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The cowboy and the cowboy way of lifeis still a part of our world in NewMexico.

“For many of us the cowboy is still themost interesting of all our Americanheroes . . . He is fond of dogs and children,invariably polite to women, completelydependable, honorable in his dealings withothers, and willing and able to perform anytask than can be asked of man and a horse . . .” (Richard Farnsworth)The cowboy life is one of hard work,

danger, joy, excitement, and dedication;life based on solid family values and a lifeof deep satisfaction. The tragedy is that thecowboy’s lifestyle is slowly fading in Amer-ica. Many of us have had glimpses of thecowboy life and even experienced briefjourneys along the trail, but there is littlethat we can do to forestall the decline ofthis way of live in our modern world.The Carrizozo Cowboy Days committee

has worked for over a year to present to thepublic a Cowboy celebration that honorsthe cowboy, preserves the heritage, offers ataste of the “Old West” with a balance offun and entertainment.

What’s in store for you?A two day “Cowboy Trade Show” gives

visitors a chance for a western item shop-ping spree while boys and girls, ages 5 to10, compete to milk a wooden cow in themultiple event “Kid’s Rodeo.” How longsince you attended a street dance? PaulPino’s band presents a swing version ofMexican and Western sounds in a nighttime Twelfth Street dance.Watch real cowboys roundup and drive

real cows while eating real biscuits andgravy being chased down by real cowboycoffee on a real working cattle ranch. Thenbe entertained with an old-fashioned cow-boy parade featuring mounted riders andgroups, buggies and wagons, and long-horn cattle being ridden through thestreets of Carrizozo. The only motorizedunits will be floats pulled by antique trac-tors.A two hour long, free, stage show will

feature one of America’s top western bandsand singing groups, with other true cow-boy acts to follow.Yes, you will feel like ducking your

heads when the guns roar downtown in anold-fashioned gun fight between feudin’

cowboys and cowgirls.Saturday afternoon brings an old-fash-

ioned version of a Ranch Rodeo where youbring your own chairs and watch the cattlematch wits with Cowboys. The RanchRodeo is quickly becoming the most popu-lar sport on the American Cowboy scene.Both thrilling and entertaining, teams ofcowboys and cowgirls work together inassigned events to compete for prizes.On Sunday you can attend a Cowboy

Church service and watch a Cowboy Golfmatch at the newly remodeled Valle DelSol golf course in Carrizozo. It will be a fullweek-end and of course, you will want todress in your best western duds.This is what the Carrizozo Cowboy

Days is all about. People working to pre-serve our colorful past by setting aside atime to honor a life style that has affectedeveryone in our nation in one form oranother.They’ll save a place for you in Carri-

zozo, June 12-14. To inquire about vendorsetups or for more information see web-site carrizozocowboydays.org or emailzozobandit@tularosa.net �

Carrizozo Cowboy Days Set for June 12–14

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150 HEREFORD BULLS100 ANGUS BULLS

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Harper Cattle, LLC2009 Hereford/Angus Private Treaty Offering

A Sampling of OurPowerful Herd Sires:

HEREFORDSNS 12F Sky Power 50M

Watergrove 36K Milton 34MRHR Exquisite 048

RHR 013 Exquisite 404OB Cosmic Lad 0374AGA 95J Standard 23J

RHR 944 Bodacious 412SNS 75K Alberta Sky Lad 36M

KB Standard Lad 4K ETStandard Lad 14Z

ANGUSSitz Dateline 994N

Sitz Gridmaker 999NVermilion 7078 Dateline N373

Vermilion Danny Boy P143Vermilion Danny Boy P254Vermilion Danny Boy P298Vermilion Payweight N501

Sitz Bando 8593Sitz New Design 404P

Vermilion Dateline 7431

Visit our web siteor contact the office toset up an appointment.

ANGUS MANAGER:PHIL LAMGO

Venus, TXOffice: 972/366-8688Cell: 817/929-4816

Phil.Lamgo@harpercattle.com

MARK MITCHELL700 Highlander Blvd., Suite 560

Arlington, TX 76015Corporate: 817/466-7417

Cell: 817/565-5426mark.mitchell@harpercattle.com

www.harpercattle.com

HEREFORD MANAGER:JEFF COLE

36 County Road 27Wagon Mound, NM 87752

Office: 575/666-2655Cell: 505/447-4034

jeff.cole@harpercattle.com

JHR 59J STANDARD LAD 58L • 62-1/2” • 2,820 lbs.

OB 95J IMAGE 3324 • 61-1/4” • 2,640 lbs.

OB EXCELLENT 4303 • 61” • 2,450 lbs.

SITZ NEW DESIGN 458N

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EPDs BW –.5 WW +42 YW +76 Milk +40 $W –36.55 $F +18.95 $G +.59 $B +18.04

Selling more than 250 Quality Commercial and Registered Bulls

WAB PRES 36J • 62” • 2,860 lbs.

EPDs BW +2.2 WW +60 YW +90 Milk +25 $W +36.32 $F +25.93 $G +10.30 $B +35.11

EPDs BW +2.2 WW +55 YW +108 Milk +35 $W +29.59 $F +46.75 $G +20.72 $B +51.63

EPDs BW +1.4 WW +54 YW +94 Milk +36 $W +34.73 $F +32.37 $G +10.50 $B +36.86

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FEATURES12 New Mexico Bovine TB Status Downgraded, Surveillance Testing To Continue

14 Bayou Seco By Glenda Price

18 Ethanol Industry Burning Through Equity By Stu Ellis

20 Youth Participate In 4-H Home Ec School

22 Riding Herd By Lee Pitts

24 New Mexico FFA Members Win at State Contest

31 State Confirms Rabid Skunks in Quay, Chaves Counties

34 Governor Signs Bill Protecting Water Rights

DEPARTMENTS10 N.M. Cattle Growers’ Association President’s Letter by Alisa Ogden

12 Update

29 New Mexico Beef Council Bullhorn

32 New Mexico Federal Lands News by Mike Casabonne

36 Jingle Jangle

41 Estrays

42 To the Point by Caren Cowan

45 In Memoriam

46 The Seedstock Guide

49 The Marketplace

51 The Real Estate Guide

59 Advertisers’ Index

MAY 2009 VOL 75, No. 5 / USPS 381-580

T A B L E O F C O N T E N T S

ON THE COVER . .

Our cover art this month is “How MuchLonger Mama” an 18x20 oil painting by

JaNeil Anderson. To learn more about aboutthis piece and other originals and prints bythe artist, please contact her at: Box 297,263 Anderson Road, Redrock, NM 88055,

email: waltandjaneil@hughes.net,505/542-9752. Visit her

website: www.maverickflatdesign.com

MAY 2009

NEW MEXICO STOCKMANWrite or call: P.O. Box 7127

Albuquerque, New Mexico 87194505/243-9515 Fax: 505/998-6236

E-mail: chuck@aaalivestock.com

Published for and official publication of:

� New Mexico Cattle Growers’ AssociationEmail: nmcga@nmagriculture.org;

2231 Rio Grande NW, P.O. Box 7517, Albu quer que, NM 87194,

505/247-0584, Fax: 505/842-1766; Pres i dent, Alisa Ogden;

Executive Director, Caren Cowan;

� New Mexico Wool Growers, Inc.P.O. Box 7520, Albuquerque, NM

87194, 505/247-0584; President, Joan Kincaid

Executive Director, Caren Cowan

EDITORIAL & ADVERTISINGPublisher: Chuck Stocks

Business Manager: Mae LopezAdvertising Reps.: Chris Martinez,

Melinda Martinez,Contributing Editors: Glenda Price,

Callie Gnatkowski-Gibson, Carol Wilson, William S. Previtti, Julie Carter, Lee Pitts

PRODUCTIONProduction Coordinator: Carol PendletonGraphic Design: Kristy Hinds MartelEditorial Design: Camille Pansewicz

New Mexico Stockman (USPS 381-580)is published monthly by Charles R. Stocks,2231 Rio Grande, NW, Albuquerque, NM 87104-2529.Subscription price: 1 year - $19.95 /2 years - $29.95.

POSTMASTER: Send address changes to NewMexico Stock man, P.O. Box 7127, Albuquer que,New Mexico 87194.

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Greetings!

The issue still at hand for me has been bovine tuberculosis (TB). I attended a meeting in Washington, DC inMarch organized by National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA), to meet with the officials in the RuminantHealth Program at U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal & Plant Health Inspection Service (USDA-

APHIS). Another meeting was held in April with representatives of the National Milk Producers and the same APHISpersonnel. These meetings are follow-up to the listening sessions held last Fall, trying to get changes in a program uti-lizing testing procedures almost 100 years old. Participants in the meetings were from states where TB in cattle is acontinuing problem. Thanks to the recession, talks are more substantive about solutions we all hope we can live withwithout simply destroying herds of cattle. Changes in the program will take at least two (2) years to develop and imple-ment, so don’t expect immediate actions.

What else is extremely important is to get all organizations representing livestock interests to sign on. State veteri-narians will be vital to help with any rule changes. There are many more questions than answers at this stage. Unfor-tunately, states who are not dealing with TB in cattle do not feel the urgency in changes as those of us in affected statesdo. Educating all involved will be key to successful development of a workable program.

Regional meetings of NMCGA will be held during May. Please make an extra effort to attend one in your region. It isat these meetings we are able to discover concerns or problems you may be encountering in your area. I enjoy theopportunity to meet new people involved in the industry. It is also interesting to get reacquainted with those of you Iknew before grey hair set in for a lot of us!

According to the weatherman, we are not in a severe drought in our area yet. He should come out to the ranch withme and see what eight months without measurable moisture really looks like.

My best to all,

Alisa OgdenPresident

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By Alisa OgdenNMCGA PRESIDENTMMMMMMME S S A G E

Alisa OgdenLoving

President

Bert AncellBell Ranch

President Elect

Jose Varela LopezSanta Fe

Northeast V.P.

Louis Montoya La Plata

Northwest V.P.

Ty Bays Silver City

Southwest V.P.

Rex Wilson Carrizozo

Southeast V.P.

Emery Chee Bloomfield V.P. At Large

Troy SaubleMaxwell

Sec./Treas.

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These are the values taught by the New Mexico Boys and Girls

Ranches for 65 years.Every year, there are hundreds of children from

troubled backgrounds that need our help. We provide the opportunity to see life as it can be.

Because we do not accept government funding, we depend on the support of people like you.

We need your help to do more.

Guiding Children, Uniting Families – Since 1944New Mexico Boys and Girls Ranches, Inc.

P.O. Box 9, Belen, NM 87002

NEW MEXICO BOYS RANCH • NEW MEXICO GIRLS RANCHPIPPIN YOUTH RANCH • FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN

THE NEW MEXICO FAMILY CONNECTION

1-800-660-0289 www.theranches.org

Commitment. Responsibility. Self Esteem. Accomplishment.

Keep the tradition of caring alive by giving today!

Help kids see the big picture.

N.M. Bovine TB status downgraded, surveillance testing to continue

In late March, New Mexico’s bovine tuberculosis (TB) statuswas upgraded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA),removing many of the restrictions on cattle movement thathad been in place since September, 2008.“We at the New Mexico Livestock Board have been working

closely with the USDA on this situation since last September,”said Myles Culbertson, NMLB Director. “We are gratified that theUSDA has accepted our plan, and are confident in our ability tocontain this disease and protect our state’s cattle industry.”Effective March 23, Curry and Roosevelt Counties retained the

Modified Accredited Advanced status that covered the entire statefor several months. Restrictions on cattle movement in and out ofthose counties will remain in place. All other counties in the statehave returned to “TB free” status.“Producers should be aware that surveillance testing will con-

tinue across the state, as we work towards TB free status for theentire state,” Culbertson said. For producers outside of the modi-fied accredited advanced (MAA) zone, the requirements below willapply:

� TB testing requirements for commuter herds, cattle herdsthat move back and forth between New Mexico and a borderingstate, will remain the same as existed under the statewide MAAstatus. A whole herd negative TB test will be required every threeyears.

� Show cattle must have a negative TB test.� A TB test will be required annually for Mexican-origin rodeo

and event cattle along with native cattle that co-mingle with Mex-ican-origin rodeo and event cattle.

� Selected herds determined to be high risk will be TB tested.� A negative TB test will be required for all sexually-intact

dairy cattle over four months of age in the state, inside or outsidethe MAA zone, within 60 days of entering or re-entering any dairyherd in the state.For producers in Roosevelt and Curry Counties, cattle move-

ment will be closely monitored.� A negative TB test will be required within 60 days before sex-

ually intact cattle can leave the MAA zone, including those beingsent to sale barns outside the zone. Cattle being sent directly toslaughter, as well as feeder heifers and steers, are exempt fromthis requirement.

� Producers must notify the NMLB of all livestock movementbetween points within the MAA zone. Contact your NMLB Live-stock Inspector or the NMLB office for details.

� A negative TB test will be required for all sexually-intact NewMexico dairy cattle over four months of age, inside or outside theMAA zone, within 60 days of entering or re-entering any dairy

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ROSWELL LIVESTOCK AUCTION, INC.

900 North Garden · P.O. Box 2041Roswell, New Mexico 88201

505/622-5580www.roswelllivestockauction.com

CATTLE SALES: MONDAYSHORSE SALES: APRIL, JUNE, SEPTEMBER and DECEMBER

BENNY WOOTON RES. 505/626-4754SMILEY WOOTON RES. 505/626-6253

ROSWELL LIVESTOCK AUCTION, INC.

900 North Garden · P.O. Box 2041Roswell, New Mexico 88201

575/622-5580www.roswelllivestockauction.com

CATTLE SALES: MONDAYSHORSE SALES: APRIL, JUNE, SEPTEMBER and DECEMBER

BENNY WOOTON RES 575/625-0071, CELL 575/626-4754SMILEY WOOTON RES 575/623-2338, CELL 575/626-6253

ROSWELL LIVESTOCKAUCTION RECEIVING STATIONS

Producers hauling cattle to Roswell Live stockNew Mexico Re ceiving Stations need to call ourtoll-free number for a Trans portation Permitnumber before leaving home. The HaulingPermit number 1-800/748-1541 is answered 24hours a day, 7 days a week.

