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Impact Report
| For plan | Profitable Livestock Production (Sandoval County) |
| Date | September 27, 2007, 2:35 pm |
| For Objective | Medium-term Show medium-term objectives |
| Impact Report | WHAT HAS BEEN DONE Beef Quality Assurance is an on going program that teaches cattle ranchers about animal genetics, cattle handling, feed purchasing, record keeping, testing and other procedures to produce beef without residue of animal products or pesticides. Over the last four years, the Sandoval County Extension Office has made 5 presentations to over 90 producers with 50 becoming Level 1 Participants. To quote a Santo Domingo Pueblo Rancher who took the course three years ago. This past year when he took his cattle to the sale barn, they announced that cattle being sold were "Indian Cattle" but they were Beef Quality Assurance treated. He was happy because he received the same price as other non-Indian sellers. He encouraged everyone at the meeting to take a course when offered. Indian cattle normally receive lower prices. With the exception of branding, producers are making changes in vaccination sites and record keeping. DROUGHT MANAGEMENT Sandoval County has been a drought stricken area for the last four years so ranchers have had to learn methods to distribute cattle more uniformly and more often. 32 producers attended a workshop on how to utilize rangeland more effectively by using water distribution and mineral blocks as supplements, plus a distribution method. The workshop was conducted by the Sandoval Agent and Industry personnel. Over 80 ranchers received over $8,000 from USDA to purchase mineral blocks in Sandoval County. The funds were made available to State through New Mexico Department of Agriculture. We made a concentrated effort and had the largest number of producers filling out the paperwork required. This kept many ranchers from having to sell livestock at discounted prices. To calculate the amount of money that would be lost if these ranchers would be forced to sell, you can estimate losses to at least 25% per animal sold. ANIMAL IDENTIFICATION 3 Workshops were held with over 60 ranchers participating in learning how the proposed animal and premise identification system is/or will be implemented. Producers were exposed to GIS systems. Animal tag use, and scanner types for use in their herds. Jamez Pueblo and Santo Domingo Pueblo have gotten premise ID Number for their respective grazing allotments on reservations as a result of the workshops. |