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BUILDING ON
C a l i f o rnia CattleWomen
1951— 2015
64 Years Promoting the Beef Industry
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Working to Save Ranching
Round-Up Design By: Debra Cockrell
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Cattlewomen’s Creed
Believing that the livestock industry is of basic
Importance to world existence,
We, the California Cattlewomen, dedicate ourselves
To support it with our labor and finances;
To promote it through information and publicity;
To encourage it’s producers with our
Understanding and love;
To do all in our power to instill in the
Coming generation the love of the land and
Of life, the humility and awe before nature and
The hope and faith in the future that is inherent
In Cattlemen and Cattlewomen.
Mrs. Willard Sobak, Fairdale, North Dakota
Mrs. Jerry Hemsted, Cottonwood, California
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California CattleWomen Goals
2015-2016
PROMOTE BEEF THROUGH EDUCATION
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Promote beef as safe and nutritious
Educate people of all ages on the benefits of beef in ones diet
Educate the public on how cattle positively impacts the environment
Be prepared to discuss the concerns of farmers and ranchers in the care of
their animals
Engage in social media opportunities to promote beef
PROVIDE MEMBERS WITH KNOWLEDGE AND OPORTUNITIES
 Provide accurate and up-to-date information about the topics that effect
cattle producers and beef consumers.
 Provide information on legislative and political issues so that member may
be proactive.
 Train and empower CattleWomen to educate urban and rural groups,
including youth groups.
PROVIDE OPPORTUNITIES FOR YOUTH EDUCATION AND EXCELLENCE
 provide scholarships the state and local levels
 Offer instruction and hands on learning opportunities by visiting classrooms
and share the ranching way of life
 Sponsor Beef Ambassador Contests
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California Cattlewomen - Past Presidents
Mrs. Carl Carver – Helen
Mrs. Jake Schneider – Jean
Mrs. Jim Owens – Freda
Mrs. J. B. Williams – Nona
Mrs. Frank Giorgi – Florence
Mrs. Russell Peavey – Florence
Mrs. Edison Foulke – Esther
Mrs. Mona Chisholm
Mrs. Jack Probert – Hazel
Mrs. Howard Burton – Milli
Mrs. Jim Bardin – Mary
Mrs. Joe Russell – Chicken
Mrs. Otis Rosasco – Jean
Mrs. Juanita Gardner
Mrs. Gordon Rasmussen - Karen
Mrs. Elbert Wilcox - Dorothy
Mrs. Sterling Rhoades – Rosalie
Mrs. Thorson Bailey – Sharon
Mrs. Leo Fitzgerald - Dorothy
Mrs. Perry Smith - Colleen
Mrs. Roger Erickson - Marylin
Mrs. Vic Lund – Pat
Mrs. Sam Avila – Margaret
Mrs. Bill Barton – Jean
Mrs. John Lacey - Dee
Mrs. Lady Bug Doherty
Mrs. Darrel Sweet – Karen
Mrs. Jerry Hemsted – Joan
Mrs. Bert Johnson – Gretchen
Mrs. John Ahmann - Judy
Mrs. Bill Doss – Merrilee
Mrs. Ken Fowle – Melanie
Mrs. Bill McElroy – Tammie
Mrs. Jeff Bowen - Sheila
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1951 - 1952
1953 - 1954
1955 - 1956
1957 - 1958
1959 - 1960
1961 - 1962
1963 - 1964
1965 - 1966
1967 - 1968
1969 - 1970
1971
1971 - 1972
1973 - 1974
1975 - 1976
1977 - 1978
1979 - 1980
1981 - 1982
1983 - 1984
1985 - 1986
1987 - 1988
1989 - 1990
1991 - 1992
1993 - 1994
1995 - 1996
1997 - 1998
1999 - 2000
2001 - 2002
2003 - 2004
2005 - 2006
2007 - 2008
2009
2010 - 2012
2013 - 2014
2015 - 2016
California CattleWomen
Unit Presidents
2015 - 2016
Alameda
Annie Warner
10620 S. Flynn Road
Livermore, CA 94550
[email protected]
925-449-6048
Glenn/Colusa
Sherry Maltby
P.O. Box 760
Williams, CA 95987
[email protected]
530-473-2830 home; 530-681-5052 cell
Amador/El Dorado/Sacramento
Leslie Joost
P.O. Box 344
El Dorado, CA 95623
[email protected]
530-260-1174
Humbolt
Lauren Sizemore
6888 Mountain View Road
Kneeland, CA 95549
[email protected]
707-496-7480
Butte
Diane Avrit
432 Vance Avenue
Biggs, CA 95917
[email protected]
530-868-1048 home; 530-864-6565 cell
Intermountain
Debbie Bidwell
42770 Bidwell Road
Hat Creek, CA 96040
[email protected]
530-335-3093
Calaveras/Tuolumne
Karen Riley
P.O. Box 444
Murphys, CA 95247
[email protected]
209-728-8866
Kern
Debbie Hay
13915 Ashe Road
Bakersfield, CA 93313
661-487-7754
[email protected]
Fresno/Kings
Kate Horstmann
2124 Ave. 404
Kingsburg, CA 93631
[email protected]
559-259-3512
Lassen
Teri Bertotti
464-950 Old Cutoff Road
Janesville, CA 96114
[email protected]
530-253-7804
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Madera
Stacy Miles
33983 Road 600
Raymond, CA 93653
[email protected]
559-689-3320; 559-760-9532 cell
Placer/Nevada
Beth Casillas
652 Mazzolo Drive
Lincoln, CA 95648
[email protected]
530-575-7400
Mendocino
Kay Beeson
14000 Eel River Road
Potter Valley, CA 95469
No email
707-743-1630
Plumas/Sierra
Kathleen Vignolo-Knight
P.O. Box 1618
Portola, CA 96122
[email protected]
530-832-0395; 209-471-7470 cell
Mid-Valley
Candace Cook Peterson
P.O Box 100
Farmington, CA 95230
[email protected]
209-777-2183 cell; 209-886-5045 fax
San Benito
Jae Eade
4760 Santa Ana Valley Road
Hollister, CA 95023
[email protected]
831-673-3196
Modoc
JoAnn White
P.O. Box 1791
Alturas, CA 96101
[email protected]
530-233-2584; 530-640-2584 cell
San Diego
Janet Tulloch
28383 Hwy 78
Ramona, CA 92065
[email protected]
760-315-3538 cell
Monterey
Marianne Madson
Box 113
San Lucas, CA 93954
[email protected]
831-262-4702
San Joaquin/Stanislaus
Edie Solari
22015 E. Melton Road
Linden, CA 95236
[email protected]
209-887-3519
Napa/Solano
Anna Reed
1301 Milton Road
Napa, CA 94559
[email protected]
707-287-1575
San Luis Obispo
Susan Cochrane
4880 Lamplighter Way
Paso Robles, CA 93446
[email protected]
831-809-6947
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Santa Barbara
Linda Williams
2411 Ironridge Court
Santa Maria, CA 93455
[email protected]
805-925-2416
Tulare
Claudia Guthrie
57 S. Corona Drive
Porterville, CA 93257
[email protected]
559-793-2540; c. 559-788-7576
Santa Clara
Cheryl Beckwith
3261 Tenley Drive
San Jose, CA 95148
[email protected]
[email protected]
408-892-8916
Yuba/Sutter
Bev Tipton
5299 Fruitland Road
Marysville, CA 95901
[email protected]
530-742-5010
Shasta
Dottie Long
13336 Pala Mesa Circle
Redding, CA 96003
[email protected]
530-356-0030
Siskiyou
Sharon Erickson
1325 Holzhauser Lane
Etna, CA 96027
[email protected]
530-467-3536; c. 530-598-6741
Sonoma/Marin
Joyce Doughty
5844 Mathilde Drive
Windsor, CA 95492
[email protected]
707-838-3034
Tehama
Linda Borror
23820 Tehama Avenue
Gerber, CA 96035
[email protected]
530-385-1250; c. 530-624-6566
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Officers, Directors, and Chairmen
2015 - 2016
President
Sheila Bowen
HC 1 Box 10
Glennville, CA 93226
[email protected]
c: 661-201-5572 h: 661-536-8652
Secretary
Paula Francis
3500 Pine Mountain Road
Bakersfield, California 93308
[email protected]
c: 661-203-0883 h: 661-392-9453
1st Vice President
Cheryl Foster
9900 Ager-Beswick Road
Montague, CA 96064
[email protected]
c: 541-601-6954 h: 530-459-3270
Treasurer
Melody Lake
791 Sparrow Drive
Fernley, Nevada 89408
[email protected]
916-835-6025
2nd Vice President (2015)
Anna Reed
1301 Milton Road
Napa, California 94559
[email protected]
707-287-1575
Northern Director
P.O. Box 1618
Portola, CA 96122
[email protected]
530-832-0395 c: 209-471-7470
Rebecca Been
16411 Salmon Bay Court
[email protected]
661-444-5375
Central Director
Millie Krause
8806 Wamble Road
Oakdale, California 95361
209-848-2525 c: 209-985-4409
[email protected]
Leslie Joost
P.O. Box 344
El Dorado, California 95623
[email protected]
530-260-1174
Southern Director
Susan Cochrane
4880 Lamplighter Way
Paso Robles, California 93446
[email protected]
831-809-6947
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Budget
Nadette Raymond
5078 Balls Ferry Road
Anderson, California 96007
[email protected]
530-227-6649
Parliamentarian
Tammie McElroy
11547 N. Musket Road
Marana, AZ 85653
[email protected]
c: 530-518-7787 520-682-5119
Chairwomen
Ag in the Classroom
Debbie Torres
2632 Live Oak Park Road
Fallbrook, California 92029
[email protected]
760-728-6078
By-Laws
Sherry Maltby
P.O. Box 760
Williams, California 95987
[email protected]
530-473-2830 c: 530-681-5046
Beef Ambassador
Jill Bright
1019 Branbury Way
San Jose, California 95133
[email protected]
510-999-2907
Cowbelle of the Year
Amanda Barrett
23500 Walker Basin Road
Caliente, California 93518
[email protected]
c: 661-345-9533 h: 661-867-2511
Beef Promotion
Ann Cochrane
P.O. Box 4653
Paso Robles, California 93447
[email protected]
805-431-7086 805-369-5203
Credentials
Callie Borror
5379 Walnut Drive
Williams, California 95987
[email protected]
530-526-3070
Beef Promotion
For Ag Day at the Capitol
Camille Borba
P.O. Box 1173
Shingle Springs, California 95682
[email protected]
530-957-3441
Legislation
Alicia Bowen
3001 Jack Ranch Road
Glennville, California 93226
[email protected]
805-431-7625
Bayer Beef Promotion and
Education Books
Marsha Stevens
3745McCourtney Road
Lincoln, California 95648
[email protected]
916-717-2866
Membership
Karen Moller
7592 Silver Bridge Road
Palo Cedro, California 96073
[email protected]
530-547-5424
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Memorial Scholarship
Nancy Hawkins
P.O. Box 70
Fiddletown, California 95629
209-245-3541
[email protected]
Website
Julie Barnett
5614 Coronado Street West
[email protected]
661-588-6587
Newsletter
Jean Barton
23446 Volcano Way
Red Bluff, California 95080
[email protected]
530-527-4793
Nominations
Debbie Costa
12359 N. Cadie Road
Lodi, California 95240
[email protected]
209-327-2742
Publicity and Chimes
Jane Cochrane
2001 West Merritt
Hanford, California 93230
[email protected]
559-362-2306
Round-Up
Deb Cockrell
HC 01 Box 11-A
Cedarville, California 96104
[email protected]
530-640-2209
Social Media
Amanda Barrett
23500 Walker Basin Road
Caliente, California 93518
[email protected]
c: 661-345-9533 661-867-2511
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BUILDING ON
CCW President's Roundup Report
This year has been one of challenges and
blessings for our industry. California's extended
drought has tested our fortitude, perseverance, and
management skills. High cattle prices have been a
blessing to cattle producers faced with selling greater
numbers of cattle due to the lack of feed and water
caused by this historical four-year drought. Ranch
families across the state strive to rise to the
challenges the drought has presented and come
through it with their cattle and ranch intact. Through
it all, CattleWomen continue to interact with their
communities through youth development, beef
education, and beef promotion activities.
The California CattleWomen is an organization
built on the strength, foresight, and dedication of past
and present CattleWomen members. Thanks to the vision of ranch women in the 1950’s
we have a state organization that is dedicated to beef promotion, education, and youth
development. Building on that strong foundation, and drawing on the collective strength of
our local units, California CattleWomen is able to accomplish a great deal. “Building on
Strength,” has been the theme for CCW this past year.
In December 2014 and again in June 2015, I attended the California Beef Council
Meetings. At both meetings I was asked to give updates on the activities of the California
CattleWomen. These meetings provided insight into how the California check-off dollars
are spent.
A strong contingent of California CattleWomen attended the Beef Industry
Convention in San Antonio, Texas in February of 2015. Melanie Fowle, from Siskiyou
County, is the ANCW president this year. As ANCW secretary I have participated on the
ANCW Executive Committee and can attest to her dedication and hard work. Judy Ahmann
organized a nice installation reception for Melanie.
Judy Ahmann from Napa/Solano was honored to receive the award of ANCW
Outstanding CattleWoman of the Year at the national convention. Judy has dedicated many
years of service to ANCW and is a worthy selection.
Ann Cochrane organized our spring meeting. It was a joint meeting with California
Women for Ag. We enjoyed the hospitality of the Harris Ranch Inn. Among the speakers
were ag bloggers, a food bank coordinator, Malorie Bankhead from CCA, and the California
Beef Council team. Susan Cochrane, from San Luis Obispo County, discussed a controlled
burn done on their ranch that she was able to do in cooperation with Cal-Fire. We were
given a bus tour of the Harris Feedlot. Dinner included a Saint Paddy's corn beef feast and
several fun games.
A committee was formed at the spring Board of Directors Meeting to update the
CCW By-laws and Policies and Procedures. Sherry Maltby, Cheryl Foster, Karen Moller and
I worked together on conference calls to go through the documents and recommend the
needed changes. The changes were voted in at the Mid-year Meeting. One of the changes
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makes November 15th the deadline for dues to be into the state treasurer and the
membership roster to be into the membership chair.
Leslie Joost, president of Amador, El Dorado, Sacramento CattleWomen and one of
our CCW second vice presidents set up and ran the CCW booth for the 10th Annual
Rangeland Summit.
In February, CCW had a booth at the World Ag Expo in Tulare, California. Over
100,000 people attended this event. Over the course of three days, we took signups for
new members, handed out CBC beef brochures, bumper stickers and gave prizes to those
who played the beef trivia wheel game. We gave away a California Ranch History Book
each day. Kern and Tulare County CattleWomen set up the booth with a theme of, "On the
Ranch or in the City, Beef is Best in the West." CattleWomen from several counties came to
help out in the booth.
Jill Bright and the Santa Clara County CattleWomen organized the California Beef
Ambassador Contest. It was held in San Jose. There were 13 junior and 9 senior
contestants. Angelee Dowling from Siskiyou County was the junior winner and Abby
Grisedale from Kern County was the senior winner. Both are well-spoken and
knowledgeable young ladies. They compete in Denver on September 25 & 26 at the ANCW
National Beef Ambassador Competition. This article is being written prior to this
competition. So I do not know the results. Thank you to Jill and her committee for
organizing this worthwhile day. All of these young people did an excellent job and were
well prepared.
Camille Borba chaired CCW’s participation in the Ag Day at the Capitol event. We
partnered with the California Cattlemen and the Buckhorn Grill to serve tri-tip sandwiches
to the many folks that came by our booth. Visitors left with a packet of beef brochures from
the California Beef Council and a tri-tip sandwich. Congratulations to Camille on the birth
of her baby, Rietta this past summer.
A handful of California CattleWomen attended the ANCW Region VI Meeting in
Tucson, Arizona. A number of our northern California members attended the Region V
Meeting in Oregon. Both meetings had interesting speakers and updates on ANCW
business.
The Mid-year Meeting was held in Sacramento in June. I was honored to attend the
Legislative Breakfast hosted by the CCA. After breakfast we walked as a group over to the
Capitol to visit legislators. Devon Mathis and Jean Fuller welcomed me into their offices. It
was an honor to visit with both of these legislators.
At our Mid-year workshop Melody Lake, Karen Moller, and Marsha Stevens gave
presentations concerning important treasurer information, important membership
information, and how to put together and enter the Bayer Beef Promotion Books.
Angela Mayfield, from Farm Bureau, gave a presentation of beef lesson plans they had
developed and shared an AFBFA website devoted to all of the beef resources created
through the Check-off grant this year! http://www.agfoundation.org/resources/learnabout-beef
Kelsey Cheda, from Lifeline, shared an equine supplement rebate program they are
offering. By passing out Lifeline rebate forms, California CattleWomen could earn funds
based on the number of rebates submitted. Each unit president should have received a
packet of rebate forms.
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In July, I traveled to Denver for the Beef Industry Summer Conference.
Changes are in the works with ANCW. It is an exciting time to be a CattleWoman.
California returned from the Beef Industry Summer Conference with three prestigious
awards. The ANCW Board of Directors Meeting began with the announcement by Brad
Stouwie, from Powder River, that California CattleWomen had won the WIGGY Contest.
This contest measured growth in membership at the state and national level as well as
spotlighting beef promotion and education activities within the state and our participation
at the national level. California’s application was over thirty pages in length with most of it
highlighting the work that is done by the thirty local CattleWomen Units around the state of
California. A big thank you goes out to each unit for all you do within your communities.
Mr. Stouwie was impressed with the extensive amount of work that gets done by California
CattleWomen volunteers.
CCW would like to thank American National CattleWomen and Powder River for the
opportunity to participate in this contest and for the award of the Powder River Calf Table.
It was announced at The Beef Industry Summer Conference in Denver that Barbara
O'Connell, a Glenn/ Colusa CattleWoman, was named the ANCW Outstanding Educator of
the Year, and Glenda Rankin, from Kern County, was named the ANCW Outstanding
Promoter of the Year. Both of these ladies use their ranches as outdoor classrooms to teach
others and promote ranching. Both hosted ANCW “Mom’s Day on the Farm” events at their
ranches in 2014. Their resumes of beef promotion and education efforts are truly
impressive.
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We have a full schedule of activities at this year’s convention. Our workshop will
focus on improving our communication through a better understanding of the technology
we have at our disposal. Constant Contact training and the potential of our website and
Facebook page will be among the presentations. We will also receive a legislative update
from Justin Oldfield. Leadership skills will be polished during our President's Breakfast
with the help of Susie Magnuson, a past ANCW president. We will honor local unit
CattleWomen during our Cowbelle of the Year Luncheon and hear about exciting changes at
the national level, from ANCW president, Melanie Fowle. The Awards Breakfast will be a
fun event. It is here we find out which unit wins the Walt Rodman Award sponsored by
California Beef Council. Our Board of Directors Meeting should be productive as we recap
this past year and set our sites on 2016.
California CattleWomen is growing in membership. Our activities across the state
make a significant impact on our communities. Between the state and local units,
CattleWomen give out over $100,000 in scholarships each year. Classroom visits and
community events see CattleWomen front and center carrying the torch for community
outreach and youth development activities. Telling the story of the beef community is at
the heart of what we do. Thank you to all of the California CattleWomen. Together we
make an outstanding team!
BUILDING ON
C a l i f ornia CattleWomen
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Thoughts from Your ANCW President
California CattleWomen and Cattlemen: thank you
from the bottom of my heart for all of your support
this year during my ANCW presidency. I believe
the Executive Committee, the ANCW Executive,
and I have made some significant changes to our
organization. It will be exciting to see what
improvements they bring.
Summer Convention provided membership the
opportunity to hear Task Force recommendations,
attend a number of Working Group meetings and
network with fellow members.
Now that convention is over, there are plans in place to extend communication and
equip our members. To address the dire need for a value-added ANCW membership,
beginning in September, and on a monthly basis thereafter, a series of educational
webinars will be made available. The first one will focus on veal. A number of states are
asking for officer training, and next year Suzanne Menges will present an interactive,
hands-on President-Elect Workshop. Legislatively, webinar hot topics will include
information on how the legislation will affect women on the ranch, and there will be a list
of facts coming from several of the Ag organizations so women can draw their own
conclusions.
ANCW will continue to participate in NCBA’s “Boots on the Hill” and will be working as a
team with their respective state cattlemen/stock grower organizations.
Following are additional points that came from the Task Force and a brief explanation of
how ANCW hopes to implement them.
Collegiate - Since collegiates are key to the survival of an effective ANCW organization,
Paula Bassett, California, presented a proposal that will begin at the September Beef
Ambassador Contest. There are already plans in place for our collegiates to have many
educational and networking opportunities in San Diego.
Region/Summer Convention - Region Directors were asked to communicate with their
states to obtain membership input on the possibility of either dropping Region meetings
or Summer Convention. Most likely it will be some kind of compromise and not an
either/or outcome. This comes in response to addressing the cost and time away from
ranches. Put on your thinking caps and be willing to offer your creative solutions at
Annual Meeting.
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Leadership - An intern is working on an ANCW Women’s Leadership program, and the
goal is to have something to present to the membership by Annual Convention.
New Look - Kathryn shared the website progress thus far, and there is a need for
family/ranch pictures. A new logo is still being worked on by Brenda Black, Missouri, and
Stephanie LeFleur, Oregon. Ultimately the executive committee will select their three
favorites and put them out to membership for the final selection.
In fundraising, we have something old and something new. Two of the monetary
projects in progress are the completion of the jewelry sales with a big push between
October 1 and December 31. In addition, you'll be hearing more about an envelope
campaign entitled “Renewal of Legacy.”
A big thank-you goes to all seven regions who gathered magnificent packages for
the Silent Auction. What an improvement you made!
To the membership, do not hesitate to text, email, or call me or Kathryn with your
concerns. Our executive committee wants to do what is best for the organization, and
we want your ideas and input.
Melanie's Inaugural Celebration
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Members of the ANCW Executive Committee met in San Francisco at the Native Daughters of the Golden
West Home. Executive Director –Katie Carruth, Region 2 - Emily Dent, Ways and Means - Crystal Walker,
Region 4 – Desta Crawford, Region 5 – Jeannie Kiehn, ANCW President – Melanie Fowle, Vice-President –
Penny Zimmerman, Region 7 – Sharon Gerbig, Parliamentarian – Gwen Geis, Secretary – Sheila Bowen,
President-Elect – Ann Nogan.
American National CattleWomen President Melanie Fowle with National Cattlemen’s Beef
Association President-Elect Tracy Brunner of Kansas and Steve Scott, NCBA VP of Policy from
Tennessee. They attended the Cattle Industry Summer Conference.
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Judy Ahmann of California Awarded
Outstanding CattleWoman of the Year
San Antonio TX. - The American National
CattleWomen, Inc. (ANCW) named Judy Ahmann
the 2014 Outstanding CattleWoman of the Year at
the Annual
Cattle Industry Convention in San Antonio, Texas
in Feruary of 2015.
Purina sponsors this award.
Ahmann has served many important roles
throughout her tenure as a
CattleWoman. She was the President of the
California CattleWomen, an ANCW
Region Director, ANCW Board of Directors and
served on numerous national,
state and local committees. She has been a member for over 40 years. She's
attended more than 10 summer conferences and 20 plus annual conventions.
