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Welcome to North Dakota!
On behalf of the North Dakota Stockmen’s Association, it is my pleasure to
welcome you to North Dakota and the 2016 International Livestock Identification Association (ILIA) Annual Conference.
We are excited for you to experience legendary North Dakota and to take
part in four power-packed days of business, professional development and
networking with animal identification officials from across the continent.
Jeff Schafer
NDSA Brand Board Chairman
North Dakota
Stockmen’s Association
407 S. 2nd St.
Bismarck, ND 58504
(701) 223-2522
brands@ndstockmen.org
www.ndstockmen.org
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We appreciate the chance to work with ILIA-member states and provinces
throughout the year, and this year’s conference, “Irons in the Fire,” provides
a special chance for us all to collaborate face to face as we study the problems relating to administration and enforcement of livestock identification
and inspection laws, promote and develop uniform laws and procedures,
and work together to protect against livestock loss and theft.
We look forward to having you here in the great state of North Dakota. If
there is anything we can do for you in preparation for your
visit, don’t hesitate to ask!
Riding for the Brand,
Jeff Schafer
Jeff Schafer, NDSA Brand Board Chairman
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Hotel Information
The Ramada Plaza Suites and Conference Center is the official hotel of the 2016
International Livestock Identification Association Annual Conference. All activities, except for the off-site tours and Monday evening excursion, will be held at
the Ramada Plaza Suites, located at 1635 42nd St. S., Fargo, ND 58103. The hotel
provides shuttle service to and from the airport 24 hours a day.
To make reservations, call (701) 277-9000. The rate for a single king suite or a
double queen suite is $139 plus tax. Please ask for the International Livestock
Identification Association block to receive the discounted rate. The block closes
on June 16. Check-in time is 3 p.m. Check-out time is 12 p.m.
A secondary nearby hotel, Expressway Suites, has also been secured. It is located
at 4303 17th Ave. S., Fargo, ND 58103. The rate for a single king suite
or a double queen suite for July 16 is $119.95 plus tax and for July
17-20 $89.95 plus tax. The block closes on June 25. Check-in time is 3
p.m. Check-out time is 11 a.m.
Ramada Plaza Suites and
Conference Center
1635 42nd St. S.
Fargo, ND 58103
(701) 277-9000
Expressway Suites
4303 17th Ave. S.
Fargo, ND 58103
(701) 239-4303
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Tentative Schedule of Events
Sunday, July 17, 2016
Monday, July 18, 2016
1 p.m.18-Hole Golf Scramble
Village Green Public Golf Course
3420 Village Green Dr., Moorhead, MN
(218) 299-7888
Cost is $32.50/person and $15.25/cart
(Pay at the course)
7:30 a.m.Registration
8 a.m.Opening Session
U.S. & Canadian National Anthems
Welcome by Brand Board Chairman Jeff Schafer
& NDSA President Steve Brooks
Committee Assignments & State Reports
5 - 7 p.m.Registration
9:15 a.m.Refreshment Break
7 p.m.North Dakota Hospitality Room Opens
9:30 a.m.“Animal Disease Disasters: What is MY Role?”
Discussion & Tabletop Exercise
Jeanne M. Rankin, DVM, Animal & Public Health
Emergency Preparedness Consultant
* North Dakota Fun
Fact: The world’s largest
hamburger was eaten in
Rutland, N.D. It weighed
3,591 pounds and more
than 8,000 people were
invited to the meal!
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12 p.m.Lunch on Your Own
1:15 p.m.Load Busses for North Dakota State University
Tour & Discussion at Beef Cattle Research
Complex, Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory &
Commodity Trading Room
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4:30 p.m.Return to Ramada Plaza Suites
5:15 p.m.Load Busses for Silver Prairie Saloon
1:30 p.m.“Livestock Industry Policy & Trade Update”
To Be Announced,
National Cattlemen’s Beef Association
7 p.m.Steak Supper, Live Auction & Fun Night
Silver Prairie Saloon, McLeod, ND
Entertainment by Mylo Hatzenbuhler
2:30 p.m.“The Role of Traceability at Costco”
Bob Huskey, Costco
3:30 p.m.Refreshment Break
10 p.m.First Bus Leaves for Ramada Plaza Suites
10:30 p.m.Second Bus Leaves for Ramada Plaza Suites
Tuesday, July 19, 2016
7 a.m.Executive Breakfast Meeting
3:45 p.m.“Time in the Trenches: Things I’ve Learned through
My Involvement in High-Profile Cases”
Blaine Northrop, Nevada Department of Livestock
5 p.m.North Dakota Hospitality Room Opens
8 a.m.Call to Order
Committee Breakout Sessions
6 p.m.Annual Banquet & Silent Auction
Silent Auction
ILIA Member Recognition
Entertainment by Tigirlily
9 a.m.“Your Leadership Style ... Unleashed”
Interactive Workshop
Brady Revels, Elanco Animal Health
9 p.m.Silent Auction Closes
12 p.m.Lunch on Your Own
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WEDNESday, July 20, 2016
8 a.m.Call to Order
Monday, July 18, 2016
8:15 a.m.“In the Mind of Anti-Agriculture Activists:
Becoming Aware of & Overcoming
Antagonists’ Tactics”
Will Coggin, Center for Consumer Freedom
9:15 a.m.Refreshment Break
9:30 a.m.Annual Business Meeting
Committee Reports
Sponsor Showcase
2017 Conference Host Presentation: Idaho
ILIA History Presentation
Rodger Huffman, Oregon Department
of Agriculture
Conference Evaluations
9 a.m.
