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17 New Mexico CowBelles Jingle Jangle 20 BEEF! It’s What’s for Dinner Recipe 21 New Mexico Beef Council Bullhorn 30 New Mexico Federal Lands Council News

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FEATURES 18 AgriFuture Returns June 21 24 Cybersecurity of Wind Power a Growing Concern by Bonner Cohen, PhD, CFACT

26 Enjoying Her Ride by Diane Meyer, Hereford World, reprinted courtesy of the Hereford World

34 The Constant Steward by Ron Burnett, NMCGA Promotion & Marketing Chairman

38 Finishing Beef Calves On-Ranch by Paul Beck, Oklahoma State University Extension Beef Cattle Specialist

42 Cattle Traceability Still a Battle on Multiple Fronts by Kate Gibson, meatingplace.com

49 Biden’s “30 By 30 Plan” --- a Slap at American Private Property Rights by Karen Budd Falen

58 New Food Habits by Jennifer Dimas, Colorado State University, reprinted from the Angus Beef Bulletin

60 Branding Essentials by New Mexico Livestock Board

63 Select Beef: Who Wants It? by Miranda Rieman, Certified Angus Beef, LLC

64 Will “Fly-Over Country” Have a Voice to Protect Private Property Rights Under the Endangered Species Act? by Karen Budd-Falen

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PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE by Loren Patterson NMCGA President-Elect

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

ew Mexico Cattle Growers’ Association (NMCGA) has scheduled regional meetings in all corners of the state. We had our southwest regional meeting in Reserve on April 16. Roy Farr, our SW regional vice president did a great job. It was a huge success with over 50 people in attendance. Tracy Drummond presented the Beef Quality Assurance Program with several ranchers completing certification in BQA. He also talked about drought and ideas on how to manage during these times. Barbara Jackson from Animal Health Express gave us an update on animal health. Dr. John Paterson with Multimin USA gave a presentation on trace minerals for enhanced cattle nutrition and performance. Dina Reitzel with the New Mexico Beef Council gave an overview and hosted the lunch. I reviewed legislation that continues to directly threaten Agriculture. One positive outcome: Jaguar: A win! The US Fish & Wildlife Service listed the jaguar as endangered in 1972. The Court ruled designating critical habitat was illegal because areas designated were not occupied during the designation and the agency failed to follow its own rules. The three other scheduled regional meetings will be in Lovington on April 20, Tucumcari on May 8, and Kirtland on May 22. The border has become extremely dangerous. The Johnson family, who have ranched on the border since 1918, told me that in just one day, there were 40 people crossing through the gap in the wall on their ranch. Some were wearing camo and hoods. This also threatens the health of our livestock herds, and our own health. New Mexico Department of Health states that travel outside of the state is the second highest cause of increased COVID cases, yet our southern border is open? This is contradictory. The border needs to be addressed now. NMCGA sent a letter to the governor of New Mexico requesting that a State of Emergency be Declared for the lack of secure border. We would like to thank Congresswoman Yvette Herrell for her continued effort to get something done in a political climate that lacks common sense. Biden’s 30 X 30 plan is a direct attack on private property rights. This is a plan to permanently protect 30 percent of America’s land and ocean by 2030. Cattle producers are America’s original conservationists, and we work hard every day to ensure that we can pass our operations on to the next generation. We contribute positively to landscapes, wildlife populations, rural communities, our nation’s economy, and a global food supply. Yet we find ourselves, our families, and our way of life under constant attack from our own government. The acquisition of these lands and the elimination of more uses from the federal lands will harm the local tax base and employment opportunities that supports rural schools, roads, and other necessary services. We need to contact and inform our County Commissioners of the 30x30 agenda and have the commission pass a resolution opposing the agenda. The executive order says that the United States should work with State, local, Tribal, agriculture and other key stakeholders to achieve goal of conserving 30 percent of our lands by 2030. States, local governments, and stakeholders should hold President Biden to his word and insist on having a significant say in the design and management of the program. Hope to see you all at Mid-Year! Prayers that our good Lord will send moisture to everyone soon,

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ith the Legislature and one Special Session under our belts it is time for a little reflection, not so much about the legislation that passed or not. But about the tenor of this Legislature and what it may say about the future. Although there is at least one legislator that continues to believe that there is no urban/rural divide in the body, it is hard to see how he or she can cling to that belief. Perhaps the most glaring evidence was HB 200, the bill that took some $80 million out of the hands of rural Southwest New Mexico and took it to Santa Fe for determinations on distribution. Another measure was the cage-free egg bill. It is true that the bill only got through one committee and that was highly likely that it passed in deference to the sponsor. However it is pretty disheartening when ALL of the state’s agricultural organizations

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Final Thoughts Legislature 2021 … So Far came together against the measure to see it pass anyway. This, too, is a signal of that urban/rural divide. The fact that there is a divide isn’t surprising. Just take a look at the concentration of the population in New Mexico. Most people live up and down the Rio Grande Corridor. Our rural communities become ever-more sparse. This is the reason it is so important for EVERYONE to stand up and speak up every time there is an opportunity. What’s even worse is the rural/rural divide. It is worth noting that one of the most important bills to the folks in the country in 2021 died at the hands of rural legislators. This year was extraordinary for everyone involved with the Legislature, not being able to work face to face and fighting with computers just be heard. It seemed that some of civility left the body. This was sad.

This is not what New Mexicans have practiced for generations, but maybe it is a sign of the times. On the other hand, during one House Floor Session that I don’t know why I was listening to, there was what I perceived to be a very civil discussion about the need for a different approach to how the Legislature is scheduled annually. Does a 60-day Session and a 30-day Session really make sense? May there should be two 45-day Sessions? There were at least 31 constitutional amendments proposed in the 2021 Legislature. Only one made it through the process. Can you imagine a ballot with 30 amendments on it? There was discussion in the New Mexico Senate that perhaps it was time for a State Constitutional Convention. Without a doubt there will be at least one more Special Session this year for redis-

tricting. There has already been a promise from the Speaker of the House that there won’t ever be another Republican elected in the southern congressional district. Please pay attention when you have the opportunity to make a difference.

New Mexico’s Woes Continue The results of 2020 Census were released in late April 21. The good news is that New Mexico will keep all three of its congressional seats. The bad news is that the state’s population grew by just 2.8 percent in the past decade. It is said that is by far the weakest growth the state has ever recorded in a census. Even more concerning is the age group that dropped the most. Rural areas have long lamented that their best and brightest are leaving New Mexico in search of better paying jobs and higher life styles. The under 18 age group dropped by 8 percent. And, remember these numbers are before the exodus, especially on the East Side, that resulted from the lockdown of New Mexico for over the past year. This stagnate growth was dramatic when one looks at the 2010 census reported a 13.2 percent growth and the 2000 census when the growth was at 20.1 percent. But

New Mexico was not alone in the Western states that have enjoyed population growth as folks moved from the East and Mid-West. California lost a congressional seat and Arizona did not gain one as had been expected. Texas on the other hand gained two seats and grew by 15.9 percent. Colorado grew by 14.8 percent and Arizona grew by 11.9 percent. However, the stats indicate that New Mexico is growing more diverse. Native American populations grew 10 percent, with a slight increase in Hispanic residents and a decline in non-Hispanic white residents according to a Legislative Finance Committee analysis.

Body Blows Rural Americans have been repeatedly hit by disturbing national headlines in the past few months including a new federal 30 by 30 initiative to preserve 30 percent of land and water in the U.S. by 2030… to be followed up by 50 by 50. The first mentions of this plan actually came from New Mexico Senator Tom Udall and Colorado Senator Michael Bennet. The pair introduced a resolution in the US Senate in October 2019. Additional sponsors were Democratic Senators Dick Durbin

(Il), Kamala Harris (CA), Cory Booker (NJ) Chris Van Hollen (MD), Jeff Merkley (OR) and Richard Blumenthal (CT). A major report on the direction of 30 by 30 was expected in late April. The report was headed up by U.S. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland. There seems to be a belief that even in the face of all the federal lands in the West, only 12 percent of the land is protected. That leaves a lot of private land to be “protected” with the hundreds of millions of dollars put in the Land & Water Conservation Fund last year. Then in late April came a headline that President Biden was promoting a diet that contained no more than four pounds of beef ANNUALLY, cutting beef consumption by 90 percent and overall meat consumption by 50 percent. The plan does allow for one (1) hamburger a month. We are not sure what sized hamburgers the Presidents eats. A burger a month in most places will well exceed the 4-pound overall limit. But, not to worry. U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack cleared up any misconceptions in speaking before the North American Agricultural Journalists annual meeting in late April that the President has no plans to limit meat consumption as part of his climate plan.

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ship I have enjoyed with him, his bride Deana, and sons Pete and Justin. So here’s the story. My parents separated when I was in high school. In an odd twist to the way things usually go, Dad moved to town for a while. It wasn’t long before I moved to town with him. Going from a country kid to a town kid isn’t always a smooth transition. While I was really active in 4-H, most of my activities were not in Tombstone where I went to school. Because I rode the bus from the ranch (and I am a complete klutz) I wasn’t involved in after school sports. The Tombstone Unified School District was made up of not only the city of Tombstone, but also of Huachuca City, a bedroom community to Sierra Vista and Fort Huachuca. Probably half of the kids in high school were bused in. Thus there weren’t a lot of kids my age or with my interests in Tombstone. I ended up spending quite a bit of time by myself. Dad rented three one-bedroom adjoining apartments right off Allen Street (the main drag in Tombstone). This worked into two bedrooms, a small living room, a tiny kitchen and three bathrooms. My bathroom window was right next to the window of the satellite office of the Cochise County Sheriff’s Department so I was always in the know on those activities. I just had to open the window for a ring-side seat. About that time Jack and Deana Porch went to work at the Little Boquillas near Fairbanks, a stop in the road near Tombstone. Jack was community minded and it wasn’t long before he was friends will all the ranchers in the area and an avid fan of Tombstone High School sports. The young would-be cowboys who were part of the teams were attracted to Jack’s fun loving personality as well. Dad wasn’t much into high school sports at that point so I tagged along with Jack and Deana and their son Pete on most Friday nights. I usually spent a lot of weekends and summers with my grandparents Ralph and Mattie Cowan. The summer I was 16, Jack and Deana were expecting their second baby. Deana was the chief cook and commissary manager for the Little Boquillas. She was about seven months along when school got out that year. The Porches invited me to live and work with them that summer, helping with cooking and Deana’s other duties, taking meals to the works and watching Pete.

Sounded like a great idea to me. At the same time Jack hired all of Dad’s high school cowboys for the summer too. To say that Dad was less than pleased was an understatement, but he took it good naturedly. He was confounded that his daughter could get hired away. The summer was a lot of fun. Jack and Deana are loving people who made me feel at home. Jack had an ornery streak and was constantly pulling jokes on anyone and everyone. He and Deana loved to dance and were great at it. There was lots of dancing around the living room that summer. On the first work day I was assigned a pickup and trailer. Pulling a trailer was one of those things Dad didn’t think girls should do, so I have never learned how to pull a trailer. When I told Jack that his instructions were “it follows you.” He never worked on my trailer backing skills, which are still lacking today. The day the baby decided to come it rained and the creeks were coming up. Very much pre-cell phone, I had a radio to contact Jack to ask him to come home. He took his sweet time about it making me crazy, although they did make it to the hospital in time. However the day that baby Justin was to come home, Jack was busy. I was sent to the hospital in Bisbee to fetch Deana and the baby. The Little Boquillas was owned by Kern Cattle Company when Jack went to work there, but it sold to the Tenneco Oil Company. Before the end of that summer Tenneco hired Jack and Deana to work on the San Emilio Ranch near Bakersfield, California. Before Justie was a month old, the Porch’s were off to California. I was heartbroken. But the familial bonds that had been formed were never to be broken. I made many, many trips to California and we’ve kept in close contact for over half a century. In 1994 I was thrilled when Jack and Deana moved back to New Mexico, their childhood home. Anytime we were able to see each other, it was as if time had never passed. We were always in sync. The last couple of years were not kind to Jack’s health. The Lord took him home on April 5, 2021. I was blessed to be a part of the family there with them till the end.

