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Riding Herd

With all the talk aboutCOOL and food labelsswirling about I’m a lit-tle hesitant to suggest

that perhaps we need one morefood label. Starting immediately Istrongly suggest that either of thefollowing two labels shouldappear on all packages of food inbig red letters: “WARNING!Letting the government tell youwhat to eat could be dangerousto your health and may causedeath.” Or perhaps this . . .“Looking to Michelle Obama fornutritional advice is like askingher husband for suggestions onhow to balance a budget.”

Perhaps I should also put thefollowing warning label on thisstory: “WARNING! After read-ing this article you may becomehighly agitated. Even angry.Please do not take your rage outon your spouse, your dog or theauthor.”

Totally Undigestible Garbage

Every five years the USDAand Health and Human ServicesDepartment publishes DietaryGuidelines for Americans. Sixmonths from now they will jointlydisseminate the 8th annual ver-sion. According to the USDA,“the Dietary Guidelines form thebasis of Federal nutrition policy,education, outreach, and foodassistance programs used by con-

much for promoting goodhealth.

Please note that no where hasanyone stated that these dietaryguidelines are supposed to bebased on anything other thannutrition. Even though theDietary Guidelines have painteda big bullseye on red meat in thepast, at no time previously havethese Guidelines said that weshould eat less red meat becausethe planet was heating up, thepolar bear population wasdecreasing (it is not), or thatHollywood was about to beinundated with sea water (wecan only hope).

But all that is about tochange. In the 2015 installmentof the Dietary Guidelines Amer-icans will be told they should eatless red meat for environmentalreasons, such as global warming,sustainability (whatever that is),and other totally undigestiblegreen garbage.

If It’s Green, It’s RottenIn a meeting on December

15, 2014, an advisory panel tothe USDA and HHS gave cluesas to what their final recommen-dations will be. As they havedone in the past you can betyour boots we’ll hear the usual “ahealthy dietary pattern includesfewer red and processed meatsthan are currently consumed.”But in addition to that nonsensethis time beef will be dissedbecause red meat is not “sustain-able.” Back in my college dayswhen I was trying to formulatelivestock rations in nutritioncourses I don’t recall having tofactor in either sustainability orglobal warming.

sumers, industry, nutrition edu-cators, and health professionals.”

These guidelines are promot-ed in USDA propaganda and areused to formulate Food Stamps(now known as SNAP), WomenInfants and Children aid, andthe School Lunch Program. “TheDietary Guidelines for Ameri-cans,” says the USDA, “providessound advice for making foodand physical activity choices thatpromote good health.”

The facts would suggest oth-erwise. How odd that the periodin which these Dietary Guide-lines were promoted coincidedwith the fattening of America. So

The best way to appreciatehow another person

rides is to get on their horse.

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What’s InYour Kit?

Livestock publicationsthis time of year oftenrun articles on Springcalving. These articles

always start with instructionsto make sure your fences aretight, you are well rested,and that you are on goodterms with a veterinarian sothat when you call the vet at2:00 a.m. with a calvingissue he or she is going topop right out of bed anddrive 60 miles in a blizzardto your place to deliver acalf. Ha ha ha. Like that’sgonna happen.

The experts suggest writ-ing a schedule so that every-one knows what time theywill be on call. For example,the schedule I always tapedto our refrigerator door saidthat from 8:00 a.m. to 6:00p.m. I was responsible. From6:00 p.m. until 8:00 a.m. itwas my wife’s turn to be oncall. I considered this a fairdivision of labor because, aswe all know, most heiferscalve at night when it is mostinconvenient and women aremore rested and handlestress better than men. Theyare also much better atmotherhood and all itentails, so it is only smartand fair that they be on callwhen a 600-pound heifertries to give birth to a calfthe size of a hay bale. A BIGbale.

The authors of these arti-cles suggest you have a calv-ing kit ready. Not surprising-ly, the contents of mycalving kit are much morepractical than the ones sug-gested by professors whowrite such columns. TheDocs say you should have abox of plastic sleeves handyin case the calf is upsidedown or breech. But we allknow how easy the sleevesbreak. Instead I suggest thatyou take a clean finger andgently poke the heifer or cowin the eyeball and as if bymagic her calf will automati-cally right itself. Or not.

Another thing they sug-gest is to have the properlubricant on hand. I agreewholeheartedly and althoughyours may differ, I alwayspreferred a good shot ofCrown Royal as my lubri-cant. You’ll probably need aflashlight by your wife’s bed-

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BY DAN MARRIES,

TUCSON NEWS NOW

A 16-year-old girl drivingnear Tombstone, Arizona, whothought she was pulled over bya man impersonating a policeofficer, was in fact, pulled overby a law enforcement officer.After further investigation, theTombstone Marshal's Officehas concluded it was a legiti-mate and official stop con-ducted by a Bureau of LandManagement Officer.

The girl’s claims causedenough concern that on Janu-ary 28 the Cochise CountySheriff’s Department issued anadvisory for drivers regarding a“suspicious subject who maybe impersonating a Law

Enforcement Officer in theSierra Vista/Tombstone area,”followed by a description ofthe man.

Following what she consid-ered a suspicious stop, JenniferMaxwell reported to authori-ties that a white truck pulledher over with emergency lightsflashing on the dashboard.Maxwell says the man, whoshe says was not wearing apolice uniform, had hisweapon drawn and asked if shehad been drinking because sheappeared to be driving in andout of her lane. Maxwell saysshe had not been drinking andwas using her brakes to theroad conditions and varyingspeed limits.

The Tombstone Marshal

was able to locate a Bureau ofLand Management Officerwho logged a traffic stop withMaxwell. A second driver, whowas behind Maxwell at thetime of the stop, was alsolocated and interviewed. Thatwitness confirmed the truckmaking the stop was a whiteDodge with BLM markings onthe side and front lights on thebumper.

The Cochise County Sher-iff's Office says the BLM offi-cer says he did not have hisservice weapon drawn but thathe did have his hand resting onthe holster. Maxwell was noti-fied and met with the Marshalto positively identify the BLMofficer as the one who stoppedher on Charleston Road.

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The advisory panel’s draft rec-ommendations after theirDecember meeting stated that“a dietary pattern higher inplant-based foods and lower inanimal-based foods is “morehealth promoting and is associat-ed with lesser environmentalimpact than is the current aver-age U.S. diet.”

Of course, environmentalistswere pushing for such greendietary advice and can hardlycontain their glee that beef hasbeen especially targeted. Forexample, the panel also quotedthe National Academy of Sci-ences who stated that “raisingbeef for the American dinnertable is more harmful to theenvironment than other meatindustries such as pork andchicken.” They also said that ofthe popular meats, beef was theworst because it “produced moreheat-trapping gases per calorie,takes more water for irrigationand uses more land.”

The Dietary Guidelines paneljustified these non-dietary rea-sons for not eating red meat by

saying “there is compatibilityand overlap between what’sgood for health and good for theenvironment.”