NEW RECEIVING STATION, LORDSBURG, NEW MEXICO2 Bar Livestock Highway #90 at NM #3 – East side of highway.Receiving cattle for transport 2nd & 4th weekends of eachmonth. Truck leaves Lordsburg at 2:00 p.m. Sunday. RussellTaylor (corrals) 575/494-7229.FORT STOCKTON TEXAS1816 E. 53rd Lane, Interstate 10 to exit 259A to FM 1053, 51/2 miles north of I-10. Turn right on Stone Rd. (receiving stationsign) 1-block. Turn left on 53rd Lane – 3/4 miles to red A-framehouse and corrals on right. Buster Williams, 432/336-0219,432-290-2061. Receiving cattle: 2nd & 4th Sundays of themonth. Truck leaves at 3:00 p.m. CT.PECOS, TEXASHwy. 80 across from Town & Country Motel. NO PRIOR PER-MITS REQUIRED. Nacho, 432/445-9676, 432/634-6150,432/448-6865. Trucks leave Sunday at 4 p.m. CT. VALENTINE, TEXAS17 miles north of Marfa on Hwy. 90. Red Brown 432/467-2682. Pens 432/358-4640. Trucks leave first Sunday at 3:00p.m. CT.VAN HORN, TEXAS800 West 2nd, 5 blocks west of Court house. Gary or PattyFlowers, 478/335-8080, cell 432/283-7103. Trucks leave2nd & 3rd Sunday at 3:00 p.m. CT.MORIARTY, NEW MEXICOTwo blocks east and one block south of Tillery Chevrolet. SmileyWooton 575/622-5580 office, 575/623-2338 home,575/626-6253 mobile. Trucks leave Sunday at 3:00 p.m. MT. SAN ANTONIO, NEW MEXICORiver Cattle Co. Nine miles east of San Antonio on U.S. 380. GaryJohnson 575/838-1834. Trucks leave Sunday at 3:00 p.m. MT.

herd in the State.� Official identification will be required

for all sexually intact cattle in the MAAzone before they can leave for any purpose.Nursing calves are exempt from thisrequirement.New Mexico’s TB status changed from

accredited free to modified accreditedadvanced in September of 2008 with thediscovery of the disease in two cattle herds.The herds were located in Curry and Roo-sevelt Counties. Since then, no new caseshave been found in the state.For more information, please contact

the New Mexico Livestock Board at505/841-6161 or www.nmlbonline.com. �

Entries sought for New MexicoBeef Ambassador Contest

Do you know an outstanding youthwho would be interested in servingas a spokesperson for the beef indus-

try here in New Mexico and throughout thenation? If so, encourage them to becomepart of the New Mexico Beef AmbassadorProgram by participating in the New Mex-ico Beef Ambassador Contest to be heldJune 28, 2009 during the New Mexico Cat-tle Growers’ Summer Conference at theInn of the Mountain Gods in Ruidoso. Contestants must be 17, but not over 20

years of age by January 1, 2010. During thestate contest, a panel of judges will critiquea 5- to 8-minute speech presented by thecontestant. The speech must be factuallybased on data provided from the “Beef:From Pasture to Plate” website,www.beeffrompasturetoplate.org orthrough personal research. The state con-test will also include a brief writtenresponse to a published news articleregarding the beef industry and participa-tion in a mock media interview. The New Mexico CowBelles and the

New Mexico Beef Council contribute fundsfor a monogrammed award jacket, as wellas expenses for the New Mexico winnerand chaperone to attend the National com-petition, which will be held in Fort Smith,Ark., October 9-11, 2009. The New Mexicowinner is also eligible to apply for a $500college scholarship. Each of the top fivenational winners will receive $1,000 cash,as well as a $750 scholarship from theAmerican National Cattle Women.For more information, go to www.

nationalbeefambassador.org/Content/.

Entry forms are due June 1, 2009 to: Shelly Porter,New Mexico Beef Ambassador Chair, HC 61, Box 24,Miami, N.M. 87729, office 575/445-8071 or home575/483-2864.

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Year ofSustainability

Friday, July 17, 2009

Registration at 8:30 am

Introduction at 9:00 am

Classes begin at 10:00 am

Half Day of CollegeThree Concurrent Sessions

Rangeland Carbon Sequestration—Carbon Credits

Hydrology of Piñon-JuniperRangelands —Facts vs. Fiction

Ranch Scale Alternative Energy—Wind and Solar

Please join us at the Corona Range and Livestock Research Centerfor our third “Half Day of College” program. This year we will focuson “Sustainability of Rangelands” with experts on hand to presentinformation and answer your questions. We will hold the threeclasses concurrently to insure individual attention, and give you thechoice of attending what you want – when you want. Registrationbegins at 8:30 am; introductions at 9:00 am with a brief update onthe Southwest Center for Rangeland Sustainability. Classes will beheld at 10:00 and 11:00 with lunch provided at noon. The last classwill follow lunch at 1:00 pm. There will be plenty of time to visitwith neighbors, specialists and research staff. Come join us for aneducational and informative day at Corona. Please contact ShadCox, Ranch Manager (575-849-1015 or shadcox@nmsu.edu) if youhave any questions or need directions to the ranch headquarters.

Website http://corona.nmsu.edu

Music always has been a vitalpart of human existence. Inthe American Southwest —especially Arizona, New Mex-ico and Texas — people came

from many places, and brought their musicwith them.Families passed their music down

through the generations. Cowboys wroteabout their work and beliefs as did Spanishvillagers. The rich musical heritage gavelife on isolated ranches and in small vil-lages a special dimension.This was all very well until electricity

and radio came along. Then, many youngpeople stopped learning their families’music in favor of the “new stuff.” Very littleof the music had been recorded or written,so much was lost.We can thank Bayou Seco, husband and

wife musical team Ken Keppeler and JeanieMcLerie of Silver City, for rescuing and sav-ing much of our musical heritage.Jeanie says, “Since 1980 we have

learned from traditional Hispanic, Cowboyand Tohono O’Odham musicians in NewMexico and Arizona.”Both Jeanie and Ken play fiddle and gui-

tar, and sing. Ken also plays one- and three-row accordions, five-string banjo (fretlessand fretted), harmonica, mandolin andprobably anything else that’s handed tohim.They admittedly have traveled down

“many a dirt road” to learn indigenousmusic.One of the dirt roads they’ve traveled

be there. “Later,” says Pete, “he sent a guyout here and taped some of my stuff. Theycalled me later and wanted to know if Icould play for that Folk Life Festival at theSmithsonian in Washington. I said Ithought I could but I’d have to have myguitar picker along, so they agreed to payJ.P.’s way.”That’s J.P. Lewis, Pete’s cousin. Ken Kep-

peler already was on board to go, and that’swhen Pete got to know Ken and Jeanie.That was in 1992, and they were part of

the New Mexico delegation, whichincluded artists as well as musicians.“They wanted three types of fiddling,”

Pete says. Gretchen Van Houten is a con-test fiddler. Pete played the old music, like‘Bull at the Wagon’ and the old schottis-ches.“A lot of that music probably originated

in Scotland and Ireland,” he says, “but it gotchanged over time a little here and there.”Buster Payne from Eunice (since passed

away) played a little of both the traditionaland the contest tunes. That’s how thosethree fiddler were chosen, Pete explains,adding, “Every evening at the hotel we’dhave a jam session and everybody played.”Pete says he never would have gotten to

know Ken and Jeanie well if it weren’t forthat trip to Washington. They haveremained friends. In fact, Jeanie helpedPete’s and Minnie’s grandchildren withtheir fiddling, and brought granddaughterMecca a three-quarters size fiddle when shewas 7 or 8 years old. Now little brother Jakehas even outgrown it.“We’ve known them 17 years,” says

Jeanie. “Mecca is in college now and Jake is11. Of course, they learned from theirgranddad.”There are a very few recordings of the

music. Pete says they had a light plant togenerate electricity, and a reel-to-reelrecorder. “When the light plant dimmed,the tape did, too,” he says with a laugh.“Then it would come back up again.”Jeanie and Ken have recorded many of

the old songs, put them on CDs and giventhem to the families. They really like track-ing down the old music. “We don’t learn it

frequently during the past few years is toCrow Flat, N.M. The ranching Lewis familycame there in the late 1800s.Pete Lewis says, “My granddad came

here from Bandera, Texas.” All Pete’s familywere, and still are, musicians, mostly fid-dles and guitars. Pete took up the fiddle atabout age 10.“My dad knew all the tunes,” Pete says,

“and he played quite a few of them on thefiddle, but in his younger years he mostlyhad to pick the guitar because the olderones were the fiddlers, you know.”Neighbor rancher Bobby Jones, a

mighty fine guitar picker, plays with themwhen Ken and Jeanie are at Pete and Min-nie Lewis’s place.Bobby says, “They are extraordinarily

talented. They collect different styles ofmusic, and they’re good enough musiciansto play any style they collect.”He adds, “They’re just good folks,

besides, and sure fun to be around. Plusthey support the kind of music most ranchpeople listen to. That’s what brought themout to this part of the country to start with.They’d heard some of the Lewis tunes andthat particular bowing style. It’s been alasting friendship.”Pete remembers being at Bobby Jones’s

one day helping work cattle.“Sometimes after lunch if we had time

we’d get the instruments out and play a fewtunes. If we didn’t have to go out and workpretty soon we’d play a lot of tunes.”One day Pete was there helping work

cattle and a guy from NMSU happened to

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Bayou Seco husband and wife musical team Jeanie and Ken Keppeler: “. . . we have learned from traditional Hispanic, Cowboy and Tohono O’Odham musicians in New Mexico and Arizona.”

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just so it will be preserved,” says Ken. “We learn itbecause we love it.”Ken and Jeanie were learning the old, traditional

music long before they came to New Mexico and Ari-zona. Jeanie grew up in New Jersey, Ken in California(although his father was born in Albuquerque andmany of his family members lived in New Mexico andArizona).Ken says the traditional music they love is “not just

somebody looking at a book and playing.” It’s fromhuman experience, and both he and Jeanie areattracted to that.In their younger days, before they got together, they

both traveled in Europe and all over North America,always studying traditional music in whatever locale

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Crow Flat musicians, Grandpa Pete Lewis (center),grandson Jake (L) and granddaughter Mecca (R), areamong Ken and Jeanie Keppeler’s most valued teachers.

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they found themselves. They met inLouisiana in 1978. They loved it there, butJeanie has asthma and her doctor finallytold her she could leave that area “in a box”or on her own feet.She chose her own feet. Luckily for us,

they decided on New Mexico, and happilywent about collecting our music.They love promoting local musicians

they work with, and are happy to let themtake the spotlight when they’re playingtogether. Almost 30 musicians haveworked with them through the years.In the early 1980s Ken and Jeanie were

part of the artists-in-the-schools program.One of their schools was the New MexicoSchool for the Visually Handicapped inAlamogordo. The students loved them, andthey have kept in touch with many of thosestudents through the years.Both Jeanie and Ken teach violin, accor-

dion, banjo and guitar. Bobby Jones men-tions Jeanie’s extraordinary patience, espe-cially when teaching. They also makeviolin-family instruments by hand as wellas accessories. They can repair instru-ments, also, of course.Those of us who love traditional music

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Animal-rights activists like to pro-mote meatless diets by claimingall kinds of health benefits. But if

you pay attention to the news, theresearch is showing exactly the oppo-site. Applied carelessly, vegetarianismdoesn’t just carry risks for physicalhealth — in the case of teenagers, it canbe evidence of an eating disorder.

TIME magazine reports on a trendamong teenagers who “go veg” notbecause of any save-the-cows ideology,but because they think such restrictiveeating will help them lose weight. Rely-ing on a new study published in theJournal of the American Dietetic Asso-ciation, TIME outright calls it a “teeneating disorder.”Then a recent study in Canada

revealed alarming evidence that avoid-ing meat during pregnancy can lead tosevere birth defects. From that article:Now researchers are reporting that

women who have low B12 levels shortlybefore and after they get pregnant are atsignificantly greater risk of delivering a

child with a neural tube defect.Vegans and women who eat little or

no meat, fish, eggs, milk or cheese are atthe highest risk, as well as women withstomach or intestinal problems, includ-ing inflammatory bowel disease, thatkeep them from absorbing enough B12.The finding needs to be confirmed by

more studies. But the researchers saywomen at risk should be tested for B12.This begs the question of whether swear-ing off animal protein is really worth thepotential risks to a baby’s health.Finally, in another sign of nutritional

deficiencies associated with a vegan diet,the journal Pediatrics just published aWeill Cornell Medical College study thatshowed how more and more childrenare at risk of rickets because of a lack ofvitamin D, which is found in dairy andfish. This essential nutrient also protectsagainst heart disease, diabetes, immunesystem problems, and inflammatory dis-eases, but researchers found that 14 per-cent of the teens studied weren’t gettingenough vitamin D in their diet.