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t the beginning of every meeting we, the NM CowBelles, recite the creed. I would like to address the Vision part this month, which is “to educate the general public, children to adults, about the nutritional value of beef, environmental stewardship, and industry practices of farmers and ranchers to sustain the integrity of the New Mexico Beef Industry”. Educating the general public which includes children and adults about the nutritional value of beef. How do we do that? We can start with Ag in the Classroom to reach those children who do not have the opportunity to live on a ranch or farm. We already have great materials to be used in our local schools. The adults aren’t as easy to educate due to a variety of circumstances such as jobs, families and just plain living. Unfortunately, most have no idea where their food, especially beef comes from nor do they know how many hours are put into ranching or how cattle are cared for before the beef gets to the grocery stores. It is our responsibility to educate them. How do we educate them? We need to promote positive promotion to eat beef and how nutritional it is, and all the other products made from cattle. I truly believe that we have to go above and beyond all the negative material that is being published against the beef industry. The next part of the creed is “environmental stewardship”. We respectfully take care of the land. Ranchers take great pride in making use of the land and to not overgraze, so the grass has the highest protein and nutritional value for the cattle. They also make sure cattle have adequate minerals, salt, and water. It is important to note that more cattle are raised on smaller amounts of land than ever before due to proper land management. Finally the creed states that the industry practices of farmers and ranchers to sustain the integrity of the NM Beef Industry.” Integrity has many forms, but above all refers to having upstanding character traits and work ethics, including sound judgment,

honesty, dependability, and loyalty. Ranchers and farmers are trustworthy and reliable. Integrity is crucial for success in every area of our lives in the agricultural industry. In conclusion ladies, we have to stand up and show our neighbors, our state and the world what being a NM CowBelle means. Volunteer in your community to help with Ag in the Classroom, National Beef Day and speak up to help in any form.

one to sign. Joan read March minutes which were approved as read. Carol gave treasurer’s report. No correspondence, and courtesy cards were sent to Ann, Yetta, Janene and Carolyn. Committee reports included scholarship committee, Kelsey and Carol, scholarship applications had been received from Santa Rosa, and Ft. Sumner would be in by April 15 which is the deadline. Hopefully, will hear from Vaughn and they will notify in May of the recipients! – Sandra Lacy Also, under committee reports, Sandy and New Mexico CowBelle President Kelsey are working on quilts that will be used for another raffle. Sandy has donated Chamiza CowBelles met April 1 with the material and batting for the quilts, and, President, Jeni Neely presiding at 12:05 p.m. asked if the club would pay for the machine in the Albert Lyon Event Center with nine quilter cost. It was decided to pay cost members and two guests present. Jeni read $150-250 per quilt. Thank you, Sandy and the Prayer and Creed and all recited the Kelsey, for all your efforts in this great Pledge. Cathy read the secretary’s minutes project! Under old business, Kelsey talked from the previous meeting which were to Kim McCollum and the Chamber indiapproved as read. Jeni made several cated in favor of serving BBQ sack lunches announcements prior to the arrival of the for Old Fort Days on Saturday. As time Treasurer: 1) the mid-year meeting will be grows closer, more information will be held in Ruidoso June 6-9; 2) T-shirts are for shared. Under new business, Beverly asked sale for $20 from Nancy; 3) Pat Nowlin schol- if group would again provide beef for the arship applications are due by April 15; and honor students in coordination with the 4) there will be a virtual WALC conference women’s club. Because of COVID restricMay 25 & 26. Nancy arrived and presented tions at this time, Beverly visited with the treasurer’s report. There was no change Dariland, the group will provide hamburgin the amount of the scholarship account. ers for the students. Powderhorn will give Nancy did get the beef raffle tickets printed $5.00 certificates for each student and Darilat a cost of $90.98 as well as purchasing a and will have a list of names of students and paper cutter in the amount of $64.91. It was will keep track of names. Under announcedecided to approve the report as presented, ments, Brenda read notice of annual to reimburse ticket printing and paper meeting for Cattlegrowers and CowBelles cutter in one check. Krystie apologized for will be in Ruidoso, June 6-8. Wayne brought missing the deadline to submit our Man of up the idea of doing zoom for those who the Year application. For some reason, she cannot attend monthly meetings. She is was thinking the deadline was April 15 able to set that up and anyone interested rather than March 15. Apology accepted, please contact her. Next meeting will be in Krystie! The remainder of the meeting was Santa Rosa with Brenda Copeland, location spent perusing the scholarship applications to be determined! Meeting adjourned. and making the decisions of the winners as Kelsey then provided the program on her well as the dollar amounts to each winner. hoop house which was just fascinating! The winners’ names will be announced on Joan key, secretary the scholarship announcement night. It was New Mexico CowBelles: Thank you to all agreed to award two academic scholarships who have submitted their news to Jingle and one vocational scholarship. Two of the Jangle. Please send minutes and/or newsscholarship winners were encouraged to letters to Jingle Jangle, Janet Witte, 1860 apply for the Pat Nowlin scholarship with Foxboro Ct., Las Cruces, NM 88007 or email: the support of Chamiza CowBelles. Meeting janetwitte@msn.com by the 14th of every adjourned at 1:10 p.m. Submitted by month. Cathy Pierce Powderhorn Cattlewomen met at the home of Kelsey McCollum on April 10, with Wayne Overton co-hostess and seven members present with two others joining for lunch. Brenda led group in opening prayer, pledge and creed. Attendance sheet and courtesy cards were passed for every-

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year into one of the largest ever disruptions of the global and U.S. economies, some industries and market sectors are continuing to feel the severe impacts of COVID-19. Although the beef and protein industry experienced disruptions in normal business operations, consumers still demand high quality beef in their diets. Looking forward to the future retail and foodservice environments, as the U.S. population begins to get more comfortable and a greater number of people receive vaccinations, expect foodservice activity to slowly return closer to “normal” levels. Until then, expect consumers to continue to prepare a large percentage of their meals at home, looking for those convenient and versatile options that beef is helping satisfy during this turbulent time. A major change in consumer behavior that affected the retail industry was the “stocking-up” behavior experienced at the beginning of the pandemic. Shoppers rushed to their grocery stores to buy surplus groceries, especially meat products. Even as late as September of last year, 50 percent of consumers surveyed reported to be “stocking-up” at a greater rate than normal. With this behavior, and with the foodservice industry restricted or shutdown, 83 percent of consumer meals were being cooked and consumed at home. Ground beef was one of the main products to be stored in refrigerators and freezers, with more than 50 percent of consumers reporting to have surplus ground beef products. The foodservice industry has faced the largest disruption of operations in modern history in the past year. Due to a combination of low consumer comfort and government-mandated restrictions on in-person dining, year over year transactions and sales in restaurants declined as much as 45 percent in 2020. The Beef Checkoff responded by increasing social media in order to educate consumers about the wide variety of cuts available, preparation methods, delicious beef recipes and beef handling & safety information.

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Joseph W. Weiss, an international authority on cybersecurity, control systems, and system security, confirms that wind turbines have been targeted, though the attacks have not been widely reported. The attackers went after wind installation SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) networks and wind turbine gear boxes, he said. “The lack of public awareness of wind farm cyber incidents has negatively affected the industry’s focus on addressing cybersecurity,” Weiss said. “Consequently, it may take a real test to demonstrate that wind turbine cyber vulnerabilities can cause damage to critical equipment such as gear boxes.” SCADA is a computer system that gets real-time data about a system in order to control that system. Cyber attackers generally exploit previously known vulnerabilities. The

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he would not take no for an answer. Finally, a hesitant Scott Woolfolk hired the insistent 12-year-old neighbor as a farmhand at Woolfolk Farms in Jackson, Tennessee. Her first day on the job, Alyssa Copeland was on a side-by-side spraying fences. Scott hoped she would make it an hour. “She sprayed fences for about 12 hours straight that day,” Woolfolk says. “That was her.” In a few years she could do it all, watching and taking note of every detail. She became part of the family, mentoring Scott’s kids on the farm and in the showring. Sixteen years later, Scott walked Alyssa down the aisle at her wedding. “I think the most unique thing about her is she has gotten to where she has at a young age, and she didn’t start out with any kind of agricultural background,” Scott says. For Alyssa, her key to success has always been, “Be loyal to a fault, be honest and hardworking.”

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Sit tall in the saddle Culture shock aside, Alyssa found herself at home at Copeland & Sons Herefords LLC in Nara Visa, where it is “only 30 minutes away from a drought,” as the old-timers say. Instead of an Pictured at the inaugural Cattlemen’s Congress is the 2021 Hereford eight-head string to prep Herdsman Alyssa Copeland and her husband Matt. for Tennessee shows, Alyssa was given 100 sale calves to wash and clip, plus a prediction what worked for her. from her now husband, Matt Copeland, “By At the “no-nonsense, real-world” Copethe time sale season is over, you’re going to land ranch established in 1943, she is involved in all aspects of running a 650know whether you love it or hate it.” Alyssa did what she does best — worked head, five-breed cow herd, from managing with a prove-she-can mentality. breeding programs to checking pastures. “She’s a true cowman’s cowman, whether “That’s the fun part — seeing how those it’s everyday ranch work or in the showring,” calves come out and grow the direction you Matt says. “She does it all at a level that isn’t want your herd to go,” she says. “I think it’s seen often. She gets cattle presented to the really important for a herdsman to see the best of their ability in a way that is second- business management and production side to-none.” Realizing her talents, Matt of things.” With Alyssa’s help, Copeland & Sons has instructed her to clip a heifer’s show-side, front leg at her first National Western Stock raised or sold 15 national supreme, grand Show (NWSS) with the Copeland crew. and reserve grand champions in the last Ready or not, Alyssa welcomed every five years. In particular, her favorite memory task thrown her way. “You don’t get better is winning premier breeder at the 2018 by sitting back and letting someone else do NWSS in Denver and at the Fort Worth Stock it,” she points out. In her experience, an Show (FWSS) a few weeks later. That memopen mind and willingness to learn from orable year also happened to be Copeland different people was the best way to figure continued on page 28 >>

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& Sons 75th anniversary. Through all the victories, she never stopped learning or working. “I’m a firm believer everything happens for a reason. There’s nothing that is just luck. It’s hard work,” the showman shares. “The right people are going to watch you, whether you know it or not.” Turns out, the right people were watching. Between the selection of the horned and polled champion Hereford females at the inaugural 2021 Cattlemen’s Congress in Oklahoma City, the show paused for the announcement of the Hereford Herdsman of the Year. Quoting Gary Buchholz of GKB Cattle, Waxahachie, Texas, the announcer read, “‘It takes work ethic. It has to be in your heart. It takes willpower, no matter the good times or bad times, to present your cattle to the best of your ability. … It’s not a man’s world anymore. She has a work ethic like I’ve never seen among young women today. She does it right and with pride.’” At that moment, the crowd and a speechless Alyssa realized the outcome of the votes cast by her fellow exhibitors. “It’s really humbling for fellow breeders

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and past Hereford herdsmen to put me on the list and for breeders to vote for me,” the 2021 Hereford Herdsman says. “The people who helped me get here make this mean so much more to me.”

Where the trail meets the sky The Herdsman honor follows a milestone year for the Copelands. Coming off a supreme champion victory at the Arizona National Livestock Show in December 2019, Alyssa and Matt got engaged in January 2020 and married in November. Her Herdsman title meant just as much to Matt, who accomplished the same feat in 2011. In fact, Matt and Alyssa join the ranks of only one other couple to win the Herdsman award separately. “Our hearts are in Hereford, and that’s our home,” Alyssa says. “There’s so much tradition and history within the Hereford breed and to join that list of distinguished individuals is a dream come true.” Her list of people to thank in making this dream a reality is long: her parents, the Woolfolks, the Buchholzes, the Krebs and Dunklau families of Nebraska, countless mentors in Tennessee and Billy Donnell — her neighbor who helped her learn about cattle and farming those many years ago.

Above all, she is grateful to her New Mexico family: Matt, father- and mother-in-law, Cliff and Pat, and Cliff’s parents, Clifford and Barbara Copeland. To her many mentors and friends who have helped along the way, Alyssa says, “When you’re doing what you love with the people you love and where you love being, it’s not a job; it’s a passion.” Her mindset parallels a quote from one of the Copeland family’s idols, John Wayne, who said, “A goal, a love and a dream give you total control over your body and your life.” With her name etched in the Hereford history books, the cattlewoman looks to the future. She and Matt are inspired working with the next generation of cattlemen, hoping to motivate them to stay involved in the industry. She also admires established ranches that have stayed at the forefront of the Hereford breed.

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Alyssa’s list of mentors en route to Hereford Herdsman is long, and she is especially grateful to the Copeland family for their support. “The people who helped me get here made it mean so much to me,” she says. Pictured (l to r) are three generations: Pat and Cliff, Barbara and Clifford and Matt and Alyssa Copeland.

the bottom,” Alyssa reflects. “It doesn’t happen overnight.”