I suppose to be politically cor-rect we should now say, “Globalwarming, it’s what’s for dinner!”

As one would expect, theWorld Health Organization, veg-etarian groups, and the Physi-cian’s Committee for Responsi-ble Medicine were all excitedabout any idea or concept thatwould remove red meat from ourdiet. Kari Hamerschlag ofFriends of the Earth said, “Weneed to make sure our diets arein alignment with our naturalresources and the need toreduce climate change.”

Another avowed enemy ofranchers everywhere, MichaelJacobson of the Center for Sci-ence in the Public Interestadded, “You don’t want to rec-ommend a diet that is going topoison the planet.”

If they couldn’t convinceAmericans to become vegetari-ans for nutritional reasons, per-haps the feds could use environ-mental concerns as a way makesure all Americans get their rec-ommended daily allowance ofgreen. I don’t know about youbut in our refrigerator anythingthat’s green is assumed to be rot-ten and thrown away. But thebureaucrats in these UnitedNanny States of America wantyou to eat green food until yougag on it.

OOPS!Remember USDA’s food

pyramid that advised us all howto eat? Well, it turns out thatpyramid was built on shiftingsand. No wonder obesity is anepidemic in this country with the

government telling people exact-ly the wrong things to eat forover three decades.

Oops!In 2010 the Food Pyramid

was replaced with much fanfareby Michelle Obama’s “MyPlate”program, which is the FoodPyramid on steroids. Funny, Idon’t ever remember voting forMichelle for anything and Idon’t think she’s a governmentemployee, although she’s got ahuge staff paid for by taxpayers.And I thought she studied law incollege, not nutrition. Anyway,the new MyPlate guidelines,suggest that at least half of yourdietary intake should come fromstarches and sugars (grains andfruit), less than 1/4 come fromprotein, and another 1/4 comefrom vegetables. The USDA andMichelle want you to eat lessbeef because it contains saturat-ed fats, which they equate withnasty things like Republicans, oilrigs and cows.

The “experts” making thedietary recommendations aresupposed to consider all relevant

studies and information in sug-gesting what you should eat, butone wonders if they even knowhow to read or use a library. Thepast ten years we have been del-uged with dozens of studies thatsuggest USDA’s nutritionaladvice could not have been morewrong, and has been a recipe forobesity and Type 2 Diabetes.For example . . .

n A study published in theAnnals of Internal Medicine stud-ied the relationship betweendietary fats and heart diseasethat included over 600,000 peo-ple and came to the conclusionthat, “Current evidence does notclearly support cardiovascularguidelines that encourage highconsumption of polyunsaturatedfatty acids and low consumptionof total saturated fats.”

This is exactly opposite ofwhat USDA dietary guidelinessay. For better heart health theUSDA recommends polyunsatu-rated fats like those in found inUSDA subsidized crops likecorn and soybean oils. TheUSDA says these are better foryou than “unhealthy” animal fat.

n In 2010 the American Jour-nal of Clinical Nutrition looked atsaturated fat and its so-calledassociation with cardiovasculardisease. The study looked at347,747 patients from past clini-cal studies during a 23 year peri-od and found that there was nolink between saturated fat andheart disease.

n In 2013 Dr. Glen Lawrencefrom the Department of Chem-istry and Biochemistry at LongIsland University did a meta-analysis, meaning he looked athundreds of studies that looked

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“there is compatibility and overlapbetween what’s good for health and goodfor the environment.”

February 15, 2015 “America’s Favorite Livestock Newspaper” Page 3

BY MIRANDA REIMAN

People love beef.When price skyrockets, andincomes are tight, peoplestill love beef. That’s accord-

ing to a new Oklahoma State Uni-versity research report, “Retail andFoodservice Marketing Trends forBeef.”

Co-authors Bailey Harsh andDeb VanOverbeke combined datafrom major consumer databasesto find, “even as late as 2013,among consumers who changedtheir meat purchases 91 percentwere spending less.”

Most indications show that’s

returning to pre-recession levels. “The majority of consumers

today say beef isn’t too expensive.But most importantly, 72 percentof consumers listed beef as theirfirst or top choice of proteins in2013,” it states.

“Even during a recession, folksstill want to have beautifulmoments in their lives,” says JohnLundeen, senior executive direc-tor of market research for theNational Cattlemen’s Beef Asso-ciation (NCBA), a contractor tothe Beef Checkoff.

Still, as drought and otherherd-shrinking circumstanceshelped elevate prices and add to

the cash register crunch, manypredicted a decline in demand.

“If you look at the trends, beefconsumption didn’t really fall dur-ing that time,” says VanOverbeke.“They maybe changed how theyused it, maybe using more casse-role-type dishes using beef, ratherthan having steak—but peopledidn’t change beef consumptionas a whole.”

Trading middle meats forgrinds gave home cooks a chanceto stretch their food dollars, Lun-deen says.

“Ground beef is very familiarand you can do a lot of things withit,” he says. “I can buy a pound ofground beef and feed my family,so there is a value story there.”

It’s easy to prepare—a traitmost beef eaters are looking fortoday.

Beef consumption is higheramong the “Millennial” genera-tion, those born from 1980 to2000, than those over 35.

“Millennials are a major targetfor beef marketing because theyconsume the most beef both athome and in restaurants of anygeneration and, given their age,will continue to be a major driverof beef demand,” the researchsays.

A decline in high-school cook-ing education coupled with moreafter-school activities taking fami-lies out of the kitchen, could leadto a decrease in preparing beef fordinner, Lundeen says.

“It’s not happening at schooland it’s happening to a smallerdegree in the home, so you justdon’t grow up with it,” he says,“but that does not mean that

there isn’t a desire to cook.”Indeed, this generation has

grown up with the Food Networkand a greater exposure to a vastarray of food choices.

“Cooking is a very social thingand is a common force amongpeople,” Lundeen says, notingthat the beef industry must equipconsumers to work with the prod-uct.

In some cases, it’s increasingeasy-to-prepare options. Thepaper says in the past four yearsthe number of consumers prepar-ing “convenience meats” hasincreased 12 percent .

“We can’t assume that folksknow how to buy the cut, how toseason it, how to prep it and howto know when it’s done or whattemperature to cook it at,” Lun-deen says, “but the desire forknowledge is there and peoplewant great food. That’s what beefhas to deliver on.”

The higher quality the beef, themore likely it is to live up to expec-tations, says Phil Bass, CertifiedAngus Beef® (CAB®) brand meatscientist.

“High quality meat results inthe high quality end product,” hesays, noting marbling increasesthe three palatability components:tenderness, juiciness and flavor.“Marbling is less dense than pro-tein, so if you have the marbling inthat piece of meat it’s going to beeasier to bite through.”

Research also shows the moreintramuscular fat, the moreintense the “beautiful, buttery-fla-vor” and the juicer the meat is.

Higher quality beef is alsomore forgiving. Beef Checkoffstudies show nearly 50 percent ofpeople like their steaks cooked“medium well” to “well done.”

