August 2015 - Virginia Cattlemens Association

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The Virginia Cattleman
Photo Taken By: Madison Slaven
Volume 37 Number 8
Circulation 8,000
What’s Inside
Page 9 - Creating & Maintaining
Page 11 - Philips Ranch Honored For
Stewardship
Page 14 - Maxey Farms Named Producer
of the Year
Page 15 - Hornbaker Receives Industry
Service Award
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PAGE 2, AUGUST 2015, THE VIRGINIA CATTLEMAN
By: Jason Carter
What a success the 2015 Virginia Cattle Industry and
Dairy Expo was! There were
over 1200 in attendance with
over 70 vendors as well.
Kentland was a great host
location and I am especially grateful to the staff there
led by Dwight Paulette and
John Wooge. Things flowed
nearly seamlessly for the day
and concluded with a business meeting that met our
objectives as well. Our renewed partnership with the
Virginia State Dairymen is a
plus moving forward as well.
Eric Paulsen is great to work
with and our respective Associations share both members as well as vast common
interests. Next year we will
plan to have the event in the
Clarke County area to piggy
back on this year’s success
and utilize the resources of
the Blue Ridge Cattlemen’s
Association to assist with
hosting. Our award winners
were well deserving and both
the Maxeys and Gary Hornbaker represent individuals
that humbly serve as role
models within our industry.
It was also nice to recognize
Ed Scott in his retirement
from the General Assembly.
Ed has been a steadfast supporter of Virginia agriculture
and particularly the livestock
business. He worked diligently to continue the funding process for the livestock
facility expansion at Virginia
Tech. Finally, I owe a daily debt of gratitude to Joan
Gardner and Jacquelyn Davis with the Dairymen’s and
Cattlemen’s
Associations
respectively for all they did
managing the event ahead of
the day.
The business meeting of VCA
membership saw several
recommendations from the
Feeder Council and Policy
& Industry Advocacy Board
approved.
Our Standard
Operating Procedure for selling feeder cattle will include
a requirement that all cattle
sold have the transaction
handled by a bonded dealer. It is risky for producers
to handle their own money
and working with a bonded
agent is the best way for producers to protect themselves
in such high value transactions. VCA sponsored sale
marketing fees have also
been increased from $4 to $5/
head for Tel O Auction cattle,
$1.75 to $2.75/head for Board
sale field cattle and $1.75 to
$2/head for in barn graded
cattle. The proportional increase will be saved separately by VCA in a reserve
account for investment in obligations, such as capital improvement projects, outside
of operating budget needs.
This fund will be maintained
at a minimum of $100,000
and utilized at the discretion
of the VCA Executive Committee. The VCA state/federal policy positions were also
approved and we welcome
Andy Smith of Rosedale, VA
to the Feeder Council as the
At Large Director, formerly
known as the County Cattlemen seat, and George Stovall
to the Policy Board.
On the policy front, we are
pleased with a Richmond
Circuit Court judge’s decision in a recent suit, brought
by the Chesapeake Bay Foundation against the Commonwealth, that cattle are indeed
not individually fertilizer
applicators. CBF argued that
“animal feeding operations”,
with more than 200 cows and
waste management plans
should be required to also
fence cattle from streams.
The judge supports the
state’s requirement for permitting of manure spreading
and indicated that random
cattle defecation and stream
buffers are unrelated to the
scope of the manure management permit process. Even
by the report card from the
Environmental
Protection
Agency, Virginia livestock
producers are ahead of expectations for nutrient man-
agement in the Bay Cleanup
Plan and agriculture in general is preforming well. CBF
may appeal however and we
will continue to monitor this.
The EPA continues also
make headwinds for agriculture with the publication
on May 27th of the Waters
of the United States Rule. It
broadly and vaguely defines
what are now jurisdictional
waterways in our country
and makes virtually any permanent or intermittent water
body of concern to farmers.
The House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly
to require EPA to re-write
this rule. We are urging the
Senate to enact similar legislation through S. 1140 in the
coming weeks and send a
clear message to the Obama
and McCarthy administration that livestock producers
are proactive protecting water quality without excessive
federal oversight.
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Grazing
Recycles
Nutrients
By: Peter Callan, Extension
Agent, Culpeper County,
Agriculture & Natural Resources, Farm Business Management, Culpeper, Virginia
Over the past 10 years increasing numbers of cattle
producers have started to
intensively graze pastures to
maximize pasture as a source
of feed. Rotational grazing
is a management intensive
system that concentrates
animals within a relatively
small area (paddock) for a
short period of time
e.g. 1-3 days for beef cattle.
A pasture may be divided
into multiple paddocks. The
animals are then moved to
another paddock while the
other paddocks are allowed
to recover and regrow. Animals are moved according to
a flexible schedule based on
herd size, the amount of land
available, quality of forages
in the paddock and forage
consumption.(1)
Continuous grazing is use of one
pasture. The type of grazing
system implemented on a
farm has major implications
regarding pasture fertility.
Missouri researchers estimated that grazing animals
recycle 75-85% of forage
nutrients consumed. An
even distribution of manure
throughout a paddock is required for productive plant
and animal growth. Intensity
of grazing rotations affects
the manure coverage in paddocks. In a rotational grazing
system there is an even distribution of manure because
the animals are forced to
consume forage in the paddock before being moved
to another paddock. The
Missouri researchers calculated that under continuous
grazing practices, 27 years
would be needed to obtain
one manure pile per every
square yard within a pasContinued on Page 8
THE VIRGINIA CATTLEMAN, AUGUST 2015, PAGE 3
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National Cattlemen’s Beef Assoc.
