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DEPARTMENTS 10 NMCGA President’s Message

E-mail: caren@aaalivestock.com Official publication of ... n New Mexico Cattle Growers’ Association Email: nmcga@nmagriculture.org 2231 Rio Grande NW, P.O. Box 7517, Albuquerque, NM 87194 505-247-0584, Fax: 505-842-1766 President, Randell Major n New Mexico Wool Growers, Inc. P.O. Box 7520, Albuquerque, NM 87194 505-247-0584 President, Bronson Corn

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(USPS 381-580) is published monthly by Caren Cowan, 2231 Rio Grande, NW, Albuquerque, NM 87104-2529 Subscription price: 1 year - $30 / 2 years - $40 Single issue price $10, Directory price $30 Subscriptions are non-refundable POSTMASTER: Send address changes to New Mexico Stockman, P.O. Box 7127, Albuquerque, NM 87194. Periodicals Postage paid at Albuquerque, New Mexico, and additional mailing offices. Copyright© 2015 by New Mexico Stockman. Material may not be used without permission of the publisher. Deadline for editorial and advertising copy, changes and cancellations is the 10th of the month preceding publication. Advertising rates on request.

by Randell Major

12 Just the Facts ... and Then Some by Caren Cowan

15 New Mexico CowBelles Jingle Jangle 42 New Mexico’s Old Times & Old Timers by Don Bullis

47 New Mexico Federal Lands Council News by Frank DuBois

52 News Update 56 View From the Backside by Barry Denton

60 Riding Herd 63 New Mexico Livestock Board Update 68 In Memoriam 71 New Mexico Beef Council Bullhorn 90 Marketplace 92 Seedstock Guide 97 Real Estate Guide 104 Collectors Corner by Jim Olson

110 .On the Edge of Common Sense by Baxter Black

112 Advertisers’ Index

FEATURES 16 18 34

USDA Invests $32 Million to Strengthen Supply Chain Bull Buyers Guide 2021 A Buyers Guide for Bulls Source: Illinois Performance Tested Bull Sale

40 USDA Accepting Applications for $1.5 B in Loans & Grant For Broadband 54 RABO Research: Contracting US Beef Production Drives Tightening Global Market

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57 Wall Street’s Takeover of Nature Advances with Launch of New Asset Class by Whitney Webb, unlimitedhangout.com

61 Reality Ranch — From Trail Drives to the Millennium Part 1 by Sid Goodloe

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Waypath Joins Forces with Bob Homer & Associates LLC Honoring the Legacy & the Heritage of Sheep in NM New Mexico Youth Beef Feeder Contest Winners NMDA Reminds Public of Pecan Regulations South of the Border by Jerome Rosa, Associate Director, Arizona Department of Agriculture

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American Agri-Women Elects New National Officers Greens Sue to Block Expanded Hunting on Wildlife Refuges by Michael Doyle, E & E News

89 FMSCA Extends Hour of Service Waiver for Livestock Haulers Again by Jennifer Shike, Farm Journal Ag Web

89 Jaguar Populations is Increasing in Mexico Yucatan Times

104 Home at the Ranch: Grocery Shopping 30 Miles to Town by Carol Wilson

107 Rick Smith Named PRCA’s Supervisor of Pro Officials 107 Bloomer Trailers Donates to Benefit Justin Cowboy Crisis Fund 107 Steve Knowles Named PRCA’s Director of Rodeo Administration 108 Rodeo Royalty 111 Casper Baca’s 35th Annual Championship Extraordinaire Results 111 Rodeo Calendar

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PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE by Randell Major NMCGA President

Randell Major President Magdalena Loren Patterson, President-Elect Corona Dustin Johnson NW Vice President Farmington Cliff Copeland NE Vice President Nara Visa Jeff Decker SE Vice President Lovington Roy Farr SW Vice President Datil Joe Culbertson Vice President at Large Amistad Shacey Sullivan Secretary/Treasurer Peralta Tom Sidwell Immediate Past President Quay Pat Boone Past President Elida

n the national level, Senators Fischer (R-NE.), Grassley (R-I), Tester (D-MT), Wyden (D-OR), Ernst (R-IA), Smith (D-MN), Braun (R-IN), Cassidy (R-LA) and Hyde-Smith (R-MS) introduced the new Cattle Price Discovery and Transparency Act on November 17. The new bipartisan legislation is a compromise between the 50/14 and the transparency act. The legislation requires more timely reporting of cattle carcass weights, as well as requiring a packer to report the number of cattle scheduled to be delivered for slaughter each day for the next 14 days. It also creates a library of marketing contracts between packers and producers while maintaining confidentiality. Some trade groups say no government involvement while others say the legislation is not aggressive enough. One thing for sure is cattle producers continue to struggle with low prices while the four largest packers operate with high profits. The bill has a lot of support from many agriculture groups in hopes to see fairness returned to the cattle marketplace. Two cases in humans of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) or known as mad cow disease has resurfaced through testing in Brazil. It hasn’t been that long ago since there were cases in cattle. For the health of our domestic cattle herd, our US cattle trade groups are trying to get the Department of Agriculture to halt imports of Brazilian beef. Brazil is bigger than the US in exports, and China is their biggest customer. Knowing the US doesn’t have the best relations with China, we will see if there is an increase in demand of American beef to China. Ranchers continue to be burdened by environmental regulations. These include regulations imposed under the Endangered Species Act, such as the listing of the SW willow flycatcher. NMCGA has been busy with many comments, including the new revisions on the Mexican wolf 10J rule, NM State Land office Cultural Properties, Prescribed burn certification, NEPA rule, Endangered species act regulation, NM Hydrogen Hub act, and Endangered plants just to mention the most recent. NMCGA is also following the ag tax and giving feedback on the 50-year water plan. As my term comes to an end, I just want to thank everyone who has given their time for this association. I especially want to thank all our legislators who tirelessly to defend agriculture. Our committees have done a great job brainstorming and stepping up to help with the workload. I also want to thank our executive committee and board for your service and hard work. And a big shout out to our sponsors. We could not do it without you. If you feel strongly about any issue and would like to join NMCGA in fighting the good fight, I would like to encourage you to step up. It is so important to the future of agriculture, and you are needed. Just let NMCGA know. Shelleen, Michelle, and Taylor have done a great job getting all the details planned for this year’s Joint Stockman convention at Hotel Albuquerque on December 14th through the17th. It looks to be a big one. A special thanks to Patty Waid for assisting the staff in making sure this year’s Joint Stockman is a great success. I look forward to seeing you all and hopefully catching up on some visiting. Lynn and I wish everyone a Merry Christmas and Blessed New Year!

Randell

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New burn regulations on the way

t is well known that, if managed, fires can be of great benefit to the land. However if we were living near or in one of the catastrophic fires that have occurred across the West in the past few decades we might feel differently. The problem with those fires is lack of management. In 2019 HM 42 sponsored by Representative Mathew McQueen passed directing the New Mexico Energy, Minerals, & Natural Resources Department (EMNERD) to convene a working group to study the expansion of prescribed fire in this state. In 2021 HB 57, with several sponsors including Representatives McQueen and Gail Armstrong along with Senators Pat Woods and Peter Worth, was passed. “Agriculture burning to clear fields of stubble or slash or to manage invasive species impacting crop production, as part of orchard management or to clear irrigations ditches

of vegetation and debris in order to improve or restore efficient water flow and delivery” was specifically exempted from the definition of a “prescribed burn” in the law. The law also provides landowners the ability to burn without certification. However, that right came with a fine of double damages if a fire harmed the property of others. Certification burners are liable only for damages. I have been unable to locate any insurer who would consider covering burns. On November 9, 2021 the Forestry Division of EMNERD published proposed rules that provide for landowners to become certified to manage burns, either a pile burn or a broadcast burn. The proposed regulation can be obtained from Wendy Mason at: wendy.mason@state.nm.us or by calling her at 505.690.8210. The regulations are posted at: www.

emnrd.nm.gov/sfd/wp-content/uploads/ sites/4/19.20.5NMACProposedRule.PrescribedBurnManagerCertification.pdf . The Division has also posted a fact sheet at www.emnrd.nm.gov/sfd/wp-content/ uploads/sites/4/Misrepresentation_and_ Facts_PBA_slides.pdf. The regulations are open for comment until December 14, 2021 at 9:00 a.m. At that time there will be a virtual hearing to take public comment. At press time there had only been one (1) comment posted. Please take time to comment NOW.

Worth Repeating… The new proposed wolf rule was published in the Federal Register (docket # FWS–R2–ES–2021–0103) on October 29th. The public has 90 days to review and comment on the proposal with comments due on or before January 27, 2022.

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There will be two virtual information sessions followed by public hearings on December 8th and January 11th to gather public comments for the record. On both dates a public information session will take place from 5:30 to 7:00 p.m. Mountain Time, followed by a public hearing from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. Draft comments will be prepared by the Arizona / New Mexico Coalition of Counties, the New Mexico Federal Lands Council, Protect Americans Now and other groups to assist in providing comments. Watch your email for the coming drafts. This has been a decades-long battle that is far from over. We need EVERYONE to keep up the fight!

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Thank You All!

I am deeply humbled by all the folks who expressed their good wishes in the November New Mexico Stockman along with all the calls, texts and emails that have come from all over. The photos and article by Carol Wilson were beautiful. Working for the ranching community is a labor of love. I am privileged to serve. Thanks again and I look forward to seeing you all down the road. — Caren

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JINGLE JANGLE

is the season for gift giving. Have you ever thought about a gift that was given to you and lasted for generations? This is my story of a gift that has lasted me all of my life. It began with my grandma, Hattie Lacy. My grandma wasn’t the typical storybook woman. Not exactly affection nor the cookie baking grandmother when I arrived into this family. However, she did make a good apple pie. To the best of my knowledge, my grandma was 70 years old when I arrived. From family members’ stories, grandma did a lot of quilting, probably out of necessity, and she made ceramic pieces which was probably her real talent. I do remember seeing her with a shovel digging up loco weed. Grandma lived in Bingham, New Mexico near the bombing range. She would come to town when they were bombing in that area because everyone had to be evacuated. Her old brown car was almost white due to the dust from the dirt roads around Bingham. Grandma was the last teacher in a one-room school west of Capitan. I recently met one of her students that told me a story of a tornado in that area. Hattie had all of the students hiding in a corner under a big wooden desk. I also recently learned that she attended Sul Ross University and graduated with BS degree in 1950. That meant that after her children were grown and out of the home, she went back to school to become a certified teacher. Hattie’s famous gifts were the birthday cards she’d send each family member. Inside the card was always a one-dollar bill. It became a family joke that no matter how old a family member was, they would just get one dollar. That memory is a humorous one, but the gift that lasted me all my life was a little black heifer calf. Now this calf wasn’t the prettiest calf in the herd, but it was certainly the most different. I could always find my calf/cow in the black herd because she had big, bulging eyes and a crunched up nose. I also have the memories of standing in the front seat looking for the cows. I knew I would recognize her. I remember gathering cows, branding, and I was responsible for vaccinating and branding my calves from that different looking black cow. I would get checks from the sales barn every time one

of her calves sold. My saving account paid off as I got older. I bought my first horse with some of that money, and I paid the dentist to pull my wisdom teeth. I learned the cycle of birth to the sale barn, to my saving account. I grew up knowing that the rain flowing into the dirt tanks meant more than finding tadpoles. I grew up knowing that during a drought cattle had to be fed and watered when there was very little grass and water. I grew up knowing that it was important to spend that money wisely from that saving account because the life cycle of one measly cow would soon diminish. Not until later in life did I realize that the gift of one heifer was the seed to all the things I love. I love the open pastures, the sounds of an old windmill pumping water or trying to. I love to see cattle come out the trees on cold days to eat cow cake. I love watching calves running around with their tails in the air playing chase with the other calves. Thank you Grandma Hattie Lacy (18951991) for giving me the Gift, my legacy in Agriculture, especially the beef industry. I wouldn’t trade that for a ton of Toll House cookies. Wishing everyone the very best in 2022. Sandra Lacy NM CowBelle President Chamiza CowBelles met on November 4 with eight members present and Vice President Sherry Ibarra presiding. Cathy read the invocation, all recited the Pledge, and Sherry read the Creed. There was no meeting in October because of the county fair. The minutes from the September meeting were approved. Nancy presented the treasurer’s reports for both September and October. These were approved as presented. Beef raffle tickets were in such high demand this fall that Nancy made a quick trip to Las Cruces, to have 300 more tickets printed. Sales for this year’s beef raffle totaled 7,300. Other merchandise sold at fair booth: 15 license plates, seven cookbooks, one T-shirt, one pkg of large napkins, and two brand throws. This year’s highticket seller was Janet Franklin who sold 900 tickets. Myra Tepper sold 820; Jodell sold 550; and Nancy, Tommie, and Cathy each sold 300. Being high seller, Janet was given first choice to purchase the other half of our raffle beef which she accepted. The beef raffle winners were 3rd prize of $100 to Lisa Bell; 2nd prize of $250 to Jim Smith; and the winner of ½ beef went to Joey Melton. However, when contacted, Joey Melton

opted for the cash equivalent. Therefore, Nancy purchased the half of beef that would normally have been given away. Tommie Aber, volunteers every year to make English toffee candy to give to each member who sells at least 300 tickets. Because the cost of the ingredients has risen so much, it was decided to reimburse Tommie for her costs. Officers for the upcoming year were elected by acclamation. The officers remain as follows: President, Jeni Neeley; Vice President, Sherry Ibarra; Secretary, Cathy Pierce; and Treasurer, Nancy Phelps. Nancy announced she had assisted in auditing the books for the State CowBelles and reminded group of the upcoming annual meeting which will be held on December 16 in Albuquerque. She suggested group donate a brand throw to the silent auction. Sherry reported she received many requests at the fair for CowBelles to have large brand mugs made. Some discussion was held but no action was taken at this time. The December meeting will be held at Johnny B’s Restaurant. In lieu of gift exchange, individuals will be asked to bring either non-perishable food items and/or monetary donations to the food pantry. Sherry won the door prize of free lunch. Meeting adjourned at 12:57 pm. Submitted by Cathy Pierce Powderhorn Cattlewomen met in September to bake cookies and prepare for the BBQ sack lunches for the Old Fort Days. Nine members participated. The BBQ was a success, and the group was able to promote beef in various ways. Quilt tickets were sold for the quilts made by Sandy McKenna and Kelsey McCollum. The group is excited for the drawing to be held at the November meeting. Tickets are $5 each or a book of 5 for $20. Each member was sent two books to sell. Any member can be contacted for a ticket. The group also voted to support the local FFA chapter with a donation for the Ft. Sumner State Floriculture Team to attend Nationals. Group was also reminded that dues are due. The October meeting was held with seven members present. Brenda asked for volunteers to be on the nominating committee for slate of 2022 officers. Ann Sleep, Nancy Schade and Joan Key will be on the committee. Members were saddened with the news of the passing of three members, Bea Killough, Bennie Jeanne Crist and Sarabel Key. A donation will be sent to the Pat Nowlin Scholarship program in their memory, along prayers for the families. The next meeting will be November 11 with the drawing of the quilts, as the main highlight. DECEMBER 2021

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The November meeting was well attended members participated in the selection. with 10 members present. Brenda led Reminder dues notices were sent out and group in the invocation, pledge and creed. members were checked on. Submitted by The group was proud to announce the Janet Witte winners of the quilts: Glenda Armstrong New Mexico CowBelles: Thank you to won the Kaleidoscope, queen size and all who have submitted their news to Jingle Ernest Copeland won the Rail Fence, regular Jangle. Please send minutes and/or news- Solidifies Commitment to size. Congratulations to the winners and letters to Jingle Jangle, Janet Witte, 1860 Helping the Meat & thank you to all who bought tickets. The Foxboro Ct., Las Cruces, NM 88007 or email: Poultry Sector Recover money will be used for scholarship funds janetwitte@msn.com by the 14th of every and donations to the Boys and Girls Ranch month. .S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) as well as to two children’s homes. Officers Secretary Tom Vilsack has announced for 2022 are as follows: Ann Sleep, Presithe investment of $32 million in dent; Sondra Jack, Vice President; Joan Key, grants awarded to 167 meat and poultry Secretary and Carol Church, Treasurer. The slaughter and processing facilities to Christmas Party will be December 7 at the support expanded capacity and efficiency Corteses starting at 5:30 with everyone through the Meat and Poultry Inspection bringing their favorite holiday dish. SubmitReadiness Grant (MPIRG) program. ted by Joan Key Secretary “Today’s investment supports local and Mesilla Valley CowBelles met virtually regional meat and poultry processors as to select a nomination for the CowBelle of they recover from the pandemic and also the Year. A worthy member was selected, work to expand capacity,” Vilsack said. and the forms submitted. A large calling of “Achieving a Federal Grant of Inspection or operating under a Cooperative Interstate Shipment program allows meat and poultry processors to ship products across state lines, pursue new market opportunities, and better meet consumer and producer demand along the supply chain.” With this grant funding, meat and FOR SALE AT THE FARM poultry processing businesses can cover the costs for improvements such as expanding existing facilities, modernizing MANUEL SALAZAR processing equipment and meeting pack136 County Road 194 aging, labeling, and food safet y Cañones, NM 87516 requirements needed to achieve a Federal usa.ranch@yahoo.com Grant of Inspection under the Federal Meat PHONE: 575-638-5434 Inspection Act or the Poultry Products Inspection Act, or to operate under a state’s Cooperative Interstate Shipment program. These changes will allow these facilities to serve more customers in more markets. MPIRG, a new program authorized by the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021, is jointly administered by USDA’s AgriQuality Genetics for Great Black Baldy Calves Quality Genetics Great Black Baldy cultural Marketing Service (AMS) and Food that will performfor and grade through theCalves feedlot! that will perform and grade through the feedlot! Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS). The program was part of USDA’s comprehensive funding package to help small and very small processing facilities weather the pandemic, compete in the marketplace, and get the support they need to reach more customers. In June 2021, USDA announced the availability of $55.2 million in MPIRG funding, accepting applications for a competitive grant award process which resulted in today’s awards. Remaining funds will be made available through a forthcoming Mike & Jennifer Corn 25 miles NW of Roswell Request for Applications. 575-420-3630 At mile marker 55

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ornell University’s Department of Animal Science announced that four climate-controlled respiration chambers will be built in the Large Animal Research and Teaching Unit to study gas exchange of dairy cattle and other livestock. The chambers, which are the first of their kind to be built in the United States, are intended to help Cornell and industry researchers develop solutions to reduce climate-warming methane emissions from cattle and other domestic animals. “These chambers are important because they’re the most accurate, gold-standard approach to measure methane emissions from dairy cattle,” said Joseph McFadden, associate professor of dairy cattle biology in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. “You can measure methane using other types of equipment, but they’re less accurate, or they don’t measure all the greenhouse gases animals emit or consume, and they don’t allow you to control the environment.” Cargill provided $355,000 toward the respiration chamber system. The Genesee Valley Regional Market Authority in New York state provided $200,000, and the university is providing about $150,000. The respiration chambers are individual climate-controlled rooms made of stainless steel with glass windows. Cornell’s system will be composed of four individual units, each big enough to comfortably hold one cow, a couple of sheep or multiple chickens. Researchers will use the new facilities to understand how animals respond to changes in their diet — with the goal of optimizing livestock nutrition for efficient milk and meat production, minimum greenhouse gas emissions and nutrient waste, and enhanced animal health. “By supporting Cornell’s deployment of respiration chambers to study greenhouse gas emission in livestock, the animal agriculture industry will benefit and enable the development of innovative solutions to reduce its carbon footprint,” said Mark Lueking, regional managing director for North America at Cargill Animal Nutrition and Health. The respiration chamber will be built and installed in spring 2022.

