Schedule of Events

Saturday, Sept. 26, 2015
Resolutions Committee Meeting.................. 7:30 a.m.
Registration................................ 8:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Registration sponsored by Boehringer-Ingelheim
Vetmedica, Inc.
Refreshments sponsored by Sunnyside Feeds.
North Dakota CattleWomen
Silent Auction .............................. 8:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
It’s time for
the NDSA’s
86th Annual
Convention &
Trade Show!
Schedule of Events
All events held at the Ramada unless noted.
Thursday, Sept. 24, 2015
Golf Scramble & Hole-in-One Contest
Tom O’Leary Golf Course, Bismarck............ 9:00 a.m.
Contact Wade Moser at (701) 226-4269 or
wademoser@bis.midco.net to register your four-person
team or to be placed individually on a team.
Golf Scramble sponsored by Stockmen’s Supply and
Stockmen’s Supply West.
Hole-in-One Contest sponsored by CATL Resources.
Registration.................................. 9:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Registration sponsored by Boehringer-Ingelheim
Vetmedica, Inc.
Seedstock Council Livestock Marketing
Workshop .................................. 10:00 a.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Anne Kimmey, Cultivate Agency, Inc., and Branded
Spur Creative
Marketing Workshop Lunch..............12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
Cattlemen’s College.............................3:00 - 6:00 p.m.
Dr. Rick Funston, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Dr. Tim Petry, North Dakota State University Dr. Kent Andersen, Zoetis Anne Kimmey, Cultivate Agency, Inc., and Branded
Spur Creative
Cattlemen’s College sponsored by Zoetis.
Refreshments sponsored by Bismarck-Mandan Convention
& Visitors Bureau.
Trade Show Social .........................................6:00 p.m.
Social sponsored by Farm & Ranch Guide, First Community
Credit Union and Arvig.
Supper ............................................................7:00 p.m.
Supper sponsored by DeHaan, Grabs & Associates, LLC;
NDSU Hettinger/Carrington Research Extension Centers;
Northern Pulse Growers Association; and SweetProPremium Supplements. General Session ............................................. 8:15 a.m.
The morning session will include speakers who will
address important issues facing the beef industry.
Speaker Line-Up:
• Dustin Van Liew, Public Lands Council
• Ernie Meier, McDonald’s
Speakers sponsored by AgriLabs; American Angus
Association; CHS Nutrition; Liphatech, Inc.; and Select
Sires.
Refreshment Break Refreshments sponsored by CATL Resources.
Doorprizes sponsored by North Dakota Red Angus
Association.
Friday, Sept. 25, 2015
Trade Show.................................. 8:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Refreshments sponsored by Central Livestock.
Registration.................................. 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Registration sponsored by Boehringer-Ingelheim
Vetmedica, Inc.
Opening General Session.............................. 8:45 a.m.
President’s Message
North Dakota CattleWomen Welcome
“Riding for the Brand” Recognition
Executive Vice President Report
Doorprizes sponsored by North Dakota Bankers
Association.
Philip Ellis, National Cattlemen’s Beef Association
Brand Inspection Report
Nominating Committee Reports
Floor Nominations of Officers & Directors
Candidates’ Forum Doorprizes sponsored by Merial.
Buffet Lunch (pay as you go).......................12:00 p.m.
Committee Meetings............................1:00 - 5:15 p.m.
Ag Policy; Feeding & Marketing; Research & Education;
Resolutions; Animal Health; Environmental Issues; and
Brand & Theft Committee meetings will be staggered
throughout this time-frame.
Refreshments sponsored by K2S Engineering, Inc., and
CattleCents Consulting.
Tomorrow’s Top Hands Alumni Social .........5:30 p.m.
Social sponsored by Biozyme, Inc.
Stockmen’s Sports Night Social...................6:00 p.m.
Social sponsored by First International Bank & Trust, River
Ag, Inc., and Tri-State Livestock News.
Stockmen’s Sports Night Supper .................7:00 p.m.
Wear your favorite sports team apparel!
Supper sponsored by American Simmental Association,
Dakotaland Feeds, LLC., and Ellingson Companies.
ComedySportz
Entertainment sponsored by Dakota Community Bank &
Trust, Leedstone and M&M Ag Sales & Service, LLC.
Doorprizes sponsored by Merial.
Live radio broadcasting sponsored by American Ag Network. Online broadcasting sponsored by DVAuction, Inc.
Convention program printing sponsored by NDSU Vet Diagnostic Lab and Stockmen’s Livestock Exchange.
Mentoring Program Meeting ...................... 10:30 a.m.
Foundation Luncheon..................................12:00 p.m.
North Dakota Stockmen’s Foundation Scholarship
Presentations
Mentoring Program Recognition
Tomorrow’s Top Hands Beef Leadership Recap
Foundation Luncheon sponsored by North Dakota Beef
Commission.
Closing Session..............................................1:30 p.m.