Studies debunk anti-meat health claims

Europe: include animalwelfare agenda in WTO

Animal rights activists across the world have a reasonto smile as the European Union (EU) is pushing forthe inclusion of animal welfare standards in the

World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) multilateral trade nego-tiations.“Inclusion of animal welfare standards in the WTO

agenda is urgently needed to effectively enforce animalstandards worldwide, and to improve the appalling condi-tion of slaughter houses in many countries includingIndia,” Citizens for Animal Rights (CAR), a city-basedorganisation, said in a release here.Quoting European representatives, the CAR added: “Ani-

mal welfare concerns are being increasingly recognised infood production around the world, but they must be for-malised within the WTO trade agreements.”Czech Agriculture Minister Petr Gandalovic, the new chair

of the EU Farm Council, was quoted in the release as sayingthat the next six months would see a strong focus on Euro-pean animal welfare standards, including new slaughterrules.“Animal welfare is gaining rapid momentum, not only in

the EU but worldwide,” EU Health Commissioner AndroullaVassiliou said. She added that animal related issues should beincluded as “non-trade concerns” in the WTO agreements.“Getting formal recognition of animal welfare standards

within the binding WTO agreements is crucial for unlock-ing the UN and World Bank resources needed to help thedeveloping world raise its animal welfare levels,” saidMichael Scannell, adviser to the European Commission’sAnimal Health and Welfare Directorate. �

Arizona National awards $16,000 in college scholarships

The Arizona National Livestock Show Scholarship Programbegan in 1991 by awarding $13,500 to eleven students in thatyear. Over 18 years later the Arizona National Livestock Show

has now awarded 555 students totaling $553,909. The scholarshipselection process has gone from annual to semi-annual and currentlyawards over $30,000 annually. The Scholarship Committee recentlyselected and awarded $16,000 in scholarships for the fall 2009 semes-ter. Scholarship recipients will be honored at the 62nd ArizonaNational Livestock Show Dedication December 28, 2009 at the Ari-zona State Fairgrounds.The fall 2009 Scholarship recipients, their schools, majors and

home towns are: Brittany Choate, University of Arizona, Environ-ment Science & Law, Gilbert, Ariz.; Katie Goodwin, New Mexico StateUniv., Animal Science/Pre-Veterinarian, Lake Havasu City, Ariz.;Lindsey Hughes, University of Arizona, Agribusiness & EconomicMgmt., Sonoita, Ariz.; LaChelle Hunt, Scottsdale Community Col-lege, Motion Picture/TV Production, Buckeye, Ariz.; Kassandra Kin-ney, Clarendon College, General Agriculture, Tolleson, Ariz.; AliciaLopez, University of Arizona, Engineering Math, Tucson, Ariz.; ColinLowe, Oklahoma State University, Agriculture Communications,Chickasha, Okla.; Clay Brody McGuire, University of Arizona, Agricul-ture Education, Buckeye, Ariz.; Margret Molever, University of Ari-zona, Animal Science, Scottsdale, Ariz.And Robyn Ollerton, University of Arizona; Agriculture Econom-

ics & Mgmt., Casa Grande, Ariz.; Racheal Redman, Arizona State Uni-versity, Biochemistry & Spanish, Waddell, Ariz.; Stephanie Strakbein,University of Arizona, Veterinarian Science & Spanish, Oracle, Ariz.;Laura Stump, University of Arizona, Animal Science, Gilbert, Ariz.;Avery Williams, Arizona State University, Chemistry, Glendale, Ariz.;Hunter Williams, Arizona State University, Aeronautical Manage-

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by STU ELLIS

Another ethanol refiner hoisted awhite flag. Aventine RenewableEnergy at Pekin filed for Chapter 11

federal bankruptcy protection, and while itis not the first, nor the biggest, its financialchallenges point to continued stress for anindustry that had been on top of the worlda year ago. Aventine joins VeraSun, thenation’s largest ethanol producer on thebankruptcy list, during a week that a halfdozen of VeraSun’s old plants were sold toanother ethanol refiner, Valero.Of course, the larger ethanol compa-

nies are not the only ones having difficulty.Many smaller one-and two-plant opera-tions have also sought bankruptcy protec-tion in the past year following the plum-met in crude oil futures in the latter part of2008. No, they were not all caught specu-lating on the long side of the crude oilmarket, but caught in a cost-pricesqueeze. With ethanol prices linked at the

hip to unleaded gasoline, what goes upmust come down and ethanol prices fellbelow cost of production. At least the costof production that had been booked by theplant’s corn buyers.The ethanol industry that had been fly-

ing high in 2008 with $140 crude oil, andmarket analysts predicting $200 prices,ethanol refiners were locking in cornprices at higher prices to help push thatcommodity well past $7. When the crudeoil balloon popped, and prices deflatedwith the rest of the global economy,ethanol prices had to fall as well and thatdestroyed any hope of profits, for compa-nies that are solely dependent uponethanol sales.The result has been the closure of many

ethanol plants, because there is no futurein keeping open a plant that is losingmoney. That is something that cannot bemade up on volume, no matter how large.

One ethanol industry consultant currentlyestimates the industry will operate at only67 percent of capacity through 2010. Thatcompares to a nearly 100 percent capacitya year ago, with new plants opening everymonth.That presents a significant conflict,

with capacity diminishing at the sametime the federal requirement for ethanolproduction to rise. During 2009-2010, theU.S. Renewable Fuels Mandate calls for12.6 billion gallons of ethanol to beblended into the nation’s fuel supply. Ifevery ethanol plant was operating at maxi-mum capacity, 14.5 billion gallons wouldbe produced. With the industry moving at67 percent of top speed, the mandate willnot be reached without drawing upon anystocks that might exist or relying uponimported ethanol. The latter would not bepolitically favorable to the corn andethanol industry, but would also tack on atariff that raises the price of ethanol. Thatis the downside for the motorist.The downside for agriculture is signifi-

cant, and will only serve to delay any eco-

Ethanol Industry Burning Through Equity

ment Tech., Gilbert, Ariz.; Lauren Wil-son, Eastern Oklahoma State, Agricul-ture Economics, Safford, Ariz.; KaylaWoehlecke, Northern Arizona University,Elementary Education, Red Rock, Ariz.;Amanda Zamudio, University of Arizona,Animal Science, Elfrida, Ariz.Scholarships are available to students

attending an accredited university or col-lege for the current academic year. Otherrequirements include: High School grad-uation; completion of at least 12 semes-ter hours before applying; currently tak-ing at least 12 credit hours; a minimumgrade point average of 2.5 (A = 4); andprior participation in the ArizonaNational Livestock Show as an exhibitor,volunteer, or employee.Scholarships are funded through

donations to the show with help from theArizona Horse Lovers Foundation. Appli-cation deadlines are October 15 for thespring and March 15 for fall scholarships.Applications are available online atwww.anls.org.The Arizona National Livestock Show,

Inc. is a non-profit organization dedi-cated to educating the public about thesignificance of agriculture and livestockthrough the presentation of a premierlivestock show. For more information,visit www.anls.org, or call the ArizonaNational office at 602/258-8568. �

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nomic recovery. That is because thecourts have allowed VeraSun to walkaway from its commitments to purchasecorn at previously agreed prices, and suc-cessor companies do not have to complywith those commitments either. Thou-sands of Cornbelt farmers who sold mil-lions of bushels of corn to VeraSun arenot being paid, if they have already deliv-ered the corn. In addition, they arerequired to deliver corn to the new oper-ators of the plants, at whatever price thenew operator determines the market tobe. Unfortunately, today’s cash cornprices are just half of what they werewhen the contracts were signed last year.While there is absolutely no indica-

tion of similar events occurring in thecase of Aventine, and there are no finan-cial problems being reported by eitherADM’s or Tate & Lyle’s ethanol opera-tions, the current ethanol economy hasradically changed from 2008, and thathas filtered back into the farm economykeeping corn prices and farm profitabil-ity under pressure. �

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4-H members honed their cooking andsewing skills in the first 4-H Home EcSchool held at Valencia High School

in Los Lunas on March 20-22.For years, 4-H members participating in

horse, dog obedience and livestock projectshave had the opportunity to attend state-wide schools each summer, but similaropportunities have not existed for mem-bers doing baking or sewing projects, atleast not until now.“Until now we have offered nothing

related to our family and consumer scienceproject areas,” said Mindy Turner, 4-H youth development specialist with thestate 4-H office housed at New MexicoState University’s College of Agriculture,Consumer and Environmental Sciences.“There’s a lot of value in the livestock pro-jects, which we don’t want to discount, butwe also know there are a large number ofyouth in New Mexico who do not have theoption of raising and showing animals.Fortunately, we have many non-livestockprojects for kids to participate in.”While over time more kids stay in live-

stock projects, Turner said a lot of 4-Hmembers go into career fields that relate

classrooms,” said Anna Marie Wilson,Valencia County Cooperative Extensionhome economist. “The space was perfectfor having 20 kids in each class.”In the kitchen, 23 young cooks, includ-

ing four boys, put on aprons and got busylearning the basics of reading recipes, mea-suring and mixing ingredients, and the sci-ence of cooking as they made chocolatechip cookies, brownies and banana-nutbread. They also learned how to create apleasing table arrangement for FavoriteFoods district competition.Meanwhile, 20 beginning seamstresses,

including one boy, learned the parts of asewing machine and how to thread andoperate it before they made a pillow casefor their bed at home. They discovered howtricky it is to keep the fabric movingthrough the machine so the stitching is ina straight line.On Sunday, professional chef James

Africano provided a demonstration of mak-ing mozzarella cheese and talked about hiscareer. During service projects the youthapplied their new skills in making 45 dozendog biscuits for the Valencia County Ani-mal Shelter and 22 recycled denim,microwavable hot pads for senior citizensin Albuquerque. �

more to the family and consumer science.“Our agents felt strongly that we were

not providing enough opportunities foryouth to find, not just hobbies, but careerfields that they would like to pursue relatedto family and consumer sciences,” she said.The home ec school, which is the first

such event in the nation, focused on thetwo largest participant project areas —basic sewing and baking.During the two-night stay-over at the

Los Lunas School District high school, theyouth socialized while participating in aHome Ec Carnival on Friday evening thatintroduced them to various project compe-titions such as consumer decision making,Fashion Magic and the newly createdHome Ec Skill-a-thon.Saturday, it was down to work in the

sewing and baking classes that culminatedon Sunday with service projects in bothareas. The classes were conducted bycounty extension home economist and 4-H agents from around the state.“We are very fortunate to have the coop-

eration of the school district administra-tion to allow us to use the school’s careeracademy culinary arts and cosmetology

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Picture an upside-down pyramid.The only way it can stand is byspinning fast enough or by hav-

ing a wide enough tip. The federal ver-sion of this is the tax code; the govern-ment collects its money almostentirely from the people at the narrowtip and then gives it to the people at thewider side. So long as the pyramidspins, the system can work. If it slowsdown, it falls. It’s also what’s calledredistribution of income, and it is get-ting out of hand, says Ari Fleischer, for-mer press secretary for PresidentGeorge W. Bush.Today, President Obama wants the

“wealthy” to pay even more so there ismore money to redistribute. He sayshe wants the wealthy to pay their “fairshare” but, yet, he never defines whatthat means, says Fleischer:

� Is it fair for 10 percent to pay 70percent of the income tax?

� Does he believe they should pay75 percent, or 95 percent, or does fair-

ness mean they should pay it all?� Obama adds to this trend with his

“Make Work Pay” tax cut that meansalmost 50 percent of the country willno longer pay any income taxes, upfrom a little over 40 percent today.

� In addition to exempting almost50 percent of the country from incometaxes, nearly every other social cause isgiven a loophole in the tax code.But this type of growth only redis-

tributes massive amounts of wealth.Instead, we should have a tax code thatcreates growth and reforms our enti-tlement system, says Fleischer.Congress should start by refusing to

go along with Obama’s promise to cuttaxes for 95 percent of the country.With the government running analmost $2 trillion deficit, no oneshould have their taxes cut. Given thesize of the deficit, fiscal responsibilitydemands nothing less, says Fleischer.

Source: Ari Fleischer, “Everyone Should PayIncome Taxes,” Wall Street Journal, April 12, 2009.

Everyone should pay income taxes

Ican’t help but think that part of thereason for our current economictroubles are all the drastic changesbrought about by the new economy,which is based on the personal com-

puter and the Internet. I’m not saying it’s abad thing but industries and businesseshave been turned upside down by all thenew technology.The Dotcom Generation now gets their

news via the Internet, the morning newspa-per is disappearing right along with break-fast, and the computer has made writersout of people who can’t spell and don’t havemuch to say. Amazon is selling books thatcan be downloaded onto a little plasticscreen and soon there will be no need forbookshelves or books. How very sad.Lonely people now try to find their

dates on the Internet instead of the localbar and retailers by the big box full aregoing bankrupt because consumers areshopping online instead of in person.Banks need fewer tellers as a result ofATM’s and draftsmen have been replacedby computer programs. Many workershave been laid off or unemployed becausethey were replaced by a keyboardist at acomputer. And many times that keypuncher isn’t even in this country!You can’t convince me that at least

some of the shenanigans on Wall Streetweren’t made possible by sophisticatedcomputer programs that allowed crooks tocook up Ponzi schemes and sucker strate-gies and then hide their crimes.Some of us have have not responded

well to the revolution in productivity thatwas ushered in by Pac Man. Although Iwrite on an Apple Macintosh computer, andhave since 1984, in many other ways I amstuck in the dark ages of the 1970’s. I silltake pictures with film, my address book ishandwritten and the only Blackberry in myhouse is in the refrigerator. I navigate theinformation superhighway well but when Iget spammed, illegally downloaded, put onhold by tech support or someone uses my

USDA implementsloan program changes

USDA has announced new regula-tions for the Marketing AssistanceLoans (MAL) and Loan Deficiency

Payments (LDP) program that imple-ment provisions contained in the 2008Farm Bill.Marketing Assistance Loans and Loan

Deficiency Payments provide financingand marketing assistance for wheat, rice,feed grains, soybeans, other oilseeds,peanuts, pulse crops, honey, wool andmohair. This assistance is available to eli-gible producers beginning with harvestor shearing season and extendingthrough the program year.The 2008 Farm Bill included several

changes to marketing assistance loanprovisions:

� The regulation for Marketing Assis-tance Loans and Loan Deficiency Pay-ments redefines rice as long grain andmedium grain. Large chickpeas areincluded as an eligible pulse crop begin-ning with crop year 2009.

� The 2008 crop year marketing loanand loan deficiency payment benefitswere subject to a limit of $75,000 per per-son. Starting with the 2009 crop year,these benefits will no longer be subject toa payment limit.

� USDA also said it would streamlinethe loan prices by no longer adjustingloan rates on warehouse-stored loans bypremiums and discounts at loan makingtime. Loan rates will be adjusted by pre-miums and discounts only at loan settle-ment, if the commodity is either farm-stored delivered or warehouse-storedforfeited. This change starts with the2009 crop year and does not apply topeanuts.

� In the past, the Commodity CreditCorporation (CCC) executed storageagreements with warehouse operators toset forth financial and storage conditionsto protect against the massive accumula-tion of commodities resulting from forfei-tures. This practice resulted in duplicityof efforts already provided by other fed-eral and state level jurisdictions. Duringrecent years, CCC’s loan repayment poli-cies have minimized forfeitures to verylow levels. USDA will no longer requirethe execution of a storage agreement instorage facilities that are either (a) feder-ally-licensed or (b) in compliance with

computer to spy on me, there is no one incyberspace to hear my screams.It’s not the first time, nor it will it be

the last, when game-changing technologytransformed our economy and who we areas people. Surely lives were changed justas dramatically by electricity, the indus-trial revolution and indoor plumbing.Even bigger than those changes broughtabout by the computer, I think the end ofthe horse age and the dawning of the auto-mobile era must have been even moreunsettling. There were people back thenwho, like me, did not make the changevery well either.There was a time in this country when

the words “horse” and “power” were syn-onymous and our plows, guns, taxis andfreight wagons were pulled by horses.Then as now, the horses took a lot of thework out of our work. Can you imagine thejobs that were completely erased when asingle tractor replaced a team of as manyas 32 horses that pulled one grain har-vester? The lives of horseshoers, bridlemakers and feed and grain merchants wereturned topsy turvy, just like now. Eventu-ally those jobs were replaced by careers formechanics, tire manufacturers and loansharks. But it took time. And it will thistime too, no doubt.One of those people who, like me, did

not make the transition well was DoctorW.T. Lucas. Although you could count onW.T. to make house calls in all kinds ofweather when he rode his horse, it was adifferent matter entirely when he came bycar. The good Doctor drove an auto untilhe was 90, not well mind you, but he diddrive. To give you an idea of his prowessbehind the wheel, W.T.’s garage was openon both ends just in case the good Doctorgot it in the wrong gear. And when he’darrive to make a house call, instead ofapplying his foot to the brake pedal, hewould pull back on the steering wheel andyell at the top of his lungs, “Whoa.”My sentiments exactly.

