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In 

this 

Issue... 

Nevada Cattlemen’s 

Association.......................pgs. 3-4 

Cow Camp Chatter, ..............pg. 5 

Eye on the Outside................pg. 6 

Leveling the Playing Field....pg. 8 

Horse Snorts and 

Cow Bawls.............................pg. 9 

Fumes from the Farm..........pg. 13 

Look Up...............................pg. 14 

Beef Check-Off...................pg. 16 

The Secret World 

Inside the Animal Rights 

Agenda, part 2..............pgs. 18-24 

Range Plants 

for the Rancher....................pg. 26 

Coloring Contest..................pg. 27 

Farm Bureau........................pg. 29 

HERDA................................pg. 31 

Edward Jones.......................pg. 31 

Behind the 

Summit Headlines...............pg. 34 

Dr. Margaret 

Winsryg, Ph.D.....................pg. 35 

In January I attended the Summit Of 

The Horse conference in Las Vegas. 

This was the first real attempt to organize 

together men and women from federal, state, 

tribal, and private land resource managers, 

conservationists and ranchers in a forum to 

address the growing problem of excess and unwanted 

horses, both domestic and wild. 

In many countries around the world, like the 

European Union, Soviet Republic, and even our 

neighbors in Canada, consumption of horse meat 

is common. I was told by one of the Canadians 

that attended the summit that horse meat is available 

in many of the supermarkets there. The majority 

of the population in the United States may 

not eat horse meat, and I say the majority because 

I personally know some people that actually do 

eat it and have talked to others that have tried it. 

In 2007 the last equine processing plant 

closed in the United States. The result of this 

was a total collapse in the price of “chicken feed 

horses” as they were often referred to. Any and all 

horses destined for slaughter must now be trucked 

either to Mexico or Canada. Now the government 

didn’t actually shut down the processing plants. 

What they did was cut off the funding for USDA 

inspectors at these plants, and without a meat 

inspection system we could no longer export the 

meat. I’m certainly not an expert on foreign trade, 

but the question I’d like answered is, if a country 

is wanting horse meat for human consumption, 

then shouldn’t they be able or allowed to provide 

their own inspectors in U. S. slaughter plants? 

After all, they are the ones that need to be satisfied 

and confident in the product. 

There were a few individuals at the Summit 

that opposed horse slaughter. Most were wild 

horse advocates and others were with horse rescue 

groups. Horse rescue groups take in horses for 

a number of reasons, one of which is to save them 

from starvation. They accept horses from owners 

who can no longer afford to buy the hay to feed 

them, but their main focus is to prevent the horses 

from going to slaughter. Most of these horse 

rescue groups are foundations that operate on 

donations which pay for the facilities and the feed. 

I feel that as long as they can properly feed and 

care for these horses then more power to them; 

in fact I’ve got a few old retired ranch horses I’d 

like them to rescue. The wild horse advocates also 

want to save horses from slaughter, especially the 

feral ones. The difference is they want you and 

me and every taxpaying American to foot the bill. 

In my opinion, if you call yourself a horse 

advocate that should mean you want what is best 

for the horse at heart. If processing plants were 

in the United States we could at least make 

sure horses were treated as humanely as 

possible. Horse advocates say they are opposed 

to slaughter because it is cruel and 

the thought of people eating horse meat is 

gross and disgusting. Let’s set aside the 

fact for now that people in many countries 

around the world enjoy eating horse meat, 

in fact some consider it a delicacy, and concentrate 

on the cruelty part. Those of us that 

spend our lives working with Mother Nature 

on a daily basis know that she can be a pretty 

cruel sometimes. I would like to share a story that 

a lot of you that read this column will relate to. I 

had a horse and his name was Pedro. All three of 

my children learned to ride on him. He was honest, 

careful and basically could be trusted with 

their lives. When he got to be about 30 years old 

arthritis set in and he would get pretty thin in the 

winter time like most old horses do. I couldn’t 

bring myself to send him off to the glue factory 

and I certainly couldn’t shoot him, so I thought 

I’d let him hang around until he died. I went out 

one winter morning, it was about 10 below, and 

I found Pedro lying on his side. He wasn’t dead 

yet but the birds had pecked his eye out and the 

coyotes had begun feeding on his back end. Of 

course I went to the house, came back and put 

him out of his misery. From that day on I swore 

I would never do that to one of my horses again. 

Unwanted and excess horses are a growing 

problem and we have got to start looking at this 

realistically. I don’t know exactly how many 

horses there are in the United States but I do know 

we are talking in the millions. These millions of 

horses are all going to die someday. What do we 

intend on doing with all the carcasses? Are we 

going to put them all in landfills? Can we afford 

to cremate them all? 

Those that have made it their cause in life 

to make this into an emotional issue, and have 

convinced an unwitting public that horses are 

pets and not livestock, need to come up with some 

answers to these questions. 

Talking about equine slaughter makes people 

cringe, especially lawmakers, but people 

need to come back to the real world. It will take 

a coalition of various groups like horse associations, 

livestock groups, breed associations, racing 

associations, etc. to get the message out to the 

public and to Congress. 

The pessimist complains about the 

wind; the optimist expects it to change; 

the realist adjusts the sails. 

– William Arthur Ward 

UPDATE 

Ron 

Cerri 

Nevada 

Cattlemen’s 

Association 

President 

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February 2011 3

Nevada Cattlemen’s Association and Allied Industry Support 

Nevada Cattlemen’s Association 

REliever 

Market-Ready Cow & Northern California 

Grass Agriculture Tour 

March 14, 15, 16, 2011 

You are invited to participate in this three day, two night social, 

educational and industry supportive event. 

Donate one market ready (not bullet ready) cow or a $500 cash donation. 

You simply market a cow in the fall of 2010 at a local sale barn of your 

choice. Have the proceeds sent to NCA and you will have reserved and 

paid for two seats on the tour bus including all meals and entertainment. 

Motel rooms will be your only expense. 

What will 

you get in 

exchange? 

Three days away from the ranch for two would serve anyone 

well as a cabin fever reliever in mid-March. In addition you will 

have the opportunity to interact with fellow cattlepersons as 

we travel by bus to one of the most pristine winter grass areas 

of the west. You will have the opportunity to make marketing 

contacts, learn about industry issues as well as products and services offered by 

beef producers and Allied Industries. Proceeds of your market-ready cow donation 

would be 100% in support of NCA’s mission. 

Fifty seats are available on the bus so make your reservations 

early by contacting the Nevada Cattlemen’s Association office 

at 775-738-9214 or nca@nevadabeef.org. Fallon Livestock 

Exchange, Nevada Livestock Marketing and Twin Falls Livestock 

Sales Commission have all agreed to sell your market ready cow of choice on 

behalf of the Nevada Cattlemen’s Association. Have the animal brand inspected 

from you to NCA with instructions to your auction yard to send net proceeds to 

NCA as registration. You may also chose to simply write NCA a $500 check for 

two or $250 for one seat in lieu of a market-ready cow donation. 

How do I 

sign up? 

The bus will leave Elko, Nevada from 

the NCA office on March 14, 7:00 

a.m. heading down I-80 west. We 

will pick up passengers as we make 

our way to Cottonwood, California that evening. Western Video Market will host 

the first evening meal and social event while Superior Livestock Marketing will host 

the second evening. Both events will be complete with potential California buyers 

of your cattle. The entire trip will be laced with educational opportunities relative 

to agriculture resources in Northern California. We will make a short stop in 

Carson City to make a “Cowboy Hat” presence during the 2011 legislative session, 

take in a Nevada Beef Council retail promotion display, visit with the California 

Cattlemen’s Association office staff relative to common issues, visit a winery, and 

tour a by-product feeding operation of smooth mouth pregnant cows. There will 

be additional information presented on the bus by sponsoring Allied Industry 

companies. The bus would return back to Elko on March 16 approx. 8:00 pm. 

Where are we going and 

what are we doing? 

Who else will 

be attending? 

Producers and Allied Industry representatives, both NCA 

and potential NCA members, spouses and producers 

from Nevada and surrounding states. 

For complete information, 

call the NCA office at 775-738-9214 or email nca@nevadabeef.org 

http://nevadacattlemen.org/cabinfeverreliever.aspx 

By Meghan Brown, Nevada Cattlemen’s Association Executive Director 

What can you do to become part of something more? The first step is becoming 

part of larger group that works to protect the future of your ranch and 

the continued use of our public lands. 

The Nevada Cattlemen’s Association works hard every day to represent your needs, and 

work to find solutions to the issues we face. 

There are many ways to support Nevada Cattlemen’s Association, and this winter we are 

providing you another avenue. Three days away from the ranch for two would serve anyone 

well as a “cabin fever reliever.” Nevada Cattlemen’s Association in cooperation with Allied 

Industry Support is conducting a “Cabin Fever Reliever” California grass road trip March 

14, 15, and 16, 2011. 

You are invited to participate in this three day, two night social, educational and industry 

supportive event. You will have the opportunity to interact with fellow cattlepersons as we 

travel by bus to one of the most pristine winter grass areas of the west. You will have the 

opportunity to make marketing contacts, learn about industry issues as well as products and 

services offered by beef producers and Allied Industries. 

Fifty seats are available on the bus so make your reservations today. The bus will leave 

Elko, Nevada from the NCA office on March 14, 7:00 a.m. heading down I-80 west. We will 

pick up passengers as we make our way to Cottonwood, California that evening. Western 

Video Market will host a tri-tip meal and social event the first evening while Merial Animal 

Health will host the second evening meal and social event. Both events will be complete 

with potential California buyers of your cattle. 

The entire trip will be laced with educational opportunities relative to agriculture resources 

in Northern California with visits to Rogue River Ranch, possibly Rich Rice, Sparrowk 

and Duane Martin ranches. Collectively these ranches annually purchase well over 

15,000 stocker cattle, many from northern Nevada ranches. The tour will make a short stop 

in Carson City to make a “cowboy hat” presence during the 2011 legislative session and 

view the Hope on the Range display, take in a Nevada Beef Council retail promotion display, 

visit with the California Cattlemen’s Association office staff relative to common issues, see a 

California winery and other agriculture enterprises unique to northern California. There will 

be additional information presented on the bus by sponsoring Allied Industry companies. 

The bus would return back to Elko on March16 at approximately 8:00 pm. 

Cost of the event is $250 per seat which includes all meals and transportation. Motel 

costs for two nights are not included in registration. Producers and spouses, Allied Industry 

representatives, both NCA and potential NCA members from Nevada and surrounding states 

are all welcome to participate. Several Allied industries pitched in to sponsor the cost of 

transportation and meals making the proceeds of your $250 donation 100% in support of 

NCA’s mission which is promoting a dynamic and profitable Nevada beef industry which 

represents the interest of its producers and consistently meets consumer needs while increasing 

Nevada’s market share. 

Sponsors of this first NCA Cabin Fever Reliever fund raising event include American 

AgCredit, Animal Profiling International, Boehringer Ingelheim, Destron Fearing, Intermountain 

Farmers Association, Merial, Nevada Beef Council, Novartis Animal Health, 

Pinenut Livestock, Schering Plough Animal Health, Simplot Land & Livestock, Sterling 

Solutions, Superior Livestock Auction, and Western Video Market. 

Do not wait, sign up today by contacting the Nevada Cattlemen’s Association office at 

775-738-9214 or nca@nevadabeef.org 

As has been tradition for the past 45 years the Nevada Cattlemen’s Association has 

started out the New Year with the Fallon All Breeds Bull Sale. This year the sale will be 

held February 19th at 11:30 at the Fallon Livestock Exchange. As in years past the sale will 

present buyers with quality bulls that are range ready. Please check out our ad for more 

information regarding the sale. 

The office has been dedicated to the promotion and production of the sale for several 

months, working closely with Chris Gansburg, the chairman of the Fallon Bull Sale Committee, 

to make sure to make the best sale for both our consignors and buyers. 

We value the continued operation of cattle and sheep ranches. The use of livestock can 

be beneficial to the landscape and wildlife. If you are one of those individuals that care about 

the land, the livestock industry, rural communities, rural families, and wildlife, then Nevada 

Cattlemen’s Association is the place for you. We work to protect the future of ranching that 

provides open space, wildlife, healthy streams, and viable rural communities. If you are interested 

in learning more about the association or about becoming a member please contact 

the office at 1-775-738-9214 or visit the web page at www.nevadacattlemen.org 




COW CAMP 

Chatter 

Ron Torell, Long-Standing Educator and Advocate of Agriculture 

Holstein bull by the name of Potter recently joined a small but elite group 

A of dairy sires that have produced and sold over one million units of semen. 

This elite group of bulls could be titled the “Bulls of the Century.” Their genes roam 

herds around the globe. Some estimate a million unit bull would have more than 

150,000 daughters and 2.3 million granddaughters and would be responsible for 15% 

of the DNA in today’s U.S. dairy cows. 

The U.S. beef industry maintains a wide variation in their genetic pool with several 

breeds of cattle being utilized. Grass is harvested by our four-legged employees from the 

arid rangelands of the west to the lush grasslands of the east and the hot, humid areas of the 

south. Conversely, most of the nation’s dairy cows are confinement fed. Meals are delivered 

to them in a balanced total mixed ration. For this reason the dairy industry can single trait 

select and maintain a tight genetic base. The beef industry will never have the tight genetic 

base that is seen in the dairy industry. In order to maintain reproductive success with limited 

feed resources beef cows in arid climates are generally smaller framed, lower in milk 

production, and hardy. Missed income opportunity would result if this type of cow was 

used on more lush grasslands where perhaps a larger framed, higher milking cow could be 

reproductively successful . 

Many feedlot operators prefer to feed Holstein steers over beef breeds because of the 

tight genetic makeup of the breed. They know what to expect for feed conversions, average 

daily gain, days on feed, breakeven, percent choice, yield grades, etc. Holstein steers 

perform at a lower level than beef animals but they are consistent. The lower performance 

is factored into the purchase price with confidence and accuracy. Because of this predictability, 

fewer pens of fat Holstein steers close out in the red than with pens of beef cattle. 

Beef steers are all over the board in performance primarily due to genetic makeup even 

within a breed. Unpredictable best sums it up for beef cattle. 

Five to seven percent of the nation’s beef herds are bred artificially. Many of these 

BULL POWER 

artificially bred cows are registered seed stock with the bull offspring going to the commercial 

cattleman. Over 90% of dairy cattle are artificially inseminated with their female 

offspring going into commercial production. The bulls used for A.I. are selected primarily 

for the single trait of milk production and mammary system structure to support added milk 

production. Dairy cows remain in production fewer years than beef cows. Generations are 

turned over faster accelerating genetic improvement. This is the difference in the tremendous 

progress the dairy cow has made in their single trait of milk versus the slow progress 

the beef cow has made in multiple and low heritability traits. Just as the dairy industry 

is producing more milk with fewer cows the beef industry is producing more pounds of 

beef with fewer brood cows. These similarities can be attributed to improved genetics and 

management practices. 

Don Trimmer, director of beef programs for Accelerated Genetics, agrees with the 

wide variability of beef cattle compared to the dairy industry. He points out that the number 

of beef breeds that are making an impact are substantially lower than there were ten 

years ago. The American Angus Association registers more cattle than all other breeds 

combined. The dominance of Angus genetics in the commercial cowherd has helped to 

reduce some of the variation in the nation’s beef cowherd, though it may be more from a 

phenotypic standpoint. In many areas of the country, the “rainbow” herds of the past can’t 

be found. The majority are solid black or red cows with some baldies. If you look at the data 

of most widely used breeds, it continues to show 60-70% Angus or Angus cross bulls. The 

volume of semen sold on beef bulls like EXT, New Design 036, Traveler and Focus have 

had a huge impact on the genetics of the commercial cowherd. 

Experts agree that the dairy industry may be on the verge of being inbred yet point 

out that the dairy industry may hold the key to decoding the bovine genome. Million unit 

bulls such as Potter are genetic landslides for this decoding process because they appear 

in so many pedigrees. Their family tree serves as a guide and base in identifying the most 

important genes, an ultimate reference point for DNA technology. 

Beef cattle genetic advancement in the area of uniformity and predictability has and 

will continue to move at a slower pace than what the dairy industry has been able to accomplish. 

