Getting on Beef Board

If you're interested in becoming a member of the Cattlemen's Beef Board, Norm Voyles is the current chair and lays out some parameters. You're looking to add new members to the Cattlemen's Beef Board, and if so, what does that entail? The Cattlemen's Beef Board membership, there's 101 members this year, and it's based throughout the country on the number of cattle within each state, for example, Indiana and one member, and that's myself. And my term is going to end in January. And at that time, someone new from Indiana will take my place. They are three year terms and you can serve two consecutive terms. There are at least 18 spots around the country that are up for nomination from those state beef councils. And then the U.S. secretary of agriculture actually appoints those new members. So they will serve for a three year term and then are eligible for a second three year term. And certainly we encourage folks, if they've got an interest in beef and they're from one of those states where terms are up and folks can apply for, we want them to apply to their state beef council and get their names in the hat. We don't want folks to just agree with everything we're doing. I don't think we ever want that. We want folks that have got fresh ideas and new ways of thinking about things and their own background that influences their decisions on beef production and how they think their friends and relatives view beef. Speaker1: Just like Norm, who is a straight shooter, the process seems pretty straight up.