Load Bus for Maple River Winery Tour
9:30 - 11 a.m.
Maple River Winery Tour
Casselton, ND
Guests will enjoy a front-seat tour of a unique winery
that was created with a focus on utilizing North Dakota fruit to make traditional wines in small batches,
much like early-day North Dakotans did.
11:30 a.m.Return to Hotel & Lunch on Your Own
1 - 3 p.m.Creatively Uncorked Session
Creatively Uncorked artist will lead a fun, step-by-step painting session
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that will allow even those with no painting experience to create their
very own masterpiece that they can bring home
as a lasting souvenir of the ILIA Conference.
Tuesday, July 19, 2016
12 p.m.Adjourn
Choose your own Adventure!
* North Dakota Fun Fact: The geographical center of North
America is marked in Rugby, N.D.
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Spouse/Guest Agenda
Enjoy Fargo’s many area attractions on your own: West Acres Shopping
Mall, Red River Zoo, Bonanzaville, the Plains Art Museum or Yunkers
Farm Children’s Museum.
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STeVe BRooKS
JeFF SCHaFeR
North Dakota Stockmen’s Association (NDSA)
District 1 Director Jeff Schafer is the chairman of the
NDSA Brand Board, which helps oversee and direct
the state’s brand inspection and recording programs.
He, his wife and three children run a fifth- and
sixth-generation feedlot, cow-calf operation and corn,
soybean, pinto bean and oats farm and a Purina Feed
dealership in north central North Dakota. He will
bring greetings from the producer-led Brand Board.
Angus breeder Steve Brooks of Bowman, N.D., is leading
the 87-year-old NDSA as president. He has served in
numerous industry leadership roles – president of the
American Angus Association, director of the National
Cattlemen’s Beef Association and U.S. Meat Export
Federation and chairman of
the North Dakota Beef Commission – over his career. He
will offer a welcome during
the opening session.
Speaker Line-Up
dR. Jeanne RanKIn
Dr. Jeanne Rankin, animal and public health emergency
preparedness consultant, will lead an interactive
presentation and tabletop exercise to help you examine
your unique role as an animal identification professional
in responding to a foreign animal disease emergency.
North Dakota State University is
home to the five-time national college
football champions AND some stateof-the-art research and training facilities. Conference-goers will enjoy tours
of some of these facilities and learn
about their connection to the business
noRTH daKoTa STaTe unIVeRSITy of animal identification.
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WIll CoGGIn
BRady ReVelS
Florida native Brady Revels works with Elanco Animal Health, servicing feedlots and vets in northeast
Nebraska and teaching courses focused on self development. Among the courses: Insights Self Discovery,
which he will present at the ILIA Conference. Through
this workshop, you will gain a better understanding
of your decision-making process and how to more
effectively communicate with others in the workplace
and your personal life. Insights will help guide you
through ways to make each of your interactions more
positive and reach audiences who might think or act
differently than you. You will receive an amazing
personalized personality analysis after completing an
ahead-of-time online quiz. Watch your inbox!
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Will Coggin grew up in northern Virginia and, today, is
the director of research at the Center for Consumer Freedom and HumaneWatch.org, where he focuses on animal
rights and environmental issues. He is a frequent critic of
radical activists who seek to take choices away from Americans and to put farmers and ranchers out of business.
While there is no end in sight for these groups’ campaigns
against agriculture, they have taken a few hits in fundraising, public opinion and lobbying in recent times. Coggin
will share some recent developments and information you
need to know as an animal identification professional.
BlaIne noRTHRoP
Blaine Northrop is a North Dakota native who worked
on the state’s brand inspection team for more than
a decade before heading west to become the Nevada
Department of Agriculture’s ag enforcement and brand
inspection supervisor. He oversees the ag enforcement
officers and 90 brand inspectors in the field. Northrop’s
Nevada job has involved some high-profile cases,
including the Bureau of Land Management/Bundy case
and an animal activist takeover that his team needed
to respond to. Northrop will share some of the lessons
he has learned through those experiences to help you
prepare in the event your agency is ever faced with
something like them.
