This year’s Hall of Fame winner is Glen Klippenstein, representative of District 5 in the Missouri House of Representatives, who also serves on the Missouri House Agriculture committee.
Klippenstein served as chief executive officer of the American Chianina Association from 2000 to 2009 and has been involved in the beef industry all of his life. In 2010, he was awarded the Beef Improvement Federation (BIF) Pioneer Award.
Once graduated from Penn State University, Klippenstein moved to Missouri and started his involvement in the Polled Hereford business, traveling worldwide to promote the breed. He also served as chairman for both the National Beef Promotion and Research Board and the American Polled Hereford Association.
Darla Eggers, BIF conference planning committee member, said, “He has traveled more, spoken more, visited more beef herds, judged more shows, motivated more youth and promoted the beef industry both domestically and globally more than anyone can imagine.”
Klippenstein has been extremely passionate about the beef industry his entire life. While accepting the hall of fame award he said, “In the beef industry, passion, joy, love, dedication, positive, persistence, that’s something we all believe in.”
LPC Headliner Award
This award honors a person from outside the livestock publishing field for actions that produce a positive change in livestock production and marketing.
The 2012 Headliner award winner is Jon Beever, who has helped provide key tools for beef producers to eliminate genetic problems in their herds.
He is at the forefront in research and development of DNA testing. He has worked cooperatively with beef breed associations, veterinarians, breeders and other scientists. Many breeds have been able to move forward and beyond genetic abnormality situations because of his research.
“If one stops to think of the effect that Beever’s work has had not only on the pedigreed livestock industry, but more importantly the entire commercial beef industry, the numbers would be staggering,” said American Maine Anjou Association executive vice president, John Boddicker.
On Nov. 2, LPC will host its ninth annual LPC Royal Gala in Kansas City during the American Royal. Portraits of both Klippenstein and Beever will be unveiled and hung permanently in the Hall of Honor, which is located in the headquarters of the American Royal. 
—From Livestock Publications Council news release
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Christy Lee, LPC first vice president, presents the 2012 LPC Hall of Fame award to Glen Klippenstein. Photo courtesy of Livestock Publications Council.
