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Oklahoma Cattleman Brett Morris Elected to Cattlemen Beef Board Office in San Antonio
Sat, 07 Feb 2015 10:20:04 CST
An Oklahoma cattle producer is entering the officer rotation of the Cattlemen's Beef Board, as Brett Morris of Ninekah was elected as the new Secretary-Treasurer of the CBB at their Saturday Board meeting in San Antonio, Texas.
Morris is a third-generation dairy farmer and runs a dairy, cow/calf and stocker operation, as well as the Washita Fertilizer Company, in partnership with his father. Theirs is a diversified farm operation, including about 1,000 acres of alfalfa, wheat and grassland, 65 registered Holstein cows for milking, 100-125 beef cows, and 200 stocker calves. Morris has served as chairman of the Oklahoma Dairy Commission, vice chairman of the Oklahoma Johne's Advisory Committee, as a district voting delegate to DFA, a director of the Federation of State Beef Councils, and as vice chairman of the Oklahoma Beef Council. He has also been active as the Chairman of the Policy Committee of the American Farmers and Ranchers- and has represented over this past year Oklahoma on the National Farmers Union Policy Committee.
With his election as an officer to the CBB, Morris will also be a part of the Cattlemen's Beef Board Executive Committee- and will be one of the ten members of the Beef Promotion Operating Committee, the body that decides which projects will receive Checkoff funding on an annual basis.
Other officers elected by the CBB for 2015 include Chairman Jimmy Maxey of California and Cive Chairman Anne Anderson of Texas.
After his election, Farm Director Ron Hays talked with Morris about his decision to run for this position- and why the work of the CBB in handling the cattle industry's beef checkoff is important to him. You can listen to Ron and Brett by clicking on the LISTEN BAR below.
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