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-USDA The U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Marketing Service is seeking nominees for the Cattlemen’s Beef Promotion and Research Board. Nominations are due June 6, 2021, for 32 producer and three importer seats. Appointed members will serve three-year terms beginning February 2022 and ending February 2025. Vacancies for producer and importer member positions are available in Arizona, Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Wisconsin, Wyoming, Mid-Atlantic U...

Sustainable Beef Pt 2 I’m Bob Larson. Sustainability in agriculture is a term we hear more and more often these days and it’s something more consumers appear to be interested in as well. And when it comes to protein, Cattlemen’s Beef Board CEO Greg Hanes says with all the misinformation out there, it’s a conversation the beef industry welcomes … HANES … “Because the false information is becoming so common in media that it’s becoming believed. It’s the more you repeat a lie, the truer it becomes. So, I think it’s important that we’re countering that and reall...

After years of grief, Cattlemen's Beef Board comes to Beef Checkoffs defense.

DENVER — Cattle producers Hugh Sanburg, Norman Voyles, Jr. and Jimmy Taylor are the new leaders of the Cattlemen’s Beef Promotion & Research Board. This officer team is responsible for guiding the national Beef Checkoff throughout 2021. Sanburg, Voyles and Taylor were elected by their fellow Beef Board members during their 2021 Winter Meetings, held virtually this year. Sanburg, the 2020 vice chair, will now serve as the CBB’s chair, while Voyles will transition from his role as the 2020 secretary-treasurer to become the 2021 vice chair. Taylor is the newest member of the officer team, ...

Three weeks after Colorado Gov. Jared Polis called agriculture the “cornerstone to the foundation of our state” in an open letter aimed at preserving the National Western Stock Show’s future in Colorado, he signed a proclamation promoting a March 20 Meat Out Day and the removal of animal products from the diet. This slight aimed at the state’s $4.6 billion animal protein industry isn’t the first from the governor and comes in the midst of the introduction of multiple pieces of legislation that are potentially damaging to the agriculture industry. Prior to Polis’ letter, another wa...