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A Buyers Guide for Bulls

Source: Illinois Performance Tested Bull Sale

re you sifting through stacks of bull sale catalogs looking for your next bull? While bull selection can be a daunting task, your choice will impact your herd for years to come. Thus, taking some time to think about what you need from your next herd sire is important. Here are some points to emphasize when it comes to bull selection. Know your market. Understand what traits are value added-traits for your market. One of the best parts about the cattle industry is the different ways producers achieve their goals. While selling calves at weaning into the commodity market is the majority, some cattlemen are marketing in

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very creative ways. Local freezer beef, retained ownership, alliances, branded beef programs, video sales, or fitting the production environment to a consumer demanded practice are all ways farmers are adding value to their calves. Your bull selection should be based on traits that are profitable in your market. Don’t sacrifice functional traits or adaptability to your production environment. It is really easy to get caught up in the data, but remember these critters need to be sound and function in the pasture. Good feet and legs, a strong libido, and docility are all imperative. Masculinity, big testicles, and a tight sheath are good phenotypic indicators of the right kind. Buying bulls that are raised in similar conditions to your farm is preferred. You can buy someone else’s genetics, but you can’t buy their management. Require a passed BSE (Breeding Soundness Exam) and farm herd health protocols. I also suggest a quarantine period for new purchases. A minimum of two weeks will allow time for potential pathagens to break without exposing your herd. Lots of times cattle coming from a sale have experienced elevated stress. It is important to keep them on good feed, in a

clean pen, and allow the quarantine period to run its course. Identify and understand Expected Progeny Differences (EPDs) and phenotypes that signify value added traits you are seeking. Calving ease (CE) is an important and valuable trait. Sometimes when talking to producers I hear them stressing CE and birth weight (BW). BW is an indicator trait for CE, but you don’t get paid for light birth weight calves. You get paid by not having to invest time and labor in pulling calves. So, avoid putting too much downward pressure on BW, especially if the bull will breed cows. Another mistake I see is purchasing low BW bulls for cows. This is not necessary. Many times you can purchase a bull with average or better calving ease for cows at a discount to “heifer bulls” with comparable growth. Smooth, flat shouldered bulls with decent CE EPDs are good value bulls for breeding mature cows. If you sell your calves at weaning through the salebarn and keep your own replacements, traits of priority should be CE, heifer pregnancy, stayability, and weaning weight. Selecting for more yearcontinued on page 36 >>

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ling weight, too much milk or too little milk, or cacarss traits are much less important in this scenerio. If you retain-ownership in you cattle through the feedlot and market to the packer, then yearling weight and carcass traits become more relevant to your bottom line. Your ultimate goal should be to produce the most profitable product, thus seek traits that add value without increasing cost of production over the value of the trait. Utilize appropriate multiple trait selection indexes. Find the sweet spot/ profitable window in milk, YW, and carcass EPDs. Avoid putting too much emphasis on one trait. Nearly all breeds now have dollar index values that help put economics to trait selection. These can be extremely effective tools if the index scenario matches your operation. Weaned Calf Value ($W) is a dollar value used by the Angus breed. It is an index that is designed for cattlemen that primarily sell calves at weaning. This index also assumes that replacement heifers are retained. EPDs for birth weight, weaning weight, milk, and mature cow size are focused on. Lower birth weights, heavier

weaning weights, and lower mature cow size are desirable. Milk production is weighted both positively and negatively as it directly impacts calf weaning weights, but also increases cow maintenance requirements. A more detailed description of economic selection indexes is available on my blog at http://web.extension.illinois. edu/oardc/eb275/entry_7912/ Don’t be fooled by index names. Beef Value ($B) is a terminal index. It is a great tool for cattlemen that are not keeping replacements. This index will increase profitability of cattle in the feedlot and on the grid. Unfortunately, I have heard $B referred to as a comprehensive EPD several times which it is not. It is vital to understand that $B is a terminal index. Don’t be afraid to ask questions. The breeder or an Extension specialist will be able to help explain the numbers. Demand higher accuracy for traits. Technologies are available for seedstock producers to increase the accuracy of EPDs on yearling bulls. Genomic-enhanced EPDs result in less risk, less change, and more predictability in how a yearling bull will sire. A bull buyer can feel more confident now than ever in EPDs when they are backed by

genomic testing. Heterosis. Crossbreeding systems are hard to deploy and maintain in small herds. However, leaving hybrid vigor on the table in a commercial herd is a big loss. Otherwise lowly heritable traits like reproduction, health, and cow longevity are best improved by crossbreeding. Crossbred cows and maternal heterosis is a key to profitability on commercial cow/calf operations. Studies have shown net profit per cow is increased by $75/cow/year as a result of maternal heterosis. Buy the right size, type, and demand quality. I would compare this to buying a car or truck. If you have little money for gas (feed), then don’t buy a gas (feed) guzzler. Buy a bull that fits your cow herd. Your cows will tell you the right size and milk production for your management. If they come up open… they are not the right size. Now, you also want a bull that is the right type. You don’t buy a fancy sports car for a work vehicle do you? So why buy a fancy, sexy bull to produce working kind cattle? To me there is a difference in fancy and quality. I continued on page 38 >>

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Our current 240 Hereford cows birth unassisted out in big pastures. At branding time those of the calves that are structurally correct, have bone and a big square hip are left as bulls. Our 2021 calves are weaned and ready to go. About 8 to 10 are polled and about 6 are registered. We also have a few select black bull calves. This Spring we will have Hereford, black and black baldy heifers to sell. We are confident our bulls used on your predominately black cowherd will give you a top end set of productive, fast growing black baldies. We would be honored to hear from you.

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suggest you demand quality. Select a product that will last and hold value. Look for signs that the breeder stands behind their product. That is a good sign of quality. Seek value when buying a bull. The lowest priced bull is seldom the best valued. If you find a bull that has the traits you are looking for… buy him. Set a budget, but understand it is often hard to find everything you are looking for. Bulls with the traits you are seeking can add value to your cattle in a hurry. They can add far more value than a cow. The bull you buy this year will impact your herd for the next 5 years with his calves, but his daughters will impact your herd for the next 20 years. Make a good investment. Buy a bull that adds value to your calves and your cowherd.

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he U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretar y Tom Vilsack announced on November 24, 2021 that the Department has begun accepting applications for up to $1.15 billion in loans and grants to help people in rural areas get access to high-speed internet. This announcement comes on the heels of the recently enacted Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, which provides another nearly $2 billion in additional funding for the ReConnect program. USDA anticipates issuing a new Notice of Funding Opportunity to make the additional funds in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law available in 2022. “High-speed internet is the new electricity,” Vilsack said. “It must be reliable, affordable and available to everyone. The funding USDA is making available – through the current application process and through the nearly $2 billion in additional

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funding that will be provided for this program by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law – will go a long way toward reaching this goal in rural America. These are just two of the latest of many historic infrastructure investments the Biden-Harris Administration is making. Expanding broadband availability in rural areas will help create jobs, help farmers use precision agriculture technologies, expand access to health care and educational services, and create economic opportunities for millions of rural Americans across the country.”

ReConnect Program USDA is making $1.15 billion in funding available through the ReConnect Program starting November 24. Eligible applicants are state, local or territory governments; corporations; Native American Tribes; limited liability companies and cooperative organizations. This funding, which does not include the nearly $2 billion from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, is available for projects that serve rural areas where at least 90 percent of the households lack broadband service at speeds of 100 megabits per second

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haves County, New Mexico, Deputy Sheriff Barney Leonard, known as “Sarge” and “Hawkshaw,” cannot be easily categorized as a lawman. What made him unique was the fact that part of his left arm was missing, below the elbow, the result of military action in Cuba during the Spanish American War in 1898. Leonard arrived in Roswell—employed by the New Mexico Military Institute as a firearms instructor—in 1909 and stayed for the remainder of his life. At various times he served as Roswell police officer—he was the city’s first traffic cop, patrolling the streets on a Harley-Davidson motorcycle with a specially rigged handlebar to accommodate his missing left hand—game warden, constable and sheriff’s deputy. Acting in the latter capacity cost him his life. July 1933 was a costly time for New Mexico sheriffs. A Lincoln County gunfight on July 16 between lawmen and Texas bank robbers took the life of Deputy Sheriff Tom Jones. Outlaw Glenn Hunsucker was also k ill e d . H unsu cke r ’s p ar tn e r, Ed “Pearchmouth” Stanton escaped and Sarge Leonard rode to the neighboring county to assist in the manhunt. He had been in on the hunt for the outlaws earlier that day, but was obliged to leave before the gunfight in which Jones was killed. Stanton surrendered to officers near Ramon on Monday the 17th. Deputy Sheriff William Meador of Tor-

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rance County was also killed in July 1933. Barney Leonard got back to Roswell in time to respond to an address on McGaffey Street in the southeast part of town. Sheriff John Peck and Police Chief Frank Young and an eight-man posse had cornered Frank Wallace, an Oklahoma fugitive, in the house at that address. In addition to robbery charges in Oklahoma and Colorado, the Albuquerque Police Department wanted Wallace for the kidnapping of police officer Jack Craig on the previous Friday, July 14. Wallace left Craig in an Albuquerque hotel room and then bought a used car for $35 and headed out of town. The Torrance County sheriff reported seeing the car, a Ford Coupe, in Estancia, heading south, and contacted Chaves County officers. On Sunday, the same car was spotted in Roswell, at the residence of one of Wallace’s relatives. Officers watched the house, hoping to nab Wallace when he came out. By late Monday afternoon, they had not seen the fugitive, and officers decided to move in. With the house surrounded, Sheriff Peck ordered all inside to come out, and three women and two children emerged from the back door. The sheriff then ordered Wallace to come out with his hands up. Instead, Wallace opened fire with two .38 caliber revolvers. One of his bullets hit Barney Leonard as he rushed toward the door and broke the officer’s spine. All other officers opened fire and contin-

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OLD TIMES<< cont from page 42 ued shooting until it was quiet inside the house. Sheriff Peck ordered one of the women, Catherine Faris, back into the house. He told her to bring out the killer, or his guns. She came out with the guns. She said Wallace was dying. Bystanders counted 43 bullet holes in the house and doctors

found seven bullet wounds in Wallace, but he was not dead. “I should have given up,” he said to Sheriff Peck as they carried him out. “I gave you every chance,” the sheriff replied. “It will be over with soon enough,” Wallace replied. The 30-year-old criminal didn’t utter another word before he died

later that evening at St. Mary’s Hospital. Barney Leonard also died later that evening. Local newspaper headlines declared that, “Sarge Leonard has joined his final posse.” SOURCES: Alamogordo News, July 20, 1933 Albuquerque Journal, July 15 & 17, 1933 Artesia Advocate, July 20 & 27; August 3, 1933 Elvis E. Fleming, Treasures of History IV, Historical Events of Chaves County, New Mexico Peñasco Valley News and Hope Press, July 21, 1933 Roswell Daily Record, July 22, 1990

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Assuming these bulls (actual data from 2021 test) were steers in feedlot, grown from 700 -1400 lbs (700# Gain) Cost of feed $185/ton, 62% DM, yardage at $0.25/head/day Bull will sire 100 calves in lifetime, calf crop is 50% his genetics, 40% Heritability of FE Assumes a bull at 80% ratio for FE does not add any value, other bulls compared to him This does not include value of keeping females who are more feed efficient

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$ 449.52 $ 603.99 $ 806.93 $ 998.57 $ 925.30

$ saved compared to Bull E $ 475.78 $ 321.31 $ 118.37 $ (73.27) $-

100 calves @50% dna from sire $ 23,789.10 $ 16,065.69 $ 5,918.56 $ (3,663.55) $-

40% Herit. Bull Effic. Value (BEV) $ 9,515.64 $ 6,426.27 $ 2,367.43 $ (1,465.42) $-

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Elected to serve as officers of the American Angus Association were Jerry Connealy, Whitman, Nebraska, president and chairman of the Board; and Chuck Grove, Forest, Virginia, vice president and vice chairman of the Board. Connealy says the Angus breed is positioned to continue to lead the industry. “It’s so important that we keep thinking forward, that we keep coming up with new ideas, that we don’t be satisfied,” Connealy says. “The Angus breed is at the top of the pyramid. The cattle industry has some really good years ahead of it … I’m excited to be in the position where maybe I can help keep us moving in the right direction.” Elected by the Board at its September meeting, Barry Pollard, Enid, Oklahoma, who is currently serving his second term on the Board of Directors, will be treasurer for 2021-2022. Elected to their first terms on the Board of Directors are Paul Bennett, Red House, Virginia; John Dickinson, Sacramento, California; Greg McCurry, Sedgwick, Kansas; and Loran Wilson, Orleans, Indiana. Elected to his second term is Jim Brinkley, Milan, Missouri.

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contract to remove 50 head, to be completed by September 2022. I don’t recall the Forest Service closing an area so a rancher can gather his cattle. I guess if your cattle are authorized and branded, you are on your own. The Forest Service says this is part of a decades-long effort to stop the spread of unauthorized cattle that have been in the removal area since the 1970s. They let us know that since 1994 they have removed over 640 head. That computes to one cow every 15 days and not something I would he highlighting in a press release. They also tell us the unmanaged cattle “cause long-term damage to water quality, riparian ecosystem conditions, and habitat for threatened and endangered species.” What would happen to you and I if we went 27 years in a row violating the Clean Water Act and the Endangered Species Act on our property? The press release would be about fines and jail time, not removing two cows per month.

Meat sell-out The North American Meat Institute, which claims to represent 95 percent of the country’s meat producers, has announced they have committed to reduce greenhouse emissions by 2030, in line with international climate targets. The Meat Institute says it will help individual compa-

nies establish reduction goals, and those targets (set in the 2015 Paris Agreement) must be approved by the Science Based Targets Initiative, a partnership among the Carbon Disclosure Project, the United Nations Global Compact, the World Resources Institute and the World Wide Fund for Nature. Oh, goody. To make sure each of their members meet the Paris Agreement targets, they will verify the progress each company makes on animal care, food safety, labor and human rights. Just what do “animal care, food safety, labor and human rights” have to do with

climate change? This, my friends, is another example of how enviros use a hook, such as climate change, to accomplish their other goals, such as animal rights.

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he Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation and its partners awarded $291,406 in grant funding to improve wildlife habitat, bolster scientific research and assist hunting heritage projects in New Mexico. RMEF contributed $59,000 and leveraged an additional $232,406 in partner dollars. The 11 projects benefit Catron, Lincoln, McKinley, Sandoval, San Juan, San Miguel, Santa Fe, Sierra and Socorro Counties as well as New Mexico and parts of Arizona. “One of the biggest challenges for elk and other wildlife in this arid part of the country is the availability of life-sustaining water. This funding combined with RMEF volunteer efforts will help build or repair three wildlife water guzzlers,” said Blake Henning, RMEF chief conservation officer. “In addition to habitat work, it also helps researchers learn more about predators and the impact they have on elk recruitment in New Mexico.” There are 12 RMEF chapters and approximately 5,400 members in New Mexico. “We greatly appreciate our volunteers who do so much to generate this funding we put back on the ground,” said Kyle Weaver, RMEF president and CEO. “Not only do they host banquets and membership drives but many of them give of their time and energy to help build these wildlife water resources.” Since 1987, RMEF and its partners completed 447 conservation and hunting heritage outreach projects in New Mexico with a combined value of more than $46.1 million. These projects protected or enhanced 539,350 acres of habitat and opened or improved public access to 110,483 acres. Below is a list of New Mexico’s 2021 projects, shown by county. Catron County ЇЇ Provide funding for ongoing research that monitors elk behavior, habitat selection and the cause of mortality on a landscape with a growing Mexican wolf population. Researchers placed more than 400 GPS collars on adult female elk and plan to capture and tag 200 calves to guide the management decisions of biologists (also benefits Sierra and Socorro Counties). ЇЇ

Provide funding for the installation of a new wildlife water development on the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) Socorro Field Office land within Game Management Unit 15, which is managed for high-quality big game hunting opportunities. The project also includes large-scale thinning across 640 acres on the Horse Mountain landscape.

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Remove encroaching pinyon-juniper and small pine trees and utilize other habitat enhancement methods across 580 acres on BLM Socorro Field Office lands in the Pelona Mountain area. The work is part of a multi-year effort to enhance forage quality and quality for elk and other wildlife.

