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I hear over and over that meetings are a waste of time, or that they worked for a while and then it wasn’t worth the effort anymore. There are a host of reasons for this ineffectiveness.
Imagine what beef production and agriculture will look like in 30 years. We all recognize that beef production and everything else is changing at unprecedented rates.
Several years ago, I ran into a much younger friend of mine at a winter trade show and asked him what he’d been up to. “We just got back from skiing,” he said. When I asked where he went, he replied in a nonchalant manner, “The Alps.”
Agriculture is an industry that is known to be dangerous; this fact is especially true for workers on cattle feedlots.
According to recent labor statistics, beef cattle production has a fatality rate of 116 per 100,000 workers.
Health insurance costs have been on the rise for several years and are frequently named by farmers and ranchers as becoming a burden to their families and operations.
For cattle operations of any size, the “documentaries” churned out by undercover animal rights activists can be intimidating – marked often as they are by deceptive editing, scary music, jarring visual effects and anguished voiceovers rife with half-truths and outright lies.
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