NCBA Members Pass Policy At Summer Business Meeting

Jul 15, 2024

NCBA members, including several from Kansas, gathered in San Diego, CA, this week for the Cattle Industry Summer Business Meeting to discuss issues facing their businesses, such as risk management, taxes and business regulation. The new policies passed direct the association to improve disaster relief and risk management programs, advocate for a reduced capital gains tax, and oppose burdensome business registration and reporting requirements like the Corporate Transparency Act. Several existing policies also were renewed or amended.

“The policies passed at the Summer Business Meeting will direct our association’s advocacy efforts in Washington to strengthen our industry’s profitability, reduce crippling government regulation and safeguard our way of life for the future,” said NCBA President and Wyoming rancher Mark Eisele.

Members also discussed the implementation of USDA’s new animal disease traceability rule. The new rule updates a regulation that has been in place since 2013 requiring intact cattle 18 months of age or older, rodeo and exhibition cattle, and dairy cattle moving interstate to have a visually readable ear tag.

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Video: Learning to Wrench From Dad the Hard Way

Harvest is a week out and the farm picked this week to fall apart. The truck needs a battery, the barn curtain's got a problem, and the corn and beans are telling us we're out of time to get it all fixed.

So it's a full day of wrenching. Tork supervises while I get the truck back running, then we're out at the hog barn where one rusted up part has the whole curtain system hung up. Ladder work, cable work, and a little dad-and-son disagreement about the right way to do it. We close it out walking the fields, shelling beans and checking corn, because whether everything's fixed or not, harvest starts when harvest starts.

Chapters: 00:00 Everything breaks the week before harvest 01:00 Tork supervises while I fix the truck 12:30 Out to the barn to find the curtain problem 14:30 One rusty part hung up the whole curtain 20:00 Running the curtain cable from the ladder 24:00 Walking the beans and corn before harvest 26:30 Wrapping up

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