This should not discourage the beef industry from working toward the goal of 

producing uniform and predictable cattle. This can be achieved by incorporating quality 

registered bulls into breeding programs and by using, when applicable, technology such as 

artificial insemination selecting high accuracy EPD bulls for multiple traits. 

That’s enough for this month. As always, if you would like to discuss this article or 

simply want to talk cows, do not hesitate to contact me at 775-385-7665 or rtbulls@frontier. 

com. 

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February 2011 5

By Joe Guild 

Usually, these columns come together in my head a few days before I write 

them and this one is no different. But yesterday, Congresswoman Gabrielle 

Giffords and 19 others were shot by a deranged, disillusioned man in Tucson, 

Arizona. Tragically, this event ties into the subject I was going to write about in 

this edition. At this writing, six people were killed including a Federal Judge and 

a nine year old girl. The Congresswoman clings to life 

in critical condition. 

I recently attended a conference during which some 

very frustrated people expressed that frustration in negative, 

intolerant and accusatory language. It caused me to 

think, as we approach a legislative session here in Nevada, 

about how to be effective and successful in public policy 

debates. In other words, there are proper and improper ways 

to lobby our elected leaders. I have written about this before, 

but in these times where the discourse seems to lack civility 

and just plain good manners, I would like to repeat myself 

a bit and add some other thoughts. 

First, we should all remember our constitution gives 

everyone the right to petition the government for a redress 

of grievances. In the same first amendment, we are also 

guaranteed freedom of speech. So, anyone can say anything 

so long as it doesn’t result in physical harm and any citizen 

can check in with an elected leader and give an opinion, 

provide information or ask for a solution to a problem. This is why Ms. Giffords was 

holding a meeting in a grocery store parking lot in Tucson. Most people have known 

these to be their fundamental rights since they were very young. Implied in the statement 

of the above rights is the notion if one person gets a chance to say something 

on an issue we should listen to them and them to us. We don’t have to agree, indeed, 

shouldn’t always agree, but our form of government demands that we give each other 

the respect everyone with an opinion deserves. If you don’t want to listen then walk off 

or turn off the TV. But don’t expect anyone to listen to you if you walk away. Believe 

me this isn’t a Rodney King “why can’t we just all get along” rant. I know we cannot 

or will not always get along. That said if you disagree with someone, fine; just don’t be 

disagreeable. Are we so far removed from intelligent, thoughtful, rational discourse we 

have to resort to name-calling, sound bite sloganeering and outright personal attacks? 

Are people so lazy they cannot dig up a few facts and formulate a reasoned argument to 

try and sway opinion their way? Does the 24 hour news cycle feed the part of us which 

wants easy answers and no dissenting viewpoints? I am not sure I know the answers to 

these questions but it seems to me we lower ourselves as a civilization when we lower 

the standards for what counts as public discourse and debate over the issues of import 

for our society. 

There is no doubt the man who committed the senseless acts of violence against 

all of those people in Arizona was delusional and insane by any measure. I don’t suggest 

nor imply people who are rude and threatening in their public remarks in any 

debate are on the same level as the Arizona shooter but I do believe there is a parallel 

in frustration and mood which does not lend itself to success in the public policy arena. 

To carry the shooter’s logic to absurdity would be something like this: you don’t agree 

with me, you are not listening to me; therefore I will kill you to convince you I am right. 

No rational person would agree this makes any sense. But, just change it around a bit: 

Public Discourse 

Grandma’s old 

adage you can catch 

more flies with 

honey than vinegar 

applies here. 

you won’t listen to me, so I will yell at you louder; you don’t agree with me, so I will 

launch a personal attack against you and your ideas; this will undoubtedly swing you 

over to my point of view. Once I am done yelling and screaming at you, I know you 

will agree with me. 

How many of you, when personally attacked, end up agreeing with the loud, angry 

person directing that anger towards you. My guess is none 

of you. Some of what I heard at this conference was delivered 

by reasonable people who delivered their messages in 

a reasoned, logical and straightforward, even eloquent way. 

I listened intently. However, some of what I heard was said 

using language which seemed to be deliberately inflamed 

and non-persuasive. This begs the question of what tactics, 

language and approach are effective and persuasive. Rule 

number one, before that question is answered, is never 

compromise your basic principles. You can compromise on 

details and procedures, and indeed, to accomplish anything 

in the legislative process you have to compromise. But, 

there are tactics and techniques to find a common ground. 

If these are not employed by both sides in any public policy 

debate nothing would ever get done. Every side does not 

always have a super majority. 

In my opinion, grandma’s old adage you can catch 

more flies with honey than vinegar applies here as it does in 

most human dealings. There is always someone in charge; the boss; the one who ultimately 

makes a decision and in a legislative body that person is the leader of the house 

in which a bill proposing a new law or an amendment to an existing one is located. 

Once a bill passes a legislature it doesn’t become a law until an executive signs it. So, 

the second rule is do not dis the leader. By that I mean you can respectfully disagree but 

you cannot disgrace, disparage, dismiss or disrespect that leader personally and expect 

that leader to see your point of view. It is also interesting to me how people in the same 

circumstance circle around when one of their own is personally attacked. This creates 

allies and since an attack on one becomes an attack on all, the attacker has an even 

more difficult job of persuasion. Another way of saying this is to respect the office or 

the institution even while disagreeing with the office holder. By following this rule, it is 

almost a guarantee that there will be a more civil discourse. It is also good manners to 

do this. Besides the personal denunciation being rude, such verbal assaults belittle and 

destroy the credibility of the one delivering them. If you are denounced in such a way, 

it also diminishes your credibility if you respond in a similar fashion. 

Stick to the facts and create emotional sympathy for your point of view from those 

facts. Emotion and sympathy trump facts every time but add one of these factors to 

your facts and you will win every time. Does any of this sound like things your mother 

used to say? If so, she and my mom were probably co-conspirators. 

I suggest a positive approach. I think if you provide solutions to problems rather 

than complaints, a tolerant respect for other or opposite points of view, good arguments 

against those points of view, and an acknowledgment that everyone has a right 

to participate in an argument over public policy, you will win more than you will lose. 

As we go into Nevada’s next legislative session I hope everyone doesn’t leave their 

manners and common sense at the door. 

I’ll see you soon. 




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Sales Results from January 19 & 20, 2011 

Regular Butcher Cow and Feeder Sale 

Seller City # Head Desc. Type Weight Price CWT 

Ricky and Jenny Turner Paradise Valley 3 BLK BRED COWS 1164 $1,400.00/hd 

Ricky and Jenny Turner Paradise Valley 17 BLK BRED COWS 1116 $1,350.00/hd 

Ricky and Jenny Turner Paradise Valley 44 BLK Broken Mouth 1142 $865.00/hd 

Warren Scoppettone Eureka 15 BLK BRED COWS 1467 $1,370.00/hd 

Deborah Newton Eureka 5 BLK BRED COWS 1129 $1,170.00/hd 

Deborah Newton Eureka 1 BLK PAIR 1425 $1,200.00/hd 

Tommy and Barbara Moore Jordan Valley 22 MIX STR 367 $180.50 

Tommy and Barbara Moore Jordan Valley 80 MIX STR 449 $169.00 

Estate of Thomas Gardner Paragonah 8 BLK STR 326 $180.00 

Young Bros Austin 6 BLK STR 384 $174.50 

Goicochea Ranches Eureka 12 MIX STR 397 $174.50 

Truckee River Ranch Fallon 4 BLK STR 366 $174.00 

Les Northcutt Malin 27 MIX STR 386 $170.00 

Steve Hansen Goldfield 2 BLK STR 343 $165.00 

Coyote Creek Ranch Imlay 5 BLK STR 433 $165.00 

Foster Ranch LTD Partnership Winnemucca 25 MIX STR 430 $163.00 

Rick and Rena Britton Homedale 23 MIX STR 473 $160.50 

Talbot Land & Livestock Bishop 2 BLK STR 418 $158.00 

Dave Buckingham Paradise Valley 15 BLK STR 470 $157.50 

Jerry Sestenovich Eureka 6 MIX STR 439 $156.00 

Lazy D Livestock Pioche 45 MIX STR 517 $154.75 

Neil Howard Fallon 2 BLK STR 385 $153.00 

Kimble Wilkinson McDermitt 13 BLK STR 531 $151.50 

Tommy Lee Livestock Fallon 2 MIX STR 320 $150.00 

Steven Avalos Fallon 11 BLK STR 536 $149.25 

Riverside Ranch Orovada 2 BLK STR 523 $146.50 

Tim and Roxanne Chabot Paradise Valley 6 BLK STR 523 $144.50 

Dennis Lee Fallon 1 RD STR 495 $144.00 

Jackie Juarez McDermitt 6 MIX STR 510 $143.00 

Bruce Humphrey Fallon 3 BLK STR 545 $143.00 

Ruth Martin Eureka 18 MIX STR 529 $142.00 

Earl and Karen Doege Round Mountain 2 CHAR STR 535 $136.00 

Mackenzie Ranch Jordan Valley 13 MIX STR 599 $136.00 

William Norton Eureka 7 BLK STR 627 $135.00 

Deborah Newton Eureka 3 BLK STR 550 $133.50 

Les Borges Fernley 1 BLK STR 590 $133.00 

Inger Casey Winnemucca 10 MIX STR 618 $132.00 

Ray Nyswonger Reno 3 BLK STR 645 $131.00 

Bob Mckay McGill 10 MIX STR 635 $131.00 

Las Flores Cattle Co Winnemucca 31 MIX STR 620 $130.25 

Dana Weishaupt Fallon 13 BLK STR 657 $130.00 

Mathews Farms Panaca 16 MIX STR 624 $130.00 

Elko Land and Livestock Battle Mountain 20 BLK STR 646 $129.25 

Ynez Kyte Fallon 7 MIX STR 664 $128.50 

Dennis Rechel Fallon 1 BLK STR 525 $128.00 

Roberta Barlow Gerlach 1 RD STR 560 $127.50 

Star Creek Ranch Imlay 26 BLK STR 660 $125.50 

Villa Lobos Farms Orovada 6 BLK STR 672 $125.00 

Howard Hill Eureka 2 MIX STR 650 $125.00 

Espil Sheep Co Gerlach 11 BLK STR 741 $124.50 

Keystone Ranch Paradise Valley 1 RD STR 590 $123.50 

Bob Ross Fallon 5 WF STR 559 $123.00 

Jake Dempsey Cresent Valley 1 BRN STR 680 $122.50 

Will Hall Paradise Valley 2 MIX STR 778 $122.00 

Lazetich Ranch Reno 5 BLK STR 724 $121.50 

Brian Crutcher McDermitt 6 MIX STR 708 $118.00 

Doug Avanzino Reno 4 BLK STR 751 $117.50 

Star Bar Cattle Yerington 5 BLK STR 627 $117.10 

Jim Estill Lovelock 3 BLK STR 738 $115.50 

Jeff Goings Fallon 2 BLK STR 768 $113.50 

Mickey Laca Fallon 15 BLK STR 885 $112.00 

Marge Shepard Fallon 2 MIX STR 698 $111.00 

Estate of Thomas Gardner Paragonah 17 BLK HFR 359 $177.00 

Kimble Wilkinson McDermitt 9 BLK HFR 368 $170.00 

Beth and James Thompson Winnemucca 5 BLK HFR 375 $169.00 

Truckee River Ranch Fallon 12 BLK HFR 389 $166.50 

Goicochea Ranches Eureka 36 MIX HFR 411 $165.00 

Brian Crutcher McDermitt 14 MIX HFR 405 $162.00 

Steve Hansen Goldfield 25 BLK HFR 423 $159.75 

Tommy and Barbara Moore Jordan Valley 137 MIX HFR 426 $158.60 

Lazy D Livestock Pioche 12 MIX HFR 397 $153.50 

Rick and Rena Britton Homedale 2 MIX HFR 335 $152.00 

Young Bros Austin 17 BLK HFR 455 $149.00 

William Norton Eureka 5 BLK HFR 446 $148.75 

Risi Cattle Co Fallon 5 BLK HFR 428 $148.00 

Dave Buckingham Paradise Valley 14 MIX HFR 435 $145.00 

Foster Ranch LTD Partnership Winnemucca 8 MIX HFR 443 $145.00 

Evan Thompson Winnemucca 6 BLK HFR 442 $144.00 

Talbot Land & Livestock Bishop 1 BBF HFR 385 $142.00 

Tim and Roxanne Chabot Paradise Valley 2 BLK HFR 465 $140.50 

Mathews Farms Panaca 27 MIX HFR 471 $137.50 

Steven Avalos Fallon 6 BLK HFR 504 $136.00 

Mackenzie Ranch Jordan Valley 53 MIX HFR 542 $131.10 

Deborah Newton Eureka 3 MIX HFR 528 $128.00 

Les Borges Fernley 2 BLK HFR 503 $126.00 

Tommy Lee Livestock Fallon 1 BLK HFR 320 $125.00 

Howard Hill Eureka 4 RBF HFR 481 $125.00 

February 16 & 17, 2011 

March 16 & 17, 2011 

Butcher cows on Wednesday 

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Sales Results from January 19 & 20, 2011 