“I think one thing that sets the Hereford breed apart is the good cowmen involved who see a future in them,” she says. “They know what we’ve come from and they know where we’re going. Those breeders are working hard to keep us in the right direction and keep our junior programs alive and keep people involved.” Undoubtedly, the Hereford breed will keep moving forward, with its herdsmen leading the way. As for Alyssa, she’s going to “keep riding for the brand ” and living by her favorite Chris LeDoux mantra, “Sit tall in the saddle, hold your head up high; keep your eyes fixed where the trail meets the sky; and live like you ain’t afraid to die; and don’t be scared, just enjoy your ride.”

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enviros covet them, and this program pro- tural carbon markets.” This is not a totally vides an excellent opportunity to either bad bill, but let’s take a closer at the lanacquire or obtain control over private prop- guage used to describe and justify the erty. In conjunction with this program, legislation. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack has The bipartisan bill would create a structure expanded the Conservation Reserve at the Department of Agriculture to help Program, which pays farmers to halt pro- farmers increase their adoption of “climate duction, by 4 million acres. In doing so, he smart practices” and have better access to brushed aside grain growers’ fears this voluntary carbon markets, Stabenow told would send a signal to other countries to reporters on a Tuesday call. step up production. USDA will also consider Here the D.C. Deep Thinkers are saying ramping up their program to purchase per- farmers aren’t changing their production petual easements over private lands. practices at an acceptable rate, or that Another option for both USDA and USDI those who are changing are adopting is the outright purchase of private lands. dumb practices rather than “climate smart Making this a more plausible option is Pres- practices” as defined by the government. ident Trump’s signing of the Great American ...but the burgeoning private markets for Outdoors Act last year, which guarantees, carbon credits vary in quality without debate, $900 million a year for Something is “burgeoning” in the federal land acquisition. Was that enough private sector? Oh no, the DC Deep Thinkers to satisfy the enviros? Of course not. One cannot allow that. enviro spokesman recently pointed out the …bill would create a structure at the $900 million was a 1978 number, and after Department of Agriculture...voluntary factoring in inflation, the appropriation carbon markets. should be $3.4 billion per year. Whenever you create a “structure” in a With respect to federal lands, the big federal agency, history teaches that, over stick everyone will be watching for is the time, the “structure” will become a bureau use of the 1906 Antiquities Act. That law has or a division and the program mandatory. been determined by the courts to grant the “Most of these carbon markets are complex President unlimited authority to designate and farmers need help to get started,” national monuments without allowing for Stabenow said. public comment and without considering These ag producers manage land, livethe environmental or economic impact of stock, crops and sophisticated heavy the designation. Given the short, nine-year equipment. They manage their own budget time frame to meet the 30 percent goal, and the marketing of their products. Yet the they very well may be gearing up for a mon- DC Deep Thinkers believe they need govument onslaught that far surpasses ernment’s help in selecting a program Obama’s record setting 26 new national because it is all too complex? monuments. Therein you find the word that almost The enviro lobbyists have recently done always leads to more government spending a great job in bringing in Native Americans and control. The word is “complex”. Whento be upfront on many enviro initiatives, ever you hear a politician utter the word especially those pertaining to federal lands. “complex” be assured it will be followed by Now, however, the enviros are eyeing the expressing the need for some new govern56 million acres of land held in trust for ment expansion. Native Americans. It will be interesting to see how welcoming the tribes will be to In reality, the exact opposite is true: the having national parks, wildlife refuges and more complex an issue the less the governnational monuments created on tribal land. ment should be involved. Governments have demonstrated over and over again Climate what? they cannot manage simple, straight I predicted last fall that Biden’s enviro forward programs. Why on earth, then, initiatives would all be proposed under the would anybody think they could adeumbrella of climate change, and so it is with quately manage a “complex” issue 30 by 30 program, as it is only a part of the or program? President’s EO on climate change. I’m sure Until next time, be a nuisance to the it is just a happenstance that Senate Agri- devil and don’t forget to check that cinch. culture Chair Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), along with 17 Republican cosponsors, has Frank DuBois was the NM Secretary of Agriculture from 1988 to 2003, is introduced the Growing Climate Solutions the author of a blog: The Westerner (www.thewesterner.blogspot.com) Act. The bill is aimed at “bolstering agricul- and is the founder of The DuBois Rodeo Scholarship and The DuBois Western Heritage Foundation

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U.S. Carbon Credit Markets Bill Heads to Senate Floor by Susan Kelly, meatingplace.com

he U.S. Senate Agriculture Committee recently approved the bipartisan Growing Climate Solutions Act that aims to help farmers, ranchers and forest landowners participate in carbon credit markets. Backed by more than 60 agricultural and environmental groups, the bill was reintroduced by Senators Mike Braun, R-Ind., Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I. It also has 31 co-sponsors. McDonald’s Marion Gross, the hamburger giant’s chief supply chain officer for North America, said the act takes important steps toward supporting voluntary carbon credit markets that assist farmers and ranchers who use climate smart agricultural practices. “We advocate for incentives, recognition and rewards for agriculture operations that quantifiably deliver positive environmental impacts and foster agriculture’s unique ability to act as a climate solution,” Gross said in a press release from the Agriculture Committee. The bill also has the support of the American Farm Bureau Federation. “AFBF welcomes the introduction of the Growing Climate Solutions Act, which builds on the strong foundation of environmental stewardship in American agriculture by providing more clarity and guidance for farmers and ranchers as they explore or expand participation in carbon markets,” said AFBF President Zippy Duvall. The bill creates a Greenhouse Gas Technical Assistance Provider and Third-Party Verifier Certification Program at USDA to help solve technical entry barriers that prevent farmer and forest landowner participation in carbon credit markets. As part of the program, USDA will administer a new website with information and resources addressing how to implement practices that capture carbon, reduce emissions, improve soil health, and make operations more sustainable. An advisory council of agriculture experts, scientists, producers and others will be established. “Agriculture has a great opportunity to measurably contribute to climate solutions, from cutting emissions of nitrous oxide, methane and carbon dioxide, to storing carbon. EDF commends the bill’s co-sponsors for seeing this potential and paving the way for farmers to be part of the solution,” said Elizabeth Gore, senior vice president of political affairs at Environmental Defense Fund. The full Senate will now take up the bill.

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Barrasso, Lee Push Bills to Reform Grazing Rules by Jennifer Yachnin, E&E News reporter

pair of Western senators are looking to overhaul the grazing process on federal public lands. Both Wyoming Senator John Barrasso, the top Republican

on the Energy and Natural Resources Committee, and Utah Senator Mike Lee (R) recently introduced measures aimed at easing the process by which ranchers utilize public lands for their cattle and other stock animals. Barrasso’s proposal is called the “Resilienc y for Ranching and Natural Conservation Health Act,” or “RANCH Act.” “In Wyoming, ranchers’ livelihoods depend on preserving the health of our multiple-use public lands,” Barrasso said. More than 29 million acres in Wyoming are owned by the federal government, according to statistics from the Congressional Research Service. That accounts for nearly 47 percent of the state’s land mass.

ing invasive plant and weed control, fence construction, and “other activities that advance healthy habitat and resiliency.” A $5 million portion of those funds could also be used to expand or improve access to existing public lands via agreements with private landowners. Two provisions also seek to ease the use of public lands during “extreme events” such as natural disasters, drought, wildfire or infestations. One section of the bill would allow ranchers to temporarily utilize vacant allotments in response to such events, and the other would create a categorical exclusion on the National Environmental Policy Act to use those vacant lands. The proposal would also waive NEPA review for grazing permits when the leaseholder is in compliance with the terms of their agreement. “The RANCH Act will provide badly needed access to emergency pasture in a timely manner when our ranchers are faced with the loss of the use of their normal public land allotments,” said Wyoming Stock Growers Association Executive Vice President Jim Magagna. “Far too often, when both the permittee and the rancher agree on the need for these

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or generations, New Mexico ranchers have been the constant steward over both private and state trust lands. With so much of our state’s land dedicated to agriculture, New Mexico ranchers proudly provide food and fiber while maintaining the integrity and resilience of the States landscape. With that being said, I think it’s time we took a balanced and informed look at the stewardship of this “Land” of Enchantment. While some New Mexico ranches are privately owned and have been handed down over several generations, there are also ranches located on state trust lands which are leased to permittees. Permit holding ranchers aren’t just tax paying citizens who visit their lease a few times a year. These ranchers also own private land in and around the state trust lands that they lease. This is their home, it’s where they live year round. Leasing regulations and restrictions represent a unique set of challenges to permittees, much like those enforced when

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someone is renting a home. A good tenant would oversee and complete daily tasks to ensure that the home was functioning, safe and serving its ultimate purpose, providing a comfortable home to those that reside there. Permit holding ranchers choose to care for the land just like it was their home. By utilizing state trust lands ranchers can run their livestock cost-effectively, ensuring that their herds have adequate area and forage availability to grow and produce. This is where the stewardship comes in to practice, or caring for the land because it provides for us. We work with government agencies like USDA Natural Resource Conservation Service on programs to ensure the best in conservation practices. Much of our joint planning is to implement programs to help mitigate the impacts caused by drought. An example would be rotational grazing. To ensure the health of the soil and native grasses, we allow our livestock to graze areas of land that is otherwise unfit for farming or timber production. Grazing also decreases the impact and intensity of wildfire reducing rangeland fuels and forages non-digestible to humans. We manage the watershed to conserve our most precious resource, water. A water-

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he American Gelbvieh Association (AGA) board of directors met in March 2021, for their spring board meeting where a decision was made about the location of the 2022 National Gelbvieh and Balancer® Show and Sale. Following the AGA National Show

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f it were possible to clone human beings from history, what would they be doing today? For instance, if we were somehow able to find a strand of DNA from Robin Hood, clone him and raise him in our modern environment, what do you reckon he’d be doing? His genes would give him the predilection to master disguises, slink around in back rooms and rob from the rich. Obviously, he’d be in politics. The sheriff of Nottingham, on the other hand would rob from the rich and poor alike and have no conscience. The perfect packin’ house buyer. How ‘bout Noah. Fair to middlin’ navigator, knew how to make repairs en route and kept a lot of air freshener in the pilot house. He’d make a good livestock hauler. If we cloned an Egyptian Pharaoh where would he fit in the 20th century? Well, they

spent their lifetime leaving their mark on the land for people centuries later to ponder. I believe he’d be selling ear tags. Buffalo Bill. A showman, took advantage of cowboys and stayed one jump ahead of the creditors. He could easily slip into the boots of a rodeo producer. Edgar Allen Poe. Thought up depressing stories that scared the wits out of people. He’d be an economist. Poncho Villa. Inspired great loyalty in his people, came from Texas and knew all the good songs. Freddy Fender. Attilla the Hun. Pillaged and plundered the land and built monuments to his own scorched earth policy. A real estate developer. A Roman slave. He could own his own dairy today. The first person who crossed the Bearing Strait and introduced mastodons to the

Eskimos would probably be in the llama or ostrich business now. Lewis and Clark. Managed to make it across the country by trading trinkets to keep from get ting shot. Animal health salesmen. Chris Columbus. Had to beg for financing, made risky investments and wound up 14,000 miles off course. He’d be feeding cattle today. Fred Flintstone. Lived in a cave, rode a dinosaur and didn’t do well with strangers. Probably be herding sheep in Wyoming. Nero. Played his fiddle while Rome burned. He’d probably have a BBQ joint in Branson, Missouri. And finally Moses. He brought a plague on his neighbors, took orders from higher up and was good with large quantities of liquid. His clone might make a good hog confinement operator. ‘Course, Moses was also lost for forty years wandering the wilderness with no apparent means of support, so he could easily be a professional team roper.

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Finishing Beef Calves On-Ranch by Paul Beck, Oklahoma State University Extension beef cattle nutrition specialist

ural landowners are often interested in raising livestock to slaughter for personal consumption, local marketing or for normal commodity markets. There are several options producers can use to finish cattle, ranging from finishing completely on forages to conventional drylot programs using high concentrate diets. Hybrid systems have been studied as an alternative to high-concentrate total mixed rations fed in confinement. These systems utilize the roughage supplied by pasture along with additional energy from supplemental concentrates. They may not meet the requirements to meet ‘grass-fed beef’ claims by the USDA, but do provide free-choice access to pasture.