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applicable state laws and issue warehousereceipts. CCC reserves the right to executea storage agreement in either (a) or (b) ifdeemed necessary by the Secretary. CCCmay, on a case by case basis, require a stor-age agreement for storage facilities thatare neither (a) nor (b).

� This modification in the regulation isexpected to benefit warehouse operatorsand producers by eliminating redundantcosts without increasing financial risk forCCC. This change starts with the 2009crop year and does not apply to peanuts.�

Author calls for animalrights counter-movement

Patti Strand of Portland, Ore., wrotethe book on the animal rights move-ment.

Strand, who is the founder and chair-person of the National Animal InterestAlliance, authored a book 17 years agoentitled The Hijacking of the HumaneMovement: Animal Extremism. Strand

has been battling the animal rights move-ment ever since and she says it’s notgoing away.“So I would say that the people who

imagine that they can just keep doingtheir own thing and the bad guys will dis-appear are living in a bit of a fantasy landat this point,” says Strand. “They’re notgoing to go away. This is how thesegroups earn their living. They’re conflictfund-raising groups. They need conflictin order to make money.”Strand’s group — the NAIA —

includes dog breeders, research scien-tists, hunters, farmers, ranchers and oth-ers. She says she would like to see agricul-ture get more involved in theircounter-movement.“I believe firmly that we all need to be

working together,” says Strand. “We needto understand each other’s issues, and weneed to organize to fund a major counter-movement to them.”Strand believes the animal rights

counter-movement can succeed. “I have alot of faith that when people understandwhat we understand, they will side withus — and I don’t think we’ve done a goodjob at all of getting our message out.” �

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New Mexico FFA members win at state contest

High school FFA students from around the state competed atthe New Mexico State FFA Career Development Events April 1-3 in Las Cruces at New Mexico State University.

The members competed in a variety of events, including dairy cat-tle evaluation, agricultural mechanics and livestock evaluation. Thefirst-place teams in each event will go on to compete at the nationallevel in Indianapolis in October.

The Las Cruces FFA Chapter placed first in the agriculturalmechanics contest, with member Jonathan Koenig winning high-point individual.

Cody Howard won high-point individual in the wildlife contest.The Dora FFA Chapter received first in the crops and homesite

evaluation contests. Logan Bilberry was high-point individual in thecrops and Calvin Tayler received the honor in homesite evaluation.

In the dairy cattle competition, the Texico FFA Chapter placedfirst, with Fallon Scanlon winning high-point individual. The chap-ter also received first in the entomology and poultry evaluation con-tests. Kayley Pelfrey won first individually in the poultry contest, andBrett Anderson won high-point individual in the land evaluationcontest.

The Hagerman FFA Chapter won first in the dairy foods evalua-tion contest. Randy Veerkamp received the high-point individualhonor.

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Artesia FFAplaced first in the woolevaluation

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In the floriculture contest, the Tucum-cari FFA Chapter placed first.

Taylor Atwood received the high-pointindividual honor in the nursery landscapecontest. The chapter also won the horti-culture sweepstakes.

The Artesia FFA Chapter placed first inthe forestry contest, with Shane Wilsonwinning high-point individual. The chap-ter also placed first in the wildlife andwool evaluation contests, with JennaElkins receiving high-point individual inwool.

The Clayton FFA Chapter placed firstin the horse evaluation contest.

The Kirtland FFA Chapter won first inthe horticulture produce contest, withDalyn Myers receiving high-point individ-ual.

In the land evaluation competition,the Melrose FFA Chapter placed first. LizGreen won high-point individual in the

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The Silver City FFA Chapter received first place in the livestock evaluation competition.

Individual winners in the Horse JudgingContest were: 1st Liz Green, Melrose; 2nd Hannah Walker, Clayton; 3rd HadleyHowe, Tatum; 4th Call Barnard, Melrose; and 5th Ryan Best, Elida.

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The Silver City FFA Chapter receivedfirst place in the livestock evaluation com-petition. Bonnie McCauley was the high-point individual.

The Carrizozo FFA Chapter won first inthe meats evaluation contest, with Jen-nifer Shafer winning first individually.

The Mesa Vista FFA Chapter won first inthe nursery landscape contest.

Anne Baecker was high-point individ-ual in the floriculture contest.

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NMSU rodeo win stretcheslead in regional standings

The New Mexico State University rodeoteam demonstrated consistent talentyet again during the Navajo Technical

Institute National Intercollegiate RodeoAssociation (NIRA) rodeo April 10-11 inCrownpoint.

Both the men’s and the women’s teamwon first overall.

For the women’s team, Staci Stan-brough, of Capitan, N.M., tied for firstplace in the breakaway roping. TeammateJordan Bassett, of Dewey, Ariz., placed sec-ond in the goat tying.

Mescalero, N.M., native Clay Geronimowon first in the bareback riding event.

Steve Hacker, of Battle Mountain, Nev.,received third in the saddlebronc event.

Rylan Edgmon, of Black Canyon City,Ariz., won first in the tie-down roping. CoyBurruel, of Tucson, Ariz., and Bryce Run-yan, of Silver City, N.M., placed second andthird, respectively.

In the team roping, header Rodee Wal-raven, of Datil, N.M., and heeler Burruelwon first. The team of Aaron Moyers, ofMoriarty, N.M., and Dustin Hintz, fromCentral Arizona College, received third.

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bullhornBEEF COUNCIL

Representatives of all sectors of beefproduction, processing and market-ing chain gathered at the Checkoff-

funded 2009 Beef Industry Safety SummitMarch 4-6, 2009 in San Diego, California.Attendees discussed emerging safetyissues, explored solutions to safety chal-lenges and discussed industry-wide, sci-ence-based strategies to help each sectorreduce foodborne pathogen incidence andenhance the safety of U.S. beef products.

Emerging issues such as non-0157 E.coli and Mycobacterium avium subspeciesparatuberculosis were discussed at theSummit, as well as practical application ofresearch results that will strengthen cur-rent safety systems. The collaboration andInformation sharing demonstrated at theBeef Industry Food Safety Council (BIF-SCo)-hostee summit will ensure the con-tinued production of safe and wholesomebeef products.

“The beef industry is the leader in thefood industry in safety research,” says DinaChacon-Reitzel, executive director of theNew Mexico Beef Council and a member ofthe Beef Safety Research Committee. “Ourstrong position shows what the commit-ment from producers and the Checkoffhave achieved.”

Background

The 2009 Safety Summit was the sixthgathering of industry professionals dedi-cated to producing safe U.S. beef products.Representatives from beef production,processing and marketing attended, as didscientists conducting research on beef

safety issues. Participants recognize thatcollaboration and communication amongall sectors of the beef industry to developunified beef safety programs is essential toeliminating pathogens in beef products.

A pre-conference workshop specificallytargeted to retailers and their supplierswas well attended. Participants saw a pre-sentation from CattleFax that summarizedthe current economic conditions in thebeef industry as well as market expecta-tions for cattle and beef products. Atten-dees also received information on variousresources available to enhance communi-cation with consumers with a focus onsafety messages. Numerous websites suchas ExploreBeef.org and BeefRetail.orgwere reviewed. In addition, a discussion onthe communication challenges encoun-tered during recall situations as well as

ideas for strengthening relationships withsuppliers was held.

Summit Kickoff

The summit kicked off with a keynoteaddress from Al Almanza, Administrator,USDA, Food Safety and Inspection Service.Mr. Almanza commended summit atten-dees for their continued focus on beefsafety issues and collaborative approach toaddressing beef safety issues. He com-mented on the current administration’sreview of current safety policy and desireto have a full understanding of currentpolicy prior to initiating any new regula-tory programs.

Research Update

During the research update session,scientists shared research data on pre-and

Topic experts presented valuable information on subjects pertinent to beef safety.

Beef Industry Safety Summit

BY MICHELLE ROSSMAN, DIRECTOR, BEEF SAFETY RESEARCH MANDY CARR, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, BEEF SAFETY

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For more information contact: New Mexico Beef Council Dina C. Reitzel – Executive Director1209 Mountain Rd. Pl. NE, Suite C, Albuquerque, NM 87110 505/841-9407 • 505/841-9409 fax • www.nmbeef.com

2008-2009 DIRECTORS — CHAIRMAN, Tom Spindle, Producer; VICE-CHAIRMAN, Cliff Copeland, Purebred Producer SECRETARY, Luke Woelber, Fluid Milk Producer

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EX-OFFICIO’S: Jane Frost, Producer, Federation ofState Beef Council Director; Margie McKeen, Producer,Beef Board Director; Wesley Grau, Producer, Beef BoardDirector; Bill Porter, Feeder, USMEF Director

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post-harvest safety interventions,pathogen prevalence, and new technolo-gies that can be adopted to enhance beefsafety. The pathogen prevalence data willassist with optimization of interventions.A conditional license has been granted fora vaccine that can be used to decrease theshedding of E. Coli by cattle. The licenseapproval was announced at the summit aswell as plans to continue research to gen-erate data that will be used as part of theevaluation process for a full license. Sev-eral other pre-harvest interventions,including a feed additive, vaccine and bac-teriophage product are being evaluated foruse in production settings.

Workshops and Presentations

Technical workshops covering groundbeef patty production, non-intact productdefinitions and case studies, as well as

recall insights were held during the sec-ond day of the summit. Attendees had theopportunity to learn from content expertsand discuss the issues presented with col-leagues. As a result of a discussion focus-ing on current regulatory initiatives, a fol-low-up meeting is being organized byBIFSCo to focus on Industry response toNotice 05-09.

Additional presentation topics at thesummit included consumer perceptions ofbeef safety as well as an update on theEuropean Union ProSafe Beef Program.

The information sharing and in-depthdiscussions at the summit resulted inaction plans to address safety challenges aswell as ideas that can be implemented byall sectors of the industry to proactivelyaddress potential issues and enhance thesafety of U.S. beef products.

The checkoff-sponsored public rela-tions team at NCBA recently issued apress release, “Steak Prices Drop to

Surprising Lows: Just in Time forGrilling,” to the top 250 daily food newspa-per editors, writers and targeted food blog-gers.

The release is also posted onwww.beefitswhatsfordinner.com. Therelease is actively pitching this story withprint and national broadcast media to helpencourage consumers to stock up now andsave on the steaks they love. Media resultshave already appeared in publications suchas the Chicago Tribune.

Attendees had the opportunity to review research project posters and visitwith scientists regarding recently collected beef safety data.

Just in Time for Grilling

Choline is the latest micronutri-ent to be added to the list ofnutrients of which beef is a

good or excellent source. A 3-ounceserving of lean beef supplies 18 per-cent of the daily value for choline,making it a good source of this valu-able nutrient.

Your body produces smallamounts of choline, but some mustcome from dietary sources. Thisnutrient is necessary for cell mem-brane structure, sleep, musclemovement, pain regulations, mem-ory, and it aids in the transmission ofnerve impulses. The US Institute ofMedicine recommends an adequatedaily intake of 550 mg/day for menand 425 mg/day for women. Basedon recent dietary intake analyses,choline is a nutrient of concern forolder children, men and women ofall ages, and pregnant women. It is apriority concern for women of child-bearing age (19-50), and both menand women over age 70.

Beef Provides Critical Micronutrient

State confirms rabid skunksin Quay, Chaves Counties

The New Mexico Department ofHealth reported that a skunk fromthe Logan area of Quay County and a

skunk from south of Roswell in ChavesCounty both tested positive for rabies inearly April. Rabies is a fatal disease if it isnot treated before symptoms develop. TheDepartment of Health reminds peoplethat it is important to vaccinate their ani-mals to protect them from rabies.

Every few years the skunk populationin eastern New Mexico increases, and wealso see an increase in cases of rabies asskunks interact more with each other,said Dr. Paul Ettestad, the Department.spublic health veterinarian. Pet and horseowners need to protect their animals byhaving them up-to-date on their rabiesvaccines.

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The big story last month was thedefeat of the Omnibus Lands Bill onthe House floor. The OLB was theconglomeration of a number of fed-

eral lands bills including wilderness areasin New Mexico and several other westernstates. After a short period of negotiationwith Republican opponents, the bill wasagain brought to the floor of the Houseand passed.

With so many different bills lumpedtogether this legislation’s long-termimpacts on federal land management arehard to analyze. Perhaps the most far-reaching is the establishment of theNational Landscape Conservation System.The NLCS will encompass any BLMadministered area with a special use desig-nation such as Wilderness Area, Wilder-ness Study Area, National Conservation

when you read the fine print, the emphasisis on techniques to prevent depredation.Also, the funds are to be granted to thestates for state administered programs andthe federal part of any payments made fromsuch programs cannot be more than 50percent. Which means for New Mexicoranchers who suffer losses from wolves toreceive any benefit, the state has to estab-lish a program and fund it in order toreceive matching funds from the federalprogram. That’s a lot of conditions to bemet for something that would at best coveronly a miniscule amount of the loss suf-fered by New Mexico ranchers to wolves.

If there is any funding that gets to live-stock producers it will probably end upgoing to ranchers who are in the northernwolf recovery area. Since wolves have beendelisted the greens have tried to stop anycontrol or sport hunting of wolvesthrough legal actions.

In Wyoming, the legal actions are fromthe other side. Wyoming’s wolf manage-ment plan didn’t measure up to Fish andWildlife Service standards so wolves wereleft endangered and under federal man-agement in that state as they were delisted

Area and many others totaling some 26million acres. It will establish a new layerof administration over these places toassure their outstanding values are con-served, protected and restored. If the pastis any indication we can expect that anyproductive use of natural resources fromlands in the NLCS will diminish or disap-pear and the management costs willincrease. Although the authorizationrequires management to comply with allcurrently applicable laws and regulations,federal management programs alwaysseem to find a way to get what they want.

There are several components to the billthat are not directly related to federal landmanagement or wilderness designation.One is a pilot program on wolf depredation.Although the legislation authorizes theappropriation of $1 million for the program

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The Western Watersheds group hassued the BLM over Resource ManagementPlans in at least eight western states. Theplans cover about 25 million acres. Theyallege the RMP’s don’t do enough toaddress the needs of the sage grouse inplanning for grazing and oil and gas activ-ities. This suit is a pretty ambitious onefrom the scope of land area covered. West-ern Watersheds wants to shut down graz-ing any way they can. This is anotherexample of how they can use a singlespecies and the ESA to threaten grazingover a large area. At least some of theRMP’s have sage grouse managementincluded in their plans.