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RodGeR HuFFMan
BoB HuSKey
Bob Huskey is the assistant general merchandise manager for beef and pork at Costco Wholesale, where he
has worked for 22 years. He began as a part-time cart
pusher at a store just outside of Seattle, Wa., and later
transferred to Costco’s corporate offices in Issaquah,
Wa., where he began his career in the meat industry.
He started as an hourly reorder clerk and then became
the meat buyer in 2001. Later, he assumed his current
position, overseeing procurement for Costco’s U.S.
fresh beef and pork programs and working with their
international buying groups. He also oversees procurement for Costco’s company-owned ground beef plant
in Tracy, Calif. Huskey will share the role traceability
plays at Costco in helping ensure food safety.
Rodger Huffman is not only the program manager of the
Oregon Department of Agriculture’s Livestock Inspection
and Predator Control Division, but he is a long-time member of the International Livestock Identification Association
with unique institutional knowledge of the group. Huffman
will share an oral history of the organization dedicated to
the protection, promotion and preservation of livestock
identification throughout North America.
naTIonal CaTTleMen’S
BeeF aSSoCIaTIon
The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association is a grassroots advocacy group for beef cattle producers in the
United States. It works to increase profit opportunities
for cattle and beef producers by enhancing the business
climate and building consumer demand. A Washington,
D.C., staffer will join the ILIA Conference to report on
the latest policy issues impacting the nation’s livestock
industry.
GeT THe MoST FRoM youR InSIGHTS eXPeRIenCe
ILIA Conference participants will need to complete an online Discovery Personal Profile Quiz BEFORE the
conference so you can work from your personalized analysis at the event. Watch your inbox!
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Entertainment
All work and no play makes you a dull boy (or girl), so we’ve planned some entertainment so you can kick back, relax and enjoy some of North Dakota’s finest and most
diverse talent while you are in town for the ILIA Conference.
Mylo Hatzenbuhler
International Rock and Roll
Superstar
Tigirlily
Kendra & Krista Slaubaugh
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“Mylo Hatzenbuhler” is a very sincere and very silly North Dakota farm boy who thinks
he is the next Elvis Presley. Mylo juggles two
careers, operating the family farm when not
“on the road” wowing his fans with his latest
rock and roll songs. He sings about what he
knows best – cows, chickens, tractors and
wheat – and serenades fans everywhere with
songs like “We Couldn’t Start the Tractor,”
“Hens with Low Faces,” “To All the Cows I’ve
Milked Before” and more. Mixing homespun
humor with music, Mylo promises a memorable Monday evening.
North Dakota sisters Kendra and Krista Slaubaugh combine distinctive talents to comprise
the genre-bending duo Tigirlily. Singing since
they were talking, blending their voices was a
natural step. In a short time, the siblings have
progressed from sharing in church to sharing
the stage with national acts like Big and Rich and Thompson Square and now headlining
their own high-energy, interactive concerts. Tigirlily will perform on Tuesday night.
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Thank You to Our Sponsors!
Gold Sponsors
• L&H Manufacturing, Mandan, ND
• North Dakota Stockmen’s Association, Bismarck, ND
• Rowy Networks, Sacramento, CA
NDSA Brand Board Members
Jeff Schafer, chairman
Fred Helbling, vice chairman
Jamie Hauge
Keith Johnson
Silver Sponsors
• Allflex, Norfolk, NE
• American Food Groups, LLC./Long Prairie Packing, Alexandria, MN
• Berger Cattle Company, Mandan, ND
• Elanco Animal Health, Baldwin, ND
• Merial Animal Health, Arthur, ND
• Y-Tex Corporation, Cody, WY
Convention Planning Committee
Mary Goeres
Stan Misek
Rachael Preusse
Julie Ellingson
This conference would not be possible without the generous support of many industry sponsors:
Bronze Sponsors
• Basin Electric Power Cooperative, Bismarck, ND
• Bonds Ranch, Saginaw, TX
• CATL Resources, St. Onge, SD
• Cattlecents Consulting, Aberdeen, SD
• Central Livestock, West Fargo, ND
• Dakota Community Bank & Trust, Bismarck, ND
• Datamars, Inc., Temple, TX
• Fort Supply Technologies, LLC., Kaysville, UT
• Haugen Sales & Leasing, Wyndmere, ND
• Hub City Livestock, Aberdeen, SD
• JBS USA, Greeley, CO
• Joe McKitrick, Bismarck, ND
• Napoleon Livestock Auction, Napoleon, ND
• Rugby Livestock Auction, LLC., Rugby, ND
• Stockmen’s Supply, West Fargo, ND
Supporting Sponsors
• Boehringer-Ingelheim Vetmedica, Inc.
• Mills Fleet Farm, Fargo, ND
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