I was supposed to be Beef Board Blogging by now but am stuck in Missouri snow. Hopefully Cindy and I will make it tomorrow (or sometime). In the meantime, the show goes on as can be seen on the Cattlemen’s Beef Board Blog. Diane Henderson and Melissa Slagle are picking up my slack I see. So, meetings are taking place because the work of the Checkoff will go on! Here’s an excerpt from one of Diane’s posts today:

Snow, ice and cold across much of the country are making it difficult or impossible for a lot of folks to reach the 2011 Cattle Industry Convention this week in Denver, where the high temperature has remained below zero today. Some people flew in early — yesterday and today — to get in front of the storms in the Midwest and East, but others have faced one canceled flight after another, to no avail.

But the convention must go on. And so it does. A few meetings have gotten under way today, including a meeting of state beef council execs with the Cattlemen’s Beef Board’s collections compliance staff to discuss checkoff collections issues across the country. Another meeting going on this afternoon is of the members of the Beef Industry Long Range Planning Task Force, which will be presenting a proposed three-year plan to the industry later this week.