P.O. Box 9
Daleville, Va24083-0009
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published monthly by the
Virginia Cattlemen’s Association
Jason Carter ....................... Stuarts Draft
Executive Secretary
Butch Foster.................................. Bristol
Field Manager
Troy Lawson...........................Churchville
Field Manager
FEEDER COUNCIL
Glenn Wheeler ............................... Atkins
Region 1
Chuck Miller ................................Crockett
Region 2
Joe Meek ....................................... Dublin
Region 3
Forrest Ashby.............................Staunton
Region 4
Rick Matthews.........................Browntown
Region 5
Steve Hopkins...............................Louisa
Region 6
Tom Nixon.................................. Rapidan
Region 6
Brett Stratton
Region 7
Andy Smith
Director at Large
POLICY & INDUSTRY
ADVOCACY BOARD
Gene Copenhaver...............Meadowview
District 1
Joey Davenport...................Glade Spring
District 1
Bill McDonald .........................Blacksburg
District 2
Steve Furrow.......................Rocky Mount
District 2
Bill Tucker .................................. Amherst
District 3
Jon Repair ................................ Glasgow
District 3
Jared Burner .................................. Luray
District 4
Allen Heishman......................... Edinburg
District 4
John Goodwin ............................. Orange
District 5
James Kean..................................Louisa
District 5
Jay Calhoun.............................. Callands
District 6
Mike Henry........................... Chesterfield
District 6
Editor...................................... Jason Carter
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Virginia’s Weekly Market Reports
JULY 9, 2015
State Graded Feeder
Steers, Medium and Large
1
700-800 lbs 177.00-219.00,
mostly 200.00-219.00, aver- Breakers, 1200-1600 lbs,
age 181.18
97.00-143.00, average
111.46
State Graded Feeder Heif400-500 lbs 240.00-278.00, ers, Medium and Large 1
JULY 26, 2015
mostly 267.00-278.00, averState Graded Feeder
age 270.33
400-500 lbs 215.00-256.00, Steers, Medium and Large
mostly 226.00-253.00, aver- 1
500-600 lbs 231.00-262.00, age 232.40
mostly 249.00-262.00, aver400-500 lbs 253.00-285.50,
age 255.53
500-600 lbs 169.00-237.00, mostly 263.00-285.50, avermostly 215.00-237.00, average 278.27
600-700 lbs 222.00-237.00, age 220.06
average 231.63
500-600 lbs 231.00-265.00,
600-700 lbs 147.00-220.00, mostly 256.50-265.00, aver700-800 lbs 201.00-224.00, mostly 202.50-220.00, average 260.21
average 219.83
age 204.33
600-700 lbs 202.50-246.25,
State Graded Feeder Heif- 700-800 lbs 170.00-192.50, mostly 221.50-246.25, averers, Medium and Large 1
average 181.18
age 240.54
400-500 lbs 217.00-253.00, Slaughter Cows
mostly 233.00-250.00, aver- Boning, 800-1200 lbs,
age 238.72
86.00-123.00, average
101.25
500-600 lbs 205.00-230.00,
mostly 205.00-226.00, average 225.15
700-800 lbs 214.50-229.00,
average 220.14
ers, Medium and Large 1
400-500 lbs 235.00-256.00,
average 248.67
500-600 lbs 201.00-235.00,
mostly 210.00-235.00, average 230.34
600-700 lbs 187.00-217.50,
mostly 200.00-217.50, average 209.28
700-800 lbs 170.00-189.00,
average 182.98
Slaughter Cows
Boning, 800-1200 lbs,
95.00-116.00, average
106.70
Breakers, 1200-1600 lbs,
105.00-117.00, average
110.00
State Graded Feeder Heif-
Virginia Cattlemen's Association
600-700 lbs 195.00-219.50,
mostly 200.00-211.00, average 209.60
700-800 lbs 155.00-203.00,
mostly 155.00-182.00, average 175.41
Slaughter Cows
Boning, 800-1200 lbs,
82.00-127.00, average
103.58
Breakers, 1200-1600 lbs,
90.00-120.00, average
107.13
JULY 16, 2015
State Graded Feeder
Steers, Medium and Large
1
400-500 lbs 232.50-270.50,
mostly 259.00-270.50, average 264.84
500-600 lbs 210.00-259.25,
mostly 235.00-259.25, average 242.36
600-700 lbs 205.00-236.00,
mostly 218.00-236.00, average 225.24
Sponsored Graded Sales Schedule
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Grazing
ture. Conversely, the pasture
was divided into paddocks
and a two day rotation was
used. Then two years would
be needed to achieve an even
distribution of manure within the paddock.(2)
The location of hay feeding
areas will impact the distribution of nutrients within
a field. Manure will be deposited near the feeding areas. Depending on weather
conditions and the potential
for creating mud and ruts
in the pasture, feeding areas
may be moved throughout
the pasture to insure a more
even distribution of nutrients. Whenever hay is baled,
nutrients are removed from
the field and exported to
the feeding area. Kentucky
researchers have estimated
that a ton of grass hay (fescue, orchard grass) removes
the following nutrients from
the soil: 12 lbs. of phosphate
and 50 lbs. of potash.(3) If
these nutrients are not replaced; soil reserves will be
depleted over time.
Consequently, there will be
a reduction in crop yields.
Soil testing determines the
amount of fertilizer that
needs to be applied to maintain hay yields.
Cooperative
extension
agents can assist producers
in the design of rotational
grazing systems for their
farms. Virginia Tech livestock budgets have shown
that the implementation of
rotational system can maximize profitability for cow/
calf producers. There are
Virginia livestock producers who have increased net
profits by $200 per head due
to the implementation of rotational grazing systems on
their farms. Rotational grazing systems can maximize
farm profitability by recycling nutrients which results
in a major reduction of purchased fertilizer inputs.
Bellows. B. 2001. Nutrient
Cycling in Pastures. National
Sustainable Agriculture Information Service.
Lory, J. and C. Roberts. 2000.
Managing nutrients in pastures to improve profitability and water quality. In: G.J.
Bishop-Hurley, S.A. Hamilton, and R. Kallenbach (eds.)
Missouri Dairy Grazing
Manual. Missouri University
Extension. University of Missouri. Columbia, MO.
Smith, R. 2008. Soil Test
Should Drive Fertilizer Decisions. Hay and Forage Grower.
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Dr. Scott P. Greiner
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The Seventh Annual TriState Beef Cattle conference
will be held at the Washington County Fairgrounds in
Abingdon, Virginia on August 12th. This year’s conference will address topics
of interest to both stocker
and cow-calf producers. The
conference will be a one-day
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Now is the time to tell your Senators to stop the EPA
Ask Virginia's Senators to vote for S. 1140. As an example, the picture above is a VCA member farm in
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Reggie Reynolds unloading hay.
Creating and Maintaining High Quality Pasture
By: Chris Carter, Southern
States Cooperative
mulated to grow well in your
region of the country and will
thrive in the soil conditions
in your pasture. According
to Southern States experts,
you should choose a certified
seed or proprietary variety
that will tolerate grazing and
is adapted for your climatic
conditions.
Cool-season grasses, like
fescue, flourish in northern regions of the country
and are the common choice
among those north of I-64.
Warm-season grasses such
as Bermuda grass grow well
in the south. According to
North Carolina Extension experts, a combination of cool
and warm-season grasses established in separate stands
in a pasture system will
provide a more even supply
of forage and lengthen the
grazing season. An ideal pasture system would include
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Virginia Ranch Honored for Excellence in Environmental
Stewardship
Mike and Susan Philips, owners
of Valley View Farms in Harrisonburg, Va., were honored as a
regional winner of the Environmental Stewardship Award Program (ESAP) for outstanding
stewardship practices implemented on their 310 acre property. The award, announced
during the 2015 Cattle Industry
Summer Conference, is issued
to one winner from each of seven regions. This year’s regional
winners will compete for the national ESAP award, which will
be announced during the 25th
anniversary celebration for the
award in January 2016.