An Alternative Finishing System I conducted research with Jason Apple, a meat scientist currently at Texas A&M Kingsville, to compare conventional finishing at a High Plains feedyard to the hybrid ‘grain-on-grass’ system. In the first trial, calves from spring or fall calving herds were

Figure 1. Effect of finishing on pasture (Forage) with one percent of bodyweight concentrate supplement daily or conventional finishing (Grain) on bodyweight of steers.

either sent to a Texas Panhandle feedyard for finishing as yearlings following a stocker program or kept at the home operation and supplemented with one percent of bodyweight per head per day with a grain/grain byproduct supplement until slaughter. Steers finished conventionally in confinement gained 4.4 lbs/day while steers fed concentrate supplement on pasture gained 2.5 lbs/day. Although the finishing period on pasture was 30 days longer on the average, steers finished in the conventional feedlot were 128 pounds heavier at slaughter and dressing percentage was higher 62.5 percent vs 60.6 percent for Conven-

tional and Pasture, respec tively). Conventionally finished cattle were 86 percent Choice while pasture finished were 78 percent Select quality grade. In the next trial, 60 calves were either finished in conventional Texas Panhandle feedyard or were kept on pasture with a grain/grain byproduct concentrate supplement fed at 1.5 percent of bodyweight daily. Steers finished on pasture with supplement gained 3.6 lbs per day (vs 4 lbs/day for conventional) and were fed 40 days longer than conventional steers, but were again still 40 pounds lighter at slaughter. But, hot carcass weights (836 for pasture vs 854 for conventional) were not as impacted as in the previous study, fat thickness was similar for the two treatments (0.62 inches for pasture vs 0.52 for conventionally finished) and dressing percentage was likewise similar (63 percent for pasture and 62.5 percent for conventional). In this experiment the cattle finished on pasture with supplement were 100 percent Choice with 73 percent being Premium Choice, while the Conventional steers were 93 percent Choice with 45 percent being Premium Choice. This research indicates that acceptable carcass performance can be obtained with limited energy supplementation on pasture.

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Buyer’s Premiums at Auctions?

he Romans were said to have charged the first buyer’s premium at auctions, thus dating the charge back to around the time of the birth of Jesus Christ. However, the modern day buyer’s premium was re-introduced during the mid-1970s by Christie’s and Sotheby’s auctions. The introductory rate they charged was 10 percent. Often called by the slang term “juice,” buyer’s premiums have been around ever since—and are very common now. What is a buyer’s premium (BP) some may ask? A buyer’s premium is a charge or fee (usually a percentage) in addition to the hammer price of an item at an auction. The winning bidder is required to pay both the hammer price (winning bid announced)

and a percentage of that price, AKA— buyer’s premium. This percentage may range from one to 10 percent in Real Estate auctions, from 10 to 30 percent in art and collectibles auctions, and equipment and car type auctions usually fall somewhere in the middle of those ranges. It is estimated today that over 80 percent of auctioneers charge a buyer’s premium. How exactly is a buyer’s premium calculated? Let’s say a piece of art sold for $5,000 and there was a 10 percent premium at this particular auction. The price paid by the buyer would be $5,500 ($5,000 hammer price plus 10 percent BP). Taxes and any other applicable fees such as shipping and handling may be added on top of that. But why even charge a buyer’s premium at all? Auction houses charge a BP for several reasons, but the bottom line is — to stay in business and hopefully remain profitable. (As a side note, the main segment of the auction industry, making up most of the small percentage of auctions who do not charge a BP, is the livestock auction industry. Consequently, many smaller livestock auction business have gone under in the last couple of decades because margins were too small to remain in business.) So a buyer’s premium is basically a fee

to help cover the escalating costs involved with running an auction business. There are many costs which go into the events which most people do not consider — and a whole new category of costs have evolved the last few decades with the now, almost necessity, of having auctions offered online. For those who advocate against a BP, maybe try to think of it as a necessary evil in order for the auction to keep bringing you items to bid on. “But don’t auctions collect a commission from the seller?” some ask. Most of the time an auctioneer does collect a commission from both the seller and from the buyer. However, as competition for quality items has become greater, commissions charged to sellers went down over time. Before buyer’s premiums were charged, sellers usually paid higher commissions than they do now, even though it is now more expensive than ever to put on auctions. In some extreme cases, if a seller has a particularly rare or valuable item that several auction houses wish to represent, they may actually pay no commission at all and the only way for an auctioneer to cover expenses is through the buyer’s premium. The norm now-a-days however is for the auctioneer to collect a little something from each side (seller and buyer) as their

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pays. Customers just don’t notice all the little fees added in because they are lumped into one number without being broken down. At an auction however, the buyers set the price. The price paid for an item will not go any higher than what two or more bidders are willing to bid up to. And the auctioneer’s job is to bring those sellers and buyer together. While facilitating these true market discovery transactions, they are typically paid on a commission basis. But just like a retail outlet, there are expenses and profit margins which have to be covered (if they want to remain in business anyway). What auction customers should remember (and factor in) is that even if you add up the fees, etc., the overall purchase price paid at auction is often less, or at least not more than, what one might expect to pay in a retail setting. And there’s always the chance it could be much lower! That’s one of the allures of an auction. Savvy bidders know about the fees and factor them in. It is recommended to have your maximum bid amount in mind before bidding, that way one can calculate the buyer’s premium, taxes, shipping, handling and any other applicable fees beforehand and know the amount you feel comfortable

bidding up to. To sum it up, everyone pays a markup/ premium/juice or whatever you want to call it when you purchase items. That is the only way businesses selling the items can remain in open. While some complain about the fees, the truth is — the market sets them. In an open, capitalistic marketplace, folks who charge too much do not remain in business long. If an auction company (or any other business) charges their sellers too much (or doesn’t pay their suppliers enough), before long they have nothing good to sell because sellers go elsewhere where they are treated better. The same logic applies to the buyer’s premium. If it is too high for the item(s) being offered, buyers will not patronize that auction (business) for long and go elsewhere. Conversely, if a business does not charge enough, they will not be open long.

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you can expect red meat yield to be about 50 percent of the shrunk live weight of the animal (empty of gut fill).

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The amount of retail cuts coming from a finished calf depends on the frame, muscling, skeletal structure, fat cover, and gut fill.

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The conversion of live animal depends on dressing percent (the amount of carcass per pound of shrunk live weight), in grain finished calves this ranges from 58 percent (usually dairy calves) to 66 percent (highly finished heavyweight beef steers), but in forage finished calves this can be much lower, usually due to gut fill and lower fat cover.

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A tool to estimate red meat yield from a carcass is the Beef Cutout Calculator (http://beefcutoutcalculator.agsci. colostate.edu/). The user must be aware that this is based on the average grain finished carcasses, and differences in finishing system will affect your results.

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he momentum toward adopting a technology-based farm-to-plant traceability system for beef cattle, such as radio frequency identification (RFID) tags, has taken one step forward and one step back, but opponents continue to press their case in the court system to keep the technology at bay. In a brief filed in a two-year-old case in federal court in Wyoming, New Civil Liberties Alliance, a legal nonprofit, argued that the USDA didn’t follow required procedures in moving ahead with plans in regards to RFID. In the brief, filed in the case on behalf of Ranchers-Cattlemen Action Legal Fund Stock-growers of America (R-CALF USA), the alliance said that the agency should not be allowed to use the recommendations that it received as a result of the agency’s previous efforts toward implementing RFID requirements for livestock moving interstate. “The controversy, however, remains alive because USDA is moving ahead with plans to mandate RFID for cattle by 2023,” R-CALF’s attorneys said recently in a press release. A March 2021 news release by USDA said, “[USDA] believe[s] that RFID tags will provide the cattle industry with the best protection against the rapid spread of animal diseases.” Meanwhile, USDA recently announced it will not finalize a proposal to declare RFID ear tags the official means for tracking cattle and bison with the U.S. But Tyson Fresh Meats, a subsidiary of Tyson Foods Inc., became the first beef processor to join a different program developed by multiple cattlemen’s groups — not USDA — using similar technology. In that program, U.S. CattleTrace, ear tags use high-frequency technologies to collect such data as an individual animal’s identification number and GPS location, along with date and time. The information is used to track animals from birth in case of disease outbreaks as cattle are raised for slaughter. U.S. CattleTrace launched in early 2020.

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RIDING HERD by Lee Pitts

Disputations and Usufructs

on’t you hate it when snobs use twenty-dollar words when nickel ones will do? My least favorite words at the moment are metrosexual, shapewear and paradigm. In reading a couple books recently I had to grab the dictionary to find out what “disputations” and “usufructs” were. The wordinistas have gone so crazy that now they’re using several words where one worked just fine before, like appearance deficit (ugly), gravitationally challenged (fat), negative patient care outcome (dead), and intergenerational intimacy (I have no idea). Now you can add to that list “the urban/ rural interface”. Suddenly it’s the place to be. If you’re a bit nebulous, ambiguous or equivocal about what we’re talking about I have put together a circular and will be your docent as we reconnoiter this anomalous land called the urban/rural interface. If a horse is your daily driver you belong on the rural side of the interface, but if “horse” is a game played on asphalt schoolyards in your neighborhood with a basketball you definitely belong on the urban side of the line. If there is only five inches of drywall and Douglas Fir separating you from your closest neighbor I think it’s obvious on which side of the line you fall. Likewise if you are telling someone how to get to your abode and it sounds something like this: “Get off the freeway at 23rd street, turn left onto tenth and you’ll see several huge apartment complexes. I live in the only one on your right that hasn’t been fire-bombed. Using the phone by the entrance to my apartment building you’ll get a code from me then go up forty stories and I’m in 40017. Granted, it’s not the best neighborhood in town but it’s only $4,700 a month! I know, I know, I’m one lucky inhabitant. By the way, it’s probably best to come during daylight hours. And bring mace or pepper spray.” If you can’t see your nearest neighbor and he or she is in a different zip or area code you definitely fall on the rural side of

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Some Wild West Nicknames

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obriquets attached to characters in the American West of the late 19th century are an interesting, and sometimes a conflicting collection of names. Most famous among them is “Buffalo Bill” Cody. There is no real confusion about him. His name was William F. Cody, and he was responsible for killing untold hundreds of buffalo on the American plains before he went into show business and really became famous. But others are not so obvious. “Wild Bill” Hickok is a case in point. His name was not William, but James Butler Hickok. Dime novelists made much of his exploits, as Wild Bill, and it is not clear where the sobriquet came from. It is not beyond imagination that he came up with it himself. In New Mexico, the most famous nicknames were, of course, “Billy the Kid” and “Black Jack.” Anyone who has been in New

Mexico long enough to eat two bowls of green chile stew will be quick to acknowledge that if New Mexico had an official outlaw, like it has an official cookie (the biscochito), it would be William H. Bonney, or Billy the Kid, and in general that would be correct. But was Bonney really known widely as Billy the Kid? One modern source indicates that he was not known as such until the last year of his life. Earlier, he had been known simply as “The Kid,” or even just “Kid,” but that description could be applied to numerous youths, on both sides of the law. And, too, Bonney was earlier known as “Kid Antrim,” Antrim being his step-father’s name, and as Henry McCarty, McCarty being his mother’s name. Another observer has noted that there were probably ten young men known as Billy the Kid in late 19th century New Mexico. One of

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the most attention. For one thing, he was While many western writers have sufficiently annoying that even his own referred to Tom Ketchum as the original brother, Sam, disassociated himself, leaving Black Jack, some modern researchers Tom to act alone. On August 16, 1899, Tom believe that Will Christian was first. He was undertook to rob the same train that his born in Texas in the early 1870s and after a brother had robbed a month before. It long string of crimes, from robbery to didn’t work out. The train’s conductor, Frank murder, he and his brother, Bob, arrived in Herrington, shot and severely wounded New Mexico in the middle 1890s. They conKetchum, who was captured the next day. tinued their criminal ways until “Black Jack” What sets Tom apart is that he was charged Christian was shot to death by lawmen, led with assaulting a train, which had been by Deputy U. S. Marshal Fred Higgins of made a capital offense in New Mexico in Roswell, in April 1897 at Cole Creek Canyon 1887. He was sentenced to death by hanging, in eastern Arizona. the only person in the history of the terriOne story goes that Tom Ketchum tory to so punished for that crime. adopted the name for himself after ChrisWhat focused even more attention on tian was killed when a hanger-on in an Tom was the way in which his execution was Arizona saloon noted that the two men botched. As a result of a miscalculation, the looked alike. This story also holds that rope was too long and his head was sepa- Ketchum and Christian never met. Other rated from his body. Photos of the gristly tales suggest that they were acquainted, event were taken, so the public had little and actually committed crimes together. opportunity to forget this particular Membership in the outlaw gangs of the Black Jack. time changed with a high degree of Tom’s older brother, Sam, it should be regularity. noted, was also occasionally referred to as Before he went to the gallows, Tom Black Jack. Odd that neither of these Black “Black Jack” Ketchum declared that he was Jacks were named Jack, or John. Neither not the “real” Black Jack, and that the other was yet a third, his name was William T. one, presumably Will Christian, was still Christian. alive and well. Ketchum refused to say

where the original Black Jack might be found. The final New Mexico Black Jack was General John Pershing. There is no mystery about how he acquired the nickname. For about ten years, as a young officer in the late 1890s, Pershing, while serving in New Mexico, was the commanding officer of a company of the 10th Cavalry, which was made up entirely of Black troopers, known as Buffalo Soldiers. Pershing later wrote, “It has been an honor which I am proud to claim to have been at one time a member of that intrepid organization of the Army which has always added glory to the military history of the United States—the 10th Cavalry.”