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Lincoln County ЇЇ Provide funding for a shooting clinic hosted by the Socorro Gun Club at the Capitan Smallbore Rifle Range. Attendees receive instruction and coaching in firearms safety and the fundamental principles and techniques of prone and 3-position .22 rifle shooting (also benefits Socorro and Valencia Counties).

mountain lion diets and potential predation impacts on elk. Santa Fe County ЇЇ Provide funding for the Santa Fe County 4-H Shooting Sports program, which provides youth ages 9 to 19 firearm safety and marksmanship training while developing responsibility, sportsmanship, self-discipline and other skills.

Sandoval County ЇЇ Rebuild 1.5 miles of old fencing designed to keep livestock from using wildlife water sources and forage within the BLM’s Rio Puerco Field Office lands. Adjacent to the Santa Fe National Forest and at the base of the Jemez Mountains, the area is crucial elk and mule deer winter range.

Socorro County ЇЇ Provide volunteer manpower to upgrade and expand an existing wildlife water guzzler on BLM Socorro Field Office land on Chupadera Mountain. Specific work includes installing a new 5,000-gallon storage tank, drinker and 1,000-square-foot metal catchment apron as well as the construction of a 1.5-acre wildlifefriendly pipe and cable fence to keep out livestock.

San Miguel County ЇЇ Provide funding for scientific mountain lion research about elk predation rates across part of the Sangre de Cristo Mountain range within Game Management Units 45 and 49, two of the state’s most important elk hunt units. Researchers will assess various aspects of

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he global beef market is set to tighten in 2022, placing further stress on markets that are experiencing strong demand. The contraction of beef production in the US – one of the world’s largest importers and exporters of beef – is a key factor in the situation, altering trade flows. Depopulation of US cattle accelerated this year due to poor economics and drought liquidation across the western US. Beef and dairy cow slaughter increased by 6 percent, which will lead to a 2.5 percent decline in US beef production in 2022, according to a recent report from Rabobank.

US exports remain a priority Although production is contracting and domestic demand is strong, the US has moved from being a net importer to a net exporter. US beef exports are expected to

increase 2 percent to 4 percent in 2022. “Markets in Japan, South Korea, Mexico, and Canada remain strong, but the growth in exports to China is driving the increased export volume. China has become the third-largest export destination for the US, and export volumes continue to rise,” says Angus Gidley-Baird, Senior Analyst – Animal Protein at Rabobank.

US imports to increase The ongoing strength in US domestic demand, together with the expected contraction in production, does present an opportunity for beef imports to increase. However, the expected ongoing elevated cow slaughter will temper imports of lean manufacturing beef, which will also be limited given reduced supplies from two of the largest suppliers of lean trimmings: Australia and New Zealand, who dropped volumes in 2021. Imports from Brazil increased 61 percent in the first nine months of 2021, and while volumes of lean trimmings from this country are expected to increase, they will be limited by the tariff rate quota. Furthermore, ongoing concerns about an atypical bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) case in August may affect imports

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VIEW FROM THE BACKSIDE by Barry Denton

Pass the Oil Please!

e just returned from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma and the American Quarter Horse Association’ World Championship Horse Show. Luckily, we had a very successful show and a safe trip. Every ranch or farm that I know of has several vehicles on their place. Because we are so spread out here in the West, we naturally drive much further than Easterners. Besides we use lots of tractors, big equipment, and trucks just for our day-to-day operations. Since we have been home a few days, I have been doing some accounting and looking over the bills from the trip. Lo and behold, our fuel bill is exactly double of

what it was for last year’s trip. We used the same truck to haul with, the same horse trailer, the same number of horses, the same route, and the same amount of hauling time. The only difference in hauling there this year as opposed to last are the idiots holding political office. Let’s put it this way, Let’s Go Brandon is not a friend to the working person or family as he claimed during his presidential campaign that he did not legitimately win. Nonetheless, we are stuck with Let’s Go Brandon and his relentless pursuit to shut down oil pipelines in the United States and Canada. Last year we were the world’s top oil producer with oil being around $30 per barrel and now it is over $80 dollars a barrel, with Let’s Go Brandon begging OPEC to produce more oil. Really, Let’s Go Brandon and his cohorts seem to work overtime at destroying the United States as we know it. However, one unintended consequence of their alleged concern for the environment is that the rising costs of natural gas has reignited the coal industry which is up over 22 percent in production at the time of this writing. Even in the United Kingdom and Germany where this climate change hoax has really taken hold, they are opening

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new coal plants. This has got to be the funniest result yet of trying to shut down American oil production. The special climate change ambassador John Kerry from the Let’s Go Brandon administration announced at the recent UN Climate Change Summit in Glasgow, Scotland that coal production in the US will be eliminated by 2030. Coal is going through the roof, Kerry is traveling everywhere he can in a private jet, which contradicts what he preaches each time he lands. Look at how many private jets were at the climate change conference. I would like to know the carbon footprint left by 1,000 jets in Scotland. Do not worry, they will not own up to it, they will continue to blame cattle. The saddest part of his entire mission is that this climate hoax is costing the American taxpayer a fortune. Family farms and ranches are taking a big hit because of the fools in office once again. This is not just another rant. Start taking action yourself. Get in touch with your elected representatives and tell them your side of the equation. It may fall on deaf ears but doing nothing will work even less. Lots of people calling and emailing makes an impression on those that are elected. You must get off your duff and make your voice heard. Start attending your local political party functions. You may not like to or have the time, but with this Let’s Go Brandon crew in charge for the time being, your freedom will suffer greatly, like never before. These people want you to fall into line and do what they tell you is good for you. Don’t do it farmers and ranchers. We are smarter than that.

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Wall Street’s Takeover of Nature Advances with Launch of New Asset Class A project of the multilateral development banking system, the Rockefeller Foundation and the New York Stock Exchange recently created a new asset class that will put, not just the natural world, but the processes underpinning all life, up for sale under the guise of promoting “sustainability.” by Whitney Webb, unlimitedhangout.com

ast month, the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) announced it had developed a new asset class and accompanying listing vehicle meant “to preserve and restore the natural assets that ultimately underpin the ability for there to be life on Earth.” Called a natural asset company, or NAC, the vehicle will allow for the formation of specialized corporations “that hold the rights to the ecosystem services produced on a given chunk of land,

services like carbon sequestration or clean avoid noting that NACs open the doors to water.” These NACs will then maintain, “a new form of sustainable investment” manage and grow the natural assets they which “has enthralled the likes of BlackRock commodify, with the end of goal of maxi- CEO Larry Fink over the past several years mizing the aspects of that natural asset that even though there remain big, unanswered are deemed by the company to be questions about it.” Fink, one of the world’s profitable. most powerful financial oligarchs, is and Though described as acting like “any has long been a corporate raider, not an other entity” on the NYSE, it is alleged that environmentalist, and his excitement about NACs “will use the funds to help preserve a NACs should give even its most enthusiastic rain forest or undertake other conservation proponents pause if this endeavor was efforts, like changing a farm’s conventional really about advancing conservation, as is agricultural production practices.” Yet, as being claimed. explained towards the end of this article, even the creators of NACs admit that the How to Create a NAC ultimate goal is to extract near-infinite The creation and launch of NACs has profits from the natural processes they seek been two years in the making and saw the to quantify and then monetize. NYSE team up with the Intrinsic Exchange NYSE COO Michael Blaugrund alluded to Group (IEG), in which the NYSE itself holds this when he said the following regarding a minority stake. IEG’s three investors are the launch of NACs: “Our hope is that the Inter-American Development Bank, the owning a natural asset company is going to Latin America-focused branch of the mulbe a way that an increasingly broad range tilateral development banking system that of investors have the ability to invest in imposes neoliberal and neo-colonalist something that’s intrinsically valuable, but, agendas through debt entrapment; the up to this point, was really excluded from Rockefeller Foundation, the foundation of the financial markets.” the American oligarch dynasty whose activFramed with the lofty talk of “sustain- ities have long been tightly enmeshed with ability” and “conservation”, media reports Wall Street; and Aberdare Ventures, a on the move in outlets like Fortune couldn’t venture capital firm chiefly focused on the

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digital healthcare space. Notably, the IADB and the Rockefeller Foundation are closely tied to the related pushes for Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) and biometric Digital IDs. The IEG’s mission focuses on “pioneering a new asset class based on natural assets and the mechanism to convert them to financial capital.” “These assets,” IEG states, make “life on Earth possible and enjoyable… They include biological systems that provide clean air, water, foods, medicines, a stable climate, human health and societal potential.” Put differently, NACs will not only allow ecosystems to become financial assets, but the rights to “ecosystem services”, or the benefits people receive from nature as well. These include food production, tourism, clean water, biodiversity, pollination, carbon sequestration and much more. IEG is currently partnering with Costa Rica’s government to pilot its NAC efforts within that country. Costa Rica’s Minister of Environment and Energy, Andrea Meza Murillo, has claimed that the pilot project with IEG “will deepen the economic analysis of giving nature its economic value, as well as to continue mobilizing financial flows to conservation.” With NACs, the NYSE and IEG are now putting the totality of nature up for sale. While they assert that doing so will “transform our economy to one that is more equitable, resilient and sustainable”, it’s

clear that the coming “owners” of nature and natural processes will be the only real beneficiaries. Per the IEG, NACs first begin with the identification of a natural asset, such as a forest or lake, which is then quantified using specific protocols. Such protocols have already been developed by related groups like the Capitals Coalition, which is partnered with several of IEG’s partners as well as the World Economic Forum and various coalitions of multinational corporations. Then, a NAC is created and the structure of the company decides who has the rights to that natural asset’s productivity as well as the rights to decide how that natural asset is managed and governed. Lastly, a NAC is “converted” into financial capital by launching an initial public offering on a stock exchange, like the NYSE. This last stage “generates capital to manage the natural asset” and the fluctuation of its price on the stock exchange “signals the value of its natural capital.” However, the NAC and its employees, directors and owners are not necessarily the owners of the natural asset itself following this final step. Instead, as IEG notes, the NAC is merely the issuer while the potential buyers of the natural asset the NAC represents can include: institutional investors, private investors, individuals and institutions, corporations, sovereign wealth funds and multilateral development banks. Thus, asset management firms that essentially

already own much of the world, like Blackrock, could thus become owners of soon-to-be monetized natural processes, natural resources and the very foundations of natural life itself. Both the NYSE and IEG have marketed this new investment vehicle as being aimed at generating funds that will go back to conservation or sustainability efforts. However, on the IEG’s website, it notes that the goal is really endless profit from natural processes and ecosystems that were previously deemed to be part of “the commons”, i.e. the cultural and natural resources accessible to all members of a society, including natural materials such as air, water, and a habitable earth. Per the IEG, “as the natural asset prospers, providing a steady or increasing flow of ecosystem services, the company’s equity should appreciate accordingly providing investment returns. Shareholders and investors in the company through secondary offers, can take profit by selling shares. These sales can be gauged to reflect the increase in capital value of the stock, roughly in-line with its profitability, creating cashflow based on the health of the company and its assets.” Researcher and journalist Cory Morningstar has strongly disagreed with the approach being taken by NYSE/IEG and views NACs as a system that will only exacerbate the corporate predation of nature, despite claims to the contrary. Morningstar has described NACs as “Rockefeller et al. letting the markets dictate what in nature has value – and what does not. Yet, it’s not for capitalist institutions and global finance to decide what life has value. Ecosystems are not ‘assets.’ Biological communities exist for their own purposes, not ours.”

A New Way to Loot The ultimate goal of NACs is not sustainability or conservation – it is the financialization of nature, i.e. turning nature into a commodity that can be used to keep the current, corrupt Wall Street economy booming under the guise of protecting the environment and preventing its further

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degradation. Indeed, IEG makes this clear budgets or funds of those who receive the when they note that “the opportunity” of capital from the IPO. This is a far cry from NACs lies not in their potential to improve the NYSE/IEG sales pitch that NACs are “difenvironmental well-being or sustainability, ferent” because their IPOs will be used to but in the size of this new asset class, which “preserve and protect” natural areas. they term “Nature’s Economy.” The climate change panic that is now Indeed, while the asset classes of the rising to the take the place of COVID-19 current economy are value at approxi- panic will surely be used to savvily market mately $512 trillion, the asset classes NACs and similar tactics as necessary to unlocked by NACs are significantly larger at save the planet, but – rest assured – NACs $4,000 trillion (i.e. $4 quadrillion). Thus, are not a move to save the planet, but a NACs open up a new feeding ground for move to enable the same interests responpredatory Wall Street banks and financial sible for the current environmental crises institutions that will allow them to not just to usher in a new era where their predatory dominate the human economy, but the entire natural world. In the world currently being constructed by these and related entities, where even freedom is being re-framed not as a right but “a service,” the natural processes on which life depends are similarly being re-framed as assets, which will have owners. Those “owners” will ultimately have the right, in this system, to dictate who gets access to clean water, to clean air, to nature itself and at what cost. According to Cory Morningstar, one of the other aims of creating “Nature’s Economy” and neatly packaging it for Wall Street via NACs is to drastically advance massive land grab efforts made by Wall Street and the oligarch class in recent years. This includes the recent land grabs made by Wall Street firms as well as billionaire “philanthropists” like Bill Gates during the COVID crisis. However, the land grabs facilitated through the development of NACs will largely target indigenous communities in the developing world. As Morningstar notes: Gordon Morris, Chairman of the Board/EVP

exploitation reaches new heights that were previously unimaginable. Author, Whitney Webb: Whitney Webb has been a professional writer, researcher and journalist since 2016. She has written for several websites and, from 2017 to 2020, was a staff writer and senior investigative reporter for Mint Press News. She currently writes for The Last American Vagabond. The original announcement of issue can be found at: www.esgtoday.com/nyse-to-list-new-asset-classfor-natural-asset-companies-targeting-massiveopportunity-in-ecosystem-services

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“The public launch of NACs strategically preceded the fifteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity, the biggest biodiversity conference in a decade. Under the pretext of turning 30% of the globe into “protected areas”, the largest global land grab in history is underway. Built on a foundation of white supremacy, this proposal will displace hundreds of millions, furthering the ongoing genocide of Indigenous peoples. The tragic irony is this: while Indigenous peoples represent less than five percent of the global population, they support approximately 80 percent of all biodiversity.“ IEG, in discussing NACs, tellingly notes that proceeds from a NAC’s IPO can be used for the acquisition of more land by its controlling entities or used to boost the

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has a 46 inch neck. Another friend tried the in your mouth. His idea came to be called no white-food diet to prove he wasn’t a “Fletcherism” and Dr. Kellogg even wrote a racist. His goal on January first was to lose slow-chewing song you sang between bites. 30 pounds in 2021. He only has 50 It’s been said that if you want a new idea pounds to go. read an old book and many diet cookbook Many doctors have gotten rich on diets authors just recycled old ideas. One popular they devised. In 1890 Dr. Edward Dewey diet book in 1998 was called Lose Weight came up with a no-breakfast diet about the With Apple Vinegar but Lord Byron first same time Dr. John Harvey Kellogg, a staff drenched all his food in vinegar in 1811 and physician at the Battle Creek Sanatorium, he went from 194 pounds to 130 pounds was promoting vegetarianism, pure food, but became an old sour puss in the process. calorie counting, colonic cleanses, and slow You may think that Dr. Atkins came up with chewing. Dr. Kellogg was kinda weird but the high protein diet but a London underhe could afford to be because two products taker first promoted the idea in 1860! he invented, toasted flakes and granola, Selling diet books has been a get rich quick made him millions. Another 19th century scheme for doctors ever since the first one weirdo was a preacher whose nickname from a commercial publisher was printed was Dr. Sawdust and when I tell you his in 1950. This unleashed a torrent of such name you’ll know why: Reverend Sylvester books including The Pritikin Program for Diet Graham. He preached that gluttony was a and Exercise, Sugar Busters, Protein Power, sin that led to the raising of unhealthy chil- The Carbohydrate Addict’s Diet, The Scarsdale dren. The Reverend advocated a diet of his Diet (written by a man who was murdered Graham Crackers, vegetables and water. I by his lover), The South Beach Diet, The don’t think you’d actually live longer but it Beverly Hills Diet, and Calories Don’t Count by would darn sure feel like it. Herman Taller who was found guilty of mail Dr. James Salisbury came up with a diet fraud for selling worthless safflower pills that included hot water and his minced through the mail. meat patties which would come to be Some diet plans were downright dancalled Salisbury steak. I actually like it if you gerous. In 1976 osteopath Robert Linn sold drench it in gravy and eat it with a baked drinks made from animal tendons and potato filled with butter. But I suppose that hides that killed an estimated 58 people. kinda defeats the whole purpose. And the Cambridge Diet, which consisted The “slow-chewing movement” was of protein drinks sold through a pyramid started over a century ago by Horace scheme, killed 30 people. Fletcher who was denied life insurance I myself have toyed with the idea of because he was so fat. He said you should writing a diet book and have a few ideas chew your food until it was in a liquid state including the If It Tastes Good Spit It Out Diet, The Keep Your Mouth Shut Diet, Eat All You Want of Everything You Don’t Like Diet and The Lee Pitts’ Don’t Diet But Die Happy Cookbook.