It will probably depend on which judgehears the case as to whether their plans areadequate. Western Watersheds likes to useJudge Winmill’s court for these actions, heseldom rules against them.

The sage grouse is the northern versionof the prairie chicken. The Pecos District’sRMP was recently modified to include aprairie chicken management component.

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar hasnamed Ned Farquhar to be the AssistantDeputy Secretary for Land and Minerals.He has been an adviser to GovernorRichardson and was working for the Nat-ural Resources Defense Council. HilaryTompkins was Richardson’s Chief Counseland will be the Solicitor at Interior.Another New Mexican, Deanna Archuleta,will be appointed as Deputy Assistant Sec-retary for Water and Science. She has beenchairman of the Bernalillo County Com-mission and a regional director for theWilderness Society.

The Obama administration has pro-posed a cap and trade program to regulateemissions of greenhouse gases. Under thecap and trade concept, permits to emitgreenhouse gases are either granted orsold at auction by the government depend-ing on whose proposal gets written intolegislation. There will be a limit on thetotal amount of carbon emissions permit-ted. That’s the “cap”. The companies thatend up with permits can then sell or trade

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The initial producers of emissions caus-ing fuels would be the first to need per-mits. That would include coal and oil andgas companies. In theory, they will passtheir costs on to consumers. That meansall the rest of us will be paying more, prob-ably a lot more, for virtually everythingbut especially gasoline, diesel and electric-ity. That’s going to be the hard part to sell.

Administration officials and congres-sional offices have been discussing how toimplement such a plan and especiallywhether they can force it on us all at onetime or phase it in over a few years.

Now there is a proposal for a variationof the concept that would auction all per-mits and send everyone a check for theirpart of the proceeds.

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Governor signs bill protecting water rights

Governor Bill Richardson has signedHB 40, limiting the power of munic-ipalities to condemn water rights,

noting it is probably the most importantwater bill to reach his desk from the recentLegislative session.

“This was not an easy decision — butultimately it was clear to me that on bal-ance, the benefits this bill brought to statewater policy far outweighed its flaws,”Governor Richardson said. “At the sametime it helps preserve our agriculturalindustry and heritage, it forces our munic-ipalities to think — and act — long termto meet their water needs.”

“There are few bills I considered thisyear that enjoyed such broad-based sup-port around the state,” Governor Richard-son said. “From the bill’s introduction toits final passage, its backers met withopponents, made compromises, refinedthe bill — and at the end it was supportedby the agricultural community, the Ace-quia Association, and by environmentalinterests. I commend the patience and per-

ment check. Its promoters know that if thepublic ever figures out what cap and tradeis going to cost them, they won’t supportit. This cap and dividend plan is the way touse our own money to buy our support forcap and trade.

And all of this is to prevent globalwarming that many credible scientistsbelieve is a hoax.

The Center for Biological Diversity hassued to force the government to establishcritical habitat to recover the jaguar. Thestatus of the jaguar was elevated recentlywhen one of the very few known to rangeon the U.S. side of the border was capturedand eventually euthanized by the ArizonaGame and Fish Department due to severekidney failure. There has been much pub-licity over the incident. The CBD claimshistorical range extends from California tothe Grand Canyon to Louisiana.

There have been a few spring storms tobring much needed moisture to parts ofthe state. For southern New Mexico theyhave brought mostly high winds. Theweather service is still predicting an end tothe La Niña event that should increase ourchances for moisture as we head into thesummer. We will pray for moisture andGod’s blessing on all of us. �

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Governor Richardson pointed out thatmunicipalities already enjoy extraordinarypreferential powers under state water law.Most significant is the power to hold waterrights unexercised for up to 40 years with-out fear of forfeiture. With new limitationson the power of condemnation as a back-stop, municipalities will be pushed morestrongly to be proactive in securing capac-ity in the marketplace to cover futurewater needs.

The Governor noted that the issue hadbeen a perennial one before the Legisla-ture since 2005, when a controversial U.S.Supreme Court decision on municipal useof condemnation for economic develop-ment spurred an intense reform debate.

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Manzano Angus held their 13thAnnual Bull Sale, March 24, at theranch near Estancia.

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Michelle Frost for inviting the CowBellesto take part in the National Ag Day at theRotunda. Karen Kelling and I set up a tablewith items from the CowBelles plus hun-dreds of recipes and nutritional informa-tion about beef. We gave out over 90 per-cent of the recipes and informationalpamphlets. Later in the day we helpedserve at the Rotunda dinner. One of theladies who proof reads senate bills stated,that the brisket was the best she had evereaten. What a nice compliment. Go Beef!This week many ladies will be traveling

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hours with programmable WatchDog dataloggers. The study included 191 refrigera-tors of producers, retail stores, and veteri-nary clinics. In addition, refrigerator loca-tion (barns, kitchens, mud rooms, tackrooms and other), type of refrigerator(freezer on top, side-by-side, freezer onbottom, mini refrigerator and other), ageof refrigerator (less than 5 yrs., 6 to 10 yrs.,11 to 15 yrs., and greater than 15 yrs.),number of animal health products, num-ber of animal health products that wereopened, expired, or both, and human foodand drink products in the refrigerator.The Beef Quality Assurance Program

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1,800, of which 11.8 percent were expiredand 29.3 percent were opened. The worstcase scenario was one refrigerator with 31bottles of which 31 were opened and 28bottles were expired!More than 40 percent of the refrigera-

in Salt Lake City, Utah. What a greatopportunity to learn and come home andshare with others what we have learned.Health fairs take place in the spring allaround the state and many CowBelle localsset up booths with information about thenutritional value of beef and answernumerous questions. Thank you, ladies fortaking the time to do this because it is wellworth your time when you share informa-tion with others. It shows you care aboutthe Beef industry and that you help pro-duce a nutritional product.Spring is the time for branding on

many of your ranches. Karen Kelling gavea very good presentation about vaccinatingat branding time at our district workshops.Last week I received my copy of the Profes-sional Animal Scientist. This is a scientificjournal and I would like to share somefrom an article titled: “The TemperatureVariability of Refrigerators Storing AnimalHealth Products.” Data loggers recordedthe temperature every 10 minutes for 48

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tors contained human food includingdairy products, eggs, fruits, and vegeta-bles. In addition, almost 60 percent of therefrigerators contained drinks for humanconsumption.Temperature monitoring revealed only

51 of the 191 refrigerators recorded tem-peratures between 35º to 45º greater than95 percent of the time.Given the BQA recommendation, 76

percent of the refrigerators tested wereunacceptable for storing animal healthproducts. There was no difference in tem-perature based on age or type of refrigera-tor.However, refrigerators located in barns

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perature monitoring is very important forthe effectiveness of the animal healthproduct. It is also important to dispose ofexpired products, reconstituted modifiedlive vaccines one hour after mixing, andkilled vaccines disposed of 10 days afteropening. My personal recommendation isto buy a refrigerator thermometer and donot place your animal health products inthe door of your refrigerator as there ismore temperature variability with openingand closing the refrigerator door.On the topic of branding, the recipe this

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The April 2 meeting of the Otero Cow-belles was held with 12 members andone guest GB the fifth present. Thank

you letters read from the State officers forthe District Workshop. John Allen fromCatron County (4-H agent) asking for $25to put their brand on shirt to give at rodeofor the contestants. Shelly Porter theNMCB Beef Ambassador Chairman sentinfo on the contest to be held at midyear in

April 8. At Union County Health Fair, April22, the CowBelles will have a booth. Anupdate given on Roundhouse Feed inSanta Fe held March 19. NMCB had abooth, gave out information and beefrecipes, and served beef on the buffet to1,100 people. District II Workshop was asuccess where Lariat’s had the largestattendance of all the locals. Lariats willman New Mexico State Fair booth on Mon-day, Sept. 14, from 3:30 p.m. to closing andon Tuesday, Sept. 15, from 10:00 a.m. to3:30 p.m. The deadline for the Beef Ambas-sador application is June 1. The contestwill be held June 28 at the Inn of theMountain Gods. Applicants must be 17 to25 years old. Changes and additions to theLariat Bylaws were discussed and passed,exact wording will be presented at the nextmeeting. The Lariat budget for 2008 andthe proposed budget for 2009 were dis-cussed and accepted as written. Wordingchanges for the Lariat scholarship werediscussed. There are two applications fromUnion County for the Pat Nowlin Scholar-ship. The applications will be taken to ahigh school counselor for an impartialdecision on which one will be submittedfor the scholarship. The guest speakers forthis meeting were Clifford and Barbara

Ruidoso. Tickets were handed out forfundraiser. Cowbelles will donate $25 to theSalvation Army in Memory of JamesVaughn. Martha Jones and Donnie Snoware doing well. Pat Jones Reported on HR503 Equine Cruelty Act, HR 875 FoodSafety Modernization Act (NAIS), NM HB40 Prohibit Condemnation by Municipali-ties, and NM SB 492 Seizures and BranInspection of Cattle. Mesa Verde Dayswhere Family Preparedness orange bags tohand out on April 28-29 2009, all other sup-plies are in, and bag stuffing will be on April23, 2009 at 9 a.m. Old Timers Day to be heldat the Cloudcroft High School CommonsArea and Cowbelles will donate $100. OteroCounty Fair — August 12-15 2009. Fromthe March meeting: The Bags the State Offi-cers will receive at District Workshop wereshown to the members. The Fundraiser wasvoted on by having six tickets for $5. the 1stprize will be $200, 2nd prize will be $75,and 3rd prize will be $50 in beef; 2,500 tick-ets made, drawing to be held during theCounty Fair in August. New Business: Duesamount set at $7 locals, and Jr’s dues to be$4, and $2 goes to the state. Submitted ByMisti Orr, Otero Cowbelle SecretaryWith 15 members and two guests pre-

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Cowbelles was held at the TurtlebackMountain Resort. In the absence of Presi-dent Gloria Peterson, Cathy Pierce calledthe gathering to order at 11:10. Discussionhad on a donation to the GeronimoSprings Museum, and it was voted on thatno donation be made this year. Furtherdiscussion, prompted by Nadyne Daves,encouraged the Cowbelles to becomeactive participants in gathering historicalmemorabilia for the museum. The Cow-belles were instrumental in the originalformation of the establishment, which fewmembers present knew. Volunteers for AgDay, April 17, were solicited. Daisy Wilson,Hazel Johnson, Jodell Downs, TommieAber, Stephanie Ross, Pinky Langham andNadyne Daves will represent the Cowbelleorganization. A thank you note from theAmerican Legion was read. The organiza-tion was appreciative of the Cowbelledonation to purchase beef jerky sent toAmerican Troops overseas. Cathy Pierceadvised members that the Sheriff’s Possehas contacted the Cowbelles to help atsome of their functions. It was decidedthat more information was needed beforeany commitment could be made. The Maymeeting of the Chamiza Cowbelles will beheld at Ivy Cranmer’s home in Las Palo-mas on May 7. Members attending areasked to bring a dish to pass. Submitted byHelen LanghamThe Copper CowBelles met on March

10 with President, Kim Clark presiding. Itwas decided to send one check a year forthe entire donation to El Refugio for beefpurchases instead of monthly checks of$20 each with the understanding that ElRefugio would be asked if they mind get-ting one check a year instead of themonthly ones. The New Mexico Cattle-growers Young Cattlemen’s graduateschool scholarship deadline is May 15. TheCowbelles received several thank you notesfrom State officers for our $500 support ofthe National Beef Ambassador programand for our membership in ANCW. Also,Kathy Davis sent a thank you for the Presi-

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Frisco Cowbelles news: A report wasgiven on the District meeting by Sue Jones.Six members attended the district meetingin Lordsburg. Two new members were wel-comed at the March 16 meeting, AnneSchaub and Judith Watkins. Nine membersattended. Hostess Marge Mckeen, helpedby Sue Jones furnished the refreshments.Topics of the meeting, Ranch Days and pro-viding the lunch for the 4H State wideCompetition being held at Glenwood inJuly. Members voted to approve the lunch.A big thank you to new member AnneSchaub, who has donated a belt buckle tothe 4H rodeo to be held in Reserve. Meet-ing was adjourned by President Sue Jones.Submitted by Sam Dutton, ReporterThe Sacaton CowBelles met on March

14 in Quemado. The CowBelles were privi-leged to have Jess Carey and Ed Wehrheimas guest speakers. Jess Carey is the WolfSpecialist hired by Catron County and EdWehrheim is currently a Catron CountyCommissioner. Jess and Ed gave an updateon the Wolf Program and had a huge dis-play of pictures of pets, livestock, horses,and elk who all suffered from wolf attacks.Ed informed the group on a new organiza-tion, Americans for Preservation of West-ern Culture, which is a grassroots effort inthe West and anyone concerned about pre-serving the culture, customs, and heritageof the West. The Mexican Wolf projectimpacts children’s safety, as well as resi-dents, ranchers, farmers, outfitters andhunters — everyone who lives, works,plays or owns pets and livestock in ourWestern States. Wolves have been seen in

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Powderhorn had a dinner meeting formembers, husbands, and guests in Marchdue to the District meetings. Following din-ner, the group was privileged to hear fromAlisa Ogden, President of the New MexicoCattlegrowers’ Association. She briefly out-lined some of the successes and possiblefailures for agriculture during the recentlycompleted 60-day legislative session. Goodnews as of March 23, New Mexico is againclassified as a TB free state with the excep-tion of Roosevelt and Curry counties. Manyfactors go into this classification and meet-ings are being held to try to change the pol-icy on dealing with TB in cattle in theUnited States. Alisa complimented CattleGrowers’ members on response to a “call foraction” on the Worker’s Compensation bill,which again helped retain the exemption ofagriculture. Some legislation made itthrough the session but ended up not beingcalled for a vote. The bill on depredation ofwildlife was one in this category, but it ispossible it will return during the special ses-sion. Cattlegrowers’ again participated inthe Roundhouse Feed for legislators alongwith the CowBelles, the Wool Growers, theDairy Association, and others. They fedapproximately 1,300 people with productsproduced in New Mexico. Country of origin

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some teachers and they are trying to comeup with a date. It was decided to put ad inthe Lincoln County Fair Book for $75.There was a discussion about CowBellemembers being of an agricultural basedbackground. CowBelle of the Year will bepresented with a pin with her brand on itat Christmas Party. If anyone has informa-tion concerning the history on CorrienteCowBelle club please let us know. Therewill not be a March meeting, the Districtmeeting is in March. April 8 will be thenext meeting. Kimberly will make newname tags for all current members. Sub-mitted by Jane NevarezPresident Jane Shafer called the April

meeting of the Canyon CowBelles to orderwith nine members in attendance. The Cow-belles were presented a certificate of Appre-ciation for their help with 4H. Wilna Meadexhibited the framed artwork of her son,Zane. It is an equisite piece of work and itwas decided to sell tickets. Wilna will findout if the artwork has a title and whatmedium was used. A “Thank You” note willbe sent to Zane for his donation, as well as athank you for Josie’s Framery for framingthis art at no cost. The Pat Nowlin Scholar-

labeling is in place, has many drawbacks,though members who take the trouble toparticipate in source and age verificationwill get a monetary reward as cattle gothrough the sale ring. Ms. Ogden said shewas asked if the New Mexico Cattlegrowers’under her direction was pursuing anti-gasand oil policies. Her answer was that as apart of a ranching family that had been inplace for 120 years, oil and gas productionwas a welcome addition to the economy, butshe, personally, and Cattle Growers’ standfor responsible production which enhancesthe environment. Ranchers are the originalenvironmentalists. In a very abbreviatedbusiness session, members voted to furnishrub packets for the goody bags at theWomen’s Agriculture Leadership Confer-ence. Submitted by Dorothy VaughnThe Corriente CowBelles meeting was

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ments in the case are still out there some-where for the world to see.It remains to be seen whether U.S.

