the way we market them.

In 2016, we purchased a yearling colt by That CD Rocks out of La Patrona Del Gallo (daughter of Gallo Del Cielo) at the Snaffle Bit Futu rity Sale in Reno. This Roost er Rocks, aka Rocco sired his first foals in 2020 and we are looking forward to getting them started and going.

Our inspiration, we were so fortunate when we start ed to have forward think ing horseman, great friends, and family like Leroy Horn, Bill VanNorman and Charley Amos. Whom already had successful breeding programs that were willing to share their knowledge to help us make better choices in our own program. They are still

influencing our breeding pro gram to this day. As with many, fledgling businesses you cannot start with the very best but having the opportu nity to improve with people who support you as a trainer and breeder has helped mold our program. Our drive to sticking with this difficult and sometimes discouraging busi ness is seeing our product become more valuable and our appreciative customers. We are blessed to have a couple fields leased on the mountain where we can turn out a stud bunch and run our yearlings in the sum mer. Its beneficial for us and our clients to have horses that have been outside to learn where their feet are and how to manage in the

PHOTO BY THE W HEART PHOTOGRAPHY The Mori family, Wade, Natalie, Isaac , Leah, and Matt.

rocks. We believe this helps them become more sound and more useful no matter where they go the rest of their lives.

We prefer the cowhorse bloodlines. But we also have a few appendix bred mares that have been good pro ducers. They provide a little more size and speed to the mix. Our Bert bred stallions have both been good produc ers for us, especially crossed on some of our more mod ern bred cowhorse mares. We like to ride our mares before we put them in our breeding program, realizing how important the female is. We like to joke, that every thing is for sale but just like anyone that has ever had ani mals, we have our favorites. And from a work standpoint, we have to have enough hors es around to keep everyone in the family mounted to go do a job or compete on. We do on occasion have an older horse for sale that our entire family has used.

We market our horses both through private trea ty and horse sales. We are lucky to be a part of the Van Norman and Friends Sale in

Elko, where we usually try to take yearlings and started colts. We have had several returning customers that like our young horses to go on with in their own programs. We have had horses go on to excel in roping, ranching, bar rels, cowhorse competitions, ranch versatility and ranch rodeo events. It’s a nice feel ing when you are somewhere and see someone competing on a horse with a U Cross. We have taken advantage of

other horse sales too, like the Shelman Sale in Burns Oregon and few others over the years.

We do take outside mares to breed to Rocco because we hand breed him here at home. Bert Bottom is also available to breed to. He is standing at North Valley Vet Clinic with shipped semen available. For more infor mation, check out U Cross Quarter Horses on Face book!

PHOTO BY KATHY BENGOA

Wade Mori day working on his mare he purchased from his grandma Karan as a yearling. The Mori’s like to ride their mares before adding them to the breeding program.

Lady Rancher Gina Liberini

I live in Lovelock, but grew up in Central California and I currently run a feedlot for Dave Stix.

I was that horse crazy little girl and when I was young I was lucky enough to have met a man named Robert (Bob) Davis. He was our neighbor but gladly took me in as the daughter he never had and even though I was just a kid showed me the world of a cowboy and I have been forever hooked. Believe it or not, I wasn’t raised around this kind of stuff. I am that “towny” we all talk about. My dad always said I would grow out of the question “can I have a horse please!?!” Well that never happened. CLEARLY! So he finally gave up fighting it and I joined FFA my soph omore year in high school. I showed sheep and steers. With money I saved from that I bought my first proj ect horse. He was a gem and took me more places than I could ever imagine.

After graduating high school I threw myself in to the ranch ing community any way I knew how. I rented a house in Oakdale, CA with a little bit of ground, found a couple friends to move in with me and I got a job penning cattle at the local sale yard and working at Conlin Supply. Met a guy (surprise surprise) shortly after and he intro duced me to the mountains. Not exactly cowboying, more dude wrangling. But I developed a love for packing mules and the high country. I packed in the sierras for eight summers, doing a little bit of everything. Packing in vaca tioners, hunting camps and even supplies for the Califor nia conservation corps.

I then decided it was time for something new. I went to work for an equine repro facility and was also given the opportunity to take care of about 200 pair around the same time. So I dove in head first knowing very little about either. So from there

stemmed my love for the breeding and performance horse world and becoming a good cowboy and even better cattle woman. I had very little confidence in my abilities when I got started and I owe a lot of who I am today to Bodie Scruggs. He never let me say I couldn’t, and was always my number one supporter and for that I am ever grateful.

I am a single woman who can’t seem to find a man willing to put up with me. I do not have kids but would like to some day if my clock doesn’t run out of time.