The award, which is sponsored
by Dow AgroSciences, USDA
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and Wildlife Service, National
Cattlemen’s Beef Association
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demonstrate a commitment to
protecting the farm and ranch
land in their care.
“Mike and Susan Philips live
and breathe agriculture and
conservation. It is not a show,
it is real. We nominated them
for this award because he is
not only a successful farmer
and conservationist, but also
dedicated servants, investing
in people and the agricultural
community,” said Jonathan Repair, president of the Virginia
Forage and Grassland Council.
“They are true caretakers of the
land and outspoken advocates
for American agriculture.”
“Our legacy will be that we
took care of our cattle and always tried to do things the right
way,” said Susan Phillips. “We
feel that this land, these acres
here are ours just for a short
time. We are simply passing
through and God has given us
this to take care of and to bring
it up to a better standard.”
Valley View Farms is located in
Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley
within the Smith Creek Watershed, which has been listed as
impaired. The Phillipses utilize
nutrient management planning
on their pastures and over-seed
forages to improve pasture
quality and quantity. They have
also implemented a combination of herbaceous and forested
riparian buffers to protect all the
water features on the farm, including sensitive karst features
such as sinkholes.
The Phillipses also work to institute the four key principles
of soil health: maximize living
roots, energize with diversity,
keep soil covered, and minimize
soil disturbance. They have
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and experimentation with cover
crop and grazing systems. All
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outside of work time, which
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technician for USDA’s Natural
Resources Conservation Service
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Feeding spoiled silage, at
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Despite producers’ best efforts, sometimes silage will
succumb to yeasts, molds
and other microbes that
cause spoilage. Including
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and negatively impact production. Furthermore, some
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health issues.”
Dr. Charley warns that feeding even small quantities
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drops in intake, acidosis-like
symptoms, reduced fiber
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ibility. In dairy herds, milk
production and fat depressions also are common.
A study by Kansas State University incorporated various
levels of spoiled silage into
the ration of steers. Including just 5.4 percent of badly
spoiled silage in the ration of
beef steers reduced DM intake by 1.3 lbs. per day.1
“Limiting or preferably
eliminating spoiled silage is
the best bet for maintaining
production, herd health and
preserving valuable feedstuffs,” Dr. Charley notes.
“There’s no substitute for the
basics of good silage management.”
To achieve this goal, he recommends producers:
· Start with good quality forage, harvesting at the
right stage of maturity and
moisture level,
· Set theoretical length of
cut to achieve the right chop
length and check actual particle size distribution,
· Treat all forages for
silage with an inoculant that
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· Pack, pack and pack
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· Manage feedout by removing six inches or more
from the face, keeping the
face straight and clean and
avoiding leaving drop (compost) piles.
In particular, Dr. Charley
recommends using a research-proven forage inoculant to help prevent aerobic
spoilage. Inoculants that
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GOP Defeats Amendment on Horse Slaughter
Republicans
narrowly
blocked an amendment to
a spending bill July 8th that
would have defunded inspections of horse slaughter
facilities. The amendment
from Rep. Sam Farr (D-Calif.) would have prohibited
funding for the inspection
of horse slaughter facilities,
which would effectively
prevent them from oper-
ating. GOP appropriators
defeated the proposal in a
24-24 vote during a markup
of a bill to fund the Department of Agriculture and
Food and Drug Administration. For the last three
years, Farr said the USDA
has asked Congress to defund the practice in its budget requests.
“Supporting this amend-
ment does not stop the
slaughter of horses,” said
Rep.
Robert
Aderholt
(R-Ala.), chairman of the
subcommittee that oversees
the bill. Aderholt argued
the practice would just be
moved “off-shore” and “out
of sight.” Democrats, however, said the practice is not
humane and Congress has
previously stated it does
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Spoiled Silage
urally in varying numbers
on all pre-harvest crops,”
Dr. Charley notes. “If these
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Maxey Farms named Producers of the Year
Maxey Farms is based
in Chatham, Virginia
and it consists of over
600 fall calving cow calf
pairs. They own or lease
over 3,000 acres of land
of which approximately
1,000 acres are managed
timberland. They also run
a chicken parent operation
for Perdue with approximately 17,000 birds and in
the past they
farmed several hundred
acres of tobacco. Maxey Farms has
a reputation
of providing
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and breeding
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AI 100% of
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then use performance
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for clean-up.
They have an
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herd
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Semimetal
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they set the
standard for cow calf operations in Virginia.
Hank started farming full
time with his father after
graduating from Virginia
Tech in 1990. At that time
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farm and cattle and went
into partnership with his
dad. In the 90’s and early
2000’s Henry and Hank
used tobacco as a cash
crop to help generate revenue to expand the cattle
and timber operations.
Over the past two and a
half decades they have
set the standard of how to
build a high quality commercial herd that is always striving to add value
to all cattle sold off the operation. Maxey Farms has
an excellent reputation
of managing rented land
and they use best management conservation practices on all the land they
farm. The complete operation is also grass based.
They are highly respected
for the farming operation
they run by other farmers
in the area. As impressive
as their accomplishments
on farm are they have had
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and agriculture interest
on the local, state, and naContinued on Page 15
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Gary Hornbaker has been
involved in the Virginia livestock industry as
a producer, an educator,
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directors. He also served
on the local Farm Bureau
Board and local cattlemen
association. Hank is a
leader in Chatham, on the
state level, and on the national level. Hank is also
a founding member of
the Old Dominion board
that built a multi-million
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near Chatham. Hank has
served on the local farm
bureau board, county development board, and
Old Dominion board. He
is a past president of the
Virginia Cattlemen Association, Virginia Beef
Cattle Improvement Association and Cattlemen
Foundation. Hank has
represented Virginia Cattlemen interest on the nation beef check off board
for the past six years and
is currently nominated to
serve on the national policy board for NCBA representing beef producers
in our region. Hank and
Henry are also past state
and national winners of
the BCIA producer of the
year award.
Henry and his wife Linda also have two daughters Heidi and Hila. Hank
and his wife Debbie who
is also a graduate of Virginia Tech, have two teen
age kids that work on
the farm. Their daughter
Caroline will attend Ferrum College this fall and
their son Macon is a raising junior in high school.
Hank and Henry Maxey
of Maxey Farms, Inc. are
true leaders on and off the
farm for Virginia Cattlemen.
Maxey Farms
tional level.
Anyone that knows the
Maxey family, know they
put many hours working
on the farm. They have
a reputation for the past
twenty years of selling
quality calves in the local
state graded sales, VCA
telo-auction,
Buckingham Cattlemen Association special telo-auction
sales, and Central Virginia Cattlemen Association
(CVCA) special telo-auction sales. This operation
has been a major contributor to many of the value added programs that
many operations participate in today. They also
have a reputation of selling high quality breeding
cattle that are sort after
from buyers across the
nation. To add value to
their cattle they use AI
breeding,
precondition
calves before marketing,
and market cattle in trailer
load lots. The higher value they receive for their
calves helps sets the standard for what many other producers receive each
year.
