Northeast Texas Beef Improvement Annual Meeting
Beef Improvement Federation gives out its 2019 awards
SEEDSTOCK WINNER: Hinkson Angus Ranch, Cottonwood Falls, Kan., was named the 2019 Beef Comeback Federation Seedstock Producer of the Year during an awards ceremony June xx in Brookings, S.D. Pictured are Burt Rutherford (left), BEEF mag, award sponsor; Marilyn and Frank Jr. Hinkson; and Lee Leachman, 2018-2019 BIF president.
Hinkson Angus Ranch has been chosen as BIF'southward 2019 Seedstock Producer of the Year.
The Beef Improvement Federation presented Hinkson Angus Ranch, Cottonwood Falls, Kan., the BIF Seedstock Producer of the Year Award on June xx during the group's annual meeting and symposium in Brookings, South.D. This national award is presented annually to a producer to recognize their dedication to improving the beef industry at the seedstock level.
Hinkson Angus Ranch is located in the Flint Hills region of east-central Kansas, 12 miles southeast of Cottonwood Falls. This region is the largest portion of the tallgrass prairie left in Northward America. The ranch was purchased in March 1984, when Frank Jr. Hinkson, married woman, Marilyn, and children, Trey and Tyla, moved from West Texas with 90 head of registered Angus cows. These cows stemmed from the original registered herd started by Frank Sr. in 1959 near Lazbuddie, Texas.
Today, Hinkson Angus Ranch is owned by Frank Jr. and his son, Trey, who is the fourth generation on the ranch and manages the daily functioning. Hinkson Angus consists of v,500 acres of endemic and leased land, and 200 fall- and 175 spring-calving registered Angus cows. An additional one,000 commercial heifers are purchased each year, with the majority coming from Hinkson balderdash customers.
The focus of the Hinkson family unit is to produce applied, balanced-trait seedstock that volition work at an optimum level in all phases of the beef manufacture in a real-world environment. Over the years, the Hinksons have been early to adopt new advances and engineering within the livestock industry. A pocket-sized herd of registered Charolais cows was added in 2017, in response to the needs of some of their commercial customers to add together terminal genetics. The Kansas Livestock Association nominated Hinkson Angus Ranch.
More 500 beef producers, academia and industry representatives attended the organisation's 51st annual convention. BIF's mission is to help improve the industry by promoting greater credence of beef cattle performance evaluation.
Additional awards presented at the annual meeting were:
Pioneer Award
The Pioneer Honor recognizes individuals who have made lasting contributions to the improvement of beef cattle and honors those who take had a major role in acceptance of performance reporting and documentation as the principal means to brand a genetic change in beef cattle.
Pioneer awards went to Jim Gibb of Louisville, Colo., and Jerry Wulf of Morris, Minn.
Gibb has broad experience in animal science and the cattle business. He has been a leader at two breed associations, American Polled Hereford Association and American Gelbvieh Association; served the National Livestock and Meat Board and the National Cattlemen's Beef Association; founded an animal genomics company; and taught beef cattle management at the University of Illinois. He has a bachelor'southward degree from the Academy of Illinois and master'south and doctorate degrees from Colorado State University. Gibb is also a by BIF lath member.
In business for more than threescore years, the Wulf operation spans across Minnesota, South Dakota and Nebraska, and is partners with Riverview LLP, a dairy enterprise. Wulf Cattle manages 2,000 registered Limousin and Lim-Flex females; finishes 100,000 head of fed cattle annually; and has a 12,000-head grass stocker operation in western South Dakota. The operation ranks in National Cattlemen'southward Beef Association's Top 25 Seedstock Producers.
Baker/Cundiff Award
The annual Frank Bakery/Larry Cundiff Beef Improvement Essay Contest for graduate students provides an opportunity to recognize outstanding student research and competitive writing in honor of Frank Baker and Larry Cundiff.
The award was presented to Madison Butler of Cincennes, Ind.
Butler is working on her main's degree in animal breeding and genetics at Kansas Land University. Her essay was titled, "Review of Genetic Studies of Bull Fertility."
Each yr, winning essays are selected and published in the annual BIF Enquiry Symposium and Almanac Coming together Proceedings. Each winning author will receive a $1,000 scholarship.
