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ON THE COVER . . . ‘Calendar’ by Joel Phillips. “This painting is reflective of my ultimate goal to express old,
eternal truths inherent in ranching. There is a rhythm to the cowboy life that is pretty ancient, one that is profoundly tied to the seasons, years, months, weeks, and days, that
provide a contour for the time we are given,” says Phillips.
Joel was born in Midland, Texas and grew up drawing horses and cowboys. At an early age he announced to his parents that he was going to become an artist, and painting
has remained his passion to this day. Later his family moved to California where he was introduced to a lineage of beautiful horsemanship. Today’s practitioners of this old
California tradition, and their horses, continue to play a major role in his imagery. “The American west embodies a spirit and mystery that not only intrigues and inspires me,
but always seems to require a response.”
APRIL 2015 VOL 81, No. 4 USPS 381-580
T A B L E O F C O N T E N T SFEATURES
11 The Last ... & Next 100 Years by Callie Gnatkowski Gibson20 New Mexico Cattle Growers Association Past Presidents24 Why Daylight Saving Time Isn’t About Ag & Doesn’t Help the Economy by Damine Mason, Dalorosa Farm26 National Animal Disease Tracebility Now in Full Effect38 Who Will Lead Us and Where? by Claudia Trueblood, Director, New Mexico Agricultural Leadership Program40 Active Year-End Bodes Well for Dairy Industry41 Dairy Producers of New Mexico Annual Convention42 Producer Input Critical for FSA Programs by Callie Gnatkowski Gibson53 What You Need to Know Before Selling Your Farm or Ranch by Sharon Niederman55 New Mexico Youth Ranch Management Camp application deadline May 158 Looking Forward: What Does the Cattle Market Have in Store for 2015 by Brett Crosby, Custom Ag Solutions59 NMSU Professor Receives Friend of Safety Award64 NMSU’s Indian Livestock Days Early Registration
DEPARTMENTS 10 N.M. Cattle Growers’ Association President’s Letter by Pat Boone28 N.M. CowBelles Jingle Jangle36 News Update44 Farm Bureau Minute by Mike White, New Mexico Farm & Livestock Bureau President46 In Memoriam48 New Mexico’s Old Times & Old Timers by Don Bullis56 Aggie Notes by Doug Cram, NMSU Extension Fire Specialist62 My Cowboy Heroes by Jim Olson 65 NMBC Bullhorn67 N.M. Federal Lands Council News by Frank DuBois69 Seedstock Guide72 Market Place74 Real Estate Guide 84 To The Point by Caren Cowan87 The View From the Backside by Barry Denton92 On The Edge of Common Sense by Baxter Black96 Ad Index
APRIL 2015
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ESSAGEby Pat Boone
José Varela López President
La Cieneguilla
Pat Boone President-Elect
Elida
John Conniff Vice-President At Large, Las
Cruces
Randell Major SW Vice-President
Magdalena
Ernie Torrez NW Vice-President
La Jara
Jeff Billberry SE Vice-President
Elida
Blair Clavel NE Vice-President
Roy
Shacey Sullivan Secretary-Treasurer
Bosque Farms
Rex Wilson Past President
Carrizozo
Caren Cowan Executive Director
Albuquerque
NEW MEXICO CATTLE GROWERS’ ASSOCIATION OFFICERS
NMCGA PRESIDENT-ELECT
Dear fellow NMCGA members and friends of agriculture,
At this writing it is four days before Easter. The grass is green and the cattle are working it pretty hard. It’s been a while since we had a winter and spring this wet in our country. The cattle market is good and our product is worth a lot of money. I pray it’s this good for all of you, and if it’s not soon will be.
We just wrapped up the 60 day legislative session in Santa Fe. After a slow start, with everyone getting adjusted to the leadership change in the House from Democrat to Republican, (the first in 60 years) they set-tled down and got to work. When the dust settled and the smoke cleared, not a whole lot of legislation made it through the whole process. In fact, out of 1,365 bills introduced, only 191 made it to the governor’s desk.
Our ag group worked on several issues affecting our industry. SB 226 sought to define ownership of the stream beds under public waters, and to provide protection from the AG’s opinion of 2014. I have not heard if the governor has signed it or not. Bills to ban coyote calling contests, ban trapping, and bills to stop transport of horses to slaughter were stopped in committee.
Two things I came out of this session absolutely sure of: there are a lot of people out there who don’t under-stand our way of life, and have no great concern for our private property rights, or our ability to make a living, pay our taxes, or provide food and fiber for a hungry world. Mark Twain once said, ‘’No man’s life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.’’ So true. We MUST remain diligent and continue the fight.
As always, Caren and Michelle’s knowledge and leadership, and ability to navigate the difficult waters of New Mexico politics was most evident and impressive. Alicia Briggs did an outstanding job in her first year at the Legislature. A great big ‘thank you’ to them for always being there. Give them a hug and a word of thanks for all they do. We are blessed to have them on our side. Also, thanks to Phil, Bert, and Jose for filling in for me at times.
I look forward to seeing you all in Ruidoso June 14-16 for our Mid-Year meeting. I am humbled and proud to be serving this great organization.
Until we meet again,
Pat Boone
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‘’His grace is sufficient.........’’
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Witte said. “It seems to be a data-driven society. I think the buy-local movement will continue, but at some point that might mean a consumer in China or Korea knowing which ranch in central New Mex-ico produced their steak.”
As the demand for beef increases world-wide, domestic consumers may also see some changes. “For so long, the United
Producers have always done the best they could with what they had, but their range of options has grown – from the best bull they or their neighbors could raise to EPDs, artificial insemination and embryo transfer; from driving their cattle miles to ship them via train to online cattle auc-tions; and nutritional research that helps producers maximize their resources for a more efficient and profitable calf crop.
Over the past century, too, the trade organization representing New Mexico’s cattle ranchers, the New Mexico Cat-tle Growers’ Association (NMCGA) has become a force to be reckoned with, work-ing in the legislative, regulatory and legal arenas to preserve ranchers’ ability to stay on the land, run their operations as they see fit, and pass their traditions on to the next generation – in addition to keeping producers informed and promoting beef.
The NMCGA celebrated its centennial in 2014. While proud of what has gotten them this far, the association has its eyes on the future – and according to Jeff Witte, New Mexico Secretary of Agriculture –there’s a lot to look forward to.
A world market for beef, growing popu-lations, and technology that’s making the world smaller all the time, make the pos-sibilities almost endless for New Mexico’s cattle producers. “Cattle producers, like all agricultural people, play a vital role in feeding the world,” Witte said. “As the pop-ulation grows, and the desire for a higher grade of protein grows, there will be more demand for beef. New Mexico, with its wide open spaces, is in a great position to fill that need.”
Growing economies and increasing incomes worldwide will create opportu-nities for other countries to increase their beef production, and Witte has no doubt
that the United States cattle industry will thrive. “When you consider that most of the world doesn’t eat beef, there is a huge potential for growth. The world of today has a tremendous capacity to produce. As the population grows, we will have to meet increasing demand for beef on the world scale.”
People are starting to want to know where their food comes from, and that’s not something that is likely to change,
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The Last ... & Next 100 Years by CALLIE GNATKOWSKI GIBSON
T he changes that have taken place in the cattle business in New Mexico over the past 100 years are mind- boggling. We’ve gone from people camped out with their cattle, struggling to stay alive; to electricity in almost every home and a cell phone that makes a world of information available in every pocket.
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pened to their neighbors, to the whole of the industry.”
Today’s ranchers owe a big debt to those past leaders, said the Elida rancher. “You think about those men – Albert Mitchell, Bob Jones, Charlie Lee, Bud Eppers, Don Hofman – all those guys and more who saw the problems and were willing to engage, were willing to do what needed to be done to protect the industry.”
“The primary thing that has helped us is that our members are part of the fab-ric of their communities,” agreed NMCGA President José Varela López. “As such, they are willing to dedicate a lot of time to building up those communities and build-ing and advocating for the industry.”
He also gives the staff a lot of credit. I have been a member for about 15 years, and during that time we have certainly been blessed with our Executive Director and other staff. They have all been part of the industry, so they understand what it is all about and give more time and effort than anyone else on our behalf,” he noted. “They make sure that the Association is out at the forefront letting people know how the cattle industry and the NMCGA help New Mexico, how ranchers care for the land and that beef is a healthy part of
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Cattle Growers bolo tie circa 1950. Found in a shop in Lemitar, New Mexico.
States has been the world leader in pro-ducing the highest quality, most abundant food in the world, but at the lowest cost to consumers. This has been good for the consumer, but as the world market contin-ues to evolve there may be upward pres-sure at home.”
For the livestock industry to remain strong into the future, strong leaders are needed, said Dr. Clay Mathis, Director of the King Ranch Institute for Ranch Man-agement in Kingsville, Texas. “The indus-try needs to deliberately develop the next generation of leaders who are ready and equipped to lead the industry in the ever
more complex agricultural business envi-ronment.”
Today, perception is everything, “Indi-vidually and collectively, we have to com-mit to and accept responsibility for build-ing consumer trust,” he said. “The issue is now social responsibility. We want our consumers to trust that we are not only producing a wholesome, safe product, but that it’s raised in a way that is acceptable to them. We have to help them understand how we manage our livestock, and why we do it the way that we do.”
Ranchers’ individuality and indepen-dence helped build the industry, but there is value in working out differences behind the scenes. Mathis also stressed the impor-tance of livestock producers speaking with a unified political voice. “We need to avoid mixed signals from the industry to law-makers and state and national officials.”
To get these things done, the NMCGA will need to focus on what has always made it strong – its people. The men, women and families who make up the NMCGA are hard-working, strong-minded, indepen-dent people. While each one may do things a little differently, they share a love for the land, their livestock and their way of life that is as strong today as when the Associ-ation was founded.
“Probably the number one thing that has made the organization such a strong force for the past 100 years is the charac-ter and quality of the people involved,” said NMCGA President-elect Pat Boone. “Since the beginning, they cared not only about what happened to them, but what hap-
NMCGA was an American Red Cross Human-itarian Honoree awarded in 2012 for work-ing to provided fire fighters beef during the Las Conchas Fire in 2011. Federal agencies provided grub for their people, but the local fire departments that responded to the Los Alamos tradgey relied up food donations.
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them. We have to help them understand that even if it is inexpensive, that doesn’t mean it is bad. It is something we take a lot of pride in producing.”
To meet future demand, agriculture will need to feed even more people, he continued. “We will need to become even more efficient and productive than we are, and we have made huge progress in the past 100 years. We need to continue to embrace the technology and science that comes along, and help consumers see the need for those advances.”
So many issues – wilderness, ESA, national monument designations, and for-est management just to name a few – come down to conflicts over multiple use. Varela Lopez would also like to find a way for the NMCGA to work more productively with the environmental community on land management issues. “On some level, we need to figure out how to convince them that it is necessary to manage the land. They think you can preserve a landscape by protecting it, by keeping people and grazing off. We need to help them appreci-ate that management keeps land healthy, and that a growing, renewable resource needs to be harvested, that without any management it goes downhill and there’s
our diet.”“To stay strong,” he continued, “we
need to be even more proactive in the future.”
There is no shortage of issues to work on, but for him, making it possible for the next generation of ranchers to stay on the land is a priority. “We need to focus on the things that inhibit agricultural progres-sion from one generation to the next,” Varela Lopez said. “We want to make sure we can keep young people in agriculture, and even attract new producers.”
Historically, our members have not been good at letting the general pub-lic know how what we do benefits them, their food and their environment and that’s something that needs to change in the coming years. “We need to make that connection,” noted the La Cieneguilla rancher. “We’re not hard on land like they have been led to believe.”
As consumers change, their percep-tions and needs often change. “As con-sumers become more affluent, some are interested in grass-fed, organic beef, but the rest of the population wants cheap food, because that is what we have given
The Corn Family came to Roswell in 1878 from Kerrville, Texas.
We’re proud of our family’s long and productive relationship with the New Mexico Cattle Growers’
Association.
As we look to the next hundred years and future generations of New
Mexico ranchers, we can be confident that we are effectively represented by an association that understands the needs and goals of our industry and our families. Our sincere thanks to
all who have sacrificed their time and energies to make the NMCGA a great and respected industry organization.
Martin Van Buren Corn and his 12 sons. Top row, l to r: Martin, Robert, Waid, Lee, George, Jesse. Front row, l to r: Clarence, Poe, Martin V. Corn, Herbert and Roe.
Insets: John, left & Charlie, right. Photograph circa 1914.
Corn Ranches & The Corn Families
Happy 100 th AnniversaryNew Mexico Cattle Growers
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Then and now... since there have been cars, NMCGA has had a license plate.
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nothing left to protect.”For Boone, fresh from New Mexico’s
recent legislative session, the number one issue is private property rights. “Our prop-erty rights are under attack every single minute of every single day. These groups don’t care about our private property, they only care about their agenda. We have to be diligent – more than that we have to be on the offensive.”
The Endangered Species Act (ESA) is another issue that ranchers and the NMCGA will have to deal with in the years
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ple make a living.”One of the most important things peo-
ple can do for their own family ranches, and for the industry as a whole, is to get involved. “People have to step up,” he said. “If there was any time in history that peo-ple needed to get involved, it is now.”
In addition to staying on top of the issues, it’s also important for producers to remember the role agriculture has played in our country’s history, said New Mexico State University student Klayton Bearup. “Agriculture is the reason we as a country have been able to do the things we do,” he said. “People have not had to worry about feeding themselves and their fami-lies, American farmers and ranchers have done that for them. So, they have been able to go out and become an astronaut or an engineer.”
Bearup is a partner in Cameron Creek Show Calves, a past State FFA President and active in Collegiate Farm Bureau. The first step in encouraging young producers like himself, he said, is to reach out and emphasize the pride of being part of agri-culture. “We need to showcase what we do, and educate young people who don’t know,” he said. “The majority of produc-
tion agriculture started small. We need to
to come. “They never let up, they just keep pushing,” Boone noted. “It seems like as soon as we get one species resolved, there are a dozen more staring us in the face, all with the potential to impact how our peo-
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Congratulations to NMCGA on one Hundred Years!
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No matter the value of cattle, NMCGA has always worked to protect against theft. With the price of cattle today, a new sign might be in order.
Ranchers' Rights are principles that NMCGA has lived by for a century... going on two.
remind people that anyone can be involved in agriculture and have an influence, whether or not they are directly involved
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Local groups, like CowBelles and county Farm Bureaus and Cattle Grow-ers, also have a big role to play, by sup-porting producers, improving agricul-ture’s public image, and preventing bad practices, Bearup explained. “If we can police ourselves, and make sure people are
doing things they way they should, we might be able to slow down the constant reg-ulatory growth. Plus, when members of the public see producers doing something they shouldn’t, it’s not good for any of us.”
Educating the public is also becoming increasingly important, he noted. “As producers, we need to work on our transparency with the public.”
Agriculture has been part of New Mexico for hun-dreds of years, and main-taining that history and tradition for future gener-ations is very important, Varela López explained.
in production.”Working together – both within trade
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“Whether it’s someone like my family that came up 400 years ago, or those who came from the East many generations ago, we are all very tied to the land and our cus-toms. We want to hand that down to our children.”
More than anything else, ranchers are in the business because they love what they do and where they do it. Regardless of how things change in the cattle business, that connection to family and the land is something that will remain strong into the next century and beyond, as long as there are kids that love to help work cows and parents and grandparents willing to show them how it’s done. n
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The National Cattlemen’s Association honored NMCGA for service to the nation’s beef cattle industry.
In 1999 New Mexico State University's Col-lege of Agriculture & Home Economics honored NMCGA with the Dean's Award for Superior Achievement.
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CONGRATULATIONS CATTLE GROWERS ON YOUR 100TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION!
Past PresidentsPast Presidents*1914-1916 Calvin Glenn Piños Altos
*1916-1918 Wm. Ray Morely Datil
*1918-1920 Victor Culberson Silver City
*1920-1922 T.E. Mitchell Albert
*1922-1924 Hugh L. Hodge Silver City
*1924-1926 C.M. O’Donel Bell Ranch
*1926-1928 Tom P. Talle Las Vegas
*1928-1930 T.A. Spencer Carrizozo
*1930-1932 Robert H. Royall Tyrone
*1932-1934 Albert K. Mitchell Albert
*1934-1936 Lee S. Evans Marquez
*1936-1938 A.D. Brownfield Deming
*1938-1939 Oliver M. Lee Alamogordo
*1939-1941 Con W. Jackson Las Vegas
New Mexico Cattle Growers’ Past Presidents
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1914-1916 Calvin Glenn
1930-1932 Robert H. Royall
1922-1924 Hugh L. Hodge
1938-1939 Oliver M. Lee
1946-1948 George A. Godfrey
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Past PresidentsPast Presidents*1941-1943 Tom Clayton Separ
*1943-1946 E.G. Hayward Cimarron
*1946-1948 George A. Godfrey Animas
*1948-1950 G.W. Evans Magdalena
*1950-1952 Roy Forehand Carlsbad
*1952-1954 Ed Heringa Clayton
*1954-1956 Sherwood Culberson Lordsburg
*1956-1958 Dick Snyder Clayton
*1958-1960 W.I. Driggers Santa Rosa
*1960-1962 John Stark Deming
1962-1964 Will Orndorff Roswell
*1964-1966 J.L. (Les) Davis Cimarron
*1966-1968 Noel Rankin Silver City
*1968-1970 W.O. Culbertson, Jr. Las Vegas
1954-1956 Sherwood Culberson
1970-1972 Reuben E. Pankey
1962-1964 Will Orndorff
1978-1980 Phil Harvey, Sr.
1964-1966 J.L. (Les) Davis
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*1974-1976 Charlie T. Lee Alamogordo
*1976-1978 Albert J. Mitchell Albert
*1978-1980 Phil Harvey, Sr. Cave Creek, AZ
1980-1982 Phillip Bidegain Tucumcari
*1982-1984 Bob Jones Crow Flat
1984-1985 Don Hofman Tucumcari
*1985-1987 Peter T. Mocho Belen
*1987-1989 W.F. (Dub) Martin Santa Fe
*1989-1991 H.W. (Bud) Eppers Roswell
1991-1993 Bill King Stanley
1993-1995 Wesley Grau Grady
1995-1997 Bill Humphries Tucumcari
1997-1999 Bob Frost San Jon
1985-1987 Peter T. Mocho
1993-1995 Wesley Grau
2001-2003 Phil H. Bidegain
2007-2009 Alisa Ogden
2009-2011 Burt Ancell
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Past PresidentsPast Presidents2013-2015
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2005-2007 Bill Sauble Maxwell
2007-2009 Alisa Ogden Loving
2009-2011 Bert Ancell Wagon Mound
2011-2013 Rex Wilson Carrizozo
2013-2015 José Varela López La Cieneguilla
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Why Daylight Saving Time Isn’t About Ag & Doesn’t Help the Economyby DAMIAN MASON, OWNER DALOROSA FARM, VIA LINKEDIN.COM
Happy Daylight Saving Time America — The government mandated practice of
cent didn’t get their responses turned in on time due to confusion over what time it actually was.
Energy
Originally DST was pushed as an idea to save energy. Yet, study after study has proven there is no energy savings. Remark-ably, changing one’s clock doesn’t actually add another hour of daylight to one’s day. Therefore we still need lights, refrigera-tors, air conditioning…you know, things that require energy.
Agriculture
Many people mistakenly believe DST was instituted for farmers. But that’s not true. Farmers understand there’s only 24 hours in a day and, despite the gimmick, you can’t make it 25. In fact, agriculture has the only organized lobby against Day-light Saving Time. DST is particularly bad for livestock because animals get in a rou-tine for such things as feeding and milk-ing. Cows don’t understand human time — heck, they don’t even wear watches.
Economy
Supporters of Daylight Saving Time believe “more daylight” makes America more productive. This is also incorrect. In fact, one study says DST costs Amer-ica $434 Million just in lost productivity and increased accidents the week after the time change.
What Damian Says
Time marches on, regardless of how we monitor it. That said, monkeying with the clocks every March to pretend it’s a time it’s not is akin to those people you know who purposely set their watches on the wrong time, telling you “I do this because I always run late.”
There are 24 hours in a day. Period. Changing the clock every Spring is just a confusing encumbrance.
Wanna save energy? Insulate your house.
Wanna help Agriculture? Increase trade with booming Asian countries such as India and China — where, by the way, they don’t observe Daylight Saving Time.
Wanna boost the economy? End wel-fare and unemployment so all those peo-ple who get paid to not work can finally buy a watch, set an alarm clock, and devote 40 hours to doing something pro-ductive. Without the burden of paying for those folks, the rest of us might get a few more hours per week to enjoy some daylight. n
pretending it’s a time it really isn’t!
