Checkoff Chat

This week's Missouri Beef Industry Council report is with Dr. Carol Lorenzen with the University of Missouri who was a guest speaker at the December board meeting for MBIC on the subject of defending our food supply.

This week's Missouri Beef Industry Council report is from the Missouri Cattlemen’s Convention in Springfield with MBIC executive director John Kleiboeker talking about how beef checkoff dollars were used in the state this year.

In this week's Missouri Beef Industry Council report, Dawn Thurnau, MBIC Marketing Director, describes several beef recipes that complement a traditional Thanksgiving meal. They can be found on the MBIC website at www.mobeef.org

The Missouri Beef Industry Council works with several organizations to help develop young leaders. These leaders will be the ones to not only serve the MBIC in the future but also participate with many other organizations during their career. MBIC Executive Director, John Kleiboeker, discusses the organizations they work with and the results they've seen over the years.

This week's Missouri Beef Industry Council report features John Browning of Monroe City, who is the Missouri representative on the US Meat Export Federation board.

This week's Missouri Beef Industry Council report, Marketing Director Dawn Thurnau talks about current and upcoming restaurant industry and retail partnerships to promote beef.

This week's Missouri Beef Industry Council report is with Director of Consumer Information Alane Lidolph who talks about how the council works with current and future dietitians.

In this week's Missouri Beef Industry Council report, executive director John Klieboeker talks about the research projects to be funded by the council in the coming year.

In this week's Missouri Beef Industry Council report, we hear from the second new member to be elected to the checkoff board this year, Chris Cloud of Carthage.

In this week's Missouri Beef Industry Council report we hear from Sally Angell (angel) of Centralia, one of the two newly elected board members for the beef checkoff governing board in the state.

In this week's Missouri Beef Industry Council report we hear from Daren Williams with the National Cattlemen's Beef Association about why it is important for all beef producers to be willing to tell their story to people they meet.

In this week's Missouri Beef Industry Council report we hear from this year's Missouri Beef Ambassador Shannon Watson of Clinton who took part in a recent Speaking of Beef training seminar.

In this week's Missouri Beef Industry Council report features Stacey Dohle (dull'-ee) with the Midwest Dairy Association talking about a cooperative speakers training effort between the dairy and beef industries.

In this week's Missouri Beef Industry Council report, Director of marketing Dawn Thurnau talks about the beef industry message for September Food Safety Month.

In this week's Missouri Beef Industry Council report, executive director John Kleiboeker talks about the state of the Missouri beef cattle industry and how that is impacting beef check off funding priorities.