Checkoff Chat

In this week's Checkoff Chat (the new name for our weekly podcast) you'll hear Dawn Thurnau and Whitney Wallace talk about the change in direction for the MBIC blog which is now called the Missouri Beef Buzz. After seeing how many consumers have been visiting the site a decision was made to provide more information about beef that consumers want to know and have been asking for.

In this week’s Missouri Beef Industry Council report, executive director John Kleiboeker talks about the candidates up for election to the MBIC board of directors this year.

In this week’s report from the Missouri Beef Industry Council, marketing director Dawn Thurnau gives some summer grilling tips as the 4th of July holiday gets underway.

In this week's Missouri Beef Industry Council report, executive director John Kleiboeker talks about the Lunch and Learn programs held so far around the state that featured beef cattle operations.

This week;s report from the Missouri Beef Industry Council features Marketing Director Dawn Thurnau talking about their involvement in a central Missouri food and wine festival June 20 through the 27 in Columbia.

This week's Missouri Beef Industry Council report features Director of Consumer Information Alane Lidolph talking about education youth within the beef industry and in the general public.

In this week's report from the Missouri Beef Industry Council, executive director John Kleiboeker talks about the need for cattle owners to register to vote in upcoming elections for people to represent them on the MBIC board.

In this week's Missouri Beef Industry Council report, we hear from Chuck Massengill of California, Missouri who serves producers in the state on the policy side of the beef cattle industry on the national level. He talks about how even though the beef checkoff is separate from member organizations that do policy work on the state and national level and can do no lobbying, both can and do work together on issues important to the industry.

This week's report from the Missouri Beef Industry Council features comments from Leslie Grace of Henderson Ranch and Benton County Cattlemen's Association president Marvin Dickman about the first Missouri Lunch and Learn program of the 2009 series.

In this week's Missouri Beef Checkoff Chat we hear from Kendell Frazier with the National Cattlemen's Beef Board who met with the Missouri Beef Industry Council board of directors this month to help them set goals for the future in conjunction with the Federation of State Beef Councils on the national level.

In this week's Missouri Beef Checkoff Chat, executive director of the Missouri Beef Industry Council John Kleiboeker talks about May Beef Month and the start of the 2009 series of Lunch and Learn programs across the state.

This week's Missouri Beef Checkoff report features an interview with Lane McConnell with the Missouri Department of Agriculture's division of marketing on the beef industry's participation in a Speaking of Women's Health Seminar in Columbia.

This week on the Missouri Beef Checkoff Chat, we learn about the beef council's involvement in the Go! St. Louis Family Fitness weekend from Director of Consumer Information Alane Lidolph and Protein Team member Karla Klingner Diaz of Columbia.

Earth Day is celebrated around the country on April 22, but every day is earth day for beef cattle producers in Missouri. One good example is the state's largest cattle operation, Circle A Angus Ranch, headquartered in Iberia and commercial marketing manager Nick Hammett tells us all about it today on the Missouri Beef Industry Council Check off Chat.

In our Chatting about the Beef Checkoff report this week, we have an interview with Rachel Bartholomew, a student at the University of Missouri who is president of the Mizzou Collegiate CattleWomen.