National Day of the Cowboy

National Day of the Cowboy. I’m Greg Martin with today’s Line On Agriculture.

Bethany Braley started a one woman campaign to bring the cowboy to the forefront. That campaign is growing into a full stampede. Tomorrow is the annual National Day of the Cowboy celebration and Braley explains the idea.

BRALEY: Cowboys and cowgirls played a very significant role in helping us establish the American West - you know the work that they did, the ethics that they had, the kind of lifestyles that they lived. Out of that came all the other things, you know its part of the reason that they are so acknowledged the world over is because of their ethics and the contribution that they made.

NDOC was founded in 2005 and to date has had seven states adopt a permanent resolution including Wyoming, California, New Mexico, Arizona, Oklahoma, Mississippi and Oregon. A number of states including Washington have signed annual resolutions.

BRALEY: Right now we are trying to get each governor to proclaim July as National Cowboy Heritage Month in their state so I put together a governor proclamation that I’ll send that to anybody as a prototype so that they can look up some western statistics that relates to their state. They can put that in a proclamation request to their governor and that way we might be able to get a lot of governors to proclaim July as their states cowboy heritage month thus helping us to convince the judiciary committee that there is national interest because that’s really what’s keeping it from being permanent.

That’s today’s Line On Agriculture. I’m Greg Martin on the Ag Information Network.