“As a result, if you don’t have

that marbling in there then it’sgoing to turn out to be a very drysteak,” Bass says. “The marblingdoesn’t evaporate, but the waterdoes cook off.”

Branding at the meat casehelps assure purchasers they’regetting what they want.

“In all categories, consumershave preferred brands. When youtalk about ketchup, most peopleare brand loyal,” VanOverbekeshares as an example. “We’re see-ing beef move toward that brandrecognition.”

Since 2002, CAB demandincreased 108 percent, comparedto a 51 percent increase forUSDA Choice or higher, and adecline of one percent forunbranded Choice, according to aKansas State University demandindex in 2014.

“Part of the goal is to get con-sumers to come back to that sec-tion of the meat case over andover again because they are happywith the beef they had the lasttime,” she says

VanOverbeke says the mainresearch message is that beefcame through the recession ingood shape and poised for growth.

“Consumers ultimately believethe price reflects beef’s value andcontinue to vote with their dollarsfor beef’s flavor, juiciness, tender-ness and versatility,” the authorssay.

People love beef. Now it’s up to the industry to

make sure they continue to havereasons to, Lundeen cautions:“We have to produce a great prod-uct that, at the end of the day,tastes good. Actually it has totaste more than good. It has totaste great.”

To read more, view the entire white paper atwww.cabpartners.com/news/research.php.


We still want beef

That the rich should “paytheir fair share” is aconstant refrain inAmerican politics, but

what exactly does that mean?Wealthy Americans arealready paying disproportion-ate amounts of taxes.National Tax LimitationFoundation Chairman LewisUhler and Senior FellowPeter Ferrara detail exactlywho is paying federal taxes –and how much:

n The top 20 percent ofincome earners earn just 50percent of pretax income, yetthey pay 70 percent of allfederal taxes.

n The top 20 percent ofearners pay 93 percent of allfederal income taxes.

n The top 1 percent earn14.6 percent of pretaxincome, yet they pay 24 per-cent of federal taxes.

Contrast these figureswith the taxes paid by thoseon the middle and lowerends of the income scale:

n The middle 20 percentof earners earn 14.1 percentof pretax income, yet theypay just 8.9 percent of feder-al taxes.

BY ANDREA HUTCHISON,

CANTON, OKLAHOMA

Have you found yourselfpurchasing “sustain-able” with thethought, “Maybe this

guilt of trying to stay withinmy family’s budget by pur-chasing non-organic – GMOinfused – antibiotic pesticideinjected products – will sub-side?

Choices are great. If youcan afford organic go for it.If you want non GMO, that’syour business. Maybe you’rea consumer who trust ourU.S. food safety standards,second to none, that’s awe-some. Use that extra cash tobuy a boat or house. Ameri-cans have choices. But notfor long.

“Sustainability”, the harm-less appearing stamp ofapproval packaged just forconsumers destroys. Produc-ers cannot comply with regu-lations stemming from a cli-mate change agenda. Behindit lives a plan known as U.N.Agenda 21 SustainableDevelopment. Freedom isincrementally and strategical-ly evicted and replaced withcentralized control.

As a fifth generationrancher I have witnesseddestruction firsthand. Everyeconomic sector, banking,health care, energy and edu-cation, specifically America’s

affordable food supply, isbeing dismantled. From pro-ducer to retail end-users, andeverything in between; land,water, air and animals, thefabric of our food supply isbeing dismantled. Nebulousterms such as biodiversity,human capital, and ecosys-tems are a few of the keyidentifiers within sustainabil-ity.

Private property rights andsustainability cannot co-exist.Stripping that ownership, thebasis for free markets andcapitalism, is the intent ofthose advancing Agenda 21.Efforts to inject environmentinto all economies within theU.S. was a plan introducedby the United Nations’Brundtland Commission in1983. Hi-jacking and redefin-ing the word sustainability,honing it into a tool, whichcould ultimately be used fortop down, centralized controlwas the goal.

The Triple Bottom Line orThree Pillars, houses the reg-ulations in the name of beingsocially and environmentallyacceptable according to

extremist’s standards. Regu-latory protocol is determinedthrough destructive public,private partnerships with rad-ical extremists, Non-Govern-mental (NGOs), federalagencies, associations andfoundations and large corpo-rations. Grassroots have littleroom at this table.

Skewed research based onthe consensus of a few is pro-ducing flawed science andburdensome regulations ontofood producers. The imple-mentation of 7 RegionalUSDA Climate Hubs in 2014by the Obama administrationonly promulgated this topdown centralized controlagenda. The result ofresearch based on globalwarming is limiting consumerchoice and creating higherfood prices.

Expansion of the endan-gered species act has allowedfederal agencies more controlover private property, shut-ting down farming, irrigationand destroying communitiesacross the nation. Species(plants, insects, mammals)listed which now number into

the thousands can take pro-ductive land out of use iffound on landowner’s proper-ties.

Within the urban settingAgenda 21 is marching on.Local governments, especial-ly if they sign up as dues-pay-ing members of ICLEI (nowcalled Local Governments forSustainability), are encour-aged to limit what people doon their own property forsupposed benefits to theenvironment.

Capitalism and propertyownership improve the worldaround us, you need only totravel outside the U.S. wherethose rights have beeninfringed to witness the evi-dence. We must focus onprotecting our constitutionalrights and the sanctity of pri-vate property. We mustproudly promote capitalismwhich will bring about thetrue meaning of sustainabili-ty: passing liberty, freedomand choice on to future gen-erations

For more information visit American Poli-cy Center, The Greatest Hoax, I Love Ag,Janet Hufnagel Thompson


The Truth Behind Sustainability

What Is aRich Person’s“Fair Share?”

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CINDY ZIMMERMAN, AG WIRED

More than 25 companiesand organizations havelaunched the U.S. Agri-culture Coalition for

Cuba (USACC) in Washingtonto liberalize trade and re-establishCuba as a market for U.S. foodand agriculture exports.

Among the speakers who

introduced the new coalition werea list of lawmakers from a varietyof states, Agriculture SecretaryTom Vilsack, Missouri GovernorJay Nixon, and representativesfrom a number of the organiza-tions who are part of the newgroup. “Today we gather to dis-cuss an expanded opportunity forAmerican agriculture – our farm-ers and our ranchers,” said Vil-

sack. “Allow them to expand busi-ness opportunities in a countryjust 90 miles from our border –Cuba.”

Agricultural organizations rep-resenting a variety of commodi-ties including corn and soybeans,poultry, meat and dairy, wheatand rice, have all stepped up tobecome members of the coalition.“We know the Cuban market forrice is not theoretical. It is real, itis large, and it is compelling,” saidBetsy Ward, President and CEOof USA Rice. “With rice importsvalued at more than $300 million,Cuba is the second largestimporter of rice in the Americas.And there was a time when Cubawas our number one export mar-ket — we look forward to a returnto those days.”