Homeland Security Department SecretaryJanet Napolitano, a New Mexico native andformer governor of Arizona merely fellinto the same trap the Johnson adminis-tration in circulating a report withoutunderstanding what the report did or ifthere is something more sinister at play.

Other Attacks

You never know where the next arrow iscoming from. In mid April I attended theannual joint meeting of the New MexicoSociety of Association Executives and theMeeting Professionals International NewMexico Chapter. The event includes a tradeshow of hotels and suppliers. The meetingusually draws well over 100 people whoplan many of the largest meetings in thestate.The speaker for the event was Karen E.

Purves, MA, is a sought-after internationalspeaker known for her energetic, inspiringand passionate programs speaking onGreen Is In! The promotional material onthe speech said “Whether you are a plan-ner or supplier, learn how embracinggreen practices makes business and envi-ronmental sense! This program offersdozens of tips for your next meeting,including topics such as paper, food andbeverage, onsite facilities, hotels, andtransportation. See how going green canboost your bottom line!” I should haveknown I was in trouble.The first part of the presentation from

this perky young lady in a business suitand flip flops (I have learned not to callthem thongs) wasn’t too bad with herquoting statistics on napkin, paper cupand Styrofoam use. The numbers arepretty staggering, but most of what shewas telling the group was merely commonsense and the “waste not, want not” philos-ophy that most people in agriculture areraised with.However when she got to her food and

The U.S. Homeland Security Depart-ment’s memo to law enforcementagencies last month brought backsome fairly unpleasant memories.

The memo was to make law enforcementacross the nation aware of the supposedpotential for returning U.S. Army veteransto become involved with right wing terror-ists groups. But at least those brave menand women who have and are protectingour freedoms have some good company.In about 1998, much to dismay of the

agriculture industry, we learned that NewMexico law enforcement had received areport on right-wing terrorism and who to

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watch. At the top of the list were thoseinvolved in the “wise use” movement. Whowas and is the wise use movement? Peopleinvolved in the wise use of naturalresources. Those gun totin’ folks who pro-vide the food, fiber, minerals and shelterfor the nation and in some cases the world.Needless to say there was a great deal of

outrage that culminated in a Wise UsePeace Conference complete with an apol-ogy from the head of the New Mexico StatePolice. However, the damage was alreadydone. The report was and probably still isout there.That report and the one targeting

returning military were both produced bythe Southern Poverty Law Center — suresounds like a group that law enforcementshould be basing their judgments on. It isalso worth noting that New Mexico agri-culture is currently engaged in battle witha similar group, the New Mexico Center onLaw & Poverty, although we have notlocated any links between the two groups.Then there was the case between the

New Mexico Environment Department(NMED) and our dear departed Dick Man-ning. In that litigation the Departmenthad the audacity to call the New MexicoCattle Growers’ Association (NMCGA) andthe Arizona / New Mexico Coalition ofCounties (Coalition) “anti-government”organizations. Additionally they claimedthat the Department could not get a fairjury trial in Catron County or any countywhere there were members of either orga-nization.Little did they know that there are

NMCGA members in each of the state’s 33counties as well as 14 other states. Nor didthey do enough homework to even knowthat the Coalition is made up of electedcounty commissioners and supervisorsfrom New Mexico and Arizona respectively.Again, outrage and complaints to thenGovernor Gary Johnson. Again an apologyfrom the then head of the NMED and theNew Mexico Energy, Minerals & NaturalResources Department, but the docu-

beverage section, she got my attention. She told the group thatlivestock created 18 percent of the world’s greenhouse gases. Shestated that as meeting planners and family members, if theywould just serve or eat one less meal a week with meat, theycould save the amount of these gases created something like160,000 cars. She really likes a word to describe gas emissionsthat my grandmother taught me not to use and she used itrepeatedly talking about cows. One member of the audience didpoint out to her people do the same do the same thing.I will give her credit for using a number that can at least be

found, however misleading it might be. The 18 percent numbercomes from a report put out by the United Nations (UN) in 2006called Livestock’s Long Shadow. What nobody points out whenthey use the number is that it is for under developed counties —where few of the population has cars or the huge number of air,water and other environmental quality regulations that we in theUnited States must comply with. Thus, there is little but live-stock to emit gases.The UN report’s estimate for livestock’s contribution to GHG

emissions (18%) is a global estimate, and not applicable to theUnited States or other developed countries.According to the EPA, the entire U.S. agriculture sector

accounts for only six percent of annual U.S. GHG emission. Thisinformation can be found at: www.epa.gov/climatechange/emissions/downloads09/InventoryUSGhG1990-2007.pdf. Of this,livestock production is estimated to account for 2.8 percent oftotal U.S. emissions. The full fact sheet that refutes the Live-stock’s Long Shadow report can be found at: www.beeffrompasturetoplate.org/CMDocs/BeefProduction/FACT%20SHEET%20Critical%20Analysis%20of%20Livestock’s%20Long%20Shadow%20041509.doc.While the Chicago based Ms. Purves, who recycles even post-

it notes, paid all this attention to greenhouse gases and talkedincessantly about her recent flights from San Diego to Las Vegas(Nevada) and then to Albuquerque, she failed to mention theimpact of those flights. According to a report on Fox News aboutPresident Obama’s visit to Iowa to speak on the need to eliminatecarbon fuels and become the world’s number one exporter ofrenewable energy, jet fuel gets about five miles to the gallon andis perhaps the largest contributor to greenhouse gases.She was apparently also unaware that those vegetarian meals

she was promoting account for 3.2 percent of the U.S.’s green-house gas emissions — well over what livestock produces. Iknow, vegetables don’t pass gas, although they may cause it, theirproduction does require the use of energy.

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“the natural resources of the state of New Mexico are assets of thestate held in trust by the state for the benefit of the public; and thestate should recover damages for injury to natural resources,regardless of whether such natural resources have been or may beused or committed to use at any time and regardless of whetherthe natural resources are at present capable of being used.”The definition of “injurious substance” includes but is not

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als; soils; sediments; geologic resources; air; surface waters;ground waters; drinking water supplies; aquifers; perennial, sea-sonal and ephemeral drainages; arroyos; watersheds; biota; fish;wildlife; supporting habitats; and vegetation.”The bill also includes an extensive damages section and much

more, but this should be enough to get your attention. The measurenever got a hearing, but that doesn’t mean we won’t see it again.There is an existing Natural Resources Trustee Act. All of this

new material created additional powers under that act. FormerAlbuquerque Mayor and State Land Commissioner Jim Baca cur-rently serves as that Trustee.Watch for more of these bills as they are explained in the

month to come. These bills are the reason NMCGA and all of NewMexico agriculture needs to have producers on hand during the

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Legislature and meeting with legislators inthe interim.

And then there was none

More than a decade ago my friendWarner Glenn, a rancher and a lionhunter, created a stir among the so-calledenvironmental community when he spot-ted a jaguar in that corner of southeasternArizona and the New Mexico bootheel nextto the Mexican border. He shot the animalwith his camera rather than his lion gun.Since that time there have been literallyhundreds if not thousands of meetingsover the species and litigation on whether

mal. In early April the jaguar was acci-dently caught in a trap. Rather than justturn it loose, in the name of science, theanimal was collared. It was many daysbefore the collar indicated that the animalwas down and it was picked up. Shortlyafter that it was euthanized due to kidneyfailure. Was the animal aging and dying ofnatural causes? Did its’ capture and collar-ing hinder its’ heath? Would it have beenbetter off left alone?We have often said that if we treated our

dogs the way government wildlife agenciestreat wolves, we would be in jail. Here is aprime example of what messing withwildlife will get you. But what is happen-ing to those well-meaning biologists whowere probably just trying to learn more —albeit at the expense of an animal? Theyare now being investigated with an eyetoward some sort of criminal conspiracy.

Mid-Year

Please mark your calendars for theNMCGA/CowBelles/NMWGI meeting June28 through 30 at the Inn of the MountainGods in Mescalero, New Mexico. Roomreservations are now open!

or not the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service(FWS) should declare critical habitat for aspecies that has only be sighted a few timesin the U.S. in the last century.Then a camera was set up to see if one

or more of the big cats could be spotted inthe U.S. again. There was a photo or two ofa male that was coming into this countryfrom Mexico. Instead of accepting that thesouthwestern U.S. is the northern mostterritory for the species and the sciencethat indicates that any real potential forincreasing jaguar numbers is Mexico andsouth, radical groups have clung to theanimals as yet another reason to removehuman activity from the land.Now they don’t even have that one ani-

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PATRICIA K. JENNINGS, 53, diedpeacefully at her home Saturday morning,Feb. 14, 2009, after a courageous battle withbreast cancer. Patty grew up in Amarillo,Texas, but lived most of her life in New Mex-ico. She had been a resident of Roswell for20 years. She had a distinguished career asan advocate for early intervention, specialeducation and other services for childrenand families with special needs. She wasinstrumental in the creation of the NewMexico Medical Insurance Pool, providinghealth care coverage for New Mexicans whocould not obtain or afford health insurance.She is survived by her husband, State Sena-tor Tim Jennings, four children, her motherand father, two sisters and three brothers.

ROBERT (BOB) GRANTHAM, 59,rancher from Caballo passed away onNovember 29, 2008. He is survived by hiswife, Alma, a son, his mother, two brothersand one sister. He was a member of CaballoChurch, Sierra County Fair Board, NewMexico Farm & Livestock Bureau, and a 4-HLeader. He was a Vietnam Veteran.

WILLIAM H. MUNDY, JR., 91, a rancherand horseman of legendary proportions,died at a Las Cruces living community onApril 6. He attended New Mexico MilitaryInstitute in 1937-38 where he was an alter-nate on the polo team and New Mexico StateUniversity. In 1938-1939 he guided touristson mules in the Grand Canyon for the FredHarvey Company. Bill also worked for theinfamous Las Cruces Rancher, EmmittIsaacks, where he met his future bride, EthelIsaacks. The couple moved to Chama, in1949 to settle his dream. They remained inChama for more than six decades. He waspredeceased by his wife, Ethel. He is sur-vived by his two sons, four grandsons andfour great-grandchildren.

H. MARCEL MORTENSEN, 85, lifelongAnimas Valley rancher, farmer and swineproducer, died March 1 at his home in Cot-ton City. He is survived by his wife of 65years, Lorna Pace, six sons, a daughter, 26grandchildren and 32 great-grandchildren.

VERA EDNA McINTOSH, 92, whofarmed and ran a dairy at Grier, with herhusband John, died March 3 at a Clovis hos-pital. She is survived by a daughter, a son,seven grandchildren and eight great-grand-children.

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KENNETH DEAN SCHEAR, longtimeNew Mexico rancher/stockman, died onMarch 15. At the age of 14, Ken went towork for GG Armstrong & Son on theArroyo Seco Ranch in Lincoln County.Except for the time he was serving his coun-try in the Army, and a few years with theU.S. Forest Service as a firefighter, Kenworked on and managed farming andranching properties for the Armstrong fam-ily in New Mexico and Texas. Working side-by-side with his wife Pat, Ken was happiestwhen they were getting a job done. Memori-als be sent to the Corriente CowBellesScholarship Fund, Willa Stone, PO Box 484,Capitan, New Mexico 88316.

NOLA AMANDA STARKEY MYRICK,92, longtime New Mexico and West Texasfarm and ranch woman, died February 14 inAmarillo. She was preceded in death by herhusband, D, and is survived by three sons,nine grandchildren, 24 great-grandchildren.

ADDIE ISABELL “Belle” HEFLIN, 92,longtime Roosevelt County farm wife, diedFebruary 16 in Portales. She was precededin death by her husband, J.B. Survivorsinclude her five children, 20 grandchildren,31 great-grandchildren, six great-great-grandchildren and two sisters.

VERNIE L. WELLS, 88, lifelong GranQuivira rancher, died February 15. He was aWWII veteran and was active in communityaffairs. He was preceded in death by his wife,Opal Mae and is survived by two sons, adaughter, two brothers, three sisters, 11grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren.

KENNETH “Burr” BURNS, 84, Loving-ton rancher and businessman, died March 5at his home. He attended Texas Tech Uni-versity and was a paratrooper in WWII, serv-ing in the Philippines and Japan with Gen-eral McArthur. He was very active in hiscommunity. He is survived by his wife,Fran, four children, seven grandchildrenand two great-grandchildren.

DONALD G. TAYLOR, 91, lifelongOtero County rancher, died March 29, at hishome in Alamogordo. He drove a school busfor 33 years and for nine years, he and hiswife, Paulee, owned the B&J Grocery inBoles Acres. He was the founder of the NewMexico Precision Shooters Assoc., and aParagon Foundation supporter. He is sur-vived by two sons, two daughters, fivegrandchildren and five great-grandchildren.

WILLIAM ANDREW UPTON, 85, life-long rancher and farmer at Hassell and Mel-rose, died February 18 at his home in Mel-rose. He served on the House School Boardfor 12 years and was active in communityaffairs. He is survived by his wife of 62 years,Betty Frances, three daughters, seven grand-children and seven great-grandchildren.

