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Meat & Livestock Australia (MLA) announced the appointment of a new global marketing general manager, Michael Edmonds, who will take responsibility for the red meat industry’s levy funded global marketing activities. Edmonds joins MLA from Simplot Australia. Pork Act Delegates, meeting at the National Pork Industry Forum in Denver March 1-3, ranked eight candidates for the National Pork Board and submitted the list to the US secretary of agriculture. The candidates, ranked in order, are Brad Greenway, a current board member from South Dakota; Dale Norton, a current board member from Michigan; Craig Mensink of Minnesota; Lisa Colby, a current board member from Massachusetts; Carl Link of Ohio; Janice Miller, a current board member from Nebraska; Emiley Gaskill of Indiana; and Ed Keller of New York. Also, the National Pork Board honored Randy Brown of Nevada, Ohio, for his six years of distinguished service on the National Pork Board. The Board also honored Barry Carpenter, retired deputy administrator of the Livestock and Seed Division of the USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service, with its 2012 Distinguished Service Award. The Cattlemen’s Beef Board seated new members and elected 2012 officers, as well as members of its Executive Committee and the Beef Promotion Operating Com-

mittee, during its annual meeting Feb. 4. The Beef Board unanimously elected New Mexico seedstock producer Wesley Grau to serve as 2012 chairman of the Board, Arkansas cow-calf producer Weldon Wynn to serve as vice chairman; and Idaho rancher Kim Brackett to fi ll the position of 2012 Beef Board secretary/treasurer. Spicetec Flavors & Seasonings, a business of ConAgra Foods Inc., announces the promotion of Gabriella Bosch to senior food scientist. Bosch joined Spicetec in 2008 as a food scientist following an internship with SFS during the summer of 2007. Nebraska cattleman J.D. Alexander was named 2012 president of the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA). Alexander officially took the reins from Bill Donald, a rancher from Melville, Mont. Scott George, a second generation Wyoming farmer, was elected NCBA presidentelect. Also elected to NCBA posts were Bob McCan, vice president; Craig Uden, federation division chair; Richard Gebhart, federation division vice chair; Don Pemberton, policy division chair; and Phil Ellis, policy division vice chair. ■
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