08/23/2005 04:07PM
Dave Weaber
Director of Market Analysis, Swift & Company
In February 2005, Dave joined Swift & Company in the newly created position of Director of Market Analysis.He is responsible for market research and forecasting in the cattle, beef, hog and pork markets as well tracking changes in
07/26/2005 12:11PM
G. Allen Andreas is the Chairman and Chief Executive of the Archer Daniels Midland Company, a global agribusiness headquartered in the United States.
Mr. Andreas holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree from ValparaisoUniversity, and a Juris Doctorate from the Valparaiso University School of Law.He was an
07/19/2005 03:22PM
Leland (Lee) Leachman II graduated from HarvardUniversity with an Honors BA in Economics in 1988.Lee also completed graduate level work in animal breeding at ColoradoStateUniversity in 1992.
From 1992 - 2003, Lee has served as the CEO of Leachman Cattle Company, Billings, MT.The company had annual
07/07/2005 02:45PM
Born and raised in Northeastern, Nevada, Torell received a B.S. and M.S. degree in Animal Science at the University of Nevada, Reno.Torell worked on Nevada and California registered and commercial cattle ranches as a cowboy and manager from the age of ten.In addition to his duties as Nevada Livestock
06/10/2005 09:59AM
HAYS, Kan. -- Years ago, Kansas State University researcher John Brethour, chose to focus his life's work on finding ways to produce good beef efficiently. And focus he did.
"John's command and understanding of the interrelationships among the science, business, and economics of the beef cattle industry
05/17/2005 04:19PM
Paul Hitch is the real thing, a genuine descendant of Oklahoma’s earliest pioneers.His great-great grandfather, James Hitch, left Tennessee in the early 1880’s for Kansas seeking his fortune with $10 liberated from the family cookie jar.In 1884 he drove a small herd of longhorns from southeast Kansas
05/14/2005 12:03AM
Tom Harkin is a product of small town Iowa who has not forgotten his origins. He was born November 19, 1939 to a coal miner father and a Slovenian immigrant mother who passed away when Tom was ten years old. Tom, his three brothers and two sisters and their parents shared a two-bedroom home in Cumming
05/10/2005 02:42PM
Mike Byrne is a fourth generation cattle rancher from Tulelake, California.Mike and his wife, Beverly, operate a commercial cow-calf operation in the KlamathBasin of northern California and southern Oregon. They have two children, Matt and Brianna.Mike and his brother, Dan, still manage the same lands
05/05/2005 11:01AM
A fourth generation Kansan from Dodge City, Senator Pat Roberts' service to the people of Kansas spans more than two decades. First as an eight-term congressman from Kansas' First District and now in his second term as United States Senator, Roberts has built a reputation as a leader in national security
05/03/2005 02:42PM
Dr. Charles "Chuck" Lambert was appointed Deputy Under Secretary for USDA's Marketing and Regulatory Programs mission area by then-Agriculture Secretary Ann M. Veneman on December 2, 2002.
Lambert helps to oversee policy development and the day-to-day operations of the 3 agencies that comprise the