SCENES FROM 2021 CALIFORNIA AND ARIZONA FEEDER MEETING Following a year off due to unrivaled circumstances, members of the California Feeder Council and Arizona Cattle Feeders Association were more than happy to resume their annual tradition of meeting face-toface to renew relationships and discuss the important matters of their businesses in hopes of bettering the cattle feeding climate as a whole. In a time when public perception of cattle production is more important than ever, political arena is bringing about new and ongoing regulatory challenges for cattle feeders and the year-to-year concerns like drought and commodity prices are top of mind for ranchers and cattle feeders, meetings like this are more crucial than ever. Through meetings like the Cattle Feeders Meeting not only to feedlot owners, managers and employees get educated on potential issues on the horizon for their way of life, but the meeting also provides ample opportunity for men and women to put their heads together and share insite about how operations in different areas have worked to find solutions to the problems that plague them in addition to discussing the positive experiences they have had in educating consumers and the public as a whole. Thank you to all the speakers and sponsor who helped my this year’s event possible! Here are some of the scenes that could be found at this year’s event in Coronado earlier in the summer.
Feeder Meeting sessions were completely full as feeders packed the room to hear from speakers.
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Don Close, Rabobank Finance
CattleFax’s Duane Lenz
Oklahoma State’s Darrell Peel, Ph.D.,
NCBA’s Colin Woodall
Sara Place, Ph.D., Elanco
Ermias Kebreab, Ph.D., UC Davis
Hannah Thompson-Weeman Cattle Council’s Dave Daley Animal Ag Alliance
Brad Johnson, Ph.D., Texas Tech University
An expert beef on dairy panel moderated by Jesse Larios.
