Last night, YPC met and appointed fresh slate of people for its leadership team. Ben Spitzer from Fairmount, Georgia was appointed to the Chair YPC while Ben Neal from Nashville, Tennessee was appointed to Vice-Chair. YPC added a Secretary/Treasurer position this year and Sharon Breiner of Manhattan, Kansas will be joining YPC's executive leadership in that position. YPC also appointed the following voting members on NCBA's policy committees:
1. Evan Tate from Kentucky - Agriculture Policy;
2. Brandon Carlson from California - Cattle Health & Well Being;
3. Sarah Baker from Idaho - Federal Lands;
4. Travis Hoffman from Colorado - Live Cattle Marketing Committee;
5. RaeMarie Gordon from Colorado - Membership Committee;
6. Holly Foster from California - Property Rights and Environmental Management;
7. Wyatt Prescott from Arizona - Tax and Credit Committee;
8. Tonya Amen from Wisconcin - Resolutions Committee.
Furthermore, YPC elected chairs of its own committees/task forces. I will remain as the Chair of the Public Relations Committee -- please let me know if you would like to get involved in any way. My goal for 2010 is to train YPC members around the country to be media contacts with local newspapers, magazines, and radio shows and continue to push with social media through this blog, Facebook, and Twitter. Katy Groseta from Arizona will be leading the Cattle Call Blog effort so I am looking forward to passing the reins to Katy for a fresh perspective on this blog. Finally, Anna Aja from Arizona will be leading YPC's membership task force.
Last year's YPC Chair, Dustin Dean from Texas, will remain in an advisory capacity for YPC as a Past-Chair.
Sadly, I was unable to make it to NCBA convention this year due to a last-minute work responsibility. However, I have been following the tweets from #NCBA10 on Tweetdeck. If you are there at convention, keep the tweets coming! And if you weren't able to make it (like me), sign into Twitter and search for #NCBA10 for a real-time feed on what is happening at the Convention and Trade Show today.
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