LOUISVILLE, KY. Richard “Dick” Janssen, an Ellsworth, Kansas, fanner and cattle breeder was elected president of the American Angus Association for 1990 at the organization’s 106th annual meeting here. Janssen replaces retiring president Gary Dameron of Lexington, I TL. Tom Drake, a partner in Drake Farms of Davis, OK., was chosen as the association’s vice president. In addition, five men were elected to serve three-year terms on the 15-person Angus Board of Direc tors. Elected to their first term on the board were Tom Perrier of Dalebanks Angus in Eurpka, KS., and William H. “Bill” Wilson, manager of the purebred cattle operation of Granada Land and Cattle Co. in Cloverdale, IN. Re elected to a second three-year term on the Angus board were Paul “Butch” Meier of Butch’s Angus in Jackson, MO.; Joe Bill Meng of Meng Farms Inc. in Bowling Green, KY.; and Conrad Grove of Downington, PA. Janssen, operates a division of Green Garden Angus Farm estab lished by his father in 1932. He started his own Angus operation as a 4-H member when he was 11-years-old. A graduate of Kansas State University with a degree in animal science, he and his wife Shelly and their two children Ben and Elizabeth, operate a 3,000-acre diversified cattle and grain farm that includes 125 registered Angus cows. Janssen has participated in the Association’s Angus Herd Improvement Records program Neckband Kills Insects On Cattle In their annual war against hom holds the insecticide inside the flies, cattle producers soon may neckband The device-within-a draw yet another weapon from an device releases just the right arsenal that has included sprays, amount for fly control, dust bags, ear tags, and pills. The Annually, hom flies cost U.S. U.S. Department of Agriculture’s cattle producers more than $7OO Agricultural Research Service has million in reduced weight gains patented a neckband that slowly and milk production, releases organophosphates, insec- , In addition to the horn fly, the ticides to which the pests have no organophosphates are effective resistance. * 1 against face flies, mange mites, '/ and the Gulf Coast, Lone Star and A polymerized plastic reservoir southem Ucks Janssen Elected Angus Association President National Cattlemen’s Association held annually in conjunction with ciation members within their board. He and his wife Judi have the North American International respective states. Some 23,1 dele three daughters, Stacey, Paige and Livestock Exposition in Louisvil- gates were ih Louisville to con- Ashley. le, Kentucky, Business is con- duct the meeting that was held in The Annual Meeting of the ducted by state delegate? who are the Kentucky Fair and Exposition American Angus Association is elected by American Ar ns Asso- Center for the past 26 years. He is a past president of the Kansas Angus Association and served on the committee that hosted the 1980 National Junior Angus Show in Wichita. Janssen served on the Kansas Bull Test Committee, one year as its chair man. He is an elder in the First Presbyterian Church, and is active in many civic activities. Janssen was elected to the American Angus Association Board of Directors in 1983, and served on nearly every association committee. As vice president of the association last year, Janssen served as chairman of the execu tive committee and chairman of the board of Angus Productions Inc. Vice President Tom Drake from Davis, Oklahoma, has served two full terms on the Association Board of Directors. He started in the Angus business when his father bought Angus cattle in 1953. Today he operates in part nership with his brother Bob. Their herd is performance oriented having been enrolled in the Angus Herd Improvement Records Program since 1970. Drake attended the Oklahoma University and Oklahoma State University. He has served on the board of the Oklahoma Cattle men’s Association and the Okla homa Angus Association, and was president of the state Angus Asso ciation in 1983. He has served on numerous American Angus Asso ciation board committees in his six years as a member, and repre sents the Association on the - new v jers a jors of the American Angus Association, fleeted at the Angus annual meeting In Louisville, Ky., are, from left, Richard Janssen of Ellsworth, Kans., president; Steve Perrier of Eureka, Kans, director; Joe Bill Meng of Bowling Green, Ky., director; Paul Meier, center back, of Jackson, Mo., director; Willlam H. Wil son, center foreground, of Cloverdale, Ind., director; Tom Drake of Davis, Okla., vice president: and Conrad Grove of Downingtown, Pa., director. Direct from Factory to Our Door Saves You up to 40% on Tools Famous Name Brand Lufkin, Plumb Stanley, Irwin Disston, Wiss S.K. Exact and e Special 10% OFF And a fre For Anyone Buying $150.00 Or Mon December Ist ’Til Christmas Extra Special 15% OF For Anyone Buying $250.00 You Acl BUY BELOW Dealers Cost! 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