Her impact on Beef Education is significant. She helped to bring Earth Day beef
lessons to the State and National level.
She truly believes in the need to help “agvocate” about the positive role ranchers
play in the environment.
The strong relationships Ahmann has built with CattleWomen across the
country are impressive. Tammi Didlot, ANCW Past President said, "Judy is a
remarkable person with a wonderful work ethic! Her co-workers (committee)
are always happy to have worked with Judy." Tammie McElroy an ANCW
Region Director and California CattleWoman agreed, stating "Judy's dedication
and devotion to agriculture helped to make many friends throughout the United
States in the beef industry." Melanie Fowle, ANCW President and
fellow California CattleWoman added, "One of the attributes I most admire
about Judy is her ability to sit at the table with a variety of government
agencies and to reach a compromise that is acceptable to both the ranch and
the government."
Ahmann and her husband are 1st generation ranchers in California and Oregon
and are hoping their children and grandchildren will carry on the tradition.
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2015 ANCW Promoter of the Year
Glenda Rankin Kern County, California
Glenda Rankin was named the 2015 ANCW Outstanding Promoter of the Year.
Glenda’s family has the Rankin Ranch in Walker’s Basin. We are so proud of you
Glenda! Thank you for all of your work on behalf of the cattle industry!!
I. Nominee’s Beef Promotion participation
A.
Local:
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Rankin Ranch – Family Business 1971-Present
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Ranch Tour Host for Kern County Annual Teachers’ Ag Seminar 2004-Present
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Kern County CattleWomen Beef Promotion Committee Co-Chair 2005-2007
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Kern County CattleWomen Beef Promotion Committee Member 2007-2012
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Kern County CattleWomen Safe Halloween Committee Chair 2008-Present
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Relocation and Restoration of the Lopez Hill House – April 2008
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Docent for the Lopez Hill House at the Kern County Museum 2008-Present
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2008 Kern County CattleWoman of the Year
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2009 Kern County CattleWoman of the Year Committee Chair
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Range Magazine Article Contributor Winter 2011-2012 Edition
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Kern County CattleWomen Fair Booth Chair 2011-2013
B.
State:
C.
National:
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California Ranch History Book – Kern County Contact
March 2011 California CattleWomen Beef Promotion Meeting – Volunteer
2006 National Beef Ambassador Contest – Attendee
2007 Special Project: “Beef at its Best” recipe card packet
2011 Metropolitan Cooking and Entertainment Show – Washington DC – Volunteer Server
2014 ANCW Region VI Meeting – Volunteer
2014 Mom’s Day on the Farm Hostess – Rankin Ranch
II. CattleWomen Offices Held
A.
Local:
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Kern County CattleWomen Board of Directors 10 Years
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Kern County CattleWomen President 2011-2012
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Kern County CattleWomen Parliamentarian 2013-2014
B.
State:
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Alternate State Delegate from Kern County – Current
Further Explanation of Beef Promotion Participation
Local:
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Rankin Ranch – Family Business 1971-Present
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Glenda has played an active role in the cattle and guest ranch since marrying Bill Rankin in 1971. Rankin Ranch has
been a working cattle ranch for 152 years and open for guests since 1965. The Rankin family enjoys sharing “life on the
ranch” with guests who visit from around the world. This is beef promotion at its best because guests see how beef
cattle are raised while trail riding through the mountain and meadow cattle country, learn about the rich heritage of the
ranch while touring the original ranch house and family cemetery, and have casual conversations with the Rankin
Family. The Rankins provide a copy of Range Magazine in each of their fourteen guest rooms to share the story of the
American West. The articles often spark insightful conversation about the challenges facing cattle ranches.
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Group Luncheons: Rankin Ranch hosts various group luncheons annually. Glenda gives a presentation about the family
history and ranch operations before touring the original ranch house which was built in the 1870’s.
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A Taste of Rankin Ranch Tradition: In 2010 Glenda published a cookbook featuring over a century of family recipes and
history. To date 750 copies of the cookbook have been sold.
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Rankin Ranch an American Story: In 2012 Glenda worked with retired filmmaker, Chuck Barbee, to create a 90 minute
video to commemorate the 150th anniversary of Rankin Ranch. Each of the 4th and 5th generation family members were
interviewed to tell the story of their family history. This video has been shown to hundreds of ranch guests and
community members.
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Rankin Ranch was honored to be selected as one of three family businesses from across the country to be showcased by
Carhartt in celebration of their 125th anniversary. The “teaser” for this project has been viewed nearly 8,000 times on
YouTube and the episode featuring Rankin Ranch was released in May 2015 and has 600 views to date.
Ranch Tour Host for Kern County Annual Teachers’ Ag Seminar 2004-Present
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Rankin Ranch hosts a tour for teachers attending the local Teachers’ Ag Seminar each summer. Teachers get a firsthand
view of life on the ranch to share with their students.
Kern County CattleWomen Beef Promotion Committee Co-Chair 2005-2007
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Developed and ordered custom beef promotion merchandise for the Kern County CattleWomen to sell.
Kern County CattleWomen Beef Promotion Committee Member 2007-2012
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Developed and ordered custom beef promotion merchandise for the Kern County CattleWomen to sell.
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Kern County CattleWomen Safe Halloween Committee Chair 2008-Present
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Annual trick-or-treat event at the Kern County Museum. Nearly 3,000 children attend this event over the course of two
nights. Glenda coordinates Kern County CattleWomen’s participation and has been a primary volunteer for this event.
They receive rave reviews each year for the beef sticks that they hand out. They also give a beef activity brochure to
each child and beef recipe brochure to their parents.
Relocation and Restoration of the Lopez Hill House – April 2008
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Glenda spent years researching the historical significance of her mother’s Victorian style home in hopes of having it
relocated to the Kern County Museum. She found that it was originally built by JJ Lopez in 1909. JJ worked for Tejon
Ranch from 1874-1939, serving as majordomo over their cattle and sheep operations for over 20 of those years. Once
accepted to be moved to the Kern County Museum, she and her sister, Dianne, carried out fundraisers for the needed
funds for the relocation and restoration of the home. They were able to fulfill their late-mother’s dream of having her
home on display at the Kern County Museum while also giving local ranching history a stronger presence. Each year
thousands of museum visitors learn more about the significance that ranching played in early Kern County history while
touring the Lopez Hill House. This project generated significant media coverage by local newspapers and television
stations.
Docent for the Lopez Hill House at the Kern County Museum 2008-Present
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Glenda serves as a docent in the Lopez Hill House for several special events throughout the year including California
History Days and Pioneer Days where approximately 1,000 elementary students tour the house; and the annual
Christmas Lamplight Tours enjoyed by hundreds of Kern County families. When giving tours of the house, Glenda
shares about JJ Lopez’s life on this early day California sheep and cattle ranch which was founded in 1843.
2008 Kern County CattleWoman of the Year
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Glenda was honored by fellow ranchers as the Kern County CattleWoman of the Year. The Bakersfield Californian
newspaper ran an article highlighting her contributions to the cattle industry and over 300 people attended a dinner in
recognition of Glenda and the 2008 Cattleman of the Year, Dwight Mebane. Numerous elected officials attend this
dinner annually and it is a wonderful opportunity for them to hear about the importance of cattle ranching to the local
economy.
2009 Kern County CattleWoman of the Year Committee Chair
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Glenda coordinated the annual dinner honoring the CattleWoman and Cattleman of the Year.
Range Magazine Article Contributor Winter 2011-2012 Edition
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Glenda wrote an article about Alice Rankin Beard for the “Red Meat Survivor” feature in Range Magazine. It told the
story of Alice’s ranching roots in California as well as her experiences running a ranch in West Texas. Alice was a charter
member of the Kern County Cowbelles.
Kern County CattleWomen Fair Booth Chair 2011-2013
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Annual Kern County Fair Attendance 400,000+
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All fair booths had beef recipe brochures available for visitors to take home.
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2011 Fair Booth featured the “Life on a Cattle Ranch from a Child’s Perspective” DVD. Life size posters were made of
each of the ranch children in the video with each sharing a beef fact.
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2012 Fair Booth featured ranch women from historic Kern County ranches. A slideshow with historic photos from each
ranch played on a constant loop. The booth received 1st Place in the community category.
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2013 Fair Booth honored the late Alice Rankin Beard who was a charter member of the Kern County Cowbelles. It
showcased photos from throughout her life and enlargements of her watercolor paintings. There was also a video
telling the story of her life on the ranch. The booth received 1 st Place in the community category and the Sweepstakes
Award for the best booth overall.
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Collected 21 ranch histories, photos, and brands to submit for the California Ranch History Book.
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Created placemats featuring these ranch histories, photos, and brands to be sold as a fundraiser for the Kern
County CattleWomen. Sets of placemats were laminated and given to local restaurants to promote beef. This
project received the Walt Rodman Award from the California Beef Council for excellence in beef promotion.
March 2011 California CattleWomen Beef Promotion Meeting – Volunteer
2007 Special Project: Designed and printed “Beef at its Best” recipe card packet featuring several prize winning recipes from
the National Beef Cook-Off, and National Beef Ambassador Amanda Rankin, and Kern County Cowbelle charter member, Alice
Rankin Beard’s, century old ranch history and western art. Money raised by sales of these recipe packets funded Kern County
CattleWomen’s participation in many beef promotion activities including Platinum Sponsorship of the Kern County Teachers’
Ag Seminar. This project received the Walt Rodman Award from the California Beef Council for excellence in beef promotion.
2011 Metropolitan Cooking and Entertainment Show – Washington DC – Volunteer Server
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Rankin Ranch’s 2012 Spring Newsletter included a story about Glenda and her daughter, Rebecca’s,
experience at the Metropolitan Cooking and Entertainment Show. This newsletter, along with the recipe
brochure featuring prize winning recipes from the 2011 Beef Cook-Off (printed by Beef Checkoff), was sent to
nearly 3,000 past Rankin Ranch guests.
2014 ANCW Region VI Meeting – Volunteer
2014 Mom’s Day on the Farm Hostess – Rankin Ranch
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2015 ANCW Outstanding Educator of the Year
It was announced at The Beef Industry
Summer Conference in Denver, Colorado that Barbara
O'Connell, a Glenn/ Colusa Cattlewoman, was named
the 2015 ANCW Outstanding Educator of the Year.
Barbara and her husband, Dan, own the O’Connell
Ranch in Colusa County where they raise purebred
Angus cattle and farm.
Barbara was an elementary school teacher for 38
years bringing agriculture and beef education into the
classroom daily. Glenn/Colussa CattleWomen
frequently did presentations for her students. She
continues to offer her family's ranch as a hands-on, openair classroom where both children and adults, teachers in training, and fellow
ranchers can come to learn.
Barbara has been the committee chair for Ag in the Classroom and Beef
Promotion for the Glenn/Colusa CattleWomen. She exemplifies the fine traits seen
in so many CattleWomen. She is hardworking, with a desire to serve her community
and share her love of the land and her way of life. She and her husband support
youth development through the 4-H and FFA and with youth visits to the ranch.
The O’Connells have a fruit stand on their ranch; it is open from July to
December. There are numerous pamphlets, recipes, and information promoting
beef available for visitors to take home. This year they had three different preschool
groups come for a visit and tour. Their favorite thing was to see the new calves,
which were being born at that time. The Colusa County Farm Bureau Ag in the
Classroom Teacher Training held a session at their ranch as well. The local Master
Gardeners have held meetings at the ranch on many occasions.
In preparing for the ANCW "Mom's Day on the Farm" event at her family's
ranch last summer, she put forth great effort to insure that the "Moms" had an
exceptional, unforgettable experience. The women were given a tour of their beef
operation, fruit stand, and learned more about beef barbequing. She continues to
invite folks out to the ranch throughout the year to learn more about agriculture and
how their beef is raised. In October high school students came out to the ranch to
learn more about occupations in agriculture.
Barbara's CattleWomen activities at the local level highlight how important it
is to have her in the national organization. She is an outstanding example of the
Cattlewomen’s grass roots work of educating the public through face-to-face
conversations in a welcoming and non-confrontational way. Barbara is exemplary
in her efforts and is very deserving of this award.
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California Beef Ambassador
Competition
Youth spokespeople from throughout the state
participated in the 2015 California Beef
Ambassador contest on April 25, 2015. The
contest was organized by CCW, California Beef
Council and hosted by Santa Clara County
CattleWomen. The purpose of the contest is to
give California youth an opportunity to learn
about the importance of the beef industry, hone
their public speaking skills and ultimately become
youth spokespeople for the beef industry.
Our Senior Beef Ambassador is Abby Grisedale,
Kern Co; attending Oklahoma State University in
Stillwater, OK majoring in Animal Science and
Business. She is fifth generation of the Grisedale
Ranch, Granite Station, CA. She was CA Jr Beef
Ambassador in 2011.
Congratulations to: CA Jr Beef Ambassador Angelee
Dowling, Siskiyou Co., and Sr. Beef Ambassador
Abbie Grisedale, Kern Co.
Other senior contestants were Morgan Lyman, Amador/El Dorado/Sacramento; Loren
Benedict, Butte; Cheyenne Wallace, Humboldt; Sonia Del Toro, Placer/Nevada; Tanya
Enlow, San Diego; Marissa Smith, Santa Clara; Valeriana (Valley) Urricelqui, Shasta;
Hayley Daae, Siskiyou; Danielle Mueller, Tehama.
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The 2015 Junior Beef Ambassador is Angelee Dowling, Siskiyou County. Other juniors are
Ashley Porter, Alameda; Taylor Mackay, Butte; Katelyn Priddy, Kern; Samantha Carver,
Kern; Catharine Renner, Placer/Nevada; Cody Anderson, Placer/Nevada; Ilona Mauro,
Santa Clara; Kiely Rose Phillips, Santa Clara; Katie Boynton, Santa Clara; Wyatt Wolfe,
Santa Clara; Adam Blalock, Shasta; Emyli Palmer, Tehama; Kayla McGriffin, Tehama
County.
CCW Coordinator for this year’s contest was Jill Bright. Judges were Julie Kasberger,
General Services Director for East Side Union High School District. Malorie Bankhead,
National Beef Ambassador 2010 and Director of Communications for California Cattlemen’s
Association. Jill Scofield, Director of Producer Relations for California Beef Council. Kim
Yarris, Editor Special Sections for Davis Enterprise Newspaper. Peter Roney, CBS News in
Sacramento producer, editor for feature and investigative reporting. Sarah DeForest,
California State University, Chico.
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Angelee Dowling
From Siskiyou County Wins the
National Junior Beef Ambassador
Contest
Angelee Dowling from Siskiyou County and Abby Grisedale from
Kern County represented California at the National Beef Ambassador
Contest in Denver. The contest is put on by American National
CattleWomen. Sixteen-year-old Angelee Dowling was chosen as the
winner of the junior division earning her the title of National Junior Beef
Ambassador.
There were thirty-two contestants in all: nine juniors and twentythree seniors. Both of the California girls did an outstanding job. Jill
Bright, chairwoman of the California Beef Ambassador Contest, and the
contestants’ mothers, Christina Dowling and Kellie Grisedale, accompanied
the girls.
There were four segments to the competition: issues response, education and
outreach, consumer demonstration, and media interview. Of the senior contestants, five were
chosen to be on the National Beef Ambassador Team; they are
Mackenzie Kimbro - Arizona, Lauren Schlothauer - New Mexico, Hannah Nave - Tennessee,
Ashytn Shrewsbury - Nebraska and Kylee Sigmon - Arkansas.
California is so proud of Abby and Angelee. Both of these young ladies trained hard
and put in a lot of hours preparing for this national competition. We look forward to them
representing the beef industry in the months and years ahead. Once a Beef Ambassador
always a Beef Ambassador!
All BEEF Ambassador Contestants at the
National Contest in Denver, Colorado
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BEEF PROMOTION
On March 14, 2014 over 170 California CattleWomen and California Women for Ag
(CWA) met at Harris Ranch Inn and Restaurant for CattleWomen’s Annual Beef Promotion
Meeting.
The morning started with Jenny Holtermann, CWA member and “Almond Girl”, sharing
with the group her story through social media and in particular her blog
www.yousayalmondisayalmond.blogspot.com. Jenny grew up on her family’s almond and
walnut farm in Chico where her family has been farming since the early 1900s.
As the day moved along Sarah Ramirez PhD, MPH, MA, is the executive director for
FoodLink for Tulare County joined us. In 2012 she and her husband co-founded
BeHealthyTulare, a grass-roots collective. The daughter of Mexican farm workers, Sarah and
her siblings witnessed their parents, family and friends work long hours in the fields and suffer
from chronic illnesses often resulting in premature death and chronic suffering. These
experiences ignited Sarah’s passion for understanding the conditions for these disparities and
motivate her work for creating healthy communities. BeHealthyTulare takes a multigenerational popular education and participatory approach to create an environment that
makes equitable health possible for everyone. Through BeHealthyTulare Sarah teaches in their
local community garden, offers hands-on culinary education, leads group fitness, and gleans
excess produce from farms and backyards that is donated to FoodLink and disseminated
throughout the County. Through BeHealthyTulare, Sarah and her husband offer young people
an opportunity to practice their leadership and compassion as role models who give back to
their community. Sarah has been recognized by MORE magazine as one of the 50 most
inspirational women, she received the UC Berkeley Thomas Yamashita Prize for social change,
and she has been featured as a CNN hero.
Many CattleWomen played a role is a very successful day! Brooke Behlen, Meet your
Beef, walked us through her blog and challenged us to, “Beef Up our Social Media Interaction”.
Susan Cochrane provided a glimpse into her cattle operation and rangeland management
practices. She showcased the benefits of prescribed burns to the rangeland, creating natural
barriers to hold water and allowing cattle to graze, and in turn terrace, steep hillsides. Celeste
Settrini talked about what success as a group means and encouraged us to share our story! No
one else knows our story better than us; as the experts we need to share that story. Debbie
Torres shared a number of helpful Ag In the Classroom lessons and props CatteWomen and
CWA members.
Conference attendees were all impressed with the tour provided by Tucker Knutz,
Commodities Manager at Harris Feeding Company. Tucker bravely talked the 174 women
through the feedyard and boy were they impressed. The Harris Ranch entrance sign states,
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“Quality cattle proudly raised to the highest standard”, that was demonstrated throughout the
feedlot tour. Many of the ladies on board couldn’t believe the amount of steers that come
from the dairy industry to supply the feedyard.
A number of the ladies were impressed with the Country Store at Harris Ranch and were
quick to pick-up a copy of NinaTeicholz’s book, The Big Fat Surprise: Why Butter, Meat & Cheese
Belong in a Healthy Diet. We recommend that everyone take Judy Ahmann’s lead and purchase
copies for school boards and dignitaries alike.
The 2016 Spring Meeting will be returning to Harris Ranch March 11 th – 13th!
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2015
Cattlewoman of the Year
Each year an outstanding woman is chosen in each unit.
ALAMEDA
AMADOR-ELDORADO-SACRAMENTO
BUTTE
CALAVERA-TUOLUMNE
FRESNO-KINGS
GLENN- COULUSA
HUMBOLT
INTERMOUNTAIN
KERN
LASSEN
MADERA
MENDOCINO
MID-VALLEY
MODOC
MONTEREY
NAPA–SOLANO
PLACER-NEVADA
PLUMAS-SIERRA
SAN BENITO
SAN DIEGO
SAN JOAQUIN-STANILAUS
SAN LUIS OBISPO
SANTA BARBARA
SANTA CLARA
SHASTA
SISKYOU
SONOMA-MARIN
TEHAMA
TULARE
YUBA-SUTTER
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DANA RIVINIUS
SHAMARIE TONG
NONE
LINDSAY ROSASCO-MATTOS
BRENDA ARMSTRONG
BARBARA O’CONNELL
ANI KNIGHT
DEBBIE BIDWELL
JULIE BARNETT
LEONA PARKER
FRANKIE LETOURNEAU
NONE
JUDY ELAM
BETTY COCKRELL
SHIRLEY RASMUSSEN
NONE
MAXINE DACOSTA
MARJORIE LOGAN
MARTHA TOBIAS
NONE
EDITH SOLARI
LORRAINE CAGLIERO
SUE BENECH FIELD & KATHI CARLSON
CHERYL BECKWITH
DOTTIE LONG
HEIDI MARTIN
EILEEN O’FARRELL
CHARLENE PRIEST
CLAUDIA GUTHRIE
MEGAN OSBOURN
The year each unit was
established
Name of Unit
Year Established
ALAMEDA
AMADOR-ELDORADO-SACRAMENTO
BUTTE
CALAVERA-TUOLUMNE
FRESNO-KINGS
GLENN- COULUSA
HUMBOLT
INTERMOUNTAIN
KERN
LASSEN
MADERA
MENDOCINO
MID-VALLEY
MODOC
MONTEREY
NAPA–SOLANO
PLACER-NEVADA
PLUMAS-SIERRA
SAN BENITO
SAN DIEGO
SAN JOAQUIN-STANILAUS
SAN LUIS OBISPO
SANTA BARBARA
SANTA CLARA
SHASTA
SISKYOU
SONOMA-MARIN
TEHAMA
TULARE
YUBA-SUTTER
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How Old
1951
1949
1955
1952
1956
1960
1955
1955
1948
1962
1952
64
66
60
63
59
55
60
60
67
53
63
2014
1965
1962
1952
1964
1966
1954
1953
1953
1956
1954
1949
1961
1955
1958
1953
1949
1
50
53
63
51
49
61
62
62
59
61
66
54
60
57
62
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CCW/Heritage Foundation Memorial Scholarship Report 2015
As of July 30 the CCW Heritage Foundation has received $1330. in donations for 2015.
A special thank you to Ken and Melanie Fowle, Phillip and Judith George, the Alameda
Cattlewomen, the Glen/Colusa Cattlewomen, Jerry and Sherry Maltby, Jeff and Sheila Bowen,
the California Cattlewomen, Darrel and Karen Sweet, Jean Rosasco, Margaret Duflock, the
Napa/Solano Cattlewomen, the Shasta County Cattlewomen, the Fresno/Kings Cattlewomen,
Marilyn Hope, and the Mid Valley Cattlewomen for their generous donations.
These donations were given in memory of Pat Martin, Gay Felkins, Lois Walker, Florence
Curry, James Danekas, Glorietta Alvernaz, Gretchen Johnson and Peggy Rocha.
We receive an annual donation of $100. From the Alameda Cattlewomen.
Our Scholarship winners this year are Katie Roberti from Cal Poly, a Junior studying Ag.
Communications; Samantha Werth from UC Davis is in her first year of her Phd program with
an emphasis on sustainable intensification of Beef production; Jennie Mullen was chosen as the
UC Chico recipient and is a Senior in Ag. Education and Science; and the Fresno State winner is
Kelsie Raulino. She is majoring in Ag. Business and is an intern with Farm Credit.
Again this year we had no response from Cal Poly Pomona. In 2016 we will be opening up this
scholarship to include other colleges including students in their second year at Junior Colleges
with Ag. studies.
I would like to thank our college contacts, Mary Carter for UC Davis, Dana Lund for Cal Poly
SLO, Julie Barnett for Cal Poly Pomona, Diane Avrit for UC Chico and Brooke Pruitt for Fresno
State. Their help in this process is vital to it’s success.
