A 20 —Lancaster Farming, Saturday, August 2,1980
Nat’l Cattlemen’s president
Merlyn Carlson, president of the National
Cattlemen’s Association, checks range conditions
on his Nebraska ranch.
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LODGEPOLE, Neb. -
What is the nation’s largest
industry?
If you asked the man on
the street, he’d probably say
it’s the automobile industry.
But he’d be wrong. It’s
agriculture.
The assets of agriculture
total more than's9so billion
a sum equal to about
three-fifths of the capital
assets of all corporations in
the United States.
Not only is agriculture the
single largest part of our
economy, it also exerts a
tremendous influence on all
other parts. For every job on
the farm or ranch, there are
three more in related supply
and processing businesses.
As a matter of fact, one out
of every five jobs in private
enterprise is related to
agriculture
agribusiness.
A man who knows his
agriculture is Merlyn
Carlson, a third generation
cattleman from Lodgepole,
Nebraska. He’s president of
the National Cattlemen’s
Association, representatmg
300,000 professional cat
tlemen across the United
States. The cattle industry,
incidentally, is the largest
part of agriculture
Carlson comes from
hearty stock His grand
father came to America
from Sweden in the IMO’s
and, after a brief stop-over
in lowa, homesteaded the
Nebraska ranch which
Carlson and his family still
operate today
In addition to the ranch,
Merlyn and his father run a
commercial feedlot at
nearby Chappel, Nebraska
A taciturn man with a dry
sense of humor, Carlson
remembers with fondness
and
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lus boyhood days on the
ranch. He had to carry his
own weight then as he
expects his own three
children to carry theirs
today
“Ranch kids have always
worked right along side of
the hired hands,” he says,
“and they still do today - at
least mine do.”
While attending college at
Colorado State University,
Carlson proved he was no
dime store cowboy. He
developed something of a
reputation for his calf roping
abilities and even used
some of his first winnings to
buy the wedding ring he
gave to his wife, Janice.
Carlson’s not a boastful
man. But he’s quietly proud
of the fact that his fellow
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cattlemen elected him to
head up the strongest and
most respected national
organization of cattlemen in
the country.
In recent months cat
tlemen have been going
through some hard times.
They may be harder hit by
inflation and tight money
than just about any other
group in our society. But is
Carlson pessimistic?
Not to hear him talk, he
isn’t
“Americans love their
beef,” he says. “They
always have, and they
always will. Right now cat
tlemen are going through
some tough times. But we’ll
pull out of it and keep
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