The Kansas Cattlemen’s Association has long-been committed to restoring profits, self-esteem, freedom, fair trade, trust, and community pride back to the farms, ranches and rural communities across Kansas and the nation. To accomplish these goals, the Board of Directors and KCA staff depend on input from independent cattle producers like you. The KCA Annual Membership Meeting will take place on Friday, November 9, 2018 at 4:30 p.m. at the Meridian Center in Newton, Kansas. Th

Nathan “Nate” Robert Pike, 85, died Thursday September 20, 2018 at the Minneola District Hospital. He was born to Cecil Eugene and Lula Belle (Dorsey) Pike on May 22, 1933. Nathan was born in the home of his grandparents in the Lexington Community, Clark County, Kansas on land homesteaded by Grandfather Nathan Eugene Pike and Nancy Jane Lamb Pike (across the road from Mount Jesus) in 1885. Nathan’s grandfather grew the first wheat in Clark County. Nathan “Nate” grew up in

The Cattlemen’s Beef Promotion and Research Board will invest about $40.5 million into programs of beef promotion, research, consumer information, industry information, foreign marketing and producer communications during fiscal 2019, subject to USDA approval. In action at the end of its September 11-12 meeting in Denver, CO, the Operating Committee approved checkoff funding for a total of 14 “Authorization Requests” – or proposals – brought by seven contractors for the fisca

Kansas Cattlemen’s Association has signed on in support of a bill set to slow the feverish tide of large agribusiness mergers and acquisitions. The “Food and Agribusiness Merger Moratorium and Antitrust Review Act of 2018” introduced by Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) would impose an 18-month moratorium on “large” agribusiness, food and beverage manufacturing, and grocery retail mergers and acquisitions. The legislation would impact any company with annual net sales or total assets o