Eight former agriculture secretaries will help celebrate the 150th anniversary of USDA as they participate in a historic plenary panel at the 2012 Agricultural Outlook Forum, which will be held Feb. 23-24, 2012, in Arlington, Va. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack will give the keynote address at the forum and moderate the panel which will feature any and all of the …
Meet the New NCBA Officer Team
Meet the new officers of the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association. From left to right, they are: President J.D. Alexander from Pilger, Nebraska; President-Elect Scott George from Cody, Wyoming; and Vice President Bob McCan of Victoria, Texas. We already heard from J.D. and now immediate past president Bill Donald, but below is the audio from J.D.’s executive committee report at the …
Cattle Industry Convention Attendence Tops 8,100
They were excited yesterday when attendance at the Cattle Industry Convention beat the old record of 6,862. But people just kept coming in and registering on-site after that – adding at least another 1200 to the total by Friday afternoon. The last I checked, attendance was over 8,100. People were still signing up when I passed through the registration area …
Top Environmental Stewardship Award Goes to PA Farm
The Masonic Village Farm of Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania was named the top winner of the 21st annual National Cattlemen’s Foundation Environmental Stewardship Awards at the 2012 Cattle Industry Convention and National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA) Trade Show in Nashville this week. The Masonic Village Farm, which has been in operation for more than 100 years, raises 180 cow/calf pairs, maintains a …
Cattle Industry Guess Whose Boots?
We haven’t played the Guess Whose Boots? game in a long time here on AgWired, but since I have been taking lots of photos of boots here at the Cattle Industry Convention, we decided it must be time. I have been taking random boot photos but the owner of the boots in this picture is known to the AgWired audience …
NCBA Presidential Segue
It’s that weird transition time of the year for the leadership of the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association when one president is moving in while the other is moving out. These two guys – still current president Bill Donald of Montana and soon-to-be president J.D. Alexander of Nebraska – are just about as different as night and day. For example, while …
Cattlemen Want Livestock Out of Farm Bill
As Congress considers a 2012 Farm Bill, the top priority for the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association is to eliminate the livestock title, according to NCBA Executive Director of Legislative Affairs Kristina Butts. “The livestock title was new to the farm bill in 2008 and it brought us things like Country-of-Origin-Labeling, a national animal ID system and the GIPSA proposed rule …
Important Year for NCBA PAC
According to NCBA-PAC Chairman Phil Hardee of Alabama, the 2012 presidential election may very well be the most important election of our time. “If we believe in less government, lower taxes and the free market system, we need to do all we can to maintain a conservative majority in the House and get a majority of conservatives in the Senate,” …
Best of Beef Awards
Kyle Bauer, general manager of KFRM radio in Kansas was the emcee of the “Best of Beef 2012” awards Thursday morning at the Cattle Industry Convention in Nashville. Among the many awards presented were – National Retail Beef Backer, Foodservice Beef Backer, Beef Quality Assurance, Excellence in Communications, Trailblazer, National Stocker, NCBA Top Hand Club, the Max Deets Leadership and …
Amazing Attendance at Cattle Industry Convention
At about 9:00 this morning, Jesse Womack from San Antonio, Texas was filling out an on-site registration form to attend his very first Cattle Industry Convention. Little did he know that he would become the 6,836th registrant for the convention – a new attendance record that will be beat many more times over today as the line for on-site registration …