The closing session features the adoption of
resolutions, committee reports, director and officer
elections, retiring director presentations and
membership contest results.
Membership prize sponsored by Action Motor Sports, Inc.
Doorprizes sponsored by North Dakota Red Angus
Association.
Refreshments sponsored by Igenity and Quality Liquid
Feeds.
Kids’ Corral.........................................5:30 - 10:00 p.m.
Kids’ Corral sponsored by Agweek.
Childcare provided by Go-Getters 4-H Club.
Social...............................................................6:00 p.m.
Social sponsored by Cattle Business Weekly and Hubbard
Feeds.
Annual Banquet..............................................7:00 p.m.
During the banquet, the NDSA will recognize its
Honorary Members, the Rancher of the Year, the
Environmental Stewardship Award recipient, an
Honorary Brand Inspector and two employees for their
years of service. Entertainment will be provided by the
Strolling Strings. Dale Brown, former Louisiana State
University basketball coach and North Dakota native,
will be the banquet speaker. The banquet will also
include the North Dakota Stockmen’s Foundation Wine
& Product Auction.
Entertainment sponsored by Elanco.
Speaker sponsored by Haugen Sales & Leasing; Image
Printing; North Dakota Corn Growers Association; North
Dakota Farm Credit Services; Purina Animal Nutrition, LLC.;
and Red Trail Energy, LLC.
Certified Angus Beef sponsored by the North Dakota Angus
Association.
Rancher of the Year sponsored by Wells Fargo.
Environmental Stewardship Award sponsored by the North
Dakota Game & Fish Department.
Thursday’s Highlights
Saturday’s Highlights
Golf Scramble & Hole-in-One Contest
Dustin Van Liew, Public Lands Council Executive
Director
The 2015 NDSA Golf Scramble will take to the tee at Bismarck’s Tom O’Leary Golf
Course. Contact Wade Moser at (701) 226-4269 or wademoser@bis.midco.net to
register your four-person team or to be placed individually on a team. You could win a
38-foot portable Daniels Double Alley with a hole-in-one!
Cattlemen’s College
This year’s Cattlemen’s College is focused on the beef industry at a time of herd
expansion. The NDSA has called on a strong lineup of beef industry experts who
specialize in fields ranging from ag economics to herd development. Dr. Rick Funston,
North Dakota native and beef cattle reproduction expert from the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln, will discuss heifer development and selection strategies. Dr. Tim
Petry, North Dakota State University livestock marketing economist, will provide
a look at the future and a forecast of the cattle market as producers look to begin
expanding herds across the United States, and Dr. Kent Andersen of Zoetis will
discuss several genomic and herd selection tools for use in strengthening your herd.
Anne Kimmey will also share her livestock marketing programming.
Livestock Marketing Workshop
Anne Kimmey, Cultivate Agency, Inc.,
and Branded Spur Creative
Anne Kimmey is the founder and owner of Cultivate
Agency, Inc., and Branded Spur Creative. She is
a regionally recognized communications expert
from Justin, Texas. After working as director of
communications at the Georgia Beef Board, Kimmey
moved back to Texas to start her own agency with
a mission to help clients grow their business, their
message and their identity. Today, Kimmey’s clients
include the State Fair of Texas, Justin Discount Boots,
the Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo and the Texas
Beef Council, among others. In her Thursday morning
and afternoon sessions hosted by the NDSA Seedstock
Council, Kimmey will examine the fundamentals of modern livestock marketing and
give you tools to grow your operation’s identity.
Friday’s Highlights
Philip Ellis, NCBA President
Philip Ellis is a fifth-generation rancher from the
Bear Creek Valley in southeast Wyoming where his
ancestors settled in 1883. Ellis took over the day-today management of his family’s cow-calf and stocker
operations in 1991. He has been involved in the cattle
industry for many years and served in various leadership
roles with the Wyoming Stock Growers Association
and the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association before
assuming the national presidency. Ellis is making a
stop in North Dakota to discuss national beef industry
policy issues and to gather feedback from North Dakota
producers.
Committee Meetings
Grassroots policymaking is always the heart of the NDSA Annual Convention &
Trade Show. During this year’s committee meetings, members will discuss and
debate policy issues and learn from industry experts who will offer informational
reports on topics such as the Veterinary Feed Directive, Argentine and Brazilian beef
import rules, corporate business structure options, preparing samples for veterinary
diagnostics, pipeline siting and more.
Friday Entertainment
Public Lands Council Executive Director Dustin Van
Liew, a seventh-generation production agriculturist,
is a leading authority in Washington, D.C., on public
lands grazing policy issues, thanks to his extensive
knowledge of the legislative history, the regulatory
framework and the many legal challenges facing the
industry. Van Liew’s leadership regarding legal strategy
has guided public lands ranchers through several
major victories, including a court decision granting
unprecedented legal standing to livestock organizations.
