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Vilsack makes appointments to Beef Board
U.S. Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack has appointed 36 individuals to serve on the Cattlemen’s Beef Promotion and Research Board. The appointments included KLA members Danny Herrmann of Dodge City and Larry Oltjen from Robinson.Herrmann and Oltjen will serve three-year terms beginning immediately. As members of the 106-person Beef Board, they will help oversee collection of the $1-per-head beef checkoff and contract with organizations to carry out programs in promotion, research, consumer information, foreign marketing and producer communications.
Other Kansas appointees serving on the board are Terry Handke, Muscotah; Dana Hauck, Delphos; Glenda Flora, Quinter; Dan Kerschen, Garden Plain; and Roland May, Oberlin. Flora is a member of the 20-person Beef Promotion Operating Committee that helps coordinate state and national checkoff programs.
The Beef Board was created through the Beef Promotion and Research Act of 1985. Appointees are nominated by beef, veal, dairy and importer organizations certified by USDA.
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