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LEE HORACE RICE, 88, lifelong NewMexico and Arizona rancher and miner,died February 13, at a Las Cruces hospital.He was a WWII veteran. He is survived byhis wife, Goldie, three sons, six grandchil-dren, three great-grandchildren and onegreat-great-grandchild.

ROBERT W. PORTER, 80, Clovis arearancher and farmer, died March 28. He issurvived by his wife, Leota, a daughter, ason, three grandchildren, eight great-grandchildren, a brother and two sisters.

LOIS TIVIS, 83, longtime Floyd resi-dent, died March 30 in Portales. She and herhusband Lester farmed and ranched atFloyd for 40 years. After her husband died,she worked in home care for the elderly.She is survived by three sons, two daugh-ters, 15 grandchildren, 15 great-grandchil-dren, three great-great-grandchildren, a sis-ter and a brother.

EMBERT ERNEST “Bert” FRANKLIN,99, who ranched on his family homesteadnear House for many years, died March 21,at his home in House. He was the last sur-vivor of nine siblings. He was preceded indeath by his wife Mary Catherine and is sur-vived by a daughter, a son, nine grandchil-dren and 14 great-grandchildren.

RUBY L. DUNAGAN, 88, who ranchedand ran Imperial Livestock Supply at Clovis,died February 28, at a Clovis care center.She is survived by a son, a daughter, 10grandchildren, 24 great-grandchildren andfour great-great-grandchildren.

GEORGE ROBERT JACKSON, SR.,85, Gila rancher, died March 17 at a SilverCity hospital. After his service during WWII,he and his wife, Dorothy, moved toDorothy’s family ranch in Lordsburg. Theylater bought ranches at Gila, Lordsburg andAnimas. He also owned Gila Realty for morethan 50 years. He was an original organizerof the Cliff/Gila Fair and was instrumentalin getting Vocational Agriculture started atthe Cliff School. He survived by his wife of65 years, Dorothy, three sons, seven grand-children, seven great-grandchildren andtwo great-great-grandchildren.

IRIS MAE MORGAN, 93, who farmedand ranched with her husband Howard, atIma, for many years, died March 13 at a Clo-vis hospital. She was preceded in death byher husband and is survived by a daughterand a son, six grandchildren, 16 great-grandchildren and five great-great-grand-children.

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J.L. (JIM) TENNEYOffice 520/384-2834 • Cell 520/906-7335 • Fax 520/384-6396

4520 West Airport Road, Willcox, AZ 85643 • jimassist@vtc.net

300- AC. FARM 124 acres in alfalfa plus another93 acres under Pivot. Area produces top, high-quality hay.Priced to sell at $825,000.Possible owner carry.Additional farm ground available.

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PAUL McGILLIARDCell: 417/839-5096 • 1-800/743-0336

MURNEY ASSOC., REALTORSSPRINGFIELD, MO 65804

595 ACRES,EXCELLENT RANCH

Three Homes: farm house is 3-bd, 2-ba; 2nd home is 1997 3-bd, 2 ba modular home down 1 mile private lane; 3rd home is 2-bd,

1-ba rented; new 40x42 shop, 40x60 livestock barn, over 350 acres in grass. (Owner runs over 150

cow/calves). Two Springs. 12 ponds, 2 lakes consistingof 3-1/2 acres, both stocked with fish. Excellent

fencing. A must farm to see. MLS#614245

INVESTMENT PROPERTYLOCATION – LOCATION! 19 acres m/l at

1st Mountain Grove exit, Bus Hwy 60. Potential is unlimited at this location. Last corner available at

any major Mtn. Grove exit. Ideal for truck plaza/convenience store, restaurant,

strip mall or fabricating business. Call Paul for details and private showing. MLS#819933

For pictures go to: paulmcgilliard.murney.com

RICHARD RANDALS – QUALIFYING BROKERTOM SIDWELL – ASSOCIATE BROKER

GEORGE (DOC) EVETTS, MD – ASSOCIATE BROKERO: 575/461-4426 • C: 575/403-7138 • F: 575/461-8422 • TF: 866/681.3505

richard@newmexicopg.com • www.newmexicopg.com615 West Rt. 66, Tucumcari, NM 88401

We May Not Be the Biggest, the Fanciest or the Oldest but We Are Reliable & Have the Tools

Available at private treaty at the ranchRon & Peggy Erjavec

225 IL RD, Boone Co. 81025719/947-3645 • 719/544-7318 • www.barzonacattle.com

Wild WestPROPERTIES, LLC

CAPITAN MOUNTAIN RANCH – 5,486 acre deeded, 3,916 acre state lease.Joins the village of Capitan, paved hwy on 2 sides. Perfect for subdivision. $9,325,000

DURFEE CANYON RANCH – 690 acre deeded, mostly National Forest inholdings.145 head year round forest permit. Very nice headquarters. $1,500,000

L.P. REED RANCH – Southern CO, 500 head ranch, 12,383 acre +/- deeded, 640acres state lease, plus 915AUM grazing preference. Elk, deer, bear, turkey and antelope.Cooperating Colorado broker. $6,191,500

RIVER RUN RANCH – Hondo, NM. 190 +/- acres, Hondo River flows through it.Nice home w/indoor swimming pool. Irrigation water rights, fruit orchard. $1,500,000

SALADO CREEK CANYON RANCH – Sandoval County, NM. 3200 +/- acres withlive water. Landowner Elk tags, Mule Deer and Antelope hunting. $3,828,000

HIDDEN VALLEY RANCH – Deming, NM. 160 space RV Park, 1,280 deeded acresplus BLM cattle ranching allotment. 10 acre foot water rights. $1,985,000

WESTERN CATRON COUNTY, NM – 80 acre +/-deeded inside National Forest.8,000’ alt. big timber. $400,000

HAY VEGA – 474 acre +/- deeded inside National Forest. 2 springs and a well. About25 miles from Springerville, AZ. $1,422,000

Randy J. Wood, Qualifiying Broker7400 Gila Rd. NE, Albuquerque, NM 87109

office: 505/980-8019 • fax: 505/823-2262EMAIL: rjwood5@comcast.net • www.wildwestproperties.com

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403 Calle Del Bosque, Bernalillo, NM

A once-in-a-lifetime horse lover’s paradise! This property has everything you need ...just bring the horses and cattle! Gorgeous custom main house with large adobe guesthouse. Horse barn, massive hay barn, fully lit roping arena with aisles, shoots and perfectfooting. Extra tall round pen. Several outbuildings. Main house has perfect New Mexicancharm with viga ceilings, fireplaces, plaster walls, saltillo tile and custom kitchen. Bigguest house too! All set on beautiful ditch bank. Come see! MLS# 642876

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SHOW LOW BRANCH:P.O. Box 3151, Show Low, AZ 85902

Phone: 928/532-0055F: 928/537-1904

MAIN OFFICE: 40070 W. Hwy. 84P.O. Box 1, Stanfield, AZ 85272

Ph: 520/424-3839 • F: 520/424-3843Toll Free: 866/424-9173JIM OLSON, Broker

MARANA BRANCH:P.O. Box 90806, Tucson, AZ 85752

Phone: 520/572-0109F: 520/844-3405

ARIZONA RANCH REAL ESTATEN O W L I C E N S E D I N A R I Z O N A A N D N E W M E X I C O

www.azranchrealestate.com� Clem North Ranch – This is a large desert ranch that is rated for 397 head yearlong andhas a long history of large winter increases during wet years. This ranch is close to thePhoenix area yet far enough away to avoid being “in town”. You won’t find a more attrac-tively priced desert ranch on the market today priced at under 900 per animal unit! You cancontrol 156 Sections +/- of productive ranch for only $320,000. Possible Terms!Motivated Seller! Call Jim Olson at 520-424-3839. Price Reduced! $320,000.� A-1 Ranch – Beautiful Flagstaff Ranch. 175 head seasonal (May to October). 10,717Acres (10 Acres Deeded). Call Troy Cooke at 928-532-0055. Asking $400,000.� CO Farm/Ranch – Snowflake, AZ. Nice Farm/Ranch with irrigation pivot, pasture. Thereis a new 1600´ 3 BD/2 BA home on the deeded acreage. Ranch has a new hydraulic, tow-able pivot system. The system is designed to water approximately 90 acres. The pivot cov-ers 25 Acres +/- at a time. There is also a new 270x140 “Red River” roping arena. The entiresection is fenced. 9 deeded acres and 640 leased acres totaling 649 acres. Call Troy Cookeat 928-532-0055. Asking $490,000.� Hook Open A Ranch – Willcox, AZ. This is one of the nicest working cattle ranchesavailable in Arizona today. The ranch has easy access to the town of Willcox, but has asecluded feel at the same time. Rates at 350 head year round, this ranch is the perfect sizefor a family operation. The Hook Open A Ranch is desirable in many ways including thelocation, the mix of different country, the ease of working the ranch, the quality of theimprovements, and the upgraded headquarters. There is a possibility of splitting this ranchin two. Please call for details. You owe it to yourself to come have a look at one of Arizona’sbest ranches. Call Jim Olson at 520-424-3839 or Scott Thacker at 520-444-7069. Asking $2,500,000.� Stockton Pass Grant Creek Ranch – Willcox, AZ. (2) 160 acre parcels completely sur-rounded by the Coronado National Forest located in the beautiful Graham Mountains. Thisis some of the most beautiful and unique property that Arizona has to offer. The “StocktonPass Ranch” headquarters is located on the southernmost 160 acre parcel and consists ofa ranch home, corrals, and typical ranch headquarter type improvements. Both deededparcels have seasonal creeks running through them. This ranch is rich in Arizona history.There is also a 175 head Forest Grazing Permit that is included in the purchase. Call JimOlson at 520-424-3839 or Scott Thacker at 520-444-7069. Reduced! $2,800,000.� Peterson Ranch – Cochise County, AZ. This is one of the greatest values in ArizonaRanches. There is a very nice home with over 4100 deeded acres and the balance of theranch is Arizona State Grazing Lease. The operation is rated 625 head year long, wellwatered, and highly improved. This beautiful ranch is located in remote rolling grassland ina little known area of Arizona at higher cooler elevations. This is the ranch you have beenwaiting to buy! Call Scott Thacker at 520-444-7069. Asking $3,500,000.� Antelope Ranch – Cochise County, AZ. This is a rare opportunity to buy a beautifulworking cattle ranch, with over 8 Sections of deeded land. Excellent access year round tothe Headquarters. The Headquarters is a large historic ranch house, 5-6 BD/4 BA, largekitchen, long porches and a basement 2 adobe barns by the corrals, a shop by the mainhouse. The working corrals are welded steel and designed for the rancher with large pens,heavy squeeze chute, tub, scale, semi and truck trailer loading alleys. Owner may carry!One or more members of selling entity is a licensed real estate agent. Call Scott Thackerat 520-444-7069. Asking $4,950,000 cash or $5,150,000 terms.� Wildhorse Ranch – Yavapai County, AZ. Wildhorse Ranch consists of approximatley883 deeded acres and 6,700 state lease acres for a total of just under 12 sections. BoulderCreek runs through the deeded lands on the ranch, and the ranch has 150 acre feet of sur-face water irrigation rights from the creek. There are 2 nice homes on the ranch, one ofwhich is brand new and very customized. This ranch is located only 7 miles from the townof Bagdad on a good all weather, county maintained road. The words here cannot describethe beauty and uniqueness of Wildhorse Ranch. One or more members of selling entity arelicensed real estate agent/brokers in Arizona. Call Jim Olson at 520-424-3839 or GalePearce at 520-466-2994. Asking $6,500,000.

D A N D E L A N E YR E A L E S T A T E , L L C

318 W. Amador Ave., Las Cruces, NM 88005

(O) 575/647-5041 • (C) 575/644-0776nmlandman@zianet.com

www.zianet.com/nmlandman

WAHOO RANCHApproximately 38,473 acres: 9097deeded, 6,984 BLM, 912 state, 40uncontrolled and 21,440 forest.Beautiful cattle ranch located onthe east slope of the Black RangeMountains north of Winston, NM,on State Road 52. Three hours fromeither Albuquerque or El Paso.

The ranch is bounded on the eastby the Alamosa Creek Valley andon the west by the WahooMountains ranging in elevationfrom 6,000´ to 8,796´. There are 5houses/cabins, 3 sets of workingcorrals (2 with scales) and numer-ous shops and outbuildings. It isvery well watered with manywells, springs, dirt tanks andpipelines. The topography andvegetation is a combination ofgrass covered hills (primarilygramma grasses), with manycedar, piñon and live oak coveredcanyons as well as the forestedWahoo Mountains. There are plen-tiful elk and deer as well as ante-lope, turkey, bear, mountain lionand javelina (49 elk tags in 2008).Absolutely one of the nicest combi-nation cattle/hunting ranches to befound in the SW. Priced reduced to$8,500,000.

SCOTT MCNALLY, BROKERSpecializing in sales and

appraisals of rural properties

P.O. Box 428 • Roswell, NM 88202Phone: 575/622-5867Mobile: 575/420-1237

Web Site: www.ranchesnm.comemail: sammmcnally@msn.com

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Joe Stubblefieldand Associates

13830 S. WESTERN ST., AMARILLO, TX806/622-3482

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Elk Haven Ranch ~ This 4,320 deeded acre elk sanctuary is locat-ed on the southwestern slopes of the Zuni Mountains, nearbyRamah. Located in hunt Unit 10, this region contains the worldclass Zuni elk herd and is a high demand area coveted by rifle and

bow hunters. Improved with a 1,984 square foot ranch lodge, aSolitaire double-wide, two wells, numerous springs and earth-en tanks. The secluded elk haven adjoins the vast CibolaNational Forest providing access to thousands of acres.$4,320,000.

Lyles Ranch ~ On the market for the first time! 3,685 deededacres located 12 miles east of Santa Rosa, NM. This is a repu-

tation cattle country and an ideal location for a cow-calfoperation. A tidy headquarters with 2,000 square foot man-

ufactured home, 3 shallow wells, steel pipe, pens and cattle scales. Low overheadand low maintenance is the key to this outfit! Priced at $295 per deeded acre.

Los Chaparrales Ranch ~ Nourished by the Mimbres River is a 1,789 acre desertoasis of sycamores, cottonwoods, and water. This environment is a refuge forwildlife and ideal for the western horse and cattle. This pretty little ranch has1,389 deeded acres, water rights, a beautiful location and heavenly views. Theneighborhood is sparsely populated, yet the amenities of nearby Silver City andDeming, are easily accessed. $1,800,000.

