2025 Winter Conference

Please mark your calendars to join us on Saturday, February 22, 2025 at The Lodge at Mauston. This is also an excellent opportunity to renew your membership for 2025 and help provide a legislative voice for Wisconsin's cattle industry. If you are unsure of your current membership status, please contact us at [email protected].

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Winter Conference & Annual Meeting Agenda

9:00 – 9:30 am: Registration 

9:30 am: Welcome by WCA President, Tressa Lacy 

9:30 – 10:45 am: WCA Annual Meeting 

  • NCBA Update
  • Legislative Update, Jordan Lamb, WCA lobbyist with The Welch Group 
  • CattleCon24 Updates 
  • Committee Chair Updates 
  • Board Seat Elections 

10:45- 11:30: Needed Hitch Pins, Why Connecting Matters, Laura Daniels of Hitch Pin Consulting 

11:30 – 1:00: Lunch 

1:00 – 2:30 pm: Breakout Session: 

  • Option A: Beginning and Aspiring Farmer/Rancher Tips and Tricks, Kevin Plante with The WI Farm Center  
  • Option B: What’s your farm’s future? Start making your plan, Joy Kirkpatrick with UW Extension Farm Managment Program 

2:30 – 3:15 pm: Pasture to Plate: How Feeding Impacts What We Eat, Zeb Gray of Diamond V 

3:15 – 4:00 pm: Defending Your Empire; Secure Beef Supply Planning, Bill Halfman and Sandy Stuttgen, DVM of UW Extension Division of Livestock 

4:00 – 4:45 pm: Networking Reception

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