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Veteran Cattle Industry Leader Calls Summer Meeting a Tremendous Success
Thu, 04 Aug 2011 08:44:27 CDT
He was the President of the National Cattlemen's Association the year that the group merged with the Beef Industry Council of the old National Livestock and Meat Board- Bob Drake of Davis, Oklahoma has served the beef industry in a lot of capacities- and has been vocal in recent meetings about the disagreements that sprang up between the leadership of the Cattlemen's Beef Board and the National Cattlemen's Beef Association. But Drake gives high marks here in Orlando at the 2011 Summer Industry Cattle Conference. The tensions seen earlier in 2011 at the winter meetings held in Denver as well as last summer's midyear meetings- also in Denver- have disappeared and Bob Drake calls that great news for the cattle industry.
Drake, a member of the Cattlemen's Beef Board, calls on everyone in the cattle business to give this new found spirit of cooperation a chance to work. He says the alternative could be loss of the dollar a head beef checkoff. Drake adds that it's vital that we find common ground in the cattle business, as we badly need a second dollar added to the checkoff in order to have enough money to really move the needle on beef demand in the next few years.
We talked with Drake as the wrapup session of the summer conference was getting underway in Orlando- click on the LISTEN BAR below to hear our conversation.
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