March 08, 2008
Two guys and a four-door sedan.That's all it took for cattle rustlers to relieve dairy owner Pete Wiersma of three valuable calves.
Once the province of outlaws and the bane of hardscrabble ranchers who grazed their cattle on the open range, cattle rustling has never gone away. Like the livestock industry, it's only gotten more efficient.
In general, cattle rustling tends to increase whenever beef prices are high, said Larry Hayhurst, head of the Idaho State Police Division of brands. Because the price of cattle feed has been relatively high this year — making the cattle more expensive to raise and lowering the potential profit — the theft reports should be on a downswing. But in rural dairy regions — where milk cows can nearly always fetch a high price and methamphetamine use is becoming as much a part of the landscape as grain silos and milking barns — the rustling reports seem to stay fairly constant.
The Idaho State Police gets between 300 and 500 reports of lost or missing cattle a year, Hayhurst said. The numbers have been consistent for about a decade.
* * * "Rustling is alive and well everywhere in the West," said Jim Connelley, director of the Division of Livestock Investigation for Nevada's Department of Agriculture. "The gooseneck trailer and diesel pickup are probably the best piece of equipment to come to a rancher in many years and also the most useful equipment for a rustler."
A gooseneck trailer allows a pickup to haul a heavier load.
The pickings are even easier on many dairies. Investigators are still looking for the thieves who stole three of Wiersma's yearling heifers, valued at around $700 each, several weeks ago. Brown, the Twin Falls County sergeant, said the calves — which were unbranded — are probably long gone.
"The way that it happens is you drive your little Mazda into the dairy, in the back where the cameras don't pick it up," Brown said. "And you take four small calves out of the calf hutches and you put two in the trunk and two in the back seat and you drive off."
Two in the back seat and two in the trunk. If it weren't a serious property crime, I'd have a joke or two to make about frat boys or Aggies. But rustling is big business, with each calf worth about $700. That's a tidy profit for a rustler.
Maybe we need to go back to the old way of dealing with such folks -- hanging on the spot.
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