2008 Cattle Industry Convention

The 2008 Cattle Industry Convention is on tap for Feb. 6-9 in Reno, Nevada. Below is an abbreviated schedule of the joint meeting of CBB and NCBA on Saturday, Feb. 9. For agendas of the CBB and checkoff committees that will be meeting earlier in the week, please click on “Committees” in the menus along the left side of this page and visit the individual committee pages. For further information, contact Diane at dhenderson@beefboard.org.  

Joint Meeting of the
Cattlemen’s Beef Board &Â
National Cattlemen’s Beef Association Board of Directors

DRAFT

7:30 a.m.
1.  Joint Call to Order -  John Queen, NCBA President & Ken Stielow, CBB Chairman Presiding
a. Invocation – Dave Bateman, CBB Vice Chair
b. Pledge of Allegiance – Ken Stielow, CBB Chairman

2. CBB Call to Order- Ken Stielow, CBB Chairman, Presiding
a. Call to Order
b. Establish Quorum
c. Agenda Approval
d.   Approval of Minutes ¬
e. FY 2007 Financial & Audit Committee Report – Neil Kayser, CBB Secretary/Treasurer; Laurie Bryant, CBB Audit Committee Chairman
f.   Executive Committee Report & Approval of Minutes – Dave Bateman, CBB Vice Chairman
g.   Management Report – Tom Ramey, CBB Chief Executive Officer

3.  NCBA Call to Order – John Queen, NCBA President, Presiding
a. Recognition of Sponsor, Elanco Animal Health -
b. Comments from Sponsor
c. Establish Quorum
• Policy Division – Steve Foglesong, Policy Division Chair
• Federation Division – Gary Voogt, Federation Division Chair
d. Seating of Substitute Directors
e. Agenda Approval
f. Approval of Minutes

4.   Joint CBB-NCBA Business
a.  Operating Committee Report – Ken Stielow, CBB and Operating Committee Chairman
b.  Evaluation Committee Report – Carl Crabtree, Evaluation Committee Chairman
c.  Committee Reports
• Research & Knowledge Management – Keith Hansen, Group Chair
• Public Opinion & Issues Management – Jay O’Brien, Group Chair
• Global Consumer Marketing – Sid Sumner, Group Chair
• Industry & Producer Services – Charles Miller, Group Chair
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5. CBB Nominating Committee Report & Elections – Jay O’Brien, CBB Nominating Committee Chair

6.   CBB Adjournment

7.   NCBA Business – John Queen, NCBA President, Presiding

Checkoff Leadership Sets the Pace

Beef producers who serve as chairmen and vice chairmen of the checkoff’s joint program committees and groups are gathered in Denver this week to kick off the checkoff planning cycle for the coming year. Producers will spend today and tomorrow discussing planning factors — things that are likely to affect the direction of the beef industry in the next fiscal year – to help provide direction to their advisory committees. As Fiscal 2008 checkoff programs get into full swing, those full committees will each meet during the 2008 Cattle Industry Convention in Reno next month to begin setting priorities for checkoff dollars in Fiscal 2009, which begins Oct. 1, 2008.

During this week’s meetings, committee leaders will develop and fine-tune lists of key planning factors by checkoff strategy area and will meet with fellow leaders both together and in groups — Global Consumer Marketing; Industry & Producer Services; Public Opinion and Issues Management; and Research and Knowledge Management — to discuss what committees need to accomplish at upcoming meetings in Reno. This early planning step is critical in getting producer members of the Cattlemen’s Beef Board and the Federation of State Beef Councils coordinated as they prepare to guide their committees through priority-setting exercises.

In opening the meeting today, Cattlemen’s Beef Board Chairman Ken Stielow of Kansas reminded his fellow checkoff leaders how important it is that they offer their input at this early stage so they can provide information to their committees and keep them on track as they set priorities for spending checkoff dollars, particularly in light of the tight budgets that the checkoff is facing. Strong leadership provides confidence to producers who invest their time and money into the efforts of the Beef Checkoff Program in building demand for their end product, Stielow said.