Regular Butcher Cow and Feeder Sale 

Seller City # Head Desc. Type Weight Price CWT 

Elko Land and Livestock Battle Mountain 147 BLK HFR 577 $124.35 

Todd Weagant Orovada 2 MIX HFR 538 $123.50 

Jackie Juarez McDermitt 8 MIX HFR 607 $121.25 

Steve Auch Eureka 27 MIX HFR 557 $121.00 

Dana Weishaupt Fallon 9 BLK HFR 713 $120.50 

Jim Estill Lovelock 2 BLK HFR 478 $120.00 

Las Flores Cattle Co Winnemucca 32 HFR HFR 612 $119.85 

Villa Lobos Farms Orovada 5 BLK HFR 707 $119.50 

Anita Fillmore Fallon 6 BLK HFR 540 $118.75 

Ted DeBraga Fallon 3 BLK HFR 593 $118.50 

Bruce Humphrey Fallon 7 BLK HFR 634 $117.00 

Keystone Ranch Paradise Valley 31 MIX HFR 669 $115.40 

Coyote Creek Ranch Imlay 8 BLK HFR 675 $115.00 

Jesse Hernandez Fallon 9 MIX HFR 728 $113.25 

Roger Mills Fallon 1 RD HFR 630 $112.00 

Warren Scoppettone Eureka 12 BLK HFR 753 $111.50 

Berry Anderson Round Mountain 3 BLK HFR 818 $110.50 

Espil Sheep Co Gerlach 1 BLK HFR 785 $107.50 

Windy R Ranch Washoe Valley 2 MIX HFR 810 $100.00 

Ruth Martin Eureka 3 WF HFR 422 $136.00 

Keystone Ranch Paradise Valley 1 BLK HFRTT 930 $78.50 

Keystone Ranch Paradise Valley 1 RD COW 1255 $66.50 

Jerry Sestenovich Eureka 1 BLK HFRTT 995 $75.00 

Young Bros Austin 1 BBF HFRTT 995 $72.50 

Dennis Heitman Winnemucca 1 BLK HFRTT 1665 $72.25 

Kenneth Buckingham Paradise Valley 1 BBF COW 1290 $71.25 

Kenneth Buckingham Paradise Valley 1 BLK COW 1085 $69.00 

Hendrix Ranch Fallon 1 BLK HFRTT 1215 $71.00 

Hendrix Ranch Fallon 1 BLK COW 1325 $67.50 

Hendrix Ranch Fallon 1 RD COW 1315 $66.75 

Espil Sheep Co Gerlach 1 RBF COW 1085 $71.00 

Ted DeBraga Fallon 1 BLK COW 1260 $70.00 

Ted DeBraga Fallon 1 BLK COW 1320 $67.00 

Ted DeBraga Fallon 1 BWF COW 1305 $66.75 

Mickey Laca Fallon 1 BBF HFRTT 1380 $69.00 

Kenneth Benson Eureka 1 BBF COW 1045 $67.50 

James Talbott Silver Springs 1 CHAR COW 1440 $67.00 

James Talbott Silver Springs 1 BCHX COW 1205 $64.00 

Foster Ranch LTD Partnership Winnemucca 1 RBF COW 1215 $66.75 

John Cooper Oakdale 1 BBF COW 1485 $65.00 

Diamond Cattle Co Bakersfield 1 RBF COW 1110 $65.00 

Diamond Cattle Co Bakersfield 1 BLK COW 1005 $63.00 

Diamond Cattle Co Bakersfield 1 BLK COW 1080 $60.25 

Badger Ranch Battle Mountain 1 BCHX COW 1270 $65.00 

Jerry Sestenovich Eureka 1 RBF COW 1305 $64.75 

Ricky and Jenny Turner Paradise Valley 1 RBF COW 1070 $64.50 

Leon and Mary Frey Winnemucca 1 RBF COW 1270 $63.50 

Leon and Mary Frey Winnemucca 1 WF COW 1125 $63.00 

Dennis Rechel Fallon 1 RD COW 1130 $61.50 

Kathryn Doheny Round Mountain 1 WF COW 1005 $57.50 

Sagehill Dairy Fallon 1 JER COW 1130 $59.75 



Perazzo Brothers Fallon 1 HOLSTEIN HFRTT 1110 $67.00 

Perazzo Brothers Fallon 1 HOLSTEIN HFRTT 1020 $65.00 

Lacas Vacas Fallon 1 HOLSTEIN COW 1645 $62.25 

Lacas Vacas Fallon 1 HOLSTEIN COW 1750 $58.00 

Jeff Whitaker Fallon 1 HOLSTEIN COW 1895 $62.00 

Jeff Whitaker Fallon 1 HOLSTEIN COW 1360 $61.25 

Brian Sorensen Fallon 1 HOLSTEIN COW 1855 $62.00 



Sandhill Dairy Fallon 1 HOLSTEIN COW 1755 $60.25 

Sandhill Dairy Fallon 1 HOLSTEIN COW 1885 $60.00 

Oasis Dairy LLC Fallon 1 HOLSTEIN COW 1325 $58.50 

Edward Horgan Sutcliffe 1 SIM BULL 1955 $77.75 

Slagowski Ranches Carlin 1 BLK BULL 2315 $73.25 

Warren Scoppettone Eureka 1 BLK BULL 2150 $73.25 

Kenneth Benson Eureka 1 BLK BULL 1940 $73.25 

Jack Barnes Fallon 1 SHRTHORN BULL 1620 $72.25 

Ruth Martin Eureka 1 BLK BULL 2165 $71.75 

Steve Hansen Goldfield 1 RD BULL 1390 $71.00 

Woody Bell Paradise Valley 1 RBF BULL 1660 $70.25 

Riverside Ranch Orovada 1 BLK BULL 1855 $68.50 

Badger Ranch Battle Mountain 1 RD BULL 1370 $68.00 

Kenneth Buckingham Paradise Valley 1 BLK BULL 1445 $64.50 

TOTAL HEAD: 3,783 

We had another sale with record high prices. Light feeders up to 900# were way higher. Very few cattle left in the country. We feel very 

fortunate to have as many as we did. The warm weather and surprising rain stopped us from picking up about 200 head. Thanks to 

tractors, cats and log chains, we were able to get most of the cattle in. Nevada Livestock Marketing would like to personally thank 

the Nevada Cattleman’s Association for sponsoring the feeder sale and for all of their help and continuing support with industry 

issues. Also, thanks to our consignors in state and out of state alike for such good cattle. The buyers were very impressed with the 

quality and proved it with their check books. Butcher cows starting to climb and I predict they will go much higher by spring. 


February 2011 7

Leveling the Playing 

Field 

2011 began on an upbeat and enlightening note. The last bell heralding the 

new year was just fading into the past, when I was invited by friends to attend 

the first Summit of the Horse produced by the United Horsemen organization in Las 

Vegas. Previous commitments made attending in person impossible so I registered 

for the live webcast instead. In spite of a few technical glitches, it was a very positive 

experience, and with the exception of the lack of interaction with other participants, 

almost as good as being there in person without leaving home!! I was disappointed that 

the interactive page had been disabled due to “activist interference”. This would have 

been a very useful feature to have had available. For the future, I would encourage 

people to take advantage of this powerful information- receiving tool. You do need 

a high- speed internet connection and the latest video streaming software installed 

which is generally free to download. “The Summit” is discussed and referenced in 

several other places in this publication, so I won’t “beat a dead horse to death”(oops!!... 

lol) except to state that I for one came away from the four days totally energized and 

inspired to do anything within my level of expertise to join with those committed and 

dedicated individuals such as the organizers and presenters at the Summit who donate 

their time, talent, and treasure to educating fellow horse owners and breeders, elected 

representatives at the local, state, and national level, and the public at large as to the 

real and difficult issues confronting the equine industry. 

Also in the first week of January, the annual UNR Cooperative Extension Cattlemen’s 

Updates were held in several northern Great Basin communities. This was the first of these 

by Linda Drown Bunch 

Put Yourself 

in the Game 

programs I have attended and found the information to be informative and useful. It was fun 

to learn that one of my favorite childhood hobbies -pressing wildflowers between the pages 

of the dictionary-was the preferred method for saving a plant to send for testing for toxins 

harmful to livestock. That is definitely on the agenda for next summer when the lupine in 

one of our pastures blooms to determine if it is the good or bad kind. 

The presentation by Dr. Barry Perryman of UNR on the Fall Grazing of Cheatgrass 

was absolutely fascinating. The pilot program was clearly described and was obviously 

conducted in a very scientific manner. The results were astounding to say the least and there 

was a murmur of approval and sporadic applause from the audience as slides showing the 

results of the grazed area visa vie the non-grazed control area, appeared on the screen.The 

following spring, the healthy stand of perennial grasses in the grazed area vs the matted 

mass of old cheat grass inhibiting the healthy growth of those same grasses in the control 

plot was an exciting and dramatic result. The fact that the cattle involved maintained their 

body weight certainly added to the viability of the approach. This was empirical data at its 

best. A detailed description of this project appeared in the January 2011 issue of The Progressive 

Rancher. It will be very interesting to see how many ranchers will actually attempt 

to integrate this research into their own grazing plans and with what results. 

Dr. David Thain’s presentation on Beef Quality Assurance emphasized the importance 

of maintaining complete and accurate records of drugs administered to animals destined to 

enter the food chain and of carefully following the dosage and administration instructions 

on the label or as directed by your vet. In the era of increased regulation and accountability, 

the paper trail is of vital importance. 

When processing the information from these two programs-the Summit of the Horse 

and the Cattlemen’s Update-several themes emerged that merit our attention: 

• Be proactive rather than reactive. Webster defines “proactive” as “acting in 

anticipation of future problems, needs, or changes”, in other words stay “ahead 

of the curve.” Comprehensive record keeping, documentation of exemplary 

practices, staying informed of issues within the industry, brainstorming with 

peers and sharing ideas, all will contribute to a proactive state of mind. 

• Base your assumptions in science and fact. The truth shall set you free. Be 

prepared to defend and document what you do. If your cell phone doesn’t have a 

camera, get one that does and use it. Remember even if you don’t have cell service, 

the camera still works and if you don’t know how to get the pictures off the 

camera, just find a twelve-year-old!! A picture is still worth a thousand words. 

• Become a lobbyist for your industry. Communicate with your county commissioners, 

state legislators( it is a legislative year in Nevada), and members of 

Congress advising them as to the position you EXPECT them to take on particular 

issues. That is what your detractors do so beat them at their own game. 

Don’t assume that someone else will do this for you. 

• At the risk of being too politically correct, be positive and civil in your interactions 

with friend and foe alike. Take the high road. Even though it might be 

tempting to refer to them as kooks and nut-cases, etc. etc….don’t do it! 

Good luck going forward. Enjoy the ride! 

CowgirlThinking 

I have thought many times 

how important equine club membership is, no members—no 

club!, but how often I wanted to quit a club after being treated 

badly by a volunteer who thought the power she or he has was 

for self gratification and intimidation against other members. 

Guess what ! Volunteers have no power ! The power is only in 

their mind. The membership is the power. 




Horse Snorts 

AND Cow Bawls 

by Jeanne King 

The big topic of controversy for the beginning of 2011 was the Summit of the 

Horse in Las Vegas. Co-coordinated by Sue Wallis, a Wyoming State Legislator, 

Dave Duquett, I believe of Oregon and John Fallen, president of the Public 

Lands Council of the National Cattlemen’s Association. I hope I have the name spelling 

correct. If not, I beg your pardon. There were a host of interested people putting 

this on! 

This meeting had a fantastic gathering of really knowledgeable speakers from a variety 

of walks of life. Horse trainers, veterinarians, horse breeders, horse handlers, public 

lands users, you name it and the interest was there! Even representatives of the State Fish 

and Game department. The attendees were all people with an interest in the horse and its 

welfare. 

The purpose of this meeting was to propose the establishment of slaughter plants to 

humanely handle the excess of unwanted horses in our nation. There is a real need to dispose 

of old, crippled, unwanted horses in our country. Horses are bred and born every year 

in excess of natural deaths. The population explosion is a bit different to handle than excess 

cats and dogs; just the fact that a horse body is a lot bigger than a cat or dog to dispose of. 

Dead horse bodies thrown out on the freeway right of ways wouldn’t go over so good, but 

what do you do with them. With land not being made anymore, burial sites are not an option. 

This meeting was a great starting point to establish these plants. With State control, 

the humane manner of slaughter can be enforced. With instate inspectors approved by the 

federal criteria; we have an honest attempt to handle this problem in the most humane way 

possible. With in state plants, managed humanely, we would know our old horses were 

treated humanely (that word again) and not subjected to pain and travel miles as they might 

be if trucked out of the country. 

I was impressed with the fact Bob Abbey, the Director of the Bureau of Land Management, 

was a speaker. Not so much speaking at this function, but that he did it despite death 

threats from the radical “horse” groups. The death threat was so real; he actually had a 

number of body guards accompanying him! He had just spoken at a meeting of theirs in 

California. “They” figured he could speak on their side but not on the logical side supporting 

some slaughter plants. How juvenile is that mentality? 

Of course, the controversy of wild horses being slaughtered for food came up. We, the 

people, have to acknowledge that there is a huge problem with the ballooning wild horse 

population. In the past, wild horse roundups have been conducted to harvest and control 

this. This policy has upset the “radical” groups who have no grasp of business. We, as a nation, 

have taken a viable enterprise and turned it into a public liability at the cost of millions 

of dollars to the taxpaying public. This meeting was staged to come to an honest solution to 

an ongoing problem. This argument has been hashed and re-hashed for years. Now maybe 

we can solve both problems humanely. 

That’s my big spiel for this issue. Now on to a bit lighter topics. The kids! 

——— • ——— 

Little Nate was going to go with his dad and cowboy a bit. Mom was getting him all 

dressed for the cold and commented she didn’t want him to grow up. Pretty soon he would 

be roping calves and chasing girls. He set her straight right away. 

“I might be roping calves but the girls will be chasing ME!” 

This is the same little guy that can’t be a cowboy by lying on the couch! 

Emma has to write her own thank you notes for gifts she receives. She addresses one 

to her great aunt and her own aunts as “Ant Billie and Ant Samme”. Mom addresses the 

envelope but Emma has to do the rest and she makes no mistake on what gift comes from 

which person! 

Emma was playing with her other grandmother and losing the battle of wits. She 

looked at her dad and wailed, “Dad, has your mom always been like this?” 

——— • ——— 

Think that will do for this issue. Can’t get too long winded-gets boring then. Until next 

time, stay warm, chop ice and hurry back to the fire!! 

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Letter to the Editor 

Note: The opinions expressed herein are strictly those of the author. The Progressive Rancher neither seeks or endorses these submissions, but allows all to voice their views. 

I had an old horse by the name of PJ. He reminded me of a horse when I was young 

whose name was Paddy. Thus, Paddy Junior or PJ. He wore a number three shoe. Would fit 

easily into a team . Not a big team but surely one that would pull a sled or a small wagon. 

Red roan he was. Had a black mane and tail. A neck as big as a fifty gallon drum, and a 

head to match. The only way he could go to the Cow Palace, you would need to buy him a 

seat in the third row. There is good in everything and PJ was good to separate the wannabes 

and the purveyor of male bovine fecal matter from the pure quill. However the pure quill 

was easily recognizable. They never bragged much. They would just show you. So when 

you drew PJ for the day, it was a test. The art of observation was PJs long suit. By the time 

the FNG had him saddled and bridled, PJ knew more about this fellow than anyone else 

on the outfit. He didn’t buck. Workman’s comp is too expensive can’t get someone fouled. 

Boy do I miss the good old days. PJ would wait patiently for his rider. If the lad just gave 

him a little rein, tapped him a little with the heels of his boots, a near perfect day could be 

had. The problem is, most FNG’s think, to be impressive, you must drive steal into the guts 

of the horse and yard on his head with the reins. Well mashing on the accelerator and the 

break at the same time seldom works. For PJ, this meant, suck up a little, crow hop and do 

a ballet thing I think they call it a pirouette, back up and break wind with enough force to 

sound like thunder. Then he would back the rube into the greenish gas cloud and freeze. If 

the FNG hadn’t fallen off yet, PJ would just stand there frozen until someone came to his 

rescue This task usually fell upon me. I would slowly ride over waiting for the mushroom 

shaped noxious gas cloud to dissipate and mention, that if you will take your hand out of 

his mouth and your gut hooks out of his belly we can go, and by the way let go of the saddle 

horn the batteries are dead, the horn won’t make a sound. 

Well we have a similar situation going on in the state government. Lots of credentials. 

Lots of spunk. Just not real good at keeping a poker face whilst they whip out some political 

pay back .Dr. Lesperance is not perfect, nor is anyone else. I started college on September 

1, 1967. It is safe to say that by September 2, 1967,it would match with the first time Dr. 

Lesperance yelled at me. I willfully admit that I had it coming. Was he a stern task master? 

YES. Did you dare show up in his class unprepared? NO. At the end of the semester did 

you know the subject? YES. Was Dr. Lesperance passionate about his subject? YES .At 

the end of the semester did you get your monies worth for taking his class? YES. Did he 

inspire you to work hard and excel? Yes Did Dr. Lesperance take over the AG department 

when there was internal strife in the AG department? Was there huge shortfalls in the state 

budget? Did the AG department have to bite the bullet in several areas. Did this make the 

employees nervous and apprehensive at the AG departments administration? We all got to 

watch the University’s college of agriculture get gutted. Ag extension put on the chopping 

block .No worries mate? Sounds like a perfect storm to me. This was all under the last 

governor, the one that ask for Dr. Lesperance’s help and tried as hard as any governor that 

I am aware of to help agriculture. The governor had respect for the AG industry and knew 

well of its contribution to the states economy. 

The department of agriculture was set up in 1915 to regulate, promote, educate, and 

champion agriculture in the state of Nevada. It was not set up to provide jobs for employees 

of the department of agriculture. Nor can you protect agriculture without addressing water 

issues. When we adopted the strong water policy for the state, we as a board, to protect agriculture, 

felt that we needed a strong position. No we didn’t want the state engineers job. We 

merely wanted standing in the process. INPUT AND RESPECT FOR OUR INDUSTRY! 

Well, as we were told by governor Gibbons, “an individual in Las Vegas took exception to 

that stance”. Maybe the same person who a few short years ago had a natural resource panel 

dissolved when a strong negative policy on intra basin water transfer was taken? Maybe 

the same person that is on the new governor’s transition team? Maybe the same person that 

several governors have said that they couldn’t do anything about her or her organization, as 

it was too powerful? Gee Hard for me not to believe that in a state that is so rural; but one 

end is so urban and powerful and so unaware of the role of agriculture that the assembly 

and senate and lots of governors have found themselves beholden to that huge urban area. 

Hard not to connect the dots that a bunch of farmers would be put in their place. 

