GREAT BEND TRIBUNE Kuckelman, Perry elected to KLA leadership positions Pictured are Kansas Livestock Association President-Elect Phil Perry (left) from Oskaloosa and KLA President Jerry Kuckelman of Manhattan. - photo by COURTESY PHOTO
TOPEKA – Members of the Kansas Livestock Association (KLA) elected Jerry Kuckelman, a cattle feeder from Manhattan, as president during the group’s annual business meeting Dec. 17. The membership chose Oskaloosa rancher Phil Perry as KLA president-elect. Kuckelman and Perry will lead the 5,700-member organization during the next year.
Kuckelman is the president and chief executive officer of Innovative Livestock Services (ILS), which consists of eight feedyards in central Kansas and south central Nebraska and an extensive farming operation. He began his career as a cattle buyer for IBP, then transitioned into feedyard management where he spent 27 years, with most of that ti