DENVER, Colo. Scientific research and technical advances have made agriculture an ever evolving industry. Aware of these changes, the American Sheep Industry Asso ciation convened to determine the overall future needs of the sheep and wool industry. The Wool Quality Improvement Summit in Denver recently. The meeting was held to gather input on the future of the wood industry and define goals to achieve by 2000, and develop strategies to implement the estab lished goal objectives. Forty peo ple attended the Wood Quality Improvement Summit from 18 states. Among the attendees were sheep and wool producers, woolen mills representatives, wool buy ers, university and agricultural re- Maryland Breeder Elected President Of Angus Association ST. JOSEPH, Mo. Lawrason Sayre, Churchville, Md., is the new president of the American Angus Association. He was elected at the association's 1997 annual meeting in Louisville, Ky., to replace retiring president Bill Wilson, Cloverdale, Ind. The annual meeting and elec tion was conducted by some 276 delegates elected to represent American Angus Association members from their respective states. The meeting was held in the Kentucky Fair and Expostion Center in conjunction with the North American International Livestock Exposition. Bill Borror, Tehama Angus Ranch, Gerber, Calif., was elected vice president, and three Angus breeders were elected to their first three-year term on the 15-member American Angus Association board of directors. They are Keith Amtzen, Hilger, Mont; Minnie Lou Bradley, Memphis, Texas; and Abbie Nelson, Wilton, Calif. Re-elected to a second term on the board was Leroy Baldwin, Ocala, Fla., and Hemy Bergfield, Sum mitville, Ohio. Lawrason Sayre, the new asso ciation president, has been breed ing registered Angus cattle for more than 40 years at Waffle Hill Farm near Churchville, Md. His herd has long been based on per formance evaluation, first on the Maryland Beef Cattle Improve ment Association program and later with the American Angus Association’s Angus Herd Im provement Records (AMR) pro gram. Sayre earned a civil engineering degree from Yale University. In 1960, after serving as a U.S. Ma rine Corps officer in the Korean War, and working as a civil engi neer, Sayre purchased his farm and turned to breeding registered Angus cattle. Hie farm is operated by Sayre, his wife Jane and their son Ned. In addition to serving six years on the American Angus As sociation board of directors, Sayre has served as vice president and treasurer of the organization. He is a past president of the Maryland Angus Association and has been honored for his many years of ser vice as a 4-H club leader and live stock judging coach. Sayre has long been involved in soil conservation and is serious about environmental protection. In 1991 he was awarded the An- Wool Summit search people, agricultural ex tension agents, and others repre senting the varying aspects of the wood industry. Three Pennsylvania residents participated in the Wool Quality Summit: Dr. Clair Engle, animal scientist, Penn State, Ginny Wright, sheep producer and wool classer D, Montrose; and Lynn Zerphey, sheep producer and wool classer 11, Halifax. Through a series of meetings and discussions groups, industry strengths and weakness were iden tified. The following consensus of goals and actions plans were es tablished: • Goal #l-Industry Standards to establish and implement in dustry standards that position the US wool industry as a competitive and valued supplier of high qual ity wool. gus Journal Land Stewardship Award, and the following year won the National Cattlemen's Beef Association Environmental Stewardship Award for region one. Bill Borror, the association’s new vice president, just completed his second three-year term on the board of directors and a one-year term as association treasurer. A life-long Angus breeder, Borror enrolled his first cow in the Uni versity of California Record of Performance Program in 1944. An honors graduate from the Univer sity of California Davis with a degree in animal science, he served two years in the U.S. Army before he and his wife Sandy re turned to form a partnership with his parents in Tehama Angus Ranch. Today the ranch covers some 1,400 acres and includes almonds and other crops, as well as Angus cattle. Borror owned one of the first reference sires used by the American Angus Association in the Sire Evaluation program. He is past president of the California Beef Cattle Improvement Asso ciation. He has been a director of the Beef Improvement Federation (BIF). In 1983 he served as BIF president and was also named BIF Seedstock Producer of the Year. Keith Arntzen Keith Amtzen, a new associa tion board member from Hilger, Mont., is the third generation to operate his family ranch. He man ages the Angus herd started by his father and mother in 1953. He is a partner in the operation with his wife Kristine, his brother Doug and Doug’s wife Gayle. The ranch covets 16,000 acres with 300 re gistered Angus cows and 300 commercial cows. They also farm 4,000 dryland acres. Their herd was enrolled in the Montana Beef Performance Association in 1970, and soon after that in the Ameri can Angus Association’s AH3R program. Amtzen served six years on the board of directors of the Montana Angus Association. He served eight years as secretary-treasurer of the Central Montana Angus As sociation, and also as vice presi dent and president. He has been appointed to a variety of com munity boards including the Cen tral Montana Community Hotel Association and the Fergus Coun ty Farm Bureau. Gathers Input On Industry • Goal #2-Communicatiop/In formation/Education to create a comprehensive qualilty assurance program involving certification programs, training for workers and effective communication. • Goal #3-Genetics to achieve improved genetics in U.S. flocks for uniformity and in creased fleece yield, establish management programs to support genetics, and elilmination of black fiber in white wools. For each of the named goals, a small committee was elected to address the key issues, develop detailed plans, and report back the summit participants for a consen sus. If approved, implementation will begin mid-January 1998. Gin ny Wright was selected to partici pate on the comm uni cation/educa lion committee. Leroy Baldwin Leroy Baldwin, Ocala, Fla., was elected