2012 ACA Convention Schedule Online

The schedule of events for the 69th Annual ACA Convention & Trade Show is now online, as is registration. Highlights for the event include speakers from around the country as well as a revamped schedule.

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Below is more information on a couple of the speakers who will address convention attendees:

Duane Lenz, Cattle-Fax Manager of Operations and Analyst Services

            Duane has been a Market Analyst at Cattle-Fax since 1989, working with Texas, Colorado, Nebraska and Western U.S. feedlots and cow/calf producers.  His current responsibilities are with Texas, California and Arizona feedyards, as well as serving as manager of Operations and Analyst Services for Cattle-Fax.  Duane is also heavily involved with meat analysis.

Prior to working at Cattle-Fax, Duane spent 9 years as a lamb buyer for Farmstead Foods Corp. (formerly Wilson Foods Corp.).  He was raised 30 miles south of Denver on a diversified livestock operation.  Duane is a graduate of Colorado State University.

            Cattle-Fax is a member-owned organization whose objective is to help member cattlemen make more profitable marketing and management decisions.  Cattle-Fax supplies its members, in all segments of cattle production and feeding throughout the United States, with timely market information, analyses and educational programs to assist them in making better bottom-line decisions.  The information, including data provided by members, is developed by Cattle-Fax's staff of market analysts and researchers.  Cattle-Fax information is available to members through a weekly printed report, in conversations with analysts on toll-free lines, and on video screens and personal computers.

Ashley Lyon, Esq., NCBA Deputy Environmental Counsel

            Ashley grew up on a diversified agricultural operations with row crops and a small commercial backgrounding operation in the town of Norborne, Montana.  She received her Agriculture Economics degree from the University of Missouri-Columbia. During her undergraduate work, she interned for Senator Christopher “Kit” Bond in Washington, D.C. and then returned to the area upon graduation to attend law school at George Mason University School of Law in Arlington, VA. 

            During law school, Ashley had the opportunity to work with NCBA’s Chief Environmental Counsel, Tamara Thies, as her environmental law clerk, and upon completion of law school became NCBA’s Deputy Environmental Counsel. As part of the government affairs team in D.C., Ashley represents cattle producer interests before Congress, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and the Office of Management and Budget on diverse environmental issues that are increasingly affecting the cattle industry.  These issues include regulation of CAFOs under the Clean Water Act, the Clean Air Act, Superfund law, and the Spill Prevention, Control and Countermeasure law.  

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