I have had many inspi rational people in my life. I consider myself to be a lucky gal to have met a lot of the people I know and been for tunate enough to have them pass on their knowledge and wisdom. I think this is a good time to mention Kirstin McSharry...how in the world she manages to be so darn handy, talented and an abso lute jam up momma to Tilly

is beyond me. She works her tail off doing everything from cowboying to wrench ing on equipment and taking on another thankless water project all while holding down the fort at home mak ing sure everyone and every thing is fed and always check ing up on misfits like me. Talk about an inspiration to a gal like myself. I want to be cool like her when I grow up.

My most memorable moment…. Hmm, I have to think about this one. Hon estly I can’t come up with that one single moment. Now there are a few that come to mind which all have a certain fondness deep down inside. Standing center field playing my first big trumpet solo in fields show, buying my first load of cows, or the nerves I had sitting in Vegas waiting to watch my first futurity horse show. But definitely at the top of my list would be just about any time I got to spend with my grandparents up in Christ mas Valley, Oregon. As far as

“I’d like to introduce you to another really spectac ular Lady Rancher! Gina Liberini is a super wom an who is no stranger to hard work; she has a tool box full of skills & positive attributes. I’m blessed to know her personally & hopefully after reading this you will know her a little bit better as well. Send her a friend request and get to know her...she’s quite fabulous!

Enjoy! “- Kirstin McSharry, organizer of “Lady Rancher”

I was concerned as a young ster that is where I belonged. Out in the sagebrush with likeminded people. Not stuck in the city back at home.

Hobbies: I really enjoy singing, training and show ing cow dogs and cooking/ baking. I’ve been singing and playing many instruments since I was young. Now that people have found out my best kept secret I have had the pleasure of singing the national anthem at quite a few ropings and rodeos. It has been a long time since I sang in public and I think it’s something I would like to try and do more.

I stumbled into the high power cow dog world. I was in WAY over my head when I bought my first papered border collie. Roxie was a life changing dog for sure. I remember thinking “what in the world have I gotten myself into ‘’ then went looking for help on how to train that crazy pup. It took me a whole two seconds to become hooked. And here I am less than three weeks from taking not only a dog that I raised and trained to Red Bluff but a gelding as well. Eeeekkkkk!! Editor’s Note: Gina had a successful weekend at the 60th Annual Bull and Gelding sale, that she mentioned in this inter view. Selling lot #3 “Highbrow Sammy” A 2018 bay gelding High Brow Jackson x LLH Lit tlesugarpeppy for $35,000. Gina also sold lot #10, 2S

Solo, at the 44th Annual Red Bluff Stock Dog Sale for $7,250. To read the full sale results please visit www.red bluffsale.com

Then there is the time spent in the kitchen…. Any one that knows me knows I love to cook and bake for people. And if you don’t know me there’s a fun fact and with that I will also tell you my favorite food is fresh baked bread.

My favorite recipe that takes me back to my child hood is chicken and broccoli impossible pie. Sounds weird but it’s easy and tasty! Mes sage me if you want it. Haha!

My favorite color at the moment is purple

Horses have always been my favorite and I have been extremely fortunate to own some amazing ones. Tuck, Poptart and ChaCha will always hold a special place in my heart for sure.

My favorite quote: “A

horse doesn’t care how much you know until it knows how much you care. Put your hand on your horse and your heart in your hand.”

Biggest pet peeve: Call me an asshole...but I can’t stand barking dogs

I would like my business endeavors to one day own a ranch of my own and be able to pay my bills by doing what I love. I want to raise nice cat tle, talented dogs and horses.

Whenever I’m having a bad day or the weight of the world feels like it’s on my shoulders there are two things that help clear my mind. I go for a nice long hike or I spend time with my hors es. Those two things always seem to make it all better.

And finally my dream vacation: I would be happy road tripping across the country. But, I’m not going to lie, a trip to Italy or even the Bahamas wouldn’t hurt my feelings either.

909 deeded acres of which over 700 acres have water rights. Some surface water out of Schell Creek, Three Pivots, 4 wells and two wheel-lines. 4th pivot being placed. BLM winter range out the gate and BLM summer range over the hill in Utah. Three manufactured homes all in good condition. 3 shops and working corrals, hay barn.

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Let’s Eat! Jalapeno Meatloaf

By Jennifer Whiteley The Nevada Rancher

Lamoille, Nev.—Being a cowboy’s wife is not for the faint of heart. It’s a hard, but very rewarding adven ture. While many girls dream of romantic vacations, fancy dinners, and dressing up. My reality has been overnight trips to sell cattle in Twin Falls, and if I’m lucky a fast stop at Costco. Quick din ners at the local bar after a long day doing cowboy things and dressing up is putting on clean clothes to buy gro ceries.

Dates include picking up paychecks and buying grain or hot shot batteries. They are saddling fresh horses in the late afternoon to go and rope with the neighbors and riding along to open gates while we look at our cows and put out salt. Hauling bulls or strays back to the neigh bors can also be considered a date. Sometimes dates end in holding hands and glorious sunsets. Other days they end

in flat tires, long walks to cell service or the house to get a spare tire and no words spoken.