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Reality Ranching – From Trail Drives to the Millennium

Part 1

by Sid Goodloe

ecently a young man asked me how he could get into the ranching business. I told him there were two ways: inherit a million dollars or win the lottery, then ranch ‘til it runs out: Even those of us who have been in the ranching business for several decades are scrambling to make a profit. I find that a good reality check is to compare the number of calves it takes to buy a new pickup now and when I started 65 years ago. The weaning weight of steer calves has risen from about 325 lbs. to over 650 lbs. and the price has risen from 18 cents/lb. to $1.40/lb. And yet it takes almost twice as many calves today to buy a pickup as it did in 1956. So, how does a rancher stay in business when we buy our supplies and equipment at retail and sell what we produce at wholesale? It can be done, of course, but mostly by those who inherited a large piece of land or large estate and have no kids in college. Realistically, those of us who are hanging on usually have alternate sources of income. This can be recreation (fee hunting, trail rides, guest ranch, etc.) other natural resources (timber, fire wood, fence posts, gravel pit, etc.) or an outside job (drive the school bus). As a matter of fact, many of us are able to continue ranching because our land values continue to rise and we can borrow against the increased value of our ranch. The real cop-out, however, is to sell the north forty to a developer. I call that a cop-out, but can we really blame a rancher who, after 50 or 60 years of scrambling to raise a family and never really getting ahead, decides to sell a small parcel of land that might run four or five cows, for 10 or even 20 times what he paid for it? Where did this all start: What was it like in the ‘old west’? What will ranching be like in the ‘new west’? To put this in perspective, let’s go back to the days just after the Civil

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War. Cattle in Texas and other southern states had multiplied during the war to the point that a few good cowboys could put together a herd of free-roaming cattle and head up the trail to Dodge City. If they survived the stampedes, floods, Jay Hawkers and Indians, they could make a profit. There was enough demand for beef back east to

provide a good market for three- to fiveyear-old steers that could be had for a song. The female stock came here to New, Mexico, Arizona and states north all the way to Canada and by the turn of the century, the cattle boom in the West was at its peak. As an example, in the Smokey Bear District of the Lincoln National Forest, there were

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82,000 head of livestock in 1902. Today there are less than 5,000. When I was a kid cowboyin’ on ranches near Albany, Texas, I was fortunate enough to ride and work cattle with older cowboys who had actually ‘gone up the trail’ with those herds. They were my heroes – gentlemen, wiry, and tough and they knew which way a cow was going to turn before she took a step. I was able to absorb their philosophy and understand those things that counted most to them: which horses in your string would buck; which horse you could depend on to stay in a mile-eating lope when you had to ride the outside circle; which horse you could use to cut cattle out of the herd (and you made sure no one else rode him!); when and where was the next rodeo and how many cases of screwworms did we pick up today? There was always talk of rain, fences and Saturday night. Good-natured competition on ranches and between ranches was always present. All of those things were part of cowboy camaraderie and they were much more in vogue than range condition, biodiversity and endangered species. In those days, living close to animals and the land was wonderful therapy. There is no feeling like catching the old wild cow that escaped the last three

roundups or feeling the strength and willingness of a good horse under you as day breaks miles from the nearest house or road. So trailing cattle north and establishing ranches, then finally settling down to raise a family on those ranches occurred as the frontier came to an end. Although the American way of life became steadily more urban and industrialized, ranching in the west remained relatively unchanged. Hollywood nurtured the cowboy or rancher image as a little wild when he got to town, but he was honest, a respecter of women, and his word was his bond. For the most part, I this found to be true. Those cowboys and ranchers that I worked with became role models for young men like me. As far as land stewardship was concerned the emphasis was on livestock, water, fences and round-ups rather than ecosystems. It was not until 1970 when the first Earth Day was observed that I, at least, became aware of the environmental movement. As Congress passed more and more environmental legislation and the public developed an environmental conscience, ranchers, miners and loggers became targets. Ranchers were told, usually by young, over-zealous, inadequately informed people, that they were incapable of properly managing their

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ranches and permits. This, of course, was true in some cases, but the majority of those individuals had for more than a hundred years been engaged in a cumulative and ambitious race to modify and gain control of the environment. Neither they nor their offspring were programmed to take corrective advice from anyone who had not walked the walk. Herein lies the root of misunderstanding and subsequent conflict in the western states. No credit was given to those who had settled the West in spite of their immeasurable hardships such as drought, blizzards, lawlessness, rustlers and family tragedies. They were condemned for their lack of concern for the health of the land. No allowance was given for their lack of knowledge of the brittle environment they found as they moved west from areas of higher precipitation where you could run an animal unit to eight to ten acres instead of 40 to 60 acres. If those pioneer cattlemen came west in a good year, they thought they had found Paradise, not knowing that a three-year drought might be just around the corner. Their priorities were family security, homes, schools, water, barns, building corrals and fences, livestock and land ownership – not biodiversity.

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Animal Cruelty and Abandonment

nimal cruelty cases are listed among the many responsibilities of New Mexico Livestock Board (NMLB) inspectors. The process of handling such situations usually begins with a call of concern for the animals and these scenes are sometimes harsh and heartbreaking. In the last year, the NMLB has picked up 38 head of horses in abandoned, cruelty and neglect cases. The costs of dealing with these animals to the Livestock Board is considerably more than any other task that involves inspectors’ time and the Agencies resources. In cruelty cases, where the court usually orders disposition of the animals to the livestock board after a significant holding period, the costs are harder to reconcile. According to statute 30-18-1, the court has to hold a disposition hearing on a horse seized by warrant within 30 days. Our average disposition hearing is held 18 days from the time of the seizure. Although New Mexico Statute is clear that the defendant is required to pay all costs incurred while the seizing agency is in possession of the horse(s), it is rare to ever see those costs reimbursed. It is important to note that no seizure of horses taken up by the NMLB in the last several years has been found un-warranted by a judge, this is a testament to the professionalism of our inspectors. The costs incurred by the NMLB include, feed, Coggins testing, micro-chipping, veterinary, euthanasia and disposal, mileage and hours for inspectors. Other costs are harder to put a number to such as, attorney fees for litigations in situations where activists file a civil case against the agency, public records requests and the labor and time of the records custodian. These public records requests received by the NMLB are primarily focused on the horses taken up by the agency, and consume a disproportionate amount of agency time and resources when compared to our mission

as defined in Statute. The inspectors that work for the New Mexico Livestock Board generally come to us with a considerable amount of experience with livestock and horses. In order to ensure consistent and adequate applicability, more training is needed to deal with cruelty cases and understand the criminal enforcement of New Mexico Statutes. Some of this training is done within the agency but every opportunity is taken advantage of to meet the needs of the industry. There is much written in social media from those whom claim to be horse advocates in the State of New Mexico these days. Many times they take a stance against livestock producers and the NMLB to further their agenda. Our inspectors are all qualified to deal with cruelty issues and all have a level of compassion towards livestock ingrained from past experiences. We were all taught that you feed your horse before you eat, and you loosen the cinch when you step off.

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Honoring a Legacy & the Heritage of Sheep in NM

ennis “Doc” Hallford taught at NMSU for over 40 years. His work in the Department of Animal and Range Science led him to be one of the most recognized and honored faculty members in the College of ACES. One of his greatest passions was training students. Trainees of Dr. Hallford played key role running a research sheep unit which was known as the West Sheep Unit (WSU). His renowned work in research at the WSU and the Endocrinology Lab lives on through over 600 referred journal articles, proceedings and abstracts. The WSU is currently managed by Dr. Jennifer Hernandez Gifford who is a previous student of Dr. Hallford and developed her love of research and career path while working at the WSU. Dr. Hernandez Gifford is dedicated to elevating the legacy of the WSU through research, teaching, and student mentoring. This unit still maintains the wool sheep which has a long history in New Mexico due to the hardiness of these sheep in the harsh desert environment. Due to the expansion and modernization of facilities in conjunction with the Agriculture Modernization GO Bond D projects, the West Sheep Unit (WSU) is being relocated. This move will provide much needed improvements and updates to the WSU and as a result will continue to impact training of future Animal Scientists. This allows for the opportunity to transform a historical space on campus to provide for a modern space to continue the legacy of the WSU and Dr. Dennis Hallford. Relocation will require renovations that were not funded in the GO Bond project. Your contribution (giving.nmsu.edu./west-sheep.html) will allow our students to continue to conduct innovative research and have hands-on experience to prepare them for graduate school and professional careers as educators and researchers. With your help, we can create a learning environment suitable for teaching and research for generations of Aggies to come. One such new project that has emerged in the past year is the New Mexico Heritage Wool Project. This project provides a means for NMSU to contribute and help preserve the Sheep and Wool

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industry in NM and provides unique opportunities that will allow NMSU students to be exposed and participate in development of projects related to this industry. Wool fleeces from the West Sheep Unit flock were sent to a mill and processed into yarn. We also collaborated with Dr. Kelley Coffeen, a faculty member in Family and Consumer Sciences, who worked closely with a student to develop a color scheme and design for the wool products. The first product produced from this project was a hand-woven wool rug completed by Richard Trujillo, a 7th generation weaver in Chimayo, NM. This piece will be showcased as an art piece in the College of ACES. In addition to the rug, blankets with the same design were also made. These blankets will be available for sale in November 2021 and will be a limited edition. Proceeds from the blanket sales will go towards continuing the legacy of the WSU and future NM Heritage Wool projects. To learn more about purchasing, follow the NMSU West Sheep Unit on Facebook or contact Jennifer Hernandez Gifford at jgifford@nmsu.edu.

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DEAR FELLOW RANCHERS & DAIRY FARMERS: LETTER FROM MATT

Serving as the Chairman of the New Mexico Beef Council for the past two years has been an honor and inspiration for me as well as a challenge. I have been inspired by the creati�ity with which the ��C and Checkoff staff and contractors have continued to provide resources and services for ranchers across our State. The challenge, as every rancher and dairy farmer can attest, is the changing landscape that the pandemic has created for those of us who work the land, and of course the drought. As you read through our Annual Report, I hope you will be as proud as I am to be a rancher and to be a part of the beef industry in New Mexico. I would like to highlight several programs and initiatives from this past year. � The New Mexico Beef Council partnered with New Mexico State University’s Hotel Restaurant Tourism Management to present handson lectures. The students learned about how beef is fabricated, the difference between the �arious cuts and beef grades as well as the taste and texture of grass-fed, organic and grain-fed beef. The students also learned about the beef supply chain and how beef is produced.

CHECKOFF CELEBRATES 3 5 YEARS This year marks the 35th �nni�ersary of the �eef Checkoff. The Checkoff has significantly and positively altered the beef industry’s course, and has brought producers, industry organizations, and stakeholders together with a common purpose: driving demand for beef. In thinking back to the Checkoff�s first ad�ertising campaign that launched in ��, “Beef: Real Food for Real People.”, featuring celebrity James Garner, some of today’s producers might be, a) too young to remember beef�s first celebrity spokesman, or b� perhaps were not even born yet. Regardless of age, the impact the Checkoff has on beef demand, and ultimately our operations, is significant. 

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� Also on the education front, the NMBC has continued a partnership with �ro�tart which is offered by �� high schools and consists of �� programs across the state. ProStart is a national program coordinated by each state’s restaurant trade association to introduce students to career options in the food service and culinary industries. � Sustainability has been on the forefront of our industry. Both the NMBC and Checkoff are presenting fact�based information about ranching and its positive impact on the land. One of our family ranches in New Mexico, the Tim Foote Cattle Co., received national recognition for their ongoing stewardship. I know that there are dozens more ranches doing their own work on sustainability practices to make them more e�cient. � NMBC continues to manage a robust advertising program on radio, and online with digital and social media. We recognize the importance of having our messages on radio stations around the state, and since we receive lots of positive feedback about our radio buys, we think you must like it also. Thank you for your support of the New Mexico Beef Council. Until you have been in the trenches with the Checkoff and Council �ssessment staff, it is hard to appreciate all of the hard work that everyone is doing on our behalf. Be well and God bless you and your families.  Matt Ferguson, Chairman, New Mexico Beef Council

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PROSTART PROSTARTLAUNCHES LAUNCHES HIGH HIGHSCHOOLERS SCHOOLERSININ TO TO CULINARY CULINARYFIELDS FIELDS The The New New Mexico Mexico Beef Beef Council Council is aisproud a proud sponsor sponsor of of New New Mexico Mexico ProStart, ProStart, administered administered by by thethe NMNM Restaurant Restaurant Association Association Foundation. Foundation. This This program program is is a two-year a two-year career career and and technical technical education education program program that that focuses focuses onon teaching teaching culinary culinary artart and and restaurant restaurant management management skills skills in 28 in �� high high schools schools across across thethe state. state. There There areare 48�� ProStart �roStart programs programs across across ourour state, state, with with some some schools schools having having more more than than one one program. program. NMBC’s NMBC’s sponsorship sponsorship includes includes beef beef education education forfor teacher teacher training training and and forfor student student culinarians culinarians and and includes includes thethe “Beef “Beef Grant Grant Program”. Program”. The The Council, Council, through through anan application application process, process, reimburses reimburses teachers teachers upup to to $1,000 ��,�� perper year year forfor beef, beef, to to useuse in in ProStart ProStart classes. classes. Information Information about about both both of of these these programs programs may may bebe found found at NMBeef.com. at NMBeef.com. 

NEW NEWMEXICO MEXICOBEEF BEEFCOUNCIL COUNCIL SUMMARY SUMMARYOF OFSOURCE SOURCEAND ANDUSE USEOF OFFUNDS FUNDS FEDERAL FEDERALCHECK-OFF CHECK-OFF JULY JULY 1, 2020 1, 2020 THRU THRU JUNE JUNE 30,30, 2021 2021

Sources: Sources: Carryover Carryover From From Prior Prior Year Year

$111,837 $111,837

8.30% 8.30%

Check Check offoff andand Interest Interest

1,235,603 1,235,603

91.70% 91.70%

1,347,440 1,347,440

100.00% 100.00%

$617,788 $617,788

45.84% 45.84%

Total Total Sources Sources Uses: Uses: Cattlemen’s Cattlemen’s Beef Beef Promotion Promotion & Research Board & Research Board National Program Investments National Program Investments Promotion Programs Promotion Programs

39,865 39,865

2.96% 2.96%

261,107 261,107

19.38% 19.38%

87,909 87,909

6.52% 6.52%

(Social (Social Media, Media, Digital Digital & Native & Native Advertising, Advertising, Retail, Retail, Foodservice) Foodservice)

Consumer Consumer Information Information Programs Programs (Health (Health Educators, Educators, School School Programs, Programs, Events) Events)

Producer Producer Communication Communication

121,670 121,670

9.03% 9.03%

0 0

0.00% 0.00%

Collections Collections

94,406 94,406

7.02% 7.02%

Capital Capital Outlay Outlay

64,317 64,317

4.77% 4.77%

Administration Administration Cost Cost

60,378 60,378

4.48% 4.48%

$1,347,440 $1,347,440

100.00% 100.00%

Industry Industry Information Information

Total Total Use Use

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Taos High School Taos High School Students compete Students compete in in a ProStart culinary a ProStart culinary competition competition

COVID COVIDINSPIRES INSPIRES INNOVATIVE INNOVATIVEMARKETING MARKETING Many Many of of thethe NMBC NMBC projects projects each each year year areare “in“in person” person” events, events, likelike participation participation in State in State and and County County Fairs. Fairs. COVID COVID protocols protocols eliminated eliminated many many of of these these events, events, so so other other “COVID “COVID safe” safe” programs programs were were launched launched to to include include refreshing refreshing thethe website, website, running running three three radio radio campaigns, campaigns, and and beefing beefing upup thethe Council’s Council’s digital digital and and social social media. media.  DECEMBER 2021

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Daniel Daniel Chavez, Chavez, NMBC NMBC Beef Beef Specialist, Specialist, prepares prepares different different grades grades of beef of beef for for sampling. sampling.

Daniel Daniel Chavez Chavez andand TomTom Bertelle, Bertelle, NMBC NMBC Beef Beef Specialists, Specialists, joinjoin NMBC NMBC Executive Executive Director, Director, Dina Dina Reitzel Reitzel in presenting in presenting to to HRTM. HRTM.

Tom Tom Bertelle Bertelle and and Daniel Daniel Chavez, Chavez, NMBC NMBC Center-of-the-Plate Center-of-the-Plate Specialists Specialists and and Beef Beef experts experts provided provided hands hands onon training training forfor thethe students. students. Sub-primals Sub-primals rib,rib, chuck, chuck, and and loin loin were were used used in the in the fabrication fabrication of of cuts cuts and and as as visual visual aids. aids. Students Students were were able able to to taste taste test test cuts cuts to to understand understand grading grading and and beef beef choices. choices. Two Two beef beef videos videos were were played played forfor two two of of thethe classes classes to to reinforce reinforce fabrication fabrication information information and and examples examples of of thethe versatility versatility of of beef beef in menuing in menuing ideas. ideas. Dina Dina Chacón-Reitzel, Chacón-Reitzel, NMBC NMBC Executive Executive Director, Director, presented presented information information about about thethe beef beef supply supply chain chain and and sustainable sustainable beef beef production production practices. practices.

NMSU NMSU Chancellor, Chancellor, DanDan Arvizu, Arvizu, culinary culinary students students andand NMBC NMBC Executive Executive Director, Director, Dina Dina Chacón-Reitzel Chacón-Reitzel taketake a quick a quick break break from from class. class.

Students Students were were provided provided “Beef “Beef in the in the Culinary Culinary Classroom” Classroom” binders, binders, developed developed through through NMBC, NMBC, and and supplemental supplemental printed printed resources resources to to support support thethe presentations. presentations. The The students students were were all all given given beef beef aprons aprons and and “The “The Beef Beef Book”, Book”, a a beef beef bible bible of of sorts, sorts, and and chefs chefs jackets jackets with with thethe NMBC NMBC logo. logo. Culinary Culinary instructors instructors were were provided provided posters, posters, resources resources and and video video presentations presentations which which they they willwill bebe able able to to useuse forfor future future classes. classes. The The NMSU NMSU AgMedia AgMedia department department videotaped videotaped thethe presentations presentations with with a focus a focus onon using using thethe videos videos forfor marketing, marketing, promotion, promotion, education, education, and and information information purposes. purposes. The The audience audience forfor these these videos videos includes includes traditional traditional and and nonnontraditional traditional college college students, students, potential potential college college students, students, educators, educators, beef beef producers, producers, processors, processors, and and other other food food industry industry professionals. professionals. The The partnership partnership was was featured featured in the in the fallfall issue issue of of thethe College College of of ACES ACES magazine. magazine. 

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WINNERS WINNERS

Monet Hunt Monet Hunt Senior Winner Senior Winner

TheThe Beef Beef Resource Resource Guide Guide is given is given to all to students all students andand includes includes information information on thermometer on thermometer calibration, calibration, Beef Beef Cuts Cuts andand other other Beef Beef basics. basics.