The Ag board represents a cross section of constituents within the industry. It is kind of 

insulting that our opinions can be so easily dismissed. We had an exit strategy. The majority 

of the board thought it best to get through the legislature. Dr. Lesperance wanted to stay on 

just long enough for us to replace him after the session with the legislature. The incoming 

governor was aware of this strategy. Are we rogues? Are we poking the governor in the 

eye? We swore an oath to protect agriculture. We should have been given enough respect 

Fumes from the Farm by Hank Vogeler 

to express our views. Time will tell the rogue and the eye metaphor. The metaphor of the 

honey moon period for the new administration cannot be declared, as far as the Ag board 

goes, the new governor never even bothered to consummate the marriage. CONTINUITY, 

was the theme. We basically got a no confidence in our judgment as a board. Dr. Lesperance 

is being used as a trophy head. Measured for Boone and Crockett and to be presented to the 

victor. We will all kiss the ring of the water empress or die. Now we have been told that if 

the governor’s office has its way, the departments of weights and measures will be moved 

elsewhere, along with fuels. Who knows what else. Maybe, what is left will be an advisory 

board with no teeth? Oh don’t worry boys. Little political capital is expended. Not many 

northern rural folks can pull the chain for a liberal democrat. Ironic isn’t it. We voted in 

droves for the incoming governor and we were the first ones under the bus. How will they 

address the tough issues like teachers unions, culinary unions, state workers unions, and 

public employees retirement system. How will they address spending billions on a pipeline 

that may not be needed for years or if at all. What about the money in SNWA’s coffers could 

it be swept to help balance the budget? Eight percent of the Ag department budget is from 

the general fund. The entire general fund budget for agriculture is just over a million dollars; 

it would run the state for about three minutes Rural Nevada is a Chihuahua barking at 

a great Dane. Yet we supported the great Dane, and for what? To be told to have a nice day 

and we can carve you up if we want. A little like my old horse PJ. Mashing on the breaks 

and the accelerator at the same time just causes a huge stink, confusion and doesn’t get you 

anywhere. Hang and rattle. Hank 

Progressive R ancher 

Internet 

FEATURE: 

EXTRA 

Ecological Site Descriptions: 

Consideration for Riparian Systems 

By Tamzen K. Stringham and Jeffery P. Repp 

Ecological sites, and the previous iteration known as range sites, have provided 

ecologically based guidance in making land management decisions for more 

than 60 years. However, previous site description approaches failed to sufficiently 

describe the specific functions and processes unique to riparian areas, subunits 

critical to landscape function. Riparian areas are defined as the transition zone 

between the uplands where there is seldom standing water and the stream, lake, 

or spring where free-flowing or standing water supports a suite of water-loving 

plants such as sedges, rushes, and willows. Riparian zones in the western United 

States occupy only a small proportion of the total landscape and are often narrow 

corridors associated with streams. In spite of this limited area, about 80% of the 

terrestrial wildlife species known to occur in southeastern Oregon, for example, 

are dependent on these ecosystems for some portion of their life cycle. Riparian 

zones and meadows have also been found to provide a high proportion of summer 

forage for livestock and big game. The importance of riparian areas to wildlife, 

livestock, fisheries, and water quality is well recognized, but the development of 

riparian ecological sites and the associated state-and-transition models (STMs) is 

a recent phenomenon. 

For the complete article, please go to 

www.progressiverancher.com/extra.html 

www.PROGRESSIVER ANCHER.COM/EXTR A.html 


February 2011 13

Look UP 

by Pastor Diana Gonzalez 

I 

’ve been studying in the book of Acts since about the beginning of the year. 

Those folks in the early Church remind me somewhat of cow country folks. 

The book of Acts is believed to have been written by Luke and is kind of a continuation 

of the Gospel of Luke. The Gospel of Luke told us what Jesus began both to do 

and teach. The book of Acts tells us what the risen Christ continues to do and teach 

through the Church, with the power of the Holy Spirit. 

Now why do these folks in the early Church remind me of the ranchers that live out in 

the open ranges, out in cow country? Well because the folks in the early Church were of 

the same mind and purpose (in agreement). 

These all continued with one accord in prayer. Acts 1:14 

They were all with one accord in one place. Acts 2:1 

So continuing daily with one accord in the temple and breaking bread from house to 

house, they ate their food with gladness and simplicity of heart, praising God and having 

favor with all the people. And the Lord added to the Church daily those who were being 

saved. (Evangelism) Acts 2:46-47 

Aren’t most ranchers of the same mind and purpose? Fighting to maintain a lifestyle 

worth fighting for. Fighting for our land, enduring dry years, cold years, years of low calf 

prices, high operating costs, and high taxes. Don’t most neighbors pull together when 

someone needs help working on the ranch, or when trouble strikes? 

So folks, let’s make sure that we don’t fight with each other. Let’s purpose in our 

hearts to be of one accord, one purpose. Then together we can do great things like the 

early Church. Folks, there’re things going on in our State and in our Country that are just 

not right. Together, if we’re devoted, we can stop them. Also, there are many good and 

right things in our Country that we must fight for, but we need to pull together in one accord, 

one purpose. When we pull together, when right is on our side, and with the power of 

God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit, there’s NO THING that WE can’t 

accomplish. 

So what can we learn from the early Church? 

1. Study the Word (read your Bible) 

2. Fellowship together 

3. Pray alone and together 

4. Share and care for one another 

5. Be a giver 

6. Praise, worship and evangelize 

Happy trails. May God richly bless you. We love you and would love to hear from you. 

If you would like someone to pray with, or just have a question, please give us a call at (775) 

867-3100. ‘Til next time…. 

You are invited to 

COWBOY CHURCH! 

1st Saturday of every month 

Standish, CA @ 6:00 p.m. 

Hwy. 395 /A3 -- Standish 4-H Hall 

Harmony Ranch Ministry 

  

Are you having a 

Rodeo or Livestock event? 

Give us a call. 

We would love to come to your 

event or ranch and host 

Cowboy Church for you. 

Tom J. Gonzalez Diana J. Gonzalez, Pastor 

3767 Keyes Way (775) 867-3100 

Fallon, NV 89406 threecrossls@cccomm.net Cell (775) 426-1107 




Trotter Red Angus 

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at Snyder’s Bulls for the 21st Century Sale, Sat. March 13, 2011 

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February 2011 15

Allie Bear Real Estate 

Specializing in hunting, ranching, and horse properties 

O’Toole Ranch 450 hd ranch with 

BLM and Forest. Comes with some 

cattle and equipment. Owner will 

carry with good down. 

Farm 16 miles south of 

Winnemucca with 

2 pivots and one well 

Lundahl Research Ranch Price 

reduced!! $3,800,000 includes all 

equipment. Diamond Valley, Eureka 

County. Total Deeded - 4,898 acres; 

BLM - 96,400 acres; Total Acreage - 

101,298 acres 

Hinkey Summit Road 7.9 acres in 

Humboldt County, power nearby. 

$140,000 

Diamond Valley Farm Diamond 

Valley, Eureka 320 acre farm w/311 

acres water righted @ 4 ft/ac. 

Beautiful 3,332 square foot home. 

Wildhorse Ranch 4,500 deeded 

acres, new home and fish pond. 

Just minutes from a boating/fishing 

reservoir. Lots of meadows, borders 

National Forest. 

Raker Farm 314 acres in Smokey 

Valley, NV off of Hwy 379. 1620 

sq ft home, detached garage, 

greenhouse, shop, 2 pivots in alfalfa 

& 2 wells. $790,000 

Bear Ranch 3 miles east of Elko. 

Excellent potential. Cattle ranch & 

industrial land. $2,500,000 

161 acres 12 miles N of Elko 

Located off of Mtn City Hwy. 

$200,000 

Small place near Winnemucca 

with older home and water rights. 

58 acres 

Andreola Farm Austin, NV. 1900 

deeded crop land, mainly alfalfa. 

Farming & harvest equipment 

included. 4,500,000 

Flying M Ranch 23,000± deeded 

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View complete listings at: 

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Realtors: 

Dawn Mitton 

Mike Sallee 

Ken Heinbaugh 

Nevada Beef Council Seeks 

Nominations For The Beef 

Backer Award 

The Nevada Beef Council (NBC) is 

seeking nominations for the Nevada Beef 

Backer Award Contest. There are TWO categories 

for the Nevada Beef Council’s Beef 

Backer Award contest. This first category is 

the Nevada Beef Backer Restaurant Award 

which honors restaurants in Nevada that do 

a great job of supporting the beef industry 

through their menus, promotions and overall 

industry support. The second category is 

the Nevada Beef Backer Promotion Award 

which honors producer organizations, businesses 

and individuals that excel at promoting 

beef. This could be a 4-H group, a 

cattlewomen’s group, a business or person 

in Nevada that goes above and beyond to 

support the beef industry. The possibilities 

are endless with this category. Complete 

category descriptions are below. 

Nomination forms are available by 

calling 877.554.BEEF (2333) or e-mailing 

askus@nevadabeef.org. 

All nominations must be received in 

Balance Trait 

Bulls that are 

Functional 

with Growth 

FALLON BULL SALE 

Sat., February 19, 2011 • Fallon, NV 


SNYDER’S BULLS FOR 

THE 21 ST CENTURY SALE 

Sun., March 13, 2011 • Yerington, NV 


Sires: 

• Stitz UpWard • Pendelton 

• Bismark • 338 • Pioneer 

AMADOR 

ANGUS 

Ed, Carlene, Joshua & Tiffany Amador 

5136 Laird Road, Modesto, CA 95358 

Ed: (209) 595-3056 

Josh: (209) 499-9182 

E-Mail AmadorFarms@msn.com 

BEEF CHECKOFF NEWS 

News From the Nevada Beef Council:CHECKING- 

IN ON YOUR BEEF CHECKOFF 

the Nevada Beef Council office no later 

than Friday, April 1, 2011. 

Nevada Beef Backer 

Restaurant Award 

The NBC is encouraging cattle producers 

to nominate a Nevada restaurant that 

they think does a great job of promoting, 

menuing and selling beef. All restaurants 

that are nominated by you will be eligible to 

compete in the Nevada Beef Backer Award 

contest, sponsored by the NBC. 

We hope you’ll take advantage of this 

opportunity to recognize your favorite restaurant 

that does a great job of promoting 

your beef product. 

Nevada Beef Backer 

Promotion Award 

The Nevada Beef Backer Promotion 

Award was established as a way to recognize 

producer organizations, businesses and 

individuals that excel at promoting beef. 

Ranchers are asked to nominate producer 

organizations, businesses or individuals that 

they think excels at supporting and promoting 

the beef industry. 

We hope you’ll take advantage of this 

opportunity to recognize an organization, 

business or individual that does a good job 

of promoting your beef product. 

Firsthand Beef Experience! 

After attending the checkoff-funded 

Live Well event in June 2010, bestselling 

author and Food Network star Ellie Krieger, 

RD, wanted more information about modern 

beef production. So the checkoff coordinated 

a tour for her that included a beef 

processing plant in Texas and several hours 

in the meat lab at Texas Tech University, 

where she learned about fabrication and new 

cutting techniques. The upshot is an article 

in the Huffington Post that provides an inside 

look at the humane treatment of animals and 

detailed attention given to food safety, concluding: 

“I guess the truest way to explain 

how I feel about the way beef is produced 

after all I saw that busy day is to tell you that 

for dinner that night I thoroughly enjoyed a 

nice piece of beef tenderloin.” To read the 

full article, go to http://www.huffingtonpost. 

com/ellie-krieger/an-inside-look-at-beefpr_b_798435.html 

New Year’s Resolution? 

The beef checkoff is helping consumers 

plan how to keep their New Year’s resolution, 

knowing that nutrition is going to be 

top of mind as they try to be healthy and 

lose weight. Consumers often crave beef, 

but they need information to make informed 

beef purchases they can feel good about. 

Research performed during the development 

of the latest consumer “Profiles” 

ad campaign revealed that consumers crave 

beef, but concerns about nutrition often 

cause them to buy other proteins they think 

are better for them. Consumers are looking 

for “permission” from a health perspective 

to allow them to act on their desire for beef. 

There are 29 cuts of lean beef in the 

meat case. The checkoff-funded Beef Alternative 

Merchandising (BAM) Slimdown 

program also has a consumer brochure with 

information showing how the BAM cuts can 

be part of a healthy, balanced diet. 

Beef is an excellent source of protein 

and is important for muscle development, 

healthy bones, normal metabolism and balanced 

blood sugar. 

Good Bulls… Ready to work and are climatized for a Nevada workout! 

➨ Snyder’s “Bulls for the 

21 st Century” Sale: 

12 Bulls 

(2 Balancers, 10 Angus) 

➨ Fallon All Breeds Bull 

Sale: 2 Bulls 

➨ Winnemucca: 3 Bulls 




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Bulls for the 21st Century Test and Sale 

Sunday, March 13, 2011 • Yerington, NV • Lunch at 12 noon • Sale at 1PM 

Bull Buyer’s Seminar • Saturday, March 12, 2011 • Casino West Convention Center • 4PM 

Keynote Speaker • Leo McDonnell, owner of Midland Bull Test 

Discussing feed efficiency testing and is applications in the cow herd 

Funded in part by a grant from Lyon County Room Tax Board. 


February 2011 17

The Secret World Inside 

Reprinted from the Winter 2010 issue of Fair 

Chase: The Official Publication of the Boone and 

Crockett Club - www.booneandcrockettclub.com 

the Animal Rights Agenda — Part Two 

Part I of this column examined the historical development 

of the legitimate, benevolent, humanitarian animal 

welfare movement beginning in ancient times well into the 

last century, followed by the establishment and growth of 

the radical animal rights and liberation movement, its philosophical 

and moral footings, and its utopian goal of legal 

standing and “personhood” for all nonhuman creatures 

rather than their current status as “property” of humans. 

The development and activities of the Humane Society 

of the United States (HSUS), the world’s largest animal 

rights organization, was examined in detail, including its 

use of litigation at taxpayers’ expense to perpetrate the 

growth of feral horses, burros, and wolves in the United 

States; the impact the expanding wolf population is having 

on hunters and Idaho’s Department of Fish and Game; 

HSUS’ insidious youth-education programs, its global 

multi-national corporate reach that includes a “sanctuary 

system” comprised of at least 1.8 million acres in 37 states 

and 12 foreign countries, and its cunning fundraising 

operations. 

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, or PETA, 

which was formed in 1980, is the second-largest animal 

rights organization globally, and it focuses on the following 

core issues: ending factory and fur farming; research 

utilizing animals; animals used in entertainment such as 

aquariums, circuses, zoos and rodeos; hunting, trapping, 

and fishing; human consumption of meat or dairy products, 

or the use of leather or fur in apparel; and confined backyard 

dogs, cock fighting, dog fighting, and bull fighting. PETA is 

even opposed to the use of seeing-eye dogs and police dogs. 

PETA President and founder Ingrid Newkirk has described 

her group’s overall goal as “total animal liberation.” This 

means the complete abolition of meat, milk, cheese, eggs, 

honey, zoos, aquariums, circuses, wool, leather, fur, silk, 

hunting, fishing, and pet ownership. 

PETA is the most successful militant, radical, animal 

rights organization in America, having introduced a new level 

of tactical and political sophistication to animal rights advocacy 

following examples set by the civil rights and other 

liberation movements. PETA’s unique niche, according to its 

President, is being “complete press sluts,” endlessly seeking 

media exposure using outrageous shock and awe stunts and 

advertisements as part of the group’s strategic campaign to 

promote its total animal liberation message. In PETA’s 2009 

annual report, Newkirk proudly wrote, “We organized more 

By Lowell E. Baier, Winter 2010 issue of Fair Chase 

than 1,037 colorful demonstrations in 2009 that garnered 

lots of attention from both the public and the media.” Not 

to be outdone by her counterpart, Humane Society of the 

United States (HSUS) CEO Wayne Pacelle’s political acumen, 

Newkirk opened a Washington, D.C., office in 2009 to 

“ensure that animal rights issues are front and center in our 

nation’s capital and that animal rights displays and events 

will be seen everywhere by Obama administration staffers 

and members of Congress.” 

PETA has bought stock in restaurant and food companies 

that serve and sell meat, and then introduced shareholder 

resolutions at highly publicized annual meetings 

requiring animal rights-oriented practices in the way animals 

are handled and slaughtered. Campaigns have targeted Mc- 

Donald’s, Burger King, Wendy’s, Pilgrim’s Pride, and KFC, 

the latter having its retail locations publicly protested over 

12,000 times. Some of PETA’s current campaigns carry the 

following labels: Kentucky Fried Cruelty; Bloody Burberry; 

PetSmart Cruelty; McCruelty—I’m Hating It; Brookstone, 

A World of Deprivation; and Ringling Bros. Beats Animals. 

