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Make Plans for National Angus Conference

Aug. 29, 2005 — There is still time to make plans to attend the 2005 National Angus Conference & Tour, set for Sept. 27-29 in Kansas City, Mo. “Show Me the Future” is the theme for this year’s event, which is hosted by the American Angus Association and sponsored in part by Purina Mills, LLC.

Association personnel will conduct “Back to the Basics” seminars Tuesday, Sept. 27, starting at 1:30 p.m. at the Hilton Kansas City Airport. Staff will discuss enhancements and updates to member services, performance programs and marketing.

Conference registration opens at noon. The event kicks off with dinner Tuesday evening and keynote speaker Tom Field, Colorado State University, and his presentation, “I’ll Show You the Future.”

The conference continues Wednesday, Sept. 28. Featured speakers include Randy Blach, Cattle-Fax; Tom Brink, Five Rivers Ranch Cattle Feeding; Don Schiefelbein, Schiefelbein Farms; and Jim Gosey, University of Nebraska–Lincoln.

Following lunch, the tour begins with a stop in Saint Joseph, Mo., at the headquarters of the American Angus Association and Angus Productions Inc. (API). The tour will continue north of Saint Joseph, where Missouri Angus members have been invited to display cattle for the evening.

The tour travels to central Missouri Thursday, Sept. 29. Circle A North, Huntsville, is the morning stop. An early afternoon stop is set for Fox Run Farms LLC, Mexico, and the tour will conclude at Sydenstricker Genetics, also near Mexico.

Registration for the event is available online at www.angus.org or by contacting the Association and asking for Linda Campbell. The $100 registration fee includes meals, bus transportation and conference materials.

A room block for the National Angus Conference & Tour has been reserved at the Hilton Kansas City Airport. Call the Hilton at (816) 891-8900 before Sept. 6 to secure a rate of $89 per night plus tax.

More detailed information about the Conference & Tour, including the schedule, is online at www.angusjournal.com/nationalconference. The National Angus Conference & Tour is just one of several events planned and hosted annually by the Association for its members and commercial cattle producers interested in Angus genetics.

— by Shelia Stannard, American Angus Association director of activity communications and event coordinator

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