Our U. S. Secretary of Agriculture, Mike Johanns, was on the program early today here at the Cattle Industry Convention. He spoke for about 25 minutes before taking some questions from the floor.
Dairy Producer Input To Beef Checkoff
Dairy producers don’t always think of themselves as beef producers but since they’re paying the Beef Checkoff they might be interested to hear what it’s doing for them.
R-Calf Convention Report With Mike Callicrate
One of our sponsors here on World Dairy Diary is The Callicrate Bander from No-Bull Enterprises. The owner is Mike Callicrate who recently attended the R-Calf annual meeting in Colorado. We weren’t able to attend that meeting so my wife, Cindy, did an interview with Mike to get a report on what happened there.
Sam Elliott Says "Beef, It's What's For Dinner"
As dairy producers you also pay your Beef Checkoff dues. Hopefully you might be interested in the following.
Overview Of The Cattle Industry Convention
Today I had a chance to interview Monte Reese who is the COO of the Cattlemen’s Beef Board. He talks about the Cattle Industry Convention that’s just getting started here in Denver.
Milk Gone Wild PETA Attack
Proving once again that they are completely without brains or any moral compass, the folks at PETA have created a website to attack milk. I highly recommend you refrain from visiting but you ought to know what the wackos are up to. It would almost be funny if they weren’t so ignorant and just plain disgusting.
New Owner For Food Safety Summit
I know some of our readers will probably be going to the Food Safety Summit (March 22-24, Las Vegas). It was just acquired by Stagnito Communications which is an Ascend Media Company.
NMPF Joins AVA And Vice Versa
It seems like we’re seeing more partnering of agricultural groups than ever before. I think this is a good thing and long overdue in most cases. This week the National Milk Producers Federation and the American Veal Association officially joined each other.
Top Producer is Former Dairyman
A former dairyman was selected as the top producer in the annual Top Producer magazine award.
Producers Can Participate In Beef Board Meeting Online
When the Cattlemen’s Beef Board was looking into ways to better communicate with producers about the activities of the next week’s Cattle Industry Convention, especially their committee meetings, they turned to blogging and asked us to create and manage the site.