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A Picture Perfect Summer To Show Cattle
Published Wednesday, July 23, 2008 at 10:10 AM
CENTENNIAL, Colo. — It’s summer and for most children, that means sleeping in and spending countless hours at the pool. But the checkoff-funded National Beef Ambassadors have a different summer challenge, and it doesn’t involve a couch or pool! They mean branding and of course, county fairs. The Ambassadors are searching for those kids spending long hours grooming, training, exercising and managing show steers in honor of the showing season and the lessons of good stewardship and animal welfare that children across the country learn in their beef production projects. Thus, the Beef Ambassadors are sponsoring a photo contest.
The National Beef Ambassador Program encourages today’s youth to get and stay involved in their industry by sending them to the front line to promote beef and educate consumers about the beef industry. In carrying out that mission, the Ambassadors have taken their environmental stewardship message to the Web and cameras across the country.
The photo contest focuses on the theme that participation in showing cattle encourages good stewardship of our animals. The assignment: to capture those little moments, such as washing the animals, leading them around, or any other picture-worthy scene that exemplifies how well the animals are being taken care of. In short, let the photo “show” how involvement with beef cattle production encourages good animal welfare.
Here’s how to enter:
1. Send in your photo submission via e-mail to raisingthesteaks@gmail.com.
2. Feel free to include a caption about the picture and BE SURE to include an e-mail address where you can be contacted.
Photos will be judged according to how well they meet the objective and portray the mission; winners will be notified via e-mail.
The 1st place winner will receive a digital camera, 2nd place a beef shirt and 3rd place a beef checkoff hat.
The deadline for entries is October 1, so there’s plenty of time for a picture perfect moment.
For more information about the National Beef Ambassadors, visit www.nationalbeefambassador.org or www.raisingthesteaks.com. For more information about checkoff-funded programs, visit www.MyBeefCheckoff.com.


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