Did you “spring forward”? If you did, be careful, studies show an increase in accidents and heart attacks the Mon-
day after Daylight Saving Time is enacted — turns out, that extra hour of daylight you’re getting comes at the expense of your sleep.
Daylight Saving Time (DST) has been around about 100 years. As with most things the government makes us do, you probably don’t ask why. But you should. In 2013 a Rasmussen poll found 45 percent of people don’t even want DST to 37 percent who do. Presumably the remaining 12 per-
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National animal disease traceability requirements now in full effectNADT grace period for proper animal tags expired March 11
SOURCE: BEEFPRODUCER.COM
A new animal identification number-ing system took effect March 11, after a two-year grace period related
to the National Animal Disease Traceabil-ity Program expired.
The NADT went into effect March 2013, but many producers still had ID tags based on the former system on hand. USDA’s grace period, which allowed producers to use the old 900 or USA tags until March 11, 2015, is now over.
NADT grace period for proper animal tags expired March 11.
David Fernandez, Cooperative Exten-sion Program livestock specialist at the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff, said producers should now only tag animals with new 840 tags.
“Animals tagged before March 11, 2015, do not need to be tagged with the new 840 tag. The old tag will be recognized as offi-cial for the life of the animal,” he said.
Animals already enrolled in a national health program, such as the brucellosis program for cattle or scrapie program for sheep and goats, do not need an additional tag, Fernandez said. Also, breed registry identification tattoos and state-registered brands will be accepted.
The identification system does not apply to feeder calves unless they are being used temporarily as rodeo stock. Feeder calf rules are being formulated and will be released for public comment before they go into effect, he says. Rodeo stock must be identified under the rules of the Trace-ability Program.
Fernandez reminds producers that the rules only apply to animals moving across state or tribal boundaries.
“If shipping animals out of state, be sure to check with the governing body of the state(s) across which or into which you are shipping animals,” he advises.
For more information about the National Animal Disease Traceability Pro-gram, visit the APHIS website. n
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Issue Fatigue iSHoo/ fəə'teg/ (noun) extreme tiredness of a particular topic. I know it’s exhausting. Between
your children, ailing parents, and 4-H/FFA/Church responsibilities, and oh ya – the ranch, it’s hard to find time to be politically involved. Plus is feels like your one comment, presentation, post, letter to the editor, or tweet couldn’t possibly make a difference. It’s easy to get cynical and decide that it’s all pre-determined by the powers that be and we just throw our hands in the air and say “Forget It!”
But that’s defeatist thinking and defeat-ists didn’t win the West, or raise good chil-
ment’s overreach? Your activism is mak-ing a difference.
But let’s say you are tired of constantly being on top of the issues, here’s a sug-gestion I heard from a law maker I admire (really!). Pick an issue. Just one issue that affects your family, ranch or farm, and then become an expert in it. Make it your cause célèbre. Post about it on your Facebook page, create a Google alert about it (www.google.com/alerts) so you are instantly notified anytime something happens with “your” issue. Become the go-to-gal for that issue. Local reporters will know who to call when it comes up. You can give updates on it at CowBelle meetings. Your county commissioner will call you to come testify at the county council meeting. You will own it! And too, you’ll make a valuable contribution to our agricultural commu-nity while not being overwhelmed.
Speaking of owning an issue, how many of you have become Dietary Guidelines experts? Then you’ll know that the dead-line for comment has been extended to May 8th. Please go here www.health.gov/dietaryguidelines/dga2015/comments/writeComments.aspx and explain why BEEF is part of a healthy diet and should be included in USDA’s nutrition recom-mendations.
While you’re online you can jog over to www.newmexicocowbelles.org and take a look at our new website. It could use some tender loving care so if you’re a web design kind of person looking for an issue, feel free to volunteer! Thank you ladies, and I’m looking forward to seeing you at the District workshops where we’ll continue to Make a Difference for BEEF!
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Chamiza CowBelles March 5, 2015 – Before meeting, a short session to work on a project for upcoming district meeting occurred. The meeting was called to order at 11:40 a.m. by President Gloria Petersen at the home of Jodell Downs. There were nine members present. Minutes from the previous meeting were read and the trea-surer’s report was given; both approved. Cathy reported Bank of the Southwest said group can avoid being charged a monthly service fee if sign up to have statement sent via email. The recipient has to be a signer on the accounts. Gloria agreed to receive the e-statements. Robbie and Cathy will audit the treasurer’s books on March 9.
dren, so let’s get busy. Let’s be encouraged by the “wins” we’ve been a part of. Remem-ber when the Labor Department wanted to regulate how many hours our kids could work on the ranch and which chores they could do? We raised a fuss and got that proposal killed in a hurry. Your comments and calls to lawmakers make all the differ-ence in the world. Or, last year when the New Mexico Legislature wanted to out-law trapping including barn mice? You quickly shot that down. And more recently when you mounted an effective campaign against the EPA’s proposed “Waters of the U.S” rule that checked the federal govern-
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Welda Grider as a new member, bringing members in attendance to 21 . . . BLACK-JACK! Minutes of the February 10, 2015 meeting were approved as read. Vera Gib-son served as Secretary for that meeting. Treasurer Vera Gibson gave a report and it was approved. It was decided to have “pass the hat” donations split chrono-logically with the amount collected from March 2015 through August of this year earmarked for FFA, and the amount from September 2015 through February 2016 to be donated to Horses for Heroes. Con-tact Carolyn Chance if would like further information on either. The District I meet-ing is April 16, 2015 in Elephant Butte. Registration is due by April 10, 2015. The Pat Nowlin Scholarship Application is due by April 15, 2015. Information was sent by Anne Ferguson, Chairman. Information sent was passed around to all members. Lyn Greene distributed new pages for the 2015 member’s information to all attend-ing. She will mail copies to members who were not there. Chuckwagon CowBelles April 14, 2015 meeting will be held at the Farm Credit of NM Office: 5651 Balloon Fiesta Parkway NE, Albuquerque. Phone number is 505/884.1048, at 10:30 a.m. Max Wade, founder of Pumpkin Patch will be the speaker. Lunch will follow at the Sandia Casino Buffet – cost $10.95 each. Following adjournment the group enjoyed a program on tin work given by local art-ist Ann Ravenstone. Donations of were collected at this meeting to support FFA. Respectfully submitted, Lindsey Hovden Acting Secretary
The meeting of the Otero CowBelles was held on March 5, 2015, at 11:40 a.m., at Pepper’s Grill, the President (Linda Lee) and Secretary (Kelly Knight) present. There were 17 members present and four guests, Grant, Rafe, Cord, and Cal Wold. The report of the Treasurer was received and placed on file. Estelle reported that two receipts for bills were received includ-ing a bill for the bags for the District IV CowBelles Workshop and a bill for $32.82 from Debi Rupe for expenses of the cooking demo at Mountain View Middle School. It was decided “to pay the $32.82 bill received from Debi”. It was decided to proceed to change bank institutions from Bank ’34 to Western Bank. The birthdays for the month of March were announced, the nomination deadline for Man of the Year is March 15, Roundhouse Feed March 19, and National Ag Day is March 18 and Debi suggested a group from Otero Cow-
Cathy read a letter she sent to all locals’ presidents inviting them to district meet-ing. The remainder of the meeting was spent deciding on a menu and other details for the district meeting. A number of items have been gathered for goody bags. It was decided to bring all the items to next meet-ing, pack the goody bags, and leave them at Jodell’s. Therefore next meeting, April 2, will also be held at Jodell’s. Bring finger foods and/or desserts. Meeting adjourned at 12:50 p.m. Submitted by Cathy Pierce
The Frisco CowBelles February meet-ing was held on the 16th. Group contin-ued working on the plans for the Fourth of July Barbecue; Brisket dinner and dance. The group had a discussion on the Schol-arship. The applications will be sent out to the schools soon. The Father’s Day picnic will be on Sunday, June 21. Bring own beef dish and a pot luck dish. Respectfully sub-mitted by Martha A. Stewart, Secretary Frisco CowBelles
Grant County Copper CowBelles March 10, 2015 – The regular monthly meeting was called to order by first Vice President, Courtney Sewell. The February minutes were approved as well as the Trea-surer’s report. There was discussion and planning of the upcoming Shindig dinner dance. Lori and Kathy are finalizing the table decorations, the decorated hat con-test and derby race contest were outlined and committee chairs appointed. Kim had the tickets ready for distribution to the members for sale along with posters. Pat announced that the Gierharts have framed and donated Shoofly prints for the schol-arship part of the silent auction again this year. She will prepare a press release with a picture of the print. Registration forms were passed out for the District III meeting to be held in Lordsburg in April and McK-een Ranch Days dates were announced as April 21-22. Volunteers are needed for those two days. It was decided to make a donation to the Pat Nowlin Scholarship in memory of two members that passed recently, Dee Johnson and Helen Pater-son. It was decided to hold the next meet-ing in April on Tuesday, the 7th instead of the 14th to give more time for last minute Shindig changes. Submitted by Pat Hunt.
President Carolyn Chance convened the March 10, 2015 meeting of the Chuck-wagon CowBelles at 10:30 a.m. Carolyn Chance asked Lindsey Hovden to serve as Secretary for the March meeting. The group welcomed Joyce Shaw’s guest, Carol Schwenn. The group also welcomed
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Belles go to a radio station on that date. On April 10 the NM Beef Ambassador Con-test will be held in Las Cruces and Debi proposed to attend the contest in Las Cru-ces to show support. Debi reported that the cooking demo conducted at Mountain View Middle School had to be grilled in the oven due to weather. The student appre-ciated the cooking demonstration and the school Vice Principal was in attendance. A health fair will be held at Chaparral Mid-dle School on March 27 and an event at Oregon Elementary school from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Three hundred and fifty brochures of the many professions it takes to be a rancher are needed. Debi distributed an email from Dalene Hodnett, NM CowBelles President, which is encouraging members to go to the dietary guidelines website by April 8 and submit comments and ask for an extension on the deadline in regards to lean beef being removed from the dietary guidelines. A report on the planning of the District IV CowBelles Workshop was pro-vided. Debi sent postcards to those with-out an email account. Madalynn Lee has bottled water for the workshop, Lowe’s will donate fruit and cheese, Ruth will prepare cinnamon rolls, Bobby Harkey will create cupcake bouquets, and Pat Jones will pre-pare nametags and has items for the bags. Otero CowBelles must pay for the hotel rooms of the state officers. The ANCW Region VI meeting will be held in Tucson, AZ April 2 through May 1. The Women in Ag Leadership Conference is May 27-28, 2015 in Albuquerque. Estelle distributed a list of display items which are needed for Kids, Kows, and More by May 1st. Connie Dembrowsky donated 500 color copies of beef by-products. It was decided that “Pepper’s Grill will be the location of the monthly Otero CowBelles meetings”. Bar-bara Wagner recommended everyone read the article by Mr. Duton in the recent issue of NM Stockman and Linda Lee encour-aged everyone to check out the www.pro tecttheharvest.com website. The meeting adjourned at 12:27 p.m. Submitted by Kelly Knight, Secretary
New Mexico CowBelles: Thank you to all who have submitted their news to Jingle Jangle. Please send minutes and/or newsletters to: Jingle Jangle, Janet Witte, 1860 Foxboro Ct., Las Cruces, NM 88007, or email: [email protected] the 14th of each month.
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Conflict Experts Dispute Impact of Global Climate Change on National Securityby DAVID O. WILLIAMS, WWW.REALVAIL.COM
Global conflict experts say the Obama administration’s recent focus on climate change as a national security threat may be misguided.
“The link between global warming and national security needs is tenuous at best, though the Arctic might be an exception, if [Russian President Vladimir] Putin continues his revanchist ways,” Harvard psychology professor and best-selling author Steven Pinker said in a recent e-mail interview. “Most wars have nothing to do with climate, and vice versa.”
The Obama administration’s 2015 National Security Strat-egy emphasizes climate change as a long-term national security threat that must be balanced with more immediate concerns such as terrorism. In aninterview last month with Vox, Obama added that media tend to overstate terrorism as a threat compared to climate change.
Joshua Goldstein, professor emeritus at American Univer-sity and a political science research scholar at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, said in an e-mail interview said there’s a dubious connection between global climate change and armed conflict.
“Climate change is a terrible crisis that needs all our attention, but it’s not really war that will be the problem we’ll have to deal with,” Goldstein wrote in an e-mail. “As for the U.S. government, it’s always going to be on the lookout for threats that justify ongo-ing high military budgets, even when violence is declining his-torically — though of course increasing modestly in the past five years [due to Syria].
“I think the officials genuinely think this is a threat they must prepare for, but I also suspect that if it wasn’t this, it would be something else.”
A study released recently linked the ongoing war in Syria to a drought precipitated by climate change, but Goldstein says most extreme weather events and natural disasters — which are not all linked to climate effects — do not result in armed conflicts.
“There is some evidence that drought was a factor in Syria and some other scattered cases,” Goldstein said. “But the 2004 tsu-nami actually seems to have helped end the war in Aceh [Indone-sia] and didn’t create a new war.
“The typhoon in the Philippines a year ago didn’t cause the war there to restart,” Goldstein added. “The terrible flooding in East-ern Europe a couple of years ago doesn’t seem to be connected to the Ukraine violence. In Somalia a few years ago there was a terrible drought and start of a famine, but it didn’t make the war worse — if anything, the opposite.”
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“While population growth and density are associated with increased risks, the effects of land degradation and water scar-city are weak, negligible or insignificant,” one such PRIO report concludes. “The results indicate that the effects of political and economic factors far outweigh those
Pinker, whose 2012 bestselling book Better Angels of Our Nature concludes armed conflict around the globe is on the decline, has consistently rejected climate change and any resulting scarcity of natu-ral resources as likely causes of major wars in the future.
“Physical resources can be divided or traded, so compromises are always avail-able; not so for psychological motives such as glory, fear, revenge, or ideology,” Pinker wrote in 2013. “There are many reasons to worry about climate change, but major war is probably not among them.”
The Department of Defense in Octo-ber released its Climate Change Adaption Roadmap, with then Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel writing, “Rising global temperatures, changing precipitation patterns, climbing sea levels, and more extreme weather events will intensify the challenges of global instability, hunger, poverty, and conflict.”
Pinker, however, points to several stud-ies by the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) that undermine the theory that climate change will lead to more armed conflicts.
between local level demographic/environ-mental factors and conflict.”
Nevertheless, a rising chorus of both active-duty and retired U.S. generals and admirals have sounded the global climate
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Who will lead us and where?by CLAUDIA TRUEBLOOD, DIRECTOR NEW MEXICO AGRICULTURAL LEADERSHIP PROGRAM
From time to time we find ourselves looking for or selecting leaders for our various endeavors. We wonder who
will lead this team, this neighborhood or community effort, a project, an event, a unit at our place of work, our city, town, or our country. Leaders are crucial to all we do and we have high expectations for them.
We ask for leaders not only to be skillful at speaking in public and writing well, we want them to be able to listen to us and translate our concerns into proposals for change, agreements, or laws. We want
change alarm as it relates to military read-iness.
In a report last year (pdf) entitled National Security and the Accelerating Risks of Climate Change, 11 retired gener-als and admirals found that, “Fresh water, food, and energy are inextricably linked, and the choices made over how these finite resources will be produced, distributed, and used will have increasing security implications.”
The former military experts also dis-cussed the “melting of ‘old ice’ in the Arc-tic,” and wrote that the “United States and the international community are not pre-pared for the pace of change in the Arctic.”
On the subject of major war over dwin-dling resources, Goldstein echoed Pinker at an event both attended in Denver last fall, hosted by the Colorado-based One Earth Future Foundation. “Fighting over resources is not necessarily the big driver of conflict in the 21st century,” Goldstein said, pointing to the example of the Cas-pian Sea soon after the breakup of the Soviet Union in early 1990s. “Suddenly, a bunch of countries were there bordering it, and they discovered a huge amount of
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with their warships fighting each other over the oil, but they didn’t,” Goldstein said. “You can’t pump oil when you’re fighting a war, so they yelled at each other for a couple of years and then they started drawing these lines on maps and pumping out the oil. It can be an impetus to conflict. It can also be an impetus for cooperation.”
The author of Winning the War on War: The Decline of Armed Conflict Worldwide and the bestselling text book in its field, International Relations, Goldstein does acknowledge the significance of climate change — just not as a primary reason for increased conflict.
“I think climate change is the big issue,” Goldstein said. “I may literally now stop studying war and try to go into cli-mate change, because I just think it’s the big moral and practical issue of our gener-ation — or my kids’ generation really. But not because it’s going to kill a lot of people in conflicts. People will starve, people will drown, but less so in conflict.”
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necessary? absolutely! Did I succeed in every single effort? No. Did we accomplish things with my leadership? Yes. Did I learn that I needed to sharpen up my leadership skills? Big time!
I shared with you an extreme situation that is not related to industry, but don’t we face critical situations very frequently regardless of the setting? Think about it. Efforts need to be led all the time. For example, you may know about an issue and after much thought and consider-ation, and perhaps some consulting with friends, colleagues, and God, you decide that you need to take action. You see that you cannot stand on the sidelines anymore and expect others to do what is needed. So one day, you decide to step up. Great! But
we can be THE person for A specific effort or circumstance. A leader is not born; it is not created by a title, or a job assignment. Instead, a leader is built when they envi-sion that something can be better. Like what? Anything!
I am the youngest of 10 children and a little over 11 years ago my dad and some of us “kids” were dealing with the immi-nent death of our mother. No one felt good about taking certain type of deci-sions, but someone needed to bring up the issues and lead the conversations. Some-one needed to decide whether to continue letting people visit or not, or whether this or that. No one wanted to take the “job” because . . . well, I bet you imagine why. So, I prayed and prayed, and prayed some more and stepped up and offered to “lead the efforts.” Tough? yes; unpleasant? yes;
leaders who uphold ethical business prac-tices and high standards, people who are hard workers and are not afraid of assert-ing what they believe. We want to be able to trust them so we can achieve, individu-ally and together, our personal or profes-sional goals. We want them to represent our interests and assist us in getting from point A to point B.
So where do we go and find these lead-ers? Where are they? Who knows them? I do! I know some of them, and so do you. One of them may be the person between your ears. What? Yes, YOU! As Mikhail Gorbachev said, “If not me, who? And if not now, when?” It is true that many times we cannot be THE person for IT; however
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Active Year-End Bodes Well for Dairy Industry
Dairy Farmers of America reported net income of $43.1 million for 2014. DFA’s net sales totaled $17.9 billion
for 2014, a nearly 40 percent increase compared with $12.8 billion in 2013. This increase was primarily a result of higher milk prices, which averaged $23.98 per hundredweight in 2014 compared with $20.05 in 2013. The higher milk prices also provided improved margins for DFA farmer-members.
“As a member-focused Cooperative, our mission is to bring value to our farm-er-owners,” said Rick Smith, president and chief executive officer. “DFA’s solid perfor-mance in 2014 benefitted members as we opened new processing facilities, acquired new brands and merged with a major milk cooperative.”
In 2014, DFA directed the marketing of 63.7 billion pounds of milk for both members and others. This represented approximately 31 percent of the total milk production in the United States. Payments
National Dairy FARM Program
Consumers want to purchase food from sources they know will take care of animals, and operate in a way that is consistent with their values and expecta-tions. Dairy farmers have a longstanding commitment to doing what is right. The National Dairy FARM Program: Farmers Assuring Responsible Management™ pro-vides consistency and uniformity to best practices in animal care and quality assur-ance in the dairy industry.
Third-Party Verification of the pro-gram’s content and execution helps ensure its validity and integrity to our customers and consumers. In 2014, FARM Program participation expanded with additional enrollment of cooperatives, proprietary processors and individual producers, which proactively demonstrates the dairy indus-try’s continued commitment to providing high-level care to dairy animals. Participa-tion increased to more than 75 percent of the U.S. milk supply. National Dairy FARM Program: TM 2014 Year in Review The strength, scope and science-basis of the animal care program has been critical to help shape international initiatives on ani-
to members for milk marketed were $10.9 billion in 2014, compared with $7.9 billion in 2013. The average 2014 price paid to members per hundredweight of milk was $24.17, compared with $20.15 in 2013.
Cash distributed to members in 2014 totaled $28 million, with $8 million of allocated patronage dividends and $20 million in equity retirements.
DFA continued to expand its commer-cial investments in 2014. The Coopera-tive’s Fluid Milk and Ice Cream Division acquired Oakhurst Dairy, a Portland, Maine-based company that processes milk, juice and fruit drinks.
