NCA to help get beef
AMARILLO, Tx. Steps
are now being taken to bring
«sre industry unity and to
nerate the kind of funding
that is needed to give the
beef business a really ef
fective market development
program.
This was pointed out
recently by W.T. (Dub)
Berry, Jr., executive vice
president of the National
Cattlemen’s Assn., as he
spoke at the Texas Cattle
Feeders Assn, convention.
Berry analyzed the
current industry situation
and the organizational
problems and opportunities
involved in raising ad
ditional funds for beef
research, information and
promotion. He pointed out
that NCA officers fee! a
responsibility to help bring
more industry unity and to
assist in developing
I programs for adequate
anding and for improved
performance in promotion
and related areas.
Berry said that analysis to
date, by NCA and others,
suggests that the best ap
proach will be to build and
expand on the various
current state check-off
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systems - recognizing that
they are not uniform and the
fees are too low. The
majority of the funds now
being raised by check-offs
are being used by the state ,
associations, state beef
councils and, to a lesser
degree, by the Beef Industry
Council of the National Live
Stock & Meat Board.
A more detailed plan on
how NCA can best work with
state cattle associations,
state beef councils and the
Meat Board, in order to help
achieve the industry’s goals,
will be determined at NCA’s
board meeting next week.
One approach. Berry said,
would be for NCA to assist'
and guide the formation of a
federation of states.
He reminded the Texas
feeders of the basic needs for
industry programs - to help
solve the wide spectrum of
problems, including profits,
beef demand, supply of beef,
over-regulation by govern
ment, anti-beef propaganda,
etc.
He listed four basic steps
required to attack and solve
problems m the beef
production and sales are:
Determine consumer
industry’s act together
opinion, wants and needs for
beef products, and analyze
the different makes for beef;
- Translate knowledge of
consumer attitudes into
profitable precision
production, with cattlemen
being more precise m terms
of types and amounts of beef Commenting on
that can be profitably organizations which can help
produced; solve the problems. Berry
- Expand the industry’s noted that the industry
role in promotion and as a currently may be over
catalyst in beef production organized in terms of the
by retailers and others; numbers of groups. At the
Hunters should see
MIDDLE CREEK -
Pennsylvania hunters are
expected to find fairly good
populations of game birds
during the early part of the
regular small game season,
but the natural supply will be
supplemented by additional
wildlife released by the
Game Commission.
This year 223,200 rmgneck
pheasants have been
scheduled for release on both
public and private lands
which are open to public
bunting. The figure is an all
time record.
The pheasant release is
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- Communicate more
effectively with influence
groups, such as government,
scientists, nutritionists,
doctors, consumer groups
and the news media, as well
as the general public.
about 3900 more birds than
were stocked last fall. Not
only .have the game farms
been able to increase the
quantity of birds which are
available for liberation this
fall, but the propagation
efforts have also resulted in
an excellent quality bird for
release.
And since hunters m the
northern part of Penn
sylvania are permitted to
harvest birds of either sex, a
good number of bens will be
stocked. This year 32,500 hen
pheasants are scheduled for
release in that portion of the
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same time, it may be under
organized in terms of ef
fective, non-duplicative
implementation of beef
programs.
Berry explained that the
key organizations in a
unified industry effort to
generate more funds and
then use these funds ef
fectively will include NCA,
the Meat Board, BIC, state
cattle and beef
organizations, and related
groups like the American
lots of game birds
state where shooting of hen year, when the all-time
birds is permitted. record for duck was
In 1980 the Game Com- established,
mission reared 12,000
mallard ducks at its Funds for the production
waterfowl farm for release and distribution of this
in the wild. This figure is wildlife come from the sale
about 7000 fewer than last of hunting licenses.
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Meat Institute, National
Meat Assn., Food Marketing
Institute and National
Restaurant Assn.
Berry said that NCA will
continue to increase and
improve upon its broad
spectrum of services, which
its members and die beef
industry have come to ex
pect from NCA. These
services and programs will
contiune to be funded by the
usual membership dues.
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