Administrator Accolade
The Ambassador Award is given annually past BIF to a member of the media for his or her efforts in spreading the news of BIF and its principles to a larger audition.
This twelvemonth'southward honor went to Eric Grant, the founder of Grant Co., which offers a unique blend of media, public relations, communications and advertising services for many clients with deep roots in agriculture, such as Merck Fauna Health, Biozyme Inc. and Holstein Association USA.
Commercial Producer of the Yr
The Commercial Producer of the Twelvemonth award goes to a producer to recognize their dedication to improving the beef industry at the commercial level. Bruce and Tracey Mershon of Mershon Cattle LLC, a diversified crop and livestock operation headquartered on a Century Farm in Buckner, Mo., northeast of Kansas City. The Mershon family has deep roots in Missouri agriculture. In 1865, Bruce'south great-great-grandfather, Eli Mershon, settled in the Fort Osage area of Jackson Canton and purchased 160 acres before long thereafter. The family unit has farmed there ever since.
Bruce and Tracey Mershon accept owned cattle since 1993 and launched Mershon Cattle LLC in 2012. They purchased Sunny Acres Farm in Appleton City, Mo., in 2013 to expand the operation. The Mershon cow herd consists of 1,600 Angus-based, crossbred cows, which are bred to Hereford, Simmental and Charolais sires. This complementary breeding programme allows the performance to produce efficient, loftier-performing offspring, and is paired with a sustainable grass management program to maximize environmental stewardship.
Continuing Service Awards
Standing Service Award winners accept fabricated major contributions to the BIF organization. This includes serving on the board of directors, speaking at BIF conventions, working on BIF guidelines and other behind-the-scenes activities. Every bit BIF is a volunteer organization, it is this contribution of time and passion for the beef cattle industry that moves BIF forward.
Scott Greiner, Christiansburg, Virginia, Extension beef and sheep specialist at Virginia Tech, is a Continuing Service winner. In this position, he provides research-based pedagogy and outreach on the science and application of beef and sheep production to livestock producers, Extension agents and allied-industry professionals. He received his bachelor's degree in animal science at Iowa State Academy, his master's degree in animal science at Michigan State University and so returned to Iowa State to obtain his doctorate in animal scientific discipline (meat science).
Craig Bieber of Leola, Due south Dakota, was also presented a Continuing Service Honour.
Bieber serves as CEO of Bieber Cherry Angus Ranch, managing sales and ranch activities. Bieber Red Angus Ranch has been breeding Red Angus cattle since 1968. The Bieber family unit manages 950 registered Red Angus cows and hosts four sales and 3 online sales annually.
Steve Munger of Highmore, Southward.D., is another Continuing Service Laurels winner.
Munger is managing partner of Hawkeye Pass Ranch, which he and his wife, Debi, ain in partnership with sons, Nate and AJ, and their wives. Hawkeye Pass Ranch has been supplying the beef manufacture with progressive beef genetics for more 25 years. The company annually markets more than 500 bulls and females to cow-dogie producers across the United States, Canada and Mexico, along with commercial heifers, semen and embryos.
Roy A. Wallace Memorial Scholarships
These scholarships were established to encourage young men and women interested in beefiness improvement to pursue those interests as Wallace did, with dedication and passion.
Benjamin Crites and Taylor Nikkel are Wallace scholarship winners.
Crites, of Lexington, Ky., completed his master'due south degree and doctorate at the University of Kentucky in reproductive physiology. Crites' master'southward project focused on incorporating gender-sorted semen into fixed-time artificial insemination protocols for beef heifers and cows. Currently, Crites is continuing his education at United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland with Dr. Bridges, working on a doctoral degree in reproductive physiology. Their lab is evaluating the selenium grade regulation on fertility in beef cattle.
Nikkel, of Maple Colina, Kan., is this year'due south undergraduate winner. She will graduate from Kansas Country University in May 2020 with a degree in agricultural economic science.
During her fourth dimension at K-State, Nikkel has taken opportunities to learn more than about agricultural policy and law. In the fall of 2018, she attended the Agriculture Future of America (AFA) leadership conference, which helped her connect with peers who had like interests in pursuing a career path of agricultural policy.
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