A special thank you also to Sherry Maltby for the wording change in our By Laws and to Millie
Krause for your input.
Respectfully Submitted,
Nancy Hawkins
CCW/Heritage Foundation Scholarship Chairman
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Legislative Report
Below is a short list of bills that CCA has taken or will take a position on in the coming weeks as committee
hearings get underway. This is only a partial list of bills that CCA has taken a position on. For additional
information, or if you have questions about the status of legislation not identified below, please do not hesitate to
contact Justin Oldfield in the CCA office.
CCA Currently Supports:
AB 142 (Bigelow) – Wild and scenic rivers: Mokelumne River
This bill follows an effort that was defeated by Senator Tom Berryhill, Assemblymember Frank Bigelow, CCA and
other stakeholders last year to list the Mokelumne River as wild and scenic. This bill serves to preempt any future
attempts to list the Mokelumne River as wild and scenic by requiring the Natural Resources Agency to complete a
report demonstrating that current and future water supply needs can still be met if the river is listed, which
ultimately can’t be done.
AB 290 (Bigelow) – Game mammals: Big Game Management Account
This bill would eliminate the requirement of an individual tag for each feral hog that is legally taken and instead
allow hunters to purchase an annual “validation” that will allow them to take an unlimited number of feral hogs for
that given year. Provisions related to depredation permits for feral hogs will remain unchanged. This bill is likely to
become a “two-year” bill.
AB 732 (Cooper) – Cattle inspection: exemption
This bill specifically exempts a brand inspection for a business seeking to add a minority owner. This is largely not a
beef cattle issue because new owners are typically added to registered brands, but it has caused unnecessary brand
inspections for some dairies resulting in thousands of dollars in fees. The bill does not negatively impact state brand
laws for the beef industry.
AB 1242 (Gray) – Water quality: impacts on groundwater basins – mitigation measures
This legislation would require a Groundwater Management Agency, under the Sustainable Groundwater
Management Act, to first properly mitigate any reductions in groundwater pumping associated with the development
of mandatory instream surface water flows.
AB 1249 (Lackey) – Vehicles: motor carriers *CCA SPONSORED
CCA continues to work with CHP and members of the legislature to find solutions to the permitting, license and
regulatory issues that ranchers face for operating flatbeds and common pickup and gooseneck trailer combinations to
haul livestock. This bill is a spot bill, and if a solution can be reached prior to the house of origin deadline, this bill
can be used to advance that solution legislatively this year.
AB 1390 (Alejo) – Groundwater: adjudication
This bill establishes a streamlined adjudication procedure for those who seek to delineate their groundwater rights
through the court if they believe their rights are threatened by a Groundwater Management Agency once the
Sustainable Groundwater Management Act is fully implemented. Adjudicating water rights is a long process, but the
courts can provide better due process if groundwater pumping rates are challenged by a Groundwater Management
Agency.
SB 138 (Fuller) – Physical education: high school rodeo
This bill will allow a student participating in high school rodeo events to be exempt from their physical education
requirements similar to what is offered for other recognized sports.
CCA Currently Opposes:
SB 20 (Pavley) – Wells: reports – public availability
This bill will authorize a public agency to release private well logs, adulteration permits or deepening permits to the
public upon request. CCA has opposed this bill in the past and has been successful in defeating it.
SB 32 (Pavley) – California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006: emissions limits
This bill extends the life of AB 32 (Nunez), passed in 2006, and will require that California achieve an 80 percent
reduction in greenhouse gas emissions relative to levels documented in 1990. Regulations associated with AB 32
have been harmful to state businesses and SB 32 only seeks to continue that legacy, if not increase regulatory
burdens.
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2015 Newsletter
- Jean Barton, Chairman
This committee offers its warmest thanks to all the units who have sent in complete and correct
memberships reports, and to Karen Moller, state Membership Chair, many thanks. We hope
each unit will include member phone numbers and e-mail addresses as well as mailing addresses.
The Newsletter has been printed since 1963, with three mailings a year. Through this media the
general membership has been kept informed on all issues of importance acted upon by the Board
of Directors, and information on coming meetings. Those with email also receive additional
news about ANCW and CCW.
Thanks to Tehama County CattleWomen members Shirley
Davis, Marge Kutz, Linda Walker, Carol Enos, Ruth Flory,
Laurel Walker, Joyce Bundy, Linda Borror, Kelly
Mouton, Jere Hale, Jackie Baker, Irene Fuller, Tammy
Chrisler, Jacqueline Leininger, for helping at the “lickem
‘n stickem” meeting when we put on the address labels and
the 49 cent US Postage stamp. These talented ladies have
the 1900 plus newsletters ready to mail within two hours,
plus having a delightful visit. We use first class postage in
order to have the newsletters returned, if an incorrect
address was given to our membership chair.
January issue included Nugget convention report with CowBelles of the Year, Bayer Beef
Education & Promotion scrapbook, Membership, Ag in the Classroom, Walt Rodman Beef
Promotion winners. Spring Beef Promotion meeting information. World Ag Expo ad. A
directory of CCW officers, directors, committee chairs and county presidents with address, email
and phone number was included.
May issue included March Board of Directors report… CCW was represented at ANCW
convention in San Antonio with Melanie Fowle elected as ANCW President, Sheila Bowen
Secretary. First president from California since 1972. Judy Ahmann was recognized as ANCW
Outstanding CattleWoman of Year. Photos for Ag Day at the Capital, World Ag Expo. By-Laws
to be voted upon. In Memoriam, Gretchen Johnson, CCW President 2005-06.
September issue included June Board of Directors minutes, California Beef Ambassador
competition with 24 contestants. Senior is Abby Grisedale, Kern Co; Junior Beef Ambassador is
Angelee Dowling, Siskiyou County. ANCW summer meeting. Denver. California won the
WIGGY contest, a Powder River calf chute; ANCW Outstanding Promoter was Glenda Rankin,
Kern Co; ANCW Outstanding Educator Barbara McConnell, Glenn/Colusa Co. Photos from
ANCW Region V and VI. Convention agenda and registration information at the Nugget,
Sparks, NV.
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2015 ROUND-UP CHAIRMAN REPORT
Wow…..I am in Aww of what California Cattlewomen have accomplished this year, especially on the national
level.
I truly enjoy and appreciate all the ladies that worked so hard to get their reports and additional information
to me. I know it all comes due at a busy time of year. Thank you, Jean Barton and CCW Pres. Sheila Bowen
for your efforts to get additional photos and info to me.
It is my suggestion that if you are on facebook, “LIKE” each county unit’s page that has one. Everyone
should “LIKE” the California Cattlewomen’s facebook page as well as being a friend with Jean Barton on
facebook. I found that helps to get announcements out the best, along with e-mail.
Only one county was unable to provide a Round-Up report which was Mendocino. I look forward to them
next year for a complete booklet.
The cost of the round-up this year is approximately $10.84 per book for 100 books totaling $1083.60. It is
100 pages this year, several more than last year. We had more counties participate and several counties
had lots to report. Also to keep the pages in an even number it left blank page at the back which I filled with
unit recipes. I hope this is a positive addition to the round-up. Also new this year I added the page to show
when each unit was established. I only had 2 units unable to get that information to me.
An electronic version is also available to anyone who wants to share with your unit. It is my suggestion that
we use this method as well. It will also be on the CCW web-site the first day of convention. It has also been
backed up on our archive thumb drive, as well as on file with the printers.
I have been asked to stay on and finish up my last year as Round-up Chairman for CCW in 2015 - 2016. As
well as going in as 2nd Vice President. I look forward to working with all of you and if you have any
suggestions always feel free to call or e-mail me: 530-640-2209 or [email protected]
Thank you,
Debra Cockrell, ( Modoc )
CCW Round-Up Chairman 2013-2016
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Alameda County CattleWomen
1951 to Present
2015 Round-Up Report
President
Vice President
Secretary
Treasurer
Historian
Parliamentarian
Annie Warner
Michelle Sweet
Joan Madsen
Kim Bonde
Joan Jess
Dana Rivinius
Directors:
Barbara Anderson
Polly Stonich
Melinda Koopmann
Scootie Castello
P. O. Box 97
Livermore, CA
94550
Alameda County CattleWomen
Alameda County was off to a positive start with a booth at Cowboy Hootenanny
sponsored by East Bay Regional Parks. There were kids and adults alike at our booth throughout
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the day. Barbara Anderson was tireless answering questions,
helping with the leather stamping
activity, and passing out pamphlets and jerky samples. It was especially rewarding when
Allison Batteate confidently educated one vegan by asking her about the use of specific items in
her daily lifestyle. The vegan did not realize the positive impact of beef by-products on her life.
Nancy Mueller developed a sustainable lesson plan and visited several elementary
classrooms presenting their educational program skit. While Nancy were educating the younger
kids, Annie Warner teemed with three local high schools to provide culinary program instructors
with nutritional information about beef and funds to purchase beef for use in their culinary
classes.
ACCW was fairly quiet during the holidays with members busy with family, calving, and
branding; however, once spring arrived we were back in high gear. In March we selected our
Junior Beef Ambassador, Ashley Porter. Ashley represented Alameda County at the State Beef
Ambassador competition and while she didn’t win, we were extremely proud of her knowledge
and presentation at the state competition.
An Ag Adventure Day was coordinated by several of our CattleWomen and supported by
many of our members. Over 900 people mostly Third graders visited the Livermore High School
Farm to see cattle, sheep, sheep shearing, bees, old west camp, roping demonstrations and local
crops such as olives and pistachios. From the Ag Adventure Day we galloped to the Livermore
Rodeo—“the fastest rodeo in California” which is another of our annual fundraisers. We served
Joe’s Special and other goodies at a Rotary breakfast, BBQ tri-tip lunch to a different Rotary
club, wrapping and selling 4,000 all beef hot dogs on Family Night, and providing breakfast and
lunch to volunteers and rodeo contestants. It was a crazy week!
We had a few days to catch our breath before it was time to construct our Alameda
County Fair booth. The theme of the fair was Rock the Red, White and Blue. Many Beef
promotional pamphlets were distributed. Then we assisted the Cattlemen with the preparation
and serving of the Cattlemen’s BBQ. The fair kept everyone busy--especially those members
who were also showing cattle.
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Also in June Joan Madsen and Michelle Sweet coordinated an awesome Beef
Advertisement that ran on five buses in the Tri-Valley Area for several months, reaching over a
million people. The end of July we participated in the Day of a Cowboy.
September is here and we are very pleased to select Dana Rivinius as our 2015 Cowbelle
of the Year. Dana was born in Arcata, California in a farming, ranching, and logging community
where she was raised on a dairy. Dana has served as ACCW Secretary, Treasurer, Vice
President and President. Congratulations to Dana on this honor.
Plans for October include a Beef is King Cooking Contest, a beef promotional display
and Agriculture in the classroom to about 4000 plus children, parents and teachers at Joan’s
Farm and Pumpkin Patch. A window display at Cow Palace is planned as well as helping with
the Cattlemens Day BBQ.
CattleWomen donate their time and energy because we believe in the importance of
promoting agriculture and the beef industry. I wish to send a special thank you to all the ladies
of ACCW who have spent untold hours over the last year in this very worthwhile endeavor.
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Amador-El Dorado-Sacramento Cattlewomen
President —Leslie Joost
Vice Pre—Camille Borba
Secretary—Shamarie Tong
Treasure—Jeannie Varozza
Wow, this year has flown by so fast. January was when the new officers took over the
reins. We talked about the upcoming year and what we wanted to accomplished.
Feb: We were invited to Cooper Winery in Plymouth, Calif to share our BEEF story. We
talked about Beef By Products, the care that we give our animals and handed out Beef
Pamphlets. Shamarie, Nancy and Leslie were their to help.
March: We were honored to cook up again for the Cattlemen’s Jackpot show in Plymouth.
Friday we served a spaghetti
supper . On Saturday and Sunday we had breakfast then Tri– Tip sandwiches, homemade
salads. This is one of our fundraisers for Scholarships. Thank you Jill Curran you ROCK!!!!!
Also Shamarie and Leslie went into Oak Ridge High School to discuss BEEF and great
recipes. Nancy, Cindy and Leslie attended the Spring meeting at Harris Ranch. What a
wonderful time was had by all.
April: We were again invited back to the Cooper Winery to talk about BEEF. There were
over 1500 wine tasters that day. Leslie held the fort handing out BEEF flyers, bumper
stickers.
May: This was a very busy month for us. Starting out at the EL Dorado Farm Day @ the
EL Dorado Fairgrounds. There were over 1800 3rd grade students. Kelly Bridges and Leslie
ramrodded this day. They shared BEEF By-Products with the students. Then we held our
1st Trail Horse Clinic. Ry Olsen was the trainer for the day. He had them work through
different obstacles for the horses and riders as well. They were treated to a wonderful Beef
Lunch . We had 20 participants and this was such a wonderful program which we hope to
have it back next year again. A BIG shout our and THANK YOU to Nancy Hawkins for
bringing this all together. Memorial weekend found us at the Sacramento County Fair. What
a wonderful opportunity to share our BEEF story with everyone. On Thurs and Friday was
Ag day for the students. Shamarie and Leslie talked with the kids about BEEF By-Products.
When the kids bring their parents back over the weekend to the booth to show them what
they learned. Priceless. There were over 3000 students on those two days. Thanks Ladies for
stepping up. Then Leslie headed back to Oak Ridge High School to be a judge for the Iron
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Chef cooking contest. We always donate BEEF for the contest.
June: Time to head to Sacramento for our CCA/CCW mid year meeting. Now let’s get ready
for fair time. This month found us at the El Dorado County Fair. The theme was Hog Days
of Summer. We had 3 pigs holding signs that said EAT MOREBEEF. We were honored to
win a Blue ribbon. We had many pamphlets and bumper stickers.
July: This was our special month for the AES Cattlewomen. We received our Little RED
BARN!!!! Thanks again Nancy Hawkins for stepping up and getting this done. The barn
was delivered 2 weeks before the fair. Nancy and Leslie with Paintbrushes in hand made it
look Beautiful. We were so excited to have it there to share all about BEEF. Also another
Blue ribbon for the Booth and also a Blue for the Shade Garden. The theme was Country
Tunes and Midway Blooms. We are also very proud of our Beef Ambassador contestant
Morgan Lyman she was crowned the Amador County Rodeo Queen.
August: Getting ready for our upcoming months.
Sept: We will be attending Ag Farm day in Lake Tahoe and also be attending Amador
County Ag Day.. This year was our year for sharing BEEF By-Products.
We have so many wonderful things coming up in the fall. We are planning a wonderful
Dinner-Dance and Auction in
October . The proceeds will be going to our Scholarship
Fund and Beef Promotion.
This has been such a wonderful year with these ladies. Very proud to be a part of them.
We also had the pleasure of giving our $6000.00 in scholarship this year to 5 students.
Respectfully submitted,
Leslie Joost, President
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2014 -2015 CCW ROUNDUP REPORT
BUTTE COUNTY CATTLEWOMEN
432 VANCE AVENUE
BIGGS CA 95917
PRESIDENT
1ST VICE PRESIDENT
2ND VICE PRESIDENT
SECRETARY
TREASURER
32 MEMBERS
DIANE AVRIT
PAULA HOLDEN
ANDREE’ EARLEY
BELINDA STARR
DIANA SHERWOOD
DIRECTORS: SHARON OPENSHAW, LA NELL LITTLE, BELINDA STARR, SARAH DE FOREST,
ANDREE’ EARLEY
Ag in the Classroom: We participate in Butte County Farm City Celebration. We do a “Create a
Cow project. Third grade teachers have a choice of doing a poster or creating a cow from a
wooden frame (a saw horse with a board for a head attached). Each Teacher is given a folder
with information on By Products, Branding, Nutrition and other livestock information. The
“Cows and or Posters”, were judged by Butte County CattleWomen and monetary awards are
given. By participating in the “Create A Cow” project the teacher is entitled to bring her class to
“Kids Day at the Farm”. At “Kids Day at the Farm, BCCW do 10 to 16 presentations on Beef By
Products and also have a center to show livestock items such as saddles, branding equipment,
ropes, etc. The children have the opportunity to sit on the saddles and rope a dummy steer
head. We also participated in the Farm City Celebration Harvest Festival. This event is held on
the Bidwell Mansion grounds. The CattleWomen used the Livestock question wheel, gave out
Beef information and had saddles and roping for the children.
Fund Raising: We held a silent auction in conjunction with the Cattlemen’s / CattleWomen’s
Red Meat Dinner. Each member is asked to donate an item for this auction. We also used
Brand Mugs as a fund raiser this year.
Fair Participation: We donate silver trays to the Champion 4-H and FFA steers at both the
Silver Dollar Fair and the Butte County Fair.
Other Participation: We participated in Ag Day on Campus at CSUC. We talked about
branding and gave information to each class so the teachers could have the students make their
own brands.
Scholarships: We gave two $500.00 scholarships to graduating seniors in Butte County.
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Calaveras Tuolumne County Cattle Women (CTCW)
P.O. Box 444, Murphys, CA 95247
2015 Round Up Report
President:
Vice-President:
Secretary:
Treasurer:
Members:
Directors: Gwen Harris
Karen Ross
Sherri Smith
Marcia Whittle
Karen Riley
Doni Rosasco
Marilyn Hope
Lindsay Mattos
28 regular, (includes 6 ANCW) and 7 local
CowBelle of the Year: Lindsay (Rosasco) Mattos
Activities
Scholarships: Each year we work with local high school career counselors to consider applications
from outstanding seniors pursuing degrees in AG related fields which support our beef industry. This
year three such individuals received a $500 scholarship.
Beef Promotion: CTCW’s Riding Group participated in four parades, handing out BEEF bumper
stickers at each event. Riders also donated to the Toy Drive when riding in Columbia’s Christmas
Parade. 1,500 Beef bumper stickers were given out at each parade and they received 1st Place awards
riding in the Almond Festival parade in Ripon, and the MotherLode Round Up parade in Sonora.
The Spring Home and Garden Show held at the fairgrounds in Sonora was well attended with over 100
vendors and up to 15,000 attendees. Our booth featured a drawing to win a cookbook and an “I Love
BEEF” insulated grocery bag which brought people to our table, and allowed members the opportunity
to answer their questions and hand out beef information and recipes.
“Taste of Calaveras” presented at CAMPS restaurant in Angels Camp, is an outdoor food and wine
event attracting about 300-400 local and urban attendees. Members set up a western-themed table
displaying beef brochures, recipes and offering samples of our tried-and-true-100% beef meatballs,
which bring rave reviews and keep people coming back for more. This event has been a great
opportunity to meet non-ranching consumers and answer a variety of questions about beef from pasture
to plate.
County Fairs: Beef information and recipes were presented in an exhibit at the Calaveras County Fair
and Jumping Frog Jubilee in May. Tuolumne County’s MotherLode Fair exhibit garnered a 1st place
award in July. We support both Fairs’ County Bred Beef Champions by presenting them a show blanket
and monetary award.
Ag in the Classroom: “Field Day on the Farm” is held each October for all third grade students in
Tuolumne County. Students rotate through stations where local farmers & ranchers teach them about
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the agriculture in their county. The “Beef Cattle” station features information ranging from what cattle
eat to beef by-products. A hands-on activity of paint branding a paper “cow” is always a big hit with the
classes.
Several of our members helped with the CFAITC “Imagine this…” Essay Contest by serving as judges
for stories that were entered in our region.
Other: For the second year, members got together to sign over 1,000 Christmas cards for the troops.
Fundraisers: We held our first annual yard sale in October with profits going to our scholarship fund.
In March, the sandwich booth at the Steer Show at the Calaveras fairgrounds provided tasty tri-tip
sandwiches and fixin’s for attendees and helped support our yearly activities. This year we had the
unique opportunity to provide breakfast and lunch for a two-day California Rodear Reata held at the
Calaveras fairgrounds. All the planning and hard work paid off in profits as well public awareness of
our Cattlewomen’s organization, both local and state.
CTCW Reata crew (L to R) Karen Riley, Kathy Scutt, Karen Ross, Marilyn Hope, Doni Rosasco,
Marcia Whittle, Gwen Harris
Karen Riley,
CTCW President
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Round- Up Report 2015
Fresno-Kings Counties CattleWomen
P.O. Box 104
Sanger, Ca 93657
Officers:
President: Kate Horstmann
Vice President: Jane Cochrane
Secretary: Jana Triffon
Treasurer: Brooke Behlen
Directors: Linda Silveria, Lynn Tweedy, Terrie Valdero, Suzanne Ward, Kris Weber and
Brenda Armstrong
Founded: April 21, 1956
Membership: 42 members
Fresno-Kings Counties awarded a total of $10,000 in scholarships in 2015. Receiving
$1,000 each were Brittany Dias from Sierra Pacific High School, Charles Drake from
Hallmark Charter School, Lauren Pepe from Hanford High School, Micaela Rivera from
Clovis East High School, Morgan Byrom from Clovis High School and Shannon Muzio from
Central High School. Receiving $500 each were Benjamin Beck from Hanford High School,
Daniel Frea from San Joaquin Memorial High School, Edith Romero from Parlier High
School, Elizabeth Gingles from West Hills College, Natalie Starich from Hanford High School,
Phillip Augusto from Lemoore High School, Zachary Layne from Edison High School and
Bryant Pennebaker from Reedley High School. Kelsie Raulino was the recipient of our
California CattleWomen $1,000 scholarship.
We had a very exciting Valentine’s Day as we hosted our fundraiser “In the Moo’d for Love”
at the Clovis Rodeo Hall. We fed an excellent beef meal to 324 guests and had a fantastic
evening which included a band. We were fortunate to obtain many donations this year and
as a result we were able to profit just shy of $19,000. Our group of ladies worked hard for
months preparing for our fundraiser and their efforts really paid off.
We had a busy spring. In February, Linda Silveria and Kate Horstmann helped at the
California CattleWomen booth at the World Ag Expo. In March, Jane Cochrane and Anna
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Carlson participated in the Fresno County Farm and Nutrition Day promoting and
educating.
In April, we served chili to 350+ donors at the Clovis Rodeo Blood Drive for the Central
California Blood Center. This is the largest single-day blood drive and donors love our chili!
We were also able to set up a history table at the blood drive which included beef
promotion and education readings.
In May, Lynn Tweedy presented at the Meadow Lane Elementary School Harvest of
Knowledge.
In June, Brooke Behlen and Jane Cochrane participated in the Cedarwood Elementary
agriculture education day.
We would also like to congratulation Brenda Armstrong who is our 2015 CattleWomen of
the Year. Brenda has been a member since 2012 and has held the office of Secretary and is
currently serving as a Director. Brenda has worked tirelessly these last few years in
preparation for fundraisers, gathering auctions items, organizing, shuffling tickets,
participating in Ag in the classroom events and anything else she can volunteer for she has
not only done but gone above and beyond the expectation. Brenda’s dependability and
enthusiasm has really been a positive attribute to the Fresno Kings Counties CattleWomen.