Henry Maxey served an
outstanding career assisting farmers in the Southside Virginia as a farm
management agent. He
was a leader in VCE that a
lot of younger agents valued his advice. Henry was
also active in the community serving as a founder of the Old Dominion
Agriculture Center and
serving on the board of
VDACS graders to help
select and market fed cattle in Loudoun County for
many years. In addition
to working with 4-H and
FFA livestock projects and
shows, he also coached
state winning 4-H and
FFA livestock judging
teams. He was one of
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the first Extension Agents
to conduct multi-county beef education meetings. Many meetings had
over 200 producers in
attendance. His relationship with Marshall, Winchester, and Front Royal
livestock yards, and later
Whitestone Farm allowed
him to conduct meetings
showcasing live cattle
demonstrations..
In 2003 he founded the
Loudoun Cattlemen’s Association with 18 original
members. Interest in the
association continued to
grow with members from
adjacent counties in northern Virginia and eastern
West Virginia. Today with
Gary’s leadership the Blue
Ridge Cattlemen’s Association has 186 members,
and continues to grow. He
has served as the secretary
and treasurer of the association since the formation. The Blue Ridge Cattlemen’s Association has
gained the reputation as
the agriculture representatives from many local
governments and businesses. Gary also serves
on the VA Cattlemen’s
Policy & Industry Board
as the representative from
Blue Ridge Cattlemen’s
Association._He continues to encourage cattle
producers to join the VA
Cattlemen’s Association
and become involved
with agriculture related
issues.
Perhaps Gary’s greatest
service to the Virginia
cattle industry, besides
the producer education,
is his representation of
traditional agriculture to
local, regional, and state
boards. He served as a
Soil & Water District director in Loudoun for
22 years. He is currently
serving his second governor appointment to the
Virginia Soil and Water
Conservation Board as
a farmer representative. sight of Virginia’s Soil &
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Dirt Road Diary - Incognito
By Steve Lucas
Not every person who owns
a bunch of cows wears a big
Resistol hat and drives a
jacked up 4X4 pulling a 16
foot stock trailer. We concede this, because the average herd size of the 757,300
cattle operations in the United States is 43 cows and it’s
hard to make a living on 43
cows. This means most folks
are working somewhere else
to support their cow operation. Chances are if you
live in dirt road country you
come in contact with some of
these people every day; you
just may not know it.
Take Shorty for example. He
and his missus keep about
thirty head on a hill farm
south of town. He spends
his nights and weekends doing cow stuff: fixing fence,
checking salt, breaking ice
and feeding hay in the winter. He drives a Buick and
wears a plaid driving cap
with a buckle in the back.
Folks in town know him as
Mr. Jackson, the insurance
company rep. The only clue
to his alter ego is the NCBA
sticker on the back window
of his car and on a bookcase
behind his desk, a small photograph of his daughter bottle feeding a calf .
A crowd of men and women like Shorty can be found
in every part of cow country.
They work in school cafeterias, factories and feed mills.
They are doctors, lawyers,
police officers and accountants. They don’t fit the stereotyped image of the leather
skinned, hard as nails, hard
riding cattle men and women the public expects.
Instead they live their lives
incognito. They share with
each other in hushed tones
the triumphs and challenges of their lives away from
town.
They juggle their
schedules to try to fit their
day jobs in with the needs
of the livestock, kids’ sports,
family, and church. They
work long hours and apologize when they have to come
to work late because they
had to wait on a calving heifer.
The folks that run the small
outfits don’t get the press
coverage that the big thousand cow ranches do, but
they work every bit as hard.
They deserve as much credit for the burgers and steaks
you grilled this summer as
the big guys. So if you see
a weary man or woman in a
parking lot or at a stop light
in a car with a “Beef it’s
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California Closer to Banning Some
Antibiotics in Poultry, Livestock
Legislators in California are
considering passing a bill
that would ban the use of
over-the-counter antibiotics
in animals, part of a continuing effort by a state senator
to ban the use of all antibiotics in all animals destined for
consumer plates. California
State Sen. Jerry Hill says SB
27 corrects the current law
that does not require any
veterinary oversight or even
a prescription to administer antibiotics of any sort to
livestock. The proposed law
requires prescriptions for an-
tibiotics administered to livestock, limits antibiotics used
to promote growth or improve feed efficiency and to
track antibiotic use and patterns of antibiotic resistance
in humans who consume the
meat.
Although the proposed law
would mean additional
money and time for smaller
farmers who would need a
prescription from a vet who
may not be nearby, Hill contends the bill could reduce
antibiotic resistance among
people. He also cites a U.S.
Centers for Disease Control
(CDC) estimate that at least
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The Agriculture
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State Senate forwarded the
bill. Passage by the full Senate and General Assembly
would make the bill effective
in January 2016.
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Water Fight Revs Up as Majority of States Slap EPA with
Lawsuits
By: Chris Adams, The
Washington News & Observer
Leaders from more than half
the states in the country have
now weighed in on lawsuits
that seek to halt a recent federal clean water rule. The
latest of the suits against
the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S.
Army Corps of Engineers
was filed last week by the attorney general of Oklahoma,
Scott Pruitt, who said that
the rule will make farm, industrial and private property
owners “subject to the unpredictable, unsound, and often
Byzantine regulatory regime
of the EPA.” And it brought
to at least 28 states or their
top officials – spread across
five lawsuits – that seek to
derail what was initially
known as the “Waters of the
United States” rule, which is
intended to strengthen and
clarify the Clean Water Act
by better determining which
bodies of water fall under its
control.
The rule has been controversial from the start, and
congressional Republicans,
farmers, developers and oth-
er business interests have
called it a massive overreach
by federal regulators. After
it was finalized in May and
formally published in June,
states began to pounce, filing the raft of lawsuits that
aim to stop it. As Kansas
Attorney General Derek
Schmidt said in announcing
the lawsuit he joined: “Congress never intended for the
federal government to regulate ditches or farm ponds.
This regulation grossly exceeds the authority granted
to federal agencies by the
Clean Water Act – authority
that rightfully belongs to the
states and that is limited by
private property rights protected by the Constitution.”
The lawsuits aren’t a surprise. Even before the water
rule was finalized, experts
on both sides of the issue expected it to eventually land
in court, where it would become one of many challenges to EPA authority over the
nation’s land, air and water.
Among the states participating in the lawsuits are Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Kentucky, South Carolina, Texas,
Mississippi, Idaho and Mis-
souri.