In 2014, DFA opened two new dairy ingredients plants. A facility in Fallon, Nev., is the first plant in the United States built to meet the specific needs of the global marketplace. In Linwood, N.Y., DFA opened its first facility built and operated in partnership with a group of individual farmer-members.
DFA grew as a result of the merger in early 2014 with Dairylea Cooperative, a Northeast-based milk marketing coopera-tive with 1,200 members. The two coop-eratives have enjoyed a successful partner relationship since DFA was formed in 1998.
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mal welfare. The broadly-accepted animal care program for the U.S. dairy industry has enabled the U.S. government and dairy industry representatives to provide con-sistent, constructive feedback during the public comment process to both the World Animal Health Organization (OIE) and the International Standards Organization (ISO), which have been working to develop international standards on animal welfare. Through NMPF representation, the FARM Program participates in the standards-set-ting process to represent the best interests of the U.S. dairy industry. The program is also utilized in animal welfare discussions at the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the International Dairy Federa-
ing one unified co-op to the market, said CEO Mike McCloskey in a statement. The combined Select will continue to develop organic dairy products and support its cus-tomers’ needs.
McCloskey says the merger will also increase their borrowing capacity, decrease financing costs, provide access to new markets and potentially expand the customer base.
The two co-ops have their principal administrative offices in Artesia, New Mex-ico, and are managed by the same execu-tive team. cows producing about 2 billion pounds of milk per year in Ohio, Indiana and Michigan.
The merger will simplify Select’s market-ing and branding by presenting one unified co-op to the market, said CEO Mike McClos-key in a statement. The combined Select will continue to develop organic dairy products and support its customers’ needs.
McCloskey says the merger will also increase their borrowing capacity, decrease financing costs, provide access to new markets and potentially expand the customer base.
The two co-ops have their principal administrative offices in Artesia, New Mex-ico, and are managed by the same execu-tive team. n
tion (IDF). As of October 1, 2014 the FARM Program has 61 cooperatives and propri-etary processors, and dozens of individual dairy producer participants.
Select Milk Producers Inc. Accomplishes Merger
Select Milk Producers Inc. and Con-tinental Dairy Products Inc. announced their merger in early September 2014. They will continue to operate as Select Milk Producers Inc.
Before the merger, Select consisted of 61 large farms with approximately 136,000 milking cows producing about 4.3 billion pounds of milk per year for local cheese plants and Class I milk plants in New Mex-ico and Texas.
Continental consisted of 36 large dairy farms with approximately 76,000 milking
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The merger will simplify Select’s market-ing and brand-ing by present-
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The US Dairy Education & Training Consortium (USDETC), formerly known as the Southern Great Plains Dairy Consortium, is a multi-university organiza-
tion established in 2008 to meet the educational and training needs of the rapidly changing dairy industry. The program is a unique partnership with University and Industry leaders, and a pillar of US dairy sustainability among academia, allied industry and dairy producers.
The USDETC is organized to provide leadership, sup-port and resources for the development and facilitation of practical, hands-on large herd dairy education and training. Programs are developed in coordination with allied indus-try, academia and government. The programs are meant to be capstone-learning experiences for advanced college stu-dents in Animal Science, Dairy Science and Ag-business cur-riculum in preparation for entry into the dairy industry or advanced degree programs The program strives to unite the best students with the best faculty in a geographical location conducive to hands-on practical teaching through on-farm practicum combined with field trips, laboratories and allied industry interactive experiences.
Courses are coordinated by faculty from participating universities. Instructional faculty are nationally recognized experts from universities and agribusiness. The material pre-sented insures that the latest in technology and information is available to the students. Due to budget constraints many universities have cut dairy facilities and faculty in an effort to cut costs. These actions have resulted in the loss of many dairy science departments and a diminished emphasis on dairy educational opportunities. The U.S. Dairy Education & Training Consortium is specifically designed to fill this void and to educate and train the next generation of well-prepared dairy owners, managers, employees and allied industry per-sonnel. The unique partnership and interaction with our industry sponsors opens the door to many prospective job opportunities.
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Producer Input Critical for FSA Programsby CALLIE GNATKOWSKI GIBSON
Programs administered by the Farm Services Agency (FSA) are set up to help agricultural producers – whether
through a drought, making their opera-tions more efficient, or conserving natural resources. To do that, the agency and the producers that make up the county and state committees – the people who help set up and oversee those programs locally – look to data provided by the National Agri-cultural Statistics Survey (NASS) as a basis for qualifying producers and determining program pay-ments.
New Mex-ico’s farmers and ranchers play an import-ant role in guaranteeing the accuracy of that infor-mation, and that role is more important now than ever before. “It’s a unique sit-uation. The new Farm Bill has put us in a whole new realm,” said James Bostwick, State FSA Committee Chairman. “As the State FSA Committee, we are asked to make decisions and recommendations that will impact New Mexico’s farmers and ranchers. To do that, we need a ton of information. If we don’t concur with the NASS data, we try to turn somewhere else to substantiate our numbers. In the past, we have been pretty successful but it’s get-ting harder and harder. We want to do a
programs, drought programs and other types of payments are tied to NASS data. In many cases, the triggers for payment come from the rates, yields and prices that producers are getting, and all of that comes from the NASS data. It also impacts and can limit where the agency can work and who qualifies for the program. “The whole deal with these Federal programs is, if you’re eligible, you ought to be eligi-ble, not eliminated because of inaccurate information. A quick, off the cuff answer that may or may not be accurate can have a big impact,” he said.
Last year, Bostwick pointed out, New Mexico took almost a 20 percent cut in Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) rates, which will end up costing producers between $1 million and $2 million each year for the next ten years, because the NASS data did not match what New Mexico submitted. “We sent in what we knew to be correct, but our numbers didn’t match up exactly with what producers reported to NASS. On the national level, they fell back on the NASS data. We do have some discretion, but if we can’t substantiate our data, we can’t do much.”
“That’s why it’s important, why getting the right information to NASS is critical,” he continued. “It does make a difference, and can be pretty serious as far as the economy of the state of New Mexico.”
It’s not just farmers who are impacted by these programs. NASS data is also col-lected on livestock operations, and is used to help set grazing rates and grazing peri-ods.
Entitlement programs, where the government paid just because you were there, are a thing of the past – you have to qualify. “Everything has to qualify, and
good job for our producers, but we need their help.”
The FSA relies on both the New Mexico Agricultural Statistics Service and NASS for information, but as budgets get tighter NASS data is playing a bigger role. In the 1980s and 1990s, before the budget cuts, he explained, the FSA worked closely with the NMASS, and there was a lot of dialogue between NASS and the FSA County Com-mittees. Today, however, with reductions in budgets and staff, that is not possible so they rely on the data that producers pro-vide to NASS.
Historically, he explained, the NASS data hasn’t been as important to these pro-grams as it is now. Under the new Farm Bill, many of the programs use a moving
average over five years. “If they start out with inac-curate information going across, there is no way to adjust those numbers or averages over time. If the average is set artificially high, it may benefit that year, but kills the next year on the average. We need to
make sure the data is as accurate as pos-sible.”
While the requests for information from NASS may not always come at the most convenient time, producer partic-ipation is very important. “As a producer myself, I can understand. You always have people calling, you want to get back to what you were doing, and don’t always have the time to go through and find the details that they are asking for,” said Bost-wick, who is a dryland farmer and has a cow/calf operation near Melrose.
But, it matters. Under the 2014 Farm Bill, almost all of the FSA programs set up to help producers, like indemnity
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Cattlemen Recognized at IBBA Annual Meeting
Five of the most elite cattle producers and Brangus breeders were honored by the International Brangus Breeders
Association (IBBA) for their outstanding achievements and contributions to the Brangus breed and the beef cattle industry. Year after year someone that personally knows the winner of the award presents it to them and addresses their contributions to the Brangus breed.
The Pioneer Award recognizes an IBBA member, past or present, for his/her ser-vice, loyalty and contributions to the Bran-gus breed. Mr. Vern Suhn presented this award to the late David Schubert. There to accept the award on Mr. Schubert’s behalf was his nephew and his wife, Gordon and
of the Draggin’ M Ranch and the sale ring. Milam graciously accepted his award along-side his wife, Sherry, and ranch staff Grady and Sarah Green, giving them the credit for him being as accomplished as he is.
Alex Johns and Chris Heptinstall pre-sented the Commercial Producer of the Year award to the late Donald “Don” Rob-ertson. There to accept the award on Rob-ertson’s behalf was his son Donnie and his wife, Clare, and daughter, Ragan. Rob-ertson worked for the Seminole Tribe of Florida Inc. for 23 years and helped trans-form the herd to predominately Brangus cattle. His legacy continues to live on at the ranch.
Award recipients were presented their awards March 7, 2015, by the IBBA in Houston, TX, at the IBBA annual meeting. Award recipients are nominated and selected by the IBBA Awards Committee.
Ann Schubert. David Schubert served as the IBBA President in 1982-1983 as well as serving on the IBBA Board of Directors for seven years. Schubert’s operation, Chair Brand Cattle, was out of Mississippi and he was involved in all aspects of the Brangus breed. Schubert’s nephew, Gordon, hum-bly accepted the award on his late uncle’s behalf.
The IBBA Breeder of the Year Award was established in 1981 to annually honor a person in the breed who has shown out-standing leadership in the association and who has been truly progressive in the promotion, production and advancement of Brangus cattle. This year, John Milam with Draggin’ M Ranch was presented this award by Bill Davis. Davis gave credit to Milam for his display of cattle and experi-ence in the Brangus breed in the pasture
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New Mexico’s farm and ranch families are a lot like your family. We have bills to pay, are concerned about
our kids’ education, and want to make sure that the food we provide our family is as healthy and nutritious as it can be. To that end we spend a lot of time in Santa Fe during the legislative session. There are many bills introduced that could poten-tially affect how farms and ranchers oper-ate in our state. For instance we actively promote House Bill 564 dubbed the “Right to Farm” bill because of the protections it afforded our state’s food producers. Many farmers are facing lawsuits for what have been traditionally accepted practices such as baling hay first thing in the morning, or running an irrigation pump late into the night. Urban communities today wish to
in New Mexico and the nation. AFBF explains their priorities this way:Biotechnology – the application of
recombinant DNA science to engineer spe-cific traits in plant varieties – is an import-ant tool for farmers to improve yield and profitability by reducing the use of costly inputs, improving weed management and reducing tillage for better soil, water and air quality. Today, roughly 90 percent of corn, cotton and soybeans grown in the U.S. have been improved through biotech-nology, and farmers are choosing biotech traits when growing other crops such as alfalfa, sugarbeets and canola. Despite rapid adoption by farmers and a strong scientific consensus that biotechnology does not pose health and environmen-tal risks, regulatory burdens are slowing research and innovation of new biotech traits and are starting to reduce U.S. farmers’ international competitive advan-tage. In addition, activist groups have repeatedly threatened new traits by block-ing science-based regulatory decisions, fil-ing spurious lawsuits and advocating for labeling mandates.
Clean Water Act – The U.S. Environ-mental Protection Agency (EPA) and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) have proposed a rule that would significantly expand the definition of “waters of the United States” under the Clean Water Act (CWA). This proposed regulation seeks to expand federal authority beyond the lim-its approved by Congress and reaffirmed by the U.S. Supreme Court; the potential impact on farmers and ranchers could be enormous. Farm Bureau opposes any pro-posal that seeks to fundamentally expand the federal regulatory reach of the CWA.
The proposed rule provides none of the clarity and certainty it promises. Instead, it creates confusion and risk by provid-ing the Agencies with almost unlimited authority to regulate, at their discretion, any low spot where rainwater collects, including common farm ditches, ephem-
have more local food grown for their con-sumption, but once a famer is put out of business due to nuisance lawsuits, there are very few willing to risk their livelihood and take their place. Which reduces the capabilities to provide a locally fresh food supply.
Not only does New Mexico Farm & Livestock Bureau (NMF&LB) have prior-ities, so does our umbrella organization, the American Farm Bureau Federation. Identified in their strategic plan as top tier priorities are Biotechnology, the Clean Water Act, the Endangered Species Act and Immigration. These priority issues all come from the local people involved in Farm Bureau across the nation. NMF&LB supports these issues and deem them very crucial to the sustainability of agriculture
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eral drainages, agricultural ponds, and isolated wetlands found in and near farms and ranches across the nation. The pro-posed rule defines terms like “tributary” and “adjacent” in ways that make it impossible for a typical farmer or ranch-ers to know whether the specific ditches or low areas at his or her farm will be deemed “waters of the U.S.” These definitions are certainly broad enough, however, to give regulators (and citizen plaintiffs) plenty of room to assert that such areas are sub-ject to CWA jurisdiction. The proposed rule will give the agencies sweeping new authority to regulate land use, which they may exercise at will, or at the whim of a citizen plaintiff.
“data error.”Immigration – U.S. agriculture faces a
critical shortage of workers every year, as citizens are largely unwilling to engage in these rigorous activities and guestworker programs are unable to respond to the marketplace. This situation makes our farms and ranches less competitive with foreign farmers and less reliable for the American consumer. Securing a reliable and competent workforce for our nation’s farms and ranches is essential to agricul-ture and the U.S. economy.
How can we as a state organization help to advance these priorities? By becoming actively involved. Call your local, state and national lawmaker. Write a letter to
The Endangered Species Act (ESA) – provides a set of protections for species that have been listed as endangered or threatened and is administered by the Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) and the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS). Originally enacted in 1973, Congress envi-sioned a law which would protect species believed to be on the brink of extinction. When the law was enacted, there were 109 species listed for protection. Today, there are nearly 1,600 domestic species on the list, with 125 species considered as “can-didates” for listing. Unfortunately, the ESA has failed at recovering and delist-ing species since its inception. Less than two percent of all listed species have been removed from ESA protection since 1973, and many of those are due to extinction or
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Dee Delk Johnson, 91, passed away at Gila Regional Medical Center on March 9, 2015, after a brief illness.
Dee was born to George Delk and Annie Flury Delk at the family ranch near Santa Rita, New Mexico on July 23, 1923. She attended both New Mexico Western State Teachers College and New Mexico A&M (now NMSU) where she was a cheerleader. Dee married her husband Clint Johnson Jr. after his return from WWII and had one daughter. She ranched throughout her life in Silver City which was her passion to the last. She was dedicated to family history, local archeology, and enjoyed knitting. She was a founding member and once president of the Copper Cowbelles and was involved in other local organizations and was a friend to many.
Dee is survived by her daughter, D’Aun West (Bert) of Silver City, NM, grand-daughter Wendy Crisp (Brandon) and great-granddaughter Maggie Crisp of Sil-ver City, NM. She is also survived by sis-ter-in-law Betty McKinley of Albuquerque, NM and numerous nieces and nephews. Dee was preceded in death by her parents, her husband Clint Johnson Jr., as well as brother Forrest Delk, and his wife Ger-trude of Santa Rita, and sister Aloha Bur-ris and her husband Howard of Silver City, NM.
There is no planned memorial service, yet donations can be made to Shriner’s Hospitals for Children.
K’dyn Ross Brewer, 7, Roswell, passed to be with his Lord on March 9, 2015. He was born on June 22, 2007 to Chandra and Roper Brewer in Roswell. K’dyn grew up
School and received his Bachelor of Sci-ence in Nursing from West Texas State University in 1975. He worked as a Regis-tered Nurse and was a certified Post Anes-thesia Nurse for many years at Baptist St. Anthony’s Hospital and then at Thomas E. Creek Veteran’s Hospital. He later received his Mortuary Science degree from Ama-rillo College in 2008 and was a vital part of Brooks Funeral Directors. Bruce was a Master Mason and a 50 year member of the Canyon City Lodge #730, where he served as past Master. He was also a member of A & A Scottish Rite. He served as an offi-cer for Texas Post Anesthesia Nurses, and was named Who’s Who Among Human Services Professionals. He was a member of the First United Methodist Church of Canyon. He was a longtime supporter of West Texas A & M University Buffalo Ath-letics. Survivors include his wife, Anne; his son, Scott Fields and wife, Shayla, Happy; four grandchildren; his cousin, Jane Frost (husband, Bob), San Jon, New Mexico; several other cousins and his schnauzers, Molly and Lucy.
Helen G. Paterson, 88, passed away on March 8, 2015, with her loving husband, John Alex, by her side as he had been for the past 65 years. Kind, fearless, humble and a constant source of unconditional love and encouragement to those who knew her, she was a devoted wife, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother. She was born February 7, 1927, to Emil and Esther Gunnary near French Lake, Minne-sota. Raised on the family farm, she grew
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The Albuquerque Indian School (AIS) served the educational needs of Southwestern Native Americans for
just a bit more than 100 years; from 1881 to 1982. While much about the institution was controversial, it seems to have bene-fitted the Indian people much more that it harmed them.
Major B. M. Thomas, United States Pueblo Indian Agent stationed in Santa Fe, proposed an Indian boarding school in 1878. There was much debate about where such a facility should be constructed, who should run it, and so forth. From the beginning, it should be noted, the Roman Catholic and the Presbyterian churches were at loggerheads over the matter.
The latter group won out when the school opened on January 1, 1881, with the Presbyterian Reverend Sheldon Jack-son in charge. AIS was housed in tempo-rary quarters for about three years before it moved into a permanent facility located about a mile north of Albuquerque’s
trouble enrolling students from some of the northern Pueblos, and it developed that a priest, Rev. A. Jouvenceau, had been advising Pueblo parents against sending their children to AIS. Jouvenceau also urged an investigation of Creager.
That problem was compounded when a couple of faculty women made non-spe-cific complaints about the superintendent; charges which were unsubstantiated and soon dismissed. Historian Marc Simmons cited an unnamed “journalist” who wrote that Creager was “a sadistic monster who has conducted a reign of terror during the previous six years.” No particulars were offered and the journalist might have been expected to know that Creager served fewer than five years as superintendent (May 25, 1889 to March 31, 1884): not six years.
Several inquiries were made into such charges, all of which tended to exonerate
Old Town (on what would become, and remain, Indian School Road). The super-intendent by then was Professor R. W. D. Bryan, a native of New York. In his report of 1885, he wrote this:
“The ultimate object of the Indian schools is … not so much the improve-ment of individuals as the gradual uplifting of the race. To this end it is important to guard against the formation of a wide gulf between parent and child, and to prevent the child from acquiring notions inconsis-tent with proper filial respect and duty. I am, therefore, anxious to have a local and neighborhood day school maintained; to have boarding schools multiplied within easy reach of their homes, so that the par-ents may often visit their homes.”
One writer noted that in 1885, “The school was very popular with the Indians.”
In May 1889, William B. Creager was appointed superintendent, and with him came the first major dust-up in school history. Creager complained that he had
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of Architecture, and himself an enrolled member of Isleta Pueblo, wrote that while some boarding schools have been charac-terized as “oppressive,” “this was not the case for AIS.” He added
“… I would be so emboldened to cat-egorically conclhat AIS was a happy and nurturing place. Indeed, this is the pervad-ing sentiment of its alumni. Their memo-ries are replete with events that bespeak of lifetime friendships, intertribal marriages and coming-of-age stories …”
Dr. Jojola led the effort to save the old Employee’s Building at AIS. The last build-ing of AIS standing, it was designed by Joe Padilla of Isleta and built in 1931. The building is now home to the Native Amer-ican Community Academy. Jojola’s efforts were recognized by the Historical Society of New Mexico with an award for historical preservation in 2014.
Some remnant of AIS remains after all.
Selected sources: Theodore “Ted” Jojola, “Real history of AIS is being disparaged,” Albuquerque Journal, October 27, 2013Lillie G. McKinney, “History of the Albuquerque Indian School,” New Mexico Historical Review, 1945. (A Master’s thesis reprinted entirely in the New Mexico Historical Review. It is the best source of basic information on AIS from the school’s beginning until 1935.)
Once again the school survived.The school was finally closed in 1982,
but in the years afterwards, many writers and historians continued to disparage the institution. It was not all negative, how-ever. In October 2013, Dr. Theodore “Ted” Jojola, University of New Mexico Distin-guished Professor and Regents Professor
Creager. It was suggested, however, that because of the bad publicity that attended the scandal, AIS was seriously embar-rassed. Creager resigned on March 31, 1894.
Another flap came along in 1929 when a writer for Good Housekeeping magazine, Vera L. Connolly, published an item enti-tled “The Cry of a Broken People.” In it she alleged ill treatment of Indian children at government boarding schools, including AIS. United States Senator Sam Bratton of New Mexico, much concerned about the allegations, empanelled a committee to study the matter. Members included such notables as Albuquerque Mayor Clyde Tin-gley, District Court Judge M. E. Hickey, Child Welfare Association president Mrs. Max Nordhaus, among others.
