USDA Announces Cattlemen’s Beef Board Appointments For 2025

Dec 17, 2024

USDA has appointed 36 members to serve on the Cattlemen’s Beef Promotion and Research Board. Two appointees are from Kansas and each will be serving their second three-year term beginning at the Cattle Industry Convention in February 2025. Evan Lesser is from Palco and owns a diversified operation consisting of a cow-calf herd, farming operation and small trucking business. Larry Kendig of Osborne is a fourth-generation rancher and farmer who owns and leases irrigated and dryland pasture to provide feed for cattle on his ranch and in his feedyard.

Other Kansans currently serving on the board include Jack Geiger of Robinson, Amy Langvardt from Alta Vista, Marisa Kleysteuber of Garden City and Jacquelyne Leffler from Americus.

The board is authorized by the Beef Promotion and Research Act of 1985 and is composed of 101 members who must be beef producers or importers of beef and beef products nominated by certified producer organizations, of which KLA is one.

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