The March of Dimes, the Pediatric AIDS Foundation and 

the American Cancer Society have all been repeatedly attacked 

in flamboyant ways to attract media attention for 

conducting animal testing to find cures for birth defects and 

life-threatening diseases. Polo, Ralph Lauren, J. Crew, JC 

Penney, Calvin Klein, Tommy Hilfiger, Zappos, Ann Taylor, 

and Urban Outfitters all have agreed to stop selling fur 

products and Petco exotic pets and large birds. Avon, Estee 

Lauder, Dow Chemical, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Benetton, 

Gillette, Tonka Toy Company, and others all stopped testing 

products on animals after consumer boycotts were organized 

by PETA. Hundreds of fashion shows in the United States 

and Europe have been disrupted by PETA members throwing 

red paint on catwalks and models. 

PETA’s provocative national ad campaign, “I’d Rather 

Go Naked Than Wear A Fur” enlisted a broad spectrum 

of Hollywood entertainers, celebrities, and supermodels 

posing nude, such as Patti Davis, Steve-O, Pink, Pamela 

Anderson, Kim Basinger, Alec Baldwin, Stella McCartney, 

Eva Mendes, and Christy Turlington. Similarly, PETA will 

shamelessly exploit a celebrity’s human suffering to further 

its agenda, as it did when New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani 

announced he had prostate cancer, ending his campaign 

for the U.S. Senate. PETA put up billboards picturing Giuliani 

with a milk mustache over the caption “Got Prostate 

Cancer.” 

Not missing a PR opportunity to utilize global climate 

change as a hook to promote its meatless vegan society message, 

PETA even attributes the human diet as a contributor, 

quoting a University of Chicago study: “changing from a 

meat-based diet to a vegan diet saves the equivalent of 1.5 

tons of carbon dioxide emissions every year! If all Americans 

cut back on meat consumption by just 20 percent, it 

would yield the same reduction in greenhouse gas emissions 

as if everyone in the country switched from driving a Camry 

to driving a Prius! And vegetables cost a lot less than a new 

car.” 

PETA has organized and financed major infiltrations to 

create videos, and/or copy or steal documents, to stir controversy 

regarding research testing laboratories that utilize 

animals, slaughter houses, factory farms, and circuses. In 

2007 alone, some 75 PETA infiltrations occurred. PETA’s association 

and collaboration with the Earth Liberation Front 

(ELF) and Animal Liberation Front (ALF), both FBI-listed 

eco-terrorists, is a matter of record according to the watchdog 

group, Center for Consumer Freedom (CCF). PETA’s 

own tax records confirm providing them funding and support, 

which PETA has publicly acknowledged according to 

a CCF web site. 

PETA Targets Children 

One of PETA’s major targets has been influencing and 

educating children through its Youth Outreach Division and 

PETA2.com web site with some programs and material designed 

for children beginning at age 3. PETA’s 2009 annual 

review reports PETA2. com has “over 750,000 subscribers… 

and receives more than 375,000 visits per month… the 

largest youth membership of any social-justice organization. 

Its efforts help ensure that tomorrow’s scientists, executives, 

lawmakers, educators, and parents will be on the animals’ 

side. …For 245 days in 2009, PETA staffed information 

booths at 366 concerts, music festivals, and colleges reaching 

more than 1.1 million young people with literature and 

videos.” Some 36,000 action packets in PETA’s McCruelty 

campaign were sent to young people to pressure McDonald’s 

to force animal welfare improvements at its meat supplier’s 

level, and as a result, PETA’s Youth Activist Network grew 

to over 175,000 subscribers. One PETA Vice President told 

Fox News Channel that, “Our campaigns are always geared 

towards children, and they always will be.” Its child-themed 

web site, PETAKIDS.com, and children’s magazine called, 

“GRRR!” recommended for ages 5-13, promote PETA’s ani- 





February 2011 19

FALLON 

Livestock Exchange, Inc. 

is pleased to announce 

The 8th Annual 

BACK TO GRASS 

Calf and Yearling Sale 

Tuesday, March 1, 2011 at 1:00 p.m. 

Ranchers: This special feeder sale will be our third for 2011. The market seems to get higher 

every week. We invite you to consign your good cattle to this nationally advertised sale. 

We have cleaned our pens, we feed good quality alfalfa hay and have fresh water in our 

pens, help keeping shrink at a minimum. Buyers are calling daily looking for cattle, so call 

Fallon Livestock Exchange, Inc. and consign your good cattle to this sale. By consigning 

them early we can notify buyers helping you achieve full market value for them. 

Fallon Livestock sold more than 1560 head of livestock this last week of January 15-18, 2011 

For more market information, or to arrange your hauling needs, 

please call… 

MARKET REPORT 

JANUARY 15-18, 2011 

TOP OFFERINGS 

Weight Steer Heifer 

300-400 145.00-179.00 140.00-168.50 

400-500 145.00-169.50 125.00-169.00 

500-600 135.00-157.00 117.00-132.00 

600-700 121.00-132.00 104.00-115.00 

700-800 110.00-125.00 100.00-113.00 

800 & Over 104.00-117.00 97.00-108.25 

Lite Holestein (under 600#) 65.00-70.00 

Heavy Holestein (over 600#) 62.00-72.50 

Singles, Small Framed or Plainer Cattle 15.00 to 20.00 

less than top offerings 

BUTCHER COWS & BULLS 

Breakers (Fat Cows) 57.00-63.00 

Boners (Med Flesh) 60.00-68.50 

Cutters (Lean) 48.00-55.00 

Holstein Cows 30.00-59.50 

Butcher Bulls 62.00-65.00 

Shelly (Thin) Bulls 40.00-52.00 

Shelly Cutters (Thin) 25.00-40.00 

Young Feeder Cows 55.00-65.00 

Heiferettes 55.00-68.00 

Holestein Bulls 65.00-70.00 

Feeder Bulls 53.00-62.00 

Cutting Bulls 65.00-80.00 

TODAY’S COWS 

Avg. Wt Avg. Cost 

Top Cow 1330 73.00 

Top 10 Cows 1275 68.26 

Top 50 Cows 1260 65.17 

Top 100 Cows 1160 60.38 

Top Butcher Bull 1920 74.50 

Top Holstein Cow 1340 68.50 

Top 10 Holstein Cows 1279 58.85 

MARKET TRENDS: 

Feeder Cattle Wow, what a light calf market we’re 

seeing due to short supply and California with lots 

of green grass, the demand for cattle is higher than 

I’ve ever seen. The butcher cow market will probably 

get highter this next month also. Our next special 

feeder sale will be Tuesday, March 1, 2011 at 1:00 

p.m. Held in conjunction with our regular sale. 

Fallon Livestock Exchange, Inc. 

775-867-2020 or Monte Bruck, Manager 775-426-8279 

2055 Trento Lane, Fallon, Nevada 89406 




The Secret World Inside the Animal Rights Agenda 

mal liberation agenda, eschews the use of any clothing that 

includes animal products, promotes a vegetarian diet, and 

discourages milk and meat consumption because it causes 

acne, obesity, heart disease, diabetes, cancer, and strokes. 

This same web site tells kids tropical rainforests are being 

destroyed to create grazing land for cattle, and that 55 square 

feet of rainforest are cut down to produce just one quarterpound 

burger. The Kids Guide to Helping Animals booklet 

was created for kids ages 6-12 to further influence the minds 

of children with PETA’s messages, as was its new Teach- 

Kind.org program and web site that provides educators and 

librarians free humane educational material, lesson plans, 

books, DVDs, classroom posters, kids’ magazines, and stepby-step 

instructions on addressing animal rights issues in 

schools, as well as a guest speaker service. PETAKIDS. com 

even instructs children on how to organize an animal rights 

club and PETA fundraisers. 

PETA has even created its own PETA’s Vegan College 

Cookbook to promote a vegetarian lifestyle, and in 2009 over 

422,000 copies of its “Vegetarian Starter Kit” were distributed. 

Many popular youth-culture celebrities were enlisted 

to carry PETA’s message to children including pop stars 

Justin Bieber, reality TV star Steve-O, MTV host Layla Kayleigh, 

Miley Cyrus, and rock bands Dillinger, Escape Plan, 

Rise Against, and Silverstein. PETA’s ad campaign “Your 

Mommy Kills Animals,” featuring the cartoon of a mother 

killing a rabbit with a knife was highly criticized for its message 

aimed at young people. PETA brags, however, that this 

message reached over 1.2 million minor children, including 

30,000 kids between the ages of 6 and 12, all contacted by 

email without parental supervision. 

Targeting Our Hunting Heritage 

Recreational hunting and fishing have long been a target 

of PETA. In 1992, its members boisterously picketed the 

annual meeting of the Boone and Crockett Club in Denver, 

Colorado. Releases from the PETA media center reveal a series 

of distorted messages they’ve disseminated on hunting: 

To attract more hunters (and their money), 

federal and state agencies implement programs—often 

called “wildlife management” or 

“conservation” programs—that are designed to 

boost the numbers of “game” species. These 

programs help to ensure that there are plenty of 

animals for hunters to kill and, consequently, 

plenty of revenue from the sale of hunting licenses. 

… In Alaska, the Department of Fish and 

Game is trying to increase the number of moose 

for hunters by “controlling” the wolf and bear 

populations. … Wolves have been slaughtered in 

order to “let the moose population rebound and 

provide a higher harvest for local hunters.” … 

in Canada, hunting has caused bighorn sheep’s 

horn size to fall by 25 percent in the last 40 years. 

… [PETA] insists that non-hunters be equally 

represented on the staffs of wildlife agencies. 

The PETAKIDS.com web site designed for ages 5-13 

sends this message about sport hunting to our kids, under the 

bold headline “Leave Wildlife Alone.” 

Chasing defenseless animals around in the 

woods just so that you can shoot them and mount 

their heads on the wall is unbelievably cruel. … 

Hunting, like factory farming, destroys [animal] 

families and causes pain, trauma, and grief to 

both the victims and the survivors. Why cause 

any suffering when we can avoid it? In this day 

and age, there is simply no reason for anyone 

to hunt. 

One commentator characterized PETA’s speciesism 

position—that all species are equal—as follows: “animal 

trainers, hunters, fishermen, cattlemen, grocers, and indeed 

all non-vegetarians are the moral equivalent of cannibals, 

slave-owners, and death-camp guards.” PETA President 

Ingrid Newkirk insists that the world would be a better place 

without people: “Humans have grown like a cancer. We’re 

the biggest blight on the face of the earth.” 

Empty Talk 

The biggest hypocrisy of PETA comes from its euthanasia 

program. During 2009, PETA took in 2,366 dogs and 

cats for adoption, and killed 2,301 of these. Only one out of 

300 animals found adoptive homes. Since 1998, PETA has 

killed 23,640 dogs and cats—all a matter of public record, 

which PETA filed with the Virginia Department of Agriculture 

and Consumer Services. At PETA’s Norfolk, Virginia, 

headquarters, there are no open adoption shelter hours. There 

is, however, a large walk-in freezer purchased in 2002 for 

$9,370, and a contract with a crematory service to empty 

the freezer periodically of animal carcasses according to the 

Center for Consumer Freedom. In 2005, two PETA employees 

were charged with 31 felony counts of animal cruelty 

each, after authorities found them dumping the dead bodies 

of 18 animals they had just picked up from a North Carolina 

animal shelter into a dumpster. According to the Associated 

Press, 13 more dead animals were found in a van registered 

to PETA. 

PETA’s 2009 annual report and financial statement 

shows revenues totaling $34.6 million, $5.1 million or 15 

percent of which was spent on fundraising. The 2009 statement 

lists net assets of $17.7 million. Its 300 employees 

service a membership reportedly in excess of 2 million 

members. PETA is a major, multi-national business operation 

focused on its mission of total global animal liberation 

with rights equal to humans, utilizing outrageous radical 

tactics. In the opinion of one of the leading investigators 

and authorities on animal rightists, while HSUS backs away 

from PETA’s vulgar use of nudity, scare tactics and outrageous 

media antics, HSUS sits in the shadows in complete 

agreement with that group’s goals and lets PETA be the 

mouthpiece. HSUS lets PETA be the “bad cop” while HSUS 

assumes the role of “good cop” in an effort to burnish its 

legitimacy. HSUS plays on its “humane” name to gain public 

support for the same radical issues, but clearly HSUS and 

PETA are NOT animal welfare agencies according to the 

research data collected by one of the leading authorities on 

global animal rightist activities. 

Veganarchism 

HSUS and PETA, while the most recognizable animal 

rightists groups, are shadowed by far more militant organizations 

that emphasize animal liberation and tactically 

support what can be termed “veganarchism.” These include 

the Animal Liberation Front (ALF) and Earth Liberation 

Front (ELF), both listed by the FBI as eco-terrorists here and 

abroad, with 150 ongoing, open investigations. These two 

groups are responsible for more than 600 crimes since 1996, 

causing more than $43 million in damages estimated by the 

FBI. Their anarchism led to the Animal Enterprise Terrorism 

Act being adopted by Congress in 1992. ALF is active in 38 

countries globally. These two groups along with the Britishbased 

anti-hunting guerrilla group called the Band of Mercy 

are known for attacking hunters’ vehicles by slashing tires, 

breaking windows, and harassing hunting parties by trailing 

them afield with noise makers and banging pots and pans, 

and putting down false scent trails to distract hunting dogs. 

An incendiary firebomb at a Michigan State University 

(MSU) animal research testing lab was detonated, causing 

multimillion dollar damages in 1992 by ALF activist Rod 

Coronado, who was convicted of arson and sent to jail. 

Documents removed from MSU and a videotape of the 

perpetrator disguised in a ski mask were sent by Coronado 

to a PETA employee. According to the book Eco-Terrorism, 

PETA reportedly paid $45,000 to Coronado for his legal 

expenses, and loaned his father another $25,000. Similarly, 

according to two reports, PETA contributed $27,000 to the 

legal defense fund of Robert Troen for burglary and arson at 

the University of Oregon in 1986. Three years later in 1989, 

PETA informed its members of the payment. PETA’s 1988 

IRS 990 tax form disclosed that PETA contributed $7,500 to 

the legal defense of Fran Stephanie Trutt, prosecuted for the 

attempted murder of the president of a medical laboratory 

and convicted of possessing pipe bombs. Josh Harper was 

convicted of attacking Native Americans on a whale hunt 

using smoke bombs, flares, and chemical fire extinguishers, 

received $5,000 from PETA. All of these payments were 

made from PETA’s tax-exempt funds. PETA’s President 

Newkirk is quoted by the Center for Consumer Freedom as 

saying “I will be the last person to condemn ALF,” and in 

another interview she said “I find it small wonder that the 

laboratories aren’t all burning to the ground. If I had more 

guts, I’d light a match.” 

While this column was being written, a radical animal 

rights terrorist entered the lobby of the Discovery Channel 

headquarters in Silver Spring, Maryland, and took hostages 

before he was killed by police. He presented the Discovery 

Channel a manifesto of demands centering on stopping the 

growth of the “filthy human population” at the expense of 

“wildlife and forest creatures,” strangely echoing PETA’s 

President Newkirk’s early remarks about population growth 

being “the biggest blight on the face of the earth.” 

Animal rights militants and eco-terrorists operating 

under the name Animal Liberation Brigade targeted the 

animal testing laboratory Huntington Life Sciences and the 

California National Primate Research Center with firebombs 

and pipe bombs. Companies doing business with Huntington 

have also been targeted with bombings and incendiary 

devices, including Shaklee, Inc., Chiron Corporation and 

several UCLA animal research scientists. At sea, the Sea 

Shepherd Conservation Society claims credit for the sinking 

of 10 Icelandic whaling ships, boarding whaling vessels 


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at sea, ramming fishing vessels, seizure and destruction of 

drift nets, disorienting whalers with laser devices, throwing 

bottles of foul-smelling butyric acid onto the decks of fishing 

vessels, and the interdiction of Canadian seal hunts. Greenpeace 

follows Sea Shepherd tactically to disrupt whaling and 

other fishing vessels, destroying drift nets, etc. 

