International Livestock Identification Association 2016 Annual Conference 1 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 2 2 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 International Livestock Livestock Identification Identification Association Association 2016 2016 Annual Annual Conference Conference International 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 International International Livestock Livestock Identification Identification Association Association 2016 2016 Annual Annual Conference Conference 3 3 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! 4 4 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 International International Livestock Livestock Identification Identification Association Association 2016 2016 Annual Annual Conference Conference 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 International International Livestock Livestock Identification Identification Association Association 2016 2016 Annual Annual Conference Conference 5 5 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 A 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. 6 6 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. International International Livestock Livestock Identification Identification Association Association 2016 2016 Annual Annual Conference Conference 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. International International Livestock Livestock Identifi Identification cation Association Association 2016 2016 Annual Annual Conference Conference 7 7 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! 8 8 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. International International Livestock Livestock Identifi Identification cation Association Association 2016 2016 Annual Annual Conference Conference 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! International International Livestock Livestock Identifi Identification cation Association Association 2016 2016 Annual Annual Conference Conference 9 9 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 10 10 “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. International Livestock Livestock Identification Identification Association Association 2016 2016 Annual Annual Conference Conference International 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 International International Livestock Livestock Identification Identification Association Association 2016 2016 Annual Annual Conference Conference 11 11