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The The New New Mexico Mexico Beef �eef Council Council was was a major a ma�or sponsor sponsor in the in the first first ever e�er NMNM State State Fair Fair Agriculture Agriculture Speech Speech Contest. Contest. Due Due to to COVID, COVID, thethe contest contest was was held held virtually. �irtually. 4-H �� and and FFAFF� contestants contestants were were given gi�en a choice a choice of of ag ag issues issues to to present. present. Winners Winners were were awarded awarded scholarships scholarships to to attend attend NMSU NMSU and and other other prizes. prizes. The The contests contests were were replicated replicated at the at the Southern Southern NMNM State State Fair Fair and and Eastern Eastern NMNM State State Fair. Fair. The The students students learned learned in-depth in-depth about about industry industry challenges challenges and and opportunities opportunities and and developed developed their their presentation presentation and and public public speaking speaking skills. skills. Students Students areare busy busy preparing preparing forfor future future in-person in-person contests contests to to bebe held held across across New New Mexico. Mexico. 

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BEEF EN TERS VICTORY LANE

CONFIDEN T COOKING

The Federation of State Beef Councils, on behalf of the Beef Checkoff, partnered with Daytona International Speedway to sponsor the Beef. It’s What’s for Dinner. 300. in February 2021. The race served as a unique opportunity to engage with consumers through social media, television advertising, public relations and event promotions. When the checkered flag dropped, driver Austin Cindric in the number 22 Team Penske Ford claimed victory and celebrated with the Beef. It’s What’s For Dinner. 300 trophy and a cooler full of Tomahawk Steaks. 

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To keep beef’s rightful position as king of the grill, the summer grilling campaign ran from National Beef Burger Day in May through Labor Day utilizing a variety of platforms to connect with consumers. Whether it was native advertising, social media, television or radio, shoppers knew the right cuts to select for their BBQ and the best way to cook them for backyard success. An interactive map on the BeefItsWhatsForDinner.com website also featured beef grilling favorites and producer stories from across all 50 states.  DECEMBER 2021

Confident Cooking with Beef is a comprehensive guide to selecting, preparing and cooking beef. Created by beef professionals for beef enthusiasts, this resource gives consumers added confidence when working with beef and sharing beef content. Originally published in the 1990s, and updated over the years, the brochure was recently revised, and more than 120,000 copies were printed at the request of SBCs to educate consumers on the benefits of beef. With tips and tricks, comprehensive cooking lessons and timing charts, the publication provides the tools necessary to ensure beef uccess every time. The brochure also provides educational information about the value of beef’s nutrition and the industry’s positive impact on environmental stewardship, social responsibility and economic viability.  DECEMBER 2021

FEDERATION FUNDED PROJECTS The Federation of State Beef Councils builds a larger, more impactful, coordinated plan that can be executed as a partnership between the Federation and individual State Beef Councils (SBCs). Over 50% of the Federation’s annual budget supplements tactics within Authorization Requests (ARs) approved by the Beef Promotion Operating Committee (BPOC). Supplementing these tactics helps the national Checkoff program have a larger impact on consumer demand. In 2021, the Federation contributed $6 million toward projects that supplement the approximately $40 million national plan funded by the BPOC for promotion, research, consumer information and industry information. Specific programs made possible by SBC contributions to the Federation include, but are not limited to:

PROMOTION - $3, 3 54 ,000

INDUSTRY INFORMATION - $800,000

Conducted Beef Substitutes 2.0 which worked with celebrity chefs during seasonal moments to rework iconic dishes into beef dishes, such as Beef Parmesan.

The Beef Quality Assurance (BQA) program developed a Daily Biosecurity Plan for Disease Prevention template which helps cattle producers implement daily biosecurity measures on their operations and began work on the National Beef Quality Audit, which occurs every five years. 

Launched a sustainability campaign highlighting how beef farmers and ranchers around the country are implementing land-conserving, award-winning environmental efforts, as well as an interactive map on BeefItsWhatsForDinner.com featuring the sustainability work of producers in each state. Kicked off summer grilling with National Beef Burger Day; hosted a Summer of Giveaways and highlighted grilling recipes from across the country on an interactive map. Sponsored the first Beef. It’s What’s For Dinner. 300 at Daytona International. 

CONSUMER INFORMATION $900,000

RESEARCH - $7 75,000 Safety – focused on Salmonella contamination in lymph nodes and efforts to reduce food safety concerns in beef. Nutrition – focused on understanding beef preferences during infant complementary feeding. Product Quality – focused on sensory and chemical characterization of ground beef and plant-based alternative proteins, plus understanding the influence of beef x dairy cross on sub-primal yields and muscle shape. Product Quality – focused on sensory and chemical characterization of ground beef and plantbased alternative proteins, plus understanding the influence of beef x dairy cross on sub-primal yields and muscle shape.

Developed the Beef in the Early Years campaign after the American Academy of Pediatrics, the Women Infants and Children’s Program (WIC), and for the first time ever, the Dietary Guidelines for Americans recommended beef for infants and toddlers. 

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The American Academy of Pediatrics, the Women Infants and Children’s Program and now for the first time ever, the Dietary Guidelines for Americans recommend introducing solid foods, like beef, to infants and toddlers, in order to pack in every bite with protein, iron, zinc and choline. Yet, many physicians lack awareness of the latest science, and many parents still need practical tips for how to introduce beef safely and nutritiously into their young child’s diet.

Promotion ........................................................................ $8,641,332

The Beef in the Early Years campaign focused on educating physicians and other health professionals on the importance of feeding beef to babies as an early complementary food and providing them with tools to support parents with the introduction of beef. With support from the Federation of State Beef Councils and several individual state beef councils, educational toolkits and parent resources were provided to a nationwide network of pediatrician offices and childbirth centers. 

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Research .......................................................................... $8,838,176 Consumer Information ...................................................$8,160,511 Industry Information ..................................................... $3,138,923 Foreign Marketing .......................................................... $8,479,193 Checkoff Communications ................................................$171,679 Producer Communications ........................................... $1,568,937 Program Evaluation .......................................................... $263,087 Program Development ......................................................$316,474 USDA .................................................................................... $695,634 Administration ..................................................................$1,502,147 Total FY 2021 expenses ............................................... $41,776,093

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New Mexico Youth Beef Feeder Contest Winners

he objective of the New Mexico Youth Beef Feeder Contest is to teach youth about commercial beef production, particularly the agribusiness and economic aspects of the industry. It places an emphasis on the economic strategies to feed and market livestock, with a focus on feed costs, average daily gains, feed conversions, and management strategies. It rewards production merit and carcass value of the market animal, record keeping, and industry knowledge. It also includes public engagement and beef promotion elements. Furthermore, the contest provides industry support by returning carcass data to participating producers. (There were 18 participants in this first contest.) continued on page 81 >>

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Select Sires Acquires GeneNet LLC

eef cattle producers and industry personnel met recently at the Range Beef Cow Symposium in Rapid City, South Dakota for Select Sires’ relaunch of GeneNet LLC, their newly acquired grid-marketing company. More than 150 observers enjoyed fellowship, hospitality and informative presentations from Blair Brothers Angus Ranch, Sturgis, South Dakota, and Sandra Utter, supply chain manager, Select Sires Inc. Attendees participated in valuable discussions detailing the advantages and challenges of grid marketing and strategies for its implementation. Select Sires Inc. acquired GeneNet LLC in 2020 to bolster the cooperative’s service to dairy and beef producers and help capture more value for raising better cattle. Based out of Hays, Kansas, GeneNet LLC has a 23-year history of helping customers gain access to grid marketing opportunities for their fed cattle and then returning valuable carcass data to enhance genetic, management and marketing decisions. GeneNet was founded in 1998 by Ken

Conway, Ph.D., a long-time influencer in the purebred Angus industry with a doctorate in meat science from Texas A&M University. He was one of the first to develop a grid during the value-based marketing revolution. Conway maintained his leadership role with GeneNet for one year following the acquisition by Select Sires to aid in the transition and mentor Sandra Utter to lead the charge. “My vision for GeneNet LLC has always been to assist producers in capturing more value for their genetics. I know Select Sires will continue to grow GeneNet’s footprint in the beef industry with the same core values and emphasis on win-win relationships that I founded the company on,” said Conway. GeneNet has a highly reputable name in the industry and was built with core values similar to those of Select Sires. This acquisition provides opportunities for Select Sires’ farmer-owners to capture additional value for their genetics and management with market access to a value-added grid – a system that no other competitor offers today. “For many years, the sire procurement program at Select Sires has emphasized superior carcass traits,” said Larry Corah, Ph.D., supply chain consultant to Select Sires Inc. “The acquisition of GeneNet offers

farmer-owners opportunities to capitalize on the use of superior genetics by selling cattle on a quality-based grid.” GeneNet has marketed up to 60,000 head of high-quality, Angus-influenced fed cattle to JBS through their two plants in Greeley, Colorado and Grand Island, Nebraska. The system is designed to capture both group and individual carcass information. “Our team at Select Sires is eager to offer GeneNet’s network and resources to benefit the cooperative’s dairy and beef producers,” said Todd Kranz, chief development officer at Select Sires. “Users of the Select Sires and Accelerated Genetics beef sire lineups are eligible to take advantage of the opportunity to market their cattle through GeneNet. We are also excited to work with Dr. Ken Conway and continue his legacy.” GeneNet is open to beef producers of all sizes and to cattle with all types of genetics. Visit www. genenetbeef.com to learn more.

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NMDA Reminds Public of Pecan Regulations Pecan weevil quarantines in effect, pecan buyers must be licensed

ith the pecan harvest underway, New Mexico Department of Agriculture (NMDA) officials remind the public that pecan buyers in the state must be licensed and pecan weevil quarantines are in effect. The New Mexico Pecan Buyers Licensure Act defines a “buyer” as a person engaged in the business of purchasing in-shell pecans from a pecan producer and includes an accumulator, buying station, cleaning plant, sheller, dealer or broker. The act does not apply to a person whose business is a grocery store, retail store, gas station or other similar operation and that conducts in-shell pecan transactions totaling less than 100 pounds during any 12-month period. In an effort to prevent the spread of nut pests – primarily pecan weevil – pecan buyers, as defined above, must be licensed through the Department of Agriculture. Licensed buyers across the state are

required to obtain information from sellers, including location and date of the purchase; seller contact information; identification information; license plate and vehicle information; total weight of in-shell nuts purchased; and information regarding the growing location of pecans being sold. Collection of lot information and seller identification allows NMDA to verify compliance with pecan weevil quarantines and provides a deterrent to pecan theft by aiding local law enforcement agencies in prosecution for illicit sales of stolen pecans. Quarantine violations may result in seizure of pecan loads without reimbursement. New Mexico Secretary of Agriculture Jeff Witte said it’s important for sellers to provide the requested information to help prevent the spread of pests. “New Mexico is the No. 2 pecan-producing state in the nation, and Doña Ana County is the top pecan-producing county in the nation, so we must all work together to protect this crop that is so important to our state,” said Witte. “By providing the required information, sellers are helping prevent the

spread of pecan weevil from other parts of the country and from quarantined areas of New Mexico.” Both interior and exterior pecan weevil quarantines are in effect in New Mexico. The pecan weevil interior quarantine applies to Chaves, Eddy and Lea Counties and includes several restrictions to moving in-shell pecans and related articles from these counties to other counties. The pecan weevil exterior quarantine restricts the movement of in-shell pecans and regulated articles into New Mexico from all states except Arizona, California and the Texas counties of El Paso and Hudspeth, as well as parts of Culberson County. A pecan buyers license application and a list of licensed pecan buyers may be found at https://www.nmda.nmsu.edu/ list-of-pecan-buyer-licenses/. The interior and exterior quarantine rules may be viewed in their entirety at www.nmda.nmsu.edu/ agricultural-environmental-services-statutes-rules For more information about pecan buyers’ licenses or the pecan weevil quarantines, please call NMDA at 575/6463207.

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n November 8, 2021 Dr. Ryan Wolker, Inspector Luis Romero and I took a trip down to Hermosillo, the capital of Sonora, Mexico. The purpose of this trip was three fold:

1. Tour the USDA certified meat processing facilities 2. Develop relationships with our Mexican government counterparts 3. Discuss future business opportunities Our first stop on the trip was at the Secretaria de Agricultura y Desarrollo Rural/ Secretary of Agriculture and Rural Development (SADER), which is the Sonoran equivalent to the Arizona Department of Agriculture (AZDA). The federal division in Mexico is Servicio Nacional de Sanidiad Inocuidad, y Calidad Agroalimentaria/ National Service of Health, Safety, and Food

Quality (SENASICA) which is equivalent to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). At the offices of SADERS we met with both the Secretary of Agriculture, Fatima Yolanda Rodriguez Mendoza, who holds the equivalent position of Director Mark Killian and the Undersecretary of Livestock, Jorge Luis Fimbres Castillo; my counterpart at the Animal Services Division. After our visit at SADERS we proceeded to PEGSON which is a USDA certified slaughter facility located in an industrial park area in Hermosillo. This modern (14 years old) facility was very impressive. After a lengthy tour we learned that not only was this plant processing cattle from Arizona feedlots, but the meat was being imported back into Arizona giving Arizona producers a competitive edge in processing costs. Furthermore, meat was also being exported to Japan which has very stringent meat processing requirements; in fact, some of the strictest in the world. This alone attests to the standards of hygiene and testing that this plant has undergone in order to be approved to export to these markets. Cur-

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American Agri-Women Elects New National Officers

merican Agri-Women (AAW) elected its national officers at its 2021 national convention recently in Phoenix, Arizona. AAW, a national coalition of farm, ranch and agribusiness women, is in its 47th year of advocating for agriculture. Heather Hampton-Knodle, Fillmore, Illinois, is the new president. Rose Tyron Vancott, Paradise, California, is first vice president. Kathy Goodyke, Crookston, Minnesota, is treasurer. Laura Hart, Hart, Texas, is vice president of communications. Karolyn Zurn, Callaway, Minnesota, former president, will now transition to the past president role. These women will serve two-year terms. Continuing on the national board for the second year of their two-year term are Jacquie Compston of Minden, Neveda, who serves as vice president of education. Kim Bremmer of Loyal, Wisconsin, will continue as secretary.

More about the officer team Heather Hampton-Knodle is a farmer, past communications consultant and association manager. She and her family grow corn, soybeans and wheat and manage a small herd of Black Angus cattle. Knodle is dedicated to developing rural economies through incentivizing investments in telecommunications, innovative workforce development, and enabling entrepreneurship. She was the founding chairman of the Montgomery County Economic Development Corporation, the Central Illinois Economic Development Authority, and the Montgomery CEO (Creating Entrepreneurial Opportunities) program. Rose Tryon Vancott is a fifth generation farmer who grew up on a beef, dairy, and potato ranch in Northern California. Rose and her family are actively involved in the operation of her family farm in Del Norte County, California. Vancott is a retired district attorney investigator specializing in child abuse, sexual assault, and domestic violence investigations.

The 2022-2023 American Agri-Women executive committee includes (back row, left to right) Kim Bremmer, Laura Hart, Kathy Goodyke, Rose Tryon Vancott and (front row, left to right) Karolyn Zurn, Heather HamptonKnodle, and Jacquie Compston.

Kathy Goodyke has worked as a bookkeeper and tax preparer and worked in community, public and hospital nursing until her retirement in 2007. Goodyke then took an active role on the family farm in production and equipment maintenance until her retirement from those duties in 2016. The family farm raises corn, soybeans, edible beans, and wheat. Since then, she has been involved with various roles at the local senior center including financial chairperson, secretary and grant writer. Laura Hart and her family raise corn, cotton, wheat, and sorghum. Hart handles all the bookkeeping for the farm as well as other duties. Their farm, Pioneer Farms, was recognized by the Texas Department of Agriculture Family Land Heritage program, which honors families who have owned and operated a continuous agricultural operation for 100 years or more in 2011. Hart is a vocal advocate of agriculture and has been honored at 4-H and FFA banquets for her parent leadership. She is a past president of the Hart Buyers Club, Hart Athletic Booster Club, and a Hart Independent School District school board member. Jacquie Compston is a fifth generation native Nevadan whose roots run deep in the history of ranching. She received a Bachelor’s of Science Degree in Education and taught at Smith Valley Schools and Western Nevada College. Compston’s family owned and operated a large family ranching and farming operation in Western

Nevada that included, registered and commercial cowherds, a commercial feedlot, and production of, seed garlic, small grains, and alfalfa. Kim Bremmer started Ag Inspirations in 2015 and has been advocating for farmers as a professional speaker, traveling across the country as well as internationally. She is passionate about protecting the use of science, technology and innovation in how we grow and raise food. Bremmer is also the executive director of Venture Dairy Cooperative, a new third-party milk verification co-op, where she advocates on policy to help protect farmers and promote the future of dairy in Wisconsin. She serves on the executive advisory council for the American Dairy Coalition, is the president of Wisconsin Women for Agriculture, and is a regular contributor on Rural Route Radio. Karolyn Zurn and her family raise corn, soybeans, sugar beets and wheat. Zurn has served on many agriculture boards including Minnesota Ag in the Classroom, Northern Corps Institute Council, Minnesota Soybean Growers, and Becker County Corn and Soybean Growers. Zurn was most recently was appointed to the Minnesota State FSA Board.

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DECEMBER 2021

New Mexico Chile Labor Incentive Program Extended to January 31

overnor Michelle Lujan Grisham and the New Mexico Department of Agriculture announced in mid-November that the state of New Mexico’s Chile Labor Incentive Program has been extended to

the end of January 2022 to cover the New Mexico red chile pepper harvest. Governor Lujan Grisham announced in August that the state was committing $5 million to form the Chile Labor Incentive Program (CLIP), a wage supplement program for the chile industry to combat concerns of a labor shortage that could have impacted the 2021 production of the state’s signature crop. Administered by the New Mexico Department of Agriculture, the program has supplemented wages for nearly 3,000 New Mexico chile harvest

workers since its launch and ensured a successful green chile harvest in the fall of 2021. Claims may be made for financial assistance for labor expenses incurred through January 31, 2022 or upon full utilization of allocated funds. The deadline for all applications and claims is February 28, 2022. “We have allocated over $2.6 million in program funding thus far, and it’s important we continue the program’s efforts to ensure a timely harvest of the red chile crop,” said state Agriculture Secretary Jeff Witte. “I look forward to our agency continuing to work with industry partners to successfully carry out the governor’s vision for these funds and this support. Information about the program can be found on our website at w w w.nmda.nmsu. edu.”