Targeting Lawyers and Doctors 

The legal profession has of course taken its place at 

the animal rights roundtable. Harvard Law School began 

teaching an animal rights course in 2000, the first of its kind 

in the nation, while the Harvard Divinity School offered 

a course titled, “Religion and Animals.” Today 120 of the 

196 American law schools and eight Canadian law schools 

offer at least one animal rights course, and some an entire 

concentration. Animal rights law committees now exist in 

the American Bar Association and many state bar associations. 

HSUS and its Humane Society University provides 

training seminars for criminal prosecutors on investigating 

and prosecuting animal cruelty cases, as does the National 

Association of Prosecuting Attorneys. HSUS also provides a 

full staff of 30 well-trained attorneys in their Animal Protection 

Litigation Section to do legal research, writing and trial 

preparation, amicus assistance, expert witness advice and 

testimony, species-specific veterinarians, animal scientists 

and behaviorists, psychologists, and expert investigators. 

Internationally, Austria’s Supreme Court has considered 

the rights of a 25-yearold chimpanzee to own property 

donated to it by benefactors, and their decision recognizing 

such rights is now on appeal to the European Court of Human 

Rights. The Spanish legislature, moreover, voted in 2008 to 

consider extending limited rights to nonhuman primates to 

be protected from use in medical experimentation or circuses. 

The Spanish Parliament’s Environment Committee is 

weighing the proposal. Switzerland recognized animals as 

“beings,” not “things,” in 1992, and in 2002, the protection 

of animals was added to the German Constitution. The state 

of Israel has banned animal dissections in elementary and 

secondary schools and performances by trained animals in 

circuses. A host of animal defense and litigation NGOs have 

been established, moreover placing additional support and 

ostensible legitimacy behind animal issues. These include 

the Animal Law Coalition, International Society for Animal 

Rights, Animal Legal Defense Fund, Defenders of Wildlife, 

Earth Justice Legal Defense Fund (formerly called Sierra 

Club Legal Defense Fund), Natural Resources Defense 

Council, Animal Advocates, In Defense of Animals, Society 

for Animal Protective Legislation, etc. 

Recognized senior legal scholar Cass Sunstein, President 

Obama’s regulations czar, famed defense attorney Alan 

Dershowitz, and the President’s confidant and former Harvard 

Law Professor, Laurence Tribe, who Obama appointed 

Senior Counselor for Access to Justice in the Department 

of Justice, all support granting animals the legal right to 

sue. As legal scholar Michael Socarras told the Association 

of American Medical Colleges: “There is a very important 

shift under way in the manner in which many people in law 

schools and in the legal profession think about animals. This 

shift has not yet reached popular opinion. However, in [the 

U.S.], social change has and can occur through the courts, 

which in many instances do not operate as a democratic 

institution. Therefore, the evolution in elite legal opinion is 

extremely significant…” 

Doctors reportedly have also taken a seat at the animal 

rights roundtable in the form of Physician Committee for 

Responsible Medicine (PCRM, a PETA front group), but 

only 5 percent of its supposed membership are physicians. 

The mission of the organization, formed in 1985, is to remove 

meat, milk, eggs, and seafood from the American diet, 

and eliminate the use of animals in scientific research. The 

American Medical Association (AMA) censured them and 

called the group “a fringe organization” that uses “unethical 

tactics” and is “interested in perverting medical science.” In 

responding to PCMA’s attempt to start a milk panic scare 

campaign, the AMA said, “The AMA finds the recommendation 

of PCRM irresponsible and potentially dangerous to 

the health and welfare of Americans. [PCMA is] blatantly 

misleading Americans on a health matter and concealing its 

true purpose as an animal ‘rights’ organization.” 

The End Game 

As you might now appreciate, an animal’s right to “personhood” 

versus being owned “property,” and the legal right 

and standing to sue to protect their interests, is no longer a 

fringe issue in American society. It’s the end game of the 

animal rights movement. The brave new utopian world of 

the animal rightists and liberationists is a pet less, meatless 

society, one of vegetarianism, a lifestyle, and veganism, 

which is a political statement. High-end urban grocery 

stores already have dedicated vegan food products, aisles or 

sections. Clothing and accessories made of animal hides or 

products such as leather shoes, belts, handbags, coats, luggage, 

wool suits, silk scarves, ties, and dresses, etc., would 

be eliminated, as some items already have been by major retailers, 

as would products known to contain animal byproducts 

or goods containing ingredients that have been tested on 

animals. “Puppy mills” supplying dogs for pet stores would 

be outlawed, but so would legitimate purebred breeders 

because of deceptive language slipped into anti-dog legislation 

by animal rightists making it applicable to any kennels 

producing a defined but limited number of puppies per year. 

Fur farms would be outlawed, as would factory farming of 

cattle, pigs, chicken, and fish, and any form of biomedical 

research, aerospace or military exercises that utilize laboratory 

animals for toxicity testing, basic or applied research, 

teaching, education or training, or exhibition. Zoos, circuses, 

aquariums and, rodeos would also be eliminated. At the extreme 

of this utopian world, your pet would have the right to 

life, the protection of its individual liberty, personal safety, 

and the right to claim/own property, if companion and service 

animals were even permitted. 

Hunting, trapping, and fishing would be illegal within 

the animal rightists’ agenda. HSUS’ President Wayne Pacelle 

is on record with the Bozeman Daily Chronicle (Montana) as 

saying, “Our goal is to get sport hunting in the same category 

as cock fighting and dog fighting.” HSUS’ own web site in 

2003 stated, “Sport hunting—the killing of wild animals as 

recreation—is fundamentally at odds with the values of a 

humane, just, and caring society.” 

The Sporting World’s Watch Dogs 

While most of the sporting world has been focused 

on the highly visible anti-hunting movement led by PETA 

and HSUS among others, one organization has identified 

the animal rightists and liberationists and the hidden threat 

they pose to the hunting and fishing world, whose pushback 

and vigilance has been phenomenal. That group is the U.S. 

Sportsmen’s Alliance (USSA) in Columbus, Ohio, its U.S. 

Sportsmen’s Alliance Foundation, and its U.S. Sportsmen’s 

Legal Defense Fund. Begun in 1977 as the Wildlife 

Legislative Fund of America, and joined by the Wildlife 

Conservation Fund of America, USSA has led the way in 

defeating ballot and other anti-hunting initiatives in state 

after state, Washington, D.C., and courtrooms across the 

country. U.S. Sportsmen’s Alliance staff has connected the 

dots nationally and globally by analyzing animal rightists’ 

tax forms, who they hire, the worldwide organizations that 

are affiliated, where they get their money and how they 

spend it, the legislation they support and the lawsuits they 

file, the information on their web sites, their pitch to be 

vegan, what they try to teach our children on their web sites, 

etc. If you don’t do that analysis, you can’t know HSUS or 

PETA. That is why U.S. Sportsmen’s Alliance has become 

one of the sportsmen’s prime watchdogs on the activities of 

HSUS and PETA. USSA’s web site, www.ussportsmen.org, 

is a reliable and highly informative source of information on 

animal rightists’ activities; its news archives provides a rich, 

historical yearby-year chronology of USSA’s activities to 

protect the sportsmen’s community of interests. U.S. Sportsmen’s 

Alliance President Bud Pidgeon has said, “The HSUS 

is playing up a mainstream reputation in hopes of becoming 

the primary mouthpiece for the animal rights movement.” 

Two other notable groups that provide valuable oversight 

and factual information on animal rightists are the 

National Animal Interest Alliance (NAIA) www.naiaonline. 

org, and the Center for Consumer Freedom (CCF), www. 

consumerfreedom.com. NAIA is an affiliation of professionals 

who live and work with animals, which include pet 

owners and clubs, circus trainers, hunters, fisherman, wildlife 

biologists, rescue groups, breeders, trainers, veterinarians, 

research scientists, etc. NAIA’s mission is to promote 

animal husbandry’s best practices and responsible breeding, 

strengthening the human-animal bond, and protecting the 

rights of responsible animal owners. The latter group, CCF, 

is a controversial industry-supported (restaurant and food 

companies) research and lobby organization providing reliable 

research data on animal rightists. Several other web sites 

that really bring clarity to the hidden agenda cloaked in the 

clandestine, covert and murky worlds of HSUS, PETA, and 

their related groups are the following: www.humanewatch. 

org; www.huntersagainstpeta.com; www.animalscam.com; 

www.petakillsanimals.com; www.sfgate.com; www.activistcash. 

com; www.firstthings.com; www.pajamasmedia. 

com, and www.geari.org. 

Where Animals RightsStands Now 

Professor David Walls at Sonoma State University in 

2008 succinctly characterized the current state of the animal 

rights movement as follows: 

The animal rights movement is still in an 




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early stage of development. Many of the groups 

begun since the 1950s are in their first generation 

of leadership and manifest “founder’s syndrome” 

to one extent or another. Competition is 

still heavy for available issue niches on animal 

experimentation, farm animals, hunting, zoos 

and circuses, fur, and animal testing. Questions 

of “purity” divide animal activists, particularly 

over whether animal welfare and animal rights 

are complementary or contradictory. Must a true 

friend of animals be a vegetarian, or further, a 

vegan who eats no animal products? Can animal 

rights groups make alliances with mainstream 

conservation organizations who condone hunting 

(or at least do not officially oppose it)? Tom 

Regan [one group’s philosophical and puritanical 

high priests] upholds animal rights fundamentalism, 

a program of nothing less than a 

complete abolition of all exploitation of animals 

for human purposes. Others, including PETA’s 

Ingrid Newkirk, argue that cooperation with all 

allies issue by issue is the only path to victories 

for animals. However impractical, utopian, or 

just plain wrongheaded many of their goals 

may appear to the general public— and to many 

participants in other movements—animal rights 

advocates have come a long way in the past 

decade, and are no longer out beyond the fringe. 

All of the animal rightists groups, notwithstanding 

their separate niches, work together openly and covertly and 

play off each other’s tactics and agendas. Central, however, 

to their individual agendas is the establishment of animal 

rights globally and the creation of a vegan society, which 

is a political initiative, with some far-left extremists bent 

on eco-terrorism and a “veganarchism jihad.” This societal 

movement is no longer in the shadows. HSUS and PETA 

are now 56 and 30 years old respectively, with a combined 

membership and constituency of 13.5 million people, total 

revenues in 2009 of $161.3 million, and net assets of $209.6 

million. This is big business. The animal rights movement 

is now over 50 years old, and its educational influences and 

indoctrination of children have gone on for five decades. 

Generations have been subject to this influence, and many 

children have grown up to become parents themselves with 

an animal rights education and orientation, and the referenced 

numbers reflect this. We sportsmen have witnessed the 

rhetoric and tactics of anti-hunters, but the animal rightists 

bring a whole new threat not just to our sport, but to the very 

way we live and function in society. To quote PETA’s own 

web site: “Animal rights is not just a philosophy— it’s a social 

movement that challenges society’s traditional view that 

all nonhuman animals exist solely for human use.” Twenty 

years ago, HSUS CEO Wayne Pacelle said, “We are going 

to use the ballot box and the democratic process to stop all 

hunting in the United States. We will take it species by species 

until all hunting is stopped in California. Then we will 

take it state by state.” True to his word, Pacelle has done 

exactly this for the last 20 years. 

What Can We Do? 

How does our sporting community address the daunting 

challenge the animal rights movement poses when we recognize 

that its two leading groups alone represent 13.5 million 

people, have combined annual revenues of $161.3 million, 

net assets of $209.6 million, and have been cunningly planning 

and executing their global attack on society for over 

50 years? The strongest weapons sportsmen have to thwart 

animal rightists are the facts and truth. And vigilance in 

clearly communicating these is our first collective defense to 

stop the unsuspecting public’s flow of money into behemoth 

animal rights organizations. We must let the politicians at the 

local and national level know the truth on animal issues so 

they are not guilelessly misled. Moreover, the second strongest 

weapon sportsmen have is diligently working together 

as a united force and community, setting our individual 

ideological agendas aside that persistently get in the way, 

stop fighting, competing, and criticizing each other, and support 

offensive groups like the U.S. Sportsmen’s Alliance and 

educating the constituency of our national sporting groups 

on the threat the animal rightists’ agendas present. 

The American Wildlife Conservation Partners (AWCP) 

is now 11 years old and its combined constituency is 7 million 

sportsmen. We have a base to start with, and AWCP, now 

a confederation of 47 national organizations, must exercise 

leadership. Moreover, we must unite in this offense with our 

angler counterparts whose constituency is far greater than 

ours. We are both under attack by animal rightists. 

Hunters and anglers face attacks based primarily on the 

Endangered Species Act (ESA) and the Marine Mammal 

Protection Act (MMPA). The animal rightists use these federal 

statutes to abusively attack our sporting community. The 

key to a united sportsmen’s approach is to design a plan to 

diffuse the animal rightist’s agenda that’s been 50 years in its 

consolidation, and be as insidious, calculating and stealthy 

as they’ve been. We’ve got to dilute their funding base of 

unsuspecting donors with facts and truth. As discussed in 

Part 1 of this column, animal rightists and environmental 

activists routinely sue the federal government and recover 

their litigation costs and attorneys’ fees utilizing the Equal 

Access to Justice Act (EAJA, 1980), the Judgment Fund 

(1956), and Section 11(g)(4) of the Endangered Species Act 

(1973), all funded from the U.S. Treasury, i.e. by unsuspecting 

taxpayers. During the last decade alone, $36 million has 

been paid out to just nine activist groups in more than 3,300 

lawsuits. HSUS alone has been a plaintiff in 88 federal district 

lawsuits since 1988, recovering at least $2.6 million in 

attorneys’ fees and costs. 

Cutting off these litigation subsidies via amendments 

to the EAJA, the Judgment Fund and Section 11(g)(4) of 

the ESA, thus thwarting animal rightists’ and environmental 

activists’ repeated litigation at taxpayers’ expense for their 

revolving, round-robin legal expenses must become the 

leading goal for the sportsmen’s community. Rep. Cynthia 

Lummis (R-Wyoming) introduced legislation this past 

March (H.R. 4717), as did Senator John Ensign (R-Nevada) 

(S.3122), with 36 bipartisan members of Congress co-sponsoring 

the bills, to amend EAJA, for which we sportsmen 

must rally to secure Congressional enactment. However, 

both of these bills only require that the Department of Justice 

annually report what litigation costs have been paid 

out under EAJA, which has become a big secret since the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. The pending legislation 

must be expanded to include two important amendments 1) 

require disclosure of litigation payments made under the 

Judgment Fund and ESA, which has been a closely guarded 

secret; and 2) restrict payments to nonprofit litigants that 

can afford to pay their own attorneys’ fees and expenses like 

HSUS and PETA. 

Litigation reimbursement expenses were intended by 

Congress to afford equal access to justice for indigents and 

nonprofit groups that couldn’t afford high-priced lawyers 

and the burden of prolonged expensive litigation, not for 

organizations like HSUS and PETA that have combined 

net assets of $209.6 million and cash balances in excess 

of $44.5 million. Contrary and outrageous as it may seem, 

under EAJA, a “for profit” company with a net worth over 

$7 million is ineligible to recover attorneys’ fees and costs, 

yet any “nonprofit” is eligible to recover legal fees and costs 

regardless of its net worth. How blatant is that inequity! But 

it doesn’t stop there. Guess who President Obama appointed 

as his “Senior Counselor for Access to Justice at the Department 

of Justice? As referenced earlier, one of his former 

Harvard law professors and confidant, Laurence Tribe, a 

recognized animal rights advocate. 

Changing the laws to cut off reimbursement of litigation 

costs to “nonprofit” animal rightists and environmental activist 

organizations that can afford to pay their own attorney 

fees and costs will be challenging, and the organized pushback 

as you might appreciate will be huge. It will require the 

sporting community to organize a united focus on this issue, 

and a major national campaign to secure Congressional approval. 

The campaign will take time, but sportsmen have 

got to start laying the pipe and building the foundation to 

achieve Congressional approval and avoid a White House 

veto. That national campaign can be the very vehicle sportsmen 

can use to educate the taxpayers of America on the 

best-kept, dirty little secret the rightists and enviros trade on 

to maintain their hidden, revolving legal expense fund, and 

to perennially generate donations from the unsuspecting, 

unknowing public supporting their litigation cause-based 

fundraising appeals. 

