We can’t forget that May is Beef Month and here in Missouri our governor, Matt Blunt, made a proclamation at the state capitol. Missouri beef cattle industry representatives presented Governor Matt Blunt with the Healthy Beef Cookbook in honor of May Beef Month. Left to right: Governor Blunt, Missouri Cattlemen’s Association president Merrel Breyer, producer Jimmy Long and son Jack, Missouri Beef Industry Council staff member Dawn Thurnau, and MBIC board member David “Blue” Geier.
May is Beef Month in Missouri. Representatives of both the Missouri Beef Industry Council and the Missouri Cattlemen’s Association were recently at the state capitol to receive the official proclamation from Governor Matt Blunt.
Cole Camp cattleman Jimmy Long and his eight-year-old son Jack helped to present Governor Blunt with a copy of the Healthy Beef Cookbook during the proclamation.
“We are number two in cow-calf production and this proclamation is the recognition of the fact that we are one of the leading agricultural industries in the state of Missouri,” Long said.
Missouri Beef Industry Council board member David “Blue” Geier of California said it helps to have the governor’s support for the industry. “I think the governor realizes the importance of agriculture, not just beef, but all aspects of agriculture,” Geier said. “It’s important to the Missouri economy all the way through.”
Let’s go from chicken to pork now. Here’s Joseph Royer who just won the 2007 Taste of Elegance contest sponsored by 
“The national Taste of Elegance contest brought some of the nation’s best chefs together to share their talent using pork,” said Dianne Bettin, a pork producer from Minnesota and National Pork Board member. “By reaching chefs through Checkoff programs like this, the goal is to increase pork items on menus.”
Birmingham, AL was the place to be for the 
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As a way to honor the late Sonja Hillgren, Farm Journal has set up the Sonja Hillgren/FARM JOURNAL Ag Journalism Field Reporting Institute. This “will allow the spirit of the late Sonja Hillgren to live on in future reporters at her alma mater, the 
Here’s me with the Mizzou agribloggers Julia and Nicki from earlier today at the World Agricultural Forum. According to 
Mike Adams, the host of 
Here in central Missouri we’ve all the sudden become river watchers. Who knows how high this is going to go.
The Commissioner of Agriculture and Rural Development for the European Economic Union is Mariann Fischer Boel. She was the keynote speaker on the program today here at the World Agricultural Forum.
One of the directors of the World Agricultural Forum is Dick McWard. He’s taking notes during this morning’s speech by Mariann Fischer Boel, EU Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development.