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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. <strong>The</strong>y 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. <strong>The</strong> 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. <strong>The</strong> 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. Permalink: nvfbblog.org/2011/01/12/time-to-face-down-rogue-federal-agency.aspx 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. <strong>The</strong> owners run a Guide service as well as a Bed and Breakfast out of the ranch. <strong>The</strong>re 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. <strong>The</strong> ranch is bounded on two sides by Forest. <strong>The</strong>re 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. <strong>The</strong>re 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. <strong>The</strong>re 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. Bottari Realty Paul D. Bottari, Broker 1222 6th St., P.O. Box 368 Wells, NV 89835 Work: 775-752-3040 Home: 775-752-3809 • Fax: 775-752-3021 www.bottarirealty.com • paul@bottarirealty.com working for you working with you RENO (775) 825-7282 ELKO (775) 738-8496 FALLON (775) 423-3136 Call 800.800.4865 or visit www.agloan.com A part of the Farm Credit system. Equal Opportunity Lender. Strong, stable, secure — three more reasons ranchers like you have been trusting American AgCredit for over 90 years. <strong>Progressive</strong> <strong>Rancher</strong>_AAC_5x5.5_Livestock.indd 1 www.progressiverancher.com <strong>The</strong> <strong>Progressive</strong> <strong>Rancher</strong> February 2011 29 5/24/2010 12:26:08 PM
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