The EPA was joined in the
rule by the Corps of Engineers, which plays a vital role in administering
the permits that stem from
the Clean Water Act. EPA
spokeswoman Monica Lee,
while not commenting on
the specifics of the lawsuits,
said in a statement that the
rule was necessary because
“protection for many of the
nation’s streams and wetlands had been confusing,
complex and time-consuming,” stemming from U.S.
Supreme Court cases in the
2000s. The rule was finalized after the agencies held
more than 400 meetings and
reviewed more than 1 million public comments. The
rule, which is set to formally
go into effect in late August,
will ensure that covered
waters are “more precisely
defined, more predictably
determined, and easier for
businesses and industry to
understand,” she said.
The lawsuits seeking to derail the rule generally con-
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In a rare bipartisan scene at into law two hard-fought tional trade deals and pro- pacts. The measures were negotiating authority. The
the White House, President bills giving him greater au- viding aid to workers whose politically linked to secure trade bill gives Congress
Barack Obama June 29 signed thority to negotiate interna- jobs are displaced by such bipartisan support for the the right to approve or retrade legislation, and they ject trade agreements, but
are only wet during spring- of the rule have called the set the stage for the Obama not change or delay them.
time months. The Clean Wa- EPA’s estimates laughably administration to conclude Obama defied the wishes of
ter Act requires permits for small. But until the rule is negotiations on a 12-nation most members of his Demdeveloping or discharging put into practice in coming
ocratic Party and frayed reusurping state sovereignty into covered waters, making years it’ll be hard to precise- Pacific Rim economic pact.
by limiting how the different the rule of vital importance ly know what the actual in- The House June 25 voted lations with organized labor
state governments can use to farmers and other land- crease is. Because of the un- 286-to-138—and the Senate to push the legislation. The
June 24 voted 60-to-38— worker assistance was part
water on behalf of their citi- owners.
certainty in how – and how to renew the program for of a broader trade preferenczens.
Environmental groups have quickly – courts may act,
Jack Conway, Kentucky’s at- both stressed the fact that the groups opposing the rule workers displaced by inter- es bill that extends a measure
torney general, joined eight EPA is on strong legal foot- are simultaneously pushing national trade. Obama had easing trade between the
other states in one of the ing with its ruling and that for Congress to resolve the said he wanted to sign that U.S. and sub-Saharan Africa.
joint lawsuits. He said the it won’t be nearly the mas- issue; Republican-led bills in bill alongside the “fast track”
water rule was “overly bur- sive increase in federal juris- the works would prevent the
densome” and “flies in the diction that opponents say. EPA from moving forward
face of the tradition of envi- “We are still reviewing all of on the rule.
ronmental regulation, which the materials and the claims “Litigation is very expenis to allow states to develop made so far, but are confi- sive and time-consuming – it
their own responses in how dent that allegations that the could take years for this case
they deal with what’s re- rule is more protective than to get to the Supreme Court,”
quired by the Clean Water the law allows will not pre- said Danielle Quist, senior
Act.” The rule was proposed vail,” said Jon Devine, senior counsel for public policy at
by the agencies to simpli- attorney with the water pro- the American Farm Bureau
fy and clarify the meaning gram at the advocacy orga- Federation, one of the groups
of the 1972 Clean Water nization Natural Resources that has filed its own lawsuit
Act. That law covers rivers, Defense Council.
to stop the rule. “We do belakes and year-round wet- The EPA has said that a very lieve that Congress needs
lands. But it was less clear small number of addition- to act. Litigation is not our
about how to handle certain al waters will be found ju- preferred option. . . . All the
streams that dry up part of risdictional compared with while this rule is in litigation,
the year – or wetlands that current practice. Opponents farmers and ranchers will
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2015 - 2016
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Bill Thompson - President
1295 Park Avenue
Clifton Forge, VA 24422
540-968-1987
Kaitlin Smith - Vice President
454 Old Farm Road
Lexington, VA 24333
540-463-6778
Deidre Harmon - Secretary
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“Keeping the commerical producers in mind”
15th Fall Herd
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at
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7, 2015 1:00pm
The consignment form
for our Fall Sale has been
mailed out. The purebred
Charolais you consign
should be of a quality to
promote your herd and the
Charolais breed as well.
You must be a member of
our VA Charolais Assoc to
consign or the dues will be
taken out. Our association
rules are that a consigner
may consign one breeding
age bull per each female
lot. All breeding aged
bulls must pass a complete
fertility exam.
Our sales manager for this
sale is Dennis Adams of
Outfront Cattle Service. He
would like consignments
in by August 1st. If you
would like to consign
cattle to our sale, and did
not receive a consignment
form, please contact one of
the persons listed below
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Trade Bill
“I think it’s fair to say that
getting these bills through
Congress has not been easy,”
Obama said. “They’ve been
declared dead more than
once. They have inspired
long and passionate debates
and that’s entirely appropriate for our democracy.” But
he said they will ultimately
be good for American workers and for American business.
The 12-nation Trans-Pacific
Partnership includes countries from Chile and Mexico
to Japan and Australia and
would give the United States
greater economic influence
in Asia, where China also
seeks to be a dominant force.
Trade experts anticipate that
final agreement sometime in
the early fall and action by
Congress by the end of the
year. Obama will still have a
heavy task winning approval of such a deal, but the fasttrack measures he signed
make it harder for lawmakers to block it.
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signage of Trade Promotion
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beef producers greater access
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head of cattle in the United
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variety meats that have very
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Two Women With Birthdates In 1800S Still Alive
When Susannah Mushatt Jones
and Emma Morano were born
in 1899, there was not yet world
war or penicillin, and electricity
was still considered a marvel.
The women are believed to be
the last two in the world with
birthdates in the 1800s.
The world has multiplied and
changed drastically in their lifetimes. They have seen war destroy landmarks and cities and
have seen them rebuilt. They
witnessed the Gilded Age, a
term coined by Mark Twain,
and the dawn of civil rights, the
rise and fall of the fascists and
Benito Mussolini, the first polio
vaccines and the first black president of the United States.
Jones, who lives in New York,
currently tops a list of supercentenarians, or people who have
lived past 110, which is maintained by Los Angeles-based
Gerontology Research Group.
The organization tracks and
maintains a database of the
world’s longest-living people.
Morano, of Verbania, Italy, is
just a few months younger than
Jones and is Europe’s oldest person, according to the group. The
group knows of no others born
in the 1800s.
___Emma Morano
Born: Nov. 29, 1899
Verbania, Italy
Morano has lived on her own
ever since she left her husband
in 1938 because he beat her.
Now 115, she resides in a neat
one-room apartment in Verbania, a mountain town overlooking Lake Major in northwest
Italy. She is cared for by her
village: The mayor gave her a
TV set, her niece stops in twice
a day and her adoring physician
of more than 25 years checks up
on her regularly.