The reason this issue hasn’t seen daylight is because the 

massive reimbursements for litigation costs have not been 

publicly disclosed by the federal government, and they are 

individually approved by the judges in the federal district 

courts hearing the cases, hence spread across 50 states and 

buried in federal court records. Moreover, the three laws 

that authorize these reimbursements are very complex, 

somewhat arcane, and give the presiding federal judges virtually 

unlimited discretion without any oversight in awarding 

reimbursement for attorneys’ fees and litigation costs. 

A national campaign to amend the law and end this abuse 

will showcase the secret weapon hidden by the rightists 

and enviros which they’ve run rampant with for over four 

decades. To disable the animal rightists and environmental 

activist’s abusive litigation vehicles, sportsmen must follow 

their money trail, and cut it off! 





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Range Plants for the Rancher 

By Paul T. Tueller, Ph.D., CRMC 

March 

12 & 13, 2011 

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Green Ephedra 

It comes as no surprise that Nevada rangelands are offspring, either lambs or calves. 

mostly shrub dominated. Therefore, this month I wish The stems of green ephedra 

to describe another common woody plant found on our rangelands. 

The plant is Green Ephedra, sometimes called Mormon tive Americans to make a non- 

were traditionally brewed by Na- 

Tea, Brigham’s Tea or Joint-Fir (Ephedra viridis) Coville. It medicinal beverage as well as a 

belongs to the Ephedraceae family. 

medicinal tea considered to be a remedy for a backache. Native 

This is an erect dioecious (having male and female plants) Americans also made flour and a coffee-like beverage from the 

shrub, 5 inches to 4 feet tall. It reproduces by seed or by sprouting seeds and have even burned plants for charcoal for tatooing 

from the roots and the woody crown. The cones are in pairs at the Green ephedra can be used for xeriscaping projects, and has 

stem joints. The plant produces nut-like seeds partly or entirely enclosed 

in large bracts that form a cone structure. The leaves are op- 

sites and mine dumps. It is valuable for its vivid green color in 

been widely used as a landscape species for roadsides, recreational 

posite on the stem joints and consist of small, papery scales. The an often dull gray sagebrush environment. Green ephedra has 

stems are numerous and parallel pointing upward somewhat 

resembling a broom. The branchlets are clus- 

rangeland communities and can be used to rehabili- 

been listed as a successful shrub for restoring western 

tered around nodes. Stems are generally less than 

tate disturbed lands. It also has value for reducing 

0.12 inch in diameter and are bright green, with 

soil erosion on both clay and sandy soils. It can 

thicker growth developing gray, shreddy bark. 

be established readily through direct seeding, 

The jointed branches have small, scale-like, 

transplants, and stem cuttings. Containerstock 

green ephedra has potential value for 

inconspicuous leaves growing opposite on 

the stem joints. The genus name, “Ephedra,” 

is the Greek name used by Pliny (an 

study found more than 80% of plants sur- 

rehabilitation of arid road cuts, and one 

author and natural philosopher) for the 

viving for at least 2 years on both north 

common mare’s tail (Hippuris) which 

and south exposures. However, major 

it somewhat resembles. The species 

plant losses occurred on the southern 

name, “viridis”, means “green” and 

exposures during the winter. 

refers to the plant’s overall color. 

Green ephedra contains the 

Green ephedra is found on 

adrenaline like substances ephedrine 

and pseudoephedrine, which 

dry, rocky, open sites in valleys 

and washes, and on slopes, alluvial 

stimulate the sympathetic nervous 

fans, mesas, and foothills at elevations 

between 3,000 to 8,000 feet, 

around the country against the 

system. Lawsuits have been filed 

although it has been reported at elevations 

up to 10,000 feet. Precipilant 

derived from this plant which 

makers of a controversial stimutation 

on these sites ranges from 6 

has also been consumed as a 

to 15 inches. It is a drought resistant 

dietary supplement although it apparently 

is not very useful in this 

and winter hardy species. They 

grow primarily on sandy, gravelly 

regard. An interesting archeological 

or rocky, well-drained, undeveloped 

study revealed that as long ago as 

soils but will grow on shallow, medium 

or deep soils. Plants are tolerant 

a gravesite inside a cave in Iraq. The 

60,000 years Neanderthals prepared 

of calcareous, weakly saline, moderately 

alkaline, and slightly sodic 

by eight plants, seven of which are 

buried individuals where surrounded 

soil but will not tolerant wet, poorly 

now recognized as medicinal plants. 

drained sites. 

Among these was Ephedra viridis. 

This species is an important winter 

Green ephedra generally sprouts 

browse species for big game but is rarely 

vigorously from the roots or woody root 

utilized by domestic livestock and is only 

crown after fire and rapidly produces 

moderately palatable. Palatability typically 

aboveground biomass from surviving tissue. 

decreases in the summer months. Stems and 

Fires are relatively uncommon in some green 

twigs are nearly all within reach of grazing 

ephedra communities due to insufficient fuels. 

animals, and can serve as winter forage because 

Green ephedra has been found in plant communities 

with a wide range of fire return intervals, and has 

they usually extend above the snow. Green ephedra is 

also of importance to small mammals; the stem parts and 

been found in ecosystems following large, stand replacing 

fires as well as small, patchy, erratic fires. Green ephedra 

sizeable seeds are favored by many small mammals and are also 

eaten by mountain quail. Green ephedra is highly toxic to both domestic 

sheep and cows during gestation, even at low doses. It causes compared to mid- and late successional stages. Green ephedra or 

establishes early after fire but with relatively low occurrence 

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COMMUNICATIONS 

FARM BUREAU By: Doug Busselman, Executive Vice President 

Time To Face Down Rogue Federal Agency 

When a bully keeps pushing and overstepping the boundaries of appropriate action, 

the solution has to be to respond. Such is the case with one of the Federal Government’s 

biggest bullies…the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and that is the response 

determined to be the course directed by the American Farm Bureau Federation’s (AFBF) 

voting delegates at their annual convention in Atlanta, Georgia. 

“EPA’s regulatory reach continues to metastasize at the expense of our 

ability to produce food, fiber and fuel, and EPA often does not recognize the 

contributions that farmers and ranchers have made to reduce soil loss and 

produce more with less land, water, nutrients and other inputs,” said Bob 

Stallman, President of the AFBF. “We need more common sense and less 

negativity toward production agriculture in the enforcement of the nation’s 

existing environmental statutes.” 

Earlier in the 2011 AFBF annual meeting Stallman announced, that the organization 

was filing a federal lawsuit to halt the EPA’s Chesapeake Bay pollution regulatory plan. 

AFBF said that the agency overreached by setting up a plan for the entire 64,000 squaremile 

Chesapeake watershed, usurped state control, relied on faulty data and failed to account 

for agriculture’s contributions to improving water quality, and provided insufficient 

information and time for the public to check EPA’s actions. 

Overreaching is the game plan EPA is constantly pursuing, adopting a “regulate now 

and we’ll see if you can sue us back to the parameters of what the law actually says our 

authority should be” approach. 

Started in 1970 by President Richard Nixon, interestingly using executive authorities, 

the EPA has always been a heavy-handed bunch, growing their empire to 18,000 zealous 

thugs, exercising their pursuits under the grail of power for the environment. They also 

have found ways to employ state agencies to expand their command and control methods, 

adopting agreements which suggest that state agencies will have control of environmental 

matters in their respective states, but keeping things on a short chain and threatening to 

yank authority if there aren’t appropriate amounts of fines and punishments imposed. 

Without obtaining the desired objectives of legislation, passed by elected representatives, 

the current Administration has let loose the hounds to accomplish the phony solution 

to the imagined challenge of Climate Change. EPA continues to prepare their regulatory 

control over the regulation of “green house gases” forcing those under their thumbs to comply 

to their wishes. The effect of the imposition will be higher energy costs for Americans, 

further harm to our economy and zippo improvements for the quality of the air or climate… 

both of which seem to be everywhere around the planet and not in the vacuum the so-called 

scientists who believe punishing U.S. citizens will achieve. 

The entire scheme of the global warming hoax is to make the one country on the planet, 

who will knuckle under out of some sense of guilt, do just what their beloved leader and his 

black-booted EPA agency goons will tell them to do. 

Ideally, the effort of the American Farm Bureau Federation to encourage elected leaders 

to stand up and take on the EPA will achieve results, bringing other put-upon interests to 

the rally and requiring the constraints of common sense, legislative authority and legitimate 

science to have some influence. 

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Tent Mountain Ranch, Starr Valley, Nevada. 3435 Deeded acres at the foot of the majestic East Humboldt Range the Northern 

extension of the Ruby Mountains. Several perennial Streams flow through the ranch and wildlife are an daily part of the scenery. 

The owners run a Guide service as well as a Bed and Breakfast out of the ranch. There are multiple fenced pastures for grazing all 

with free water. Improvements are good with a large home approx. 5,000 sq. ft. plus a second modular home. Barn with water, hay 

barn, and other storage. Access onto paved road. Price: $4,500,000. 

Waddy Creek Ranch: located in a remote Nevada Ranching Valley called Charleston which sits at the foot of the Jarbidge 

Wilderness which is part of the Humboldt National Forest. The ranch is bounded on two sides by Forest. There is no power in the 

Valley but there is land line phone. Two creeks provide irrigation water for approx. 138 acres of historic meadow. This property has 

Quaken Aspen Groves and is quite beautiful. Access is on a County Road. There is a BLM grazing permit attached to the ranch for 

71 head. Price: Reduced to $400,000. 

Indian Creek Ranch: White Pine County , Nevada. This is a great property for a hunter as it is surrounded by Public lands and has 

plentiful Mule Deer, Antelope and Elk. There is a large Spring arising on high ground that could provide pressure for hydro power, or 

gravity flow domestic or irrigation water. This is an old historic ranch base and can provide summer pasture for cattle or horses and 

includes Approx. 200 acres in three separate parcels. Pinyon Pine and Utah Juniper plus some Cottonwood, willows and Quaken 

Aspen. Very Scenic. Approx. 1/2 mile off County Maintained road. Price- $395,000. 

Mason Mountain Ranch - Great summer ranch with 3700 deeded acres plus small BLM permit. Located approx. 75 miles North 

of Elko. Runs approx. 300 pair for the summer. Approx. 89 acres of meadows irrigated with water stored in Reservoir/fishing hole 

which also acts as Red Band Trout hatchery. Home and outbuildings for a good cow camp. Phone but no power. Price: $1,575,000. 

Dawley Creek Ranch - located in one of the most beautiful Ranching valleys of the West “Ruby Valley”. Set at the foot of the 

Majestic Ruby Mountains with approx. 1100 acres of lush meadows and good private pasture. This ranch has approx. 5300 deeded 

acres. Approx. 700 acres are currently being cut for meadow hay. This ranch runs approx. 450 pair plus heifers and bulls year long 

and around 30 head of horses. No water fights in this case as the water doesn’t run off the ranch but rather fills a Snow Water lake 

called Franklin Lake. This ranch has been a target for Conservation easements. Contingent upon being able to complete a 1031 

exchange into another acceptable property. $1,000/acre 

Steptoe Valley Farm: Nice Alfalfa and Grass Hay Farm in beautiful country! Approx. 1000 acres with around 700 acres of water 

rights. Six wells pump water to 5 center pivots and a field flooded or ready for wheel-line hookup. Nice manufactured home for a 

residence. This farm is located within 1/4 mile of the Proposed SWIP corridor which is a utility corridor to transport Electricity being 

created from Renewable sources from Idaho to Las Vegas and beyond. In the case of this ranch it is also within the planned water 

pipeline corridor planned to send water to Southern Nevada. I would think that these future opportunities add value to this Farm 

over a strictly Agriculture venture. $3,000,000. 

Elko Co. Spring Sheep Range: This should be a Great Investment property ideal for a 1031 Exchange! Deeded Sheep 

Base in Elko Co.: 10,716 deeded acres plus a 29 percent public BLM permit in the mountains just northeast of Elko. Fifty percent 

of the mineral rights included. Good summer spring and summer range for sheep or cattle. Annual lease income , plus inexpensive 

Ag taxes. Price: $1,393,080. 

Z BAR Ranch - Clover Valley South of Wells. Picture perfect ranch at the foot of the mountains with 2,832+ deeded acres of which 

over 650 are irrigated. 3 homes ,good outbuildings, haying equipment included for $3,200,000. 

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Hereditary Equine Regional Dermis Asthenia 

Herda, hereditary equine regional dermis asthenia, is a genetic disorder in horses that 

cause the skin on a horse’s back to separate, lift off, and even tear away when the horse 

suffers a skin trauma. In affected horses, there is a lack of adhesion within the deep layers 

of the skin; witch attaches the skin to the horse. It is believed HERDA is due to a collagen 

defect resulting in fragile attachment of the skin. Even light contact with the horses 

back, neck, hips, and sometimes lower legs of an affected horse can cause it to separate 

and peel off, resulting in a gaping wound that exposes the muscle underneath. One of the 

most frustrating elements of this disease is affected horses rarely show symptoms prior 

to their yearling year and often times as late as two or three years of age. Therefore often 

owners have a lot of money and time invested in the horse before knowing it is affected. 

Herda is a disease for which there is no known cure or treatment, most all cases result in 

euthanasia. So the question becomes, what do we do as responsible breeders to stop the 

spread of Herda? 

I believe knowledge is the key to slowing the spread of this disorder. Some breeders 

have made the decision to simply not breed to any carrier horses. This does however limit 

your choices as a breeder; some believe it may also be a disservice to the bred. Image if 

Poco Buena or Doc O’lena, (95% of affected horses trace back to Poco Bueno on both sides 

of the pedigree) were never produced; where the working quarter horse breed would be 

today. It really is hard to imagine, they are the back bone of a high percentage of the black 

type horses we know today. 

To make educated breeding decisions it is import to understand that Herda is thought 

to be caused by an autosomal recessive gene, meaning that both the sire and the dam must 

posses the gene in order for the offspring to be affected. This also means that horses that 

have the gene can be carriers without being affected. As long as a carrier is bred to a Herda 

Free individual, the offspring can not develop the disease. The problem arises when two 

carriers of the gene mate. Breeding a carrier to a carrier will result in a 25% chance of 

producing an affected foal, a 50% chance of producing a carrier, and a 25% chance of producing 

a genetically normal foal. However, it is important to keep in mind that breeding a 

carrier stallion or mare to a normal gened mare or stallion can result in 50% of the offspring 

being a herda gene carrier. The other 50% would be genetically normal. 

The great news is a diagnostic DNA hair sample test for Herda has been developed. 

It allows identification of not only affected horses, but also carriers. Results show either, 

normal, carrier, or affected. 

N/N-Normal: does not have the herda gene 

N/HRD-Carrier: carries one copy of the gene 

HRD/HRD-Affected: has two copies of the gene 

For horse breeders, identification of carriers is critical for the selection of mating pairs. 

I feel that responsible breeders should be willing to run DNA test on their stock, and they 

should make responsible breeding decisions based on the results. This is true whether you 

are standing a stallion or a mare owner. Know the status of your stock, and also know the 

status of the mares or stallion you are choosing to breed. Currently managed breeding 

strategy is the only option for reducing the incidence of this poorly understood disease. 

Testing is available through the Veterinary Genetics Laboratory at UC Davis. You can 

also call our office for testing information or any other questions. Outback Stallion Station, 

Caldwell, Idaho 208-454-5557. 

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Put Your Financial “Puzzle” Pieces Together 

Unless you keep track of obscure holidays, you may not be aware that January 29 is 

National Puzzle Day. And while this day may not draw much attention, it does recognize 

the enjoyment that millions of people get from doing puzzles. Of course, you’ll find puzzles 

in all aspects of your life. Consider, for example, the type of retirement lifestyle you’ve 

envisioned: travel, volunteering, pursuing hobbies, and perhaps even opening your own 

business. To make this picture come to life, you need to put the financial “pieces” together: 

And one way to help accomplish this is to consolidate your various retirement accounts 

— such as your IRA, 401(k) and other employer-sponsored retirement plans — with one 

financial services provider. 

