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From the 2011 Cattle Industry Convention- Bill Donald Steps into the Position of President for NCBA
Sat, 05 Feb 2011 13:36:33 CST
The National Cattlemen's Beef Association has wrapped up their annual meeting in Denver- and the new President of the NCBA for the coming year is a 58 year old rancher from Montana, Bill Donald. Donald actually participated in the R-Calf efforts to stop Canadian cattle from entering the US before R-Calf became a membership organization. He says he's not sure if he was considered a member of R-Calf the first year it became a membership group- but that he did break any ties after that because he did not agree with their direction. He was involved with the Montana Stocker Growers Association and that led him into involvement with the NCBA.
He talked informally with reporters right in front of the stage after the conclusion of the NCBA Board of Directors meeting at the Denver Convention Center. We talked with him about working with the new Chairman of the CBB, and he indicated that he had pledged to work with Tom Jones- and that he would.
We have an audio selection from that informal news conference held by Bill Donald Saturday midday- and it includes his comments about the Beef Board's Tom Jones, the future of the Governance Proposal that was put up on the shelf last summer after a firestorm of concern was raised by other groups and USDA over the role of the Federation within the new structure that NCBA envisioned and his response about how to get the industry from one dollar to two dollars or more when it comes to the Beef Checkoff.
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