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49 CALF News • December 2019 | January 2020 • www.calfnews.net CALF’s Featured Lady By Jessica Ebert Contributing Editor  CALF CAMEO Calendar Ad Index The face of the cattle industry www.calfnews.net National Account Manager Jessica Ebert | (785) 477-1941 For information on advertising in CALF News Magazine, contact: Jeanne Clawson is a transplant from northeast of Pueblo, Colo., where she grew up on a dryland farming and ranching operation. Kansas State University drew her to Kansas in the fall of 1984 to major in beef cattle reproduction. Kansas State is also where she met her husband of 32 years, David Clawson. After graduating in 1986, they settled in Satanta, Kan., on the Clawson family operation, which consisted of both dryland and irrigated farming and a cow-calf operation. In 1995, they moved to Englewood to a newly purchased ranch, but con- tinued working with David’s family in all of their agricultural endeavors. In 2001, the Clawson family partnered with other farmers to build the High Plains Ponderosa Dairy. Together, the farm and ranch has 15 employees in Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas, and the dairy has more than 100 employees. The farm produces corn, milo, soybeans and wheat. The cow-calf operation is primarily Angus and Red Angus cows that they cross with Polled Herefords for replacement females and Charolais for feeder calves. David and Jeanne have three children. Their oldest, Layne, is serving in the U.S. Air Force; daughter, Ann, is in Orlando, Fla., managing new store openings for Olive Garden; and the youngest, Carl, just returned home to the family operation. While raising their children, Jeanne did the ranch’s pregnancy checking and AI’ing. Now that they are grown, she moved into fulltime employment at the Clawson office in Plains. There she is the human resources manager, oversees required water-use reports for the irrigation wells and stock water at the dairy, handles the farm’s insurance and Worker’s Compensation policies, and assists with data entry in the CenterPoint accounting system. She shares piano playing responsibilities with two other individuals at church on Sundays, and on Wednesday evenings, she is involved with AWANA. Additionally, she is the crochet and knitting project leader for 4-H in Meade county, and serves on the Englewood Township Board.  Dec. 4-6 Kansas Livestock Assn. Convention Wichita, Kan. • www.kla.org Dec. 4-6 Nebraska Cattlemen Convention Kearney, Neb. • www.nebraskacattlemen.org 2020 Feb. 4 Cattle Feeders Hall of Fame 11th Annual Induction Ceremony San Antonio, Texas • www.cattlefeeders.org Feb. 5-7 Cattle Industry Convention & NCBA Trade Show San Antonio, Texas • https://convention.ncba.org Feb. 15-23 Nebraska Cattlemen’s Classic Kearney, Neb. • www.cattlemens.org Feb. 19-23 Illinois Beef Expo Springfield, Ill. • www.illinoisbeefexpo.com March 4-5 International Livestock Congress Houston, Texas • www.theisef.com March 27-29 TSCRA Convention Fort Worth, Texas • www.tscra.org Agri-Affiliates Inc................31 Allflex USA Inc....................19 Bayer Animal Health............7 Brute Cattle Equipment/ Dodge Mfg.......................43 Capitol Land & Livestock....37 Cargill.................................52 INCO Digestive Inc.............33 Johnson Concrete Products..........................45 Kemin.................................13 Lallemand Animal Nutrition.....................17, 29 Micronutrients....................27 Midcontinent Livestock Supplements...................45 Midwest Mixer Service.......37 Moly Mfg. .............................2 National Cattlemen’s Beef Association......................51 Rawhide Portable Corral....25 Rotomix................................3 Santa Gertudis Breeders International....................15 Servi-Tech..........................41 Tandem Products Inc.. .......39 Te Pari Products Ltd...........41 Texas Feed Fat...................39 Turnkey Computer Systems..........................23 Valley Proteins Inc..............21 Z Tags North American, L.P....................9