From left are TSCRA Director and Animal Health Commit- tee Chair Wesley Welch; guest speaker Dr. Tom Hairgrove, Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service; Allen Jackson, MICRO, session sponsor; and speaker Dr. Billy Cook, Noble Foundation. The topics of this joint session of the Animal Health and Agricultural Research Committees were the Grow Safe System at Noble Foundation and the prevalance of anaplasmosis in the state beef cattle herd.
The joint meeting of the Legislative and Tax and Natural Resources and Environment committees focused on how the oil and gas industry in Texas is affecting ranch landowners. From left are Jay Evans, Natural Resources vice chair; attor- ney
J.Byron “Trace” Burton III; Texas Railroad Commission Chair Barry Smitherman; Legislative and Tax Vice Chair Leslie Kinsel; Dr. Fred C. Bryant, Caesar Kelberg Wildlife Research Center; Natural Resources and Environment Chair Joe Leath- ers; and Arthur Uhl, Legislative and Tax Committee chair.
The TSCRA Special Ranger Saddle Raffle is a popular event at the Cattle Raisers Convention. This year’s winner was Berklee Clements, Pampa. From left are Special Ranger Brent Mast, Berklee and Steve Clement; and Spe- cial Ranger Toney Hurley.
Rhonda Dudley, Comanche, and TSCRA Director Bennie Bock, New Braunfels, donned plastic gloves and wielded the butcher knife in the Merck Animal Health meat cutting contest.
Merck Animal Health was one of the spon- sors of the 2013 Cattle Raisers Convention and had an exhibit in the Cattle Raisers Expo. During the afternoons, they en- tertained the crowd with a meat cutting contest. Dr. Jessica Igo, director, meat science with the Center for Research and Knowledge Management in the Department of Research, Education & Innovation at the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association and Lee Barr with Merck explain that contes- tants draw a random number, and then are challenged to cut that many ounces of beef. The closest cut wins.
TSCRA Director James Danglemayr, Muenster, tried his hand at cutting an exact portion of beef at the Merck Animal Health meat cutting demonstration and contest.
Gatlan Gray won a hand- some set of saddlebags for making one of the closest cuts in the Merck Animal Health meat cut- ting contest.
More Convention Coverage
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