Others who spoke at theNational Press Club eventannouncing the coalition were

Alan Tracy with U.S. WheatAssociates, Dale Moore withAmerican Farm Bureau, andStephen Sothmann of the U.S.Hide, Skin and Leather Associa-tion.

The USACC believes that nor-malizing trade relations betweenthe U.S. and Cuba will providethe U.S. farm and business com-munity with new market accessopportunities, drive enhancedgrowth in both countries andallow U.S. farmers, ranchers andfood companies to efficientlyaddress Cuban citizen’s foodsecurity needs. Under currentsanctions, U.S. food and agricul-ture companies can legally exportto Cuba, but financing and traderestrictions limit their ability toserve the market competitively.The USACC ultimately seeks toend the embargo and allow foropen trade and investment.


Ag Coalition for Cuba Launched

Humans, prepare to be jealous.BY LAUREN DAVIDSON,

TELEGRAPH.CO.UK

Air travel can be such anightmare, but one airportis determined to improvethe experience . . . for ani-

mals, that is.John F. Kennedy Airport is

set to open the first privately-owned animal terminal in theworld. It will be called, naturally,The Ark.

The Port Authority of NewYork and New Jersey has signeda 30-year lease deal with ArkDevelopment, an affiliate of thereal estate company RacebrookCapital, to design and build a178,000-square-foot animal car-go facility at the Queens, NewYork-based airport.

The $48 million project willcreate 180 jobs and generate$108 million in revenues over its30-year span, the organisers said.

“For the animals who [will]pass through The Ark, as well asthe people who own them, airtravel can be stressful and con-fusing,” said Cliff Bollmann, anarchitect at Gensler, one of thefirms designing the facility.

“Aligning the needs of quaran-tine with kennelling and elevat-ing the experience for animalsand their owners, our designteam sought to create a comfort-able, healthy environment forthem all.”

The Ark, which is scheduledto open in the early months of2016, will include a departurelounge with comfortable placesto sit, eat and drink (Costa Cof-fee for critters?), individual cli-mate-controlled bedrooms forhorses and cattle, a vet, an aviaryand a Paradise 4 Paws for catsand dogs.

JFK is one of the busiest air-ports in the world, with some 50million people a year landing andtaking off from its runways.

John J. Cuticelli, Jr, the chair-man of Racebrook Capital, saidthe concept tackles “unmetneeds” of travelling companion,sporting and agricultural ani-mals. The terminal “will set newinternational airport standardsfor comprehensive veterinary,kennelling and quarantine servic-es.”

If only someone would thinkof a way to make the flying expe-rience that pleasant for humans.

Introducing: theworld’s first airportterminal for animals

BLM and Forest Service 2015 Grazing Fee is $1.69

The Federal grazing fee for2015 will be $1.69 peranimal unit month(AUM) for public lands

administered by the Bureau ofLand Management and $1.69per head month (HM) forlands managed by the U.S. For-est Service. The 2014 fee was$1.35.

An AUM or HM – treatedas equivalent measures for feepurposes – is the use of publiclands by one cow and her calf,one horse, or five sheep orgoats for a month. The newlycalculated grazing fee, deter-mined by a congressional for-mula and effective on March 1,applies to nearly 18,000 grazingpermits and leases administeredby the BLM and more than8,000 permits administered bythe Forest Service.

The formula used for calcu-lating the grazing fee, whichwas established by Congress inthe 1978 Public RangelandsImprovement Act, has contin-ued under a presidential Execu-tive Order issued in 1986.Under that order, the grazingfee cannot fall below $1.35 perAUM, and any increase ordecrease cannot exceed 25 per-cent of the previous year’s level.

The annually determinedgrazing fee is computed byusing a 1966 base value of$1.23 per AUM/HM for live-stock grazing on public lands inWestern states. The figure isthen calculated according tothree factors – current privategrazing land lease rates, beefcattle prices, and the cost oflivestock production. In effect,the fee rises, falls, or stays thesame based on market condi-tions, with livestock operatorspaying more when conditionsare better and less when condi-tions have declined.

The 2015 grazing fee of$1.69 per AUM/HM grazingfee applies to 16 Western stateson public lands administered bythe BLM and the Forest Serv-ice. The states are Arizona, Cal-ifornia, Colorado, Idaho,Kansas, Montana, Nebraska,Nevada, New Mexico, NorthDakota, Oklahoma, Oregon,South Dakota, Utah, Washing-ton, and Wyoming. Permitholders and lessees may contacttheir local BLM or U.S. ForestService office for additionalinformation.

The BLM, an agency of theU.S. Department of the Interi-or, manages more land – over245 million surface acres – thanany other Federal agency. Mostof this public land is located in12 Western states, includingAlaska.

The Forest Service, anagency of the U.S. Departmentof Agriculture, managesapproximately 193 million acresof Federal lands in 44 states,Puerto Rico, and the VirginIslands.

n The bottom 20 percent ofearners earn 5.3 percent of pre-tax income, yet they pay just 0.6percent of federal income taxes.

In fact, looking specifically atfederal income taxes, Uhler andFerrara cite CongressionalBudget Office figures showingthat the bottom 20 percent ofearners actually pay a negativefederal income tax of 7.5 per-cent, and the next 20 percent ofearners have a negative tax rateof 1.3 percent – both groups arenet takers when it comes to fed-eral income taxes. The middle 20percent of earners (those earning

14 percent of pretax income)pay a 2.4 percent income taxrate.

While the president insists therich aren't paying their fair share,the numbers are pretty stark, sayUhler and Ferrara: the top 1 per-cent in 2012 paid 28 percentmore in federal income taxesthan did the bottom 90 percentof earners who, despite earning52 percent of income, paid lessthan 30 percent of federalincome taxes.

Source: Lewis Uhler and Peter Ferrara, “Therich pay more than their fair share,” WashingtonTimes, January 20, 2015.

Fair Share continued from page five


It was cold this winter. Howcold was it?

It was so cold every calfnorth of Cabool, Missouri thatwas at least 1/8 Bramer soldhimself and bought a ticket toBrownsville!

– so cold every coyote inIdaho carried jumper cables tostart the jack rabbits!

– so cold every vegetablefarmer in California remem-bered where he came from!

– so cold every wild horse inNevada was callin’ the BLMfor room service!

– so cold North Dakotafroze in Minnesota and whenit thawed and broke off itpicked up three new counties

and another Congressman!– so cold in Hyannis, NE

the hired man broke ice in hisstock tank and didn’t hit water‘til Lake McConaughy!

– so cold in Ohio that theewes all bought down-linedPendletons

– so cold in Nancy, KY thatthe New Year’s Day Paradewas held in the county snowplow!

– so cold in Montana thatranchers were renting mobilemethane emitters to shiveringenvironmentalists!

– so cold in Harlan, Iowa,Santy’s sleigh got stuck on topof the water tower. He wasrescued and airlifted to theElks Club in Audobon fortreatment.

– so cold in Macon County,Tennessee the local Global

Warming Task Force post-poned their meeting ‘tilspring!

– so cold in Maple Creek,Sask. they put their rye in therefrigerator to warm it up!