The committee interviewed leaders from Laguna, Acoma, San Felipe, Santa Ana, Zia, Jemez, Sandia and Isleta pueblos. “Nothing but praise was elicited from the representatives of the Pueblos concerning the school.” Teachers and other employees of AIS were interviewed along with out-siders and students. Nothing of a substan-tially negative nature was discovered.
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Former NMSU FFA State President reaches final four in national competition
Making a first in New Mexico his-tory, Klayton Bearup, a New Mexico State University Collegiate Farm
Bureau member and treasurer, advanced to the final four of the National Collegiate Discussion Meet held during the American Farm Bureau Federation’s 2015 FUSION conference in Nashville, Tennessee.
NMSU student Klayton Bearup, trea-surer of the New Mexico Collegiate Farm Bureau, was one of three runners-up in the American Farm Bureau Young Farm-ers and Ranchers Collegiate Discussion Meet held at the American Farm Bureau Federation FUSION conference in Nash-ville, Tennessee. Forty-seven competitors from 34 states participated in this year’s AFBF Collegiate Discussion Meet. (NMSU photo by Joel Alderete)
Bearup beat out more than 40 students of the nation’s top competitors, proceed-
Convention Center.“It’s a very practical competition,
intended to emulate a committee meeting or a county farm bureau meeting to dis-cuss the issues that are actually happen-ing,” Bearup said.
NMSU is the only collegiate chapter for the Farm Bureau in the entire state. The annual conference in November hosts the state discussion meet where six students compete as one panel. Bearup succeeded at the state level allowing him to move on to the national conference.
Each of the 47 competitors participated in two preliminary rounds and based on cumulative scores advanced to the top 16. Next, there are four panels of four where the winners of those four competed against each other to complete the final four.
“It’s more open and conversational than other typical debates,” Bearup said. “You want to cooperate with your panel and come to a conclusive solution or step toward a solution.”
The panel is given a discussion topic the day before the competition and asked to complete a 20-minute statement. There is a 30-second opening, one-minute clos-ing statement and the students are judged on cooperation, ideas and ability to speak.
“This is a way for younger collegiate farm bureau members and young farm-ers and ranchers committee members to come together and be able to compete, coming up with ideas to face issues or problems faced in American agriculture,” Bearup said.
Beaup, of Silver City, previously served as the New Mexico FFA state president and is a current College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences ambassador. He is a longstanding member of 4-H and FFA within the community, showing and raising cattle throughout college.
He is an Agricultural and Extension Education major, with the goal of becom-ing a high school Ag teacher. n
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What you Need to Know Before Selling Your Farm or Ranchby SHARON NIEDERMAN
The decision to sell a farm or ranch that has been in the family for several generations is momentous. Very few
other life events, outside of marriage, birth and death, have the potential to impact the participants as greatly. The life of the fam-ily is tied to the land: no one knows how the sale of the family’s most tangible leg-acy will affect that family’s future.
Still, there may come a time – as it often does – when the younger gener-ations are no longer willing or able to carry on the business of ranching. Those who have persevered over the decades to keep the ranch together for the sake of the family may no longer have the strength or ability to continue their stewardship. The standard unpredictable factors of weather, rising costs of equipment, feed, and fuel, and market conditions may spell the end of an era. Despite the emotional chal-lenges, these realities must be faced, and when they are, drastic change, welcome or not, is inevitable.
Denial of the need for change may be a common reaction, but to make that nec-essary change from a stance of denial is to fail to take a position of strength. Not only change, but chronic distrust of out-siders, legal and accounting professionals, may all have to be first overcome. Bill W. McCoy III, a seasoned New Mexico Real Estate Broker, Qualified Intermediary for 1031 Exchanges and Real Estate Instruc-tor emphasizes the need to plan ahead, mustering a trusted brokerage, legal and accounting team. Just hanging out a “For Sale” sign is not the way to preserve the hard-earned value of a family farm or ranch, nor is simply buying a residential property with the proceeds of a sale.
“A seller needs to understand his income tax situation. A good attorney can put in place an estate plan to minimize tax expense and maximize property values. Without a thorough estate plan, a seller can give up one-third or more of their sale in taxes.
“Most tax and estate planning strategies must be completed within 180 days of dis-posing of the ranch, which is not a lot of time, so early planning is crucial” he says.
When a ranch property is handed down over the generations, it is disposed of at current market value, leaving a poten-tially sizable tax liability. This tax liability
and many others.Proportionately, he says, there are very
few qualified farm and ranch brokers. The business is predominated by a “good old boy” network. Still, he suggests the way to find a reliable, competent and knowl-edgeable broker is to network through the Realtors® Land Institute (RLI), to check those who advertise in New Mexico Stockman, and to share information with neighbors. Always check references, he cautions, making note of the Realtor’s® track record. “Word gets around very
can be potentially be dealt with through “1031 like kind exchanges,” necessitating the acquisition of another property, or by diversifying into investment property that meets the tax law’s requirements.
Finding a proper broker is also a critical issue, McCoy says. “It’s not just finding a buyer for the property,” he says. The bro-ker must also be familiar with financing for the purchaser as well as know how to work through complex issues of leases, ease-ments, mineral and water rights, as well as many government agency issues such as the BLM, State Land Office, Bureau of Reclamation, Army Corps of Engineers
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offering more attractive to the seller, yet it may not represent a realistic sales price. Ranch and farm sales differ from residen-tial sales in that comparable sales are not readily available through a “MLS” system, and many sales are not reported through a Multiple Listing Service such as exists for residential properties;
Many factors determine pricing, including, but not limited to: comparable sale prices of similar farms or ranches, size of the ranch; how much land is owned, now much is leased; what equipment and improvements are there; and, elk permits available;
Competition drives brokerage fees. There is no set fee to which a broker is entitled. A range between 5 and 10 percent is not unreasonable;
Everything is negotiable. You will need to negotiate the percentage your broker is paid. A commission of between 5-10 per-cent is usual;
Ask: What are ranches selling for around the state? What are values such as elk per-mits and water rights bringing? While the prices may be disclosed, the owners are not typically required to disclose the sale price of a farm or ranch. Ask for and expect to receive a Comparable Market Analysis from your Broker to establish a realistic sales price;
Have a specific written listing agree-ment for the property being offered;
Always hire a licensed New Mexico Real Estate Broker, preferably a member of the National Association of Realtors. Realtors have pledged to abide by a Code of Ethics. All New Mexico brokers are regulated and have ten duties to the consumer that must be performed and properly disclosed to buyers and sellers. A form is provided by the Realtors® Association of New Mexico. To have access to this form your Broker must be a Realtor®, a member of the Real-tors® Association of New Mexico (RANM) and the national association (NAR) as well. These duties include issues such as honesty, reasonable care, and disclosure of adverse material facts actually known about the property and the transaction. The New Mexico Real Estate Broker is also required to keep current with changes in the law by taking 30 hours of continuing education every three years.
Richard Randals, a Licensed New Mex-ico Real Estate Broker in Tucumcari says, “People living in rural New Mexico are vul-nerable. What we are seeing is that those without complete licensing credentials may not be complying with all the legal requirements and disclosure of brokers’ duties to protect sellers.” n
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quickly about the successful brokers,” he says. “While virtually everyone may have a license, looking for a way to make a few extra dollars during the winter, that doesn’t necessarily qualify them to accom-
plish a successful transaction.”Other factors to be aware of when look-
ing to dispose of a ranch property:Taking the highest listing price offered
by a broker is not necessarily the best way to go; it is possible to be offered an unrea-sonably high price simply to make that
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New Mexico Youth Ranch Management Camp application deadline May 1
The New Mexico Youth Ranch Manage-ment Camp is an once-in-a-lifetime experience.
An enthusiastic group of instructors from New Mexico State University’s Coop-erative Extension Service, and the pic-turesque landscape of the Valles Caldera National Preserve in northern New Mex-ico created a unique event for the future ranch managers.
“We are proud to offer this one-of-a-kind program for the future cattle producers of our state,” said Jon Boren, Cooperative Extension Service director. “The collabo-ration between our Extension specialists, county Extension agents and members of the ranching industry has provided an opportunity for the youth to see the many aspects of managing a ranch.”
The youth ranch management program
focuses on providing hands-on training for future ranch man-agers and stewards of New Mexico’s nat-ural resources. The program is an expan-sion of the research and education con-tractual agreement between NMSU and the Valles Caldera Trust.
Camp participants, ages 15-19, selected for the program came from across the state to learn sci-ence-based skills used successfully on modern-day ranches to improve beef production, natural resource stewardship, wildlife management and fis-cal management.
“We challenged these young peo-ple with a rigorous program for five full days,” said camp director Jack Blandford, Luna County Extension program direc-tor. “They never seemed to weaken. They are like sponges absorbing knowledge all week.”
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The participants are challenged 12 hours a day with a college-level curricu-lum of hands-on activities and lectures. The camp culminated with the youth presenting their ranch plan to a panel of judges made up of successful New Mexico ranch managers, and an audience that included dignitaries and parents.
This year’s camp will be from May 31-June 5. Deadline for on-line applica-tions is May 1. For more information, visit nmyrm.nmsu.edu. n
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Preparing for Wildfires: Moving from Crisis to Opportunity
Recently, 8 members from NM Coop-erative Extension and two employees from NM Soil & Water Conservation
Districts attended a wildfire conference
ing fires would seem to be a nonstarter. Here in the Southwest, where hot, dry and windy are annually in the spring forecast the question is not if we will have forest and grass fires but when and where. Sec-ond, and maybe more meaningful, is that an individual can prepare for such events (or realities) and thereby reduce their risk to the hazard. In other words, an individ-ual can take the opportunity to be prepared for wildfire, an opportunity that will yield better results than chance alone. Exam-ples of individual preparedness include having a disaster/emergency supply kit (to include prescribed medications), and multiple and secure storage of important paperwork (e.g., last will and testament) and photos. Beyond individual or family preparations, there are approaches and actions that homeowners can undertake to further prepare their homes and yards for wildfires. In particular, preparing the home and yard to withstand an ember shower from an impending wildland fire is recommended.
Where is the ‘opportunity’ for NM Cooperative Extension? Although ‘living with fire’ is not necessarily a traditional or typical ‘bread and butter’ type program found within NM Cooperative Extension, there have been and continue to be vari-ous efforts to educate stakeholders about ‘opportunities.’ One specific and rather unique example found in NM is Cooper-ative Extension’s participation in the ‘ag emergency conference calls’ that occur when wildfires are active or likely. These phone calls involve ag stakeholders at the local, county and state levels communicat-ing information and coordinating efforts as they pertain to ag issues and wildfire (e.g., where can displaced livestock be sheltered, what allotments are threatened, who can volunteer to help, etc.). Addi-tional opportunities to engage the wildfire issue include collaborating with ongoing efforts (i.e., no need to reinvent the wheel). However, in some cases, such efforts con-sist simply of a passive web-based clearing-house of information. Because of Coop-erative Extensions unique structure and location there is an opportunity to have a greater impact.
For example, the grass roots tradition of Cooperative Extension could create an opportunity where none existed before, perhaps introduced through the 4-H pro-gram. Engaging the Master Gardner pro-gram would be another opportunity to tie into an existing network to educate home-
in Tucson, Arizaon under the same title as this column. As the title indicates, the principal focus of the workshop was iden-tifying how the West, with particular help from the Cooperative Extension Service, can move away from allowing wildfires to wreak havoc across landscapes and in our personal lives and move toward a more predictable and prepared environment before, during and after fire. The workshop targeted Cooperative Extension educators from across the West, but also encouraged and welcomed attendance from potential collaborative partners, such as county emergency planners, fire chiefs, and stake-holder groups (e.g. fire safe councils) to name just a few. Insightful and engaged discussion characterized the three day event.
Where is the ‘opportunity’ in wildfire? Let us ‘peel back the onion.’ First, from the academic side, we live on a fire planet. In fact, earth alone (probably) supports fire. For example, there are 8.5 million light-ning flashes across the globe each day. If one tenth of one percent of those started a wildfire, that would amount to 8500 wildfires each day. Since fuel and oxygen are also readily available on this planet, the Smokey Bear philosophy of prevent-
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Come One — Come All!If you attended New Mexico State in the 1964 to 1974 era … or knew someone who did … or ever thought about attending, you best saddle up and head to Aggie Land.The schedule is still in the works, but the gathering will be held on April
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the editor explaining how these are not just national issues, but concerns that affect the day-to-day management of your farm or ranch. Get active on social media. Every Facebook post and Tweet counts. Case in point, the EPA counted tweets such as “I like clean water” as a ‘comment’ in support of the proposed Clean Water Act. Social media is having a huge impact in the world of policy making. Remember, in the words of Dwight D. Eisenhower “Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you’re a thousand miles from the corn field.” Let’s remind our lawmakers that their pencils affect our lives. n
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Looking Forward: What Does the Cattle Market Have in Store for 2015?by BRETT CROSBY, CUSTOM AG SOLUTIONS
The USDA’s National Agricultural Sta-tistics Service (NASS) cattle inven-tory report for January 2015 confirms
that beef herd expansion is underway. The number of beef cows that have calved increased over 600,000 head in 2014 to 29.7 million head. The increase in beef cow numbers is the largest since 1994 and the second largest increase in over 30 years. The herd expansion was impressive by any measure, but especially remarkable given the cost of replacement animals
herd back to the size it was only four years ago. Clearly, total per capita beef supply in the US will remain at historically low levels for several years while the U.S. population continues to grow, resulting in per capita beef supply and beef prices remaining at or near their current levels.
While the current herd expansion sug-gests that calf prices likely hit their high water mark in the fall of 2014, prices should remain strong in 2015. The 2015 calf crop is likely to be 10 to 15 percent higher than 2014, but calf supplies will likely remain tight while producers retain inordinately large numbers of heifers during this expansion phase. As a result, deferred feeder cattle futures suggest calf prices holding very close to the levels seen last fall. Of course, there is still a long time between now and the fall, and corn prices and winter wheat conditions this fall will play a large part in determining calf prices late in the year.
Feed cost and forage availability aren’t the only sources of uncertainty for this year’s calf prices. Exports have been incredibly strong and a strengthening economy has also supported domestic beef demand. Therefore, a U.S. recession or a global economic slowdown could have a substantial adverse impact on cattle prices. With the U.S. beef herd expanding and a strong dollar and soft oil prices indicat-ing global economic uncertainty, there is more downside risk for cattle prices than upside potential.
With increased downside market risk, this is a good year to consider carefully managing price risk. Forward contracts, futures, options, and RMA’s Livestock Risk Protection (LRP) insurance are all worth considering. If fundamentals hold steady, the calf market is expected to remain strong, so producers should consider a risk management strategy that limits or soft-ens unexpected downside market moves. Also, because a repeat of 2014’s explosive upside move is unlikely, 2015 is probably a good year to consider early forward con-tracts at current price levels.
Despite national herd expansion, the next several years should remain profit-able for cow/calf producers. Beef demand domestically and abroad is strong, and heifer retention that is fueling expansion will help offset the effects of larger calf crops in the coming years. With prices still near historic highs, however, a price risk management strategy should be employed to protect against downside movements
and the smaller number of replacement females available compared to 1994, when there were 34.6 million beef cows in the U.S. While increased herd numbers have been expected by many, the new inventory statistics and rapid growth leave many producers wondering what this means for cattle prices going forward.
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triggered by high feed costs or macro-economic issues. For 2015, the old adage “Nobody ever went broke locking in a profit” is a good one to remember. n
NMSU Ag professor receives Friend of Safety award
Dennis Hallford, New Mexico State University’s Animal and Range Sci-ences interim department head, past
chair of the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee and current chair of the University Radiation Safety Committee, received this year’s annual Friend of Safety Award for his contributions to the long-standing improvement of safety in these areas.
During a recent College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences department head meeting, Katrina Doo-litle, executive director for NMSU’s Envi-ronmental Health & Safety, presented the golden globe award to Hallford. The Friend of Safety distinction and award is given to an NMSU employee who has implemented safety programs or policies that have pos-itively and significantly impacted their department or college and resulted in improved safety culture overall.
“The safety achievements that are rec-ognized by this award must be more than what the person is responsible for in their day-to-day work,” Doolittle said. “We only recognize those who go above and beyond what is required, and do it in such a way that it persist over time. The accomplish-ments must be far-reaching and consid-ered a permanent improvement in the safety program that they are responsible for creating.”
Hallford received the award because of his commitment to research oversight com-mittees at NMSU for 30 years, adding ele-ments of safety that did not previously exist.
“With his leadership and the support of the committee, we now have strong safety programs for all animal workers and all who use ionizing radiation at NMSU. He not only ensured compliance, he took it to the next level with the safety components of these programs,” Doolittle said. “I have watched the safety culture of the workers improve in these areas of research where there is animal handling risks, potential disease and radiation hazards. Dr. Hallford kept the safety of the individual and good safe science at the forefront, and he is also responsible for the compliance improve-ments that are now core safety programs in both areas.” n
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to qualify, you rely on NASS data. It’s very important, we need our producers to take the time and report accurate information, so we can go to Washington, D.C. and get help they need,” he noted.
For producers who truly do not want to provide information, the best thing to do is just let the enumerator know that, up front. Keep in mind, though, that NASS is required to survey a certain number of people, and it has to come from some-where, he cautioned. Producers may feel better about doing it themselves, though, because they know they’ve been careful and accurate and done a good job, rather than relying on the guy down the road. “If you really don’t want to participate, either because you don’t have the time or you don’t want people knowing your business, just tell the enumerator that you’d prefer not to answer,” he concluded. n
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New Leaders Elected at 138th TSCRA ConventionConvention Sets Attendance Record in Fort Worth
The Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association (TSCRA) elected new members to their board of direc-
tors at the 138th Cattle Raisers Conven-tion, which took place March 27-29. Cattle Raisers set a new record at their Conven-tion with more than 3,700 ranchers and friends in attendance.
New directors include Deborah Clark, Henrietta, Texas; Lynn Cowden, Skelly-town, Texas; Ford Drummond, Pawhuska, Okla.; Dan Gattis, Georgetown, Texas; Claude Koontz, San Antonio, Texas; Frank Price, Sterling City, Texas; and Robert J. Underbrink, Houston, Texas.
Jay Evans, Austin, Texas; Steve Sikes, Fort Worth, Texas; and Dennis Webb, Barnhart, Texas were elected as executive committee members.
New TSCRA honorary directors include Emry Birdwell, Henrietta, Texas; Richard Gates, Marfa, Texas; Alan Lewis, Olney, Texas; Frank H. Lewis Jr., Bay City, Texas; John L. Sullivan, Galveston, Texas; and Rick Tate, Marfa, Texas.
All members with honorary titles serve as ex officio members of the board.
TSCRA also re-elected their officers, President Pete Bonds, Saginaw, Texas; First Vice President, Richard Thorpe, Win-ters, Texas; Second Vice President Robert McKnight, Fort Davis, Texas; and Execu-tive Vice President/CEO Eldon White, Fort Worth, Texas.
“This year’s Convention was a huge success with a record breaking number of cattlemen, cattlewomen and friends in attendance,” said Bonds. “There were many informative speaker sessions and great entertainment options for those who visited. I am also very excited about the new leaders who were elected to the TSCRA board of directors. These individ-uals possess a wealth of knowledge on the cattle industry and I look forward to work-ing with them in their new capacity.” n
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ticed daily (the elaborate Vaqueros from that part of the world are often referred to as Charros). The Vaquero prided him-self on his horsemanship and roping skills. Vicente was no exception.
At an early age, he learned the basics of heading and heeling cattle and catch-ing horses with his reata (rope). The next challenge was to learn to do it with style. The old-time Vaquero would commonly incorporate trick roping into the every day task of roping livestock. Doing it this way took more skill in his book. He would also entertain and show off with his “Floreada de reata” skills (basically rope tricks, liter-ally translated it is to make flower designs with a reata). Vicente soon mastered this skill.
In his younger days Oropeza toured Mexico with Ponciano Diaz, a famous Bull Fighter who also put on shows. It was during one of these shows he made contact with Buffalo Bill Cody who then invited Vicente and several other Charro performers to preform in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West. That was in 1893 (some sources
The first recognized champion of the world in the “Trick and Fancy Roping” event belonged to Vicente
Oropeza (sometimes spelled as Vincente Oropeso) of Puebla, Mexico. The year was 1900.
It has long been accepted that the American Cowboy first learned his trade from the Mexican Vaquero. The Vaquero had been “cowboying” in what is now the American Southwest and Northern Mexico since the 1500s. From gear, techniques, and language, to cowboy sporting events, origins can be traced back to the Vaquero, in one form or another. Trick roping is no exception.
From about 1900 till the 1930s, trick or “fancy” (as it was sometimes called) roping was a rodeo event much like bull or bronc riding is today. It was a judged event, not a specialty act. The man given credit for tak-ing trick roping to that level was Vicente Oropeza.