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Chile Association Hires New Director

he New Mexico Chile Association Board of Directors is pleased to announce they have tapped Travis Day as the association’s new Executive Director. Travis comes to the Chile Association from Truth or Consequences and has close ties with the Chile community in the state. Prior to joining the Chile Association, Day worked as Natural Resource Director at the Sierra Soil & Water Conservation District. During his tenure there, he was involved in a number of state and federal water and land use issues and is excited to bring that experience and knowledge to the Association. “It’s an honor to have the opportunity to advocate for New Mexico’s signature crop. There are a lot of issues facing our industry including labor shortages, water availability, and over-regulatory policies to name a few.” Day said. “I’m excited to meet all of our members and work collaboratively to address these issues and ensure our chile industry is sustainable and thriving”

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Greens Sue to Block Expanded Hunting on Wildlife Refuges by Michael Doyle, E & E News

nvironmentalists sued the US Fish & Wildlife Service (FWS) on November 29, 2021 over the expansion of hunting and fishing opportunities in national wildlife refuges. Citing potential harms to vulnerable species, the Center for Biological Diversity challenged the Trump administration’s decision last year to expand hunting and fishing on 2.3 million acres across 147 wildlife refuges and national fish hatcheries. “We’re going to court to ensure that our nation’s wildlife refuges actually provide refuge to endangered wildlife,” said Camila Cossío, a staff attorney at the center. “The Fish and Wildlife Service is shrugging off the many risks that sport hunting and fishing pose to endangered animals, particularly from lead ammunition and tackle.” The suit was filed in federal court in Montana. The lawsuit notes, in particular, the threat posed by the use of lead ammunition or lead tackle. Lead can poison endangered animals like whooping cranes if they eat casings or tackle left behind in waterways. The center specifically cites the risk of lead poisoning to jaguars at the Leslie Canyon National Wildlife Refuge in Arizona, and to ocelots and jaguarundi at the Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge in Texas. The suit also contends that grizzly bears now face an increased risk from hunters targeting black bears in Montana’s Swan River National Wildlife Refuge. Expansion of fishing and hunting opportunities has been a bipartisan affair, with both the Trump and Biden administrations touting their efforts to provide more access to refuges. Last year, then-Interior Secretary David Bernhardt announced the opening or expansion of 859 hunting and fishing opportunities at 147 refuges and fish hatch-

eries, saying the agency is taking “significant actions to further conservation initiatives and support sportsmen and women who are America’s true conservationists.” The annual refuge-specific hunting rules followed a months-long review-and-comment period that revealed bitter divisions over hunting policies on public lands (Greenwire, April 13, 2020). The new 2020 rules opened for the first time eight previously closed national wildlife refuges to hunting and sport fishing. The Everglades Headwaters National Wildlife Refuge and Conservation Area in Florida, for instance, will now permit migratory bird hunting, upland game hunting, big game hunting and sport fishing. In addition, FWS opened or expanded new hunting and sport fishing at 89 other refuges. This includes, for instance, allowing existing big game hunting on additional acres at Willapa National Wildlife Refuge in Washington state and Balcones Canyonlands National Wildlife Refuge in Texas, as well as expanding dates for existing pheasant hunting at San Luis National Wildlife Refuge in California. Of the 3,177 individual comments counted by FWS on the rule, 920 were in

general support of the proposed changes, and 1,939 were in general opposition. FWS predicted that the number of new hunters or anglers expected to use lead bullets or lead tackle is “anticipated to be very low, so the resulting addition of lead into the environment should be negligible or minor.” In August, the agency continued what it called the “largest expansion of outdoor recreation opportunities in recent history.” The Biden administration announced it would be allowing hunting or fishing at another 2.1 million acres, including at seven refuges that never before allowed those activities (Greenwire, Aug. 30) “Increasing access to outdoor recreation opportunities is essential to advancing the Administration’s commitment to the conservation stewardship of our public lands,” Interior Secretary Deb Haaland said.

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FMSCA Extends Hours of Service Waiver for Livestock Haulers Again by Jennifer Shike, Farm Journal Ag Web

he Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) has extended through February 28, 2022, a 50-state emergency declaration offering regularity relief for drivers who are hauling certain supplies during the COVID-19 crisis. The Hours of Service (HOS) rule limits truckers to 11 hours of driving time and 14 consecutive hours of on-duty time in any 24-hour period and requires prescribed rest periods. The National Pork Producers Council (NPPC) thanked the Biden administration, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and Meera Joshi, deputy administrator of DOT’s FMCSA for extending a waiver for commercial truckers from the federal HOS regulation. At the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020 and prompted by NPPC’s efforts to ensure pork producers could continue transporting hogs, the FMCSA included livestock haulers in an initial emergency declaration that provided an exemption from the HOS regulation for commercial truckers hauling essential supplies, including livestock. The waiver subsequently was expanded to cover the delivery of livestock feed, NPPC reports. The FMCSA extended the waiver in August to Nov. 30. In that extension, the agency also requested that livestock haulers who use the waiver report that within five days of the end of each month on their FMCSA portal. “A provision in the infrastructure bill recently signed into law expanded the miles agricultural truckers can drive without the HOS restrictions. Divers hauling live-

stock already were exempt from the HOS rule for the first 150 air miles of their runs. Now they also will be exempt from HOS rules for the final 150 air miles from their final destination, providing additional flexibility to ensure drivers can safely complete their deliveries while protecting other drivers and ensuring the welfare of the animals in their care,” NPPC said in a release. The waiver extension applies to truck drivers who are hauling the following supplies in direct support of COVID-19 relief efforts: ЇЇ Livestock and livestock feed ЇЇ Medical supplies and equipment related to the testing, diagnosis and treatment of COVID-19 ЇЇ Vaccines, constituent products, and medical supplies and equipment including ancillary supplies/kits for the administration of vaccines, related to the prevention of COVID-19 ЇЇ Supplies and equipment necessary for community safety, sanitation, and prevention of community transmission of COVID-19 such as masks, gloves, hand sanitizer, soap and disinfectants ЇЇ Food, paper products and other groceries for emergency restocking of distribution centers or stores ЇЇ Gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, and ethyl alcohol Supplies to assist individuals impacted ЇЇ by the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic (e.g., building materials for individuals displaced or otherwise impacted as a result of the emergency) The FMCSA also reiterated that the HOS waiver does not give motor carriers the right to compel fatigued drivers to operate. Any driver who informs a motor carrier that they need rest is to be given 10 hours before they are required to return to duty, FMCSA said.

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Jaguar Population is Increasing in Mexico by Yucatan Times

he jaguar population in Mexico increased by about 800 animals from 2010 to 2018, according to the first two censuses of the elusive carnivores ever conducted in the country. The news confirms that Mexico’s national strategy to protect jaguars is working, researchers reported recently in the journal PLOS One. “It was incredible to see jaguars in so many places where there weren’t any before,” said ecologist Gerardo Ceballos of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, founder of Mexico’s National Alliance for Jaguar Conservation and lead author of the paper. The jaguar (Panthera onca), listed by the IUCN as Near Threatened, ranges from northern Mexico through Central America, the Amazon Basin, and northern Argentina. Ecologists had never properly counted jaguars in Mexico before, making it difficult to design a conservation program in the iconic cat’s northernmost ranges. The alliance created by Ceballos and his colleagues used the results of the first Mexican jaguar census in 2010 to create a national strategy endorsed by government policy and scientists alike. “This [paper] is very important,” said jaguar researcher Ronaldo Gonçalves. Morato, head of the National Predator Center at the Instituto Chico Mendes de Conservação da Biodiversidade in Brazil. He was not involved in the study. “They are connecting science with conservation plans. It can be a good model for researchers—not only working with jaguars but all the other big cats or other species that are critically endangered.” Ceballos and a team of 20 ecologists spanning the country gathered data from photo capture traps to determine where jaguars lived and how many roamed in each of the country’s protected conservation regions. Then, they created a plan to tackle the most critical issues affecting Mexico’s jaguars: preserving wildlife corridors and continued on page 91 >> DECEMBER 2021

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O’NEILL LAND, llc

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214.701.1970 jamessammons.com jsammons@briggsfreeman.com 3131 Turtle Creek Blvd. | 4th Floor Dallas, Texas 75219

P.O. Box 145, Cimarron, NM 87714 • 575/376-2341 • Fax: 575/376-2347 land@swranches.com • www.swranches.com

CIMARRON PASTURE, 6.26± deeded acres. $139,000. Sold separately, 3.1116± acres irrigated off 1870 Maxwell-Clutton Ditch. $45,000. Water meter, well. 3 phase power.

3-bedroom, 2-bathroom home with usable outbuildings, barn, storage, 22.22 irrigable acres, 42.02 total deeded acres. $500,000.

UTE PARK RIVER PLACE 6.83 +/- ACRES, 450 +/- feet of the Cimarron River and more than that of Ute Creek are the south and east boundaries of this unique one of a kind water MAXWELL ESCAPE, 440 Elm property. 2 bedroom 1 bathroom Tree Rd. Nice 2-story home plus cabin, year round access off Hwy park model home, horse barn, 64. $599,000 many other buildings, shade BUSINESS, trees, private, 34.2 irrigable CIMARRON acres, 45± total deeded acres. Frontage opportunity, house, big $575,000 shop and office buildings, easy MAXWELL 2ND HOME, 2nd view off Hwy 64. Formerly known Home 461 Elm Tree Rd. 2-story, as “The Porch.” $295,000

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RATON MILLION DOLLAR VIEW, Colfax County, NM. 97.68 +/- deeded acres in 2 parcels with excellent home, big shop, wildlife, a true million dollar view at the end of a private road. $489,000

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DOUGLASS RANCH A quality ranch property located in northeastern Chaves County, New

Mexico approximately 20 miles northwest of the small community of Elida. Acreage includes 4,700 +/- deeded acres, 640 acres NM State Lease acres and 320 of Uncontrolled acres. Livestock water is provided by three wells and approximately four miles of pipeline. The ranch is fenced into four pastures and one small trap. Grazing capacity is estimated to be 80-100 AUYL. This place has had excellent summer rains and has not been stocked since last year. It’s as good as it gets, come take a look or call for a brochure. Price: $1,620,000

COWBOY DRAW RANCH Excellent small cattle ranch located in southeastern New Mexico approximately 50 miles northwest of Roswell on the Chaves/Lincoln county line. 7,455 total acres with 2,600 deeded with the balance federal BLM lease acres. Permitted for 151 animal units yearlong with an additional 30 animal units on a temporary nonrenewable basis. Watered with two wells and several miles of water pipeline. Two larger open draws run through the ranch that provide overflow areas to enhance grazing. The terrain is open and rolling with good turf. The ranch has had good summer rains with no cattle since last spring. The ranch is in excellent condition. Call for a brochure and come take a look. Price: $1,350,000 Scott McNally, Qualifying Broker Bar M Real Estate, LLC P.O. Box 428, Roswell, NM 88202 Office: 575-622-5867 Cell: 575-420-1237 Website: www.ranchesnm.com

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RODEO FARM, RODEO NM — 470 Acre total w/267 acres irrigated. Two homes. Farm has not been in production for many years. All improvements are in need of attention. Priced @$300,000

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TYLER RANCH/FARM — York Az, 544 deeded with 173 irrigated, along with 14,000 state and Blm lease land. 300 head mother cows yearlong. Priced @$2,300,000

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SMITH DRAW, SEPAR, NM — 7760 deeded, 11,275 State, 2560 BLM runs 300 head yearlong. Good strong country nice improvements. Priced @$3,100,000 RS RANCH GLENWOOD NM — 44,233 total acres consisting of 119.6 deeded acres and 44,113 acres Gila National Forest Grazing Allotment. Ranch will run 650 head mother cows yearlong and 18 horses. San Francisco River Runs through the Ranch, great improvements. Priced at $4,900,000 If you are looking to Buy or Sell a Ranch or Farm in Southwestern NM or Southern AZ give us a call ...

Sam Hubbell, Qualifying Broker 520-609-2546

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Cell: 417/839-5096 • 800/743-0336 Springfield, MO 65804

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P.O. Box 244 585 La Hinca Road Magdalena, NM 87825

Lifetime rancher who is familiar with federal land management policies

Terrell land & livesTock company 575/447-6041 Tye C. Terrell, Jr.

P.O. Box 3188, Los Lunas, NM 87031

We Know New Mexico Selling NM ranches for close to 50 Years

SIDWELL FARM & RANCH REALTY, LLC Tom Sidwell, Qualifying Broker 6237 State Highway 209, Tucumcari, NM 88401 • 575-403-6903 tom@sidwellfarmandranch.com • www.sidwellfarmandranch.com

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Deep Well Ranch Chaves County, NM

Located NW of Roswell, NM off HWY 285. This ranch is in the right area if you want a easy to run and operate ranch with good improvements.

30,203 acres 7,445 +/- deeded acres 2,655 +/- NMSLO lease acres 20,043 +/- BLM lease acres

Scott Burton (575) 760-8088

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Pasture Wanted

INTEREST RATES AS LOW AS 3.5% Payments Scheduled on 25 Years

3RD & 4TH GENERATION NM RANCHERS SEEKING PASTURE & CARE FOR 50-300 COWS WITHIN 2-3 HOURS OF MORIARTY, NM

Joe Stubblefield & Associates 13830 Western St., Amarillo, TX 806/622-3482 • cell 806/674-2062

PLEASE CONTACT JOHN AT 505-379-8212

joes3@suddenlink.net Michael Perez Associates Nara Visa, NM • 575-403-7970

■ CEDAR GROVE RANCH: 37 section cattle ranch, Deming, NM. 23,714± total acres, 1280± acres deeded land, 2632± acres state land, 19,802± acres BLM, excellent water system, 7 solar wells, 333 AYL, 6± horses. Headquarters include 3-BR, 3-B home +bunkhouse, 100’ X 40’ metal shed row, 2 metal barns/shops w/concrete floors, garage & pipe corrals. All pastures come into shipping pens. Shipping pens are complete cattle working facility. Including semi-load ramp, cattle chute, livestock scale, alleys, sorting pens & water lots. Priced at $2,900,000. LandsOfAmerica ID# 7721735. ■ RAINBOW WASH NORTH RANCH: 17 section cattle ranch located in between Lordsburg & Animas, NM in the Pyramid Mountains. 11,383± total acres, 640± deeded land, 3477± of state land 7266± acres of blm, three wells, 112 AUM, 2 bedroom home, fireplace, was remodeled in 2018, metal roof, windows, nice tile work in the bathroom & flooring. Beautiful views of the Animas Valley. Priced at $1,000,000. LandsOfAmerica ID# 11896191

of the southwest and known cattle country this 270 +/- deeded acres ranch with a 8,319 acre Forest allotment, this is a rare opportunity. $2,950,000

CROWN C RANCH Investment ranch in SE Arizona with moderate four-season weather, good rainfall, beautiful scenery, great cattle country, plus 485 deeded acres and over 20,000 National Forest grazing lease. $4,900,000

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SADDLE UP RANCH Near Patagonia Arizona in some of the best rainfall area

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■ 3100 US 60 84: Melrose, NM. 1505± acres of pasture/ranch, barn, corrals, electricity with native grasses, fenced with great access off of highway 60/84. One± mile frontage, one well with water piped one mile to house, stock tanks. Priced at $1,175,000. LandsOfAmerica ID# 9330969.

■ AKELA NORTH RANCH: 22 section cattle ranch, Deming, NM. 14,296± total acres, 780± acres of deeded land, 8255± acres of NM state land, 3528± acres blm, 753± of uncontrolled acres. 24,500± gallons of water storage, 4 wells, 133 AYL.

