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As we continue to be inundated every day in the media with talk of jobs, the economy, recovery, change and change from that change, I cannot help but think about the economic future of agriculture in Nevada.
High hay prices, high calf prices, high lamb prices, etc. are on side A of the record.
You turn the record over and we you get high fuel prices, high fertilizer prices, high feed prices, etc.
Now let us not forget the other myriad of costly regulations and hoops to jump through just to get our products on the ground and off the farm and ranch.
The margins are still the same, everything just costs more.
If the media wasn’t telling me it isn’t true, I would swear it was inflation.
I just wish I could turn on Fox News, CNN, NPR, some media outlet and hear, “I am pledging to protect agriculture and work to expand the possibilities within the industry”.
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Welcome to 2012! As we ring in the New Year with family and friends, we ponder on the times of the past year, celebrate achievements and challenges won and look forward to the new adventures to come. As I welcomed 2012, I accepted the position of Executive Director of the Nevada Cattlemen’s Association and much like the traditions of a new year; I am looking forward to new adventures in the Association and celebrating the past achievements of those cattlemen and women before me.
Our Association has been well served by all of our past leaders. Leaders who have “stepped up to the plate” on issues that affect so many livelihoods, taken time out of their busy days to represent and serve the cattle industry and leaders who, to many of us, have become household names and lifelong friends. Growing up in the small town of Lund, NV, dinner table discussions circulated around many of these leaders and the great work they had done. As I look forward to the New Year and my new position, I am honored and humbled to serve with such a great group of people and leaders of the cattle industry.