Morano attributes her longevity
to her unusual diet: Three raw
eggs a day (now two raw eggs
and 150 grams of raw steak after
a bout of anemia) — a diet she’s
been on for decades after a sickly childhood.
“My father brought me to the
doctor, and when he saw me
he said, ‘Such a beautiful girl. If
you had come just two days later, I would have not been able to
save you.’ He told me to eat two
or three eggs a day, so I eat two
eggs a day.”
Her physician today, Dr. Carlo
Bava, is convinced there’s a genetic component as well.
“From a strictly medical and scientific point of view, she can be
considered a phenomenon,” he
said, noting that Morano takes
no medication and has been in
stable, good health for years.
Italy is known for its centenarians — many of whom live in
Sardinia — and gerontologists
at the University of Milan are
studying Morano, along with a
handful of Italians over age 105,
to try to figure out why they live
so long.
“Emma seems to go against everything that could be considered the guidelines for correct
nutrition: She has always eaten
what she wants, with a diet that
is absolutely repetitive,” Bava
said. “For years, she has eaten
the same thing every day, not
much vegetables or fruit. But
she’s gotten this far.”
Morano’s sister, whom Bava
cared for as well, died at 97.
On a recent visit, Morano was
in feisty spirits, displaying the
sharp wit and fine voice that
used to stop men in their tracks.
“I sang in my house, and people on the road stopped to hear
me singing. And then they had
to run because they were late
and should go to work,” she
recalled, before breaking into a
round of the 1930s Italian love
song “Parlami d’amore Mariu.”
“Ahh, I don’t have my voice
anymore,” she lamented at the
end.
Bava also credits Morano’s longevity to her outlook: She is
positive — “She never says, ‘I’ve
had enough,’” he said — but
stubborn. He recalled that when
she needed blood transfusions a
few years ago, she refused to go
to the hospital. When he warned
her that she would die without
them, “Her response was ‘That
means my time has come. If you
want, care for me at home; otherwise, I’ll die.’”
And even though her movements now are limited — she
gets out of bed and into her
armchair and back again, her
eyesight is bad and hearing
weak — she does seem to sneak
around at night.
“Her niece and I leave some biscuits and chocolates out at night
in the kitchen. And in the morning they’re gone, which means
someone has gotten up during
the night and eaten them,” he
said.
___Susannah Mushatt Jones
Born: July 6, 1899
New York
Now 115 years old, Jones spends
her days in her one-bedroom
apartment in a public housing
facility for seniors in Brooklyn,
where she has lived for more
than three decades.
She sticks to a strict daily routine: Every morning she wakes
up around 9 a.m., takes a bath
and then eats several slices of
bacon, scrambled eggs and
grits. On a recent day, Jones
said little, but family members
said she spends her days reflecting on her life and embracing
what’s left of it — one day at a
time. Her living room walls are
adorned with family photos and
birthday cards made by children in the community.
“Hey, Tee,” Jones’ niece, Lois
Judge, said to her aunt using a
family nickname, “How old are
you?”
“I don’t know,” the frail Jones
responded.
Jones, who wears a yellow turban on her head and a nightgown most days, watches the
world from a small recliner.
Posters from past birthday parties, letters from local elected officials and a note from President
Barack Obama fill the surfaces.
A sign in the kitchen reads: “Bacon makes everything better.”
She was born in a small farm
town near Montgomery, Alabama. She was one of 11 siblings
and attended a special school
for young black girls. When she
graduated from high school in
1922, Jones worked full time
helping family members pick
crops. She left after a year to begin working as a nanny, heading north to New Jersey and
eventually making her way to
New York.
“She adored kids,” Judge said
of her aunt, though Jones never had any children of her own
and was married for only a few
years. Family members say
there is no medical reason for
her long life, crediting it to her
love of family and generosity
to others. Judge said she also
believes her aunt’s longevity is
thanks to growing up on a rural
farm where she ate fresh fruits
and vegetables that she picked
herself.
After she moved to New York,
Jones worked with a group of
her fellow high school graduates to start a scholarship fund
for young African-American
women to go to college. She was
also active in her public housing
building’s tenant patrol until
she was 106.
Despite her age, she only sees a
doctor once every four months
and takes medication for high
blood pressure and a multivitamin every day. Aside from that,
she has had a clean bill of health
for years, Judge said. Jones is
blind after glaucoma claimed
her eyesight 15 years ago and is
also hard of hearing.
She will turn 116 next week.
Family members plan to throw
her a party.
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U.S. Opens Market to Brazilian Fresh Beef
The United States is opening its market to fresh beef
imports from 14 Brazilian
states, according to separate
statements by the Brazilian
Ministry of Agriculture and
the USDA’s Animal and Plant
Health Inspection Services
(APHIS) on Monday. The
decision opens up a potential
market of at least 100,000 metric tons (220.4 million pounds)
of Brazilian exports to the U.S.
within the next five years, according to the Brazilian ministry. Currently, Brazil is only
allowed to export processed
beef to the American market,
which totalled $139.89 million
in sales through the first five
months of this year.
APHIS is amending its regulations to allow the import
of fresh beef from 14 Brazilian states and from northern
Argentina, following a risk
assessment that concluded
that both countries are able
to comply with U.S. import
certification requirements, according to a statement on its
website. “USDA will assess
their equivalence with U.S.
standards through a review
of their regulatory programs
as well as an in-country audit
of their food safety systems,”
according to APHIS. The Brazilian Ministry of Agriculture
explained that companies
interested in exporting fresh
beef to the United States now
have to pass a qualification
process to prove that they
meet the requirements to
start selling to the American
market. Federal regulations
allowing Brazilian fresh beef
imports will take effect 60
days after official publication.
With this step by the Obama
Administration, these areas of
Brazil with a known history
of Foot-and-Mouth disease
would be allowed to begin the
inspection process to import
fresh and frozen beef products into the United States.
The National Cattlemen’s
Beef Association stands firmly opposed to this regulation,
not on the basis of trade but
on the basis of animal health
concerns; no trade is worth
jeopardizing our herd health.
“The arrogance of this administration in continuing to
press forward with rules that
have a profound impact on
industry, without consulting
those affected, is appalling,”
said NCBA President and
Chugwater, Wyoming, cattleman, Philip Ellis. “FMD is
a highly contagious and devastating disease, not just for
the cattle industry, but for all
cloven-hoofed animals and it
can be introduced and spread
through the importation of
both fresh and frozen products. In 1929, our industry
took profound and personally
devastating steps to eradicate
this disease and the United
States has been FMD free ever
since. But the actions of this
administration for purely political gain threaten the very
viability of our entire industry and threaten hundreds of
thousands of American cattle-producing families.”