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HACIENDA AMADO 53+/-deeded acres with an estate plus three other homes and an economical cattle operation. Boasting some of the best rainfall in Arizona. The terrain provides excellent feed resources and scenery. $7,000,000 Wesley Miller 928-245-6560 | wesley@ranchland.com

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RANCHES/FARMS 200-300 Head Cattle Ranch, Marana, AZ – Abundant year-round no cost water makes this ranch a true oasis in the desert, situated along the Santa Cruz River just 20 minutes north of Tucson. 129+/- Deeded ac; 150+/- ac of permanent pasture, 3,700+/- ac of desert sublease, 30 +/- ac of farm fields, and well improved headquarters with excellent access off a paved road situated on State land with 342+/ac of lease. Second manufactured home on deeded. Two sets of good steel pipe corrals under covered work areas with squeeze chute, and tub. $3.5M *NEW* 260 Head Cattle Ranch, Virden, NM – 4,612+/- Ac deeded, 14,980+/- Ac BLM, 2,680+/- Ac NM State Lease. Solid working cattle ranch with a good mix of grass and browse ranging in elevation from 4,000’ to 5,800’. Takes in scenic Vanderbilt Peak, Mt. Royal and stops short of Steeple Rock. Well-watered with wells, pipeline, springs and dirt tanks. Fences are in good shape with some new fencing. $2.8M *PENDING* 2,373+/- Acre Farm, Animas, NM – Custom 2560 +/s.f. home built in 2008. 20-Acre pivot, 40’ x 60’ shop, 40’ x 50’ hay barn, fruit trees, chicken coop, garden area. Pivot produced 9.5 tons/ ac of alfalfa in 2020. 300 gpm well. 5 pastures with water piped to 2 storage tanks and drinkers in all pastures. Historically has run 40 head of cattle yearlong. $1.3M

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**MOTIVATED SELLER – MAKE OFFER** 240+/- Acre Farm, McNeal, AZ – 76 Ac cultivated farm ground irrigated by two pivots and

flood irrigation. Currently planted in permanent pasture and runs 80 head of cattle. Nice 3 BR home, garage, workshop, green house, guest house, large barns, large run-in shed for horses, hay barn, gardens, 3 wells. $1.1M *NEW* 1,578 Acres of Land, McNeal, AZ – Currently used as grazing land for an adjacent ranch. Fenced with 2 wells. Seller will split. $500 per acre for all or $650 to $700 per acre for smaller parcels. located near the McNeal Farm we have listed above, and could be used as an additional pasture; purchase for investment or build your own little ranchette. *SOLD* 68+/- Head Three Brothers Ranch, Tombstone, AZ – Good starter or retirement ranch in the San Pedro River valley with sweeping views, good access, grass, browse and water. 320+/- ac. deeded, 5,403+/- ac. State lease, 2,961+/- ac. BLM permit. Easy terrain with access from Hwy 82 and Tombstone. 3 wells, 2 storage tanks with drinkers, 2 dirt tanks, set of wood & wire corrals. Adjoins Orduno Draw Ranch also offered by Stockmen’s Realty, LLC. $600,000

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*SOLD* 36+/- Head Chico Ranch, Duncan, AZ – Small scenic desert ranch in the Gila Valley in Greenlee County, AZ. 953+/- acres of deeded and 3,110+/- Acres of AZ State Grazing Lease. One well with a pipeline to 3 steel storage tanks and 6 drinkers. Railroad tie corrals located with easy access to Highway 70. $450,000

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*NEW* 120 +/- Acres of Farm Ground, Willcox, AZ – Located NW of Willcox in a good groundwater

area. Center pivot. $390,000 Call Harry Owens HORSE PROPERTIES/LAND *SOLD* 40+/- Acre Last Stand B&B Guest Ranch, Sonoita, AZ – An exceptional property in the grasslands of Sonoita, presently operating as a successful wedding & equestrian event venue. The Territorial, two-story 4 BR, 4.5 BA main home has 4,110 s.f., & custom features throughout. A true destination property. $1,675,000

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*NEW* 5.45+/- Acre Equestrian Oasis, Tucson, AZ – Lush landscaped horse facilities in Northwest Tucson 3,200 sqft home, 130’ x 150’ arena, 5 - 16’ x 16’ barn stalls, 7 outdoor stalls, 5 paddocks, round pen, 2 tack rooms, tool room, 24’ x 40’ hay barn, private well + septic, equipment available by private treaty. $1.1M *PENDING* 90+/- Acre HP Bar Ranch, Benson, AZ – Perfect gentlemen’s ranch or private get-away. Backs up to USFS for endless riding possibilities. Fully fenced for cattle. 2 BR, 1 BA home; garage; steel barn w/two horse stalls, tack room and large hay storage; corrals; workshop. Expansive views. $595,000

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*SOLD* 20+/- Acre Equestrian Property, Sonoita, AZ – Established horse training and boarding facility on +/-20-acres adjoining BLM land, panoramic mountain v iews. Two mfg homes, 36’ x 160’ horse barn, barn/shop, equipment shed, hay shed, 10 shades/loafing sheds with corrals, +/-70’ x 90’ dressage and 160’ x 170’ fenced arena. There are also RV spaces with septic, a fire pit and a well. $650,000

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Riding for the brand … is our time-honored tradition StockmensRealty.com I UCstockmensrealty.com *Each United Country Franchise office is independently owned and operated.

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We need listings on all types of ag properties large or small!

■ “RARE FIND” LAJUNTA, CO – Otero Co, CO, 400 +/- acres. 3.5 mi. east of LaJunta, just 65 miles from Pueblo, CO! Home, barns, pens, fenced, good access, close to town. ■ DAWN, TX. FARM – Deaf Smith Co., TX - This property consists of 612.16 ac. +/-, dryland, native and improved grass, has HWY 60 frontage & development potential. This property is close to Amarillo & Canyon, Texas. ■ SIGNIFICANT PRICE REDUCTION! RIMROCK RANCH, BUEYEROS, NM – 14,993.49 total acres +/- (12,157.49 deeded acres +/-, 2,836 +/- New Mexico State Lease). Live water with five miles of scenic Ute Creek. Elk, deer and antelope to go along with a good cattle ranch! ■ ALAMOSA CREEK RANCH – Roosevelt Co., NM – 14,982 +/- acres (10,982 ac. +/- deeded, 4,000 ac. +/- State Lease). Good cow ranch in Eastern NM excellent access via US 60 frontage between Clovis and Fort Sumner. Alamosa creek crosses through the heart of the gently rolling grassland. ■ SARGENT CANYON RANCH–(Chaves/Otero Co.) – 18,460 +/- ac. - 200 +/- deeded, 2,580 +/- State, 11,200 +/- BLM, 4,480 +/- Forest permitted for 380 AUs year-round, well watered, good headquarters, very nice updated home, excellent pens & out buildings. Scenic ranch! ■ PRICE REDUCED! DRY CIMARRON RANCH – Union Co., NM – 1,571 ac.+/- of grassland on the dry Cimarron River, located on pvmt. near Kenton, OK just under the Black Mesa. ■ CEDARVALE, NM – 7,113 acre ranch (5,152 ac. +/- Deeded – 1,961 ac. +/- State Lease) well fenced & watered w/good pens, new barn. ■ TEXAS PANHANDLE – Let’s look at this 6,000 hd. permitted feedyard w/953 ac. +/-, a recently remodeled owner’s home, 2 residences for employee housing, addtl. home on 6 ac., 5 pivot sprinkler irr. circles, truck scale, cattle scale, excellent perimeter fencing, located on pavement & all weather road, currently in full operation. ■ SUPER OPPORTUNITY! One of the best steak houses in the nation just out of Amarillo & Canyon at Umbarger, TX., state-of-the-art bldg., turn-key w/ complete facilities. ■ EAST EDGE OF FT. SUMNER, NM – a 900 hd. grow yard w/immaculate 7.32 ac. +/-, a beautiful home, & other improvements w/a long line of equipment included, on pvmt. ■ DALLAM CO, TX – 1,216.63 ac. +/- of CRP/ ranchland w/irrigation, re-development potential, wells & pipelines already in place. ■ QUAY CO, NM. – 142 ac. +/-, 120.5 ac. +/CRP, very nice site-built home & barn, located on all weather road. ■ CASTRO CO, TX. – some of the strongest water in the area, 1,280 ac. +/- w/2 half-mile sprinklers & six irrigation wells, on pvmt., prime farming country.

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1. PITCHFORK CATTLE COMPANY, LLC has 34,590 Total acres located

in premier cattle country 30 miles south of Vaughn, NM. The ranch is a huge expanse of deeded rangeland. The ranch is contiguous within three counties, situated in De Baca, Guadalupe, and Lincoln Counties. This is a great opportunity to own a large, deeded cattle ranch with great turf and can raise 700 lb. plus calves. The ranch offers private hunting and is a 2-hour drive to the mountain town of Ruidoso where you can enjoy horse racing, shopping, fishing, and snow skiing. $19,000,000

2. ELK CROSSING RANCH

is a 5,585 acre all private ranch in Unit 12. Located 10 miles North of Quemado in Catron County. Offering all private, prime elk and deer hunting ranch. The ranch receives 6 Bull Elk vouchers annually and unlimited mule deer tags. The ranch has a HQ house, foreman house and great water distribution with 7 wells. Whatever is needed in quality elk hunting the Elk Crossing Ranch has it. $5,850,000

3. BUCK HORN RANCH

has 27,905 Total acres. The 385 acres deeded and 27,520 acres of Forest Service is permitted for 245 cows. 20 miles out of Corona, NM. It is a scenic ranch and is low enough in elevation to make this a great year-round cattle ranch. Included in the price is a 100 head of bred cows. All have been preg checked, wormed and received their cattlemaster and 7 way shots. $1,700,000

4. DINNER HILL RANCH

has 14,269 Total acres. The 565 acres deeded land, 1,880 acres of NM State Grazing Lease, and 11,824 acres of BLM is permitted for 151 cows. The ranch is located in Otero County 25 miles north of Del City, Texas. $1,200,000

5. LEMITAR FARM & RANCH

has 20.46 acres of farmland, a beautiful unique adobe 7800 sf home, water rights, alfalfa fields, cottonwood trees for shade, and 2 pecan trees in Lemitar, NM. This is an excellent opportunity to own a farm in a historical and productive area. $2,490,000

6. LUIS LOPEZ FARM

is 44. acres of irrigated farmland and home located 6 miles south of Socorro. The farm has new concrete irrigation ditches and some fields have recently been laser leveled. All the irrigated acres are by the Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District. $790,000 For these and other listings go to

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Grocery Shopping… 30 miles to town.

ur sons were in diapers when our small local grocery store put everything on sale and announced they were closing forever. I stood in line with friends and neighbors, waiting for the last chance to buy food locally. It has been 30 some years since that grocery store, the one that was just a 35 minute drive from our ranch, closed. How, our urban counterparts ask, do we live when the nearest Walmart is over an hour away? We stock up. We all have freezers (many of us have multiples) and full cupboards. When I was a young bride, I was stocking up in Albuquerque when I ran into a college friend. My friend chatted a little and then looked in my overflowing shopping cart. “Carol,” she exclaimed, “Why are you buying 15 pounds of butter?” The long answer was that I didn’t know when I would be in town next. The short answer, “I live on a ranch.” Those of us who grew up on remote ranches had mothers who knew how to cook from scratch and could always throw together a meal with whatever they had on hand. We continue the tradition, planning meals based on what is in our freezer and cupboards. We buy flour and sugar in bulk, because we never know when a child will announce that they need a desert for a class bake sale the next day. When COVID 19 threw the world into chaos and grocery store shelves became bare, many of our friends began to store food. One even called and asked me what foods I always made sure to have on hand. A couple of months later, she proudly informed me that she had enough food in her house to last for three months. We watched the rest of the world learn to stock up on groceries, and watching the news made us feel a little nervous about running out of toilet paper, but in reality, we had plenty of everything on hand. Of course, storing things like flour and sugar is relatively easy, but we miss fresh fruit and produce. We can’t store it for long

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and extra produce will go bad long before we get back to the grocery store. We have learned that romaine lettuce lasts longer in the crisper than iceberg. Ranchers rarely bring salads to a potluck, just because we seldom have the ingredients. Even when we get to grocery stores, the smaller stores often have a small produce section. I once witnessed a weathered ranch woman reach into a grocery store cooler and pull out a stalk of celery that had seen better days. The celery’s tip bent back on itself like a sad candy cane, wagging gently as the woman waved the stalk in the grocer’s face. “Isn’t this supposed to stand up straight?” she asked. One of the best salads I’ve ever eaten was made after a friend brought us a sack full of fresh produce when she visited the ranch. My grandfather encouraged his hired hands to keep a milk cow and a flock of chickens so they would always have dairy products and eggs. Many of us still do this, and our freezers are stocked with homegrown beef. We make our own bread, biscuits and tortillas. Good gravy extends any meal. We freeze and can our garden produce. My kids and husband know that anyone who goes through Estancia in the fall needs to buy a big sack of pinto beans which will last a year. Those close to me know that if I share asparagus from my garden with them, I am sending the message that I love them. One year my daughter-in-law served her branding crew some asparagus I had shared, informing them as they ate that they were blessed and highly favored. During spring branding season and fall works, our grocery runs get even bigger. Groceries often fill the back of my pickup, leaving no room for any other in-town purchases. We can’t just run to the store for something we forgot. It takes a whole day to go for groceries, and most of us don’t have that much time to spare. So we keep a running grocery list, carry coolers in all our pickups, and if we are in town for a meeting or with a sick horse, or picking up parts, the last stop on the way back to the ranch is always the grocery store. When my husband is called to a large town for a meeting, he is much more willing to stop and pick up groceries I’ve already ordered and paid for with the Click and Pull program. We plan ahead, eat our own beef, cook from scratch, and can always throw a meal together on short notice. We know we are blessed.

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COLLECTORS CORNER by Jim Olson

Chaps

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haps” is an Americanized version of the Spanish word “Chaparreras” which loosely translates into, “for the brush.” This makes sense, as chaps are intended to protect the legs of horsemen from thorny vegetation, cactus, mesquite and various other hazards possibly encountered while riding the range. Chaps are also sometimes referred to as “leggings.” Like so many things “cowboy” in the Western United States, the wearing of chaps is something picked up originally from Mexican cowboys (vaqueros) during the 1800s. Although many sources claim the origin of chaps to be Mexico, during the Spanish Colonial period, it is very possible the earliest known form of chaps actually comes from the South of Spain much earlier. Since we know the word chaps is short for chaparreras, and that this refers to leather coverings worn to protect a rider’s legs from the chaparral, we should look at the origin of the word chaparral. According to John Russell Bartlett, in the Dictionary of Americanisms, “In Spain, a chaparral is a bush of a species of oak. The termination ‘al’ signifies a place abounding in; so chaparral is a place of oak-bushes. This word, chaparral, has been introduced into the language since our acquisition of Texas and New Mexico, where these bushes abound. It is a series of thickets, of various

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sizes, from one hundred yards to a mile through, with bushes and briars, all covered with thorns, and so closely entwined together as to prevent the passage of anything larger than a wolf or hare.” Much of our cowboy culture, trappings and traditions can trace their origins something like this: American cowboys learned it from Mexican vaqueros who in turn learned it from the Spanish caballeros who brought it across the ocean from Spain where they had learned it from the Moors to the south. Along the way, each culture took what they learned and adapted it, to Pair of Chinks worn by Shania Twain in her video for make it their own special version. Chaps are “Any Man of Mine.” no different. The earliest form of chaps known were or three fasteners around the back of the referred to as armas. They were a large thigh, usually a thin piece of leather with a piece of cowhide or other leather that hung hook on the end which attaches around the from the saddle and draped down over the backside. Although said to be a later invenrider’s legs, covering the saddle and rider, tion than shotgun style chaps, it makes kind of like an apron. Some sources say sense to assume the earliest chaparreras these were first used in Spain, others date worn by vaqueros (built to be worn from the invention to New Spain (Mexico), during the waist) probably more closely resembled the Colonial days. this style than the shotgun style. AdvanArmas were improved upon over time tages of the batwing are allowing greater and along the way became known as chap- freedom of movement. This not only makes arreras. These were truly the catalyst of it easier to mount a horse, it is easier to today’s modern day chaps as they were move around in general. The design also worn around the rider’s waist, not draped allows for more air circulation and is often over the saddle like armas had been. When preferred in hotter weather. In the early Texas cowboys began learning the cattle 1900s, Wild West show performers liked trade from the vaqueros, they adopted their decorated versions of batwing chaps and leg protections and the word they were today’s rodeo cowboys use a modified called by was shortened to chaps (some- version of them. times spelled back then as “schaps” since it Wooly chaps are made basically the is pronounced with more of an sch sound). same as shotgun chaps. The main differThere are several different types of chaps ence being they have a fleece (most often recognized today. angora) left on the outer areas and they are Shotgun chaps were so named because usually lined with canvas on the inside. the legs are straight and narrow (resem- They are designed for colder climates and bling the look of peering down a large are the warmest of all chap types. They are shotgun barrel when putting them on). It is often associated with the Northern Plains generally accepted this was the earliest and Rocky Mountain regions, but because design used by Texas cowboys. They fit of their look, they gained popularity with snugly, wrapping completely around the Wild West Show performers as well in the leg, kind of like another pair of leather pants early 1900s. Chinks are simply half-length chaps that over your regular pants. They are sometimes referred to as “step in chaps” because stop just below the knee. They usually have you put them on pretty much the same as fringe along the sides and bottom. The leg a pair of pants. The legs are usually fringed shape is similar to a short pair of batwings and often accented with conchos. They are and each leg usually has only two fasteners generally better at keeping the legs warm, around the backside of the thigh (similar to an advantage in colder conditions, though how batwings are fastened). They are cooler they can be unpleasant in hot or humid to wear and easy to get around in. They are weather. Shotgun chaps are more common often used when working in a corral or in on ranches in the American West than any hotter weather. Rodeo Chaps by definition are just a other type. Batwing chaps are cut wide and flare specialized version of batwing chaps, out as they go lower down the leg, but are however, contestants do not refer to them open on the back. Generally they have two as batwings. They are simply called rodeo

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chaps. There are a few differences between working ranch batwing chaps and rodeo chaps. Rodeo chaps are usually of a thinner leather and more supple for ease of movement. They are also more colorful and generally decorated so a contestant stands out. On the other hand, ranch cowboys need toughness over style so ranch batwings are usually of a heavier leather and not decorated up so much (except in the case of ones used in back in the day by Wild West show performers). Other types of chaps commonly used include; farriers chaps/apron (used by farriers while shoeing horses). There are other variations commonly used as well such as armitas, zamorros, polainas charras and English chaps—all of which are used in non-Western disciplines of riding. Other specialized versions include things like biker’s chaps (generally worn by motorcycle riders and similar to a shotgun chap style). Buckskins worn by Native Americans and Mountain men are similar to chaps, but are really more of a form of leather pants, rather than a leather covering worn over pants like chaps are. Collectability of chaps. There is definitely a collectors market out there for Western chaps. Generally, the older, the better and condition is very important. Also, chaps made by certain makers can be collectible. The top tier of collectability would be something very old (late 1800s or so) that is in great condition and marked by a well-known maker. Other things collectors like are chaps that are visibly appealing such as woolies and decorated batwings like the Wild West show performers used. Another sub-set of collecting would be chaps worn by a famous person, such as a rodeo performer. Although not really considered that old by Western Americana collectors, a pair of chaps used by someone such as Casey Tibbs or Jim Shoulders (famous rodeo contestants) would be collectible. As with all Western Americana items, it is always advisable to either know your stuff and/or deal with a reputable seller when acquiring a collection of chaps (preferably both). Unfortunately there are unscrupulous sellers out there that will take a plain pair of chaps and place “studs” or other decorations all over them in order to pass them off as a more desirable pair. Others will even go as far as placing fake hallmarks of well-known makers on a plain, unmarked pair to enhance their value and artificial aging is also common. Beware of fakes or items enhanced after the fact because they do not retain value.

