With August wrapping up today, your ACA staff is eagerly looking at a busy fall season ahead. October Beef Month, Alabama's Best Steak, regional meetings, 2017 membership kickoff and cattle sales galore are bound to keep your state staff going strong! Today's blog is just about what we've got going on this week, though, so take a few minutes to catch up with all the happenings in Montgomery this week!
Meetings, Meetings and More Meetings
Bringing More to Garrett Coliseum
ACA Executive Vice President Dr. Billy Powell met with the Ag Center Redevelopment Board on Tuesday to approve a few new ideas that will raise more awareness for Garrett Coliseum. The Ag Center Redevelopment Board is a group of county, city and state leadership that oversees the Coliseum, and Dr. Powell represents Alabama's livestock industries on that Board. The group approved a plan to host more activities at the Coliseum, including basketball tournaments. Dr. Powell also presented on ways to create a more user-friendly environment for livestock shows. Joe Lovvorn Reception
Tuesday evening for Dr. Powell was spent at an ALFA-hosted reception for Joe Lovvorn. Lovvorn is running for House District 79 and is a cattleman from Randolph County.
Alabama Agribusiness Council
Today's work day will be spent on the Plains for Dr. Powell as he meets with the Alabama Agribusiness Council Board in Auburn.
Wellness Forum at ACA
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Pictured L-R are
Katye Fuglaar, American Heart Assn;
Julia Meyers,
American Cancer Sty;
Kathy Shuleva, BCBS of Alabama;
Laurie
Eldridge-Auffant, AL Dept. of Public Health;
Teresa Fair, AL Dept. of Public
Health
and Erin Beasley, ACA staff.
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County Chapter Officers Regional Training Workshops Coming Up!
Regional Meetings are soon coming up, and the state officers and
Central Alabama
- 9/13- Northport, 6:30 p.m. dinner at Front Porch
- 9/14- Alex City, 7 a.m. breakfast at Jake's Restaurant
South Alabama
- 9/20- Troy, 6:30 p.m. dinner at Pig Restaurant
- 9/21- Monroeville, 7 a.m. breakfast TBD
North Alabama
- 9/27- Moulton, 6:30 p.m. dinner at Moulton Mel's
- 9/28- Guntersville, 7 a.m. breakfast at the Extension Office Courthouse (Suite G21)
October Beef Month Promo Boxes
We are getting ready for Beef Month!
All counties were contacted this week about beef promotion boxes, banners and books available to them for fall events. If you need a box, contact Jessica at the office.
All counties were contacted this week about beef promotion boxes, banners and books available to them for fall events. If you need a box, contact Jessica at the office.
SLE Rodeo
There's a couple of things happening for the SLE this week. First, the auditors are in to generate the financial year-end statement. Accountant Cynthia Dondrea has been busy with them!
Second, SLE Officers will have a conference call later this week to finalize plans for the Sep. 22 SLE annual membership meeting and to name committees for the 2017 SLE Rodeo.
Beef Education: Wood Fruitticher
Tomorrow, ACA Director of Checkoff Programs Erin Beasley will meet with our friends from Wood Fruitticher to discuss the beef promotion that we will be doing with their sales staff during October to increase beef sales. In addition, they will be doing another BEEF 101 next Friday with us to incorporate the remainder of their sales staff that did not participate last month!September Magazine
The September of the Alabama Cattleman magazine is quite large, and magazine Production Coordinator Nicky Bechard along with magazine staff have been busy creating content and building away!
That's it for this busy week. We'll see you back next week for more catching up with the ACA. Thanks for reading!
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