NCBA has demonstrated
through numerous public
comments and in person
through meetings with staff
and members, our concerns
regarding the importation
of fresh and frozen product
from Northern Argentina and
these 14 states in Brazil. There
is a long history of repeat-
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countries, as well as a history
of problems in both Argentina
and Brazil with compliance to
animal health and food safety regulations. Despite this
long history of such an economically devastating animal
disease, the Administration
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in spite of the science,” said
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violated Executive Orders
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in rulemaking, circumvented
the ongoing Government Accountability Office’s review of
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from stakeholders. Our office
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to Brazil in Portuguese and
over 25 percent of the documents for Argentina were
posted to the Federal Register in Spanish, neither with
any translation available. No
one should have to learn a
second language to review a
proposed U.S. government
regulation.”
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would be devastating to animal agriculture and our entire
economy with estimates for
total economic losses ranging
from $37 billion to $228 billion, depending on the size of
an outbreak. Moreover, innu-
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through the closure of export
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of consumer confidence in
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Are Beef Producers Prepared to Defend GMOs?
By: Amanda Radke, BEEF
Magazine
Recently, my hometown’s
newspaper reprinted an article from The Washington
Post titled, “Why we’re so
scared of GMOs.” Written
by Roberto A. Ferdman, the
article referenced Chipotle’s
recent decision to no longer
serve food made with GMOs.
Recognizing the consumer
fear and misunderstanding,
Ferdman explains how the
scientific community has a
lot of confidence in GMOs.
Ferdman writes, “There is
now near unanimity among
scientists that GMOs are safe
to eat. The U.S. Food and
Drug Administration, the
World Health Organization
and the American Medical
Association have all said
that GMOs are fine for consumption. Yet the divergence
between scientists and the
American public has only
grown bigger. As of last fall,
nearly 60% of Americans believed that GMOs were ‘generally unsafe.’ Back in 2000,
the population was pretty
much evenly split.”
In the interview, Jayson
Lusk, Oklahoma State University agricultural economist, says natural and organic food producers oftentimes
market their goods by slamming conventional agriculture. “What brought it to
everyone’s attention was,
quite frankly, the sellers of
many natural foods and organic products,” Lusk says.
“I don’t want to say that they
were stoking people’s fears,
but they kind of were, at least
to the extent that that helps
sales of their own products.
So there was some of that advertising, and the advertising that pitched products as
not containing GMOs, which
raised consumer awareness.”
He goes on to point out exactly what is driving this fear
behind GMOs.
“Most people don’t have a lot
of knowledge about GMOs,”
Lusk says. “The average person hasn’t spent much time
thinking about it. Nonetheless, if they were to see a label about them, they would
likely be averse to them. It’s
something that seems a little
unnatural, and there’s a psychological tendency to desire naturalness in food and
avoid some forms of novelty in food. That plays into a
psychological bias that we
have against them. So it’s not
necessarily that people have
a strong, innate aversion to
GMOs, per se, so much as
that they have a negative
reaction to something that
seems like an additive or unusual.”
The interview got me thinking about whether or not
GMOs — and the corresponding fear and misunderstanding
consumers
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— should be a concern for
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GMOs
My point is, if we want to be
strong advocates, we need
to ask ourselves if we are
prepared to discuss, defend
and educate on other topics,
one of which is GMOs. If you
feed conventional corn to
your cattle, there may come
a day where you will have to
label your beef as containing
GMOs because regulations
for mandatory GMO labeling demand it.
On that topic, Lusk offers
some of his views on whether GMOs should be added to
a food label. “If there’s some
demonstrable health or safety risk, I think it’s without
question a must. That’s true
for, say, peanuts, because so
many people are allergic. It’s
also true of nutritional labels,
because we know that the
number of calories and other
nutrients you consume has
a direct relationship to your
health. Those are legitimate
reasons to label foods, he
says. “But since the scientific
community is more or less in
agreement that GMO crops
are no more harmful than traditional crops, it is less clear
what is the purpose or benefits of a label. Now, voluntary labels are another thing.
There are all sorts of voluntary labels out there. There
are many things that people
care about individually, and
are willing to pay more for.
There’s a pretty healthy market for voluntary non-GMO
products, and I don’t see
anything wrong with that.
That’s not to say that I don’t
see abuses of people’s trust. I
have seen salt labeled as nonGMO, when salt, by definition, cannot be genetically
modified, since it’s a mineral
and doesn’t contain DNA.”
It’s time to “beef up” your
advocacy toolkit and be prepared to answer consumer
questions about GMOs, if
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JACK SHEEHAN
4442 FACTORY MILL RD
DABNEYS, VA 23102
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417 FROGTOWN LANE
EDINBURG, VA 22824
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2184 HILLYARD DRIVE
BROADWAY, VA 22815
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MAPLEWOOD FARM
JOHN AND KAREN FLEISHMAN
DANIEL AND ELIZABETH
5442 DANIEL CUPP ROAD
DAYTON, VA 22821
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MOUNTAIN LOIN MEADOW
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TODD, LYDIA, LAYLA, AND LILLY SCOTT BILLY AND JACKIE KOONTZ
1191 SPRING MILL ROAD
25840 INDEPENDENCE ROAD
CONCORD, VA 24538
UNIONVILLE, VA 22567
434-665-1224
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Virginia Hereford
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Thank you to all the participants of
the South Eastern Hereford Expo in
Abingdon, Va and congratulations to
all the winners!
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November 14, 2015
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CHARLES, MEREDITH AND
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485 HEREFORD CROSSING
FAIRFIELD, VA 24435
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ROCK MILLS HEREFORDS
PAUL AND KIM NOVAK
240 THUNDER VALLEY LANE
CASTLETON, VA 22716
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HEREFORD HILLS FARM
ROY AND KIM DEAN
9311 BRADY LANE
HARRISONBURG, VA 22802
540-432-9805
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POTTS CREEK FARM
JASPER & ALICE
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2917 POTTS CREEK ROAD
COVINGTON, VA 24426
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KEN & DORIS WORLEY
25052 RICH VALLEY RD
ABINGDON, VA 24210
276-944-3458
CELL 276-356-3458
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DEER TRACK FARM
3320 DEER TRACK RD
SPOTSYLVANIA, VA 22551
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540-582-9234 FARM
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FAIRMONT, WV 26554
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BAY BROOK FARM
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DABNEYS, VA 23102
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Beef Council Update
Mission: To effectively maintain and build beef demand in Virginia for beef
and beef products that satisfy consumer preferences through market development programs (consumer information, promotion, research, and industry
information), thereby increasing the opportunity for the cattle industry to earn
an adequate return on investment.
Life as an Intern
Last spring, when I was
halfway through my second semester as a college
freshman, I received an
email about an internship
opportunity that combined marketing, communications, and a love of
beef. As a double major in
Marketing Management
and Animal and Poultry
Sciences at Virginia Tech,
it seemed like I could not
have designed a more fitting internship for myself
if I had tried. I knew I
had to apply for this opportunity and I was lucky
enough to be selected as
an intern for the Virginia
Beef Industry Council.