to his second three year term on the American Angus Association board, where he pre viously served on the planning and industry, rules and arbitration and public relations committees. He bought his first Angus calf in 1947, the beginning of Baldwin Angus Ranch. Baldwinn started performance testing the herd in 1960. The ranch now comprises 580 acres and 500 head of regis tered Angus, and is a family-run operation. A leader in agricultural and An gus activities, Baldwin was in ducted into the Florida Agricultur al Hall of Fame in 1995. In 1993 he was recognized as Southern Farmer of the Year and Florida Farmer of the Year. Progressive Fanner magazine named him Man of the Year in Service to Florida 1993. For 32 years he has been a member of the Florida Interna tional Trade Council, and presi dent for the last 12 years. He has served as president of the Florida Cattlemen’s Association and the Florida Beef Cattle Improvement Association. Henry Bergfeld Henry Bergfeld, general man ager of Summitcrest Farms, Sum mitville, Ohio, was elected to his second three-year term on the American Angus Association board of directors. A native of western Pennsylvania, he started showing cattle in 4-H and bought his first Angus female in 1952. He graduated from Pennsylvania State University in 1963 with a de gree in animal science. He served last year as chairman of the board of directors of the Certified Angus Beef Program. As general manager of Summit crest for the past 31 years, he started with a cow herd of 125 head in Ohio, and has seen it grow to a breeding herd of more than 1,800 females at three locations in Nebraska, lowa and Ohio. He has developed a global market for Summitcrest genetics. Under his direction Summitcrest has col lected data on more than 2,700 carcasses. In 1991 Summitcrest was named Beef Improvement Federation Seedstock Producer of the Year. Minnie Lou Bradley Minnie Lou Bradley, a new member of the American Angus Association board of directors Participants of the Wool Quality Summit were, from left, Dr. Clair Engle, Lynn C. Zerphey, and Ginny Wright. Seed Handling System Efficient, DES MOINES, lowa For spring planting 1998, com and soybean growers who prefer to handle seed in bulk will have an opportunity to use the new Pro box™ Seed Handling System from Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc. The Probox system will make it faster and easier to unload bulk seed and more convenient for growers to transport, transfer and store seed on the farm, according to Don Schafer, soybean product manager at Pioneer. “With the increasing number of 32-foot drills and 24-row planters, handling seed in conventional packaging is a time-consuming process for growers. Bulk seed is becoming very popular, and the new Probox system is the latest in novation in bulk seed handling," Schafer said. “The container is built with many unique features that will help growers get large quandties of seed to the field easi ly. Their time during planting is extremely valuable. The Probox system will help them plant more acres per day, making the most of their time.” Available on a limited basis for spring 1998 planting, the new Pro box container is designed for on farm use and can be moved and unloaded using a heavy-duty fork lift or a forklift attachment for a tractor. Made of rigid injection molded plastic, the rectangular from Memphis, Texas, was raised on a west-central Oklahoma farm and financed her college educa tion at Oklahoma State with her 4-H Angus herd. She and her hus band Bill moved to Childress County, Texas, in 1955 and started Bradley 3 Ranch. The ranch includes 300 registered An gus cows plus a commercial herd. A pioneer in performance evalua tion and in the branded beef busi ness, Bradley 3 Ranch opened their own USDA inspected pro cessing plant in Childress in 1986. In college, Minnie Lou was a member of the Oklahoma State University livestock judging team, and was named high individual at the American Royal contest. After graduation she worked as assistant executive secretary of the Texas Angus Association before starting Bradley 3 Ranch. Abbie Nelson Abbie Nelson, a fifth genera tion Angus breeder from Wilton, Calif., is a newly elected member Convenient container features a convenient, center drain hopper bottom which makes unloading simple and easy. An easy-to-open, sliding flow control gate allows one person to effortlessly remove all or part of the seed from the container. Be cause the interior is smooth and seamless, seed cleans out com pletely in just 30 seconds. Although the Probox container is not designed for outdoor seed storage, it is nearly weather-tight, so there is reduced risk of seed getting wet or damaged. The tough plastic container also guards seed against damage from rodents and other pests during storage. Each Probox container will hold 2,500 pounds or the equiva lent of 50, 50-pound unit equiva lents of soybeans or 50,80-K unit equivalents of com for most ker nel sizes. Once the reusable Probox con tainer is emptied, it can be disas sembled for storage and return af ter planting. The top turns upside down to nest over the base, reduc ing the container to about 40 inches in height for storage. The return process for containers will be similar to that of jumbo bags. The Probox containers will be available on a limited basis for spring 1998 planting. For more information about ordering bulk seed in the Probox seed handling system, contact your local provid er of Pioneer products. of the American Angus Associa tion board of directors. She and her husband Mark, and their fami ly own Five Star Land and Live stock, where she makes the herd management and breeding deci sions. Her great-grandfather, Tho mas Ryan, was one of the first to import Angus into the U.S., and her grandfather, Earl Ryan, and her great-uncle, Charles Esher, made up the historic Esher and Ryan herd in lowa. Her parents, Catherine and Charles Ryan, own ed Rancheria Angus at Petaluma, Calif. Nelson has served 14 years on the board of the California Angus Association and was president for two terms. She serves on the boards of the Tri-Counties Cattle men’s Association, California Cattlemen’s Association, and the California Beef Catde Improve ment Association. She also pion eered the performance bull show at the California State Fair.
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