One of the most popular attractions at Wednesday’s grand opening of the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association Trade Show in San Antonio belonged to U.S. Premium Beef. Thanks to Joe Schuele, USMEF for this story including photo and audio. The company, a member of the U.S. Meat Export Federation, decided to promote the value of beef exports by serving samples of …
Novus International Announces Beef Industry Commitment
Novus International announced its commitment to the beef industry today at the Cattle Industry Convention. They held a press conference this afternoon and I spoke with Gary Winter, Ruminant Sales Manager, North America afterward. I’m also posting the full press conference for you in case you’d like to listen in. Gary has been with the company for about ten years. …
NCBA Trade Show Dog Races
When I first walked in to the NCBA Trade Show this evening I thought I heard dogs barking. They were. They turned out to be Jack Russell Terriers racing in the back of the trade show area. So it was an iPhone YouTube moment. Cattle Industry Convention Photo Album AgWired coverage of the Cattle Industry Convention is sponsored by:
Meet Wally at Novus International Booth
We’re going to get to know the Novus beef team even more tomorrow when they make some major announcements. They’re also sponsoring AgWired coverage of the Cattle Industry Convention. At the opening of the NCBA Trade Show I stopped by their booth and spoke with Stephanie Gable. Stephanie also introduced me to Wally, the mechanical steer that you can see …
NCBA Tweetup
We had a great tweetup at the NCBA Trade Show this evening. The best things about them is getting to meet with people you’ve been communicating with via Twitter. Of course you know this if you follow AgWired. It’s not our first tweetup. Here’s the group that got together. I’m sure you recognize some of them. If you’re tweeting about …
NCBA President Gary Voogt Addresses Cattlemen
One of our featured speakers at the opening session of the Cattle Industry Convention was NCBA President Gary Voogt. Gary says it’s been an honor to serve as President of the organization for the past year. He logged about 200,000 miles and did a lot of hotel rooms nights. He says cattlemen have their work cut out for them this …
Beef Board Chairman Lucinda Williams
At the opening general session of the Cattle Industry Convention today we heard from Lucinda Williams, Chairman, Cattlemen’s Beef Board. This session also featured leaders from NCBA and ANCW which I will be posting separately. Lucinda spoke about her observations from a year as Chairman of the CBB and offered a number of thoughts for consideration. You can watch her …
Beef Board Executive Committee Meets
If you’ve never attended a committee meeting of the Cattlemen’s Beef Board then now’s your chance to take a peek inside. Here’s how things started out at this morning’s Executive Committee Mtg. of the CBB. Cattle Industry Convention Photo Album
Annual Meeting Outlook From CBB CEO Tom Ramey
The CEO of the Beef Board is Tom Ramey, seen here providing information to CBB Chairman Lucinda Williams at the Operating Committee Mtg. I spoke with him this morning about the issues and work being done here from the staff perspective. Tom says this annual meeting is where they go over the financial reports and audits from the last year …
Beef Board Operating Committee Meets
The Beef Board Operating Committee had a big challenge here at the Cattle Industry Convention. A number of previously funded projects returned unused dollars which now became available for re-allocation. This happens normally and so a number of what are called AR’s or Authorization Requests (amended) were made from other projects that had funds cut last year to obtain some …