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and then Betty would teach her classes how to rodeo. Everyone, including the other 1935 - 2021 teachers were always so intrigued. After she etty Sims-Solt was born and raised on retired, she decided to get the saddle back the family ranch near Pastura, New out and buy a small ranch North of Roswell Mexico in 1935. Her parents, George where she ran a Cow-calf operation alongEdgar Sims and Wahlecia Dell Blackwell side her brother. Betty was also quite Sims had five older sons before Betty creative, as she wrote and performed arrived. Her five older brothers showed her cowboy poetry that has been published. In the “ropes” of rodeo, and began entering 1990, she was inducted into the National into competitions by the year of 1950. By Cowgirl Hall of Fame in Ft. Worth and Las 1954, she managed to win and place in mul- Cruces where you can still see her ranch tiple NM State rodeos, leading her to the symbol, and in 2003 she received the opportunity to compete in the High School National Cowboy Culture Pioneer National Finals in Louisiana, Montana, Woman Award. South Dakota and Texas where she also Betty had one daughter, Georgia Solt placed in several events. Perry and two grandchildren Ethan Wayne Betty went on to attend college New Perry and Genna Wahlecia Perry. Mexico A & M, (now known as NMSU) where she ended up winning the NIRA National All-Around cowgirl title in 1957, along with 1933 - 2021 the National Barrel Racing Championship in 1957-58. She also joined the Girls Rodeo onald H. Mayer, 88, passed away on Association (now known as the Women’s March 18 in his home in Roswell. A Professional Rodeo Association) along with life-time Roswell resident he is surthe Southwest Rodeo Association, winning vived by his wife Martha Moore Mayer, the Barrel Racing title in 1958. She was a daughter Suzanne (Will) Burke, step-grandbusy and ambitious woman, even helping sons William Jr (Ana), Christopher (Brenda) to start the NIRA Alumni Association. and Matthew Burke and step-granddaughIn college she earned a degree in Animal ters Lauren and Lindsay Corley and Kristin Husbandry, along with her teaching certif- (Travis) Gerhardt. He is also survived by his icate that allowed her to teach for 33 years beloved granddaughters Sarah (fiancé in the Roswell Public schools. Every now Charles) and Shelby Johnson daughters of

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his deceased daughter Amy Mayer Johnson. Ronny’s devotion to agriculture showed through his life as a Rancher, Ranch Real Estate Broker, and Appraiser. He served as Chaves County Commissioner in the early 1960s and New Mexico Real Estate Agriculture Commissioner in the 1970s. Ronny was born in San Angelo, Texas on February 22, 1933 to Abe Mayer Jr. and Juanita Heard Mayer. Ronny received his High School diploma from New Mexico Military Institute in 1951 and attended his freshman year of college at Texas Tech University. Then he joined the Marine Corp during the Korean War. In 1957 he met and married Martha Moore, Omaha, Nebraska, while working at Swift & Company as a livestock buyer on the Omaha Livestock Exchange. Ronny and Martha spent the next three years working on the family-owned ranch in West Texas where his two daughters Suzanne and Amy were born. In 1962 Ronny, and his family, went to work as a foreman on the Latigo Ranch in Santa Rosa, New Mexico for Lincoln County Livestock Co., Roswell, which later became Diamond A Cattle Company. In 1966 he and his family moved to Roswell where his daughters could attend public school. Ronny, who had just received his Real Estate Broker’s license opened up his own company selling farms and ranches under the name of “The Ranchfinder”. He continued his longtime interest in the New Mexico Military Institute and was elected president of the Alumni Association and later was appointed by Governor Bruce King to a term on the Board of Regents at the Institute in the late 1970s. Ronny and his family were very active in owning and operating several ranches in New Mexico, Texas, and Colorado during the 1960s and 1970s. At one time owning a 50 percent interest in a beautiful mountain ranch just west of Raton adjoining the Vermejo Park Ranch. Eventually, he would fulfill a lifetime dream of owning and operating Latigo Ranch in Southeastern New Mexico. Latigo Ranch was a very nice grazing and hunting year-long ranch next to the Capitan Mountain, just south of the old village of Arabella. In 2010, after selling the Latigo Ranch Ronny and Martha purchased a ranch in Central Texas near where their daughter and granddaughters were living. Ronny’s home base was always Roswell and the surrounding ranch country. He continued to hold small farms and ranches in the area up until 2019 when he got out of the ranching business for good. Always the consummate storyteller he

Dr. Hal Hopson

later in life wrote and self-published two range lands. He really retired in 2015. books, No Cry for Help and Let’s Cowboy Up. Jack was preceded in death by his son 1933 – 2021 This along with the many written stories Pete, his mother Pauline and his Aunt Kathr. John Hal Hopson, 87, passed away that he has left for his family is his lasting erine Moss. He is survived by his wife Deana, legacy. Ronny Mayer was a loving husband his son Justin and wife Christy, and from natural causes on April 8, 2021 and father, good friend, and mentor to “adopted” daughter Caren Cowan. while at the home of his son, Sidney, many. He will be missed as there will never A memorial service will be held at a later in Kamuela on the Big Island of Hawaii. Hal date. In lieu of flowers the family suggests was born on December 11, 1933 in Sedan, be another “Ranchfinder”. In lieu of flowers, please help us remem- contributions to the Parkinson’s Foundation. New Mexico to James H. and Thelma Mabel ber “The Ranchfinder” by donating to All Hastings Hopson. Saints Catholic School, 2700 N. Kentucky, Hal grew up in Clayton and graduated Roswell, NM 88201, or The Historical Society from Clayton High School in 1951. After 1957 - 2021 for SE NM, 200 N. Lee Ave., Roswell, NM high school, he attended New Mexico State avid Soules, 63, Las Cruces, passed University (NMSU) in Las Cruces on a rodeo 88201, or charity of your choice. Due to away after a heart attack on scholarship. While at NMSU he met and current conditions no memorial service will March 30, 2021. be held at this time. married Florence “Flossie” Aimo, the 1954 He was appointed to the New Mexico NMSU Homecoming Queen. He always said A special thank you to our friends and family who supported us during Ronny’s State Game Commission in 2019. During his this was one of his proudest accomplishillness, Susan Gibson (Care Giver), Glynn tenure on the Commission, he was instru- ments. Hal and Flossie were married on Shelton (Nurse), and the entire staff of mental in negotiating the State Game January 30, 1955. After graduating from Commission Easement for Hunter & Angler NMSU in 1955, Hal was accepted into ColoKindred Hospice. Access on State Lands Trust Lands with the rado State University in Ft. Collins and their State Land Office. He was known for his veterinary program graduating in 1959. Hal passion for the state’s habitat, and was an and Flossie had their first son, Sidney Ross 1941 – 2021 advocate for projects statewide. Soules had (born 1956) while in Ft. Collins. ack O. Porch, 79, Cuchillo, New Mexico a strong interest and understanding of The family moved to Deming in 1959 and passed away on April 5, 2021 at home. Mexican Grey Wolf Program and supported established Deming Animal Hospital. Jack was born in Jackson, Mississippi on efforts for the recovery of many threatened Second son, Steven John, was born in October 21, 1941. His family moved to New and endangered species. Deming in 1960. Hal practiced for a dozen Soules was a lifelong conservationist years in Deming, including a short stint as Mexico when he was just a toddler. He graduated from Los Lunas High School and who enjoyed hiking, camping, canoeing, NM State Veterinarian before moving to hunting and fishing on public lands and Silver City in the summer of 1972. He started attended New Mexico State University. Jack led a full life, starting his first job at waters in Southern New Mexico. He was Arenas Valley Animal Clinic that year and, all the age of 16 for Sichler Farms. He then co-author of, Exploring Organ Moun- told, spent over 50 years as a practicing worked as a milk man delivering Albuquer- tains-Desert Peaks National Monument, and veterinarian with clients throughout southque. He met Deana Haver and they were earned a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering western NM. married on February 16, 1963. They had from Colorado State University. In addition to the veterinary practice, Hal Soules is survived by his wife Nancy, his was very involved with First NM Bank their first son, Pete, in 1964. Deana officially named the boy Jack Wesley. Jack said she son Kevin and wife Robyn, his son Keith and serving on the board of directors from its could name him what she wanted but he wife Lauren, his two grandchildren Theo- founding in 1968 until his bank retirement dore and Isla, his brother Senator Bill Soules in 2017. Hal also served as president of the was going to be Pete and so Pete he was. The couple moved to Arizona in 1965 to and his sister Merrie Lee Soules. NM Veterinary Association in 1970-71. He manage the Kern County Land Company’s was on the Gila Regional Medical Center Little Boquillas Ranch in Fairbanks. The couBoard and the Grant County Humane ple’s second son, Justin Paul, was born in 1970. Tenneco purchased Kern County and Jack was promoted to the Company’s San Emilio Ranch near Bakersfield, California. In 1985, the Porches moved to Valley Acres, California where they had a hay business until 1994 when the family moved to Cuchillo to be closer to Deana’s family. Jack had the best garden in Sierra County. In 5 YEARLING BULLS AVAILABLE PRIVATE TREATY 1996, he went to work for the Armendaris Bloodlines: Jindra Acclaim, ACC Ascension, Ten X, Ranch in Engle. He then moved on to Rock Barstow Cash, Connealy Armory Canyon Marina in Elephant Butte. Jack and his son Justin started hauling Over 40 years of Performance & Efficiency Testing freight cross country until 2010 when Jack JOHN & CATHY HECKENDORN, 75-A Pueblo Rd. N., Moriarty, NM 87035 “retired” and went to work for Red Doc SARAH, JOSHUA, CALEB, Home: 505/832-9364 – Cell.: 505/379-8212 Farms both hauling cattle and managing JOE & REBECCA ISBELL Web: www.jcangus.com – Email: info@jcangus.com

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Society Board. In 1998, Hal was selected as Silver City, NM Citizen of the Year. In 2015, Hal was awarded the “Spirit of Service” award from NMSU. Hal prided himself on assisting and mentoring students interested in veterinary medicine and other careers involving animals and agriculture. He hired and trained numerous high school and college students. Several went on to become veterinarians themselves. Many who worked at the animal clinics stayed close to Dr. Hopson throughout their lives. In addition, via the NMSU Foundation, the Dr. J. Hal and Florence Hopson scholarship was endowed to support NMSU students furthering their studies in Animal Sciences with aspirations to veterinary medicine. Hal is survived by sister: James L. Dawson; sons: Sid (Sheree) and Steve (Joyce); two grandsons; and four great-grandchildren. Memorial services are being planned. Celebrations of life will be held on the Big Island of Hawaii in summer 2021 and also in New Mexico in fall 2021. Both of these are tentative due to COVID restriction In lieu of flowers, memorial donations can be made to: Cowboys for Cancer Research, PO Box 202, Dona Ana, NM 88032

Shanna Summers Davenport 1938 - 2021

hanna Summers Davenport, revered wife, mother, and “nana,” passed away peacefully, with her family at her side, on April 10, 2021, in Brigham City, Utah. She was born July 13, 1938, in Tremonton, Utah to Merlin (Mike) and Hazel Summers. She was raised in Bothwell, Utah, where she attended elementary school. She graduated from Bear River High School and went on to further her studies at LDS Business College, in Salt Lake City, Utah. She married her high school sweetheart, Ronald King, in the Salt Lake Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on September 22, 1959. They were blessed with four children, Kathy, Ryan, Kami, and Brandt. They later divorced. She married Earl Davenport on August 19, 2000, and they resided in Brigham City. Shanna was a hard worker. She started her career at Germer, Abbott, and Waldron Construction, then worked at the Utah State University Extension office for many years. She also worked at the Utah PCA office in Tremonton. Shanna then decided

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to pursue a career in real estate, where she excelled. She was a member of the Brigham City/Tremonton Board of Realtors. She loved her hometown and served as fair board secretary for many years. She was a lifelong member of the LDS Church, where she held many callings. Shanna loved being a nana; her grandchildren were her greatest joy. Erica, Ben, McKenna, McKayla, Jackson, Colby, and Sydnee adored their nana. We will always cherish the picnics in the park, the Christmas parties in her home, and feeding the ducks in St. George, where she and Earl had a second home. She was an amazing cook and made everyone feel loved and welcome. Shanna is survived by her husband, Earl Davenport; children: Ryan King, Kami (Chett) Robins, and Brandt (Jenny) King; seven grandchildren; brother, Randy Summers; sister-in-law, Kathleen Summers; and niece, Shelly Summers.