Kate Horstmann
President
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2015 Roundup Report
2014 Roundup Report
Sherry Maltby – President
P O Box 760, Williams, CA 95987
Sherry Maltby – President
Ann Butler – Vice President
Rebecca Klein – Vice President
Jill Egly, Secretary
Jill Egly, Secretary
Kara Alvernaz, Treasurer
Kara Alvernaz, Treasurer
Founded: 1960 - Current Membership: 63 - Cowbelle of the Year, Barbara O'Connell
Founded: 1960
Current Membership: 59
Rebecca Klein, Cowbelle of the Year
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and cattle shows for Beef classes.
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Humboldt County CattleWomen Round Up Report
President: Lauren Sizemore
1st VP: Ani Kinght
2nd VP: Tia Dimmick
Treasurer: Susan Moranda
Secretary: Teal Moore
PO Box 915
Fortuna, Ca 95540
Directors: Susan Combs, Sarah Mora, Monica Wilburn, Jenna Hunt, Shannon Fulton,
Emily Scilacci, Karen Koskinen, Cam Barrer,
Christie Buckner
Cowbell of the year: Ani Knight
Members: 73
Not only are we a busy group of ladies in Humboldt County, but we are also creative, talented,
hardworking and enthusiastic about beef.
Our year starts off with our Annual Spring Dinner Dance in February that we host jointly with
Humboldt/Del Norte Cattlemen’s association. We serve dinner to 680 people, which also included live music and a silent auction.
We were fortunate enough to have a competitive beef ambassador contest this year. We are
very proud of the young lady we sent to the state competition this year. Cheyenne Wallace is
looking forward to attending College in Wyoming next year and will be a great asset to the Agriculture industry in the future.
We participate in the Redwood Environmental Education Fair which is a 2 day education fair for
children in 3rd thru 6th grades who get to learn about the environment. We focus on what it
means to be a good steward of the land as well as fun facts about cattle.
Humboldt County CattleWomen are involved with several events around Cinco De Mayo. One is
a county wide Taco Tuesday event where most of the schools in our school district get to eat
ground beef tacos. This event reaches out to almost 7,000 Students. We also participate in Cinco
de Mayo at Fortuna Elementary School where we Serve Ground beef tacos to 200 students.
We always look forward to donating all beef hot dogs to the Fishing Derby, hosted by the Willow
Creek Volunteer Fire Department. Not only do we donate all beef hot dogs, but we also set up a fun
and interactive informational booth.
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Thrill of the Grill is a great promotion and beef education event as 500 people learn about grilling all
kinds of different foods at our local Co-Op grocery store.
During rodeo week in Fortuna, we compete in the Chili Cook off Competition and serve our all beef
Chili to 1,500 people. This year, our chili won the
competition in the best all beef chili competition.
In the Same week, we serve tri-tip sandwiches to a
crowd of 17,000 People as they watch the CCPRCA
Rodeo.
We stay busy during the 10 days of the Humboldt
County Fair. We had our Red Barn open during the
fair to sell sweatshirts, jerky and other beef related products as well as give out brochures and
bumper stickers to the 60,000 people who attended the Humboldt County Fair. We also have the
Hunt-Kerr Award, which is a competition for our
4H and FFA beef members who have the cleanest
barn area and have information on display about
beef for the public. Oh, and did I mention the Carcass/Ultrasound Competition? Yep, we participate
in that too.
This year, new to our tri-tip booth, we served 300
lunches to the competitors in the collegiate lumberjack competition at the Redwood Region Logging Conference. We also served tri-tip sandwiches to a crowd of 2,500 people at the LGBT Humboldt Pride Festival.
Throughout the year, we also give money or gift
certificates for beef to many of our local nonprofit
groups who are serving a BEEF meal for a fundraiser.
We always look forward to the next year and new
opportunities to share our passion of BEEF with the public.
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INTERMOUNTAIN CATTLEWOMEN
P.O. Box 161
McArthur, Ca 96056
Officers:
President: Debbie Bidwell
Vice President: Helen Albaugh
Secretary: Christine Potje
Treasurer: Jeanne Norris and Sandi Kaul
Cowbelle of the Year:
56 members
Well it’s been a Whirlwind of a year. I am so proud of our unit. Considering last year there was talk
of dispersing our local unit due to the lack of active members. The current officer team had their
first meeting and decided not to let that happen. We needed to get revitalized, and we took it on as
our personal goal. Since our active membership was small, we wanted to do one major function for
the year, one that our member numbers could handle. We made a decision to have our 1st ever
BeefnBrew Event in the Intermountain Area. It was our desire to include the community and to get
as many different people, entities and businesses involved as we could. As the planning began
something happened to our organization, women became excited. They began volunteering,
women joined to participate in just this event, a spark came into our organization and we took off at
a run. Our Motto became “Go Big or Go Home”, and so it began.
We started off on a membership drive, followed by the beginning of school with many Ag in the
Classroom projects planned. Our Ag in the Classroom endeavors flourished. We are so lucky to
have so many influential teachers in our organization and when they were called upon they rose to
the occasion. We started out with our 4th Grade teacher spear heading an Agricultural Day which
consisted of busing to a local ranch. Upon arriving the 4th graders were broken up into 4 different
stations, consisting of presentations lasting 25 minutes covering the Web of Life, Agriculture
Commodities, Timber, and of course we were sure to cover Ranching, Livestock and animals.
During their Hamburger Lunch the children were read a story about a local ranch. Also the Bruce
Ranch conducted their annual Kindergarten Days at their ranch, as well as hosting the Agriculture
Day. Bruce’s have been doing this for over 43 years. Also Frosty Acres hosted a field trip in Adin for
K/1 children, which enlightened them on what took place on Ranches, such as bottle feeding lambs,
calves, branding, vaccinations horses and their care etc. After each field day is completed the
children are always treated to a beef lunch. Throughout the year, different Cattlewomen go in to
the Class and conduct little Beef Seminars. Sometimes we make Beef Jerky; sometimes we just talk
about where there food comes from. During February Beef Month we distributed Beef Coloring
Books and crayons. We also put these items out at local restaurants and eateries. Cattlewomen,
teachers and parents brought in Wheelbarrow Gardens, where the students were in charge of
planting, watering and sunning their individual gardens and then got to partake in the bountiful
harvest. Upon harvest Beef was brought into the class and they made their own Beef Stew.
November led us to the State Convention, which was a real boost for our organization. We came
home with many new ideas to bring home and apply in our county. In further Beef Promotion
Efforts our ladies hosted a Veterans Day luncheon where they fed over 120 Veterans and their
families a delicious Beef Stew, cornbread and salad along with homemade chocolate cake. While
they were served their meals by local 4-H, FFA, and Girl Scouts, they were entertained with music
poems, and speeches from the children. Also in November some local gals got together in the Big
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Valley area and, and baked their hearts out, making 60 Pumpkin, Apple and Cherry Pies, sold them
for $12 with monies going to Ag in the Classroom.
Pretty much the winter was spent planning and fine tuning our Beef n Brew Event planned for April.
Our Motto “Go Big or Go Home” certainly came into play. The event took off like a wildfire. After
getting a major Sponsor, we got even more excited. We added a Business Persons Calf Branding.
This was a 3 man/woman team on foot (no horses). They could recruit one knowledgeable roper if
desired and only businesses in our area. We also had 5 different local breweries with their specialty
beers on tap. This was all donated and then we hired a local Beer distributor to come in for other
more common beer. Our local Cattlemen then helped us with a hard liquor bar. For entertainment
besides the Calf Branding we had a local DJ and a very extensive Live and Silent Auction, along with
a gun raffle. Our guests which totaled over 450, were served a delicious dinner of Beef with a
Mexican Flair. We also had 4 different beef producers supply Beef Appetizers to our guests.
Appetizers consisted of Wild Rice and Beef, Shredded Beef, Beef Meatballs, and Smoked Brisket.
Overall the event was a huge success, and we plan on conducting it again. I feel the success of this
event had a lot to do with getting other community members involved, besides just Cattlemen and
Cattlewomen. We showed them a piece of our life and they really enjoyed it and appreciated the
expertise it takes to brand some baby calves.
After this event we needed a break and carried on by donating and cooking at several functions
such as our local Fall River Museum Fundraiser, along with donating meatballs to the local Big
Valley Endowment Foundation. We also took some of our monies and joined our local
Intermountain Fair Heritage Foundation, in order to support our fair and its continuance.
As I write this letter, we are gearing up for our annual Intermountain Fair where Cattlewomen will
be busy setting up our units Fair Booth, and getting ready and preparing for our parade entry. We
also conduct and sponsor a Create a Cow Contest which has become very popular with our
Classroom Teachers. During Cattlemen’s Day at the Fair Cattlewomen will be there serving their
famous Beef Appetizers in an effort to support our Cattlemen in their Pen Show, Membership Drive,
and Branding Contest. Along with our fair activities we conduct a Beef Merit Award. The awards
include Outstanding 4-H exhibitor, FFA Exhibitor and an Encouragement Award. We also give out
over $8,000 worth of local scholarships to graduating seniors and returning education students.
Well it’s been a great year. Pretty sure I left out many functions that were conducted this year by
our unit. But as any Good Steward of our Land, Ranchers Wife, Cattlewoman or Agricultural
enthusiast, we conduct Beef Promotion on a daily basis. We have chosen a way of life that will
always be a struggle to maintain, but a fight well worth it. Carry on Ladies!
RESPECTFULLY SUBMITTED,
YOUR FRIEND IN AGRICULTURE,
DEBBIE BIDWELL
INTERMOUNTAIN CATTLEWOMEN, PRESIDENT
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Kern County CattleWomen
Post Office Box 81436
www.KernCattleWomen.org
President
Vice President
Recording Secretary
Corresponding Sec.
Parliamentarian
Treasurer
Debbie Hay
Julie Barnett
Karen Weller
Lorraine Harris
Amanda Barrett
Erin Rogers
Board of Directors
Debbie Hay
Julie Barnett
Amanda Barrett
Glenda Rankin
Patti Crouse
Karen Weller
Kathy Williams
Lorraine Harris
Marilyn Morphis
Sylvia Chavez
Becky Beagle
Diane Chapman
Number of members: 146
Year Established: 1948
Leadership in California CattleWomen: Sheila Bowen-President, Rebecca Been-2nd Vice
President, Paula Francis- Secretary
Our Goal for 2015-2016 is to Build on Our Strengths by sharing the ranching story through
education, positive interaction with the public and hands on learning opportunities. We continue to
participate in a wide range of activities to accomplish our goals.
Activities
January 23,2015 - We celebrated our CattleWomen of the Year, Julie Barnett and Cattleman of
the Year, Keith Grant
March 17 - Annual fundraiser dinner at the Buck Owens Crystal Palace
May - Revised and updated our last cookbook, will be available fall of 2015
August 8 - Annual scholarship luncheon where we gave out $10,000 in scholarships
October 10, 2015 - “Just for fun” CattleWomen and Cattlemen picnic in the mountains.
October 17, 2015 - Western Stockman’s Market 50th Anniversary Bull Sale
October 31, 2015 - KCCW members will again be handing out beef “goodies” and brochures to
“Trick and Treaters” at the Safe Halloween at the Kern County Museum.
November 13-15 - Booth at Cowboy Marketplace held at Kern Co. Ag Center
Ag in the Classroom
February 19- Frontier High School’s Farmer’s Market- beef trivia wheel and brochures given out
March/April/May - KCCW members visited classrooms across city of Bakersfield sharing out
story.
Beef Promotion
February 10-12 - Members participated in CCW booth at World Ag Expo
February 14 - Members rode in the Whiskey Flat Days Parade in Kernville
March 21- Wild West Days at the Kern County Museum
May 15-16- Midnight Pewitt Rodeo- beef promotion items sold and brochures given out
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June - Glennville Rodeo
June - Beef for Father’s Day Promotion on KUZZ radio station
July/ August / September - KCCW members rode in parades in Salinas, Tehachapi, Wasco and
Bakersfield
Kern County Fair - September 23 - October 4, 2015
Community Booth- CattleWomen in our Community since 1948
Best Dressed Table
Award Sponsor- Leather and Lead buckles at livestock show
We are just getting warmed up for 2016!
Debbie Hay, KCCW President
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Lassen County CattleWomen
Lassen County CattleWomen
PO Box 1469
Susanville, CA 96130
Officers:
Teri Bertotti, President
Della Smith, Vice President
Claudia Johnson, Treasurer
Lisa Park, Secretary
Directors:
Roseanne Comino
Dawn Egan
Darcy Hanson
Tiffany Russell
Lacy Wellborn
Cheryl Lauritsen, past president
Number of Members in 2014-15: 51
The Lassen County CattleWomen continue to have an active role in our community
by promoting the beef and agriculture industry, supporting youth activities,
awarding scholarships, helping educators in the classroom, and providing helping
hands and a valuable presence with the following fundraisers, events, and
educational activities:
SCHOLARSHIP
Thanks to our fundraising efforts, our unit is very proud that we are able to continue
awarding scholarships to students in Lassen County wishing to further their
education in the field of agriculture. This year we awarded $3250 to six students in
the studies of Range Management, Pre-Veterinary, Ag Business, Ag Science and
Land Resource Management.
AG IN THE CLASSROOM
Third Grade Day – This May we participated in Lassen County History Day.
Over 300 third graders from around the county gathered to experience rural life as it
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was here in the 1850s. Our members gave students a brief talk about the history
of the cattle industry in Lassen County, followed by the students using a lasso on a
roping dummy. We also engaged the students in lively discussions and amazed
them with an extensive display of beef bi-products!
Ranch Field Trip- In May a 4th grade class from one of the local schools had
a ranch field trip to a member’s ranch. Students received a hands-on education
about aspects of cattle ranching, moving irrigation pipes, riding in a tractor,
picking strawberries, planting vegetables, learning about beef bi-products, and
ended the experience with a barbequed burger picnic.
BEEF PROMOTION
Beef Story Challenge – One of our members (since 1962) spearheaded a
new beef promotion activity for our unit called “Get to the Chase”. The purpose of
the project is to invite the Consumer to talk about Beef and help our cattle industry
communicate with Consumers. The challenge was for each member to interview 20
people this summer by asking simple questions and really listening to their answers
and concerns. Each person interviewed received beef brochures and a friendly
“chat” from our members. Responses have been positive and we will discuss our
conversations at our fall meeting.
Cow-A-Bunga Contest – We held our annual Cow-A-Bunga contest at our
January meeting. Members are asked to create beef appetizers and bring their
recipe and creations to be tasted and judged at our meeting. Winners receive
complimentary tickets to our “Taste of Beef/Sip of Wine” event, where their winning
recipe will be featured.
Taste of Beef/Sip of Wine – This BIG fundraising event has been scheduled in
February for the past 24 years. However, Mother Nature sent us rain (Awesome!)
and record setting winds which knocked out the power to Susanville for the day.
So, without lights, ovens, or heat we reluctantly had to postpone the event that very
afternoon and it was rescheduled for early March. Our 25th Annual Event went off
without a hitch and was as successful as ever! We had all new committee
members with new ideas, such as carving stations with flank steak and tri tip, a
prime rib sandwich bar, and we featured round steak appetizers. With ticket sales,
wine pull game, and gun raffles we grossed about $15,574.00.
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Rails to Trails Festival and Chile Cook-Off Event – (coming up in October) A
very fun SOCIAL event for our members and community. Last year we won the
“Best Decorated” Booth, a few years ago we walked away with the “Miss
Congeniality” Award, so hopefully this is our year to win the People’s Choice Award
– the power of positive thinking and great local beef!!
Ranch Conservation Tour Dinner – The California Rangeland Conservation
Coalition sponsored an On-Ranch Tour in our area this spring. The goal was to
provide the opportunity for 15 or so conservationists to visit ranches and discuss
with landowners the logistics of engaging in collaborative conservation of working
lands, with the hope of enhancing understandig of the opportunities and challenges
of ranching with conservation in mind. Our CattleWomen provided one-night ranch
homestays for the visitors and hosted a wonderful well-received barbeque tri-tip
dinner that night.
Social Media – This year we are up and running with both our Lassen County
CattleWomen Webpage and a Facebook Page!
COUNTY FAIR ACTIVITIES
Fair Booth – This year’s theme was “Friendly Faces in Familiar Places”. Our
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1 place booth featured large photos of our members in their various work and play
places.
Red Barn – This booth features just BEEF, and is centered around a wooden
Red Barn on wheels. Fair participants can load up on beef recipes, bumper
stickers and spin the “Wheel of Beef” to qualify to win one of four $50 beef
certificates at local grocery stores and Healthy Beef Cookbooks.
Kiddies Day – This is a fun and interactive way to educate children about the
ranching way of life, health and nutrition of beef, roping the “littles doggies”, beef
bi-products, cattle brands, “Beef Man” and I Love Farming tattoos and face
painting. Each participant received a beef jerky treat and a red licorice treat.
Jr. “Chopped” Competition – This new fair event was sponsored by the
Lassen County Fair Board with the CattleWomen donating the ground beef and
judges. Modeled after the popular Food Channel’s TV show, the young participants
created an appetizer, main entrée and dessert using specific foods from the
baskets. It was a great event and very fun for the participants, judges, and
audience.
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BEEF IN THE MEDIA
Weekly Ag Report – Our local radio station sponsors a Weekly Ag Report and
invites various organizations such as the Cattlemen, CattleWomen, Farm Bureau,
Ag Extension office, local 4-H and FFA clubs, etc., to talk on the radio to
promote, inform, and educate its listeners about our agriculture industries. LCCW
has a spot about every two month, airing two times that week, and reaches
approximately 75,000 listeners during each report. We have some ladies who are
passionate about this topic who have done an outstanding job speaking about
what is important to us as CattleWomen.
OTHER ACTIVITIES
Lassen County CattleWomen are fortunate to be able to donate money, beef,
information, and helping hands to various organizations in our community with
activities relating to agriculture, such as the Lassen County Office of Education’s
Science Fair and Sober Graduation, Lassen High School’s Future Business Leaders
of America Conference, Lassen County 4-H’s “Favorite Foods” Day and
Demonstration Day, and CSU Chico: Beef’in It Up 5K Run.
I would like to say “THANK YOU” to all our local and state CattleWomen for their
continued support of our beef industry. As cattle producers today we face growing
concerns from our consumers, public organizations, and government agencies. I
am proud that the California CattleWomen’s Association is taking a proactive role
in answering and meeting these challenges in a positive way. The great news . . .
people continue to LOVE beef!!
Teri Bertotti
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Round -Up Report: Madera County
Madera County Cattle Women
P.O. Box 675 Madera CA 93639
Established April 2, 1952
Officers:
Membership 66 , youth 16
President: Stacy Miles
Vice President: Vacant
Second Vice President: Frankie LeTourneau
Secretary: Sandy McDougald
Treasurer: Blanche Campbell
Parliamentarian: Roberta Anderson
Immediate Past President: Adele Bartholomew Hansen
Directors: Bobbie Bruecker, Nedra Craig, Pat Masoner, Ann Fahey, Gay Wright, Roberta
Anderson, Carolyn Handlon, Cherisse McKinney
Our Chuck wagon Luncheon Fundraiser was held in March, we were able to serve 550 Beef TriTip sandwich meals along with all kinds of homemade salads and desserts. As this is our Main
Fundraiser for the year everyone gets involved, from set up and clean up to plating food in the
take out line, There is certainly something for everyone to do. Money raised is used to provide
scholarships to graduating high school seniors. We were able to award 4 $100 schoarships in
conjunction with Madera Cattlemens Association.
Speaking of Seniors, we honored our founding member Anita Fulmer this past April as we
celebrated our 50th year in existence. So glad that first group of ladies had the foresight to get
things started in Madera County! Also thanks to Anita our little group was featured in the
CountyLine Magazine this summer as well. It was good to get some extra publicity out there.
As I write this we are gearing up for the Fabulous Kids Day, at the Madera District Fair. This
event gives us the opportunity to reach out and share facts about the Beef industry to school
kids. Even though the County of Madera is highly agricultural there are still many, many kids
who do not realize where their food comes from, and this is great opportunity to share that as
well as all the by-products beef blesses us with in our daily activities.
At this time we are also in the midst of Researching background info on our Newly selected
Cowbelle of the Year, Frankie LeTourneau (Shhh it is a secret until October) But what I do
know.... she has the cutest little granddaughter Cady, who recently competed for the Wee Miss
Chowchilla Stampede 2015. She is also married to the best large animal vet in the county, Dr.
Ed. They have recently retired, and it is my understanding that they plan to do a little
traveling.... GOOD: first stop CCW convention !! I hope it is a welcome Surprise, as Frankie has
been a tremendous asset to our group and she is well deserving of the recognition.
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Mid Valley Cowbelles
President - Candace Peterson
Vice President - Millie Krause
Secretary - Breanne Ramos
Treasurer - Judy Elam
Delegate – Andrea Reynolds
Alternate Delegate – Rebecca Klein
Board of Directors – Pat Shepherd, Judy Scheppmann, Audrey Semore
Membership: 81
Our group met at a Turlock Bistro for a first year’s celebration in honor of the Cowbelle of
the Year, Judy Elam and an Outstanding Member, Kristle Borba. Judy is our Treasurer
and has worked very hard to keep our records straight and build our membership. She has
been involved with cattle all her life in one way or another. She truly is a friend to all and
has made it a point to connect our group’s members to each other which is no small feat
since she found gals who were ready to join us in three counties! Kristle was honored
because she has tirelessly sought opportunities for our group to raise funds with her
creativity and enthusiasm. She put together demonstrations for children that they will
never forget. Also in attendance was our Scholarship Winner, Jaimie Herndon. She was
presented with her check of $1,000. We left recipes and brochures at the restaurant for
patrons or staff. Everyone enjoyed the party!
Our first year isn’t over yet, but we have been very busy. Ag in the Classroom presenters
visited 8 schools setting up stations to educate, inform and connect students, parents and
teachers with the story of the beef industry from cow-calf operations, to stocker ranching,
to gummy bears and soccer balls. These same teams provided demonstrations at 3 AgVentures in San Joaquin County, Farm 2U in Merced County, Stanislaus Country Farm
Bureau’s Ed Venture and at the Stanislaus County Fair in Turlock.
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We found an inner city school in Modesto for a Read In that offered us opportunities to
read books to 15 classrooms, grades kindergarten to 5th grades. We donated all the books
we read to their library. Each teacher got a teacher packet of materials for teaching the
“real story” about beef. Our calendar is already filling up with requests for return visits this
fall.
Beef Promotion luncheons included the Livestock Forum in Oakdale, Medusa head
Seminars in La Grange and Farmington, Frank Raines Park for the West Stanislaus
Conservation District and the Anniversary celebration for Cooperative Services and
Stanislaus County Farm Bureau. We also served Dinner for the La Grange Rodeo
Association to help them thank their sponsors and their families for a successful Rodeo
season. Each place setting, goodie bag or lunch box was provided with brochures, recipes
and pamphlets.
Our members rode with Calaveras/Tuolumne Cattle Women in 4 parades receiving top
honors in each. Several additional members walked the route distributing bumper stickers
and tattoos to the onlookers.
During the Thanksgiving Holiday our group appeared front and center to contribute their
time and cooking talents for the “Spirit of Oakdale’s” annual free Thanksgiving Dinner and
Christmas toys for tots give away. We boxed food for 240 families and provided toys for all
their children. Beef brochures and recipes were put in all the boxes. 24 gooseneck trailers
decorated with beef signs and our banner hauled the meals to grateful, hungry recipients.