He will give producers an update on some of the current
issues facing public lands ranchers and explain how those outcomes affect all beef
producers.
Ernie Meier, McDonald’s Corporation Director of
Quality Systems, U.S. Supply Chain Management
Ernie Meier serves as the U.S. supply chain
management director of quality systems for McDonald’s
USA. In this role, Meier develops quality assurance
systems and processes to ensure food safety, food
quality and responsible practices for beef, pork, poultry,
dairy and egg products and oversees the quality
programs for the packaging suppliers. He establishes
safety and quality requirements and is responsible
for compliance among the company’s primary and
secondary suppliers in areas such as raw ingredient
products, BSE and avian influenza firewalls, animal welfare, raw material and finished
product sampling and microbiological testing. Meier will provide perspective from one
of the beef industry’s largest partners on topics like procurement, sustainability and
antibiotic stewardship.
Bruce Vincent, Communities for a Great
Northwest President
Bruce Vincent is a third-generation logger who moved
his family back to Libby, Mont., in 1984 to run his
family’s logging business. In 1988, Vincent helped
form Communities for a Great Northwest, a non-profit
education and information group dedicated to the
intelligent use of natural resources. Vincent is also a
partner in the public relations firm ENVIRONOMICS
and often provides testimony on resource issues before
Congress. Vincent will detail his family’s journey in
pushing back on activist-driven regulations that have
threatened the logging and related industries.
Dale Brown, Former Louisiana State University
Head Basketball Coach & Proud North Dakotan
As a North Dakota native and former Louisiana State
University (LSU) head basketball coach, Dale Brown
knows a thing or two about success. Coach Brown has
the most wins of any coach in the nation over Kentucky
and is the winningest coach in LSU history. He has won
several Southeastern Conference titles and advanced
to two Final Fours while coaching basketball superstar
Shaquille O’Neal. He was chosen twice as the National
Basketball College Coach of the Year and is a member
of the National College Basketball Hall of Fame. Brown
welcomes the chance to come back to North Dakota
to share his own ingredients of success in hopes of inspiring you to believe in your
dreams and realize the difference faith can make not only in your job, but in your life.
After a busy day of policymaking, it’ll be time to relax and show your team spirit on Friday
evening. Sport your favorite team’s gear at the Stockmen’s Sports Night Social and Supper. Of
course, you aren’t required to sport your team colors, but be prepared to tap into your competitive spirit with entertainment
from ComedySportz of Minneapolis, Minn., who will have you laughing with their light-hearted, improv-style comedy show.
NDSA’s 86th Annual Convention & Trade Show
Sept. 24-26, Ramada, Bismarck, ND
Pre-Registration
Pre-register by
Name(s)_______________________________________________________________
Organization/Ranch Name_______________________________________________
Address____________________________________ County___________________
Sept. 10
to save $27
and receive a
Trunk Organizer
from
Boehringer-Ingelheim
Vetmedica, Inc.
City, State, Zip_________________________________________________________
Telephone____________________ E-mail __________________________________
Registration fee must be paid by all who attend the convention. Registration and name tags will be required to enter all meetings and meal functions.
Meeting & Trade Show Registration
# of People
If you register by Sept. 10
If you register after Sept. 10
Full Registration Fee (all 3 days) (Per Person)
x $35 =
x $50 =
Student Registration Fee (all 3 days) (Per Person)
x $10 =
x $15 =
One-Day Registration Fee (Per Person)
x $25 =
x $30 =
By Sept. 10
After Sept. 10
Check Day:
Thursday____ Friday____ Saturday____
Special Events
# of People
Not Available
Livestock Marketing Workshop (Workshop attendees must
complete one-day or full convention registration to attend.)
Thursday Supper
x $17 =
x $20 =
Friday Supper & Entertainment
x $25 =
x $28 =
Saturday Foundation Luncheon
x $19 =
x $22 =
Kids’ Corral (Childcare provided by Go-Getters 4-H Club)
x $15 =
Not Available
Annual Banquet
x $34 =
x $37 =
TOTAL
Accommodations: A block of rooms has been reserved at the Ramada
in Bismarck until Sept. 10. The cost is $83 plus tax before Sept. 10. To make
reservations, call (701) 258-7000 or (800) 854-9517.
Kids’ Corral: Childcare service for kids age 0 to 10 will be provided from
5:30 to 10 p.m. on Sept. 26. The service includes food and age-appropriate
activities for children who are pre-registered. Please indicate names, ages and
any special care instructions on a separate sheet when you pre-register.
Mail with payment to North Dakota Stockmen’s Association, 407 S. 2nd St., Bismarck, ND 58504.
For questions, call (701) 223-2522.
Non-Profit Org.
U.S. Postage
PAID
407 S. 2nd Street
Bismarck, ND 58504
Permit No. 341
Bismarck, ND
58501
NDSA’s 86th Annual
Convention & Trade Show
Sept. 24-26, 2015
Ramada, Bismarck, ND
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