John L. “Chip” Merrill 1932 - 2021

ohn L. “Chip” Merrill’s Celebration of Life will be in Fort Worth, Texas on May 15 from 10:00 a.m.- 12:00 p.m. at the Will Rogers complex. West Arena (auction arena) west side of the John Justin arena. John Merrill passed away on April 5, 2021. Conservation enthusiast, spokesperson and advocate would all be accurate descriptions of John “Chip” Merrill’s involvement with conservation efforts during the last 50 years. A lifelong Texas rancher, Merrill has made numerous contributions to the range management profession. He is a past president (1981) of the Society for Range Management (SRM), has been actively involved with the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA) and the Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association (TSCRA), is affiliated with several natural resource foundations, and is likely best known for his 33 years as director of the Texas Christian University (TCU) Ranch Management Program, from which he retired in 1996. Most recently, Merrill was honored for his contributions with the prestigious National Golden Spur Award, which was presented to him October 29, 2005, by the Ranching Heritage Association. If you do not know John “Chip” Merrill personally, chances are you do know or have benefited from one of the many organizations with which he has been involved. He has served as a director and member

of the executive committee of the Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association (TSCRA). Merrill is a past director of the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA), and he chaired both the TSCRA and NCBA Research and Education committees, where he led efforts to fund the first national beef consumer survey and to establish the national Integrated Resource Management (IRM) program. As a founding member of the national Grazing Lands Conservation Initiative (GLCI), he is credited with getting more funding through the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) for grazing programs and technical assistance nationwide. His other affiliations include the Society for Range Management (SRM), Soil and Water Conservation Society (SWCS), Natural Resources Foundation of Texas (NRFT), Botanical Research Institute of Texas (BRIT), and Texas Wildlife Association (TWA). He was inducted into the State Fair of Texas Heritage Hall of Honor in 1998. He was a director and member of the executive committee of the Southwestern Exposition and Livestock Show.

Mary Jo Joy 1935 - 2021

ary Jo Joy, 86, went to be with her Lord and Savior on April 15, 2021. She is survived by her sister, Laura Lee Stover, Alamogordo; her son, Dwayne (Joann) Joy, Capitan; her grandchildren, Travis Joy (Shelley), Alexis, Marissa, Shaina and Trista; her great grandchild Jewel, Carrizozo; her husband Tom; and also, Kayla Clifton (Glenn), Carrizozo, and Mike Joy (Amy), Roswell. She was also cherished by many nieces, nephews, and cousins. Mary was born and raised on the Flying H Ranch in Chaves County. She and her husband Tom attended a one room schoolhouse on the Flying H, until time to start high school, where she transferred and graduated from Artesia High School. Mary and Tom married in 1954, after they married, they worked on many ranches in Chaves, Lea and Lincoln County. Mary was active in Chaves County Cowbelles and Canyon Cowbelles of Carrizozo. Mary was also a member of the Lea County and Farmington extension clubs, where she loved doing crafts and anything else they were making or doing. Mary made many afghans and clothes for her sons and daughter and many nieces and nephews would give her an idea continued on page 50 >>

Biden’s “30 By 30 Plan” – a Slap at American Private Property Rights by Karen Budd-Falen

o matter how far agriculture has come in showcasing our environmental stewardship; no matter how many times agriculturists explain that we are feeding, clothing, and providing energy to the citizens of the world; no matter how loud we shout that we have more incentive than anyone in protecting the health and resiliency of our private and federally permitted land because we can only sustain a ranch or farm by caring for the environment, agriculture is still condemned by those with no knowledge of agriculture. A prime example is Biden’s 30 X 30 Plan. (Executive Order on Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad, January 27, 2021). While there are a lot of things in the Executive Order that give me concern, the thing that hurts the most is the thought that the ownership and use of private property and the multiple use of federal land (in Biden’s view) is antithetical to protecting the world from climate change and preserving biodiversity. Revealingly, under the Executive Order, for the Biden administration, the solution to global climate change is for the federal government to (1) acquire more private land to take it out of production and (2) eliminate all use on federal land — to the tune of a total federal control of an additional 440 million acres of land or oceans in the U. S. by 2030. This is shocking in its scope. To break it down, under the Executive Order and documents published by the Department of the Interior, the Biden Administration believes that only 12 percent of the approximately 563 million acres of federal land in the United States is managed for “the preservation of biodiversity” thus additional uses have to be eliminated to ensure this land is managed in its “natural state.” Then the Biden plan is to acquire an additional 440 million acres by 2030. That amounts to more land than twice the size of Texas. The question now is how will the federal government acquire an additional 440 million acres of private land and eliminate more uses of federal lands that already contain many restrictions? Condemnation and “strong-arming” will likely be

the answer. Even though it won’t make the nightly news, federal agencies are already implementing this “Biden vision.” On February 11, 2021, the Acting Secretary of the Interior signed an Order eliminating the Trump Administration’s requirement for State and local government approval prior to the federal government’s acquisition of more private lands with moneys from the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF). Shockingly, that Order claimed that allowing local governments to have a voice in land acquisition directly impacting their counties “undermined” the program. While LWCF moneys are touted as being used to “secure public access and improve recreational opportunities,” the money can also be used to acquire private lands into federal ownership. Because no property taxes are paid when land is owned by the federal government and since there will be no jobs associated when the newly acquired land is left in its “natural state,” the acquisition of these lands and the elimination of more uses from the federal lands will absolutely harm the local tax base and employment opportunities that supports rural schools, roads, and other necessary services. With the passage of the Great Americans Outdoor Act in 2020, Congress already will make $900 million a year available for the LWCF, but they will need billions

more to achieve this radical acquisition goal. All of rural America and anyone who believes that local control of resources and that the American farmer and rancher is the backbone of this country should be alarmed at the notion that only the federal government, owning land in its “natural state,” can combat climate change and the loss of biodiversity. I think we are in for a fight to protect American agriculture and our rural way of life. Karen Budd-Falen is an Attorney with Budd-Falen Law Offices, LLC with a primary focus on property rights, environmental, and natural resources law. Budd-Falen Law Offices, LLC, has attorneys licensed to practice law in Colorado, Idaho, Illinois, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wyoming. This article should not be understood to state or imply that any lawyers of this law firm are certified as specialists in a particular field of law. Anyone considering a lawyer should independently investigate the lawyer’s credentials and ability, and not rely upon advertisements or self-proclaimed expertise. This article is informational and is not legal advice.

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IN MEMORIAM << cont from page 48 of something to sew and she could make a pattern and make it. She made dance costumes for Harding-Webster Dance Studio in Carlsbad. Mary loved music and dancing, playing 42, and people, she never met a stranger, she could find family anywhere she went. Mary moved to Roswell after she was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2014, she made the comment that she was not going to be sick from chemotherapy and radiation, and she was true to her word she never was. Once she had finished all her treatments, she was ready to become active with other people, she was a very social person, and she started attending the Chaves County Joy Center Adult Daycare Program, and attended for five years, due to covid-19 it was closed in 2020 and she missed it greatly. Just as side note she did not die of COVID-19.

Tomas Antonio Rosales 2005 - 2021

ith deepest sorrow, we announce that Tomas Antonio Rosales Jr. age 16, and our most beloved son, brother, family member and friend passed

suddenly on April 16, 2021. Those who knew Tomas, even just a little, lost a shining light in their lives. Tomas will be missed everyday by his Dad, Tomas (Tommy) Rosales Sr.; his Mama, Theresa Rivera-Rosales; sisters, Savannah Rivera and Shaianne Rosales; his grandparents, Cindy Rivera, & Mario and Linda Rosales. He is also survived by his loving aunts, uncles, cousins and an abundance of great friends. Tomas loved to farm, hunt, and fish and enjoyed a good game of corn hole and a Friday night bonfire. He loved animals and was an active member of 4-H and FFA. Tomas was an organ donor and was able to save many lives from his passing. Tomas is loved here on earth as well as in heaven. We LOVE and MISS you so much MossyThe Legend! In lieu of flowers, Tomas’ family has asked that monetary donations be made to the “Tomas A. Rosales Jr Scholarship Memorial Fund, PO Box 993, Socorro, New Mexico, 87801.

Giles Milton Lee 1922 - 2021

iles Milton Lee, 98, Lovington, passed away on April 24, 2021. Giles was born on December 10, 1922 in Midland, Texas to Richard David “Dick” Lee and Sarah Viola (Forrester) Lee. His siblings were Brookie Lee Anderson and Roy Raymond Lee and R. D. Lee, Jr, with Giles being the youngest in the family. He spent his earliest childhood in Midland but the family soon relocated to Lea County, New Mexico when Giles’ father entered into a partnership with Scharbauer Cattle Company, Midland. Dick Lee was part owner and manager of the ranch and moved his family to the Swamp Angel Ranch headquarters, southwest of Lovington in September, 1925. When Giles reached school age, the family decided to build a home in Lovington so he could attend school there. They built the first brick home in Lovington on the corner of Fourth and Adams streets. Giles graduated from Lovington High School in 1941 and entered New Mexico A & M in the fall of 1941. Following a year of college, he joined the Army and served three and a half years in the Army Air Corps, going to the Pacific for mop-up operations. He was a Staff Sergeant and Crew Chief on B-17 aircraft. After his discharge from the Army in 1946, he returned to college at New Mexico A & M in Las Cruces. While he was still in the Army and on leave during Christmas, he met the new music teacher’s daughter, Joan Anderson. “Joie” graduated from the University of New Mexico and was teaching in Carrizozo. Giles soon remedied the distance problem by marrying Joie on July 7, 1947. While at NM A & M, Giles was one of the founders of the college rodeo team. He had been active in rodeoing since he was a young man, riding broncs and bulls as well as roping. He was active in the National Intercollegiate Rodeo Association Alumni and served on their Board of Directors. Giles and Joie returned to Lovington in 1948 following college and along with their baby daughter, Elizabeth Forrester (Libby), and moved to Swamp Angel Ranch in September. Their daughter, Rebecca Brooks (Becky) was born in 1953 and Mary Ann was born in 1954. Giles was a member of the New Mexico Cattle Grower’s Association, having served twice as Vice-President. He also served on numerous committees within the NMCGA and organized the Hercontinued on page 52 >>

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find it intriguing that most country folks do all get along. not waste much time on hate. They know it The very people that accuse us country is destructive and they also know, that at folk of being anti-environment are the ones some point in time they will need their that have already destroyed where they live. neighbors in a crisis. Now they want to tell us how to maintain I am not saying that country living is our environment when ours is so much utopic, but it is a far cry better than what better than theirs. our brothers and sisters in the city must live That is just plain arrogant folks. They also through on a daily basis. According to FBI try and tell you that their paid scientists statistics which are expressed as per know much more than God about when the 100,000 people, there were zero hate crimes earth is going to end. The funny thing is that in rural Yavapai County, Arizona last year their paid scientists are consistently wrong with a population of 220,000. In the city of year after year. Remember, we had the Seattle, Washington there were 40 per doom of a fast approaching ice age in the 100,000; in Washington, DC there were 29 1970s, then we had global warming in the per 100,000; and in San Francisco, California late 1990s, and now the latest things that there were 7.2 per 100,000. we have are climate change and cow gas to Let’s talk about violent crime. Take end the world. Detroit for example with 1965 violent However, here we are sitting in the councrimes per 100,000, moving on to St. Louis tryside doing the same things that we have (The views expressed in this column are not at 1927, and finally Baltimore at 1523. The been doing for the last 240 years. We are necessarily those of the New Mexico Cattle common denominator here is that these raising livestock, farming crops, taking Growers’ Association or this publication.) cities have been under democrat control for good care of our families, and having fun. hen you think about it, living in the the last 50 years or more. I am not bragging Here in the countryside our air is clean, our American countryside has its here, I am merely pointing out that if you, water is clean, our food is untainted, we fish, advantages. Perhaps we do not meaning democrat leadership, want to sit we hunt, we trap, all things that cannot have the easy access to good Internet, air- around and accuse people of bad things even be attempted in the cities because they have already ruined their own lines, Broadway shows, or the best medical maybe you ought to look at yourself first. team, but we have something much more Keep in mind that those of us that live in environment. important known as peace of mind. the countryside have more guns per person In conclusion I would say that country We can get up in the morning, have a than nearly anyone in the cities, yet we have folks, have a good life and do not need city conversation over a cup of Joe, go to work a very low crime rate. We also have a sub- folks telling them how to live. They are all day outdoors whether it is sunny or stantial number of minorities in the already doing all the right things. Wake up snowing, and come home to dinner and a countryside, but obviously we pretty much global warmers and take a lesson! peaceable evening most of the time. There is always plenty to do without turning on the television, the internet, smart phone, or various other devices. When we join our gang, it is usually at the grange hall, the 4-H meeting, church, or helping a neighbor. I cannot remember the last time anyone one from rural life ever called me a “racist” which is probably the most popular mis-assigned word in America today. If you turn on any of those devices that I previously mentioned, that evil word you will be certain to hear. It sounds ridiculous to a person that was taught a good Storage Tank value system, has a moral compass, and was taught the tenets of God, family, and country. Most of us were taught to value the Ten Commandments, the Golden Rule, and Hay Saver Gene Autry’s Cowboy Code. I think all those standards are easy to learn, execute, and Hay Wagon live by. There is nothing difficult to understand here. I think the majority of us were Loading taught to respect each other in spite of any Spider Chute differences that we may have. If you have a disagreement, then sit down and work out the details. (575) 502-0013 • Anthony, New Mexico • www.punchycattlecompanyandtanksupply.com You may have to compromise a little. I facebook.com/Punchy-Cattle-Company-Tank-Supply-1416734078350487 VIEW FROM THE BACKSIDE by Barry Denton

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IN MEMORIAM << cont from page 50 eford Tour for this area of New Mexico. Giles held a long-time interest in quality cattle on his ranch and diversified into crossbreeding his Hereford cattle in the early 1980’s. Later, he began raising straight bred Red Angus Cattle. Because of the great interest in team roping in this area, Giles, an active roper himself, organized the Lea County Team Roping Championship in 1959 and held the event in his arena annually for over twenty

years. An extension of this event was the Wednesday night team roping that Giles, Joie and the girls put on through the spring and summer months at the ranch. Many youngsters began their roping career at Giles Wednesday night team roping. Giles holds a gold card in the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association, having joined in 1947. He is one of the founders of the Senior Steer Roper’s Association which began in 1984 and he served ten years on their Board of Directors. He was active as an adult director in the Lea County Junior Rodeo Association.