At our very first meeting we collected 40 toys that were delivered to the Center for Human
Services to be given to underprivileged children.
WE HAVE BEEN BUSY! The Mid Valley Cowbells have had a fantastic year. I want to thank
all the members for their support, ideas and hard work. Our Facebook Page is full of things
we’ve done and are going to do. Bunko is coming in October. We also have a website
www.midvalleycowbelles.com that features our activities, links to our officers,
membership applications, monthly newsletters, educational apps, scholarship applications
and so much more. Check it out and watch us grow!
Candace Cook-Peterson [email protected]
Mid Valley Cowbelle President
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JoAnn White, President
Nicole Hinton, Co-Vice President
P.O. Box 711 • Alturas, CA 96101
Frieda DuBois, Co-Vice
President
Bekki Ingraham, Director
Suzanne Nelson, Director
Lynne Schluter, Director
Gina Harris, Secretary
Cassie Oyarzun, Treasurer
DEDICATED TO BEEF
The Modoc County CattleWomen celebrated 50 years on October 17, 2015. We have endured much over the
decades and through it all we have proudly promoted Modoc County’s cattle industry every step of the way.
Our scrupulous efforts of education through public outreach, healthy living, consumer awareness and stepping
into local classrooms has stood the test of time and we will continue these endeavors for future generations.
In 1965 the Modoc County CowBelles was formed by a group of extraordinary women, our current membership
honor these women and all members of the CattleWomen’s organization with each person we reach. This year
our Unit has been busy and we’d love to share just a few of our great achievements.
October 2014
Our Units year started out at the Fall General Meeting on October 8. Members gathered to learn about all the
plans for the upcoming year, to see who our 49th CattleWomen of the Year (a.k.a CowBelle) was going to be
and to usher in a new slate of officers and their directors. By the end of the night our new president JoAnn
White had taken the reins and Cassie Oyarzun was proudly announced our Cattlewoman of the Year.
Silent auction items were then gathered up in the days to follow for the Modoc County Cattlemen’s Annual
Dinner on October 24. Committee members called and each member turned out amazing donations - homemade
goodies, catered dinners, hand crafted artwork and much more.
By the end of the month Beef Princess committee members received their first ever calendars and began selling
them to raise funds for their committee projects. The calendar featured professional and amateur ranch shots
throughout Modoc.
November 2014
Fall snuck up on us and before we knew it the Cattlemen had our Unit hosting the Fall Feeder Sale at the Modoc
Auction Yard on November 8. Everyone cranked up their ovens and baked several dozen cookies for hundreds
of hungry cattle buyers. Feeding everyone beef sandwiches the committee members and Beef Princess Casey
Burns made sure no one went hungry. Our Unit strives to work hand-in-hand with our Cattlemen on many
yearly projects.
It was then time to get our Bret Hill Memorial Scholarship applications out to all 4-H and FFA members, this
program helps students get into the cattle industry by purchasing a breeding heifer for them to show locally.
The weekend after Thanksgiving came and went, during this time we sold our Ways & Means items at the
Cedarville Christmas Faire. Our unit offered up embroidered aprons, glass coffee mugs, napkins and stocking
stuffers.
December 2014
With snow beginning to fly the winter months had arrived, bringing with it feeding the cattle and keeping the
home fires burning.
January 2015
The Likely Ladies hosted our Winter General Meeting on January 3. The sun was out and not a speck of snow, a
true sign of our drought. We readied for all the springtime events - beef month, Ag in the Classroom field day,
Cattlemen’s Field day and more. Each person stepped up to the plate and made sure everything was getting
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done. Haley Dancer was announced our Bret Hill Memorial
recipient.
February 2015
It’s BEEF MONTH and our members made sure local consumers knew it! Suzanne Nelson and crew took time
to hand out brochures and explain the benefits of eating beef to local shoppers throughout the month.
It was an all out party on February 26 as Cathy Williamson and committee celebrated February birthdays with
the Warnerview Skilled Nursing Facility in Alturas.
March 2015
Spring has sprung and Bayley Fee, last years Bret Hill recipient, shared the joyous news of her heifer calving.
April 2015
The Spring General Meeting was hosted in Cedarville on April 24 and it was full of business. Gina Harris was
gearing up for Ag in the Classroom on May 11 and was working out the field day logistics for six different
schools, ages 5 through 8.
May 2015
Students flocked to the Ag in the Classroom field day held at the Modoc District Fairgrounds on May 11. Each
group took turns learning about agriculture from locals who had volunteered their time. Kids held baby chicks,
spun wool, learned how to churn butter, how plant a garden, all about raising pigs, horsemanship, farm
equipment and everything that our agriculture lives entail. This field day was co-hosted with Farm Bureau
members.
June 2015
The Cattlemen hosted their annual field day, taking a tour of Devil’s Garden on June 7 and lunching at the
Crowder Flat FS guard station.
Our Unit and the Cattlemen awarded six graduates with Memorial Scholarships. Our committee proudly
congratulated Taylor Herman, Anna Colbert, Grady Ingraham, Anna Estill, Chelsea Baldwin and Kevin King.
During the Junior Livestock Show our Unit was represented by three Bret Hill Memorial recipients, two with
cow and calf. Four 4-H and FFA members also received awards cash awards for breeding and Modoc raised
classes.
July 2015
Davis Creek was the spot for our Summer General Meeting on July 24. We welcomed three new members and
our guest speaker gave a wonderful presentation about agriculture awareness.
During the month and through the summer the Beef Princess committee ladies hosted a food booth at all the
Modoc Horseman weekend shows, Fandango Days and the Modoc Outdoor Expo. With each sandwich sold they
made sure to hand out a healthy recipe too.
August 2015
The Modoc District Fair, Aug. 27-30, was highlighted with our fair feature booth. We dedicated it to our
members over the last 50 years, taking newspaper articles, photos and memorabilia to highlight the many
achievements we’ve proudly accomplished. For the fun side of things, Kendra Frutuozo headed up the Kid’s
Rodeo and we gave away over $300 in prizes to kids age 8 and under. Little buckaroos raced stick horses, ran
the sack race, tossed “cow-pies” and penned cattle balls - everyone was a winner.
We round out the year on such a happy note, celebrating 50 years of perseverance in the beef industry.
Highlights for our special occasion on October 17 included guest speaker Melanie Fowle, ANWC president,
honoring our original charter members including those able to attend along with guest speaker and charter
member Jackie McGarva.
Our crowning achievement of the night was honoring Betty Cockrell as our 50th Cattlewoman of the Year. Betty
is an original CowBelle, our very first Secretary and an unwavering supporter from the very start. It was truly a
perfect ending to a most wonderful year.
Nicole M. Hinton
MCCW Co-Vice President
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NAME:
Monterey
REPORT:
Round-Up
MEMBERS:
64
ADDRESS:
84502 White Rd. Parkfield, CA 93451
OFFICERS:
President-Marianne Madson,
V.President-Charlene Ackerman,
Secretary-Morgan Demaree,
Treasurer-Shirley Rasmussen
Kelly Violini, Marti Gianolini
Cattlewoman of the Year: Shirley Rasmussen
BOARD:
SUMMARY:
Farm Days : Monterey County Agricultural Education sponsors 3 Farm Days in Monterey County,
reaching approximately 6,500 3rd grade students annually. We participate by providing livestock
and presenting our story on beef stewardship and beef by-products.
Fair Participation: Our unit sponsors a local beef award and a carcass contest award for the
Monterey Fair and Salinas Valley Fair. We also have a booth that provides industry information,
current events, membership information and beef recipes to fair attendees.
California Rodeo: This year we donated a raffle basket with our products for the California Rodeo’s
Cowboy Poetry Event that benefits the Monterey County Foundation for Free Libraries. We also
donated to the winner of the Miss California Rodeo Contest and provided our cookbooks , napkins,
and beef brochures for contestant gift bags.
Cattlemen Support: We helped the Cattlemen with several events this year. At the annual ranch
rodeo we sold raffle tickets, gathered signatures for the grazing regulation petition, and distributed
industry literature. We provided set-up, ticket sales, raffle items and desserts for the annual Spring
Meeting. We also helped publicize the PAC event that is held in conjunction with the California
Rodeo. We assisted the Cattlemen with a FFA Greenhand Initiation Dinner.
Scholarship: Awarded two $1,000 scholarships to graduating seniors Kara Kester and Emily Violini.
Other: Cow Palace participation
Cookbook donation to Salinas chapter of CWA for fundraising event
Young Women in Agriculture Leadership and Career Seminar – We had members who
organized and participated in this event, and we supported it financially.
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Napa-Solano Cattlewomen
11080 Knoxville Road, Napa, CA 94558
(707) 287-1575
2015 ROUND UP REPORT
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March 6th was Ag in the classroom, Day at the Farm (put on by the Napa
Farm Bureau) at the Napa Expo. We brought our brochures, bumper
stickers and gum to pass out and there were around 900 kids in
attendance.
June 10th was the California Cattlemen’s legislative breakfast and half of
our group had breakfast and met with legislatures at the state capitol
about the current bill’s affecting ranchers in California.
Names of Officers and Directors:
 Anna Reed – President
 Christina Roberts – Treasurer
 Karen Baker – Secretary
Number of members : 6
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2015
ROUND-UP REPORT
PLACER-NEVADA CATTLEWOMEN
P. O. Box 1215, Lincoln, CA 95648
PRESIDENT – BETH CASILLAS
DIRECTORS:
1ST VICE PRESIDENT - CAROL AMARUSO
PATTY BEARD
2ND VICE PRESIDENT - JEANNE REAUME
LIZ SANDS
TREASURER - TARA WILSON
KAREN SINCLAIR
SECRETARY – MYRA DAVIES-REWINKLE
LOIS TRIPP
2015 CATTLEWOMAN OF THE YEAR – MAXINE DACOSTA
71 Members, 1 auxilary Member & 9 ANCW Members - Established 1964
Activities and Chairs:
Ag in the Classroom – Myra Davies & Laura Barhydt
Beef Ambassador - Myra Davies Beef
Promotion – Jeanne Reaume
Blood Bank – Dee Killam
Communications/Call Tree – Nancy Martin
Cookbook – Maxine daCosta
Cowbelle of Year – Jeanne Reaume
Legislative – Karin Sinclair
Membership – Elly Button
Newsletter – Bev Solis
Publicity & Chimes – Carol Silicz
Rate of Gain/TLC – Myra Davies
Red Barns – Nancy Martin
Round Up – Myra Davies
Scholarships – Beth Casillas
Scholarship Fundraising – Lois Tripp
Scrapbook - Bev Solis & Jeanne Reaume
Sunshine – Nancy Martin
TCA reports – Bev Solis & Beth Casillas
Webmaster – Kathy Dombrowski
As this Round Up Report is due September 1st I'll begin our report in September of 2014:
September 2014: Maxine daCosta took on a huge roll in getting us into the Sacramento Farm to Fork
event that was our largest Beef Promotion event attended by 33,000 to 40,000 public. She arranged
sponsors for Beef Jerky, pencils, recipes, promo & good nutrition info. Members and Beef
Ambassadors womaned the busy booth. We had at least 3 media interviews, Sac State News, TV and
Radio on the spot. We were a favorite booth! This year we are hoping to be positioned next to
Longhorn Meats which will further our promo...it is bigger than the Sacramento Ag at the Capitol!.
Thanks to Jeanne Reaume we had the cutest old fashioned "Country Store" Red Barn and a separate
nostalgic 50 Years of Cattlewomen Booth celebrating our 50 year anniversary at the Auburn Gold
Country Fair. The Country Store featured our Cattlewomen's Cookbook and our Placer Nevada
Cattlewomen Salza, Meat Marinade and Steak Sauces that have become a local family favorite!
October 2014: There were 200 attendees at the Carcass of Merit and Rate of Gain dinner hosted by
the Tahoe Cattlemen and Placer Nevada Cattlewomen to celebrate the 3 fair's young producers who
did an outstanding job raising quality animals.
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November 2015: We held our joint TCA & PNCW membership drive Fall Festival open to families
with lots of fun events and great food! November is the month so many of us look forward to attend
the CCW meeting in Sparks. This year we passed on our Weight Loss Championship to Lassen County
but we are working hard to take it back from those "Hungry Heifers"...:)
December 2014: At our Christmas Party meeting we celebrated our Cowgirl Hall of Fame inductee,
Shirley Jaurgui and her 90th birthday too! We celebrated our outgoing officers and had a grand
induction of our 2015-2016 officers. There were presents for all!
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January 2015: We obtained our official PNCW - PO Box 1215, Lincoln, CA 95648. Marge
Carman did a KaHi Radio talk on PNCW and donated 76# of can tabs collected to the Ronald
McDonald House Foundation in PNCW name. We also helped with a benefit for a local injured
cattleman, Tom Leavell...by decorating the hall donating items and organizing the auction attended by
500.
February 2015: The local Beef Ambassador contest was held and a fantastic team of 4 was chosen:
Sonia DelToro, Sr. BA, Cody Anderson, Placer Co. Jr. BA, Catharine Renner, Nevada Co. Jr. BA and
Helen Sands, Novice Jr. BA. This team is one of our greatest Beef Promotion assets. They are hard
working and willing to help at any event.
March 2015: We joined in having our annual PNCW desert auction at the TCA Spring Roundup
Dinner Dance...a grand time is always had and is very well attended. Alot of "Beef Stories" being told
between the eating, dancing and auctions. Dawn Campos womaned our Ag in the Classroom booth at
Placer Ag Day held at the Gold Country Fair Grounds in Auburn.
Each year we participate in the Auburn's Lion's Club Celebrity Chef event serving meatballs to more
than 500 - 1,000 patrons. We have our Red Barn open serving breakfast & Tri tip sandwiches, the
Beef Ambassadors help out in many ways and we hold the Nevada County Rate of Gain weigh in at
the TCA Classic Jackpot show. Right in the middle of it all a few of us managed to attend the CCW
Spring Meeting at Harris Ranch.
April 2015: The Beef Ambassadors competed in the CCW State Beef Ambassador Contest in San
Jose, learning lots and having a great time getting to know Beef Ambassadors from all over California.
Our Ag in the Classroom gals, Laura & Myra, have joined in with the Nevada County Ag In The
Classroom coalition, with representatives from every phase of agriculture (from gardening, Farm
Bureau, Logging, Beef & much more) in presenting Farm Days at local schools culminating in one
huge event in September at the Nevada County Fairgrounds.
May 2015: 7 Scholarships from Cattlewomen (money earned from our quilt/1/2 of beef raffle) and
from Marge Carman and family (memorial scholarships of Pete Carman and Nina Maloney) and the
Phil and Johan Personneni Scholarship from the Personneni family along with 3 continuing university
scholarships provided by the Tahoe Cattlemen were announced at the Placer and Nevada High
Schools this month. Lois Tripp is the backbone of our scholarship fundraising. 4 of our Cattlewomen
worked hard to produce a beautiful quilt this year...Lois, Bev, Dee, Elly & Pat Thank you so much!
We also did a beef promo event serving sliders and ice cream at stations throughout the Lincoln Hills
Golf Tournament, a benefit for the local Catholic Church. We also served cookies to 44 Blood Bank
donors (we do this community service on a quarterly basis).Maxine daCosta also had a Beef Promo
Booth at Newcastle Celebration Day with 3000-5000 attending.
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June 2015: The beginning of summer fair time started with the Placer County Fair "There's No Place
Like Placer". Members were excited to attend the Summer CCW meeting in Sacramento.
July 2015: The California State Fair had a spot for us to partner with and serve Cow Camp Tri Tip
Samples. Attended and enjoyed by so many...Great Beef Promo even with fires flurrying behind us.
August 2015: We began a new Media Contest featured in the Nevada County Fair Premium Book. It
has 2 youth age brackets and cash prizes for 30 second to 2 minute video's about Beef. We had videos
turned in on Heart Healthy Beef to Carcass cuts and anatomy pointed out on live steers and heifers.
All in all this has been an Outstanding Beef Promotion year with lots of new innovative ideas and
future plans brought in by new and excited members and our continuing supportive Placer Nevada
Cattlewomen...71 members strong!
Respectfully submitted by:
Myra Davies-Rewinkle, PNCW Secretary
PNCW Chuck Wagon on display at the Nevada
County Fair...donated by Miriam Ghidotti
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PLUMAS-SIERRA COUNTY CATTLEWOMEN
Unit Mailing Address: Plumas-Sierra County CattleWomen
P.O. Box 127
Sierraville, CA 96126
Officers:
President – Kathleen Vignolo-Knight
Vice President – Karen Rickman
Secretary – Petie Olivieri-Carr
Treasurer – Karla Pombo
Directors – Claudia Barnes, Patricia Ramelli, LaVerne Forrest
Members: 78 (includes: 11-national and 9-new)
Cowbelle of the Year: Marjorie Logan
Our unit was established in 1966. We hold eleven luncheon meetings per year, excluding
the month of December. In November of each year, we hold our Annual Auction/Luncheon
at which time we draw the name of our Scholarship Brand Quilt winner. Each year, ticket
holders hope that they will be the lucky winner of our beautiful handmade quilt!
Scholarship-The total monies received throughout the year from our brand quilt ticket
sales goes into our Scholarship Fund. Our brand quilt is displayed at every event in which
we participate and at local businesses. This year we awarded $6,000.00 in scholarships.
The students that received our scholarships were absolutely impressive and so deserving!
Beef Promotion- We set up a booth and sold items, as well as, handed out beef-related
brochures and recipes at the following events this year: Cowboy Poetry; Garden Expo at
our local Grange; the Plumas County Fair; Calpine Marketplace; Nervino Airport Rotary FlyIn Breakfast; and the Farm Bureau’s Annual BBQ. Our spring and fall fundraiser dinners
also serve as ways for us to promote beef. At many of the events, we hand out our PlumasSierra CattleWomen’s cloth bags that state, “Eat Beef The West Wasn’t Won On Salad”.
Again this year, our unit participated in the annual Yuba Pass Chili Cook Off and served a
beef based chili. A local grocery store places beef related brochures in each customers bag.
We hand out beef recipes at each of our monthly meetings.
Fundraisers- We have two annual fundraiser dinners: this year, at our spring sit-down
dinner, we served our guests gourmet meatballs over rice with a fresh mushroom gravy;
and, this fall, we will have our buffet style homemade Beef Enchilada dinner. At these
dinners we always take the opportunity to promote ranching, agriculture, and the
importance of Ag in the Classroom.
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Ag In The Classroom- The involvement of the Plumas-Sierra CattleWomen in our schools is
so very important! From reading to elementary students, the cooking of beef at all grade
levels, and classroom presentations, we have been busy. We made Fall Leaf Cookies and
Spooky Spider Beef Biscuits with elementary students and Beef Breakfast Burritos with the
Loyalton High School FFA class. Water cycle bracelets proudly encircled the wrists of 92
third and fourth grade students during Earth Day week. “Protect Your Livestock From
Predators”, was a classroom presentation which included the following: the large predators
that are feared in our region of Sierra Valley; how to identify them by their footprints; the
variety of guard animals used to protect livestock; and, ways of fencing/penning to protect
our livestock. Another presentation regarding “Livestock and Small Animal Predation and
Identification” included the following: some of the small animals that are predators in
Sierra Valley and surrounding areas; pictures of small predators; how to identify each of
these animals tracks; and, the dangers of attempting to keep one of these predators as a
pet. As a culmination activity, the students were given a True/False quiz. They also
received beef stickers and were served beef and bean burritos. A complete program
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revolving around the properties and importance of beef in our lives was done in a fourth
grade classroom. Our year culminated with “Ranch Days”, which was a big success with
144 students from both counties learning about: brand identification/branding; beef byproducts; beef cattle care; sheep and the sheep dog’s duties; wagon ride/history of the
ranch; and, the chicken and egg cycle. We are looking forward to the 2015-2016 school
year and hope to again be in the classrooms reading, cooking, and teaching!!!
Fair- This year’s theme at the Plumas County Fair was “Farm to Fair”. On the first day, the
fair committee had asked any interested ranchers and farmers to set up individual booths
in order to promote the ranching and farming that takes place in our county; one of our
cattlewomen and her husband set up a booth at which they displayed pictures of and talked
about the history of their ranch. In support of the theme, we divided our cattlewomen’s
booth into two sections--beef promotion and agriculture. We had a poster at the entrance
to our booth that informed people of the importance of ranching and agriculture. On the
beef promotion side we: sold beef promotion items and handcrafted items; handed out beef
related brochures and recipes; had our beef by-products boards; displayed our scholarship
brand quilt and photos of this year’s scholarship recipients; and, displayed some of our
scrapbooks. On the agricultural side we: had flowers planted in a wheelbarrow; had
packets of seeds attached to sticks arranged in a wooden box full of dirt to represent a
garden; showed agricultural implements and clothing; displayed boxes of fruit; and, had a
rooster, hen, and eggs in a nest. Each evening we cooked and served tri-tip samples. Due
to the many positive comments we received about our booth, we felt we succeeded in
making it a welcoming and informative one! At the annual Cattlemen’s BBQ, we helped
with setting up, table decorations, the preparation of side dishes and the dessert, and
serving. Approximately 350 tri-tip dinners were served on that evening.
We have had a very busy and fulfilling year, none of which would have, or could have taken
place without the many members that donated their time and energy to help promote beef,
agriculture, and education! I am so very proud of them and so very proud to be among
them!!!
President, Plumas-Sierra County CattleWomen
Please visit our website: www.plumassierracattlewomen.org
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Round Up Report 2015
Unit: San Benito County
Contact: Jae Emery Eade (831) 630-0717
Unit Mailing Address: San Benito County CattleWomen
P.O. Box 539
Tres Pinos, CA 95075
Organized: May 6, 1954
Number of Members: 100
Officers and Directors:
President
Vice President
Secretary
Treasurer
Beef Promotion
Parliamentarian
Media
Historian
Delegate
South Director
North Director
East Director
West Director
Jae Eade
Heather Callens
Charlotte Cabral
Marie Pera
Jamii Pura
Martha Tobias
Nenette Corotto
Cheri Holiday
Helen Matulich
Sandy Williams
Sharon Hawkins
Sally Silva
Dianne Rodrigues
In 2015 our organization has organized and participated in close to twenty important events or
services ranging from and including – General Membership meetings, instructional BEEF
promotions, fund raising events, Armed Service support, educational classroom participation,
social events, County Fair events, and scholarship funding all done to support and promote our
BEEF industry and our community. The members have used creative “out of the box” thinking
and taken initiative to make this a powerful year. Thanks and recognition belong to all of the
members, officers and directors who have worked so hard to make this such a successful and
productive year.
Annual Activity Summary:
Each month the San Benito County CattleWomen (SBCCW) support the Red Cross when they
hold their monthly blood donation. Margaret Prewett and Sharon Hawkins are on hand to
provide warm BEEF broth to the donors. They use brochures from the California Beef Council
and their own personal experiences in the cattle business to talk about beef and why it is a
great way to keep iron levels strong.
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In mid-December our Holiday Social and General Membership meeting was held at the home of
Jessica Brem. In the Holiday spirit our members contributed canned goods for our local
Community Pantry. The new slate of officers for 2015 were presented at this meeting.