Barely halfway through
my internship with the
Beef Council and I am
already able to see how
beneficial this experience
has been and will continue to be. I am getting the
chance to become more
educated about the benefits of beef in a diet and
discovering ways to help
get that message across
to consumers around the
state. Through my internship with the Beef Council I am able to spend time
learning about different
promotional
materials
and methods and then put
them into practice.
Some of my favorite events that I have
participated in so far have
been our Beef Council
booth at the Richmond
Flying Squirrels minor
league baseball games.
These games are a great
opportunity for the Beef
Council to get people excited about eating beef. It
is fun to wear our “I love
beef” t-shirts and listen to
people yell, “I love beef,
too!” People get so excited when they hear that
we are giving away free
steaks or other gifts and
it opens the door to talk
about why beef is such a
great part of our diet. The
interactions that the Beef
Council has with consumers is not only great to observe, but something that
I have truly enjoyed getting to be a part of.
In addition to
helping at events that
the Beef Council has, I
am also able to assist in
the planning and implementation of events and
activities and have other
responsibilities that help
the Beef Council work
towards their mission. I
helped to make preliminary plans for our Team
BEEF members to participate in a beef training and
field day as a way to increase Team BEEF member’s knowledge about
beef and how cattle are
raised. I have also helped
take inventory in the office, met with other individuals who are connected to the Beef Council,
and been a part of conference calls that are helping
the Beef Council make
decisions for the future. I
have gotten to experience
a little bit of all aspects
that the Beef Council has
working.
Overall, this internship has already given me a chance to experience interacting with
many different types of
consumers from baseball
fans to retail stores while
also getting to assist in
planning different events
for the Beef Council. I
have learned a lot about
the nutritional benefits
of beef in a diet and how
the Beef Council works to
market and promote beef
across our state. I look
forward to the rest of my
internship and how I can
use what I gained this
summer when I get back
to school in the fall and
on past graduation. By:
Madison Slaven.
Over the weekend, my sisters and I
participated in the Beef & Eggs 5K
run in Brookings, S.D. There were 15
members of Team Beef South Dakota running in the event, and two
honorary one-year olds (my daughter
included) who had a prime view of
the 3.1 miles from the comfort of their
strollers.
As we looped through the town of
my alma mater, South Dakota State
University, I was once again reminded
of the bold impression the Team Beef
red shirts have on both runners and
the crowd at these athletic events.
Across the country, Team Beef
members are competing in athletic events
ing
wearing their beef jerseys and promotthe power of protein in a healthy diet to
fuel active bodies. In addition to wearare
ing the jerseys at these events, here
three ways Team Beef members are making
an impact:
Team Beef members show up.
The best way to promote beef is to step outside of your comfort zone, quit
preaching consumers are going to be. There’s no better way to endorse beef as
a great protein option for athletes than to showcase our own athletic abilities
and share our beef story with others.
Team Beef members are active on social media.
One of our biggest target audiences is the millennial group. And of course, the
easiest way to reach this demographic of consumers is to get online. After the
race, there were several social media posts (using the hashtags #runinred &
#teambeefsd) that further promoted the Team Beef message and helped beef
producers engage with consumers online.
Team Beef members practice what they preach.
Beef lovers and beef producers unite to compete in these Team Beef events,
and the best part about this group is they lead healthy, active lives. This
means cooking well in the kitchen and staying fit by moving their bodies and
challenging their physical abilities. What a great endorsement for beef to have
people like this promoting our product.
A fantastic example of this is Team Beef South Dakota’s leader, Briana Burgers, who serves as the South Dakota Beef Industry Council (SDBIC) nutrition assistant and director of online communications. Burgers works hard to
promote beef on the job and in her personal life. She’s a trainer at a local gym
and a blogger, too. And, she shares her family’s beef recipes
with her audience while also cheering on Team Beef members at events. Check out her most recent recipe, “Mom’s
Taco Salad,” along with other great recipes like “Citrus-Marinated Beef & Fruit Kabobs” and “Beef & Quinoa Meatballs” by clicking here.
I applaud Team Beef members who are promoting beef to a
unique demographic of millennials. Do you have any Team
Beef stories to share? Let me know in the comments section
below. By : Amanda Radke
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Drumbeat to Reduce Antibiotics in the Meat Industry will only get
Louder
By: Steve Kay in Meat Matters majority of antibiotics used sponded. Tyson Foods says working groups with inde- production. Meyer Natural
I wasn’t that good at science by animals are not used by
in school. But later, I became humans. Tetracyclines and
fascinated by scientific dis- ionophores account for 72%
coveries and the way they of animal use, but only 4%
shed light on humans and (tetracyclines only) of human
the world around us. I was use. Here’s another thing: To
thrilled to see how antibi- my knowledge, there are no
otics were developed to re- scientific data that link antistore humans and animals to biotics used in meat producgood health when they are tion to antibiotic resistance in
sick. While I don’t regard humans. Many consumers,
science as infallible, I have though, don’t care about the
never doubted the rigor with facts. They want any kind of
which it is applied. Howev- antibiotic out of their food.
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it is striving to eliminate the
use of human antibiotics
from its U.S. broiler-chicken
flocks by the end of September 2017. Tyson previously
said it had reduced usage
84% since 2011. Second-largest Pilgrim’s Pride says it will
eliminate all antibiotics for
25% of its chickens by 2019.
Perdue says it uses no antibiotics in half its chickens. Given that Tyson is the largest
fed-beef processor as well,
its move has implications for
the U.S. beef industry. Public
pressure over antibiotic use
continues to mount, and the
calls for red meat to act will
get even louder. Tyson has
anticipated this. It is forming
pendent producers and others in its beef, pork and turkey supply chains to discuss
ways to reduce the use of
human antibiotics on cattle,
hog and turkey farms. These
groups will begin meeting
this summer.
The beef industry already
has numerous beef programs that sell beef produced without antibiotics
(BPWA). But their sales are
small compared with sales
of conventionally produced
beef. No firm data are available for sales of BPWA. But
2014 sales of “natural” beef
were estimated to be around
$7 billion — about 8% of
the wholesale value of total
Foods, Loveland, Colo., is
likely the industry’s largest
BPWA marketer through its
Meyer Natural Angus program. Its suppliers include
250 ranchers, and it has total
annual sales of $350 million
(not all of it natural beef).
Cargill Meat Solutions does
not produce BPWA. It does
process Meyer cattle, however, and refers its customers to
Meyer if they want BPWA.
As with chicken, consumers,
retailers and foodservice operators will ultimately determine the move to more such
beef. You can be sure that the
drumbeat to reduce antibiotic use in U.S. beef production
will only get louder.
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