Born in Puebla, Mexico in 1858, Oro-peza was raised on a large Hacienda (ranch) where the skills of a Vaquero were prac-
claim 1894).In an article about Will Rogers, writ-
ten by Jesse Mullins for American Cow-boy Magazine, Jesse wrote, “Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show played the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair. Clem Rogers, Will’s father, shipped a trainload of cattle to Chicago then took Will, 13, along and they attended both the fair and Wild West Show.
“At that show, a Mexican trick roper, Vicente Oropeza, bedazzled the boy. Will had already learned to handle the lariat for practical, workday purposes. Oropeza, at the end of many horseback tricks and others done afoot, wrote his name—one letter at a time—with his lariat. This moment became the clincher for Will.”
Will Rogers has been quoted many times as giving Oropeza credit for inspir-ing his trick roping. On several occasions, he also credits Vicente as being the great-est trick roper—ever.
Oropeza traveled with Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show until about 1907. Accord-ing to information given on the Buffalo Bill Museum and Grave website, “Many of the cowboys’ skills originated with the Mexican vaqueros. Exhibitions of riding by brothers Antonio and Jose Esquivel and rope tricks by Vicente Oropeza were a very popular part of the Wild West. Oropeza inspired Will Rogers to begin his career as a roper.”
According to the Hyatt Verrill autobiog-raphy (who performed with the show for a time), “Vicente Oropeza was a remarkable man. He had been a bullfighter and bandit before he turned Rurale (in the show) and as he often said, ‘A most excellent bandit.’ He was an enormously tall, heavily built Mexican but as light on his feet as a cat. He was the first man ever to spin a rope and in some ways was the best rope-spin-ner I ever have seen—and I knew Will Rogers, personally.
“On one occasion, Oropeza leaped onto the long dining-tent table and spun his rope back and forth over the dishes, never more than an inch or two above them,
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usually headlined as “The Premier Charro Mexicano of the World!” He was described as a very charismatic showman (even rival-ing Cody himself).
In Mexico, Vicente is a hero as well. Regarded as one of the legendary Charros, there are volumes of research written in the Spanish language about Oropeza and his accomplishment both in the United States and Mexico. According to a Span-ish website dedicated to the history of the Charro, “Un grupo de 12 Charros capita-neados por Vicente Oropeza que salieron por primera vez a Nueva York. A Vicente Oropeza los norteamericanos le dieron el calificativo de Campeón de Lazo en el mundo.” (Basically saying that Vicente led a group of twelve Charros to New York where the North Americans gave Vicente the title of World Champion Roper.)
At the time of his retirement, he was definitely regarded as the finest trick roper in the world. He retired to his ranch at Puebla, where he died in 1923. In 1975, the first World Champion Trick or Fancy Roper of the World was posthu-mously inducted into the National Cow-boy and Western Heritage Museum Hall of Fame. n
but never touching them, regardless of their various heights. Another of his feats was to stand blindfolded with his back to a horse and rider and call out by which foot he would loop the horse. Judging only by the sound of the oncoming horse, he would spin his reata backward and never missed his throw.” – Hyatt Verrill
The oldest trick and fancy roping con-test of record was held in New York in 1900. This was the first time it was a judged (contested) event and just not a part of a Wild West Show performance. Ropers from all over the world came to compete. It was won by Vicente Oropeza, who was then given the title of the first World Champion Trick and Fancy Roper. Trick and fancy roping soon became a standard event at Rodeos and Wild West Shows and many men, Will Rogers included, not only followed in Oropeza’s footsteps, but looked up to him as a legend. He could make a rope “talk” with style and grace. What he did soon became the benchmark to shoot for in this event.
During the sixteen years Oropeza spent with Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show, he was
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NMSU’s New Mexico Indian Livestock Days early registration deadline May 1
Cows are calving and the baby lambs are on their way. It must be time for New Mexico Indian Livestock Days.
New Mexico State University Cooperative Extension Service is hosting the annual event May 12 to 14 at Route 66 Casino and Hotel, west of Albuquerque on Interstate 40.
“Through the years, our Native Ameri-can livestock producers have gained infor-mation at the Indian Livestock Days that has helped them to improve their herd and quality of meat produced, and to stay informed on vital issues,” said Kathy Landers, McKinley County Extension agri-cultural agent and chairperson for the one of the larger conferences hosted by NMSU Extension.
This year’s program will begin at 1 p.m. Tuesday, May 12. The various aspects of develop-ing a ranch plan will be discussed during the afternoon session.
Wednesday, May 13, will have a full day of sessions, includ-
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The conference will conclude at noon on Thursday, May 14. The morning will include updates from cattle growers’ organizations, the state veterinarian and New Mexico Livestock Board, as well as a
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BEEF COUNCILbullhornNew Value Record for U.S. Beef Exports
Export value for U.S. beef set a new record in 2014, posting dou-ble-digit gains over the previ-
ous year’s totals, according to statistics released by USDA and compiled by the U.S. Meat Export Federation, a contrac-tor to the beef checkoff.
Beef export value was $7.13 billion – up of 16 percent (and nearly $1 billion) over the previous record, set in 2013. Export volume also increased 2 per-cent year-on-year to nearly 2.65 billion pounds, which was just short of the 2011 record.
Exports overcame significant chal-lenges to reach these milestones, includ-ing market access restrictions in Russia and China, an appreciating U.S. dollar and, most recently, shipping difficulties related to a labor dispute in the West Coast ports.
For the month of December, beef export volume slipped 2 percent year-over-year to 221 million pounds, though value still increased 17 percent to $643.2 million.
“It was an outstanding year for red-meat exports, but headwinds continued to mount late in the year,” said USMEF President and CEO Philip Seng. “The West Coast port congestion is extreme-ly troubling, because the delays faced by exporters in December have become even more severe in 2015. If this dispute is not resolved soon, the meat industry will have to win back long-term cus-tomers who still want our product, but have no choice but to seek alternative suppliers.”
The situation is especially critical because Asian markets take a large vol-ume of chilled U.S. beef and pork, valued at more than $2 billion in 2014.
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Starting March 16, beef and dairy producers can enter the “Rev It Up” My ROI Checkoff Challenge by visiting the MyBeefCheckoff Facebook page to share how the beef checkoff has impacted their operations. The Rev It Up contest will have two rounds: The first stretches eight weeks, with responses to weekly questions about how the Beef Checkoff Program has affected their cattle operations. On Monday of each week during Round 1, the checkoff will post a new ques-tion on the MyBeefCheckoff Facebook page. Participants are asked to simply answer the checkoff question in 250 words or less for a chance to be select-ed as one of eight finalists and win a weekly prize.
After all weekly winners/finalists
have been chosen, Round 2 involves each of the winners from Round 1 pro-ducing a two- to three-minute video testimonial about a topic provided to them on May 13. All finalists will have the same amount of time — about a week — to create their video. Visitors to the Facebook page then will vote to select the grand-prize winner.
The grand-prize winner will be announced Monday, June 8.
“As beef producers, we have an exciting story to share about what the checkoff means to us individu-ally. A recent Return on Investment (ROI) study showed that every dol-lar invested in our Beef Checkoff Program returns $11.20,” says Jeanne Harland, chairman of the Producer Communications Working Group. “That’s great news for our industry, and this challenge will enable us to share original, unique checkoff-relat-ed stories with other beef producers. So ‘rev up’ the good news, get your video camera or phone ready, and enter today!”
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NMBC DIRECTORS: Bruce Davis (Producer); David McSherry (Feeder); Mark McCollum (Feeder); Milford Denetclaw (Producer); Jonathan Vander Dussen (Dairy Producer); Tamara Hurt (Producer).
FEDERATION DIRECTOR, Darrell Brown (Producer) U.S.M.E.F. DIRECTOR, David McSherry BEEF BOARD DIRECTOR , Tammy Ogilvie (Producer)
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The strength in international demand was showcased in 2014, as customers paid record prices for U.S. beef, while still pur-chasing larger volumes. This is especially noteworthy because U.S. cattle prices were significantly higher than prices in Australia and all other major beef-exporting coun-tries.
Exports continue to generate strong returns for producers, as beef-export value per head of fed slaughter averaged a record $297.68 in 2014, up $52.72 from the pre-vious year. For the month of December, export value reached $340.69 per head, up $61.53 from a year ago.
“These exceptional results illustrate the strength of the international markets,” Seng said. “In the past five years, per-head export value has more than doubled for beef pro-ducers.”
Beef exports in 2014 equated to 14 per-cent of total production (muscle cuts plus variety meat) and 11 percent of muscle cuts alone, up from 13 percent and 10 percent, respectively, a year ago.
Asian markets propel beef export results
U.S. beef performed exceptionally well in key Asian markets in 2014, including:
n Exports to Japan increased 3 percent in volume to 531.6 million pounds and 14 percent in value to $1.58 billion. Value eclipsed the 2003 (pre-BSE) mark of $1.39
billion for the first time, though volume was still below the 2003 total.
n Hong Kong set new annual records as export volume increased 19 percent to 340.7 million pounds and value surged 40 percent to $1.15 billion.
n Exports to South Korea set a new annual value record of $847.4 million, up 39 percent from 2013, while volume increased 12 percent to 259.2 million pounds.
n Taiwan also set a new annual value record of $293.6 million – up 15 percent from 2013 – while volume increased 5 per-cent to 74.5 million pounds.
In Mexico, exports increased 12 percent in volume to 534.8 million pounds and 26 percent in value to $1.17 billion. As USMEF has previously noted, however, issues with the 2013 data suggest these year-over-year increases in exports to Mexico may be overstated.
For more information about U.S. beef exports, visit www.usmef.org.
American Heart Association® Certifies Extra Lean Ground Beef as Part of a Heart-Healthy Diet
DENVER (Feb. 10, 2015) - The Beef Checkoff Program announced today that Extra Lean Ground Beef (Ground Beef that
is at least 96% lean, 4% fat) is now certified by the American Heart Association® to dis-play its recognized and respected Heart-Check mark. Retailers now have the opportunity to help identify eight dif-ferent extra lean beef items as options for part of an overall healthy diet to their shoppers using one of the most trusted nutrition icons on food packaging today.
The extra lean beef cuts that meet the American Heart Association’s® require-ments for heart-healthy foods as part of an overall healthy dietary pattern, and are certified to display the Heart-Check mark, include:
n Extra Lean Ground Beef (96% lean, 4% fat)
n Bottom Round Steak (USDA Select grade)
n Sirloin Tip Steak (USDA Select grade)
n Top Sirloin Petite Roast, Boneless (USDA Select grade)
n Top Sirloin Strips (USDA Select grade)
n Top Sirloin Filet (USDA Select grade)n Top Sirloin Kabob (USDA Select
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Cut (USDA Select grade)The Heart-Check mark makes it easy
to spot heart-healthy foods in the gro-cery store or when dining out. Simply look for the name of the American Heart Association along with our familiar red heart with a white check mark on the package or menu. But not all red hearts you see are from the American Heart Association; look for the AHA name to be sure.
Before putting its Heart-Check mark on any food, the American Heart Association® evaluates it against nutri-tion requirements based on sound science regarding healthy dietary recommenda-tions, food categories, specific product ingredients and nutrient values.
Multiple retailers with hundreds of stores across the U.S. currently display the Heart-Check mark on certified beef items in the meat case. Retailers and processors can work with the Beef Checkoff Program to receive a discount on the certification fee for the American Heart Association® Food Certification Program.
Resources such as on-pack labels, post-ers and recipes are available for retailers to use in store and in shopper communi-cations to promote the certified beef cuts.
To learn more about participating in the American Heart Association® Food Certification Program, please visit www.BeefRetail.org.
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We have the Bundy Ranch, Smokey’s declining badges and the War on Meat…
Bundy
The confrontation on the Bundy Ranch is back in the news, with enviro groups and a key Congresswoman
pushing the BLM to file charges and remove the cattle.
At a recent budget hearing, Rep. Betty McCollum (D-Minn.) grilled BLM’s Direc-tor. “Mr. Bundy and his band of armed thugs are dangerous. They have commit-ted acts that are criminal by threatening federal employees,” said McCollum. “They should be held accountable. They should be prosecuted”, she continued and then asked, “What steps have been taken to stop this misuse of grazing without a permit and threatening federal employees who are just doing their jobs?”
The BLM can’t directly respond because
walled the newspaper.” The paper also says, “The longer a government refuses to answer basic questions about public business, the more suspicious taxpayers become.”
It has also been reported that PEER has filed suit because of the non-response to their FOIA requests.
All of this does make one wonder. Or, as the Nevada paper editorializes, “What is the BLM trying to hide?”
Blue Smokey LEOsForest Service law enforcement offi-
cers are crying the blues over budget cuts. As wildfire suppression consumes more of the budget less is left for the non-fire employees. The Forest Service budget justification for 2016 says the number of LEOs will decline from 813 in 2015 to 680 in 2016. The documents says the Forest
the current investigation is being handled by the FBI and the Justice Department.
Elsewhere, the Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) has written to the Secretary Of Interior and the U.S. Attorney General saying the fed’s silence has been “both deafening and deeply troubling.” The letter further states, “Bundy has violated the laws of the legislative branch, ignored the orders of the judicial branch to enforce those laws, and defied efforts by the executive branch to enforce three court orders.” They requested a public update by April 5, the one-year anniversary of the confrontation.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal is also expressing frustration with BLM’s lack of response to their FOIA requests. In a recent editorial the paper said they had “submit-ted multiple public records requests to the BLM under the Freedom of Information Act, but the agency has stalled and stone-
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that says twenty percent of all green-house gasses are emitted from federal land and are calling for a full inventory of the sources. “Any comprehensive strategy to address climate change in this country should account for these emissions and present a strategy to reduce them, as well,” says one of the researchers.
This report is aimed at the oil, gas and coal industries. But have you heard of methane? You can guess what’s coming next.
Fizzle on the sizzle
I’ve written before about the War on Meat, primarily through the dietary guidelines and the school lunch program. Whether you are producing meat animals on federal, state or private lands, these programs affect you.
Now comes EPA to the battle. Joe Roy-bal at BEEF magazine has discovered an EPA grant for $15,000 to the University of California at Riverside. The purpose of the grant is to develop “Technology for the Reduction of Particulate Matter Emis-sions for Residential BBQs” and is part of the nationwide “National Student Design Competition for Sustainability Focusing on People, Prosperity and the Planet.” Got that? Actually they are to develop a system for your grill that will prevent fat from catching on fire. Burning fat causes air pollution don’t you know.
I was gonna suggest you not invite any EPA employees to your barbeque. But that’s probably not enough protection. I’ll bet they’ve got a whole fleet of EPA Drones outfitted to detect illegal sizzling and if caught you will be fined for the first offense and lose your government permit to cook on your own property for any sub-sequent violations. Talk about your Cruel and Unusual Punishment, that would be it.
USDA weighing your babies
It’s not our calves or lambs they’ll be weighing, it’s our children.
Is this some evil study concocted by a team of bored bureaucrats? Nope, it’s Michelle Obama who pushed this, along with your friendly Congressmen. The study is required by section 223 of Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act, which was champi-oned by Mrs. Obama and passed in 2010. U.S.D.A. will be measuring and weighing children in professional and home child-care facilities. According to a Federal Reg-ister notice, they will also collect data on the “nutritional quality of foods offered,
issue the decisions. The whole thing is a mess and instead of fixing the real prob-lems they want to change how fire fighting is funded.
And why is Forest Service law enforce-ment placing such an emphasis on the Southwest border? It appears the whole border has or is being designated as Wil-derness, Wildlife Refuges or National Mon-uments where they can’t go at all or have limited access. Why place an emphasis on policing the border with Mexico when the administration says it’s “safer than ever”? What does the Forest Service know that the President and his Secretary of Home-land Security either don’t know or aren’t telling us?
The spokesman says their top priority is “resource protection” yet they are involved in all kinds of non-resource infractions both on and off federal property.
Instead they’ve built a bureaucracy with their own chain of command at USDA. And of course the copycats at Interior are doing the same.
Greenhouse gas from federal land
You knew it was coming sooner or later. The Wilderness Society and the Center for American Progress have issued a report
Service will prioritize for life-threatening emergencies with an emphasis on drug trafficking, “particularly in California and along the Southwest and northern bor-ders.”
“We’re basically the police in the woods,” says Matthew Valenta, a union spokesman for the group. “Our primary focus is resource protection, but we also do vehicle stops, DUIs…recreation vehicle enforcement and crimes against persons,” said Valenta. In a letter to the U.S. Senate he said the budget issue is affecting their ability to conduct investigations, “from minor infractions to serious felonies such as homicide, rape, assaults, domestic dis-putes, robbery, gang activity.”
We find ourselves in a situation where poor management by the Forest Service results in more, larger and hotter fires, which results in more spending for wild fires and less funds for non-fire programs. One causes the other. The poor manage-ment is not all the Forest Service’s fault. Congress passes the laws, enviros file the lawsuits and judges (appointed by the President and approved by the Senate)
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Paintings in Ancient Egypt document the use of branding oxen, and Hernando Cortez brought branded cattle to the New World in 1541, said William Bunce, NMLB Director; and Ray Baca, NMLB Deputy Director. “To this day, the Brand serves as a definitive mark of ownership and as a deterrent to theft. We take great pride in both offering this Brand Book to you and also in dedicating it to the livestock industry of the Great State of New Mexico.”
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All of this fits under the War on Obesity, and based on the government’s own fig-ures, it’s not working. The Center for Dis-ease Control reports that obesity among adults is 27.7 percent, up from 25.5 per-cent in 2008. The percentage of children aged 6–11 years in the United States who were obese increased from 7 percent in 1980 to nearly 18 percent in 2012. Simi-larly, the percentage of adolescents aged 12–19 years who were obese increased from 5 percent to nearly 21 percent over the same period. Who were the only ones who made progress? Those under six who hadn’t entered the government’s clutches yet. The rate of obesity among 2 to 5 year-olds decreased from 13.9 percent to 8.4 percent.
They are attacking our industry and invading family privacy, but its all for naught as their hectoring our citizens with their centrally planned dietary dic-tates is simply not working.
Till next time, be a nuisance to the devil and don’t forget to check that cinch.
Frank DuBois was the NM Secretary of Agriculture from 1988 to 2003, is the author of a blog: The West-erner (www.thewesterner.blogspot.com) and is the founder of The DuBois Rodeo Scholarship.
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RANCHES/FARMS*SOLD* 400 Head Ranch, adjoining Leslie Canyon, Cochise Co., AZ – Highly improved & maintained w/4 homes; horse barn; hay barn; equipment sheds; workshop; roping arena; excel-lent shipping corrals w/scales; extensive water distribution w/wells, storage & pipelines. Scenic w/rolling grasslands and mountains. Easy country. +/-7,346 deeded acres, State lease & USFS permit. This is a top quality ranch & a rare opportunity. $3,900,000253 Head Andrada Ranch, Vail, AZ 271+/- deeded ac & 16,237+/- ac State Grazing Lease. Historic HQ w/3 homes, bunk house, horse barn, hay barn, equipment shed, tack rooms, extensive corrals, scale, arenas, round pen and, spring and well at HQ. Scenic desert ranch with good mix of grass and browse, great location close to Tucson, airport and interstate. $1,858,50090 Head, Agua Fria Ranch, Quemado, NM – This is a scenic mid-size ranch with great prospects. Operating as a private hunting retreat, & a purebred Angus & Paint horse ranch. +/-1200 deeded acres, +/-80 acres of NM lease, & +/-5220 acres BLM. 4BR, 2BA, mfg. home. Trophy elk, antelope, deer. Elk & mule deer permits. Candidate for a conservation easement or land exchange with the BLM. $1.65M $1.55M*REDUCED* 112 Head, Bar 11 Ranch, Lake Roosevelt, AZ – 83 deeded acres, 36,000 acres of US Forest Grazing Permit (possible increase of 112 head). 6 corrals, 13 stock tanks, 6 steel tanks, 9 wells. 9 acre feet of water rights from a spring to deeded, home, restau-rant, shop, barns, corrals. $1,100,000 $700,00052 Head Ranch, San Simon, AZ – Indian Springs Ranch, pristine & pri-vate, only 12 miles from I-10. Bighorn
sheep, ruins, pictographs. 1480 acres of deeded, 52 head, BLM lease, historic rock house, new cabin, springs, wells. $1,300,000 $975,000, Terms.*REDUCED* 99+/- Acre Farm, Marana, AZ – 76.4 acre-feet of ground water allotment. Irrigated pasture, Pecan orchard. Large executive style home, pool, nicely landscaped yard, two large workshops, equipment sheds. $900,000 $825,000*NEW* La Palomarosa Farm, near Truth or Consequences, NM – 688+/- deeded acres with 11 irrigated acres adjoining 15 head BLM lease. 2 Bedroom, 2 Bath home, equipment shed, pond. $750,000*PENDING* 335 Head Ranch, Greenlee County, AZ – +/- 20 Deeded acres, w/two homes, barn & outbuildings. 58 Sections USFS grazing permit. Good vehicular access to the ranch – otherwise this is a horseback ranch. Scenic, great outfitters prospect. $720,000*NEW* 100 Head Scenic Ranch, Benson, AZ – +/-40 Acre deeded forest inholding, USFS Middle Canyon Allotment, 3 corrals, 5 wells, 3 dirt tanks, 8 springs 8 water storages, 8 pastures. Abundant feed! Don’t miss this incredibly scenic ranch. $699,000Virden, NM – +/-78 Acre Farm, with 49+ acres of irrigation rights. Pastures recently planted in Bermuda. 3 BR, 2 Bath site built home, shop, hay barn, 8 stall horse barn, unique round pen with adjoining shaded pens, roping arena. Scenic setting along the Gila River. Great set up for raising horses also suitable for cattle, hay, pecans, or pistachios, $550,000 Terms. *PENDING* 90 Head Cattle Ranch, Safford, AZ – 40 Deeded Acres, Good Corrals, excellent water, BLM and State
of AZ Grazing Leases. $425,500Young, AZ, 65+ Acres – Under the Mogollon Rim, small town charm & mountain views. 2100 s.f., 3 BR, 2 Bath home, 2 BR cabin, historic rock home currently a museum, shop, & barn. Excellent opportunity for horse farm, bed & breakfast, or land development. +/- 65 acres for $1,070,000; home & other improvements. $424,500
*REDUCED* 240 Acres with Irrigation Rights, Elfrida, AZ – Suitable for hay, crops, pecans, irrigated pasture, home-site or future development. Includes 130 acres of irrigation rights, partially fenced, with corrals, & 1200 gpm well. $336,000 Reduced to $279,800.Terms.