Our annual Pedro Card Party was held in mid-February and is a favorite local community event
held in the Catholic Community Hall. Chairperson Charlotte Cabral and her committee
organized the membership to furnish snacks and desserts for the card players to enjoy.
Fabulous auction items were available for all who wished to purchase a ticket!
This year’s Ag in the Classroom project was bags of BEEF jerky. We delivered to the local
schools, through the Farm Bureau “Harvest of the Month” program, bags of BEEF jerky for
approximately 3500 children. This was a very successful way to reach not only the children but
teachers, Moms and Dads!
Farm Day in our county is held in March and organized by our local Farm Bureau. The event is
held at our county fairgrounds where over 950 third grade students along with their teachers
and parents participate in various presentations hosted by ag-related businesses and non-profit
organizations. The San Benito County CattleWomen contribute as event organizers, tour
guides, presenters and lunch prep/serving crew. This year the SBCCW Beef Promotion
Committee provided teachers “I Heart Beef” totes containing “Beef Man” comic books and
pencils for the children. Carolyn Renz and Sandy Williams provided an interactive presentation
to the students on Beef By-products, what they are and how they are utilized in our every-day
lives.
Our local San Benito County Cattlemen’s Association held their annual Dinner Dance in March.
This sold out $200 dollar ticket for two is a popular event in our area. The San Benito County
CattleWomen headed by Carolyn Renz furnish decorations and decorate the tables for the 250
tickets sellout crowd. This year the CattleWomen were asked to make the desserts for this
affair. Our membership stepped up to the plate and furnished more dessert than the people
could possibly eat! So proud of our membership. The CattleWomen also held a 50/50 ticket
draw at the same time which is another fund raiser for our group.
Our San Benito County Cattlemen’s Association is extremely supportive of the SBC
CattleWomen and once again have donated $2,500 to be used by the Beef Promotion
committee. We are fortunate to have such a good working relationship with the Cattlemen’s
Association and truly appreciate their support.
The Spring General Membership meeting in April was held at our local restaurant The 19th Hole
where our very popular Heritage Night was another sell out event. Our presenter, Martha
Tobias, gave a talk on the beginnings of Bolado Park. Bolado Park is where we hold our San
Benito County Fair and many other county events including the annual San Benito County
Saddle Horse Show and Rodeo. It is a beautiful property which we in San Benito County
consider a “jewel” in our county crown.
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Our much anticipated placemats made their debut at our April meeting. Jamii Pura, Beef
Promotion chairman, did an outstanding job along with her committee to not only put the
information together regarding brandings and facts about BEEF but also included informative
facts about San Benito County. Because the placemat promoted not only BEEF and the beef
industry but the county itself, we were able to receive a grant from the San Benito County
Community Foundation for $7,500.00. We will be distributing the 20,000 placemats and
crayons to restaurants throughout San Benito, Monterey and Santa Clara counties. GREAT
project!
San Benito County CattleWomen along, with many other agriculture organizations participate in
the Farm Bureau sponsored EATs program. Educational Ag Tours theme this year was
“CULTIVATE IT, the tools, tips and techniques you’ll need to cultivate learning”. Representing
the cattle industry for this event were Ken Griffin, San Benito Cattlemen’s Association and Jae
Eade, SBCCW. The Farm Bureau arranges for at least 60 teachers to go on tour of “ag” in our
area. We all meet for lunch where we are seated with 8 teachers per table to discuss how
agriculture and in our case specifically the beef industry, affect the lives of those who live in San
Benito, Monterey and Santa Clara County. It is an extremely important get together and is
enjoyed by both the presenters and the teachers.
Our “Rambling Herd” project, an idea brought to our attention by Charlotte Cabral, chaired by
Marie Pera is catching on as an ongoing beef promotion project. Everyone loves to see the
“Herd” show up in their yard and are happy to “mooove” the Herd along for a small price!
San Benito County CattleWomen are active supporters of our Armed services. This year Sharon
Hawkins, working with the organization “Hollister gives back”, put together packages of BEEF
jerky to be delivered to all those from San Benito County currently serving on active duty.
In mid-May, the CattleWomen were pleased to provide scholarships to three deserving high
school seniors heading off to college. Sarah Nino, Joe Coffelt, and Bailey Nelson all are going to
colleges were they will be majoring in agriculture based subjects. Thank you to Heather Callens
and her committee for all their hard work in reviewing applications and making the tough
selections.
This year we were fortunate to receive an anonymous donation to our scholarship program.
The Silicon Valley Community Foundation representing the donor presented us with a check for
$5,000.00. A wonderful surprise! We are very appreciative and it will be put to good use.
Legislature was kept busy by Jean Barton’s emails. We truly appreciate Jean’s dedication to the
CattleWomen. The G.R.A.P. issue was of special interest to all of us and was followed closely by
our unit.
Topping off the year is our summer BBQ membership meeting held at the home of John and Jae
Eade. This is the meeting where we introduce the San Benito CattleWoman of the year. The
presentation was made by Helen Matulich to one of our outstanding members, Martha Tobias.
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A more deserving recipient of the “Cattlewoman of the Year” award would be hard to find.
Congratulations Martha!
The CattleWomen will again be sponsoring a hole for the Farm Bureau’s annual golf
tournament in September. We have a booth set up on the 12th hole where we will give out
BEEF sandwiches along with an “I Love BEEF sticker”. We swear some of those golfers take their
stickers off circle around and come back for seconds and thirds!
September is our fair month and the CattleWomen are involved in a number of activities. We
sponsor the first place award for the Ladies Calf Branding at the Ranch Rodeo, have a Feature
booth in the Pavilion decorated and organized by the committee of DeeCee Donati, Tina
Bourdet, Sharon Hawkins and Martha Tobias. “Local Roots and Cowboy Boots” is the Fair theme
which is especially good for us as we will highlight the long time and often generational impact
the cattle industry has had on our county. In our booth we furnish fair goers with pamphlets,
supplied by the California Beef Council, full of recipe’s and beef information.
On the final day of the fair the SBC CattleWomen, chaired by Charlotte Cabral, sponsor the
Livestock Judging Contest. This contest is open to 4-H and FFA members and requires them to
judge Beef, Swine, Goat and Lamb categories. Cash prizes are awarded to the highest scoring
individual and Club.
This year “The Big Blend Network” came to call on San Benito County. This is a tourism
marketing network that focus on specific areas of interest. This year’s subject is National Parks.
As we now have the newly designated Pinnacles’ National Park, they were in our area. The
Cattlewomen were ask if we would be interested in providing lunch to the group. As you can
imagine, we readily agreed and served a wonderful BEEF luncheon and received some much
appreciated press for doing so.
We have many more activities coming up, one of them being the Fall Fashion Show chaired by
Jayme Stewart and held at the San Juan Oaks Golf Club. It is another event which brings not
only our members together but the community at large. You can bet we take the opportunity
to have BEEF for lunch and it is as always a big hit. BEEF It’s Whats for breakfast, lunch and
dinner is our motto!
San Benito County CattleWomen have a hard working board of directors and a wonderful
supportive, hard working membership. We look forward to 2016 and look back on 2015 with
pride.
Jae Emery Eade,
President San Benito County
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San Diego County CowBelles
2015 Round up Report
President – Janet Tulloch
Vice President – Debbie Torres
Treasurer – Margaret Drown
Secretary – Christine Snyder
The San Diego County CowBelles have been Ridin’, Ranchin and Educatin’ since 1953 and in
2015 our CowBelles continued that tradition. While our ladies carried on with their daily
ranching duties they also took time to help in educating the public about the many benefits of
beef and the cattle industry.
The educating continued in March at the Valley Center Ag Day at the Gang Ranch in Valley
Center. At this event our ladies were able to teach 357 kids grates 1st thru 5th grades along with
approximately 2 dozen adults about the nutritional values of beef and the many uses of its byproducts.
This year we were privileged to have another wonderful Beef Ambassador represent us at the
Beef Ambassador contest in April. Our Beef Ambassador Tanya Enlow is a great example of how
growing up in the agricultural world can help to product outstanding individuals.
The CowBelles continued their support of the East County Jr. Fair in Lakeside, California which
was held May 11th to May 17th. This year our ladies helped serve at the Buyer’s Dinner on
Saturday, May 16th. It was a wonderful way for our CowBelles to show our support and thank
the local agricultural community.
During our annual Founder’s Day luncheon/meeting on May 6th we finally had the opportunity
to present last year’s CowBelle of the Year Jessica Crawford with her bracelet, which was given
out at the November 2014CCA/CCW Convention. We also presented another award this year.
The Founder’s Award was presented to Eileen Tellam. Eileen has been a vital part of the
CowBelles success throughout the years and we thank her for her many years of support.
This year’s San Diego County Fair in Del Mar, California had another record breaking year in
attendance and the CowBelles were a part of it, yet again. This year’s theme was “A Fair to
Remember” which was in conjunction with the centennial anniversary of Balboa Park and the
World’s Fairs. This fair is now the 4th largest in North America which is due to the record
breaking attendance of 1,503,528. Breaking last year’s attendance by over 46,000 people. Our
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ladies handed out close to 30,000 recipe brochures and handouts while working a total of 16
days and 128 hours. To help promote and celebrate the fairs centennial theme our booth
showcased many of our ranches that are over 100 years old and still going. Several still belonging
to our CowBelles.
The CowBelles had a booth at the annual National Day of the Cowboy celebration on Saturday,
July 25th at Mountain Valley Ranch in Ramona, California. This event gives the CowBelles an
opportunity to support the community and educate the public about the cattle industry, beef
and its nutritional value.
At the Ramona Jr. Fair in Ramona, California, our CowBelles were again welcomed with open
arms and our vendor sales proved it. We had our booth up and running on auction day which
was on Saturday, August 1st. We provided a lot of information including free items such as
bumper stickers and our promotional sale items such as hats and license plate frames helped us
to exceed our sales from last year.
After another successful year our CowBelles were able to give out 4 scholarships this year
totaling $2,000.00. Each one of the college students were very deserving and wonderful
examples of how agriculture can help product outstanding individuals.
Our group continued to grow by adding 1 new member, bringing our membership total to 33
paid members and 2 honorary members.
Respectively submitted by:
Christine Snyder
Secretary
619-247-4750
San Diego County CowBelles
855 Brightside Way
Ramona, CA 92065
[email protected]
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San Joaquin Stanislaus Cattlewomen
22015 E. Milton Rd Linden, CA 95236
Officers
President – Edith Solari
1st Vice President – Paula Bassett
2nd Vice President – Mary McPhee Miller
Secretary – Debbie Costa
Treasurer – Sheryl Morris
Correspondent Sec. – Molly Watkins
Jr. Past President – Linda Murdock
Stanislaus Director – Di Kanz
S. J. Director – Mary Robinson
Standing Committee Chair
Delegate – Gayle Watkins
Alt. Delegate – Paula Bassett
Budget & Audit – Saroya Leonardini
By-Laws – Gayle Watkins
Beef Promotion - Mary McPhee Miller
Cheers - Diana Egan
S.J. Hospitality – Marilyn Van Tassel
Stanislaus Hospitality – Bobbie Telles
Legislative - Donna Costa
Membership – Molly Watkins
Nominating – Linda Murdock
Scholarship – Linda Fields Sticks
Scrapbook - Delores Henriques &
Elisabeth Watkins
Ways & Means – Becky McPhee
Facebook – Becky Domenigoni
Membership: 54
Ag in the Classroom & Beef Promotion
The group was very active and attended various events including: Ag Venture (3 events), Ag Day, Ag Fest, Fiesta
Italiana, Farm Bureau, Stockton Rotary Read in, and St. John School Folsom Read in to name a few. At the
three Ag Ventures, we setup five booths where we gave out beef brochures and stickers, along with
demonstrations. Sheryl Morris gave demonstration on how to pair up calves with their mothers. The children
had great fun and got involved with the project. In addition we partnered with Linden FFA and presented to
grades K – 3rd grade on “Why we brand our cattle?” and the By Products from Cattle. At the Ag Fest, Elisabeth
Watkins and Anna Miller spoke to Regional KCRA Channel 3 on how the business of raising beef is a family
affair and what it means to our community. At the 2nd Annual SJ Ag Fest, there were daily 4-H and FFA
livestock showings along with Master in Showmanship and Parade of Champions. To show our support, the
SJ/Stanislaus Cattlewomen donated & served 600 hamburger meals. At the state’s Farm Bureau Meeting, Farm
bureau members and teachers throughout the community attended a state’s meeting held at Miramont Estate
Vineyards. There Kenny Watkins, VP of State Farm Bureau, spoke on beef and the history of our local area.
Molly Watkins spoke about the history of the SJ/Stan. Cattlewomen (established 53 years ago) and the activities
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in the community. At the end of the event, SJ/Stan. Cattlewomen served a steak sandwich luncheon. Teachers
were given beef brochures and educational material to be shared with their classes, spreading the word of beef to
approx. +8500 students. At Creekside Elementary School K – 6th grade, seven presenters were able to presents
to over 400 students. Topics that were covered were Farm to Fork, By Products, Animal Nutrition and
Identifications. Alford Henriques also presented the life of a chicken and brought in live chicken, baby
chickens, and an egg. At Great Valley School over 1000 students of K – 8th grade including special needs
program of 40 Autistic Children, there were four presentations. Molly Watkins spoke about By Products and
got each child involved in the demonstration. Sheryl Morris brought in a calf and talked about bottle feeding
and the health care of a baby calves.
Scholarship
This year we were able to present three scholarship to students enrolling in Agriculture studies. The
award recipients were Anna Miller of Linden $1000, Cole Lauchland of Lodi $500, and Alexandra
Castelanelli of Lodi $500.
Fundraisers
The group was hard at work with fundraising activities. Our largest was at the Fiesta Italiana in June, were
we sold over 450+ Tri Tip sandwiches and handed out +800 Beef brochures. Additional fundraiser
events was CCPA (California Cattle Penning Association) Award Dinner held on Oct 1st, were over 100
steak dinners were served; and Windmill Ranch, Donna Costa of the Stockton Pacific Rotary did a trip
tip fundraiser. We have been fortunate to have also received numerous donations of food/drinks in our
Beef Promotion activities especially those served at the Ag Fest. Thank you to the many that helped our
group and community spread the love of beef & agriculture.
Cowbelle of the year
Our Cowbelle of the year has been chosen but will not be announced until Our September General
Meeting … we are all kept in suspense.
Ways & means
The year definitely brought on change. At the beginning of the year, there was discussion by several for
the need to split and have two separate clubs. The split did happen and while change is hard, it does
have its silver lining. We now have two active independent clubs, expanding and
bringing in more membership.
All in all, with my first year as being president concluding I am very lucky to have
such a great group of amazing ladies. They have such dedication and
commitment to the SJ/Stanislaus Cattlewomen. Through their work they have
help educate and spread the word of cattle and agriculture. Without them, I
would not have pulled this year off, and for that I say thank you to each and
every one.
Edith Solari
President
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San Luis Obispo County Cattlewomen*Round Up
President – Susan Cochrane 4880 Lamplighter Way, Paso Robles, Calif 93446
1st Vice President – Laurie Lucich-Dey
Secretary – Lorraine Clark
2nd Vice President – Sarah Kramer
Treasurer – Fran Tognazzini
Directors – Marge Wheeler, Caroline Bello, Joanie Ketcham, Colleen Hayes, Justine Dunn, Carla
Young, Fran Pritchard, Margaret Avila, DeeDee Avila
Members – 207 and growing
Cattlewoman of the Year – Lorraine Cagliero
Cattlewoman Mother of the Year- Colleen Hayes
SCHOLARSHIPS – We gave out $11,000 to some well deserving high school seniors and some
continuing college students. All of these students are touching the Beef Industry in some way.
AG IN THE CLASSROOM – The Ag Venture at Arroyo Grande High School is growing, 400 4th
graders. The North County Ag Venture at the Mid-State Fair is a huge school for a day, about
1800 4th graders. The Common Core Programs in 3 of our local high schools are promoting
careers in Ag after High School, this is a year long endeavor and is very exciting. Eleven Cal
Poly range improvement students went on a Cattlewomen tour of a working cattle ranch.
BEEF PROMOTION: Sponsored the Bred and Fed Heifer and Steer Class at the Mid-State Fair;
donated to the Farm Supply Quiz Jam at the Fair; donated to the “Young Women Ag Career and
Leadership Day” for Senior girls in High School at Cal Poly; supplied 100 beef
education/recipes/gummy bears for local ag tours; donated $50 in each Board of Supervisors
name to the county Food Bank; Mid-State Fair Booth made available educational brochures,
recipes, coloring books; served beef at Rancher’s Day at Mid-State Fair (lunch and Dinner);
supplied 3 county Food for Less stores with education/recipe pamphlets; Paso Ag Tour supplied
300 educational/recipe pamphlets/ gummy bears (beef by- product); donated to Carcass
Contest for Mid-State Fair.
FUNDRAISING – one huge roping in October at the Paso Robles Event Center.
many buckles along with cash are awarded.
Saddles and
MEETINGS – This year is our 41st Madonna Inn Fashion Show; we toured the Cambria De
Salination Plant; tour of the Alle-Pia Italian Salami Plant.
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Santa Barbara County CattleWomen
P.O. Box 1292
Solvang, CA 93464
Officers:
President – Linda Williams
Vice President – Janet Kraus
Secretary – Stefani Niesen
Treasurer – Jackie Jaenicke
Editor – Robyn Moon
Past President – Brandy Branquinho
Board of Directors:
JoeAnn Branquinho
Gerry Campbell
Pam Doiron
Jo An Jessup
Raiza Giorgi
Sherry Scheller
Gail Tomasini
Current Active Members : 101
Ag in the Classroom
Brandy Branquinho, Jackie Jaenicke and Tony Branquinho attended the Lompoc Environmental
Education Fair October 20, 21 and 23. They gave a presentation over the three days to about 1050
children and teachers. The presentation was about how the cow is the "Ultimate Harvesting Machine".
They are Fire depressants, cultivate the hills where we cannot, we keep trash out of Landfills (i.e. all the
excess veggies that we cannot eat, etc.), and how they can turn grass into protein for us. Stefani Niesen
and Jackie Jaenicke presented to 220 students at Fillmore Elementary in Lompoc on March 27th. Stefani
brought her bottle calf and they did a presentation on cattle identification, teaching about branding,
tagging and ear notching. Brandy Branquinho, Joe Ann Branquinho and Barbara Mackie went to
Blockman School in Santa Maria, on April 1st. They presented to 140 students, teaching them about beef
by-products. Raiza Giorgi went to Santa Ynez Elementary and read to a class of 30 and spoke to them
about the beef industry in March. On May 29th Jackie Jaenicke, Stefani Niesen and Robyn Moon
attended Miguelito Ag Day in Lompoc. We brought the bottle calf and did a presentation on Cattle
identification. We had the kids create their own brands and when they left they drew them on a large
piece of butcher paper. There was 210 kids that met "Maybelle" our spokes calf that day. In May our
President Linda Williams attended an AG day at Arroyo Grande High School and presented to 4th
graders.
Beef Promotion
Pam Doiron was honored with 2014 Beef Promoter of the Year at the Convention. Santa Maria FFA
Students took their Educational Display booth to Nationals this past year. We donated to their
transportation costs and gave them pamphlets to hand out. Though they did not win but they did pass
out everything we gave them and there were over 60,000 people who attended the convention. Raiza
Giorgi wrote an article and submitted it to the Inside Santa Ynez Valley Magazine explaining what the
CattleWomen do to promote the Beef Industry. The magazine is at 170 locations and reaches 20,000
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people. This article is part of a quarterly magazine and will be dispersed for 3 months. As part of one of
our very large events in Santa Barbara County, The Annual Elks Rodeo puts on a "Mini Rodeo" for the
kids, where schools bus the kids to the rodeo grounds and the kids get to enjoy the rodeo experience for
the day. This year we passed out Beef Council Packets and donated towards the school buses for
transportation. This year there was about 5000 kids in attendance plus teachers, parents and
chaperones. In August the Santa Barbara County Farm Bureau throws their big annual Harvest
Celebration, the CattleWomen were there to help show our support with an attendance of 450 people.
Unit Activities
On November 19th we held our holiday meeting along with our silent auction that went well, we
earned $717.00. Well in attendance, we had 75 people present. At this meeting we inducted our new
officers and board members.
On January 21st we held our January meeting with guest speaker, Andy Caldwell. He spoke on some
political issues going on in our area that will affect us. We had 36 people attended and 10 Guests were
as well present. On March 18th we held a Cattlemen/CattleWomen meeting at the Branquinho Ranch to
Thank everyone for all that they do for our groups and to give an update of what we did in the last year.
We had a couple special guests including Santa Barbara County Sheriff, Bill Brown and his wife. We had
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Dave Campbell, Santa Barbara County Cattlemen President. We had 60 people attend the dinner and
held our wine pull fundraiser raising $500 toward our scholarship and AG education funds.
Fundraisers
On November 19th we held our holiday meeting along with our silent auction that went well, we
earned $717.00. Well in attendance, we had 75 people present. At this meeting we inducted our new
officers and board members.
On February 21st the Santa Barbara County CattleWomen Decorated the tables for the annual Santa
Barbara County Cattlemen dinner, dance and auction. The dinner had an attendance of 550 people. The
CattleWomen also hosted the silent auction to raise funds for our Scholarship funds. We sold 70 items
and 5 centerpieces giving us of a profit of $3,953.00 after all our expenses. Our centerpieces included 3
wine bottles with custom made labels on them. in the wine bottles had a sunflower, Curly Willow and
Sweet Williams. The bottles were tied together with Raffia and placed in the center of the table on a
slice of oak or in the center of a lasso. Cow confetti and custom beef fact cards were spread around the
tables.We had a Cattlemen/CattleWomen meeting at the Branquinho Ranch to Thank everyone for all
that they do for our groups and to give an update of what we did in the last year. We had a couple
special guests including Santa Barbara County Sheriff, Bill Brown and his wife. We had Dave Campbell,
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Santa Barbara County Cattlemen President. We had 60 people attend the dinner and held our wine pull
fundraiser raising $500 toward our scholarship and AG education funds.
Community Outreach
October 15th we served dinner at the Solvang Senior center. We served 83 seniors and had 12
volunteers including a new member. One of our Scholarship winners, Courtney Callaway, Karen Moore’s
granddaughter, received her FFA American degree. In November we turned in 705 holiday cards for the
troops. As with every year we have our "Cattle Toy Drive" last year we had 3 large boxes with 50+ Toys.
This toy drive promotes the Agriculture/ Cattle Industries. We ask our members to donate something
that is Farm related. February 9th 5 of our members served a seniors luncheon in Cuyama, the seniors
loved the lunch; they had 26 people attend when normally they have 18. They served tri tip sandwiches
with salad and Angel food cake for dessert. April 9th, 10 members served the senior dinner in Los
Alamos. We served 34 people and we had a Beef By -products contest and gave prizes. This year we had
the wonderful pleasure of presenting 10 scholarships throughout our County to some well deserving
young Aggies.
