News Update

November 6, 2012

Download Angus Mobile before the 2012 NAILE

Prior to leaving for the 2012 North American International Livestock Exposition (NAILE), be sure to download the latest version of the Angus Mobile smartphone application. Updates include instant access to NAILE event coverage and details on the American Angus Association's 129th Annual Meeting of Delegates.

"Members attending the 2012 Annual Meeting, and those at home, will both enjoy having access to event information and news through Angus Mobile," says Shelia Stannard, Association director of activities and events. "Full coverage of happenings before, during and after the events will keep Angus enthusiasts more informed than ever."

Annual Meeting updates are accessible using Angus Mobile 2.0. Anyone with an iPhone or Android smartphone can download the free application. Once the app is installed, the "events section" can be found under the "more tab" at the bottom of the screen. Navigate to the "Annual Meeting/NAILE 2012" button and scroll through alerts, schedules, show coverage, maps, restaurants, board candidate biographies, awards, hotel information, videos and more.

If breaking news occurs, app users will be the first to know through an alert sent via Angus Mobile. More than 5,500 users have downloaded the application to date.

After the event is over, the smartphone app can still be used on the ranch as a calving book and a direct link to the Association database in Saint Joseph, Mo. The MyHerd function grants access to AAA Login, where users can search for specific animals, update information and view performance records.

For more information and the full release, click here.

— Adapted from a release by the American Angus Association.

MCA Convention Features Cattlemen's College, Auction

The Missouri Cattlemen's Association (MCA) will host its 45th annual Missouri Cattlemen's Convention and Trade Show Dec. 11-13. The convention will feature Cattlemen's College, sponsored by Pfizer Animal Health, and will begin the second day of convention.

The MCA will also host its Fourth Annual Bull Auction, Dec. 13 at 11:30 a.m., during the 2012 MCA Convention and Trade Show. The convention will be at the Holiday Inn Select and Executive Center, Columbia, Mo. The proceeds of this auction benefit the Missouri Cattlemen's Foundation, MCA Political Action Committee and Missouri Junior Cattlemen's Association.

To register for the convention, click here, or contact MCA Director of Membership Katie Steen for more information, at katiesteen@mocattle.com or call 573-499-9162.

— Adapted from a release by the Missouri Cattlemen's Association.

Clayton to be Keynote Speaker at Missouri Livestock Symposium, Dec. 7-8

Tony Clayton of Clayton Agri-Marketing will be the keynote speaker at the free two-day Missouri Livestock Symposium, Dec. 7-8 at Kirksville Middle School.

Clayton, of Jefferson City, will talk about his 25-plus years of experience exporting livestock and agriculture products from the United States to more than 40 countries.
A trade show kicks off the two-day event at 4 p.m. and a classic tractor contest gives participants an opportunity to be featured on television station KTVO's "Good Morning Heartland" program.

Clayton will give the keynote address at 8:15 p.m. Friday, Dec. 7, following a free 6 p.m. dinner, award presentations and musical entertainment.

On Saturday, nationally known speakers on horses, cattle, goats, stock dogs and other topics such as forage and farm estate strategies will present a variety of workshops. Topics include pinkeye, University of Missouri's Quality Beef by the Numbers program, bluetongue, chronic wasting disease, sheep economy, hair sheep, horse nutrition and genetics, and meat goats. There will also be workshops on flower arrangement and nutrition in the home. At noon there will be a free "governor's-style luncheon" sponsored by the Missouri Department of Agriculture and several Missouri commodity groups.

Program and trade show details are available at www.missourilivestock.com. For more information, contact Bruce Lane, Adair County MU Extension Center, at 660-665-9866 or LaneN@missouri.edu. Committee chair this year is Garry Mathes.

Preregistration is not required.

— Adapted from a release by Missouri Cattlemen's Association.

Varied Plate of Topics on the Menu for Dec. 7
High Plains Ag Conference

A wide range of agricultural topics will greet participants to this year's High Plains Ag Conference set from 8:30 a.m.-3 p.m. Dec. 7 at the Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Extension Center, 1102 East Farm-to-Market 1294, Lubbock.

"This year's conference will address traditional crops for our area such as corn and grain sorghum, but we'll also be taking a look at strawberry production and pigweed control," said Robert Scott, Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service agent in Lubbock County. "The topics are timely and I think it will be a day well-spent for those wanting to catch up on the latest developments in High Plains agriculture."

For more information, click here.

— Adapted from a release by Texas AgriLife Extension.

Elections to Change Senate Ag Committee

No matter which party wins control of the U.S. Senate as a result of elections, there was expected to be a greater change in the Democratic membership of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry than on the other side of the aisle.

The current agriculture committee is composed of 11 Democrats and 10 Republicans. Two Democrats, Senators Kent Conrad of North Dakota and E. Benjamin Nelson of Nebraska, announced late last year they would not seek new terms in the Senate, leaving two open Senate seats to be contested.

Senator Debbie Stabenow of Michigan, chairwoman of the Senate agriculture committee, is running for her fourth term as U.S. senator. Other Democratic members of the agriculture committee running for reelection are Sherrod Brown of Ohio, Robert Casey of Pennsylvania, Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota and Kirsten Gillibrand of New York.

Democratic members of the committee whose terms in office did not require they run for reelection this year included Patrick Leahy of Vermont, Tom Harkin of Iowa, Max Baucus of Montana and Michael Bennet of Colorado.

The only certain change on the Republican side of the aisle was the retirement of Senator Richard Lugar of Indiana, who lost the Indiana Republican primary to Richard Mourdock. Senator Lugar has served six terms as U.S. senator from Indiana, is the current chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations and is a former chairman of the Senate agriculture committee.

For more information, click here.

— Adapted from a release with permission from MeatandPoultry.com.

— Compiled by Kelli Fulkerson, intern, Angus Productions Inc.