Tanner Beymer: Cattle & Beef Market Policy

Tanner Beymer, Director of Government Affairs & Market Regulatory Policy for the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association. On this episode Ashley Kohls, Vice President of Government Affairs for Nebraska Cattlemen catches Tanner in-person in Denver, Colorado during a session of meetings on cattle and beef market policy.
“The optimum solution to the woes that we are experiencing in terms of low cattle prices and in terms of market competition, a lot of that can be solved by adding more hooks into the system. It is a lot more tenable for that to be a small to midsized level producer.”
Livestock Mandatory Reporting (LMR) is a program that must be reauthorized every 5 years. Last year, NCBA helped secure a one-year extension. We are coming up on expiration of that one-year extension.
“Everyone needs to know that LMR is a high priority to the U.S. cattle industry, and we need to make sure that LMR makes it into the final version of whatever legislative package it gets attached to.”
NCBA’s convention will be held August 10 -12th in Nashville, TN. For more information and to register you can go to www.ncba.org.
“Make sure you are staying involved because that is how we set policy in this organization. You, personally, may not like the direction that NC or NCBA is going on a particular issue, so it is imperative then that you show up to the meetings and voice that on the record.”
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