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Rick Smith Named Bloomer PRCA’s Supervisor Trailers of Pro Officials Donates he Professional Rodeo Cowboys Asso- to Benefit ciation (PRCA) has named Rick Smith its Supervisor of Pro Officials. Justin Cowboy “This is an exciting opportunity,” said Smith, a PRCA Gold Card member. “My Crisis Fund

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heart is always with ProRodeo and the PRCA. It has given me everything I have got in life and now I have a chance to help out. I believe strongly in (PRCA’s CEO Tom Glause) and I’m going to do the best I can with the knowledge I have.” Smith is slated to begin his new position January 3, 2022. “Rick brings a wealth of experience and knowledge to this job and I’m excited for him to assume this position,” PRCA CEO Tom Glause said. For the last nine years, Smith has been the head rodeo coach at Cochise College in Douglas, Arizona. Prior to that he spent 17 years as the rodeo coach at Central Wyoming College in Riverton. Smith worked his way up the rodeo ranks before joining the PRCA in 1974 competing in saddle bronc riding. He qualified for the National Finals Rodeo in 1980-82 and in 1984 and 1986. Smith finished a career-best ninth in the world standings in 1981 and 1982. Smith won prestigious rodeos like RodeoHouston, San Antonio and Fort Worth, Texas. Smith retired from competing in 1989. Smith also was a ProRodeo judge in the early to mid 1990s. “I judged the Calgary Stampede the first year it went to the $100,000 payoff and I also judged in Denver, and some of the bigger rodeos in the PRCA and that’s something I really enjoyed,” Smith said. Smith and his wife, Lynn have two children, daughter, Jennifer, 30, and son, Will James, 17. Lynn is a breakaway roper and ties goats. Word is that she will become the Cochise College Head Rodeo Coach. “I think I can bring a fresh view to officiating, and some new ideas,” Smith said.

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loomer Trailers in their partnership with the PRCA, is set to auction a Bloomer Trailer during the Benny Binion’s World Famous Bucking Horse & Bull Sale with all the proceeds raised going directly towards rodeo athletes by way of the Justin Cowboy Crisis Fund (JCCF). Bloomer Trailers has a long history with the Western Industry and Justin Sports Medicine Team. With deep roots connected to PRCA athletes, they wanted to give back in a way that would help the athletes directly. “When we partnered with PRCA, we had the athletes in mind,” Randy Bloomer, CEO of Bloomer Trailers said. “We not only sponsored the association to help the sport grow, but also see the athletes flourish. We wanted to donate a trailer to auction off during the Benny Binion’s World Famous Bucking Horse and Bull Sale because we knew that rodeo fans and stock contractors will step up in a significant way and give back to a cause that was important to us all.” The JCCF has a clear statement: To provide need-based financial assistance to athletes injured through their participation in professional rodeo. They do not require that you be a PRCA/ WPRA member to receive assistance, which is beneficial for all involved in the sport. Bloomer Trailers is proud to support this cause and donate 100 percent of the proceeds raised in the live auction to the JCCF. Bloomer Trailers has donated a 28’ Stock Combo with triple axles featuring three 8’ compartments in the stock area, a 10’ hay rack, hydraulic jack, 17.5 Alcoa Wheels and a 4’ lined insulated dressing room. The auction will take place on at the Benny Binion’s Bucking Horse & Bull Sale at South Point Casino Arena in Las Vegas, December 2.

Steve Knowles Named PRCA’s Director of Rodeo Administration

he Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association (PRCA) has named Steve Knowles its Director of Rodeo Administration. Knowles is slated to begin his new position January 3, 2022 at PRCA headquarters in Colorado Springs, Colorado “Steve brings a wealth of experience to this job and will be a good fit for this position,” PRCA CEO Tom Glause said. Knowles has one rodeo left to judge and that’s the 2021 Wrangler National Finals Rodeo presented by Teton Ridge, at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas, December 2 through 11. Knowles lives in St. Cloud, Florida, and will be relocating to Colorado Springs. Knowles junior rodeoed and high school rodeoed growing up and then was a bull rider in college at Pratt Community College (Kansas) and Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, Louisiana, and joined the PRCA in 1989. “At the circuit finals, years and years ago, they had a judging seminar and just out of curiosity I attended the seminar,” Knowles said. “I started judging part time when I was still rodeoing and then I became a Pro Official on January 1, 2001, with the PRCA.” Knowles has three adult children, daughters, Fallon, 25 and Rylie, 23, and son, Carson, 20.

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Two from Southwest Compete for Miss Rodeo America Miss Rodeo New Mexico 2021

oryn Danley is 21 years old and hails from Tularosa. She attends New Mexico State University where she is majoring in Animal Science while barrel racing competitively. Loryn loves to rope at home with her family. She also mentors young girls as they prepare to accomplish their own goals in life. Through the title of Miss Rodeo New Mexico, Loryn kept the tradition of rodeo alive for younger generations to enjoy. She also promoted the sport of rodeo throughout the State of New Mexico and made appearances at several other rodeos across the country as New Mexico was shut down due to COVID. She looks forward to representing our great state of New Mexico at the Miss Rodeo America pageant, as well as educating the younger generation about rodeo and the wonderful world of agriculture.

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atie Ramos has called Flagstaff, Arizona home all 22 years of her life. Many of those years were spent in a barn working on 4-H projects, in an arena on every and any horse she could find, or working ranches with her parents. As the daughter of a nurse and a police officer Katie had large goals since day one. After an extremely successful 10 years in 4-H with multiple state and reserve championships, along with successes as a youth in the Arizona Appaloosa Association, Katie set her sights on a new goal. She reached this goal by winning the Flagstaff Pro Rodeo Queen title which motivated her to run for Miss Turquoise Circuit 2020. After winning both personality and horsemanship categories yet another goal was reached. Along with fulfilling her rodeo queen duties to inspire the future of rodeo and agriculture Katie is also a full time student in Flagstaff and works for a cutting horse trainer part time. In her free time she still enjoys going hunting, fishing, and hiking, and competing in local barrel racing jackpots. In the future she plans on transferring to New Mexico State University in the fall of 2020 and running for Miss Rodeo Arizona. Katie is very thankful for the life she has been blessed with and plans to help give back to the industries that have helped shape her into who she is today.

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The Miss Rodeo America competition started on November 29, with the winner to be crowned on December 5 Katie Ramos

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

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was a matchup made in Elko for the cowboys in the know Called the Rough and Ready Knock Down Finals All Ranch Rodeo. Now the Texans entered up a team they thought could never lose When they bet their reps against the Jordan Valley Buckaroos.

So the teams were standin’ even when the final contest came, UNTAMED UNGULATE EXTRACTION, wild cow milkin’, by name. They loosed the beasts together, left their calves to bawl and mill And the two teams fell upon ‘em like hyenas on a kill.

To describe the cataclysm would create an overload, But a photograph was taken and this is what it showed; At the summit pointed skyward were the Texas mugger’s toes, One arm around a buckaroo, his fingers up his nose,

You could tell from where they hailed if you put ‘em up for bids, All the buckaroos wore fancy scarves and Amish lookin’ lids While the Texans wore their jackets for the brush down in the draws And them twenty dollar roll-yer-own, cheap Guatemalan straws.

The buckaroo a’horseback threw his forty-footer right. He dallied just about the time the Texan’s rope came tight. Their trajectories collided in a bawlin’, buckin’ wreck, The ropes and cows got tangled and they wound up neck to neck.

Who, in turn was mounted sideways splayed acrost a bally black Who was layin’ on a milker who was smashed flat on his back. The braymer cow was balanced on her head amidst the jag, While the Texan fought her baby for possession of the bag.

It was Blucher versus Leddy, it was leggin’s versus chinks It was rye versus tequila, it was leppies versus dinks, It was sagebrush versus cactus, it was ear tick versus fly, It was Poco Bueno versus sloggers raised on alkali.

In the meantime two big muggers plus two others brave and bold Attacked the knot of thrashing hide and tried to get ahold Of somethin’, hoof or horn or foot or spur or can of snoose. Then, by accident some dummy turned the bawlin’ calves a’loose!

From the cyclone flew two milkers, bottles high for all to see Like two winos at a party where the wine and cheese was free. The buckaroo’s hind leg was draggin’ like he’d lost the farm. But he kept his place by clingin’ to the Texan’s broken arm.

The Texans took an early lead, at ropin’ showed their stuff, But the buckin’ horse fandango showed the buckaroos were tough. They branded in a dead heat, but in deference to the crowd Each side was harshly penalized for cussin’ so dang loud.

There was hair and teeth and eyeballs in the picture now and then, There was moustache lips and swingin’ bags, some thought they saw a hen Flashin’ briefly through the dust cloud. Wild images remain; A painting done in cow manure, a mating sandhill crane.

When they fell across the finish line and tumbled in the dirt The judge declared the buckaroo the winner by a squirt. Since the race looked pert near even, the judge said with a shrug, “The winner is the cowboy with the most milk in his jug!”

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“I object!” cried out the Texan, “Our ol’ cow just had three tits!” “That’s a handicap,” the judge said, “I admit it’s sure the pits, But in fairness to the buckaroo who dallys for his kicks If you added all his fingers, he could barely count to six!”

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A Lazy 6 Angus Ranch 22, 92 Aero Tech, Inc. . . . . . . . . .69 Ag Lands Southwest . . . . 99 Ag New Mexico FCS, ACA . .2 Ken Ahler Real Estate Co., Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 American Angus Assn. . . . 36 American Brahman Breeders Assn. . . . . . . .48 American Gelbvieh Assn . . 28 American Gelbvieh Assn. . 94 American Heritage Bank / Colten Grau . . . . . . . . .59 American Salers Assn. . . . .30 B & H Herefords . . . . . . . .32 Bar G Feedyard . . . . . . . .34 Bar J Bar Herefords . . . 37, 92 Bar M Real Estate . . . . 98, 99 Barzona Breeders Assn. of America . . . . . . . . . . . .40 Bayer Environmental Science . . . . . . . . . . . .81 Bays Cattle Company . . . .24 Beefmaster Breeders United . . . . . . . . . . . . .39 Jim Bentz . . . . . . . . . . . .84 Big Mesa Realty . . . . . . . .97 BJM Sales & Service Inc. . . 91 Black Angus “Ready for Work” Bull Sale . . . . . . .30 Border Tank Resources . . .90 Bow K Ranch . . . . . . . . . 22

Raymond Boykin . . . . . . .51 Bradley 3 Ranch, Ltd. 6, 51, 93 Brand/Nony Navar . . . . . .90 Brennand Ranch . . . . 47, 95 Brinks Brangus / Westall Ranch, . . . . . 17, 95 Brownfield Ranch & Farm Properties . . . . . . . . . 101 C Bar Ranch . . . . . . . . 40, 94 Campbell Simmentals . . . 46 Candy Ray Trujillo’s Black Angus . . . . . . . . . . . . .40 Carson Real Estate Inc. . . . 98 Carter Brangus . . . . . . 26, 93 Carter’s Custom Cuts . . . 112 Casey Beefmasters . . . 40, 94 Casper Baca Rodeo . . . . 111 Cattle Guards / Priddy Construction . . . . . . . . 68 Cattlemen’s Livestock Auction . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Citizens Bank of Clovis Moriarty . . . . . . . . . . . 64 CJ Beefmasters . . . . . . . .30 CKP Insurance . . . . . . . . .11 Clark Anvil Ranch . . . . 46, 95 Clavel Herefords . . . . . . . 12 Clovis Livestock Auction . .55 Coba Select Sires . . . . . . .32 Coleman Herefords . . . . . 51 Colorado Simmental Assn. 43 Conniff Cattle Co., LLC 18, 94

Copeland & Sons Herefords, LLC . . . . . . . 23 Corn Ranches . . . . . . . . .16 Cornerstone Ranch . . . . . 25 Cox Ranch Herefords . 46, 92 Coyote Ridge Ranch . . . . .46 CS Cattle Co. . . . . . . . . . .22 D2 Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . .40 Decker Herefords . . . . . . .24 Denton Photography . . . .60 Desert Scales & Weighing Equipment . . . . . . . . . .91 Dexter Livestock Commission . . . . . . . . 113 Diamond Seven Angus 51, 93 Domenici Law Firm, PC . . . 82 Elbrock Ranch . . . . . . . . .40 Evans Beefmasters . . . . . .51 Express Scales Services . . . 49

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F & F Cattle Company . . . .47 Fallon-Cortese Land . . . . 100 Farm Credit of New Mexico . 9 Farmway Feed Mill . . . . . .53 FBFS / Larry Marshall . . . . 58 FBFS / Monte Anderson . . 69 Ferguson Ranch . . . . . . . 48 Figure 4 Cattle Co. . . . 24, 95 Five States Livestock Auction, . . . . . . . . . . .44 Fort Worth Stock Show . . . 26 4G Mountain Angus . . . . .51 Genex / Candy Trujillo . . . 48

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L & H Manufacturing . . . . 42 Lack-Morrison Brangus . . . 47 Laflin Ranch . . . . . . . . . .51 Lazy D Ranch Red Angus . . . . . . . . . . 51, 93 Lonestar Stockyards, LLC . . 81 LT Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 M-Hat Angus . . . . . . . . . 42 Major Ranch Realty . . 99, 103 Manzano Angus . . . . . 31.93 Mason & Morse Ranch Company . . . . . . . . . . 101 McKenzie Land & LS . . . . .19 McPherson Heifer Bulls 48, 93 Mesa Tractor, Inc. . . . . 57, 91 Messner Ranch . . . . . . . .13 Chas S. Middleton & Son . . 99 Monfette Construction Co. 91 Motley Mill & Cube Corporation . . . . . . . . .68 Move Cattle . . . . . . . . . .36 NM Beef Council . . . . .71-76 NM Cattle Growers Insurance . . . . . . . . . . .65 NM Federal Lands Council . 82 NM Premier Ranch Properties . . . . . . . . . 100 NM Purina Dealers . . . . . 116

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P Bar A Angus Cattle . . . . 93 Parker Brangus . . . . . . . .46 Paul McGillard / Murney Associates . . . . .99 Perez Cattle Company 33, 92 Pratt Farms . . . . . . . . 47, 94 Protect Americans Now . 109 Punchy Cattle Company . .84 Ramro LLC / RJ Cattle Co . . 35 Rancho De Santa Barbara . 46 Republic Ranches, LLC . . . 99 Rio Grande Scales & Equipment . . . . . . . 44, 91 Rio Hondo Land & LS Co. . . 48 Tom Robb & Sons . . . . . . 94 Robbs Brangus . . . . . . . .46 Robertson Livestock . . . . .91 ROD Ranch . . . . . . . . . . .36 Roswell Brangus Breeders Co-op . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

Roswell Brangus Bull & Female Sale . . . . . . . . . .3 Roswell Livestock Auction Co. . . . . . . . . . 52 Running Creek Ranch . 49, 95 Salazar Ranches . . . . . . . 32 James Sammons III . . . . . 98 Sanchez Demolition . . . . .90 Santa Fe Guiding Co. . . . . 61 Santa Rita Ranch . . . . 46, 93 Sci-Agra Inc . . . . . . . . . . 90 Scott Land . . . . . . . . . . 102 Sidwell Farm & Ranch Realty, LLC . . . . . . . . . .99 Siler Santa Gertrudis Cattle 48 Siler Santa Gertrudis Cattle . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 Skaarer Brangus . . . . . 3, 92 St. Vrain Simmentals . . . . 46 Steve Jensen . . . . . . . . . 48 Joe Stubblefield & Associates . . . . . . . . . 101 Suther Feeds . . . . . . . . . . 7

TechniTrack, LLC . . . . . . . 90 Terrell Land & Livestock Co.99 Texas Hereford Assoc. . . . .46 The Ranches . . . . . . . . . .83 Thompson Ranch . . . . 70, 95 Townsend Brangus . . . . . 42 Tucumcari Bull Test . . . . . 45 2 Bar Angus . . . . . . . 51, 94 U Bar Ranch . . . . . . . . . .38 United Country Real Estate / Stockmen’s RE . . . . . . .102 United Fiberglass, Inc. . . . .56 USA Ranch . . . . . . . . 16, 95

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Floyd Brangus TROY FLOYD P.O. Box 133 Roswell, NM 88201 Phone: 575-734 -7005 Cell: 575-626-4062

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Parker Brangus LARRY & ELAINE PARKER P.O. Box 146, 1700 N. Parker Road San Simon, AZ 85632 Larry’s Cell: 520-508-3505 Diane’s Cell: 520-403-1967 Business – 520-845-2411 Residence – 520-845-2315 Email: jddiane@vtc.net or parker_brangus@yahoo.com

Townsend Brangus PATTI TOWNSEND P.O. Box 278 Milburn, Oklahoma 73450 Home: 580-443-5777 Cell: 580-916-8852 STEVEN & TYLER TOWNSEND 580-380-1968 PHILIP TOWNSEND 580-465-7487 DECEMBER 2021

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Guadalupe Mountain Farm, Ranch, & Show Supplies Carlsbad, NM • Amber Hughes 575-988-3508 Horse ‘n Hound Feed ‘n Supply Las Cruces, NM 575-644-3857

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Olsen’s Grain Prescott Arizona Chino Valley, Dewey, Flagstaff, Cottonwood 928-636-2321 One Stop Feed, Inc. Clovis, NM • Austin Hale 575-762-3997 Roswell Livestock & Farm Supply Roswell, NM • 575-622-9164 Steve Swift Cattle Specialist 575-760-3112 DECEMBER 2021

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On the Edge of Common Sense

Rodeo Royalty

Marketplace

Seedstock Guide

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American Agri-Women Elects New National Officers

South of the Border

New Mexico Youth Beef Feeder Contest Winners

Waypath Joins Forces with Bob Homer Associates LLC

New Mexico Beef Council Bullhorn

NMDA Reminds Public of Pecan Regulations

Honoring the Legacy & the Heritage of Sheep in NM

New Mexico Livestock Board Update

USDA Invests $32 Million to Strengthen Supply Chain

Reality Ranch — From Trail Drives to the

View From the Backside

RABO Research: Contracting US Beef Production Drives Tightening Global Market

Riding Herd

USDA Accepting Applications for $1.5 B in Loans & Grant For Broadband

Wall Street’s Takeover of Nature Advances with Launch of New Asset Class

New Mexico CowBelles Jingle Jangle