More than 6,700 attended this year’s convention to engage in grassroots policy process, hear from industry experts, and attend the expansive tradeshow.
Beef producers from the four largest beef producing Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) member countries continue to advocate that any TPP agreement must deliver on the 2011 TPP Ministers’ position of eliminating tariffs and other barriers to trade.
Cattlemen and women gathered today at the 2014 Cattle Industry Convention and National Cattlemen’s Beef Association Trade Show to hear CattleFax market analysts’ projections for the year ahead.
Frank and Sims Price Ranch, Sterling City, Texas, was named the national winner of the National Cattlemen’s Foundation Environmental Stewardship Award Program.
Don Butler, director of agriculture for the state of Arizona from 2003 to 2013 and a former president of the National Cattlemen’s Association, has received the prestigious Swan Family Leadership Award.
Those attending the 2014 Cattle Industry Convention and NCBA Trade Show in Nashville, Tenn., Feb. 4-7 should be sure to pack their comfortable walking shoes. The NCBA Trade Show – for years, the beef cattle industry’s largest – is getting bigger, adding more than 30 exhibitors and thousands of square feet of booth space.
Since 2009, the Kansas Beef Council and Nebraska Beef Council have provided funding and support of the nutrition and dietetics program at the New York Beef Industry Council.
With kids back in school for the spring semester, the Kansas Beef Council continues to remind menu planners that good nutrition is essential for success in the classroom.
