Management Report
Posted by Chuck – July 19th, 2008
At the joint board meeting of the CBB and NCBA, Tom Ramey, CEO of the Beef Board, gave his management report.
Tom says that over the last 6 months several issues come to mind including the declining Checkoff assessments, beef recalls, cattle handling videos, the weak economy, export markets and the board’s process for gathering recommended improvements to the Beef Checkoff program.
He says that although there is a lot of reason for concern, there are also some bright spots like improving exports. When it comes to the improvement recommendation process he wants producers to know that the CBB has no ulterior motives and that all they want to do after two decades of good service to the industry is to look at the program to make sure that they improve on what we already have.
You can listen to Tom’s report here:
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You can also download and listen to the report here: 
Management Report (10 min MP3 File)
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