128+/- Acre Farm near Duncan, AZ – Two properties combined, +/- 45 acres farmable. Terraced farm fields, shared well, 12” irrigation pipe with alfalfa valves, recently leveled. 29+/- Acres for $80,800,+/- 99 Acres for $195,000. All for $275,800.
*SOLD* 990+/- Acre Farm Bowie AZ – 21 registered shallow wells and 4 deep wells. Good supply of quality ground water. Potential pistachio, pecan, or organic farm. Rested for some time and as such qualifies for “organic” status. $2,900/acre.
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San Rafael Valley, AZ – Own a slice of heaven in the pristine San Rafael Valley, 152 Acres for $380,150 & 77 Acres with well for $217,000.
480 Acres Oracle, AZ – One of the last remaining large parcels of land in the area. On the northern slope of Santa Catalina Mtns. Small ranching, development or granite mining potential. $6,500/acre.
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Apache Mesa Ranch – 5,144 total acres located on Hwy 84 near Las Vegas, NM. Mostly deeded, cedar & ponderosa tree cover, rim rocks & mesas, canyons & meadows. Comfortable HQ w/bunk house, caretakers quarters on 5 acres plus barn & corrals & long drink of water views. Priced to sell & Owners will finance.
Little Cayuse Ranch – Here is a horse or cow operation north of Corona. +- 2,025 acres. There are 2 homes, hay barn, sheds, tack room, 3 excellent wells, 4 pastures & 80 acre irrigation pivot with water rights. Good fences & views. Priced reduced.
Sombrero Ranch near Tremintina, NM – 1,442 deeded acres, 3 pastures, 1 solar well and 1 windmill well. Traditionally has carried 30+ mother cows year round. Located 44 miles east of Las Vegas on Hwy 104. Owner will finance, terms negotiable!
La Cueva Canyon Ranch – 1,595 secluded acres w/240 acres of BLM lease land. Located SW of Las Vegas off Hwy 84 on Apache Mesa. This parcel has tall pines, canyon springs, stock tanks, new fence on NE corner. Off the grid and pristine. Owners will finance.
Trigg Ranches – 720 deeded acres lies near the La Cueva Canyon Ranch on Apache Mesa off Hwy 84. Off the grid in the tall pines & power is close by! 720 acres priced at $288,900 & smaller 200 acre parcel available for $124,000! Other parcels available & Owners will finance...
Ledoux, NM – Perimeter fenced 60 acre dry land terraced farm has overhead electric, sub-irrigated pasture and good all weather county road access! Located 1⁄2 mile north of Ledoux. Price reduced $228,000 & Owner will finance...
Anton Chico – Historic 65 acre irrigated farm w/ditch rights. Adobe home, bunkhouse, storage shed, shop + irrigation & some farm equipment go w/sale. Priced below appraisal at $698,900 & Owner can finance!
Dilia Loop Road – Fenced 20+ acre parcel is planted in alfalfa & grass, has 4 irrigated sections plus ditch rights and Pecos River frontage. Excellent farming opportunity for organic vegetable gardens. Price is $231,500
Upper Anton Chico – This parcel has outstanding alfalfa production for a small parcel, 7.5 acres are irrigated with under ground pipes, perimeter fenced, easy farm to work and water. Makes 375 bales per cutting! Asking $82,500 Come see this money maker!
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up doing chores. A tomboy, she preferred work in the barn and the fields rather than in the house. The second of nine children, she grew up speaking Finnish. She attended the Gunnary School, a one-room school that had eight grades. She was a voracious reader, spending her spare time reading the encyclopedia, and won the state of Minnesota Spelling Bee. She read her Bible daily and was an active member of the Silver City Methodist Church and the Alpine, Arizona, Com-munity Church. Each morning when she got her first cup of coffee, she would turn on the TV to get the latest weather reports, a habit that went back to her childhood. Upon graduation from high school in 1945, her older sister, Phyllis, encouraged her to move to Rochester, Minnesota, to work in the Mayo Clinic. Soon, she was accepted in the last class of Army nurses to be trained for World War II, a service commitment that was later waived. She graduated from the Kahler School of Nursing in Rochester, and worked at the Mayo Clinic before moving to Morenci, Arizona, where she worked at the Phelps Dodge Hospital. For
many years she was a school nurse for the Clifton Public Schools as well as Cobre Consolidated Schools. In addition to her nursing degree, she also received a bach-elor of arts degree from Western New Mexico University. Helen and Alex Pater-son have owned the 9/6 Ranch on Cen-terfire Creek, north of Luna, New Mexico, in Catron County for over 60 years. She is survived by her husband, Alex, and three children, John (wife, Diana), a beef cattle nutritionist, Bozeman, Montana; Mary (husband, Paul) Curry, Las Cruces; and Tom (wife, Callie), a Houston trial lawyer and cattle rancher near Luna and Alma. She had eight grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren. She also leaves her five surviving siblings, Phyllis, Celia, Jo (husband, Sid), Wally (wife, Barb), and Teddy (husband, Dave); her beloved nieces and nephews; and the dedicated staff at Milli’s Adult Care Facility, where she resided for the past two years. She also leaves many, many cherished friends in Silver City, Bayard, Luna and Alpine.
Daisy Mae Cannon, 78, Clifton, Ari-zona, died at home on January 13, 2015 after a valiant battle with cancer. She was born in Amarillo, Texas on Decem-
ber 25, 1936 to Marion H. Keith and Vir-ginia L. Gibbs Keith. Daisy Mae has spent her entire life in Arizona. She attended school in Benson and married Joe Blayne Cannon on June 3, 1953 in Pomerene. Daisy Mae was a lifelong rancher and was a member of the Greenlee County Cattle Growers, Cochise-Graham Cattle Growers, Arizona Cattle Growers’ Asso-ciation, National Cattlemen’s Beef Asso-ciation, Greenlee Cowbelles, Arizona State Cowbelles, National Cattle Women Association, ACWA and SWPCA. She enjoyed helping family, neighbors and friends. Daisy Mae loved cooking, cro-cheting, knitting, sewing, working cows and was a 4-H leader. She is survived by her husband of 61 years, Joe Blayne Can-non, and her daughter, Marian Jo “Sissy” (husband, Claude) Walker, York Valley, Arizona, and her son, Keith G. “Bopper” (wife, Robin) Cannon, Rimrock, Arizona, four grandchildren and four great-grand-children.
Willis Harvey “Wart” Walter, Jr., 86, Animas, passed away on December 5, 2014. Wart was born on September 2, 1928 to
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n ALTO/CAPITAN, NM – Choice grama grass ranch w/fresh air & mountain scenery! 1,500 ac. +/- deeded, 6,400 ac. +/- forest lease, 160 ac. +/- State lease, beautiful areas for a home sight. Adjoins major hwys. on two sides, excellent access. CLOSE PROXIMITY TO THE ALTO/CAPITAN RANCH – Minutes from Ruidoso. A multi-purpose property w/15.6434 ac. +/-laboratory/office, covered pens, home. Ideal for use for horse or cattle breeding, embryo transfer facility, vet clinic or many other uses in a beautiful area of NM. PRICE-OWNER MOTIVATED!QUAY CO. / TUCUMCARI VALLEY – Choice 960 ac. irr. farm, 5 circles, 3 phase power, 2 large hay barns enclosed on three sides, 755.5 ac. of Arch Hurley dist. water rights, on pvmt. & all weather road.CUCHARAS RIVER RANCH – Please call for details on super nice combination hunting/recreational/cattle 12,088 acre Colorado all deeded ranch w/excellent hunting, river frontage, excellent livestock & game watering facilities for a year-round grama/western wheat grass operation, on pvmt. (addtl. 33,000 +/- deeded acres across the hwy. available for sale w/this property).SPRINGER, NM – amazing improvements, see our website for photographs of 5,000 sq. ft. + home, two guest houses, huge two bay shop, state-of-the-art horse stalls & runs, roping arena w/air-operated release chute, nice employee home + more horse stalls & runs, large set of working pens w/camp house (old-west style w/state-of-the-art outhouses), 9,200 ac. +/- deeded, 193 ac. +/- state lease, yearling or cow/calf country just E. of Springer on Hwy. 56 w/frontage on the I25 access road on the West. SAN MIGUEL CO., NM – New Mexico All Deeded Ranch – approx. 53 sections (all deeded), river frontage w/vegas (meadows), a very good year-round ranch w/good improvements, all weather access & minerals. CIMARRON RANCH – Colfax Co., NM – 1,854 ac. +/-, 5 pivots, ditch water rights, elk hunting, on pvmt.CIMARRON CO., OK. – 1382 ac. +/- native grass northwest of Dalhart, Texas, large draw through south part of property affords good hunting & winter protection for livestock & wildlife, watered by a mill & a sub, good set of steel pens, irr. potential on north portion.WALKER CANYON RANCH / MOTLEY CO., TX. – Buy one pasture or all (pastures run in size fr. 7-900 ac. each up to 3,300 ac. w/lake) pick the size of ranch that you want w/a total of 10,432 ac. +/-, ranchland w/a large, permitted dam providing a huge, beautiful lake w/water backed up in a number of smaller canyons for boating, fishing & other recreation together w/good hunting on the ranch. On pvmt.!DO YOU REALLY WANT A MINI RANCH IN THE COUNTRY– just out of Amarillo city limits, 640 ac. +/- of rough, rugged, very scenic ranchland w/cute cabin, domestic well w/sub. electric motor & pump w/pond.SINCERE CREEK RANCH / PONTOTOC CO., OK. – 779.02 ac. +/-, pvmt. on 4 sides, on rural water, brick home w/large set of steel pens, w/excellent improvements & location.ADA OK. AREA – 3,120 ac. +/- of choice grassland w/houses, barns & steel pens, lays in 3 tracts, will divide!
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Lela Mae White and Willis Harvey Walter, Sr. (Curly) in Hachita. He, along with his brother, Russell and sister, Betty, lived and worked on the ranch homesteaded by his father in Animas. After graduating from Animas High School, Wart stayed on the ranch to help his Dad. During this time, he met and married Sylvia Ann Springer, May 17,1952. He worked for George Godfrey at the XT and for Ace Robinson at the Cloverdale Ranch. In December 1952 he was drafted into the army, serving two years during the Korean War. After returning home from the war, he worked for the Bar Y Ranch near Santa Rosa,NM and then back home at the ranch. Drought forced him to get a job with the Southern Pacific Pipeline. In 1965, Wart bought his father’s cattle and leased the ranch. He made improve-ments and expanded by buying the Atkin-son place just south of the homeplace. Over the years, they also leased many ranches for breeding stock and to relieve the ranch. Wart and Sylvia also bought two school buses from T.B. Strickland, Sylvia drove the bus for 38 years. Wart worked for Benny Snure, Brown & Root, Columbus Electric, K.W.Loomix and the
SP Pipeline station at Road Forks. Wart has always had a way with horses and through the years has broke and trained many for different people. He rode horses for Benny Snure, Ed Hitson, Hugh Peter-son, Ted Robb, Bill Cowan, Fred Darnell and Sherwood Culberson, to name a few. He was a member of the Hidalgo County Sheriff’s Posse in the early 5O’s, a past member of the Hidalgo County Fair-board where he supervised the Western Pleasure and Horse Showing competi-tions, a member of Farm Bureau and the NM Cattle Growers’ Association. He was inducted into the Hidalgo County Hall of Fame in 2003. Wart leaves behind his wife, Sylvia, and his sons, Randy (wife, Duti), Bill (wife, Beth) and Warren (wife, Dolly), eight grandchildren, and ten great-grandchildren.
Diana (Dinah) Long Culberson, 73, Lordsburg, on February 15, 2015, sur-rounded by her husband and their three sons as she stepped into His loving arms. Dinah, as she was known by nearly every-one, was born to Norvel A. Long and Lillian Bomar Long on August 11, 1941
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27.50 Acre Farm – Consists of 3tracts – 8 Acres, 8 Acres, & 11.5Acres – will sell separately. FullEBID & shared irrigation well.Community water, electric, tele-phone & gas on Camunez Roadto adjoining property. Beautifulfarm land, great mountain & val-ley views. Take Highway 28south to San Miguel, east or lefton Highway 192, first right orsouth on Las Colmenas, then leftor east on Camunez to end ofpavement. Priced at $467,000
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in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. Her family moved to Carlsbad, New Mexico when she was 11. Dinah loved music and was an accomplished pianist at a young age. Upon graduation from high school, she matriculated into Eastern New Mexico University where she attained a Bach-elors’ of Science in Musical Arts. She met and married Jim Culberson while they were both students at Eastern. They moved to Lordsburg following their grad-uation from college. Dinah was active in numerous community and civic groups including the Order of the Eastern Star, Rainbow Girls, Beta Sigma Phi, and the Lordsburg Centennial Committee. She played the piano for countless weddings, school programs and other special events for members of the community. Even though she was the volunteer pianist and organist at First United Methodist Church since the mid-1960s, she blessed congregations all over Lordsburg and in numerous states with her musical offerings. She taught piano to people of all ages in Lordsburg. She was active in
her local church where she accompanied the adult and children’s choirs, served as youth leader and Sunday School teacher, and served on countless boards and com-mittees. She served on many teams for the Walk to Emmaus and Kairos Outside ministry. She also toured internationally with the Continental Singers and later with Loaves & Fishes International which ministered specifically to the Ukraine Challenge. Dinah is survived by her hus-band of 52 years, Jim; her sons and their wives, Vic (wife, GiGi) Culberson, Dave (wife, Holly) Culberson, and Brian (wife, Michelle) Culberson; her five grandchil-dren; and her brother and his wife, Ernie and Xiu Long.
David George Farr, 83, Datil, passed away on January 12, 2015. He was born on October 10, 1931 in Albuquerque, New Mexico to George David Farr and Edith Funk Farr. He spent his boyhood summers on the San Augustine Plains and during the school year attended in Albuquerque, while living with his grandmother, Ida Mae Farr. He gradu-ated from Albuquerque High School in 1949. After graduation, he moved back
out to the ranch where he worked for two years before joining the Marine Corps in the early 1950s. He then returned to the ranch in 1953 where he went back to work and roped and went to rodeos whenever he could. Dave met Karen Sybil Moen at a rodeo in August in Los Alamos in the summer of 1956, and they married on February 26, 1957. They moved back to the ranch where they had two children and worked together as a team for over 57 years. Dave did what he loved, raising good Hereford Cattle and always improving the Ranch. He was a lot more progressive than most people realized when it came to ranching – dividing pastures and run-ning pipelines – anything to make things better for the cattle and more efficient for the ranch. He even thought the “damned Angus Bulls” would improve the bottom line and allowed them to be brought out in 1999! Dave enjoyed good horses and was lucky enough to ride quite a few in his time. He loved to rope and there was no telling how far he could have gone with more chances to get out to more rodeos. But he also loved the ranch, and
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worked his hardest to make it the best he could. He was a man of few words, but he always gave a straight answer when asked, and you always knew his opinion without a doubt! Dave was no stranger to hard work, and he enjoyed playing just as hard, just maybe not as often. He liked to take a day or two for roping, and one of his favorite sports besides roping cat-tle was getting some friends together to rope burros out on the ranch. He always gave them plenty of advice to stay safe, watch for holes, etc, but once the race was on, he wouldn’t hold to any of it! He is survived by his wife Karen, their son Roy, (wife, Elena); their daughter Amy Williams (husband, Mickey); four grand-children and one great-grandson, and his nieces Marie and Mary Farr.
Kimberly M. Mitchell, 53, Albert, passed peacefully into the hands of the Lord on February 13, 2015. She was born in Raymondville, Texas on March 26, 1961 to Harvey Kurt Mutz and Billie Nell Mutz. A graduate of Sharyland High School (Mission, Texas), class of 1979,
Kim earned a Bachelor of Science in Agri-cultural Economics at Texas A&M Uni-versity in 1984. She met the love of her life, Terry Robert Mitchell, at TAMU in August 1979 and they married on July 27, 1985. Married for 29 years, the two lived in Albert on the Tequesquite Ranch. All those who encountered Kim were drawn to her vibrant, magnetic personality as evidenced by the countless friendships she created throughout her life. She was a loving rancher’s wife and stern but nur-turing mother who acted as executive assistant to her husband. With the grit of a cowgirl and the grace of a lady, she loved working cattle and conserving the land and heritage with Terry. Kim was actively involved with the Mesa Soil and Water Conservation District; New Mexico Association of Conservation Districts; El Llano Estacado Resource Conservation & Development Council; and New Mex-ico Association of Resource Conservation and Development. She was a member of the Mosquero Community Church as a devout Christian and prayer warrior who placed her faith and family in God’s hands. She made it a point to pray every day for
her three children as well as their future spouses and their lives together. Her enthusiasm for life was evident and her love of family foremost. Kim is survived by her loving husband, Terry R. Mitch-ell, Albert; her children, Tanner Mitchell, Albert, Ashleigh Mitchell, Grants, and Zachary Mitchell, United States Navy; mother, Billie Mutz, Mission; her father and step-mother, Harvey and Minerva Mutz, Mission; sisters and brothers-in-law, Tracy (husband, Brannon) Brooke, New Braunfels, Texas, Pamela (husband, Paul) Kemp, Gatesville, Texas, and Tricia Brown, Mission; her step-brother, Alex Mutz, Corpus Christi; her half-brother, Kurt Mutz of Lubbock, TX; and many beloved nieces and nephews.
Editor’s Note: Email [email protected]. Memorial donations may be sent to the Cattlegrow-ers’ Foundation, a 501(c)3, tax deductable charita-ble 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 NM 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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Farm Credit of New Mexico is a $1.4 billion dollar organization by asset size and, since the inception of the Patronage Program in 2005, has distributed $69 million dollars back to its Stockholders. Al Porter, Farm Credit of New Mexico’s President/CEO stated, “Our cooperative model is designed specifically to ensure that our lending and related finan-cial services are driven by the needs of our borrower-owners.” He con-tinued saying “Our focus remains on the success of our owners rather than on achieving quarterly returns to impress Stockholders. We are proud to share profits with our Stockholders. The success of the Association is a direct result of their support.”
Farm Credit of New Mexico had a very profitable year, with net income exceeding $29.93 million, which was a $3.47 million increase from 2013.
2014 marked Farm Credits’ 98th year in business and we are looking forward to celebrating our centen-nial in 2016.
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The 2015 New Mexico State Legislature is history. Governor Susana Martinez has 20 days from the close of the Leg-
islature, March 21, to sign, veto, or pocket veto the less than 200 bills that made it to her desk.
The Session was unique as they all are. It seemed to take awhile to get rolling but there were enough early morning and late night committee meetings to wear a per-son out.