Eagle Canyon Ranch ~ Located within the scenic productive hill country 40miles west of Artesia, New Mexico, which is one of the region’s most prolificsmall town communities. This 15,980 acre expanse is an ideal cattle grazing oper-ation. It has good water development, pipe shipping pens, and excellent access offpaved roads. Abundant wildlife: mule deer, Barbary sheep, and quail. Turn-keysale includes cattle on site! $1,500,000.

Luera Ranch ~ A great western NM mountain ranch balanced with an abundanceof wildlife, captivating beauty, rich productive range sites, quality improvementsand space to roam. 47,000± acres overlooking the Plains of San Augustine andsurrounding the 9,000 ft. Luera Mountain Peak! Located south of Datil, remote,yet easily accessible. $8,200,000.

Rancho Bonito ~ This 4,210 deeded acre Santa Rosa, New Mexico ranch hasplenty to offer. A healthy climate, great vistas, central location, highway frontage,private access, and no thru traffic. The scenic range sites support rolling grass-lands, mesa rim, and piñon/juniper woodlands thriving with wildlife. Four shal-low wells, several water troughs and earthen tanks complement this pretty littleranch. Don’t miss this great investment opportunity! $2,105,000.

Zia Mesa Farm ~ Are you semi-retired but yearning to keep your foot in agri-culture yet not bury yourself . . . then I urge you to see this low maintenance 162acre wheat farm. Pivot sprinkler irrigation, neat and tidy residence, barn, andfarmyard. Best of all is that is that you’re within minutes of a good fishing hole atFort Sumner Lake, New Mexico! $450,000.

Agua Negra Ranch ~ 18,000 deeded acre river ranch with flowing water, lakes,water rights, scenic woodlands and grassland range site. Agua Negra Ranch is acontiguous expanse of private land with spectacular water features and abundantwildlife: deer, antelope, turkey, quail, water fowl and fishing. Good stock pens,indoor arena and easy access. Ideal for the western lifestyle and livestock opera-tion. Seller will divide! $12,000,000.

DVD’s and Brochures available upon request by contacting:

Keith L. SchrimsherPhone/Fax: 575/622-2343

www.nm-ranches.com

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KernLand, Inc.● Rio Pecos Ranch – 12,254 acres, 15 milessouth of Fort Sumner. Extremely productiveand well managed. Improvements include alarge set of pipe corrals, cattle scales and over-head feed storage. Well watered from a strongsubmersible well and 6 drinkers plus year-round live water from 8 miles of the PecosRiver. Conservatively runs 300 cows.

● El Valle Escondido Ranch – 10,326 acres, 30miles north of Clayton. Good mix of protec-tive canyons and productive grama grasscountry. Excellent cattle improvements andseveral restored historic homes. Mule deer,elk, antelope and turkey. Over 4 miles ofhighway frontage. Runs 200 cows most years.

Billy Howard Dave KernCell # 575/799-2088 Cell # 575/760-0161

See Brochures At: www.kernranches.com575/762-3707

Scottand co.L Ranch & Farm Real Estate

1301 Front St., Dimmitt, TX 79027Ben G. Scott, Krystal M. Nelson–Brokers

1-800/933-9698 day/nightwww.scottlandcompany.com

This ad is just a small sample of the properties that we currently have for sale. Pleasecheck our website: scottlandcompany.com and give us a call!

READY TO RANCH & DEVELOP (wind energy, comm., res.)Potter Co., TX. – 4872.8 acres of beautiful ranch country four milesnorth of loop 335, Amarillo, TX., pvmt. on four sides (3 mi. – Hwy.287, 1 mi. – Western St., 1 mi. – Givens Rd., 1 mi. – Rivera Park Rd.).Well watered by pumps powered by solar energy (state of the art) andwindmills. Deer, quail & dove. Talk to us about dividing (640 ac. min.)

VALLEY VIEW RANCH – Texas Panhandle - 177 acres with extra-ordinary 5404 sq. ft. +/- home overlooking the property with beautifulviews of live creek, trees, wildlife (deer, quail, & turkey), covered horsetraining facilities, stables, excellent cattle working facilities and pens,employee housing.

NORTH OF THE CANADIAN/MOORE CO. – 966.3 +/-approx. 688.46 acres improved pasture, 210.8 acres CRP, 67.04 acresnative grass, ½ mile sprinkler across the road, stock well, fronts on Hwy.354, South County Line Road (paved) and Middle Well Road (paved).

MUST SEE! Just out of Amarillo! 640 acres on Mulberry Creek,all grass, watered by mills & ponds, beautiful views, talk to us aboutdividing if lesser acreage is desired.

HEART OF THE PLAINS – 8 section ranch with new set of pens,concrete bunks, truck/cattle scale and commodity barn, mobile home,watered by subs, mill and pipeline, on pavement, hour from Lubbock.

HOMES & LANDEquestrian Estate — 4 bedroom/2 bath renovated home on ~4 acresw/seven stall barn, 10 covered runs, tack room/office, arena and 50'x50'garage. MLS #637162. $1,600,000.

North of Socorro, NM — Horse Lover’s Paradise. Life the way youalways dreamed it would be, in this sprawling 4 bedroom, 3 bath homeon 3.961 acres. Property includes barn with tack room, work shop, cor-rals, storage shed, landscaping and fencing on 3 sides. MLS #646268.$180,000.

Magdalena Land — Exquisite views, convenient to town – 225 acresoffers the opportunity to take advantage of additional land owned byBLM. Power and phone at property line. Development potential or justwide open space for your enjoyment. MLS #484787. $562,500.

South of Socorro — 38.35 Acres – 24 irrigated, 18x24 Barn, 24x32Tractor Shed, 17x24.5 Enclosed Storage. Power, community water avail-able. Fenced. MLS #639736. $275,400.

Betty Houston REALTOR®, GRI, CRB

575-835-1422 515 Center Street, Socorro, NM 87801

bhouston@socorronmproperty.comwww.socorronmproperty.com

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RANCHES • LAND • FARMS

Turkey Creek, AZ 2837 Acres deeded, nice HQ, small State lease, 724 acre-feet of water rights, great development potential $6,000,000.

Southeast, AZ A Year Round River Runs through the Deeded Land! Great Guest Ranch Prospect. Excellent access, 280 deeded acres,grazing leases, irrigated pasture with water rights from the river. HQ situated in beautiful canyon. Scenic.

North of San Simon, AZ Great Guest Ranch Prospect. Pristine, scenic, private but 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. $2,450,000

Young, AZ 72 Acre Farm. Under the Mogollon Rim, a must see, with small town charm, mountain views. 1,000 gpm well, home, 1800’smuseum, 2 bedroom cabin, shop, and barn. Excellent for horse farm, bed and breakfast, land or water development. +/-62 ac & well for$1,700,000 and Home and other improvements. Seller Financing. $424,500

**NEW ** Benson, AZ, 79 Acre Farm. Situated in the beautiful San Pedro Valley along the San Pedro River. +/-50 acres under irriga-tion. Includes a 2/3 interest in a 1000 gpm irrigation well. Great for cattle, horses and homesites. $850,000

Rainbow Valley, AZ 300 Head Cattle Ranch. Excellent desert ranch owned and operated by the same family for 40 years. Wellimproved with BLM and State grazing leases. HQ on State Land, well watered. $850,000

Wickenburg, AZ 216 Head Cattle Ranch. Scenic, lush high desert vegetation. 103 deeded acres, State, BLM and 3,100 acres privatelease. Well watered w/tanks, springs & wells. Abundant feed, numerous corrals and great steel shipping pens. $850,000

Near Cotton City, NM 680 Acre Farm with 315 acres of water rights, +/-4 sections of BLM. Run +/-300 head. Irrigated by 12" pipewith alfalfa valves. 3 Irrigation wells water at 150' and 2 domestic wells. Nice home, barn and corrals. Great Buy! $755,000.

Tombstone, AZ 68 Head Cattle Ranch. Be part of the old west with this Tombstone cattle ranch. 68 Head year long, BLM, State grazingleases, 160 acres deeded land, spectacular views, close to town, great access. Grass and browse ranch. Reduced to $525,000

Greenlee County, AZ, 139 Head Ranch. Year long USFS Permit with two room line camp, barn and corrals at HQ. This is a remote horse-back ranch with limited vehicular access, 8 dirt tanks, +/-20 springs. 10 Acres of deeded in Sheldon, AZ. Seller Financing. $400,000

Santa Teresa Mnts, Fort Thomas AZ. 200 deeded acres, 17 Head BLM Allotment, private retreat, two wells. This property is very remoteand extremely scenic with a beautiful canyon lined with sycamores, cottonwoods and beautiful rock formations. Seller Financing.$300,000.

HORSE PROPERTIES:Benson, AZ. Custom Home on 8 Acres. 3BR/2BA home with colored concrete floors, pecan cabinetry, granite counter tops, vaulted ceil-ings, and large bonus room. +/-5400 square foot barn with plenty of room for stalls, hay, or equipment storage. $380,000.

Benson, AZ 39 Acre Quality Horse Facility. Castlebrook barn, nice home and much more. $895,000.

Willcox, AZ 25 Acres. Nice home, irrigated fields, large metal workshop, round pen, corrals, lighted roping arena. $300,000.

Benson, AZ - Very Western 10 Acre Horse Property. Great for working cow horses, straw bale home with round pen, arena, tack barn,stalls. $379,000.

Benson, AZ 8 Acres. Remodeled home 3 bedroom, 2 bath, irrigated horse pastures, barn. $330,000.

Dragoon, AZ 5 Acre Horse Property. 3927 square foot home remodeled with new kitchen cabinets and flooring, 4-stall hay/horse barn,two turnouts. $250,000 (Additional acreage available and grazing possibility for a few head of cattle.)

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NEVADARANCHES & FARMS

Wells Area Farm: 90 deeded acres of whichapprox. 85 in Alfalfa and Orchard Grass hay. Goodhome and outbuildings plus singlewide mobile. On Hwy93.3 miles North. Price: $500,000. Elko Company Deeded Sheep Base:10,960 deeded acre plus a BLM permit (29%) in theAdobe Range Northeast of Elko, NV. Price only:$1,426,000. including 1/2 mineral rights. Add theElmore listed below for hay base.Elmore Ranch: 750 acres on the HumboldtRiver approx. 15 miles East of Elko. Approx. 400 waterrighted acres and not improvements other than fences.Price: $600,000.Mason Mountain Ranch: approx. 3700deeded acres plus small BLM permit adjoining theranch. This ranch is located on the road to Charlestonapprox. 16 miles off the Mountain City highway.Modest improvements include home and misc. out-building. No power. Approx. 80 acres of meadow irri-gated out of Mason Creek and springs. Lots of wildlife.Would be good combination summer cattle and recre-ation. Price: $1,575,000.

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BY TROY HADRICK

It’s hard to get through the day anymorewithout hearing the word “sustain-able.” In fact, I was recently asked if I

was a factory farmer or if I raised cattlesustainably. Who judges what’s sustainableand what isn’t?

It seems that the word has beenhijacked and is being used by people whoare opposed to modern agriculture.

Sometimes you just have to shake yourhead when you hear the term. When I hearabout sustainable wood, it always puzzlesme. Are there some trees that don’t growback?

But in food production, we hear moreand more that modern agriculture can’tcontinue down the same path it’s currentlyon. What exactly led to that false notion,and how would anyone possess the kind ofknowledge needed to back up that sweep-ing statement?

Skeptics say we should go back to howwe used to raise crops and livestock.

But how far back should we go? To the1950s? Or how about the 1870s? Maybe wecould go back to when everyone raised justtheir own food?

Broadly, it is frequently true that so-called sustainable practices are those tech-niques used before the combustion enginewas invented. Every industry has adaptedand used technology to improve produc-tion methods and output. That includesagriculture.

From a farmer’s perspective, there aretwo questions that should have to beanswered before any agricultural practicecan truly be considered sustainable. First,will the farm and ranch families imple-menting the practice be able to generateenough income to continue farming orranching?

Will those families be sustainable? Andsecond, will the practice help producersincrease food production to keep up with agrowing population? If the answer toeither of these questions is no, then, frommy perspective, it should not be consid-ered sustainable.

If farmers and ranchers can’t make aliving, they obviously won’t be around very

long. That’s not what I would call a sus-tainable practice. Or if America’s farmersand ranchers are forced to use productionmethods that do not yield enough food foreveryone would you consider that sustain-able? I wouldn’t.

At the end of the day, agriculture has asingle, yet vital, responsibility — to pro-vide food, fiber, fuel and other basics of lifefor an ever-growing world. The agricultureindustry that some folks like to envision isbetter described as nostalgic rather thansustainable or even realistic. Our societywouldn’t have developed into what it istoday if 25 percent or more of our work-force was still required to grow food. Forthe past century, we have continually pro-duced more food with less farm inputs.

With the technologies available today,that trend will continue.

American agriculture has a longertrack record than any other industry inthis country. Many families are producingfood on the same land their ancestors did.That is proof of sustainability. Farmers andranchers know a thing or two about beingsustainable since our livelihood dependson it. It’s time we take our word “sustain-able” back and encourage everyone tothink about and use its real definition. �

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CC Bar Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .46Carrizozo Cowboy Days . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3Carter Brangus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .47Casey Beefmaster . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .48Cattle Guards/Priddy Construction . . . . .50Cattleman’s Livestock

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DD&L Tooling & Plastics . . . . . . . . . . . . .51D2 Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .37Dairy Producers of New Mexico . . . . . . .34David Dean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .55Dan Delaney Real Estate . . . . . . . . . . . .54Desert Scales & Weighing Equipment . .50Directory of New Mexico Agriculture . . .15Domenici Law Firm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .40

EECS Forage Turf Seed . . . . . . . . . . . . . .27Elgin Breeding Service . . . . . . . . . . . . .47Estrays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .41Exit Clovis/Coletta Ray . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

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McGinley Red Angus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .47Merrick’s Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31Mesa Feed Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .39Mesa Tractor, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35, 50Michelete Homestead Realty . . . . . . . . .51Chas. S. Middleton & Son . . . . . . . . . . .51Montana del Oso Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . .48Montoya Cattle Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .47Murney Assn. / Paul McGilliard . . . . . . .53Mur-Tex Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35

NNew Mexico Beef Council Bullhorn . . . .29New Mexico Cattle Growers

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TT&T Trailer Sales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19Tenny’s 4U Land . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .52Three Mile Hill Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . .48

UUnited Country Vista Nueva, Inc. . . . . . .56USA Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .47

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