– so cold in Oklahoma itlaid a sheet of black ice onInterstate 40 so slick thattraders as far east as El Renocould tie five steers together,lay ‘em down and slide’mplum to Elk City auction barnwith just one push!

– so cold at Monfort’s feed-lot in Kersey, CO the horse’sfeet looked like coasters on afootstool, the steers humpedup like mountains completewith a timberline and everypen checker tore holes in hismoon boots tryin’ to get hisspurs on!

– so cold between Landerand Casper, WY that the windfroze everything within 168 sq.mi. Fortunately no one washurt.

It was so cold! Craig calledfrom Consort, Alberta. I askedhim what the temperaturewas. He said, “Minus 38.”

I asked him if that wasFahrenheit or Centigrade?

He said, “It doesn’t makeany difference!”

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The United States countryof origin labeling (COOL)for beef was implementedin 2009. While opponents

to such consumer transparencyissues have claimed that COOLwas supported by those U.S.cattle producers wishing torestrict trade, I can tell you thatwas never the intent and thefacts simply don’t support thispropagandist tactic.

From 2005 to 2009 theCanadian cow herd declined by18 percent, from around 5.4 mil-lion cows to 4.3 million cows.Interestingly, from 2010 through2014, after COOL implementa-tion, there has only been a mini-mal contraction of one to twopercent annually. While I’m notsaying COOL had anything todo with these herd stabiliza-tions, what an interesting coinci-dence.

What has been really impres-sive is to look at the volume oflive cattle and beef imports fromCanada as a percentage of theCanadian cow herd. While onewould have thought that as theCanadian cow herd was shrink-ing, the percent of product forexport after domestic use inCanada would have dropped.However, it appears the U.S. istaking a larger and larger shareof Canadian production (cattleand beef) as a percentage of

their cow herd, with 2013 and2014 representing the highest atsomewhere around 55 to 57 per-cent and that’s figuring a 100percent calf crop.

When you look at Mexico, itis basically the same. The Mexi-can cow herd began a steepdecline in 1994 when Mexicohad about 13 million beef cows.The cow herd shrank to 10 mil-lion in 2002 and 6.7 million in2007. Interestingly, about thetime COOL was implementedin 2008 and 2009, those num-bers started leveling off and in2011 and 2012 reached 7 mil-lion head. Numbers then fellagain to 6.7 in 2013 and 6.8 in2014 following a severedrought.

Interestingly, even thoughMexican cow numbers haddropped, 3 of the 5 top cattleimport years since 2005 cameafter COOL was implemented.And yes they had a drought, butone of those years was 2014 andamazingly all this has happenedat a time when the Mexican gov-ernment initiated programs toadd more USDA approvedpacking plants and rapidlyworked to expand cattle feedingin Mexico to capture more valuefor the economy.

Under these programs beefexports have increased to theU.S. now making Mexico the4th largest exporter of beef tothe U.S. In fact, we saw live ani-mal equivalents of Mexican beef

imports rise from 60,000 in2008 to about 400,000 in 2014.When you add it all up, 5 of thetop 6 years of cattle and beefequivalent have come sinceCOOL was implemented.

If Canada and Mexico weretruly being discriminatedagainst, as determined by theWTO panel ruling, we should betaking less of their production,not more; however, a commontheme through their marketreports is that a strong U.S.market has been driving theseexports to the U.S.

2014 will be the second high-est year for cattle imports fromMexico and Canada into theU.S. and with the smallest cowherds on record. That’s prettyamazing and certainly does notsupport claims of discrimina-tion.

On another note, withincreased liberalization of U.S.health protocols on BSE andFMD to South American coun-tries and the EU, and increasedFTAs on the horizon, one canonly expect increased importsinto the U.S. This only makes itmore important that U.S. pro-ducers have the tools necessaryto move from commodity mar-kets to more value based mar-kets with the consumer’s, andCOOL will be critical in allow-ing both U.S. cattle producersand U.S. consumers to differen-tiate their beef, as we havealready done in many foreign

markets.As one looks out on the hori-

zon, one of the highest valuesconsumers will be placing on thefood they purchase in the future

is “how and where it is pro-duced.”

(Leo McDonnell ranches in Columbus, Mon-tana and Rhame, North Dakota. He also sitson various industry association boards.)

Decline in Canadian, Mexican cow herdsstabilizes with COOL implementation

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anyone who lives in the West, bethey private landowners or usersof federal lands. WyomingRepublican Cynthia Lummis willchair the Interior Subcommittee.

Suspended AUMsThe BLM is proposing

changes to their Grazing Hand-book that would grant authorityto field managers to remove sus-pended AUMs that are unlikelyto be active in the foreseeablefuture when they reissue grazingpermits. This could have a bigimpact on the value of grazingpermits and also effect loansbased on those permits. A BLMspokesman says the proposedchanges are currently beingreviewed by State Offices, thatthere is no requirement for pub-lic comment and they hope tofinalize the changes by this sum-mer.

Monument GrazingUtah Senators Hatch and Lee

will be introducing legislationtitled Grand Staircase-EscalanteNational Monument GrazingProtection Act. The bill is appar-ently in response to recent pro-posals to reduce grazing in themonument. In a statement Sena-tor Hatch said, “When PresidentClinton designated the GrandStaircase-Escalante a monu-ment, I called it ‘the mother ofall land grabs.’ But BLM’s ongo-ing campaign to reduce grazinghere makes its look more like ahijacking. We cannot stand idlyby while work that previous gen-erations have done is beingundermined.” And Senator Leesaid, “Grazing is a critical com-ponent of Utah’s rural economyand this amendment, if adopted,would preserve the grazing rightsthat Utah families have used forgenerations.”

The Senators have introducedan amendment to the Keystonepipeline legislation that has lan-guage on grazing in the monu-ment. It says that any livestockgrazing that was established pri-

or to the designation shall beallowed to continue, subject tosuch reasonable regulation as theSecretary may deem necessary.That is followed by this language:on the condition that the Secretaryshall allow the grazing levels tocontinue at current levels to themaximum extent practicable.

That’s pretty strong languageand shows you what Senatorswho really care about the live-stock industry can attempt onour behalf. They will be introduc-ing a stand alone bill on this top-ic and we will monitor itsprogress.

Ted Turner and ferretsThe Vermejo Park Ranch,

owned by Ted Turner, is seekinga permit from New Mexico toimport black-footed ferrets.USFWS’s ferret recovery coordi-nator, Pete Gober, says they areworking with private landownerslike Turner to implement a 10-year plan for boosting ferretnumbers across the region.There are currently 21 reintro-duction sites in the region.Under new rules, the StateGame Commission will decideon the permit.

Bureaucratic crueltyThe New York Times has pub-

lished a long piece titled “U.S.Research Lab Lets LivestockSuffer in Quest for Profit” andsubtitled “Animal Welfare atRisk in Experiments for MeatIndustry”. Can you see wherethis is headed? The article expos-es piglets crushed by sows,deformed calves and “ewes aregiving birth, unaided, in openfields where newborns are killedby predators, harsh weather andstarvation.” Imagine that. Givingbirth unaided and in an openfield, and we can be assured theharsh weather is caused by glob-al warming. All this aimed at theU.S. Meat Animal ResearchCenter in Nebraska.

