CATTLE RAISERS COMMUNITY
Association Leaders Prepare
for Continuing Growth By Richard Thorpe, president, Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association
T
HE OFFICERS AND STAFF HAVE BEEN VERY BUSY WORKING ON behalf of the members of Texas and Southwestern
Cattle Raisers Association (TSCRA). As of late September, the special rangers had in-
vestigated 433 cases involving 3,100 head of livestock. They’ve recovered $2,028,408 in livestock and ranch- related property. Of these cases, 19 have gone to trial, which has resulted in combined sentences of 152 years with a restitution of almost $1 million and recovered court costs and fi nes of almost $15,000. Through the end of August the brand inspectors
had inspected, 1,878,724 head of cattle. Special rang- ers continue to investigate cases ranging from fraud involving more than $1 million in cattle, to equipment thefts, particularly tractors, ATVs and UTVs. Thanks to an alert member reading a Crime Watch bulletin in The Cattleman News Update, a stolen tractor has been recovered and returned to its owner. In the government affairs area, we have been pre-
paring for the 2017 session of the Texas Legislature. TSCRA’s Policy Priority Advisory Committee (PPAC), which is composed of the committee chairs, vice chairs and the offi cers, has drafted policy priorities for 2017. The Executive Committee has approved these priorities — which include eminent domain reform and surface and groundwater protection. With all the challenges facing us at the state and
national levels we have to support our TSCRA PAC. My goal as president is to grow this PAC to more than $1 million and we’re really, really close to doing that. Watch for opportunities to contribute to the TSCRA PAC through a raffl e of impressive items, thanks to the good work of Past President John Dudley and the PAC trustees. We are steadily growing membership and, just as
important, we are fi nding that more than 90 percent of our members renew their membership and stay with TSCRA. Many initiatives developed by the Member- ship Recruitment Task Force, headed by Past President Dick Sherron, are under way. An aggressive schedule
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of ranch gatherings and other educational programs have contributed to this success in membership growth and retention. This achievement is the result of combined ef-
forts of the fi ne work of our Regional Association Promotion (RAP) teams, the staff efforts, government and public relations work conducted in Austin and Washington, D.C, the great communications we’ve had with The Cattleman magazine and related elec- tronic and print communications, and the valuable medical and insurance products provided by Cattle Raisers Insurance. We have great educational opportunities including
Beef Quality Assurance (BQA) training and Ranching 101. These things combined have been very important to building our association. I am confi dent we will meet this year’s membership goal and urge every member to invite ranching friends to join your association and build our strength.
Many thanks to these generous sponsors of the 2016 TSCRA Policy Conference
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