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The Ohio Cattlemen’s Summer Roundup will be held in Butler County, Ohio this year on Aug. 29. Mark your calendars now so you won’t forget.
Normally this article would appear around Aug. 1, so you wouldn’t put it aside and forget it. Circumstances are different now however, because as many of you know I have decided to retire on June 30 after 35 years working with Ohio State University Extension. This will be the last article I publish, so I wanted you to be sure to get this information.
This year’s Roundup is not just for cattlemen. The Roundup has been titled “Cattlemen Care” but it could just as easily have been titled “Livestock and Poultry Producers Care.”
The morning program will consist of visits to three local beef farms where you can learn about a commercial herd that sells feeder calves as well as freezer beef, a farm that sells purebred seed stock, and a farm that backgrounds 800 calves each year, but also operates a 1,400 sow, farrow-to-wean, swine operation.
Livestock and poultry producers in Ohio will likely face a challenge in how they raise their animals from the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) in the next couple of years. So it doesn’t really matter if you raise beef, swine, poultry, or dairy calves, you need to start to think about how you can all work together.
The Summer Roundup should be a beginning to that process where you could all come together to learn about this threat to your industry.
The afternoon program will feature two nationally known speakers in the field. Dr. Wes Jamison teaches public relations, political communication, and communication theory at Palm Beach Atlantic. His talk is entitled, “Ready for Combustions: Religion, Politics, and the Ohio HSUS Initiative.”
David Martosko is with a watchdog group called the Center for Consumer Freedom, and is the Center’s principle expert on the animal rights movement. His topic is titled, “Lose Pretty or Win Ugly.”
It has been said that the HSUS, which has no connection to animal shelters or local humane societies, is the single biggest threat to animal agriculture that Americans have ever seen.
You can join the discussion about an aggressive, take-no-prisoners approach to this threat.
So it doesn’t matter if you just raise corn and soybeans or if you are producing broilers or eggs, or dairy calves, or pigs, or beef, this day is important to you! Go to www.cattlemencare.net and click on “Contact Us” for online registration before Aug. 10.
Thank you so much for allowing me to serve you in Butler County for all these years. And thank you for reading my articles so the paper would continue to print them! |
| 7/1/2009 |
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