Some have been critical of the per-ceived lack of action by the body during the 60 days. Undoubtedly there was some important legislation that should have been addressed but wasn’t. But there have been many wiser than me that have said we have enough laws on the books… maybe we should start taking some laws off the books one of these years.
state as a whole.The New Mexico Cattle Growers’
Association (NMCGA) followed numerous bills, some to support, some to oppose. Here is a list of those bills NMCGA sup-ported that made it to the Governor’s desk:
HB 38 Forest & Watershed Resto-ration Act – This bill creates a fund for large scale collaborative watershed resto-ration.
SB/HB 112 Define Agricultural Use for Property Tax – This bill provides guidance to county assessors in times of drought.
SB 123 Clarify Livestock Defini-tion – There were conflicting definitions of livestock in livestock code preventing prosecution of some thefts. This measure standardizes the definitions. (A sheep thief avoided prosecution because sheep were not in one of the definitions.)
SB 226 Use of Public Water & Land-owner Protection – This measure codifies current practices of the Game Commis-sion in terms of stream access, clarifying the confusion created by the former Attor-ney General’s opinion on the subject.
SB 398 Running at Large of Livestock – This bill addresses antiquated language in the livestock code changing the word “shall” to “may” when county commis-sions are considering petitions.
The most notable of those the Associa-tion opposed were the anti-coyote hunting contest and anti-trapping bills. (See last month’s “Point” for details on these mea-sures.)
Among the disappointments during the Session were the demise of the Federal Lands Study Commission (also see last month), the enhanced Right to Farm Bill and the video-ing of animal cruelty with-out timely reporting enhancement to the animal cruelty statute.
I cannot help reiterating some of last month’s column on the animal cruelty topic. I remain astounded that a group call Animal Protection of New Mexico (APNM) could stand up and support animal cruelty and go on to state that 72 percent of the
The budget got done and that’s the number one priority of a legislature. Unfortunately the capital outlay bill didn’t make it and there is word that the Legisla-ture may call itself back into Special Ses-sion to address that single issue. The Gov-ernor has made it clear that she will not be calling the body back. A one day Session is estimated to cost over $50,000.
Surely there are important projects that will go without funding if there is no Special. However there have years when there was no capital outlay at all available due to funding constraints. Because of the dramatic drop in oil and gas prices there was far less money available to the state than was envisioned last summer.
While we enjoy the lower gas prices as individuals and businesses, there are pretty dire consequences to them to the
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American public supports it too. The the-ory is that undercover videos are necessary “to build a case” against cruelty perpetra-tors; one must takes weeks and months of video. Then they must be held and edited for weeks and months before being turned over to appropriate authorities, often in concert with a media blitz. All the while, the purported animal cruelty continues.
I really doubt that that 72 percent of the American public totally gets the pro-cess of these undercover videos they are supporting.
Foiling the plan…This wasn’t the only crossing of horns
with APNM during the 2015 Legislature. The group generally comes forward with something to make the animal cruelty statute more aggressive and invasive. This year they took a different tact.
Their first bill, HB 147, was aimed at moving the Animal Sheltering Board from under the Regulation & Licensing Depart-ment Board to the Environment Depart-ment. Seemed like an odd fit especially considering that the Animal Sheltering Board was created under the livestock code.
The Board was created in 2007 and began taking actions in 2009, although the body is supposed to have nine (9) members from the following:
(1) one euthanasia agency employee with training and education in euthanasia;
(2) one veterinarian who has provided paid or unpaid services to an animal shel-ter;
(3) one representative from a nonprofit animal advocacy group;
(4) one member of the public;(5) a manager or director of a New Mex-
ico facility that provides shelter to animals on a regular basis, provided that the man-ager or director selected is trained in ani-mal shelter standards;
(6) one representative of the New Mex-ico association of counties;
(7) one representative of the New Mex-ico municipal league;
(8) one member of a rescue organiza-tion; and
(9) one member of the domestic pet breeder community.
No more than two board members shall be appointed from any one county within the state. Appointments shall be made in such manner that the terms of no more than three board members expire on July 1 of each year.
Currently there are only three (3)
ommended, not mandatory. The Board will not, unless its enabling legislation is changed, have the authority to enforce the recommended standards. The Board doesn’t have authority to investigate com-plaints about shelter standards.
The Environment Department didn’t take a position on the move. Although the NMCGA quietly worked against the bill, it sailed through the House.
Then the plot thickened. About the same time as the transfer bill started through Senate, HB 415, Statewide Dog & Cat Spay & Neuter Program, popped up on the radar. It had been called to our atten-tion during the coyote/trapping wars and we didn’t pay enough attention.
This little gem started out with “new material” of an optional designation of tax refund contribution and looked benign enough. It become more sinister as it cre-ated a sub account and fund to carry out a statewide spay and neuter program. But remember, the Animal Sheltering Board can only recommend.
The killer came at the end where it took the Animal Sheltering Board’s duties from recommending spay and neuter plans to implementing a statewide spay and neu-
members. We are unsure of there ever has been a full Board but the small group has been taking actions since 2009.
According to its website, the function of the Animal Sheltering Board is to license euthanasia technicians and euthanasia agencies (animal shelters that perform euthanasia) and will certify euthanasia instructors who teach euthanasia techni-cian training courses. The Board’s rules set requirements for obtaining a license or certificate and set forth duties of the licens-ees and certificate holders. The Board will inspect licensed euthanasia agencies, investigate complaints filed about the pro-vision of euthanasia services at a euthana-sia agency, hold hearings on complaints as needed, and take disciplinary action as appropriate for violations of the Animal Sheltering Act or the rules under the Act. In July 2009 the Animal Sheltering Board adopted rules to regulate the provision of euthanasia services at animal shelters in New Mexico.
Other functions of the Board are to develop recommended shelter standards for infrastructure and operations and to address companion animal overpopu-lation and spay/neuter programs. Note that the standards for shelters will be rec-
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individuals, groups, animal shelters, and euthanasia agencies to receive assistance for dog and cat sterilization. The amend-ment also required the Board to develop a voluntary statewide dog and cat spay and neuter program.
To say APNM was livid with rage would be an understatement. The group’s execu-tive director attempted to keep Alicia from leaving the hearing room and berated her. If there is a badge of honor at the Legisla-ture, Alicia earned it in her first year! I am sorry I missed it.
One might wonder why NMCGA would spend time on dog and cat specific legis-lation. There are many reasons. The most successful folks in the Legislature are those who can build broad coalitions on a wide variety of issues. Bob DeYoung has his hands full with his full time job and his dogs. But he took time out of his schedule to support NMCGA, all of agriculture, and the hunting and trapping folks, in the fight against anti-coyote and anti-trapping. He showed up for Right to Farm and made calls and emails on most of our issues.
Additionally, the assault against pets is one that is coming to animal agriculture faster than anyone thinks. If you can tell people whether or not they can own intact animals or require a fee to own and possess such animals and the principle will remain with dogs and cats, you might think again.
PaybacksIn retaliation, APNM openly joined
forces with the trial lawyers, conservation voters, the Sierra Club and other oppo-nents of the Right to Farm Bill. While it was disappointing that this bill didn’t make it through its last committee in the Senate, it wasn’t because of opposition. It just ran out of time and didn’t get heard.
The ProcessSome may wonder why Right to Farm
was an issue for yet another year. It is because there is a long way to go until agriculture is protected against those who want animal agriculture stopped. This was the third or fourth year there has been a right to farm bill.
The first year(s) the measure died. Last year we were successful in get only one word, yes, just a single word was changed.
It generally takes at least five (5) years to get a measure passed. So, we have a few years to go.
Outta TimeI am out of space and out of time.
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Angelo State Rams in the NCAA Division II Sweet 16. Alicia was in Santa Fe with NMCGA Director Alfredo Roybal.
When Alicia saw the Consent Calen-dar, she texted Michelle for direction. The answer was at least get HB 147 pulled off of consent and get a hearing. Sweet, innocent looking, demure Alicia and Alfredo stood up to oppose the bill on consent. That led to a Committee discussion and the reali-zation that the Animal Sheltering Board was agency shopping – a practice generally frowned upon by the Legislature without a valid reason for a move. That led to the bill being tabled and effectively dying.
A bit later in the evening the Senate Public Affairs Committee took up HB 415, the statewide spay and neuter program bill. The National Animal Interest Alliance (NAIA) Albuquerque Kennel Club’s Robert DeYoung arrived with an amendment in hand to at least make the program a volun-tary program, taking away the teeth of the bill. The Kennel Club and many other dog and cat owners had primed the Committee with the problems in the bill.
Alicia and Alfredo arrived on the scene and took up the cause. The result was the bill was amended to require the Animal Sheltering Board to develop criteria for
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ter program. The diabolical plan came to light.
The Regulation & Licensing Depart-ment doesn’t really have enforcement powers. The Environment Department does. If the Statewide Spay & Neuter bill, with its funding, passed AND the Animal Sheltering Board was moved to the Envi-ronment Department, that Board would be in a much more powerful position in terms of enforcement.
The Rest Of The Story… Then came the final Tuesday of the
Legislature and the final meetings of the Senate Conservation Committee and the Senate Public Affairs Committee. HB 147, the transfer to Environment Department bill showed up on the Consent Calendar for the Conservation Committee.
A bill can move by consent, with no need for a hearing, when there is no one in the room opposed to the bill. Michelle was in Albuquerque working and recov-ering from a bad bout of the flu. I was in Albuquerque taking my FBI Citizens Acad-emy Class (more on this topic later). Pres-ident-Elect Pat Boone was in Stephenville, Texas, watching his son, Cinco, coach the
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in 2015, in reality a clone will not be good enough in 2019 as all your fellow compet-itors have had four years to get that much better, but your horse is still stuck at the 2015 level.
It might work on a ranch horse where things do not change very quickly. How-ever, if it costs $50,000 to clone, then that is a very expensive ranch horse.
Many people will not even talk about cloning because they say it is messing with God. That is an interesting point, but God knows we are experimenting with cloning. If he made us, then what would he expect us to do?
The human race needs to move pro-gressively forward and figure out for itself whether it is good or not. We humans have never been short on trying odd things.
Not too long ago I sat through a semi-nar on cloning horses. However, I was not convinced it was anything great.
One avenue where it might become great is if they could clone body parts and not the entire human. Just think if you needed a new kidney and they could go and get one out of the cooler. What if they could clone Secretariat’s huge heart? Someday you could literally meet yourself coming and going! n
your cowboys mounted well so you clone ten of your good horse. If all the horses are exactly the same I guess you will find out who the best cowboy is.
If you had ten of the clones in a corral you would have to number them? Well, maybe not if they are all the same it wouldn’t mat-ter which one you rode each day. It would make shoeing much easier as all the feet would be the same. You would only have to keep one size horseshoe at the ranch.
You may want to take this one step further and clone your good cowhand and cowdog. The cloning will allow us to cut down on the number of the people in the world and make hiring so much easier. Clones would eat the same so you could clone the cowhand that works the hardest and is the cheapest to feed.
I think it is quite clear that cloning is the answer to most of the rancher’s prob-lems. I will not get into cloning the ranch wife. I will let you fellows create your own domestic bliss.
On a serious note, if you are cloning a great rope horse then it will be at least three or four years before you start using him. Keep in mind that as time goes on all competitions become tougher. So just because you had the champion rope horse
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Clones and Groansby BARRY DENTON
If you are so inclined you can get up this morning and order a clone of your favor-ite horse, mule, cow, or sheep. I am sure
we are not far off from ordering an extra you!
On the high side of this idea you could get much more done if you multiplied yourself. However, if you succeeded in multiplying yourself, now you would have to multiply the people that are capable of putting up with you. This is where it would get tricky.
I have often wondered why God did not give us guidelines for this in the Bible. He should have known that if you give humans free will then they would try to come up with a way to get out of work.
Look at how many people we have on the public dole. If we get too many clones of ourselves working all the time will we have to have civil clones movement on our hands?
Let’s say that you want to clone your most talented horse. We should probably jump ahead 50 years until cloning is per-fected. You will be able to end up with an exact replica of your good horse. Now you have two great horses.
In my book it spells financial disaster as it just made your good horse worth half as much because there are now twice as many. How do you justify what it cost you to clone him?
Perhaps in 50 years the price of cloning will have gone down as it will be so com-monplace. Now let’s say you wanted all
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Here’s what cow-calf producers can learn from grain farmersby TROY MARSHALL, IN MY VIEW FROM THE COUNTRY, BEEF MAGAZINE
The cow-calf industry has always had one significant advantage, which conversely can also be a disadvantage,
compared to other agricultural segments. Whether you’re talking farming or our pork and poultry competitors, the genetic interval doesn’t allow the beef industry to adjust supply as quickly, or correspond-ingly, prices. The result is that the bad times for cow-calf producers tend to last longer than in the other sectors, and so do the good times. The upside is that this provides cow-calf producers with a longer planning horizon and, often, more oppor-tunity to manage risk.
With that said, there are, however, some valuable lessons that beef producers can take from the grain production side. Grain producers – corn producers, in particu-lar – had a very good and extended period of profitability, as the advent of ethanol subsidies overnight changed the demand structure for corn. Farmers responded to these good times as expected by setting new records for production.
Despite this unprecedented growth in demand, farmers quickly raised produc-tion levels to the point that prices today are near or below production cost levels. Diversity seemed like a wonderful thing, but 14 billion bushels of corn coupled with $40 oil prices isn’t exactly the diversity they were looking for. If you throw in the fact that the livestock industry extremely curtailed the use of their product and downsized considerably as a result of higher grain prices, and the grain indus-try is facing a reality that seemed unimag-inable just a few years ago.
The cattle industry’s scenario differs in that, while demand has been showing improvement, the real push behind the current boom has been related to supply. Our industry can’t increase production like the grain industry, but with the coop-eration of Mother Nature, expansion will occur on the beef side as well.
It’s important to remember that these “good” times are almost by definition temporal in nature. Eventually, prices will come back closer to breakeven levels.
that eventually prices and breakevens will converge. This is the time to position one-self for the future.
The beef industry has and will continue to move away from its commodity mind-set. The more successful we are in differ-entiating our production, the more suc-cessful we will be in creating sustainable and consistent profits.
The opinions of Troy Marshall are not necessarily those of beefmagazine.com and the Penton Agriculture Group. n
While the time horizon for grain farmers is more compressed than it is for cattlemen, the risks are similar. In our community, for instance, we’re already hearing stories – and witnessing the scheduling of sales – of producers who overextended them-selves and didn’t prepare for the return of more normal margins.
I have been and remain extremely bull-ish in terms of cattle prices and the beef industry in general. I can think of no worse advice than that given the last four years that has urged caution, but we do know
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Are There Limits to Government Speech?The Supreme Court considers whether putting a Confederate battle flag on a license plate should be different than urging Americans to eat more beef.
by GARRETT EPPS, WWW.THEATLANTIC.COM
We the people love beef. Don’t believe me? Listen to the late Rob-ert Mitchum, or whiskey-voiced
cowboy star Sam Elliott: “Beef. It’s what’s for dinner.”
Did you see Uncle Sam’s lips moving? The “what’s for dinner” campaign was the creation of an obscure federal panel called the Cattlemen’s Beef Promotion and Research Board, which uses a $1-per-head tax on beef cattle to encourage Americans to eat lots of cow products.
The spirit of the Beef Board hovered over the Supreme Court recently as the justices considered the Texas license-plate case, Walker v. Texas Division, Sons of Confederate Veterans.
for the Whole Family.But that said, there’s something odd
about the idea of the government as “speaker” like any other speaker in the marketplace of ideas. Government is Hobbes’s Leviathan with the biggest bull-horn in the world; can it be true that cit-izens have no more right to intervene in government speech than the government has in theirs?
The idea of government as a speaker with a viewpoint first came into focus in a 1991 case called Rust v. Sullivan. That case concerned a federal program, Title X, which funds family-planning and repro-ductive health services. Title X clinics have never performed abortions. The authoriz-ing statute, passed in 1970, does not fund programs where “abortion is a method of family planning,” but the original reg-ulations allowed program doctors to tell patients when health conditions made abortion a prudent choice, and to refer them to clinics that offered it.
In 1988, however, the Reagan Adminis-tration announced what came to be called the “gag rule.” Under the new rule, Title X-funded providers could not recommend
Many people see Walker as a case about the Confederate Battle Flag; but Walker has little to do with the flag, and much to do with a recent invention of the Court, the doctrine of “government speech.”
The Limits of Free Speech
It’s worth understanding that idea for two reasons. First, whatever the Court decides, we are going to hear more, per-haps a great deal more, about govern-ment speech again soon. And, second, the Court’s venture into this area seems to follow a long-established pattern of First Amendment growth. At first, the Court announces that a certain kind of speech—defamation, say, or obscenity—is outside the First Amendment; next, gov-ernment bodies begin restricting that kind of speech; finally, the Court narrows the exception to Free Speech to manageable size.
Government speaks to the people all the time: E pluribus unum; No Smok-ing; Only You Can Prevent Forest Fires. No one has ever seriously suggested that, having posted a sign or sponsored an ad, the government has to also sponsor the opposing view—What the hell? Go Ahead and Smoke Here; or Forest Fires are Fun
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injections and everything!“Finally last spring I met this bull. We
made plans. He had a future, had cute rounds, too! I was blind to what was going on around me. I didn’t believe the rumors that he’d been seen with other heifers. Then it was too late!
“I had a tough gestation, morning sick-ness, strange cravings for mint silage and bone meal. Then I had little Billy.
“I don’t know, I guess, I’m just depressed. Is this all there is to life...eat grass, have a calf?”
“Char,” I said, “You’re a cow. You’ve got to accept it. You’ll never run in the Kentucky Derby or hunt pheasant. You’ll never dance on stage or sing like Miranda.
“Be satisfied with the bovine things you do well.”
She looked at me and nodded, “Yeah, I guess you’re right, Doctor,” And she left.
As I reflected on Char and my unique veterinary specialty, I realized how lucky I was to have a job that was so satisfying and so easy.
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“Doc, I’ve got a heifer that just had a calf. She’s not accepting it very well. Can I bring her in for psy-
cowlogical counseling?”It all started with that call from the
worried cowman. My veterinary specialty of cow psycowlogy has gained popularity since my article appeared. It was titledPar-anoia in Dairy Cows (Doctor, somebody’s always tryin’ to take something from me!) I let the heifer get comfortable on the straw.
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“Like at the branding. I had to be first! Unfortunately, they let the local banker and the vet rope first. Took forever!
“I remember when I first got my horns. A lot of other heifers hadn’t started grow-ing horns yet. They were jealous, It wasn’t my fault the bull calves thought I was attractive.
“But everything turned sour when they ear tagged me! Yellow! Can you believe it, yellow! I’ve never been so embarrassed!
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abortion, discuss it as an option, or refer patients to doctors who performed abor-tions. If a patient inquired, the provider was limited to saying, “this program does not consider abortion a method of fam-ily planning”—even if the patient had an underlying health problem that made abortion medically advisable.
The Court, 5-4, brushed aside a free-speech challenge by a group of providers and patients. Chief Justice William Rehn-quist wrote:
To hold that the Government uncon-stitutionally discriminates on the basis of viewpoint when it chooses to fund a program dedicated to advance certain permissible goals because the program, in advancing those goals, necessarily discourages alternate goals would ren-der numerous government programs constitutionally suspect. When Congress established a National Endowment for Democracy to encourage other countries to adopt democratic principles, it was not constitutionally required to fund a pro-gram to encourage competing lines of political philosophy such as Communism and Fascism.
Two days after his inauguration, Pres-ident Bill Clinton rescinded the Title X “gag rule.” But the idea of government as a player in the marketplace of ideas had begun to take on solid form.
Enter the Beef Board. Some ranch-ers challenged the check-off as a viola-tion of their First Amendment right not to speak. The Court’s precedents seemed to support them—just four years earlier, it had struck down a similar program to promote mushroom sales. But in 2005, Justice Scalia, supported by five justices, belittled the challengers’ qualms. “Com-pelled support of government, even those programs of government one does not approve, is of course perfectly constitu-tional, as every taxpayer must attest,” Sca-lia wrote. Because the beef program was designed and run by the government, the First Amendment did not even apply. “[C]ompelled funding of government speech does not alone raise First Amendment concerns.”
The Beef Board rule was, as scholar Robert Post later wrote, “a blunt ipse dixit,” which is lawyer talk for “do it because I’m the daddy.” The lack of a real explanation left the “government speech” doctrine dangerously adrift, like a loose barge on a swollen river.