The Lovington Lions Club honored Giles as Conservation Rancher of the year and he was chairman of the Rancher’s Fund that aided in the beginning of the University of the Southwest and established a historic family room for the Lee Family in Lea County Museum in Lovington. Giles was als o a m e mb e r of O ur S av i o r Lutheran Church. Having called Lea County his home for over ninety years, Giles was still involved in ranching at Swamp Angel, where he came as a young boy. His legacy is an ongoing program that resulted in fine crossbred and Red Angus cattle known throughout the area. He was most proud of his family. He and Joie spent seventy years of married life together, raising three daughters and welcomed seven grandchildren and three great-grandchildren into their closeknit family. Surviving him are three daughters: Libby (Danny) Berry, Eunice; Becky (Brad) Christmas, Wagon Mound; and Mary Ann (Bub) Waldrop, San Angelo, Texas; five grandchildren and three great-grandchildren: Hannah Hilton, Dillon Hilton and Todd P. Christmas. Memorials for Giles may be sent to: Haley Memorial Library, 1805 West Indiana, Midland TX 70701; Lea County Cowboy Hall of Fame, 1 Thunderbird Circle, Hobbs NM 88240 or Lea County Museum, 103 South Love Lovington, NM 88260 Editor’s Note: Email caren@aaalivestock.com. Memorial donations may be sent to the Cattlegrowers’ Foundation, a 501(c)3, tax deductable charitable foundation serving the rights of ranch families and educating citizens on governmental actions, policies and practices. Cattlegrowers Foundation, Inc., P.O. Box 7517, Albuquerque, NM 87194. The New Mexico Stockman runs memorials as a courtesy to its readers. If families & friends would like to see more detail, verbatim pieces must be emailed to us, & may be printed at 10¢ per word.

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New Food Habits

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ld habits die hard, but a pandemic will create new ones — whether it’s more frequent handwashing or more nights cooking at home. A year of social distancing and economic disruptions has triggered both subtle and seismic shifts in how Americans are buying or getting food, and Colorado State University (CSU) researchers from the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics have spent the last several months documenting those shifts. Their efforts are part of a $1 million cooperative study funded by the USDA Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS), in partnership with the University of Kentucky and Penn State University, looking at the pandemic’s effects on local and regional food markets. The team, co-led by CSU food systems researchers Dawn Thilmany and Becca Jablonski, conducted a national survey of 5,000 U.S. households this past fall. Their goal was to uncover how the pandemic is changing Americans’ food choices and to

try to understand if some of those changes might remain postpandemic. That way, producers, farmers, ranchers, retailers and restaurants can adapt accordingly and focus on long-term resilience. “We tend to see American consumers get into habits,” Thilmany says. “But COVID has got many households trying some new strategies to shop for food, many of them in support of local farms and businesses.” Thilmany is a professor in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics and associate director for engaged research in CSU’s Office of Engagement. Jablonski is an assistant professor in the same department and a Food Systems Extension Economist. Both are experts in food systems, supply chains and emerging food markets. The survey work is part of a yearlong research partnership that includes 16 national food supply chain organizations touching on various aspects of local and regional foods and how they’ve responded during the COVID-19 pandemic: from the Farmers Market Coalition, to National Co+op Grocers, to the James Beard Foundation, which represents independent restaurants. The CSU team is publicizing their survey

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he New Mexico Livestock Board (NMLB) wants to assist with ease of inspection for legal movement and sale. In order to do so, the NMLB reminds New Mexico livestock producers what qualifies as legal livestock ownership based upon New Mexico brand laws. Pursuant to 77-9-5 NMSA 1978, evidence of livestock ownership is based upon the presence of a “peeled” brand unless otherwise allowed by law. In order to help protect the livestock industry, the NMLB is enforcing the provision of a “peeled” brand on a more consistent basis. At this time, the NMLB is providing notice to New Mexico producers regarding what has been determined to be a lawful peeled brand. Please see the applicable branding practices and New Mexico state statutes below. Taking necessary steps to ensure livestock is exhibiting legal ownership brands will assist the NMLB when performing inspections and will help ensure livestock continues to be transported and sold timely and legally across our state. The NMLB is here to serve the producers of New Mexico and will gladly answer any questions regarding the livestock code. Contact information is below: 300 San Mateo NE Suite 1000 Albuquerque, NM 87108-1500 Office Hours: Monday through Friday 8:00 a.m to 4:30 p.m. (Mountain Daylight Time) Phone: (505)841-6161 Fax: (505)841-6160 Entry Permit Line: (800) 432-6889

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Northern Mexican Garter Snake Gains 20,326 Acres of Protected Critical Habitat in Arizona, New Mexico

he U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today (April 27, 2021) finalized critical habitat protection for the northern Mexican garter snake under the Endangered Species Act. This aquatic, secretive garter snake was historically found in all of Arizona’s major watersheds, in addition to the upper Gila and San Francisco headwater streams in southwestern New Mexico. Invasive species — including bullfrogs, sportfish and crayfish — and habitat destruction have eliminated most U.S. populations. The status of populations in Mexico is largely unknown, but the same threats are present. Critical habitat designation requires federal agencies to avoid actions that result

in damage or destruction of the garter snake’s habitat. The 20,326 acres of critical habitat designated today is in La Paz, Mohave, Yavapai, Gila, Cochise, Santa Cruz, and Pima counties in Arizona and Grant County in New Mexico. The northern Mexican garter snake is primarily olive in color and has three lateral stripes that run the length of its body with a yellow stripe down the back. In the United States, the species is most commonly found between 3,000 and 5,000 feet in cienega wetlands as well as river habitat that includes pools and backwaters. The snake feeds primarily on native fish and leopard frogs. The northern Mexican garter snake historically existed in every county in Arizona, with additional populations in New Mexico and Mexico. It has been eliminated from a large portion of that range, with remaining populations found in areas including the Verde River, Santa Cruz River, Bill Williams River, and San Pedro River watersheds in Arizona, and the upper Gila River watershed in New Mexico. The Fish and Wildlife Service estimates that more than 80 percent of the species’ remaining populations occur at low densities and are likely not viable.

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Western Yellowbilled Cuckoo Gains 298,845 Acres of Protected Critical Habitat in

he U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (FWS) designated 298,845 acres in Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, New Mexico, Texas and Utah as critical habitat for the western yellow-billed cuckoo on April 20, 2021. The FWS listed the western cuckoo as threatened in 2014. The agency also proposed the protection of more than half a million acres of the species’ critical habitat but failed to finalize the designation. This designation stemmed from a smaller proposal under the Trump administration and was further reduced by more than 172,000 acres of “exclusions” in the final designation. The yellow-billed cuckoo depends on healthy streamside areas for breeding, nesting and feeding. Critical habitat designation requires federal agencies to avoid actions that result in damage or destruction of the bird’s habitat.

Background The western yellow-billed cuckoo winters in South America and summers in the western United States and parts of Mexico and Canada. Its range has drastically contracted, with the species no longer occurring in most of the northern half of its range in the West. Presently the bird survives in scattered locations, including along California’s Sacramento, Eel and Kern rivers; the Colorado, Gila, Verde and San Pedro rivers in Arizona; New Mexico’s Gila and Rio Grande rivers; and scattered locations in Colorado, Idaho, Nevada, Texas, Wyoming and Utah. Historically the cuckoo was common from the shores of Lake Washington in Seattle to the mouth of the Colorado River. The cuckoo is a visually striking bird whose long tail has flashy white markings. It is one of few species that can eat spiny caterpillars, such as tent caterpillars, which adults and their chicks gorge on in spring and summer.

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Select Beef: Who Wants It?

Select grade becoming a ‘no man’s land.’

by Miranda Reiman, Certified Angus Beef LLC

hat was exceptional yesterday is average today. That’s true in the cattle business and especially apparent in high-quality beef production. “Without paying attention to shifts in the market, it can be easy to assume what worked when you started still works now,” says Paul Dykstra, of the Certified Angus Beef® (CAB®) brand. “It’s hard to argue there’s ever been true demand for Select, rather than simply a price point for those indifferent to quality.” However, indifference has left the market. The Choice-Select spread has been sending the message for decades, says the CAB assistant director of supply management and analysis. A wider spread signals strong demand for marbling, while a narrow spread suggests weaker demand for the same. It gives cattlemen a roadmap of what the market wants, but price married with quantity provides the complete picture. During the last decade, Select carcass production fell 50 percent in relation to Choice and Prime. Through December 2020, the Select proportion was 13.9 percent of fed-cattle carcasses, down from the 2019 average of 16.9 percent. The Select grade typically comprised nearly half of fed beef 15 to 30 years ago. “Supplies have dramatically decreased, and so we might assume scarcity would spur prices higher, given healthy demand,” Dykstra says. “But the numbers tell a different story.” A two-year snapshot of the spread between Select and No-Roll (ungraded, practically devoid of marbling) shows a narrowing trend, with the exception of the erratic markets this past May (see Fig. 1). The value difference between No-Roll and Select typically hit its highs at $20 per hundredweight (cwt.) from 2015 to 2018, but those peaks dropped to $12 per cwt. after that. The lows in the comparison were also slightly lower in recent years. Click here to view a larger image. On the flip side, the Choice-Select spread showed a widening trend (Fig. 2) even as Choice supplies increased and Select decreased. “There’s less demand out there for Select beef. Retailers have embraced higher mar-

bling, in part because it’s easier to procure,” he says. Choice has surpassed 70 percent of the fed-cattle supply. CAB often makes up 20 percent of the total, while Prime reached as high as 12 percent last year. “Consistent, high volumes of high-quality beef is key to retailers’ ability to feature it week in and week out,” Dykstra says. In 2020, the percentage of fed cattle reaching premium Choice and Prime came to more than 40 percent. CAB hit its fifth year above a billion pounds, yet “based on the CAB-to-Choice cutout, demand is exceptional,” he says. “And that happened while a significant portion of foodservice and international business was sidelined due to COVID-19. “As demand for quality continues to increase, both domestically and abroad, Select starts to find itself in a bit of a ‘no man’s land.’ ” It’s no longer the low-price option when compared to product from other countries such as Mexico, Brazil and Australia, and it lacks the quality and performance compared to domestic Choice and Prime. “With Select product devalued to this extent and representing a shrinking category, we need to embrace the change,”

Dykstra says. Hitting 100 percent Choice on loads of cattle isn’t the gold standard it once was, he adds. Low-Choice is no longer a premium product, but merely the low-water mark once anchored by the Select grade. “The market gives us a pretty clear picture of where it’s headed, and all cattlemen have an equal opportunity to respond,” he says. Editor’s note: Miranda Reiman is the director of producer communications for CAB. Photos and figures courtesy CAB.