The other day my Cow boss and I had a rather adventurous date that could have ended much worse than it did. One morning feeding, we noticed we had a bull that was packing a hind leg. The Cowboss decided we better doctor him for foot rot before he got really lame. If everything went well, it should take us longer to haul him to the chute and doctor than it would to get him gathered and loaded in the trailer. Of course, the bulls were at the opposite end of the ranch to where the squeeze chute is. He was a pretty big bull, so we decid ed we would corral him and put him through the chute instead of roping him and doctoring him in the field, he probably weighed as much as both our horses together, and its cold and dang slick outside! Jewely and I really didn’t want to rope a bull.

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She’s good on the end of a rope, but I’d hate to hurt her trying to rope something that big if I didn’t have to.

The bull was pretty easy to corral, almost too easy, and we loaded him in the trailer like he took rides in it every day. We slammed the center gate latched and haltered our horses to jump on the back of the trailer and head to the chute. As I was loading Jewely, the bull hit the gate and it popped open! He jumped out of the trailer and took off! I was pretty glad the horses were able to beat him out of the trailer and didn’t get smashed by the center gate!

I threw my lead rope over Jewely’s neck, the Cowboss did the same with PintoBean, and we chased him around for a good hour! The dumb guy ran through 3 fenc es and tried to willow up several times, and we didn’t have a dog with us. Jaws were clenched, teeth were gnashed, and discouraging words were heard. Loudly.

Then in the middle of it all I managed to lose my phone!

When I was to the point that I didn’t care if he lived or died and the Cowboss wished he had a gun, he crashed through one more fence, back in the correct field. I don’t think he was as lame as he let on, because when the Cowboss’s looped sailed around his neck, he lead like a milk pen calf to the trailer and stepped in like it was nothing. After backtracking and calling my phone, we found it. What should have been a fairly quick project turned into an all-afternoon ordeal, but all gates and fences were mend ed, and we were headed back home. The best part, the CowBoss and I were still speaking when we got back to the trailer! If you know, you know these kind of dates don’t always have happy end ings!

Having a hot meal planned for dinner helps, and the Cowboss knows who cooks his food! If you are looking

for something to spice up your valentines day, try this tasty, spicy meatloaf!

Jalapeño-Bacon Meatloaf

Ingredients:

12 slices bacon, divided

2 pounds ground beef

2 large eggs, lightly beaten

2 cloves garlic, minced

1 large jalapeño, seeded and diced

1 cup breadcrumbs

½ cup chopped green onion

6 tablespoons ketchup, divid ed

2 tablespoons pepper sauce

8 teaspoons Worcestershire sauce, divided 2 teaspoons mustard

1 teaspoon salt

½ teaspoon ground black pepper

¼ cup firmly packed brown sugar

¼ cup sliced pickled jala peños

Instructions: Preheat oven to 350°.

In a 12-inch cast-iron skil let, cook 8 slices bacon sliced thinly over medium heat until

crisp. Remove bacon and let drain on paper towels.

In a large bowl, stir together beef, eggs, garlic, diced jalapeño, breadcrumbs, green onion, 2 tablespoons ketchup, pepper sauce, 6 teaspoons Worcestershire, mustard, salt, pepper, and crumbled bacon until com bined. Shape mixture into a rectangle, and place in skillet. Cut remaining 4 slices bacon in half: layer on top of meat.

In a small bowl, stir togeth er brown sugar, remain ing 4 tablespoons ketchup, and remaining 2 teaspoons Worcestershire. Brush half of glaze over bacon; sprinkle with pickled jalapeños.

Bake for 45 minutes. Brush remaining glaze over meatloaf and bake until a meat thermometer insert ed in center registers 165°, about 30 minutes more. Place meatloaf under broiler until bacon is crisp, 2 to 3 minutes.

If you don’t like a lot of heat, use less pickled jala peños.

Nevada is a brand inspection state

Special to Nevada News Group

1. Per NRS 565, a brand inspection is require on all Bovine and Equine species.

2. A brand inspection is required for all changes of ownership regardless of buying, selling, rescuing or gifting, as well as for slaughter

3. A brand inspection is required regardless if sold or purchased/received through want-ads, grocery store flyers, Craig’s list etc.

4. A brand inspection is required for all transportation across district lines (map attached), within the state and to leave the state. Livestock Movement Permits are available.

5. A brand inspection is required if entering Nevada from a brand inspec tion state; legal proof of ownership if entering from a non-brand inspection state.

6. A bill of sale is not a legal docu ment to buy/sell livestock in Nevada.

7. A health certification and negative coggins is required for all equine enter ing Nevada or entering any neighboring states.

8. A health certificate and entry permit are required on any cattle/bison entering Nevada. For cattle/bison leav ing Nevada and entering another state, check that state’s requirements.

To find a brand inspector near you, go to https://agri.nv.gov/Animals/Live stock/Brands/

For questions regarding health requirements or brand inspection laws call 775-738-8076.