Programs

• New Mexico Youth Ranch Management Camp
  The New Mexico Youth Ranch Management Camp (photo above) provides an opportunity for students to learn about the practical and business management side of owning or managing a ranching operation.
• New Mexico Breeders Classic and Eastern and Southern Fairs Kids Calf Scramble
  Events like the Breeders Classic and Kids Calf Scramble serve to provide students with education on how to care for and raise animals, while promoting leadership and life skills.
• New Mexico Ag Leadership
  The NMAL program gives participants the opportunity to learn more about agricultural, food and natural resource-related issues, network with contacts from New Mexico and beyond, gain political awareness and learn the processes of organizational decision making, and develop leadership skills.
• New Mexico AgriFuture Educational Institute
  The NMAEI offers students and producers a chance to tour food and agricultural companies in New Mexico, hear from industry leaders about issues facing the industry, meet with mentors from the industry and network with other producers.

Leadership Programs

• Women in Ag Leadership Conference
  The Women in Agriculture Leadership Conference encourages women to join forces in order to address the issues they face, to create a vital network, to provide education, and to build something of value.
• New Mexico Ag Leadership
  The NMAL program gives participants the opportunity to learn more about agricultural, food and natural resource-related issues, network with contacts from New Mexico and beyond, gain political awareness and learn the processes of organizational decision making, and develop leadership skills.

Education Programs

• Policy Education
  The foundation provides funding that enables NMCGA and other organizations to monitor policy discussion around agricultural issues to share with producers, as well as provide educational opportunities for policy makers to learn more about the industry.
• Producer Education
  The Foundation works through partner organizations to provide up-to-date information about industry issues and news, best management practices and more through digital, social and traditional outreach.
• Public Education
  Through media and social outreach and educational events for the public, the Foundation provides opportunities for the public to interact with producers and learn more about how producers care for the environment and provide a safe food supply for present and future generations.

Association Support

• New Mexico Cattle Growers’ Association
  NMCGA works to advance and protect the agricultural industry through education, political action and support of producers in the state. Through NMCGA, the Foundation has also funded college and graduate college scholarships.

Raise a Rancher Program

• Donations of eligible farm or ranch land can be gifted to the Foundation, which is then sold or rented to qualified young ranchers. Through this program, the Foundation hopes to create a new generation of ranchers by removing one of the largest obstacles to starting a ranch.