The doctrine next appeared in 2009 in a
dispute over monuments in Pioneer Park in the metropolis of Pleasant Grove, Utah. Pleasant Grove allowed the Benevolent and Protective Order of Eagles to erect a large stone monument to the Ten Com-mandments. In 2003, a New Age religion, Summum, requested permission to erect a similar monument to the Seven Summum Principles(here’s one of the less obscure ones: “As above, so below; as below, so above”), which its members believe were on the original stone tablets handed down by God to Moses. (Moses got cheesed at the Israelites and broke the first set,re-member?) The city rejected the gift and Summum sued, claiming that accepting the Ten Commandments created a “public forum” in the park, which they were enti-tled to use as well.
Writing for eight of the nine justices, Samuel Alito rejected the argument. “The Free Speech Clause restricts government regulation of private speech; it does not regulate government speech,” Alito wrote. The government could choose to “say” the Ten Commandments and not to “say” the Summum Principles.
Government is usually the loudest voice in the room; we need rules on how much attention it has to pay to citizens when it decides to shout.
That brings us to the license-plate case. A license plate is not an occasional ad for beef and it’s certainly not a monument. It’s a sign, property of the state, that every motorist is required to display visibly at all times on his or her property. A lot of states, like Texas, have decided to cash in on this requirement by letting private groups pay to display messages on “spe-cialized plates.” Is the license plate a First Amendment-free zone where the state can decide what to require each person to “say”—and what to forbid?
In 1977 the Court held that the state of New Hampshire couldn’t arrest a reli-gious objector who covered over the state motto (“Live Free or Die”) on his plate; in the Texas case, the state wants the same “right”—it objects to the Battle Flag, and wants to cover it up. Because the plates are government speech, Scott Keller, the Solicitor General of Texas, told the jus-tices, the state could use them to encour-age some messages and groups, and to silence others, for any reason it chose, aesthetic or political—or indeed, for no reason except whim.
The justices didn’t like that answer; they also didn’t like the idea, proposed by
What could the beef industry do differently?
The beef industry has several key subjects that are rele-vant to the industry. They are growth, maintenance, repro-duction, and carcass. I differ with two of the subjects andthey are growth and carcass. There are a couple of things theycould do differently.
With growth, first time heifers exceed milk productionand it creates open cows and heifers. Cows should have lessmilk and a higher butter fat and protein. Less milk would alsoget cows to breed in a 60- or 90-day breeding schedule. Witha higher butter fat and protein test you will achieve a higherweight on a 7-month-old calf. Growth milk should be testedfor 4-5% or above on butter fat and protein. If you were ableto test a set of same sex twin calves you would see the differ-ence. Given you could put one calf (the smaller calf) on a cowwith a higher butter fat and protein test you would clearly seethe difference. The smaller calf on the higher butter fat andprotein milk will catch and even surpass the other calf ingrowth.
For the best meat, a cow should be butchered at 12 to 15months. In my lifetime of 78 years I have processed a lot ofmeat including many different breeds. Even lots of othertypes of meat such as pig, horse, goat, wild game, and someothers I’ve tasted. There is too much fat marbling that goesinto a prime carcass. Higher marbling is used for beef meattenderness and taste which is a visual appraisal. How manytimes have you gone to the store and bought a nice piece ofmeat with great marbling and after you cook it you bite intoit and its tougher than leather? Tenderness and tastes areacquired through genes. A higher marbling content createscholesterol. Every cow herd has lean tenderness and tastebred for them. There are breeders and breed associations thatknow this and they are not touting marbling as a cure all fortaste and tenderness. There are meat services from collegesthat go with conventional thinking.
Fifty years ago I graduated from college, and the beefmortality was high. The tools we have today help some butthey are not enough. People fib about their calf mortality rateand breeding time schedule. With all the tools modernherdsmen have at their disposal, why can’t they do as well asother cloven hoof creatures? They deliver an offspring thatstands as soon as it hits the ground and begins to suckle rightaway. All cloven hooved animals have no trouble with weakoffspring except for western cattle.
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the lawyer for the Sons of Confederate Vet-erans, that a state that sells “specialized” plates must provide one containing any word or symbol, no matter how foul.
Government is usually the loudest voice in the room; we need rules on how much attention it has to pay to citizens when it decides to shout. A workable rule will balance citizens’ speech rights against government necessity. A number of the justices don’t care much for balancing. But there’s really no escaping it in an area this delicate. The Texas case seems like a good chance for this Court to start settling this beef. n
Measuring the impact of changing antibiotic rulesby JOHN MADAY, EDITOR, BOVINE VETERINARIAN
Ever since the FDA issued its Draft Guidance 213 and the proposed Vet-erinary Feed Directive (VFD) rules in
2013, veterinarians and industry stake-holders have wondered about measure-ment.
The FDA rules of course, are intended to encourage judicious use of antimicrobials and thus reduce the risk of development of antimicrobial resistance in pathogens, and the industry generally has supported this effort. But, many have asked, how will we know whether the rules, once imple-mented, have any positive impact? Will the industry be able to measure and report significant reductions in antibiotic use or lower prevalence of resistant pathogens?
During the recent National Institute for Animal Agriculture (NIAA) conference in Indianapolis, the NIAA Antibiotics Council discussed program goals and metrics with officials from the FDA and USDA.
Craig Lewis, DVM, MPH, DACVPM, from FDA’s Center for Veterinary Medi-cine (CVM), says the agency sees a need for collecting more on-farm data on antibiotic use and resistance trends, and is currently developing a plan for collecting, analyzing and applying that data.
Currently, FDA cooperates with the USDA and the Centers for Disease Con-trol and Prevention (CDC) in the National Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring Sys-tem (NARMS), and also collects data on total sales of antimicrobials for use in ani-mals. More data will be needed to augment those efforts and determine the effective-ness of FDA’s strategy for judicious use of antimicrobials.
That strategy focuses on two primary policies. First, Guidance 213 aims to elim-inate use of medically important antimi-crobials for production or performance purposes in livestock. In addition, FDA intends to require veterinary oversight of the use of antimicrobials in feed and water through the proposed VFD rule.
In 2014, Lewis says, CVM substantially enhanced its annual survey on the quan-tity of antimicrobials sold for use in ani-mal agriculture. Addition of on-farm use and resistance data, coupled with data currently collected through NARMS, will provide information for assessment of the impacts of the judicious use strategy.
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In terms of what the app will be able to do for producers, she said they’re trying to figure out what is most needed.
“We’ve asked which events they’re interested in tracking, whether it’s calv-ing, breeding, health records, performance data, pedigree information or non live-stock inventory like treatment products or feed or things like that,” Hussey said.
Hussey said the ultimate goal with a potential app is simply to make life easier for cattle producers and hopefully improve efficiency in the industry as a whole.
“I think as ranchers and cow calf pro-ducers and feedlots become more complex with their daily activities, if they can spend a little less time managing those day to day activities electronically and a little bit more doing them and then that’s where we see our role is making things easier for them and improving their efficiencies,” she said.
Canadian Hereford Association execu-tive director Steven Scott said he thinks developing an app will definitely help streamline the process.
“Technology seems to be a growing part of the industry and I think for breed-ers alike, entering data only once into one system is key for them,” he said. “I think it’s the role of the software companies to ensure that all this data is easily transfer-rable from the producers’ on-farm software system to the breed associations, to BIXS to all of those different platforms, the breeders want their information to flow to.”
Scott said this information is essential to their association as they use it to create generate Expected Progeny Differences, or EPDs, which are numbers that predict the genetic quality of future offspring. Scott said the more they know, the more they can improve the industry, so it’s essential that the breeders have a seamless way of transferring that information to them.
“Our breeders will go and report data to us because they want to generate on their animals so those are like breeding numbers that they can use and market their animals or use the EPDs in their own breeding program to make breeding decisions,” he said. “So, it’s very import-ant we get that information back because if the industry wants to better itself…we need to track it from the farm of origin to slaughter so it’s important that all that data comes back to the breed associations to be properly calculated into EPD.”
He’s looking forward to hopefully work-ing together with other organizations to find a solution that makes it easier for breeders to share that information. n
correlate use patterns with resistance. And he adds, the cooperative NARMS program could be enhanced to conduct biological sampling on farms or slaughter plants, with tests for antimicrobial sensitivity then related back to farm practices. n
App being developed for cattle producersTechnology to help track & submit databy ROXANNE BLACKWELL, WWW.WESTERNWHEEL.COM
Have you ever been driving through a field, found a newborn calf and needed to write down its weight?
There’s going to be an app for that.For cattle producers across the coun-
try, this is just one of the few pieces of information they need to track on a daily basis. Information like cattle records, supply logs and breeding dates all need to accounted for, and sometimes it’s just done by a rancher in a field scribbling something in a notebook.
Beef industry organizations are looking to take this work high-tech by develop-ing a smartphone app to help keep track of information as well as seamlessly share it with the various organizations and sys-tems required.
The Canadian Hereford, Simmental and Angus Associations were recently awarded a grant from the Alberta Live-stock and Meat Agency to fund the first step to develop the app.
Okotoks-based Integration Traceability Solutions Global (ITS Global) has been working on researching the tools breeders may want by collecting feedback through an online survey.
ITS Global strategic initiatives associate Erin Hussey said they’re hoping to have a good idea of which direction they might like to go with an app after the online sur-vey closes at the end of the month.
“A big part of the survey was trying to gauge kind of what people like about the management software or management programs that they’re using now and what they didn’t like so we could work on identifying what was important and what wasn’t,” Hussey said. “And, equally as important is what they were using not just in terms of a smartphone or no smart-phone, but which smartphone because, if we develop an app we need to learn to make sure that we develop it on a platform that people are using.”
The FDA initiated their strategy in December 2013, with a three-year timeline for implementation. They have indicated they will finalize the proposed VFDrule early this year. Also early this year, Lewis says CVM plans to hold a public meeting to discuss the on-farm data-collection strat-egy to support the judicious use strategy. By later this year, CVM hopes to have the data-collection plan in place and begin col-lecting baseline data, prior to full imple-mentation of Guidance 213 and the VFD rule in December 2016. By late 2016 and into 2017, with the changes in antimicro-bial use fully implemented, CVM plans to implement its data collection and com-prehensive assessment of antimicrobial use and resistance trends. Lewis says CVM intends to publish its first assessment report showing changes in antimicrobial use in 2018.
USDA also will play a role in assessing progress in fighting antimicrobial resis-tance, and Larry Granger, DVM, senior leader for Veterinary Services (VS) at the USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspec-tion Service (APHIS), outlined his agen-cy’s perspectives during the conference.
Granger noted that antimicrobial resis-tance is a high priority for the Obama administration, which recently introduced a report on Combating Antibiotic Resis-tance, along with an executive order, based on the recommendations of the Presi-dent’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST).
Among stakeholders outside of agri-culture, Granger says, many believe the health risks associated with antimicrobial resistance are best resolved by reducing use. However, he says, data on antimi-crobial sales alone are a poor indicator of actual use across production types and livestock species.
Also, Granger points out, the VFD rule is not designed to limit appropriate use of antimicrobials. Instead, by increasing veterinary oversight, the rule should help ensure the right drugs are targeted toward appropriate pathogens at the correct dos-ages, with treatment records and results recorded.
Granger says USDA, like FDA, advo-cates collection and dissemination of more science-based, actionable, quantita-tive antimicrobial use data coupled with information on resistance trends. His agency’s National Animal Health Monitor-ing System (NAHMS) could be enhanced to conduct more epidemiological work to
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AA Lazy 6 Angus Ranch .......................... 21, 71AC Nutrition ................................................. 6Ag New Mexico, FCS, ACA ............................. 2Ken Ahler Real Estate Co., Inc ..................... 76American Angus Association ........................ 92American Galloway Breeders Associates. ...... 71American Water Surveyors ........................... 57Animal Health Express ................................ 24
BB & H Herefords ......................................... 58Ken Babcock Sales...................................... 73Bale Buddy Manufacturing, Inc. ................... 59Bar G Feedyard .......................................... 39Bar Guitar Liquid Feed Co., LLC .................. 73Bar M Real Estate ...................................... 81Bar W Ranch Inc ......................................... 17Beaverhead Outfitters ................................. 80Bennett Land Co. ........................................ 82Big Country Realty...................................... 75BJM Sales & Service, Inc. ............................ 73Pat Boone .................................................. 47Border Tank Resources ................................ 73Bovine Elite ................................................ 73Bradley 3 Ranch, Ltd. ................................. 70Branch Ranch Mills ..................................... 63Brand Book .............................................. 69Brennand Ranch ......................................... 71
CC Bar Ranch ............................................... 71Mike Casabonne ......................................... 49Casey Beefmasters ...................................... 70Cattleman’s Livestock CommissioN .............. 53Caviness Packing Co., Inc ............................ 37Don Chalmers Ford ..................................... 60Emery Chee................................................ 49Clavel Herefords ................................... 48, 51Clovis Livestock Auction .............................. 43Coba Select Sires ........................................ 71Conniff Cattle Co., LLC ................................ 31Copeland & Sons ........................................ 35Corn Ranches ............................................. 14Cornerstone Ranch................................ 19, 49Cowboy Reunion......................................... 57Cox Ranch Herefords .................................. 71R.L. Cox Company ................................ 35, 89CPE Feeds Inc ............................................ 49Creighton’s Town & Country ......................... 51Crystalyx .................................................... 60CS Cattle Co ............................................... 12Culbertson Whatley Ranch ........................... 47
DDairy Farmers of America ............................ 31Dairy Producers of New M exico .................. 41Dan Delaney Real Estate ............................ 78Milford Denetclaw ....................................... 49Denton Photography ................................... 24Desert Scales & Weighing Equipment .......... 73Diamond Seven Angus ................................ 71Domenici Law Firm, PC .............................. 51
Manford Cattle ........................................... 69Mathers Realty Inc. / Keith Brownfield ......... 81Merrick’s Inc ............................................... 40Mesa Feed Co. ............................................ 85Mesa Tractor, Inc. ................................... 55, 72Michelet Homestead Realty ......................... 79Chas S. Middleton & Son ............................ 80Monfette Construction Co. ..................... 51, 72Paul McGillard / Murney Associaciates ......... 75
NNational Animal Interest Alliance ................. 67New Mexico Angus & Hereford Assoc ........... 84New Mexico Bank & Trust ............................ 22New Mexico Beef Council ............................ 35New Mexico Cattle Growers Insurance ......... 97New Mexico 4-H Foundation ....................... 26New Mexico FFA Foundation ....................... 28New Mexico Livestock Board ....................... 49New Mexico Premier Ranch Properties ........ 75New Mexico Property Group ........................ 80New Mexico Purina Dealers ....................... 100NMSU Animal & Range Sciences .... 23, 64, 87NMSU Cattle & Horse Sale .......................... 45New Mexico Wool Growers .......................... 54
OAlisa Ogden ................................................ 35Old Mill Farm & Ranch Supply ...................... 3Olson Land and Cattle ................................ 69Jim Olson ................................................... 62Will Orndorff ............................................... 47Otero County Cattlemen’s Association .......... 26
PP Bar A Angus Ranch ........................... 15, 47Perez Cattle Company ................................. 69Phase-A-Matic, Inc...................................... 64Plaza Realty ............................................... 81PolyDome................................................... 25Power Ford ................................................. 61Pratt Farms ................................................ 71Cattle Guards / Priddy Construction ............. 61
RRanchline ................................................... 82Ranchway Feeds ......................................... 89D.J. Reveal ............................................ 23, 73Rio Hondo Land & Cattle Co. ................ 35, 49Robertson Livestock .................................... 72Roeder Implement ...................................... 51Roswell Livestock Auction Co. ...................... 36Roswell Livestock & Farm Supply ................ 42
SSt. Vrain Simmentals ................................... 70Sandia Trailer Sales & Service ...................... 72Santa Rita Ranch ........................................ 70Sci-Agra Inc.......................................... 30, 72Scott Land .................................................. 77
Sidwell Farm & Ranch Realty, LLC ....... 79, 81Singleton Ranches .......................... 51, 72, 77Southwest Brangus Breeders Assn ............... 29Southwest Red Angus Association ................ 69Stockmen’s Realty....................................... 75Joe Stubblefield & Associates ....................... 81Swihart Sales Co. ........................................ 72
TT4 Cattle Company ..................................... 11TechniTrack, LLC ......................................... 73Boyd Tegtmeier ........................................... 93Terrell Land & Livestock Co. ........................ 81The Delk Band ........................................... 35The Ranches ............................................... 88Thompson Ranch ........................................ 31Jim Thorpe .................................................. 49Tucumcari Animal Hospital .......................... 46Tucumcari Feedyard, LLC ............................ 23Tucumcari General Insurance Agency ........... 472 Bar Angus ............................................... 70
UUnited Country Vista Nueva, Inc ................... 76USA Ranch ................................................. 72
VVirden Perma Bilt Co. .................................. 72
WW&W Fiberglass Tank Co. ............................ 54West Wood Realty ....................................... 74Westall Ranches, LLC ............................ 71, 98Westway Feed Products, LLC ....................... 27Williams Windmill, Inc. .......................... 56, 72Pat Woods .................................................. 51WW - Paul Scales ....................................... 86
YYavapai Bottle Gas ................................ 68, 72R. L. York Custom Leather ........................... 51Tal Young, P.C. ............................................. 31
ZZia Agriculture Consulting, LLC .................... 73Zinpro ........................................................ 58
EAlice Eppers ............................................... 35Eslabon Properties ...................................... 78
FFarm Credit of New Mexico ........................... 8Farmway Feed Mill ...................................... 38Farmers & Stockmens Bank ........................ 20FBFS / Monte Anderson .............................. 61FBFS / Larry Marshall ................................. 94Fernandez Co., LTD ..................................... 96First National Bank of New Mexico .............. 63Five States Livestock Auction ...................... 444 Rivers Equipment .................................... 99Fury Farms Inc. ........................................... 37
GGenex / Candy Trujillo ................................. 69Giant Rubber Water Tanks ............................ 59Goemmer Land & Livestock ........................ 70Grau Charolais ...................................... 22, 70Grau Ranch .......................................... 16, 70
HHall-Gnatkowski ......................................... 47Harrison Quarter Horses .............................. 73Hartzog Angus Ranch ............................ 13, 70Hat Ranch .................................................. 49Headquarters West Ltd. ............................... 80Headquarters West Ltd. / Sam Hubbell ........ 78Henard Ranches ......................................... 51Hi-Pro Feeds .......................................... 5, 91Bob Homer................................................. 35Hooper Cattle Company .............................. 52Hubbell Ranch ...................................... 18, 69Hudson Livestock Supplements ................... 50Hutchison Western ........................................ 2
IIndian Livestock Days ................................. 80Inn of the Mountain Gods ............................. 7Isa Beefmasters .......................................... 70
JJaCin Ranch................................................ 71
KKaddatz Auctioneering & Farm Equipment ... 72David & Joan Kincaid .................................. 47Bill King Ranch ............................................. 4KMB Helicopters ......................................... 92
LL & H Manufacturing .................................. 92Lazy D Ranch Red Angus ............................ 70Lazy Way Bar Ranch ................................... 70Sato Lee .................................................... 35José J. Varela López ..................................... 47Jim Lyssy .................................................... 47
MMajor Ranch Realty .................................... 81
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Here are the answers to the five most asked questions I hear from New Mexico stockmenQ. I’m over 65 and have Medicare and a Medicare supplement policy, do I need
to do anything? 1. No action is necessary. If you want to change your Medicare supplement plan for next year, you must make your
change between October 15 and December 7, 2014.
Q. I’m under 65 and am currently covered by health insurance what are my options?1. If you are covered by an employer group policy, no action is required unless your employer is changing the company
plan or discontinuing the plan.2. If you are under 65 and have individual (non-group) coverage for you and your family or you have your own small
group plan.a. If your policy was purchased before March 2010 and you have not made changes to the policy [no increased
deductible, etc], this policy is grand fathered and you can keep it as long as the insurance company keeps renewing that plan.
b. Your policy was purchased after March 2010. If your policy is from Blue Cross Blue Shield or Lovelace, you can keep it until December 1, 2014. Please contact our office to select a new plan during the next open enrollment period between November 15, 2014 and February 15, 2015.
3. If you are covered under the New Mexico Cattle Growers member group policy with Blue Cross Blue Shield, your coverage will continue until August 1, 2014. Some policies can continue after that date. If you need to change your policy, our office has already contacted you.
Q. I do not have health coverage, what are my options?1. You may sign up for health coverage during the next open enrollment period which begins on November 15 and
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2. How do you do it? Call our office: 1-800/286-9690 or 505/828-9690 or email me at [email protected]
Q. If you want to know if you & your family qualify for a government subsidy, go to www.kff.org [Kaiser Family Foundation].
Q. I do not want any coverage, what are my options?1. Penalty for 2014 = $95 per adult and $47.50 per child or 1% of your
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