So what is their ultimate goal?It would appear to be the AnimalWelfare Act of 1966, whichaccording to the authors left a“gaping exemption: farm animalsused in research to benefit agri-culture.” But never fear, becauseaccording to Reuters our coura-geous leaders at USDA havesent a memo to all ARS employ-ees stating an independent panelwould be convened to reviewARS's animal handling protocols,policies and research practices.

Better get ready for federally-funded PETA Patrols at yourfavorite ARS facility or landgrant university.

Michelle O causes global warming

How can I say that? Just fol-low me.

National Geographic reports “a

third of all of the food that’s pro-duced on our planet never reach-es a table”, with it either beingspoiled in transit or thrown outby the consumer. That equatesto roughly 1.3 billion tons offood, worth nearly $1 trillion atretail prices, and causes a “stag-gering” amount of environmentaldamage. Citing a U.N. report,they say that uses enough waterto equal the entire flow ofEurope’s largest river – the Vol-ga. They claim the energyexpended in the production,transporting, and packaging ofwasted food generates 3.3 billionmetric tons of carbon dioxideand that if food waste was acountry, it would be the world’sthird largest emitter of green-house gases.

Now let’s turn to schoollunches and recall my Novemberreport about a survey conductedby the National School BoardsAssociation. The survey was con-cerning the Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act championed bythe First Lady. It found the kidsweren’t buying what USDA wasgiving away. Since the lawpassed in 2010, the survey foundthat 84 percent of the schoolscontacted were seeing anincrease in “plate waste” as thekids were dumping that healthystuff in the trash. In other words,more wasted food.

So for the first time ever I’min agreement with National Geo-graphic and the United Nations:Michelle Obama causes globalwarming!

No fries for small fryUSDA’s Food and Nutrition

Service is proposing strict newguidelines that would prohibitthe frying of meat at children’sdaycare centers across the coun-try. In their attempt to promote“health and wellness of children”,the USDA writes in the FederalRegister: “While facilities wouldnot be permitted under this pro-posed rule to prepare foods on siteby frying them, store-bought,catered, or pre-fried foods can stillcontribute large amounts of caloriesand saturated fat to a meal. There-fore, facilities are encouraged tolimit all fried and pre-fried foods tono more than once per week.”

Instead of Don’t Ask, Don’tTell, this administration isenforcing Don’t Fry, Don’tServe.

They are the AmericanSniper, shooting at both ends ofyour operation – limiting grazingon one end and prohibiting con-sumption on the other.

Till next time, be a nuisanceto the devil and don’t forget tocheck that cinch.

Frank DuBois was the NM Secretary of Agricul-ture from 1988 to 2003, is the author of a blog:The Westerner (www.thewesterner.blogspot.com)and is the founder of The DuBois Rodeo Schol-arship.

The elections have broughtwhat could be some excit-ing changes to Congres-sional oversight of the land

management agencies.Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) has

been appointed Chairman of theHouse Oversight and Govern-ment Reform Committee, andimmediately announced the for-mation of an Interior Subcom-mittee to oversee Interior, EPA,

and the Energy and Agriculturedepartments. Chaffetz said he’sdeeply concerned about accessto federal lands and the “everexpanding” size of the federalestate. Chaffetz said the Interiorpanel will take a microscope tothree laws: The 1906 AntiquitiesAct (gives President authority todesignate monuments), NEPAand the Endangered SpeciesAct. All three are important to


By Frank DuBois

This month’s column covers changes in Congress, changes in aBLM handbook, Ted Turner’s ferrets and the First Lady’s continuingattacks on meat producers.

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BY KRIS RINGWALL, BEEF SPECIALIST, NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY UNIVERSITY EXTENSION SERVICE

When buying registeredbulls, always, alwaysinsist on transferringthe registration number

to your operation. Do not makethe statement: “Well, the bullonly will be used on commercialcows, so I do not need the bullregistered.” That is wrong, justwrong.

The biggest toe-stubbingproblem in the beef industry isthe lack of understanding of thevalue of individual animal identi-fication. Now I know the chorusof objections will grow and hit acrescendo note, but that is OK.

The point today is simple.Even if individual animal identi-fication numbers are not avail-able for all the cattle in theinventory, the registration num-bers available throughout thepurebred business are criticaland the heart of the breed asso-ciation.

Did you know that for somebreeds, you simply can start reg-istering cattle? By doing so, aproducer starts to build a geneticdatabase. Am I being overlyenthusiastic? No. The registra-tion numbers are a pathway tothe genetic offering through thevarious breed associations.

Recently, I have been busyassisting producers at bull-buy-ing workshops. These workshopsseem to be appreciated as pro-ducers develop baseline orbenchmark values for productiontraits of previous bulls utilized inthe herd. Too often, the stum-bling block is the lack of a regis-tration number, which blocksaccess to the database that con-tains the bull’s information.

Genetic knowledge is criticalto the future of the beef busi-ness. Without trying to upsetanyone, bull circles encompass alot of discussion, which is good.However, generally, if the breed-er has done his or her home-work, every bull has been regis-tered and the genes that areavailable are known.

Even more exciting, as theDNA is analyzed for individualbulls and cows, the genomicenhanced expected progeny dif-ferences (EPDs) are more accu-rate and increase the level ofknowledge going into the calcu-lations that produce the EPDvalue. Ever heard the saying:“Look it up; you will remember itlonger?”

At the Dickinson ResearchExtension Center, we occasion-ally are asked what bulls we areusing and why. The answer ispretty simple. For our RedAngus bulls, the registrationnumbers are 1617805 and1617778. For the Angus bulls,the registration numbers are17628526 and 17698292. Forthe Simmental bulls, the regis-tration numbers are 2669482,2790504 and 2790544. We haveone Shorthorn bull. His registra-tion number is x4190244. Given

those numbers, anyone can go tothe various breed associationsand look up the data on thebulls.

Some might feel this infringeson the owner’s space, but in thebig picture, knowing the registra-tion numbers and the ability toaccess the performance data onbulls are very good tools in thebeef producer’s toolbox.

The center’s EPD values forthe various breeds reflect bullsthat are lighter in birth weightand moderate in growth andmilk. The center also placesmore emphasis on marbling andeven more pressure on rib-eyearea. These selection criteriamean little or no assistance isneeded for the cows calving onpasture. It also means the cattlehave a practical frame packageand excellent carcass traits.

Again, this discussion is bestdocumented by reviewing thebull production numbers. Thetake- home point today is repeat-ed and very simple: Always insiston transferring your registeredbulls and always keep those past,present and future registrationnumbers.

Go one step further by join-ing the breed association of yourchoice and becoming involved inthe utilization of the tools thatare offered. Calf marketing pro-grams are available through allthe associations as an addedbenefit.