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Will “Fly-Over Country” Have a Voice to Protect Private Property Rights Under the Endangered Species Act?

effort to crush the voices of rural America, state and local governments and Indian Tribes. Recently, the Biden Administration’s Justice Department and the environmental litigation group EarthJustice entered into an agreement to stay the proceedings in litigation EarthJustice brought as a nationwide effort to overturn regulations developed in 2020. This agreement is likely the first step at trying to eliminate regulations that affirmatively give State governments, local governments, and Indian Tribes a greater voice in designation of critical habitat under by: Karen Budd Falen, Budd Falen Law Office, LLC the Endangered Species Act (ESA). These he proceedings in a distant court- 2020 regulations require the US Fish & Wildhouse in Hawaii might not normally life Service (FWS) to substantively consider be the central focus of most private “economic, national security and other releproperty owners, but recent actions at one vant impacts” of the designation of critical can only be viewed as the beginning of an habitat on private proper t y and

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federal lands. Although groups like EarthJustice completely exaggerate its description of the impact and requirements of those regulations, the request of the Department of Justice to stay the litigation is consistent with the Biden Administration’s view that Washington D.C. knows what is best for rural America as opposed to the State and local governments and Tribal leaders who represent these areas. It is simply back to the mindset that one size fits all from Washington D.C. is the correct answer to all problems. ESA section 4(b)(2) was a Congressional amendment to the ESA responding to the Supreme Court’s 1978 decision in Tennessee Valley Authority v. Hill. That amendment required the federal government to consider exclusions of particular areas from proposed critical habitat designations based on economic, national security or other relevant impacts. The only caveat by Congress was that the federal agencies could not exclude areas from critical habitat if it would cause extinction to the species. Understanding Congress’ concern that critical habitat designations can have significant negative impacts on private property uses, local economies, jobs, State and Tribal wildlife management agency plans and programs and can cause unlimited environmental destruction such as increasing catastrophic wildlife or invasive species which harms threatened or endangered species, in 2020 the Secretary of the Interior issued regulations that require consideration of these human and environmental impacts as seen through the eyes of those who are directly impacted by proposed designations, in other words, State and local governments, Tribal governments, private property owners and federal lands users. Of course, areas of critical habitat can never be excluded if exclusion will result in extinction of the species. That mandate is noted in the ESA as well as in the 2020 regulations. But a plain reading of the statute shows that it is a policy choice whether the Secretary of the Interior will exclude particular areas from proposed critical habitat based on human use, jobs, rural families, local economies, and the local environment, so long as the species does not go extinct. And who better to describe these economic and relevant factors than the state, local and Tribal representatives who live and work in areas where critical habitat is proposed. Thus, in 2020, the Secretary made the right choice to require the FWS

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WAGON MOUND PLACE, Mora County, NM 8.202 +/- deeded acres on western edge of I25/Wagon Mound has two homes, abundant water with one well, two springs and pond. Other outbuildings and many trees would suit many purposes. $190,000.

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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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MIAMI 20 ACRES, Colfax County, NM quality 2,715 sqft adobe home, barn, grounds, fruit trees and mature trees. Extremely private setting. REDUCED $320,000. This is a must see.

CIMARRON HIDDEN PLACE, Colfax County, NM. 1.66± deeded acres with a 2,304 sq ft home updated with recent remodels including large open kitchen vaulted tin ceiling, three bedrooms and two bathrooms, edge of town amazing views. $290,000 COLMOR-OCATE CREEK, Colfax and Mora County, NM 853 +/- deeded acres split by I25 and Ocate Creek. Suit cattle operation, with some wildlife drawn to water holes in creek. $617,000 EAGLE NEST ESCAPE, Colfax County, NM. 78.42± deeded acres in off HWY 64 overlooking Eagle Nest Lake, private pond, two elk tags, 3 bedroom home with and large shop garage able to store your RV and big toys. Improvements almost half a mile off highway. Truly an escape. $850,000

WILLARD, NM: Located south of Willard off Hwy 42 on Cattle Rd. ~1,130 deeded acres submersible well, pipeline drinker(s), perimeter fenced & mostly open blue stem pastures w/some cedar & pinon tree cover. Ready to sell at $660,000. VILLANUEVA, NM: 87 deeded acres in 3 lots available. 100 gpm shared well with power is onsite. Priced at $142,500. Buy one or all. Located right on CR B29A. CR 4JK, DILIA, NM: 11-acre farm has ~5 ac. ft. of ditch rights. Live on one side, farm the other. Community water meter onsite, meter loop, nice views, owner ready to sell. List Price is $89,000 435 APACHE MESA ROAD: Gramma grass 80-acre parcel has 8 gpm water well, fence on two sides, two dirt tanks & Sangre views. Moderate tree cover. Price: $98,000 OWC STANLEY, NM: 80-acre tract w/power @ $89,900 Located off Calle Victoriano on Buckboard Rd. Also selling 640-acre tract w/ water well & power for $448,000 available in the Estancia Basin. Make an offer! SAN JOSE, NM: Rito de Sebadillo parcel is 144 acres w/transformer installed & water well onsite. Seasonal creek frontage. Priced at $179,900 & Owner may carry. PENA CANYON: runs right thru the middle of 540 acres located just north of Villanueva, NM. Has grassy mesa top, rocky canon bottom, off the grid w/pinon & cedar tree cover. Asking $340,000 I NEED MORE LAND LISTINGS... CALL 505-490-0220 TO SELL YOUR FARM OR RANCH. MARKET IT GOOD RIGHT NOW!!!

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REDUCED! Sierra Azul Ranch – Hatch, NM The Sierra Azul Ranch is located in Dona Ana County, New Mexico. This nice little ranch has been in the same family for over 50 years. The ranch runs 52 CYL and 2 horses on two sections of state land with over four sections of BLM and 520 deeded acres. The deeded land includes a beautiful 160 acre inholding with water and solitude. Good little ranch with good water, great feed throughout the rolling hills and canyons. With locked access and land-owner hunt permits, the ranch presents an excellent Mule Deer hunting opportunity. Offered at $1,150,000 NEW LISTING! Pineveta Ranch – Ash Fork, AZ The Pineveta Ranch is a working cattle ranch consisting of a total of +/- 23,680 acres of deeded, state lease, and private lands with a grazing capacity of 300+ cattle. The acreage includes +/- 483.64 deeded acres; 5,640.27 acres of ASLD Lease; and 17,556 acres of deeded grazing and mineral rights on adverse private properties. Gentle country, good feed, good water and excellent access to this one pencils out. Cattle are available through private treaty. Offered at $1,800,000 PENDING! Bottle Ranch – Dewey, AZ The Bottle Ranch comprises 26, 300 acres of the Bottle Allotment in the Prescott National Forest. The carrying capacity is 220 CYL with 100 head of cross-bred cattle conveyed with the sale. Offered for the first time in over 40 years, the Bottle Ranch is a great addition to an ongoing operation or the perfect starter ranch. Offered at $760,000

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NEW LISTING! Middle Prong Ranch – SECLUSION, PRIVACY, SECURITY and SELFSUSTAINING, this turnkey homestead/ranch is located in a remote area of Eastern Arizona. The 40+/- acre deeded inholding is in the heart of the Apache Sitgreaves National Forest. The headquarters includes a three bedroom, two bath house, 10’x12’ greenhouse, carport/machine shed, shop, walk-in box/cooler, 20’ cargo container for storage, and barn with a tack room. Ten acres can be cultivated as well as 3 potential helicopter pads for quick access by air. A gravel airstrip is nearby. Middle Prong Creek is seasonal and runs approximately 100 feet from the house where it then flows into Eagle Creek. The property contains 3 wells with registered water rights. This ranch is located in the popular Arizona game management hunt unit 27. This remote property offers an excellent opportunity to base a hunting operation. Elk, deer (mule deer & white-tail), turkey, bear, lions, javelina and small game are plentiful. Record-book animals were recently taken on the surrounding USFS land making this hunt unit increasingly popular. Offered at $625,000 PENDING! Heartz Ranch – Winslow, AZ Northern Arizona working cattle ranch with gentle terrain, good grass and easy access. This ranch runs 300 plus CYL with weaned calves at heavy weights. There is +/- 1,897.35 deeded acres, a two bedroom home, corrals, scales, numerous wells, windmills and dirt tanks this one is priced right. Offered at $2,300,000

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SOLD! X Double Rocker Ranch – Wickenburg, AZ Located approximately 25 miles southwest of Wickenburg, Arizona with a carrying capacity of 150 +/- CYL with ephemeral increases. There are 120 cows (Angus and English Cross) and 8 Angus bulls included in the sale. Offered at $1,189,000

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Baker Property – Deming, NM The historic Baker Property is located seven miles west of Deming, New Mexico north of I-10 and south of the prominent Black Mountain. This property consists of 3,966 +/- deeded acres. Full private access to every part of the ranch is made with ease due to its gentle terrain. The property is located within the adjudicated Mimbres Underground Water Basin but lies mostly outside the Critical Management Area. There are 2,200+/- acres of adjudicated surface rights from the intermittent flood waters of the Mimbres River. BEAUTIFUL HOME! This unique property lends itself to multiple uses with a unique setting for farming, an equine facility, and solar energy production.

Close to the comforts of town, but secluded from town life. Offered at $3,970,000 NEW LISTING! Deep Creek Homestead – Glenwood, NM The Deep Creek Homestead is nestled in the beautiful Gila Forest with a live year-round creek running through the property. With 60 deeded acres surrounded by the Gila National Forest this would make the perfect gentleman’s ranch or base for an outfitter’s operation. Located in hunting unit 16A known for its incredible elk hunting. With corrals, a barn and a shallow well and 3 acres of certificated water rights on property and wildlife in abundance - this ranch would be perfect for an outfitter operation. Offered at $675,000 Heller Horse Property – Congress, AZ This property is large enough to accomodate two families. Just 30 minutes from Wickenburg, Arizona “the Roping Capital of the World”. Sitting on 13+ acres adjacent to State Land, is a main home, a guest casita, tow barns, two bunkhouses, a 15’ x 225’ roping arena, a cutting pen (or turn out) and 61’ round pen. Additional income options are never ending in this property. Offered at $795,000

Judd Ranch – Alpine, AZ The historic Judd Ranch located in the beautiful mountain community of Alpine, Arizona consists of 208 +/- gorgeous acres bordering the ApacheSitgreaves National Forest Alpine, Arizona is full of clean mountain air and abundant wildlife. There are six cabins nestled into the pines along the historic Coronado Trail. The property includes the unique feature of Judd Lake on the San Francisco River. With 150 acre feet irrigation rights and open meadows surrounded by tall Ponderosa Pines, this property has abundant investment possibilities or just a beautiful mountain home. The ranch has been used by the Judd family since the 1800s and has historically run 100 head seasonally from May to October. Offered at $3,850,000

SOLD! Tule Springs Ranch – Greenlee County, AZ The Tule Springs headquarters sits on a beautiful and rare +/- 56 acre forest inholding tucked away in a very private setting ordering Tule Creek with incredible mountain views. The ranch runs 117 CYL on a USFS Grazing Allotment that totals 14,330 acres. Included in the sale is 50 head of quality Angus/Brangus cattle. Offered at $995,000

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Bar S Ranch – Wikeup, AZ The Bar S Ranch is located in west-central Arizona. With over 3,300 deeded acres and 152,655 total BLM and State Grazing this ranch runs 445 CYL plus large ephemeral increases. Three homes, barn, corrals and equipment make this ranch a large outfit that is well watered and maintained. Offered at $5,950,000

REDUCED! F Bar Farm, Taylor, AZ. The F Bar Farm is a 330+/- acre parcel located on the outskirts of Taylor, Arizona in Navajo County. The parcel contains 2 irrigation wells and 3 stock water wells which have serviced 150 acres of irrigated land. Three phase electric power is at the well heads. With shallow water and good soil, this farm sitting at 5,700 feet in elevation provides a cost-effective opportunity for growing hemp, pasture grass, alfalfa, corn or other cash crops. Alternatively, its excellent building sites and proximity to town also make this the perfect opportunity for a beautiful gentleman’s ranch with irrigated pastures and great views. Offered at $1,440,000 REDUCED! Equestrian Training and Breeding Facility – Seligman, AZ One of a kind. This diverse, 35.85-acre horse property has training and breeding facilities to accommodate any discipline in the equine industry. The beautiful three-bedroom, two-bath straw bale home provides for a comfortable 2,517-square-feet of open living space with a two-car detached garage. The ranch features a 47x80 boarding barn with a total of 12 stalls and two tack rooms. Above the boarding barn is a two-bedroom, one-bath guest quarters. The property additionally offers a 32x32 stud barn, 30x30 breeding barn, 20x84 hay barn and hot walker. Several turnout pastures surround this incredible setting. If you are looking for a turnkey, rural home to bring the family and animals this is the place! Offered at $980,000

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