Checkoff Chat

In this week's Missouri Beef Checkoff Chat we hear from Mizzou Collegiate Cattlewomen member Morgan Ledermann and Dawn Thurnau with the Missouri Beef Industry Council about this group of young women helps to promote beef and what they learned at this year’s Cattle Industry Convention.

In this week's Missouri Beef Checkoff Chat, state beef industry council marketing director Dawn Thurnau talks about a new campaign for healthy beef lovers that ties in with February as Heart Healthy Month.

Featured in this week's Missouri Beef Checkoff Chat are three state producers who are serving in different capacities on the national level - Leon James of Hurdland, Sally Angell of Centralia and Jim Freeman of Salem.

This week's Checkoff Chat is coming to you from the Cattle Industry Convention in San Antonio, TX. MBIC Executive Director John Kleiboeker talks about the Missouri beef producer representatives attending the convention and their activities. He also reviews the issues important to Missouri that are on the agenda. In coming week's we'll also be featuring interviews from the convention with MBIC Board Members who are there as well.

In this week's Missouri Beef Checkoff Chat, John Kleiboeker with the Missouri Beef Industry Council talks about two new web-based projects funded by checkoff dollars - one to educate producers and one to educate consumers.

In this week’s Missouri Beef Checkoff Chat, John Kleiboeker with the Missouri Beef Industry Council discusses how cattle producers put the welfare of their animals first when the weather turns nasty.

In this week's Missouri Beef Checkoff Chat we hear from Dawn Turnau with the Missouri Beef Industry Council about how they are making producer checkoff dollars stretch farther in 2010.

This week’s Missouri Beef Checkoff Chat features an interview with Dawn Thurnau of the Missouri Beef Industry Council taking a look back on 2009 programs funded by Missouri producers to reach consumers with the good news about beef.

In this week's Checkoff Chat, Missouri Beef Industry Council Marketing Director Dawn Thurnau talks about regional Food Safety Conferences this month that brought together beef processors, retailers and inspectors from several states.

This week's Missouri Beef Checkoff Chat features an interview with John Osthus, president of BlueSpring Communications and the creator of a new checkoff-funded website called Farmer Freedom (farmerfreedom.com) designed to help beef producers fight misinformation about their industry.

The annual Missouri Livestock Symposium, held December 4th and 5th in Kirksville, featured several Beef Checkoff sponsored events for both producers and nutrition professionals, as Missouri Beef Industry Council executive director John Kleiboeker explains in this week's checkoff chat.

Missouri beef producer David Dick represented the Federation of State Beef Councils at the recent National Association of Farm Broadcasting. In this week's Missouri Beef Checkoff Chat, David talks about what the Federation does and how it helps producers.

In this week's Checkoff Chat, we hear from state Director of Agriculture Dr. Jon Hagler and Kelly Forck, a diversified crop and livestock producer near Jefferson City, about thanking farmers and ranchers for our nation's safe, abundant and affordable food supply.

In this week's Checkoff Chat, Missouri Beef Industry Council executive director John Kleiboeker talks about giving thanks for our abundant food supply in this nation.

In this week's Missouri Beef Checkoff Chat we heard from a college student who is helping to educate other college students about beef. Sarah Downing of Warrensburg is a junior at the University of Missouri and education chairman for the Mizzou Collegiate Cattlewomen.