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Santa Barbara County Fair Activities
This year at our Santa Barbara County fair, we showed our support in many different ways. The Santa
Barbara County Fair was July 15th through July 9th at the Santa Maria Fair Park. JoAn Jessup, Stefani
Niesen and Robyn Moon clerked the heifer auction on Friday July 17th. There were 64 heifers auctioned,
the average heifer sold for about $3500.00. The Beef Barn Display Contest was judged by Deb Laroche
and friends. First place received $300, 2nd - $200, 3RD - $100.The fair theme was “Home Spun Fun”.
Stefani Niesen created a grilling themed educational booth. She placed a mannequin grilling some steaks
with 2 large cow cut outs, one having the meat cuts lined out on him. There were grilling and
educational pamphlets to handed out as well. We sponsored 6 plaques for the beef show. We had our
trailer on display for all to see some of the brands of Santa Barbara County, where we sold Beef hats,
baskets, cook books, and etc. We also sold thank you cards and stamps for the kids to give to their
buyers. This year’s attendance was 133,000 people.
CowBelles of the Year
We have Co-CowBelles of the Year for 2015:
Sue Benech Field & Kathi Carlson.
Sue & Kathi are the cowgirl team on the 14,400 acre
Hollister Ranch on nearly 9 miles of coastline just
above Santa Barbara. It is a ranch community which
includes a subdivision of 136 one-hundred acre
parcels that are governed by the Hollister Ranch
Owners’ Association. Over 90% of the property
continues to be devoted to well-managed and
sensitive cattle grazing by the Hollister Ranch Co-op
Board.
John McCarty, Manager of Hollister Ranch Co-op and cattle lessee of the Hollister Ranch:
“My cowgirls as I call them, Sue and Kathi, became a cowgirl team in the late 90’s over 15 years ago.
Sue because she had been riding the HR [Hollister Ranch] with me for years prior became the so-called
“team leader.” Kathi, with her positive and energetic demeanor, was second to no one with enthusiasm
and effort. Since then together and equally they have become “hands”: horsemanship, gathering,
doctoring, branding, sorting, and promoters of the cattle industry, educating the many owners and their
family and friends about the benefits of cattle grazing, and the benefits of cattle as a tool to manage our
precious resource, the rangeland. I could write pages on the experiences, the help & helpfulness they
have brought to the table to promote the HR cattle operation and the industry as a whole.
Sue’s environmental contribution combined with Kathi’s business help have been a winning combination.
Both have served on the HR Co-op Board and both have done the name “cowgirl” justice and have set a
very high bar. Each of them serving as staff for the California Rangeland Trust has been frosting on the
cake. Individually they have been invaluable in the cattle industry, and together they are a force to be
reckoned with.”
Kathi about Sue:
Sue grew up as a farmer’s daughter working in the fruit orchards of the “Valley of Heart’s Delight,”
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Santa Clara Valley, CA. Horses have been her passion and part of her life since she was ten years old,
when she earned enough money to buy her first mount.
Sue worked as a diving marine biologist all along the West Coast from Alaska to Baja CA.
She now also works as a Field Biologist through her company, Benech Biological and Associates. She has
done many biological reports for California Rangeland Trust.
Cowboy poetry is another of Sue’s talents and she has published a book Go’n Coastal.
Sue has rode for the Hollister Ranch Brand for over the last 20 years.
Sue is also a partner in her own herd, Te Amo Livestock.
Sue is respected by everyone who rides with her, as her years of experience horseback radiate from her.
Sue about Kathi:
Born in and raised in Santa Barbara. Got her first horse at 10. Now, we all love the smell of horse poop
but Kathi told me ever since she was a kid she loved the smell of fresh cow pies. I guess you could call it
her comfort “scent” (a foreshadowing of things to come).
Kathi graduated Cal Poly SLO in Graphic Arts. She told me that she would have gone into Ag if she
thought she could make money at it. I guess the prospects looked better in Graphic Arts.
She is married to Andy Carlson, her childhood sweetheart. She told me one time that her husband
mentioned to her that she was always easier to live with when there was a horse in her life.
Andy and Kathi have two wonderful and talented children, Danielle and Alexandra. Danielle is now at
Humboldt majoring in Art and Alexandra is starting at Cal Poly this fall majoring in Soil and Earth
Sciences in the Ag Department.
Kathi worked most of her professional life at Patagonia [outdoor clothing company] in graphic design
until 2005 when Kathi moved to the Hollister Ranch. Living at the Ranch she got a horse and started
riding with the HR Cattle Co-op. At that same time she also began working with Benech Biological and
Associates doing the maps, photos and graphics for Ranch Baseline Surveys for the
California Rangeland Trust.
Since leaving the company Patagonia, Kathi also became a partner in Vaqueros de las Ollas, designing
and marketing clothing targeting surfers and ranchers, as they both seem to share the same love of wide
open spaces and durable outdoor coats and shirts.
She also recognized an unfilled local niche and started her own business called Carlson Ranch Services
which takes care of local livestock and lands for owners who are temporarily out of town or unable to
tend to business. Soon after, she became a partner in Te Amo Livestock LLC which is currently a stocker
cattle operation and a partner in JM Cattle LLC which is a cow-calf operation in Santa Barbara County
and about that time became a member of Santa Barbara County CattleWomen.
As if she didn’t have anything better to do, about four years ago she began working as the Secretary for
the Hollister Ranch Cattle Co-op and was instrumental in developing and producing the Co-op’s Grass
Fed Beef Program for the Hollister Ranch.
When one thinks of Kathi, you envision an optimistic, energetic gal full of try who never gives up and
gives her best to all she does. And she does it all, everything from gathering, sorting, roping, doctoring
and shipping cattle to developing graphics Rangeland surveys and grass-fed beef displays, not to
mention doing the day-to-day bookkeeping of at least three Ag businesses.
Oh ya and while she is resting she loves to help train young horses.
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Round Up Report 2015
Officers:
President: Dottie Long, 1st Vice Pres: Betty Stephenson, 2nd Vice Pres: Maudie Gregory:
Secretary: Cindy Scott
Treasure: Sandee Monroe
Past President: Peggy Kite
Executive Committee: Zettie Aldridge, Teresa Albaugh, Betty Stephenson, Ginger
Fowler, Sharon Stevenson
Membership: 58 and 30 active members
January: Our year started with Shasta Co. Cattlemen’s annual meeting/luncheon.
Cattlewomen served lunch and had a table with beef promotion items displayed. Officers
were installed at this meeting by Joan Hemsted of Tehama County Cattlewomen.
February: Our unit had a very busy month. We cooked & served a tasty Tri Tip and BBQ
beef sandwiches, beans, drinks, chips and desserts during the Sierra Cascade Logging
Conference four days at the Shasta District Fairgrounds in Anderson. Our profit was
almost$4,500 to go towards our scholarship fund. Next, our 2015 Beef Princess/Beef
Ambassador contest and dinner with the crowning our winners Valle Urricellique, Sr.
Beef Ambassador, Adam Blaylock, Jr.Beef Ambassador, Chloe Fowler, Beef Princess.
Wonderful young people to share their stories and talk about the cattle they raise and
about beef nutrition. We had raffle items, donations and an auction of ranch items
which we deposited over $1000 in the scholarship fund.
May: During Cottonwood Rodeo Week, SCCW have Ag In The Classroom at North
Cottonwood School kindergarten classes, 6 groups of 20 children for 15 minutes each for
a presentation “Cattlewoman’s Day On The Ranch.” We had poster cows corralled for
feeding, vaccinating, and sorting by brands, clothing and tools of the trade.
Ginger Fowler and Geneva Toms gave readings “Tools of the Trade” to preschoolers at
the Cottonwood Library during Rodeo Week.
June: Shasta District Fair was four days: Our Red Barn was full of beef promotion items
to sell. We had a Belhen stock panel raffle for our scholarship fund. Our Beef Princess
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and Sr. Beef Ambassador helped hand out awards and ribbons in the judging ring for
many of the classes. The Jr. Ambassador helped in the Red Barn. SCCW have two prizes
of $25.00 each given to 4-H members of Grand Champion Heifer and Reserve Champion
Steer. A fit & Show prizes given 1-4th place by SCCW to 4-H and FFA beef project
members. There were 9 teams of 3 people.
July: The Carcass Contest winners were sponsored by Shasta County Farm Extension
Office and SCCA was held at the Shasta High School Farm. SCCW presented cash
awards, a tie for the 1st place at $100 each,2nd $75,3rd $50,4th $25.
“A Cattlewomans’ Day On The Ranch” Twenty-five children, ages 6-11 attended each
class. Took home packets of beef puzzles & games.
September-December: SCCW/SCCW Fall Barbeque and Membership Drive at Anderson
River Park great social function. Cattlewomen have beef unit selected promotion item
table, prepare and serve the lunch. Our unit selected Dottie Long as our “Cowbelle of the
Year.” Farm/City day at the Shasta District Fairgrounds, Cattlewomen served BBQ beef
sandwiches, chips, watermelon and brownies. October is a time for the SCCA feeder
sale.
November meeting is our scholarship fund raiser presented by Pampered Chef.
Cattlewomen receive 30% of the sales. Shasta Bull Sale is another fund raiser for
SCCW.
It gives me pleasure to be part of this origination. We need to keep the public informed
BEEF is the best.
My Best To All,
Dottie Long, President
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Siskiyou County CattleWomen
Established 1955
2015 60th anniversary
1233 Holzhauser lane
Etna, Ca. 96027
www.siskiyoucountycattlewomen.com
ROUND UP REPORT 2015
Officers and Board:
President: Sharon Erickson
1st VP: Tara Porterfield
2nd VP: Lynda Bevelin
Secretary: Dona Farnam
Treasurer: Cheryl Foster
Membership: Heidy Carver
Directors: Carolyn Houghton, Elaine Kuck,
Delegates: Michele Murphy, Rita March, Lori March
Past President: Heidi Martin
We have 175 members this year, our largest ever. Twenty five of those members are new. We
have only 3 general meetings a year, with three board meetings preceding them because We
are geographically a very large county with a population of 44,673. So our many activities are
member/committee driven. We do a lot of beef promotion and Ag education throughout the
year with our biggest fundraiser being our county fair sandwich booth and the November
dinner auction. Our November auction dinner brought in over 6,800 for use in scholarship
monies.
Ag Education: We have two school districts, east and west of I-5, so there are two main teams
of CattleWomen Ag educators who visit many of the schools in the county. We educated 2,880
students in local classrooms, plus 400 students in San Francisco for a total of over 3000
students; with 500 more at our Ag Awareness Day event held in May. Some local 4th graders
were lucky to get a Martin family ranch tour. Our member Pat Martin (who has passed) was
very proud of her tour and worked very hard to organize it. This year her grown children and
some of their spouses have continued with that tradition. There were some 150 kids who
participated in that event. We also promoted beef and educated some 750 adults through
other beef presentations at various meetings in 6 different states; all totaling 4680 + or reached. Our National Beef Speakers’s Bureau members complete a pre- and postquestionnaire of their audiences that showed a positive and more favorable attitude about beef
after the presentation.
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Beef Promotion: We give out cowtales candy, jerky and beef brochures at the Ft. Jones holiday
parade, where we combined with the local 4H group to have a tractor pulling a wagon with a
hand built barn on it and our Cattlewoman of the Year and 4H students riding on. SCCW
sponsor the luncheon and get to speak at the annual KARE tour where state legislators are
given a tour of some of the agriculture and forestry areas in our county. They are also educated
as to the importance of cattle in the forest. ANCW Member, Melanie Fowle, presented the
“Nutritious Side of Beef” to many organizations in our area. And we support the county’s
Stable Hands horse therapy program. Our presence in local holiday and rodeo parades is an
opportunity to pass out beef literature, recipes, brochures and beef sticks. Our many blogs,
tweets, facebook posts, website posts, links to other ag-related websites, plus downloadable
documents and other social media comments continue to educate consumers. We submitted
articles in the state Chimes publication. Many members make other contacts on a daily basis
that speak to our unique commitment of beef promotion and education at their own expense.
We also place ads in local papers and on radio throughout the year.
County Fairs and Expo: The Siskiyou Golden Fair in August provides us with our biggest
fundraiser selling beef sandwiches for the 5 days of the fair. We targeted over 49000 for our
Exhibitor booth, where we had beef facts and brochures for visual aids. Our “Create-A-Cow”
contest had 11 entries this year, but many of the schools participated from their after-school
class so it included a larger number of children. We participated in the first Sportsmen Expo at
the fair grounds with a Walking Taco booth. We educated some 1000 people. We sponsored
the Rancher’s Choice competition and awarded carcass of merit winners at both the Siskiyou
and Tulelake Fairs.
Young People: Our scholarships given to students are one of our most important projects: we
awarded 3 scholarships to two high school seniors, and one college renewal scholarship and
increased the amount that we gave this year with the recipient being Emma Morris. The
scholarship money is raised at our silent auction fundraiser at the annual November
Cattlemen’s dinner. Cheryl Foster works very hard to coordinate this event every year. We are
very proud of our Beef Ambassador competition and work to coach and educate the
competitors with Lynn Bryan and her daughter Katie Morris headed up that committee. At state
level they also helped. Our senior winner this year is Hayley Kaae at county level. Hayley went
on to place as runner up at state. Our junior Beef Ambassador is Angelee Dowling at the county
level and winner at state level as well. We are very proud of our winners.
CattleWoman Of The Year to be awarded at our Fall dinner in November:
Heidi Martin
Our Pioneer Beef Woman: Unknown at this time
Top Hand award to be awarded at our Sept. meeting: Lori March
New Projects: We developed a High School Culinary Arts beef class, which will get under way
at Yreka High School this year. We did a Father’s Day promotion at two restaurants, The J & D in
Yreka and Lalos in Fort Jones. Where fathers and the waitress received money for ordering and
serving beef entrees. With radio broadcasts to an audience of over 4000. A restaurant in Yreka
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has encouraged our local ranchers to burn their brands into their wall to support local ranches.
This year we have an opportunity to be a part of alumni Kate Jopson of Etna High School, play
project titled the Cherry Orchard Project. This project is using interviews with local cattle, farm,
and logging women of Siskiyou County to get information of our way of life,and how hard it is
to do the work we do every day. This info is being compiled into a play to educate the public in
LA County, and other counties as well, as to the importance of beef, farming etc. The play will
be performed in Siskiyou County first then taken to many other locations. We have been
privileged to participate in this event.
We are very supportive of local events encouraging support of our land and water rights,
legislative changes that will affect the ranching industry and stopping Agenda 21 efforts. 8
members traveled to Harris Ranch and enjoyed other members from the state. Our meeting in
May had Redding veterinarian Steve Gillispie discussing vaccines, feed and tender meat in
cattle. In June ,7 of us traveled to Klamath Falls for a National meeting. Our August cattle tour
this year was at the Belcampo farms with primary discussion on the soil and feed in their fields.
Sharon Erickson,
SCCW President
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TEHAMA COUNTY CATTLEWOMEN 2015 ROUNDUP REPORT
President:
Vice President:
2nd Vice President:
Recording Secretary:
Corresponding Sec:
Treasurer:
Membership Chair:
Linda Borror
Jeanne Smith
Kelly Mouton
Linda Walker
Jean Barton
Renee Ewing
Shirley Davis
Board of Directors
Michelle Blunkall
Joyce Bundy
Beth Chaney
Kari Dodd
Shelley Macdonald
Charlene Priest
2014 CowBelle of the Year – Kelly Mouton 2015 CowBelle of the Year – Charlene Priest
Membership: 100 regular, 11 ANCW, 4 local
Tehama County CattleWomen awarded $ 10,000 in scholarships. Emily Andreini, Bailey Brownfield,
Corey Carpenter, Margo Dawley, Wyatt Houghtby, Jessica Macdonald, Zakry Stroing. A Scholarship
Auction is held during the TCCA Winter Dinner with Cathy Tobin as Chairman.
Our Tehama Co. Beef Ambassadors are: Senior – Danielle Mueller, and Juniors Emyli Palmer and Kayla
McGiffin. At the state competition Emyli was 2nd place Junior. They have represented the beef cattle
ranchers at schools, public events, and Animal Camp.
Our 2014 Beef ‘n Brew had more than 1,618 attendees at the 5th annual, sponsored by TCCW and
Downtown Red Bluff Business Association, with tickets only $ 20.00 each for a successful fundraiser.
There were more than 64 craft beers available for sampling, and 27 different beef appetizers. Each
beef appetizer vendor received $ 150 toward cost of beef from sponsors. Beef ‘n Brew was voted
2015 Best Local Event in Tehama County.
The 6th annual Beef ‘n Brew will be September 19, 2015, with Cathy Tobin chairman, Renee Ewing
treasurer, Mandi Selvester-Owens website/media, Jeanne Smith, Joyce Bundy, Jean Barton, Linda
Walker, Michelle Hickok, and members of Downtown Red Bluff Business Assn. Thanks to generous
sponsors Peacher Ag Construction, Animal Health International, Rolling Hills Casino, Golden State Farm
Credit, Timbo Elephant Preserve, El Rancho Capay, Red Bluff Dodge, Chrysler, Jeep, Ram; Corning
Chevrolet, Suburban Propane, McGlynn-Clark Attys, George Growney Motors and CHB Certified
Hereford Beef each beef appetizer vendor will receive $ 150 toward cost of beef. Breweries
represented will be: Sierra Nevada, Fall River, Lost Coast, Lagunitas, Mad River, Anchor Brew, Etna
Brewing, Mt. Shasta Brewing, Drakes, Deschutes, Alaskan, Mendocino, Wildcard, Eel River, Lassen Ale
Works, 21st Amendment, Green Flash with two or more micro brews.
ANCW Region V meeting at Running Y Ranch, Klamath Falls, OR was attended by Irene Fuller, Geneva
Drinkwater Toms and Jean Barton with members from Napa/Solano and Siskiyou Counties, including
American National CattleWomen President Melanie Fowle, Etna. She is first president from California
since 1972, and we are proud of her.
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TCCW sponsored a table at “Alternative to Violence Trivia Night” with Linda Walker, Joyce Bundy,
Tammy Chrisler, Linda Borror, Barbara Secor, Irene Fuller winning prize for “The Biggest Loser”.
At the 2014 Tehama District Fair TCCW (Beth Chaney & Joyce Bundy) handled bump-up steer prices,
sponsored junior beef jerky cash awards, buckle and $ 100 for beef carcass contest winner Taylor
Collins, 2013 Sr. TC Beef Ambassador. Linda Johnson had the TCCW booth at Dairyville Orchard
Festival, TCCA Field Day, Beef ‘n Brew, Corning Olive Festival with beef recipes and information. Beef
Ambassadors, Kari Dodd and Shelley Macdonald participated in TC Farm Day for 4 th grade.
TCCW donated toward the gift presented to retiring CCW Treasurer Nadette Raymond Ott at CCW
convention in Sparks, NV. Attending from TCCW were Linda Borror, Jeanne Smith, Kelly Mouton,
Kendra McCluskey, Charlene Priest, Jean Barton. TCCW was recognized in Bayer & Walt Rodman Beef
Promotion contests, Newsletter publicity tools, Ag in Classroom.
TCCW members were door monitors at the Red Bluff Bull & Gelding Sale Art Show with Jane
Daughterty, chair of the art show. Beef Ambassadors and cattlewomen helped serve 650 New York
steaks at the Buyer/Consignor dinner at RBB&GS.
TCCW donated $ 1,000 to Red Bluff FFA for their participation in National FFA Forestry Judging in
2015. Beef sticks were donated to the five high schools for Sober Graduation. “Ride for Life” buckle
was sponsored by TCCW. TCCW made donations for the SERRF programs.
Tehama, The Magazine, Vol. 5, # 2, Fall 2014 mentioned the 200 leather brands that were registered
at the County Recorders office, from 1856 to about 1938. In 1856, TCCW member Bev Ross said it was
50 cents, while now it is $ 70 for two years. There are more than 50 cattle brands on display at the
Tehama Co. Museum in Tehama, CA. Other places to find brands include the Branding Iron Café and
sale ring at Shasta Livestock Auction Yard, Cottonwood, with TCCW member Betty Peek.
Roaring Twenties was the 57th annual luncheon and fashion show at Rolling Hills Casino, Nov. 8 th, 2014
with Jeannie Garton, chairman; tickets Shelley Macdonald; Model coordinator Michelle Blunkall;
Decorations Jeanne Smith; Cowboy Pantry Pem Lester, Kelly Mouton and 2014 Beef Ambassadors;
Boutique Laurel Walker; Publicity Anne Read and Linda Walker; Program & Sponsorships Joyce Bundy.
Installation of 2015-16 officers was held during
the annual Christmas party and dinner at
Wilcox Oaks Golf Course, by past president
Joan Hemsted assisted by husband Jerry.
Donations of nightwear were given to “Children
First”, Foster Children’s Families.
Dee Jennings-Hill was chairman of the
CattleWomen Vests project using old/used
Wranglers. Many work days produced 53 vests,
with silver conchos, gold embroidery with
Tehama County CattleWomen on the backs.
March CCW Spring Meeting at Harris Ranch was
first event they were worn.
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Gold Country Cutters had a welcome event hosted by Chamber of Commerce doing a “Taste of
Tehama” at the fairgrounds. CattleWomen served 600 tastes of beef in 1.5 hours. Members Irene
Fuller, Cathy Tobin, Jacqueline Leininger, Jane Daugherty, Jean Barton, Linda Walker participated.
The 5th Annual “Ride 4 Ranching” Trail Ride was held at Quiet Hills Ranch, Flournoy, CA with chairmen
Charlene Priest & Kelly Mouton.
Earth Day School Presentations were very popular with the eight classrooms in April. Shelly
Macdonald, Kari Dodd, and Linda Borror prepared a presentation “Recycling, Reuse and Reduce.”
They, with Beth Chaney, Cathy Tobin, Anne Butler, Joyce Bundy, Kelly Mouton did school presentations
including local Kiwanis. A proclamation passed by the Board of Supervisors reads, in part: “that the
Tehama County cattle industry is an important part of Earth Day.” Members present when President
Borror presented a gift basket were Joyce Bundy, Charlene Priest, Dee Jennings-Hill, Linda Walker, Kelly
Mouton, Jean Barton and Jeanne Smith.
TCCW served tri tip wraps at the Annual Red Bluff Round-Up Mixer. Folks said the ladies looked great
in the new vests, coming and going! CattleWomen working were Joyce Bundy, chairman; Linda Borror,
Kelly Mouton, Jeanne Smith, Carol Enos, Irene Fuller, Tammy Chrisler, Darci Richeson, Pem Lester,
Barbara Secor, Beth Chaney, Kendra McCluskey, Marge Kutz, Renee Ewing, Cindy Stroing, Peggy Zane.
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Tulare county cattlewomen
Roundup report
PO Box 2529, Visalia, CA 93279
OFFICERS 2015
PRESIDENT: Claudia Guthrie
VICE PRESIDENT: Judie Church
SECRETARY: Beth Baxley
TREASURER: Loni Holt
Directors: Nicky Henderson, Jennifer McNulty, Kathy Whaley
Christie Barton, Kelli Toledo, JoWayne Lyons, Janie Sustaita
Sharyn Lockett, Sherry Dooley
Membership: 70 State Members, 22 ANCW Members
Summary of Events and Activities
Ag in the Classroom/ Ag Education
Earlier this year we finished a project that we are very proud of: an app called “Wow
that Cow”. Members Vickie Malmstrom and Beth Baxley spent tireless hours working on this
project and after many months, it is here! The app includes 4 areas of learning: Stewardship of
the Land, Beef By-products, Nutrition, and Beef Cuts. We purchased 3 iPads and stands so that
children could use the app while they were at the AgVentures Museum in the International
Agri-Center in Tulare. We chose to make it a free app so that more people would download it
onto their own iPad. The Tulare County Cattlemen shared the cost with us.