Still, cattle producers gatherand the discussion is rich. How-ever, at the end of the day, didthe numbers get transferred? AsI travel and visit with producers,those who bring to the table aportfolio of numbers can estab-lish their historical selection cri-teria easily.

At times, someone will say heor she had no selection criteria.That really does not make anydifference; the bulls that wereused are the baseline for startingto understand what genetics arerepresented in the producer’scattle. If those calves meet withsatisfaction from the producer,then similar bulls can be select-ed.

If something needs to bechanged, tweak the numbers andchange.

May you find all your eartags.

Register Those Bulls!Texas and Southwestern

Cattle Raisers Association(TSCRA) Special Ranger

Bart Perrier and the OsageCounty Sheriff’s Departmentare seeking information on thetheft of 12 head of calves that

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It certainly doesn’t leave muchfor the taxpayers who actually paythe bills in their home state. Thisis nothing short of disgusting.Why should our governments ownany land other than what is neces-sary for the military and nationalparks? With our national debt inthe trillions why would the gov-ernment not be selling off some ofthese lands to help pay it down?Why not sell some of it reasonablyto young people that are startingout and want to start a ranch orfarm. How about selling some tohard working people that need aboost to get ahead?

Military families might begood ones to help also. They noto-riously are the lowest paid govern-ment workers and have the mostdangerous jobs. Hard workingpeople don’t want a hand out, buta hand up that they could payback just might make some sense.In America the government forcesus to give charity to freeloaders.Why not help the working guy fora change? Just think how success-ful America could become.

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The abject stupidity in our gov-ernment is astounding! Did youknow that it is still against the lawto keep a donkey in your bathtubin Arizona? The other day theFederal Bureau of Investigationshad some guy and his family bar-ricaded in a house in northernArizona. Finally he told the FBIguys that he would surrender tothe local sheriff only. They finallycalled the local sheriff and the guysurrendered peacefully. He thenhad to appear before a federaljudge.

After he appeared he wasreleased on his own recognizance.The rest of the story is that theFBI had brought in SWAT teamsfrom Los Angeles and Las Vegas

along with several FBI officersand all they needed was the localsheriff. This was a great exampleof wasting your tax dollars. TheCliven Bundy event in Nevadawas just as pathetic. The Bundy’swere never violent people. Thegovernment killed several of theircattle, so they must have thoughtthe cattle were dangerous.

How come the People For TheEthical Treatment Of Animals didnot intervene on behalf of theslain cattle against the govern-ment agents? Who are they goingto attack next? Will federal agentsbe arriving at your ranch soon?

There are 11.2 million acres ofNational Forest Land in Arizona.In New Mexico the Gila NationalForest is the largest at 3.3 millionacres. For the last 20 years theUnited States Forest Service hasbeen working hard at getting cat-tle off of the National Forest land.They also seem to want to endmining, logging, and huntingoperations as well.

What is the federal govern-ment going to do with all this landif they do not let the citizens useit? Why are the taxpayers not ableto use land that they are payingfor? I have also noticed that manyForest Service employees haveforgotten that they work for thetaxpayer. It seems like these gov-ernment agencies have a vendettaagainst hard working every dayAmerican citizens.

The first thing the Feds coulddo is give most of the land back tothe states and let them decidewhat to do with their own land.Our President seems bent ondoing what he wants with hisexecutive orders so why can’t therest of the citizens do what theywant? I think most of us wouldwelcome our own land back. Mybest bet is that it would create aneconomic boom like we have nev-er seen before! I do believe thatwe need a government, but prob-ably a government about one-tenth of the size we have now.

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According to Perrier the 12head of missing calves werepastured with the cows, andthe calves were not weaned atthe time of the theft. The vic-tim was out of town at thetime of the theft, and whenthey returned home on Nov.19, 2014 they discovered thatthe calves in question weremissing. The victim searchedthe pasture and did not findany signs or carcasses thatwould support that the calveshad died.

Perrier said the missingcalves were described as crossbred, black, red, mixed col-ored or spotted in color. Thecalves vary in size from 250lbs. to 600 lbs. All of the

calves in question have a “BoxL” brand on their left hip anda notch under their left ear.

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at dietary fats and oils. Onestudy involved over one millionpeople and the effects of the redmeat they consumed. And whatwas the good Doctor’s finalanalysis? He could find no con-nection whatsoever between sat-urated fat consumption andheart disease. He slammedUSDA’s dietary guidelines andsaid their bias against saturatedfats was absolutely wrong. Inlooking at all the research hefound that the saturated fats theUSDA says you shouldn’t eatactually promote heart health.

n In a book by Harvard Nutri-tionist, Tom Hargrove, Eat,Drink and Be Healthy: The Har-vard Medical School Guide toHealthy Eating, Hargrove quotesDr. Walter Willett, who is highlycritical of the Food Pyramid thatis posted on elementary schoolbulletin boards, and published inuniversity textbooks. “The thingto keep in mind,” said Willett,

“about the USDA Pyramid isthat it comes from the USDA,the agency responsible for pro-moting American agriculture,not from agencies established tomonitor and protect our health.And there’s the root of the prob-lem – what’s good for some agri-cultural interests isn’t necessarilygood for the people who eattheir products. At best, theUSDA Pyramid offers indecisive,scientifically unfounded adviceon an absolutely vital topic –what to eat. At worst, the misin-formation it offers contributes tooverweight, poor health, andunnecessary early deaths,” saidDr. Willett.

n British cardiologist Dr.Aseem Malhotra wrote an articlein the British Medical Journalstating that carbohydrates, notsaturated fats, were the realproblem associated with obesityand other diseases. He told Britsto enjoy their red meat and but-

ter because it was not responsi-ble for their heart disease . . .carbohydrates are.

n In 2013, Dr John Briffawrote Cholesterol and Statins,Food and Medical Politics,Healthy Eating, Unhealthy Eat-ing! He too came to the conclu-sion that there was no evidencethat saturated fat causes heartdisease.

n If I told you the left-leaningWorld Health Organization andthe Food and Ag Organizationof the United Nations also tooka look saturated fat you’d proba-bly expect these groups to ostra-cize red meat, particularly beef.Not so! Eight years ago theyhelped sponsor an entire editionof Annals of Nutrition and Metab-olism which was dedicated to thelink between saturated fat andheart disease. This study wasactually a meta-analysis of 21previous studies which included350,000 people and came to the

following two conclusions: Therewas no association between satu-rated fat and risk of heart dis-ease, nor a link between saturat-ed fat and risk of stroke. “Theintake of saturated fatty acidswas not significantly associatedwith heart attacks,” they said.

