- The next meeting of the Agricultural Business Council of Kansas City will be breakfast on Friday, Nov. 9, 7:30 a.m. at the Hyatt Regency Crown Center (Chouteau Room.) The featured speakers will be Jim Finnerty and Julie Doane, both involved with the public television show: America’s Heartland. Breakfast will be $15.00 for Council member and $20.00 for nonmember. Please RSVP to GinaB@kc.rr.com no later than Wed., Nov. 7 by 5:00 p.m.
- The Mid-Atlantic Hereford Association is hosting the 1st Annual Fall Round-Up Junior Hereford Show. The junior show will be held in Harrisonburg, Va., Nov. 10, beginning at 3 p.m. The show will include owned heifers, bred-and-owned heifers and steers. More than 130 head of Hereford cattle have been entered in the inaugural show with exhibitors representing more than eleven states. Grand champion award winners will each receive $750 in cash premiums.
- Hank DeShazer, Hearne, Texas, was announced as the new president of the American Hereford Association at the Annual Membership Meeting in Kansas City, Mo., Oct. 22. DeShazer owns DeShazer Cattle Co. in Hearne, where about 400 Hereford calves are born each year and 150-200 bulls are sold private treaty.
- The U.S. Poultry & Egg Association board of directors has selected John Starkey to become the association’s new president effective Dec. 1. He will manage the total business affairs of the association, in keeping with the policies of the board of directors, under the supervision of the officers of the executive committee and the board. Starkey joined USPOULTRY as vice president of environmental programs in 2000.
