PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE by Bruce Lawrence
B
y the time most of you read this, the 2022 Texas Two Step National Junior Limousin Show & Congress will be well underway in Amarillo, Texas. I would like to personally thank all of the Texas Limousin Association members who have helped plan and organize this year’s National Limousin Junior Show. This will be the fifth Junior Nationals that Bret Begert and myself have been CoChairs of since 2000 in Amarillo and it continues to amaze me at the support the Texas Limousin Association receives from its membership. On a sad note, this will be the first National Junior Show held without one of North American Limousin Junior Association’s (NALJA) biggest cheerleaders and supporters. We will miss Ken Holloway in so many ways, but his vision for ways to support NALJA in their financial endeavors was as keen as any man, in any breed. The word immeasurable comes to mind. Ken was a visionary for the Limousin breed in many ways since the beginning of the North American Limousin Foundation (NALF). With these things being said, I would like to encourage each of you to step up to the plate and find ways to continue to grow the Limousin breed as Ken and other breed leaders have done before us. In the last issue, I talked about the NALF Research Project that your board of directors has planned. I am happy to report that 449
cows were AI’d the first two weeks of June in the Great Falls, Montana, area. I would like to personally thank our Executive Director, Mark Anderson, and his wife, Tammy, for going to Montana and helping make sure this project got off to a great start! We are still raising money to support this project, so if you would like to help support this financially, or have any questions, feel free to contact any of your board of directors for more information. I would also like to remind each of you that if you have calves to register and have not yet done so to be sure and try to get that done before NALF’s fiscal year ends August 31. In closing, I would again like to thank all of our NALF staff for all they do for the NALF membership.
2022 NALF BOARD OF DIRECTORS PRESIDENT, Bruce Lawrence........................................ Anton, TX
806-790-2535 • bll1@speednet.com
VICE PRESIDENT, Wade Beckman...................................... Roberts, ID
208-313-0235 • beckmanlivestock@gmail.com
SECRETARY, Ronn Cunningham....................................Rose, OK
918-629-9382 • colronn@yahoo.com
TREASURER, Randy Corns........................................ Altoona, KS
CONGRATULATIONS ON A JOB WELL DONE
620-750-0924 • randycorns11@gmail.com
AT-LARGE, Jerry Wulf................................................ Morris, MN
320-491-1390 • jerry.wulf@wulfcattle.com
IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT, Dan Hunt............................Oxford, NE
308-991-3373 • huntlimo@huntlimousin.com
EX-OFFICIO, Curt Wieczorek................................... Mount Vernon, SD
605-999-1298 • curtwzrk@gmail.com
DIRECTORS Rob Brawner, Wood Lake, NE, 402-376-4465, bulliscreek@gpcom.net Joey Freund, Elizabeth, CO, 303-840-1850, jfreund@myedl.com Troy Gulotta, Independence, LA, 985-662-1561, liveoakcattle@gmail.com Austin Hager, Karlsruhe, ND, 701-626-2345, hagercc@srt.com Bart Mitchell, Wauzeka, Wisc, 608-553-8070, springcreeksbart@gmail.com Joe Moore, Raphine, VA, 540-569-6219, jomolimo69@gmail.com Kevin Ochsner, Kersey, CO, 970-396-5525, kevinkochsner@gmail.com Lance Sennett, Waynetown, IN, 765-366-4894, lasennett@att.net Jay Wilder, Snook, TX, 979-268-5491, jwwilder1993@gmail.com
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