When you consolidate these types of accounts, you can gain a number of key benefits, 

including these: 

• Potential reduction of fees and paperwork — By working with just one provider, you 

may be able to save on the fees and paperwork required to maintain your account. 

• Easier management of distributions — Most retirement plans, including a 401(k), 

457(b), 403(b) and a traditional IRA, require you to start taking minimum distributions 

once you turn 70 -1/2. (These distributions are not required for Roth IRAs.) While it’s not 

terribly complicated to determine a single distribution, it can be cumbersome and confusing 

to calculate multiple distributions from multiple providers. Having all your RMDs 

coming from a single provider can greatly streamline the process. 

• Easier calculation of taxes — Most types of retirement accounts are tax-deferred 

— but on those accounts, taxes will be due on your withdrawals. By consolidating your 

accounts, your distributions will be easier to track, as mentioned above, which may make 

it easier for you to calculate the taxes due. 

• Unified investment strategy — If you place all your financial assets with one financial-services 

provider, you’ll find it much easier to follow a single, unified investment strategy. 

A local, qualified financial advisor can help you allocate your investment dollars in a 

way that’s appropriate for your retirement goals, risk tolerance and time horizon. 

To start the consolidation process, make a detailed list of your financial assets, such as 

your bank accounts, investments, IRAs and employer-sponsored retirement plans, such as 

a 401(k), if you worked for a private employer, a 457(b), if you worked for a state or local 

government, or a 403(b), if you worked for a school or other tax-exempt organization. You 

might think this is a simple and straightforward task, but you would be surprised at how 

many people actually lose track of these types of accounts, and, as a result, may forfeit the 

money that is rightfully theirs. 

After you’ve identified what assets you have, and where they’re located, seek to consolidate 

them with a financial services provider. Try to find one that offers face-to-face 

service and regular reviews of your situation. 

As you can see, by consolidating your various investment accounts, you can help solve 

the “puzzle” of creating the retirement you seek. So, when the time comes, start putting all 

the pieces together. You might like the picture that ultimately emerges. 

This article was written by Edward Jones for use by your local Edward Jones Financial Advisor. 

Edward Jones, its associates and financial advisors cannot provide tax advice. Please consult your 

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Behind the Summit Headlines 

By Shammy Rodriguez 

am a fourth generation cattle rancher. My family raises beef for a living and • Turning it loose…out of sight out of mind. 

I we raise and use horses to get the job done. As a dear friend use to say, “while • Of the above options, selling the horse or donating it to a horse sanctuary would be 

the cattle make us a living, the horses make the living worthwhile.” Let me preface this the most comforting to the owner as the horse’s life is spared..at least temporarily. 

article with this thought. Selling a horse is not the same as selling a cow. Beef cattle The problem is, it is hard to sell a horse in this economy and horse sanctuaries 

are raised for one purpose-to provide a delicious source of protein to a hungry publicthus 

their ultimate end is a foregone conclusion. In the case of horses-whether it be a horse sanctuaries have been forced to close entirely because they were so overrun 

are already filled to capacity. In fact, since the closure of harvest facilities, some 

trained horse to a new owner or a crippled horse to a harvester…both situations leave with unwanted horses. 

you with an ache in your heart. 

I don’t care who you are it is never easy to put a horse down either with a barbiturate or 

I personally attended the Summit of the Horse held January 3-6, 2011, in Las Vegas a bullet. Even if a horse is suffering, it is pure hell to be the human involved saying goodbye. 

and was taken aback by the subsequent coverage in a number of media outlets. For example, 

one headline read“Summit Advocates Return to Horses as Food.” The author went to be disposed of properly so that it is not eaten by wildlife (coyotes, crows, eagles, etc.) or 

Euthanizing with barbiturates involves a vet and disposal fees because the carcass needs 

on to say that US ranchers and horse owners “implored the federal government to once domestic dogs and cats. The euthanizing agents are deadly to them. Thus, euthanasia with 

again embrace horse meat as a viable source of nutrition” The entire article gave readers barbiturates can be cost-prohibitive to many people. Euthanasia with a bullet is tough at 

the impression that Summit attendees were hell bent on getting horse meat into the diet best. Shooting a horse takes skill and a certain amount of intestinal fortitude that few people 

of American society. I would like to take this opportunity to clarify the facts that were so possess, although it is an accepted form of euthanasia and is probably the most humane and 

grossly misrepresented and /or misinterpreted in that and similar articles and blogs. efficient when done correctly. 

Horse processing in America was closed down in 2007 when federal legislation passed The ever-increasing solution is to just turn the horse(s) loose. Sometimes it is out in 

that prohibited federal funding of USDA inspections of horse meat intended for human the country, the desert, on a reservation…wherever. The rationale being that the horse can 

consumption. Other regulations prohibited the interstate shipment of any meat products fend for itself, and the owner will be absolved of the responsibilities that come with horse 

without the USDA seal of approval. Over-the-counter human consumption of horse meat ownership. Often the result of this desperate action is the prized “pet” horse ends up dying 

in the “wild” from starvation or thirst. You see a horse that has been raised inside and 

has not taken place for many years in America. However, there are areas around the world 

where horse meat is considered a delicacy and the consumption 

cared for on a daily basis doesn’t necessarily know how to fend 

thereof is commonplace. Proposed legislation soon followed that 

for itself. There have also been instances of horse carcasses found 

made transporting of horses intended for slaughter illegal-it passed 

with plastic bags tied over their heads!! If the horse doesn’t die it 

the House but failed in the Senate. 

ends up being “someone else’s problem.” Is this responsible ownership? 

Would you like to have a horse dumped in your yard? If 

When the economy took the big downturn, many hobby or 

“backyard” horse owners found themselves struggling to pay for 

an owner were inclined to euthanize (dare we say shoot) his horse 

basic necessities from month to month. When you are struggling 

away from his property…out in an open field away from habitation, 

for example, on public, state, or tribal land- and that animal 

to support your family, the extras get cut first. The “extras” in a 

lot of instances included the family horse or horses. As the supply 

was discovered before the coyotes and ravens and eagles had done 

increased and the demand began to dry up, the result was not only 

their jobs, the imagination has no limits as to the legal fallout if 

a glutted horse market but also overcrowding of rescue facilities 

ownership could be traced. 

and ultimately public, tribal, and private lands where the horses 

When horse harvesting existed in America these were not 

would be abandoned. 

major issues. Unwanted horses were sold to a broker who could 

There are many reasons someone might need to get rid of a horse. 

do with them as he pleased; they became his property. Those that showed potential might 

• The person may no longer be able to afford to take care of it. While a horse may 

receive as much or more affection than the family cat or dog, the similarities end 

there. Obviously, it eats more, its feed is expensive, and it needs a place to live. 

Sometimes that is near the house, and for other devoted horse owners it means 

paying another entity to board the horse. Keep in mind it also needs hoof care, 

vaccinations, and worming from time to time in addition to other health care. Plus 

the normal life-span of a horse is around twenty-five years!!! Owning a horse is a 

big obligation…a much bigger obligation both in physical size and financial support 

than most family pets. 

• The person may have lost interest in the horse. 

be resold for other purposes but the majority would go to a processing facility where the 

meat would be either used for zoo animals or processed into pet food as it is very high in 

protein. It was also exported to other countries where horse meat IS consumed by humans. 

Now back to the summit. The Summit of the Horse was by no means an “imploring” 

of horse owners to the feds wanting the reintroduction of horse harvest so we can get 

Americans eating horse meat. That wasn’t even implied! We need horse harvest reinstated 

because it was a humane way to deal with excess and unwanted horses. And when it gets 

reinstated every effort needs to be made to make it as humane as absolutely possible 

(including such measures as video surveillance by a third party to be sure the process is 

consistently above board)! 

• The horse may have gotten hurt or sick and will not recover fully to ever be sound 

While the problem of unwanted horses may be something many people choose to 

or have been physically unsuitable for work or breeding from early in its life cycle. 

ignore, it is very much a fact of life. For all of the reasons previously discussed, regulated, 

humane, horse processing in the United States should be a viable option to responsible 

• Old age may have rendered the animal unridable or incapable of reproduction in 

owners who are trying to exercise the ultimate duty of ownership-letting go in the most 

the case of a broodmare. 

practical, humane , and economically feasible methods available to them. 

• The horse may be unmanageable and untrainable which creates a safety concern For further information on the horse issues, we suggest the following: 

for those involved. An unruly horse can be extremely dangerous. 

This is the “parent” website for much of the information leading up to the Summit and 

• There are segments of the horse world where a horse’s value is based on its performance 

ability. If the horse can’t perform as expected, the owner doesn’t want 

it – more or less for economic reasons. This happens in ALL segments of the 

performance horse world from racing to cutting to pleasure to reining to jumping, 

etc. It also happens in the human sports world. Just turn to the sports page of 

the newspaper or to ESPN to find out which NFL player has been traded for poor 

performance or faces a career-ending injury. 

As it stands today the options for getting rid of a horse are the following: 

going forward. http://www.united-horsemen.org 

This is an excellent science-based article that anyone interested in feral horse issues 

should read. http://audubonmagazine.org/incite/incite1101.html 

Probably the most comprehensive article to date on the feral horses aka “mustangs.” 

http://www.rangemagazine.com/features/winter-11/wi11-range-mustang.pdf 

This article appeared in the Wall Street Journal while the Summit was in progress. 

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703808704576062064022541024.html?K 

EYWORDS=Summit+of+the+Horse 

A recap of the Summit by Sue Wallis, one of the organizers of the event. http://www. 

• Selling the horse outright either through an auction or privately to another person. 

united-horsemen.org/2011/01/08/report-from-the-summit-of-the-horse-by-sue-wallis/ 

• “Donating” it to a horse sanctuary that takes in unwanted horses. 

The second response by Callie is excellent. http://www.united-horsemen. 

• Euthanizing it. 

org/2011/01/08/willing-servants-message-to-membership/ 




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Why We Feed Different Protein Sources to Our Horses? 

The protein needs of the horse vary according to use and age. The table below 

gives the minimum level needed for various types of horses. From the table 

it can be seen that protein needs are greatest for foals and for lactating mares. Work 

does not increase protein needs very much but does increase certain amino acids 

needs. For example, if we were feeding 18 lb. of a ration that is 13% protein to a mature 

horse and if we begin riding the horse hard, we would maintain a 13% protein level, 

but increase the total amount of feed (20 lb.) used to maintain the horse in good flesh. 

This would also increase the total amount of protein 

given and be sufficient to meet extra protein needs 

caused by work. 

Proteins are the building blocks of tissue and are 

composed of units called amino acids. Although there 

are 22 different amino acids that are needed for protein 

synthesis, several can be made by the tissues of the body. 

There are 10 that must be supplied to the horse – arginine, 

histidine, isoleucine, leucine, lysine, methionine, phenylalanine, 

threonine, tryptophan, and valine. Lysine is the 

one most often lacking in growing horse rations 

Because of the high cost of protein, it is economically 

wasteful to feed more than is needed. The body breaks 

down excess protein to carbohydrates and urea. The 

carbohydrates are used for energy or changed to fat and 

stored, and the urea is passed in the urine. 

It was previously mentioned that urea is a feed 

supplement fed by cattle feeders that a cow can use to 

make protein in the rumen. Horses cannot use urea as a 

protein source, and feeds with their protein level based on 

urea will not reflect an accurate protein level for the horse. 

In addition to cost, another possible detriment of excess 

protein is that it produces more body heat in breaking 

the proteins into energy as compared to using carbohydrates 

or fats for energy. This could be a problem for the 

endurance trail horse that has to keep as cool as possible as he works long and hard. Current 

research has shown that feeding a diet containing 10% added fat reduces the daily heat load 

by 5%, which may benefit hard working horses, particularly in hot weather. Therefore, high 

protein rations are not recommended for these horses. 

Occasionally horses will develop hives, commonly called protein bumps, on the skin. 

These can be an allergic reaction of the body to foreign proteins in the feed but are more 

likely are the result of skin contact with some chemical in the bedding. Insect bites also 

cause these hives. Generally, the hives are short lived and no serious problem occurs. 

High protein rations have also been blamed for the diseases such as epiphysitis and 

contracted tendons. These problems are associated with fast-growing foals, as these foals 

are typically on high-protein high-energy rations that allow the foal to grow quickly. However, 

it is the imbalance or deficiency of other factors such as minerals that are the real 

culprits, not the protein. 

Plant Protein Supplements 

These are basically the high-protein parts of grains that have had the oil removed for 

use in other industries. 

Soybean Meal 

This oil meal has the highest biological value and has a 44% to 48% protein content 

on an as-fed basis. The quality (biological value) of a protein supplement is based on a 

comparison of the amino acids that make up soybean protein to the amino acids required 

by the horse to make up his proteins. Not only do they need to have the same amino acids, 

Table. Minimum Crude Protein Requirement 

(Percent in Ration). 

but they should be present in the same relative percentages. Soybean meal is especially high 

in lysine, which is commonly low in most grains. Soybean meal is also usually the cheapest 

source of protein per unit of protein available for horse feeds. 

Soybeans should not be fed to horses in their raw form. In the raw form they contain 

an inhibitor of protein digestion in the horse. Raw soybeans are especially detrimental in 

foal rations. 

% In 

Ration 

% of Live Wt. 

Fed/Day* 

Mature idle horse 14.0 1.5 

Pregnancy (last 90 14.5 1.5 

days) 

Lactation (first 4 mos.) 14.5 2.0 

Foals (creep feed, 18.0 2.8 

nursing) 

Weanlings 16.0 2.3 

Yearlings (12 mos.) 14.0 1.9 

Yearlings (18 mos.) 13.0 1.7 

Two year olds 13.0 1.5 

* Percent of live weight fed is based on moisture-free 

feed. Actual percent of weight eaten will be higher on 

an as-fed basis. Also, if the horse eats more or less than 

this percent of its weight per day in moisture-free feed, 

the percent needs to be adjusted accordingly. 

Linseed Meal 

Linseed meal used to be in great demand for inclusion 

in feed rations for horses. This meal is high in sulfur-containing 

amino acids, which were thought to aid the quality 

of the hair coat. Actually, the quality of the hair coat came 

more from the oil in the meal. However, modern processing 

removes most of the oil, thereby decreasing its value 

for horse feeding. Linseed meal is about 35% protein as 

fed, costs more, and has a lower biological value than soybean 

oil meal. Linseed has been recommended in rations 

of horses that suffer from tying-up syndrome, because it is 

a good source of selenium, which helps maintain normal 

muscle function. 

Cottonseed Meal 

Cottonseed meal contains about 39% protein on an 

as-fed basis and is second to soybean oil meal in quality. If 

it is available and cost effective, it may be used for horses. 

Cottonseed meal contains a substance called gossypol that 

interferes with digestion and is particularly undesirable 

for feeding foals. Adult horses can tolerate the gossypol. 

Research in other species has shown cottonseed oil meal 

to decrease sperm production in males, and this effect is 

thought to occur in stallions, too. 

Other Sources 

Other protein sources such as sunflower and canola 

meals can be used in horse feeds. Also, brewers grains, distillers grains, and gluten are 

commonly used in horse feeds as protein sources. 

Animal Protein Supplements 

Animal protein supplements such as meat scraps or blood meal are not used in today’s 

feeds. 

Dr. Margaret Winsryg 

MNM Consulting 

Equine & Bovine Nutrition 

(208) 308-0106 

3290 N 2200 E, Twin Falls, ID 83301 


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Salt Lake City, UT 

The Cattleman’s Connection 

Angus and Hereford Bull Sale *Monday March 14th, 2011 

1:00 PM at Spring Cove Ranch in Bliss, Idaho 

Selling 130 Angus Bulls & 20 Angus Heifers 

40 Hereford Bulls & 15 Hereford Heifers 

Spring Cove Ranch*92 years in the Angus Business 

JBB/AL Herefords * 44 years in the Hereford Business 

Selling sons of 

C C A Emblazon 702 Reg 15980098 

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$W+33.10 $F+36.58 $B+46.91 

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B+.9 W+67 Y+126 SC+1.21 M+23 

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Selling sons of B/R New Day 454 

Reg # 14675445 

B+2.1 W+57 Y+113 M+24 SC+.18 CW +14 

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$W+32.45 $F+50.23 $B+65.47 

Selling sons & daughters of 

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