Wise Up . . . Eat BeefI could go on like this citing

study after study that gave redmeat a reprieve by finding noevidence that saturated fat caus-es heart or cardiovascular dis-ease. And oh, by the way, low fatdiets that exclude red meat havealso been strongly linked todepression. And yet our govern-ment, and the popular press,ignores the latest, best scienceand instead continues to tell youto cut back on red meat and fillthe void with starches and sugarsfound in carbohydrates and oils.Could there possibly be a linkbetween all that bad advice anda recent USA Today report thatsaid 61 percent of U.S. citizensare overweight and 26 percentare downright obese, weighing atleast 30 pounds more than theyshould. No wonder they’redepressed!

It’s one thing for adults tomistreat their bodies and go onevery fad diet that comes alongbut there is mounting evidencethat low fat, high carb diets arealso harmful to the developingbrains of children. It turns outthat not getting enough fat, orgetting the wrong kind of fat likethe vegetable oils promoted bythe USDA, has been shown toactually lower the IQ of peoplelater in life. No wonder it seemslike every day there are more andmore dumb Americans, especial-ly working for the government.Could that be because they'vebeen following the dietary guide-lines laid down by the USDA foryears?

Europeans have long knownthat red meats and saturated fatsare not the bad guys we’ve beenled to believe they are by ourgovernment during the 35 yearsthe USDA has been in the nutri-tion consulting business. While“experts” were pimping dietbooks on Oprah that said don’teat animal protein, Europeansstuck to their Mediterranean dietthat included red meat and but-ter. At the same time ourbureaucrats are pushing carbo-hydrates instead of red meat,European bureaucrats are doingexactly the opposite, promotinghigh protein, low carb diets.Guess who has far lower inci-dence of heart disease and car-diac events? The meat eaters, ofcourse.

Sweden, like the U.S., is alsoin the business of telling theircitizens what to eat but in theircase they are urging Swedes toeat high-fat, nutrient dense low-carb foods like beef, exactlyopposite of what the USDA sug-gests. Fat is not the problem,they say, sugars and starches are.Yet our own government is stillpromoting these unhealthy diets.

With more and more peoplediscovering for themselves that adiet of grains, sugars, and vegeta-bles with very little protein andfat is a recipe for disaster, it’s nowonder then that the USDA isnow saying they will considerenvironmental factors such assustainability to justify decadesof telling you not to eat redmeat. Because, clearly, they canno longer justify their DietaryGuidelines based on the latestnutritional science.

Oh, and by the way, when Iearlier mentioned the words“nutrient dense” I should clarifythat I was not referring to thebumbling bureaucrats currentlycooking up the next edition ofUSDA Dietary Guidelines.

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side so that she won’t turn onthe overhead light and wake youup unnecessarily. Better yet, buyan old camper shell, teepee orcheap RV for the wife to stay induring the night so that shewon’t wake you up every twohours and ruin your beautysleep. Do you know what ashock it gives the system whenthe wife comes back to bed withfrozen feet and “accidentally”jabs them into your warm, cozybody?

Lest you think I’m a heartlesscreep, I always showed my sensi-tive side by leaving an alarmclock, an energy bar and a pileof the Sudoku puzzles my wifelikes to work so that she hadsomething to do while she waswaiting for a stubborn calf toenter the birth canal.

Women, you are going toneed appropriate clothingincluding heavy jacket, vest,sweater, long underwear andhoody sweatshirt, although theprice of the hoody might be costprohibitive. But ladies, please dotry to look as attractive as possi-ble for you surely don’t want the

first thing a calf sees in thisworld to be a scary figure in anold, muddy and moldy Carharttjacket and a pair of sweatpants,do you? That could emotionallyscar a calf for life.

Now for you men . . . you aregoing to need a gun in your calv-ing kit. Not to put an animaldown mind you, but to go hunt-ing if things are a little slow onyour shift.

Rounding out the contents ofyour calving kit you’ll need twologging chains and a tractor, alarge supply of clean rags whichcan be found in the dirty clotheshamper, and some antibiotics.These aren’t for the cattle butfor the wife in case she feels alittle off. You DO NOT wanther getting sick to the pointwhere you have to switch shifts.

So good luck and rememberLee’s rules on calving: the small-est heifers will have the biggestcalves, the meanest most ornerycows will always require themost assistance, and the onetime you sleep through yourshift will be when all the prob-lems occur.

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BY BLAIR FANNIN,

TEXAS A & M AGRILIFE

U.S. beef cow inventoryincreased 2 percent froma year ago, signalingexpansion among herds

across the nation, according tothe latest U.S. Department ofAgriculture-National Agricul-tural Statistics Service cattlereport.

“I thought the report showedmore beef cows added than Iexpected,” said Dr. DavidAnderson, Texas A&M AgriLifeExtension Service livestock spe-cialist, College Station. “Butrecord prices in the last half of2014 will do that.”

Anderson said prior to thereport, industry experts had themindset the current rebuildingphase will be longer and slower.

“It might have to be re-thought,” he said.

Seven percent more beefcows were reported in Texas onJan. 1 compared to the sametime last year. When the finalnumbers come in, Andersonsaid it could potentially be thelargest year-over-year percent-age increase in Texas beef cowssince 1972-1973 when thecowherd grew 14 percent.

The number of Texas beefcows remains the fewest since1959 and 1962 for the entireU.S., not counting 2014,Anderson said.

Texas has almost 4.2 millionbeef cows compared to 3.91million in 2014 and 4.2 millionin January 2013. Heifersretained for breeding cows havegradually begun increasing asTexas ranchers look to restockherds following devastatingdrought in 2011. That year,drought caused a record $7.62billion in agricultural droughtlosses, the costliest drought ofall time for Texas. Livestocklosses were $3.23 billion result-ing from feed expense and mar-ket losses.

“In absolute numbers, the270,000 head cowherd increasethis year is the largest since1993-1994. Heifers held forbeef cow replacements werealso up, nationwide, 4 percentand 7.6 percent in Texas.”

According to the report,there were 89.8 million head ofcattle and calves on U.S. farms.

For stocker cattle producers,Anderson said the number ofcalves on small grain pastures inTexas, Oklahoma, and Kansaswas reported up 300,000 headfrom 1.6 million in 2014 to 1.9million in 2015. More stockerson pasture may indicate a largernumber coming to market inthe March-May period than lastyear, Anderson noted.

The 2014 U.S. calf crop wasestimated at 33.9 million head,up 1 percent from 2013,according to the report. Calvesborn during the first half of2014 were estimated at 24.6

million, up slightly from 2013.Other findings from the Jan-

uary USDA report were:n The number of milk cows

in the U.S. increased to 9.3 mil-lion.

n U.S. calf crop was estimat-ed at 33.9 million head, up 1percent from 2013.

n Of the 89.8 million cattleand calves, 39 million were allcows and heifers that havecalved.

n All cattle on feed increasedto 13.1 million, up 1 percentfrom 2014.

Anderson said the cattleinventory increase is a goodreminder that “record highprices and high profits are themarket incentives to increaseproduction, and that marketswork.”

Anderson said market pricesshould remain historically highin 2015 as tight supplies of cat-tle continue along with goodconsumer demand for beef.That’s despite record retailprices for beef.

U.S. beef cow inventoryincreased 2 percent from 2014

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