Links to Livestock or Ranch-related Resources

 

Suggestions here will be appreciated! No doubt you have favorite resource sites and preferred merchants. Please share them, and we will gladly add them to this list. Please send suggestions to info@gclpo.org.

 

Government or Organizations

Commercial or Individuals

Click here for the link to the web site of the New Mexico Livestock Board. Click here to search New Mexico brands, either by name or by number.

Visit Livestock Weekly Online here.

The NM Livestock Board has recently initiated a web site specifically to provide the latest news on bovine TB in New Mexico. The site can be directly accessed from here.

Cattle Today is a good site for general cattle information, as well as commercial resources. Listings under sale reports, market outlook, free ranch listings, diseases, cattle dogs, Baxter Black and much more. Here’s the link: www.cattletoday.com

For USDA Livestock and Grain Markets news, visit this site.

 

 

The link to Mueller for steel building materials or metal roofs is muellerinc.com.

Western Livestock Journal Online maintains its site at www.wlj.net, and there is a wealth of information here, including market information, classifieds, articles, and sale reports.

 

Phil Monfette from Cloudcroft sells and delivers enclosed water storage tanks (from 100 to 10,000 gallons) and small poly stock drinkers (700 gallon tanks) at very competitive prices and with excellent, reliable service. Only basic contact information is available on the web site (ineedawatertank.com), but it includes a toll-free phone number for further details.

The New Mexico State Land Office (SLO) can be accessed by clicking here.

The national NRCS (USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service) site is here. The New Mexico NRCS site is here.

Ward Brothers Tractor in Clovis is an honest, reliable, and reasonably-priced source for used tractors and related equipment. They conduct auctions at regularly-scheduled intervals, and they take equipment consignments.

The Southwest Grassfed Livestock Alliance (SWGLA, pronounced “swĭg'-la”), in its own words, is “an alliance of producers, land managers, conservationists, and researchers that seeks to improve human, ecological and animal health, and strengthen local agricultural communities by educating producers, and the public about grassfed livestock products”. See the organization’s web site at grassfedlivestock.org for more information.

EVSolar “specializes in the design and installation of fully integrated solar electric, solar hot water, wind, water pumping and emergency back-up systems for residential and business applications… and features a full line of products, including solar panels, inverters, solar electric and solar hot water systems and components.” This is a knowledgeable and reputable merchant.

For the Texas Cattle Feeders Auction Reports, updated regularly, go to

http://www.tcfa.org/auction.html.

 

Ranchlinks.com is a source for thousands of ranch and livestock links. Categories are listed, with links from each. Examples of categories include cattle, barns and metal buildings, commodity futures, fencing, rodeos & cowboys, and stockyards and sale barns. (By the way, the GCLPO is listed under the Associations – Livestock category.)

The home page for the national FSA can be accessed by clicking here. The New Mexico State FSA site is here. Contact information for the Guadalupe County FSA site is here. To view the current Guadalupe County FSA newsletter, click here. (Actually, the state FSA has not been updating their newsletter links, so February 2007 is now showing, but we have contacted the NM FSA about this problem.) To browse the FSA’s HayNet site (hay for sale and hay wanted), click here. (If you want to post on the HayNet site, you will need to create a login identity.)

This is an EXCELLENT resource: Here are classified ads for individuals selling farm, ranch, or garden-related items (tools, equipment, feed, livestock, etc.) in New Mexico through Craigslist. Click here to view the listings, or here to view all of the Albuquerque Craigslist (which includes additional categories; e.g., Tools, Material (building materials), Free, and General).

 

The New Mexico Hay Association maintains a web site at www.nmhay.com/ with alfalfa market information, and also publishes hay for sale and hay wanted ads. You can post a hay wanted ad for free, but you must be a member to post hay for sale.

 

The New Mexico Farm & Livestock Bureau maintains its web site at www.nmfarmbureau.org/

 

The Dairy Producers of New Mexico publishes the New Mexico statutes dealing with livestock on its web site. Click here for the link to the state livestock laws, which includes everything from fencing regulations, impounding stray animals, driving livestock on a highway at night (it’s illegal), to penalties for infractions. An interesting read.

 

 The New Mexico Cattles Growers’ Association can be accessed on the web at www.nmagriculture.org for information on upcoming events and meetings.

 

Here is the web site for the Guadalupe County Extension Office.

The New Mexico Department of Agriculture can be accessed here: http://nmdaweb.nmsu.edu/

 

The home page for the U.S. Department of Agriculture is here. The USDA publishes many statistics and charts relating to livestock production. The index to their publications can be found by clicking here.

 

For a listing and description of upcoming events published by the NMSU College of Agriculture and Home Economics, you can visit http://cahe.nmsu.edu:16080/calendar. Included are cattle and livestock-related conferences, training workshops, and symposiums.

 

Here is the web site for R-Calf USA, an organization very actively fighting for country of origin labeling and other legal regulations in support of U.S. cattle producers.

 

The web site for Drovers Magazine is here. You can quickly register online for free to receive their online weekly newsletter, Drovers Alert, for up-to-date beef market news.

 

The New Mexico Acequia Association maintains their web site here; the organization publishes much information about their various programs on the web site.

 

The Livestock Marketing Information Center (LMIC) has provided economic analysis and projections about issues and conditions concerning the livestock industry since 1955.

 

The Campaign to Reclaim Rural America is, in its own words, "A broad base coalition of agricultural producers, agriculture organizations, small businesses, laborists and conservationists working to save family farms, ranches and Rural America."

 

For state water resources information, visit the web site for the Office of the State Engineer (OSE) here.

 

Click here to view the National Weather Service Precipitation Analysis for New Mexico. (National map site – click on the state of New Mexico to see NM data.)

 

 

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This page last updated 2-23-10