A Texas Farm Bureau state
director and longtime agriculture leader was named this week to the
Cattlemen’s Beef Promotion and Research Board.
TFB District 3
State Director Larry Pratt, a farmer and rancher from Eliasville,
will serve as one of 36 newly appointed members to the national
board, which oversees collection of the $1- per-head beef checkoff
program.
“Serving on this
board helps us know what we need to do here in Texas to increase our
exports and profitability in our operations,” said Pratt, who joins
Austin rancher Daniel Dierschke, the former Texas Farm Bureau state
director who now chairs the Cattlemen’s Beef Promotion Board.
“Exports play a big part in that and the checkoff dollars serve to
promote beef and bring us into the limelight across the world to
make sure everybody knows the quality of beef we produce here in the
United States and the availability of that meat. That translates
into profitable dollars for the producer.”
Pratt raises cattle, wheat,
oats and coastal hay in Young County. He served as a director of the
Young County Farm Bureau board since 1972 and was honored as Texas
Farm Bureau’s Outstanding Young Farmer and Rancher Award winner in
1976.
Other Texas appointees
announced March 10 included ranchers Andrea W. Reed of Dodd City in
Fannin County; D. Rudolph Tate of Wellington in Collingsworth
County; and Bruce D. Dopslauf of La Grange in Fayette County.