TCCW members presented a Beef By-products program to 4th graders from Tulare
County at the 3rd Annual AgVentures Day, sponsored by Tulare Co. Farm Bureau, AgVentures
Learning Center and UC Cooperative Extension. Over 1800 students participated with 4 of our
members talking to over 300 students. Students and teachers were very interested in the many
items that have Beef by-products in them. We gave each teacher a goodie bag with copies of
Caretakers of the Land, Cattle Country Activity book, ZIP pencils and bookmarks with our new
“Wow that Cow” app for all his/her students. We hope to have 2 booths next year so we can
reach more students.
Several members helped to set up and worked in the CCW Booth at World Ag Expo.
We again offered all county high school and
Jr. Colleges an opportunity to receive money to buy
Beef for their cooking classes. Most of the schools
are happy to receive the gift as their budgets to
purchase Beef is very small.
Scholarships
TCCW gave 3 scholarships to high school graduates
who are majoring in the field of Agriculture.
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This year all three recipients were from Exeter High School- Sarah Dryer (Cal Poly SLO)
received the Marian Guthrie Memorial Scholarship for $1500, Audrey Maze (West Hills JC)
$1000 and Nathan Scott (West Hills JC) $1000.
CowBelle of the Year
We will announce our CowBelle of the Year
at the Fall Banquet this October.
Tulare County Fair
TCCW will be presenting a buckle for the 1st Place in Novice Beef Showmanship at the
Fair this September. The Fair is presenting a program for local students to come and learn
about agriculture on Thursday and Friday. We will present our Beef By-products program
during those 2 days.
Fundraisers
Our main fundraiser is the TCCW/TCCA Fall Banquet. Local businesses and members
donate items for the Silent Auction. At our event last Oct. we tried something new: a live
auction of home made desserts and it was very successful. Auctioneer, Col. Randy Baxley did
an excellent job and sold the delicious treats for top dollar. We were happy to announce our
CowBelle of the Year, Nicky Henderson. We had around 170 in attendance.
Our members will be preparing and serving lunch in September for Visalia Livestock Market
at their annual Bull Sale. Because of the drought, they did not have an “Off the Grass” Sale this
year.
Beef Promotion
As a gift for the first baby born on Mother’s Day and Father’s Day, we prepared a basket with
a cutting board, Beef gift card, “Feed Me Beef” bib, I (Heart) Beef tee shirt, and Children’s
book for baby and family. We do this for the 3 hospitals in our county. We also made gift
baskets for the Tulare County Beef Boosters Dinner , Porterville Beef Boosters Dinner, and ‘Our
Heroes Dreams” Wounded Warriors Golf Tournament. We decorated a table with our Beef and
Western theme for the annual Farm Bureau Dinner.
FUNdraiser
Our annual Spring Round-Up was held at Richie’s Arena in April. The Cattlemen and
CattleWomen work together to make this a fun event for members and friends of
all ages. We have our “Cowgirl Café” for those hungry participants and observers. This year the
weather was perfect and everyone had a great time.
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Yuba-Sutter Cowbelles
5299 Fruitland Road
Marysville, CA 95901
President: Beverly Tipton
Vice President: Deborah Springsteen
Secretary: Patty Anderson
Treasurer: Megan Osbourn
Historian: Margie Burnett
Scrapbook: Melba Adamson
Members: 20
The Yuba-Sutter Cowbelles had a great year! In October 2014, we participated in the
Yuba-Sutter Farm Day hosted by the Yuba-Sutter Farm Bureau. We saw over 2000
3rd grade students and presented about beef nutrition, and beef by products.
In December we held our annual Christmas party where all the members brought
their families to celebrate the year and had a wonderful time together.
In February 2015, our group participated in the National Society of Range
Management Tour that was held at the UC Sierra Foothill Research and Extension
Center in Browns Valley. Our ladies served a tri tip lunch and participated in some of
the workshops.
In March 2015 we held our first annual Beef Drive Thru Dinner fundraiser and it
was a big success. 350 tickets were sold and it was a packed house. Local 4-H beef
members helped with serving and parking. The best part was bringing together so
many community members for an evening of fun.
In May the group had an educational booth at an Ag Day hosted by the Marysville
High School FFA. We spoke to local middle school students about the benefits of beef
and how cattle ranchers care for their livestock.
In August we awarded gift cards to the Champion Breeding Beef Female animals at
the Yuba-Sutter Fair beef show.
We awarded three scholarships to local graduating high school seniors who had
been actively involved in the beef industry and are pursuing education in
agriculture.
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A Collection of CCW Unit Recipes
A variety of recipes submitted by the California Cattlewomen Units ~ Enjoy!
Deb Cockrell
AMADOR - ELDORADO - SACRAMENTO
2 lbs frozen hash browns
2 cups sour cream
4 cups grated Cheddar Cheese
1/2 stick melted butter
1 can cream of mushroom soup
1 medium onion chopped
1 - 4oz can chopped chilies (the whole can juice and all)
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. In a large bowl, combine the potatoes, cheese, the soup, sour cream, butter and
onion. Place in a buttered 13 x 9 x2 inch pan and bake for 45 minutes.
You could also add cooked Bacon or Sausage for a breakfast casserole
BUTTE
1-pound boneless beef top sirloin steak, cut 1¼ inches thick
½ fresh pineapple, peeled, cored, cut into 1-inch pieces
Marinade:
¼ cup packed light brown sugar
2 teaspoons dark sesame oil
3 tablespoons dry sherry
2 large cloves garlic, crushed
1 small green bell pepper, cut into 1-inch pieces
1 small red bell pepper, cut into 1-inch pieces
3 tablespoons soy sauce
½ teaspoon ground ginger
Trim fat from beef steak. Cut steak into 1¼ -inch pieces. In small bowl, combine marinade ingredients. Place beef
in plastic bag; add ½ of marinade, turning to coat. Close bag securely and marinate in refrigerator 20 minutes.
Reserve remaining marinade. Remove beef from marinade; discard marinade. Alternately thread equal amounts
of beef, pineapple and bell peppers onto each of four 12- inch skewers metal
skewers.
CALAVERAS - TUOLUMNE
1 lb. ground beef
1 med. onion (chopped)
1 or 2 cloves garlic (chopped)
Salt and pepper to taste
1 can (14.5 oz) tomatoes
1 cup corn meal
1 can (14.5 oz) corn (creamed or regular)
1 tsp (or to taste) chili powder
1 can whole or sliced black olives
2 eggs
3 to 4 slices of bacon (optional)
Grated Parmesan cheese (optional)
Saute onion and garlic in oil. Add meat, salt and pepper. Cook until redness disappears from meat. Add tomatoes,
heat through. Stir in corn meal, stirring until thick, over low heat. Add corn and olives. Stir in chili powder to
desired taste. Beat eggs. Add to meat mixture and stir well. Pour into oiled casserole. Top with strips of bacon or
grated Parmesan cheese – or both.
Bake in 325 degree oven for about 45 minutes.
Serves approximately 8.
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FRSENO - KINGS
PIE CRUST: 1 ½ c Cold Butter
3 c All-Purpose Flour
1 Tablespoon Vinegar
1 Whole Egg
5 Tablespoons Cold White Water
1 teaspoon Salt
In a large bowl, with a pastry cutter, gradually work the butter into the flour for about 3 or 4 minutes, until it looks like small
peas. In a small bowl, beat an egg with a fork and then pour it into the flour/shortening mixture. Add 5 Tablespoons cold water, 1
Tablespoon of white vinegar and 1 teaspoon salt. Stir gently until all of the ingredients are incorporated. Divide crust into two
balls. Slightly flatten both balls with a rolling pin (about ½ in thick) and chill. One will be used for the Cheeseburger Pie, the other
you can store in the refrigerator or freezer for future pie.
Filling:
1 lb Ground Beef
c Pickle Juice
¾ c chopped Onion
1/3 c Milk
1 clove chopped Garlic 1 teaspoon Salt ¼ c All-Purpose Flour
2 c shredded Cheddar Cheese
1/3
Heat oven to 425°.
Pat pastry in the bottom and up sides of the pie plate. Bake 15 minutes. Brown beef, onion and garlic in a large skillet;
drain fat. Sprinkle with the salt and flour, stir to coat meat evenly. Stir in pickle liquid, milk and 1 cup of cheese.
Pour into pie crust. Bale 15 min. Sprinkle with remaining 1 cup of cheese. Bake 5 minutes longer. Serves 4-6
GLENN - COLUSA
3 lb. ground beef
1 lbs Hot Italian Sausage 1– 16 oz. Jar Green Salsa 1—16 oz. Jar Red Salsa
2 oz. Beef Base
1 large Can Diced Tomatoes 4 reg. 10 oz. cans Rotel diced Tomatoes w/ green
Chilies
1 reg. can of Hunts Fire Roasted Diced Tomatoes
1 can Beer
cup Dried Onions 2 - sm. Cans Chopped Ortega Chilies
1 oz. Cumin
1 oz. Oregano
1/4 cup Brown Sugar
2 tsp. Chili Powder
1 TBLSP. Chopped Garlic
1 TBLSP. Paprika
1 16 oz. Jar of Raspberry Chipotle Sauce ( or to taste)
1
Jerry buys his spices in the little clear bags in the Mexican section of the store most are in 1oz
bags or about 1 heaping tablespoon.
Brown the meat and add to all other ingredients.
Let simmer for at least 2 hours.
NOTE:
Great over Brown Rice, or add your favorite beans if you want.
HUMBOLT
1 lb. ground beef
11/2 c. sugar
2 eggs, well beaten
2 c. All Bran Buds (Cut back on the Bran Buds and added about 1/2 cup of ground Flaxseed meal)
1/2 c. shortening (Would substitued butter for the shortening next time)
1/2 salt
2 c. buttermilk
21/2 c. flour
21/2 tesp. Soda
1 c. raisin bran cereal 1/2 c. raisins
nuts optional
Pour one cup boiling water over ground beef. Stir in All Bran Buds. Let stand until cool. Cream sugar and
shortening. Add eggs. Sift flour with soda and salt. Add alternately with buttermilk. Add bran, meat and water
mixture, raisin bran and raisins. Mix well.
This maybe stored in refrigerator in tightly covered container for a couple of weeks. (I would not do this ) Nuts
maybe added just before baking if desired. I seasoned the top with a 21-Seasoning Salute from Trader Joe's
and fresh ground pepper. Bake in greased or paper lined muffin tins at 375 until brown 15-20 min.
Makes about 2 1/2 doz.
Please let me know how recipe turns out. Beth [email protected]
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INTERMOUNTAIN
2 eggs
¾ c. milk
2 Tbsp. snipped parsley
¼ c. catsup
½c. fine bread crumbs
1 tsp. salt ½ tsp ground sage
2 Tbsp. brown sugar
¼ c. chopped onion
1 ½ lb. ground BEEF
1 tsp. dry mustard
Combine eggs and milk; stir in bread crumbs, onion parsley, salt and pepper. Add BEEF and
mix well. Pat into 8X4X2 inch loaf pan. Bake for 1 ¼ hours, at 350 degrees. Spoon off excess
fat. Combine catsup, sugar and mustard; spread over meat.
Return to oven for 10 more minutes.
Makes 6 servings
LASSEN
1 box yellow cake mix (Duncan Hines Deluxe Yellow is best) 3 eggs
1 stick melted butter
1 ½ cup chopped nuts (walnuts, pecans)
1 box powdered sugar
8 oz. cream cheese
Mix cake mix with butter and 1 egg. Spread in a 9 X 13 or 11 X 13 glass pan (texture is crumbly).
Chop nuts and pour over cake mix. Melt cream cheese, add 2 eggs and box of powdered sugar.
Beat well. Pour over cake mix and nuts. Bake at 320 degrees for 50-55 minutes. Cool and cut
into bars. (will stick to the knife a lot!) Rich and chewy!
This recipe is guaranteed to become a favorite at all events, especially your children’s college
roommates!!
Enjoy – Teri Bertotti
MADERA
1 lb. ground beef
2Tbsp. Oil 1 cup chopped onion
1 can solid pack tomatoes
1 can whole kernel corn, drain, reserve liquid
1/2 cup cornmeal 1 tsp. salt
1 tsp. chili powder
1/2 cup ripe olives 1/4 cup shredded cheese
Brown beef in oil. Add chopped onion and cook until wilted. Add tomatoes and liquid from corn.
Stir in cornmeal; simmer about 10 minutes, stirring frequently. Add salt, chili powder, drained
corn, and ripe olives. Turn into a 9 inch square baking dish. Bake in a moderate oven 350* for
20-25 minutes. Sprinkle with cheese and bake 15 minutes longer. Makes 6-8 servings
— from founding member Anita Fulmer
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MID-VALLEY
½ lb. ground beef
½ tsp dried basil leaves 1 medium onion, chopped
2 c. uncooked
noodles
½ medium green pepper, chopped
1 (8 1/4 oz.) can stewed tomatoes
1 c. diced celery
1 (16 oz.) can red kidney beans (undrained)
1 tsp. salt
¼ tsp. pepper, ground
½ to ¾ c. water
1 Tbsp. Worcestershire sauce
1 beef bouillon cube
In a 10 inch skillet with cover, sauté beef. Add onion, green pepper and celery; sauté for five
minutes. Sprinkle with salt, black pepper, Worcestershire sauce, and basil. Stir in noodles,
tomatoes, kidney beans, and water. Add bouillon cube. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat cover and
simmer, stirring occasionally, for about 20 minutes, or until liquid is absorbed.
Serves 4.
MODOC
1 or 2 Corned Beef Brisket ( Each Brisket serves Apprx. 4-5 people )
2 TBLSP. of McCormick Pickling Spice per each Brisket
1 large Head of Green Cabbage Chopped
2 cups purple cabbage chopped
1 c. shredded carrots
1/2c. Slivered Almonds
1/2 c. Yoshida Gourmet Sauce mixed
1 tblsp. Corn starch
1/2 tsp. Ginger.
1/4 cup oil
Serve With: CREAM SAUCE: 1/2 cup Horse Radish
1 cup. Sour Cream
1 tsp. Sugar or to taste
Put Briskets in large pot or roster and cover with water, add Pickling Spice. Boil for 3 – 4 hours. 15 mins. before
ready to serve, add oil to a large frying pan, add chopped cabbage ( green & purple), carrots and almonds. Sauté
until half wilted, mix cornstarch & ginger in to gourmet sauce pour into cabbage mixture and continue to sauté,
so cabbage is cooked but still firm. Add cabbage to large platter, Slice corned Beef and put on top of cabbage.
Mix Horseradish, sour cream and sugar together to put on your Corned Beef. Enjoy anytime
Not just during St Patrick Day. Deb Cockrell
NAPA - SOLANO
2-1 lb. packs of hash browns, thawed
Mix together the following ingredients below:
1/2 C melted butter or marg.
1 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. pepper
1-10-3/4 oz can cream of chicken soup (or cream of mushroom, etc.)
1 C. sour cream
1/2 C. chopped onion ( can include some green tops )
1 C. half and half (or milk)
1 C. cheddar cheese, grated
1 C. jack cheese, grated
Mix ALL together with hash browns and pour into a 13X9" baking pan. Bake @ 325 degrees for at least 1
hour...sometimes 15 more minutes or until it bubbles.
This is wonderful...good for a brunch, dinner, branding party, or any occasion...ENJOY!!!
From a friend in the Hill & Dale Group of Napa...a 52-year-old women's social club
~ JUDY AHMANN
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PLACER - NEVADA
1 qt. - water
3 - carrots
2 sm. - potatoes (peeled & diced)
1 med. - onion (sliced)
1 1/2 Cup - mild salsa
2 cubes - beef bouillon
1 1/2 # - ground beef
1/2 Cup - seasoned dry bread crumbs 1 tsp. - Cow Camp Seasoning (or garlic seasoning of your choice)
1/3 C - milk
chopped fresh cilantro
In a large stock pot, bring water, carrots, potatoes, onions, salsa & bouillon to a boil Simmer for 10 min,
while you prepare meatballs. Meatballs: Combine ground beef, bread crumbs, Cow Camp seasoning &
milk. Form into 1 " balls. Drop into the boiling broth a few at a time. Coer and simmer for 20 minutes.
Serve with cilantro as a garnish. Enjoy!
~ by Lois Tripp/Tripp Ranch
PLUMAS - SIERRA
1 ½ pounds of ground round, or ground chuck
1 pkg. Lipton’s Dehydrated Onion Soup Mix
½ pound Italian sausage
2 eggs
½ cup seasoned breadcrumbs
Mix above ingredients well and pack into a 9x5x4 loaf pan.
Mushroom Soup (undiluted) over meat.
Pour 1 can (10 ½ oz.) Cream of
Cover with foil and bake for 1 hour 20 mins. at 350 degrees. Skim off any excess oil and serve
with mashed potatoes, rice, or noodles.
Serves 6.
SAN BENITO
Hamburger- browned (about 4 lbs.)
Cumin – to taste (a very strong spice so be careful)
Onions – diced – one large (red or white)
Olives – sliced – one small can
Eggs – Hardboiled – 2 or 3 diced (I very seldom use eggs)
Cheese – Monterey & Cheddar – shred (I like a lot of cheese so I use 2lbs each, mix together)
Enchilada Sauce – 1 can (28 oz.)
Flour tortillas
Brown hamburger with small amount of diced onions and a little enchilada sauce and cumin.
Spray a Pyrex pan 13x9x2, with Pam Pour small amount of enchilada sauce in bottom of pan
Dip tortillas in enchilada sauce, place in Pyrex pan and add meat, onions, olives, cheese and
egg – roll up tortilla with ingredients inside. Pour Enchilada sauce over rolled enchiladas then
sprinkle cheese on top.
Bake @ 350 for 40 min. or until bubbling.
This recipe makes 6 Enchiladas.
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SAN JOAQUIN—STANISLAUS
1/3 cup reduced sodium soy sauce 1/3 cup packed brown sugar 1/4 cup sliced scallion, white and green parts
1 tablespoon sesame oil
1 tablespoon sesame seeds 2 teaspoons garlic, minced
1 -1 1/2 teaspoon gingerroot, minced 1/4 teaspoon chili pepper flakes (more or less depending on heat preferences)
2 – 3 lbs flank steaks
Mix together all ingredients except steak together in a resealable freezer bag. Fold steak into thirds, placing outer
edges towards the center. Place steak into bag and squish around so that all of the steak surface is covered. Seal
and label. Marinate for at least 8 hours or overnight. Steak can be froze for up to 2 month. To prepare, remove 2
days ahead and defrost in the fridge. To prepare, pre-heat grill or broiler. Grill or broil steak for 5 minutes per
side or until steak reaches 135 degrees. Remove steak from heat and allow to rest for 5 minutes before slicing. To
serve, thinly slice steak across the grain Optional part with marinade. Remove steak from bag and pour
sauce into a small sauce pan. Bring sauce to a boil and simmer for 5 minutes. Spoon a bit of sauce on
top of cooked meat.
Can be paired with a baked potato/rice/pasta.
SANTA BARBARA
2 lbs. stewing beef
½ cup flour
1 tsp. dry mustard
¼ tsp. Beau Monde seasoning
Garlic salt, salt & pepper
1- 8 oz. can tomato sauce
½ cup dry red wine
3 bay leaves Onions, carrots, mushrooms as desired. No potatoes!
¼ tsp. powdered ginger
1 can beef broth
4 Tbsp. Worcestershire sauce
Wide egg noodles, cooked and drained
Dredge meat in mixture made by combining flour, ginger, mustard, Beau Monde, salts & pepper in a Ziploc bag.
Brown meat in hot fat or olive oil in a Dutch oven or such. Add all other ingredients. Cover and cook two hours.
Thicken to taste, if not already thick enough.
Serve over wide egg noodles.
Serves 4.
~Favorite stew recipe of Sherry Scheller
SHASTA
1
1
1
4
1
layer of slice potatoes
layer of sliced carrots
layer of sliced onions
sticks of celery cut up
can peas drained
½ lbs. ground beef cooked
tsp. brown sugar
1 can tomato soup
½ tsp oregano
Layer first five ingredients in to a greased casserole dish. Brown ground beef, drain of grease and place on top of
vegetables in casserole dish. Cover with tomato soup, sugar and oregano. Bake at 250 or at 350 1 ½ hour or until
vegetables are tender.
Very good.
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SISKIYOU
1/2 large onion sauteed in 2 tbsp. olive oil
1 large head cabbage
remove core boil 5 mins, peel off layers and set in ice water, drain in salad shooter, cut out thick rib in the center
chop up rib and mix with....1/4 lbs. pork and 3/4 lbs hamburger
sauteed onion
1 egg
1/3 cup panko bread crumbs
2 tsp. milk
1/2 nutmeg
1 tsp salt and 1 tsp. pepper
Mix ingredients set in fridge 15-30 minutes .
Cut into 12 equal sections
Fold cabbage leaf over so the cut out triangle overlaps opening to create solid circle. Roll up mixture burrito style,
tightly, secure with toothpick.
In large pan put:
2 bay leaves 1 tbs. olive oil 1 large garlic clove- minced 1(14.5) can diced tomatoes 1 tbs. white wine
Place rolls on top of sauce. Pour 1 cup chicken broth over. Place lid of foil on top with steam vent cut
out. Cover cook on med till boiling then on low to simmer 30 mins.
These are excellent low cal beef recipes.
Great for lite or eating right meals.
SONOMA-MARIN
2 c. coarsely chopped, rinsed and husked tomatillo
ones if you’re brave
1 (4 oz) can chopped green chilies, use the hot
2 large Avocados, halved, peeled, pitted and diced
¾ c. chopped white or yellow onion
½ c. fresh cilantro
3 T fresh lime juice
Place the tomatillos in food processor. Pulse until a coarse puree forms. Pour puree into medium bowl.
Mix in all remaining ingredients. Season with salt and pepper to taste. Serve with tortilla chips.
TULARE
1 flank steak 1/2 cup soy sauce ¼ cup. olive oil
2 clove garlic, minced
1 tsp. ginger
¼ cup. Honey
2 Tb. red wine vinegar
Mix all ingredients except the meat. Pierce meat with a fork on both sides so that the marinade can get
into the meat. Marinate the flank steak for several hours turning over once or twice. Grill or broil for
several minutes on each side. Do not overcook.
Slice meat against the grain and diagonally. Serves 4 – 6
-PS… this recipe is from my mother-in-law, Marian Guthrie, who started promoting flank steak in the
early 1960s when few knew how to cook it. She was past president of ANCW and
Tulare County CattleWomen. One of my favorite recipes so many years later.
~Claudia Guthrie
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BUILDING ON
“CATTLEWOMEN STRONG”
C a l i f o r nia CattleWomen
MID-YEAR MEETING
WORLD AG EXPO
O’Connell Ranch Field Day
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AG DAY AT THE CAPITAL
CALIFORNIA CATTLEWOMEN
Officers, Directors & Committee Chairs
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