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35 CALF News • December 2020 | January 2021 • www.calfnews.net  CALF COMMUNITY On the Human Side National The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association recognized seven of the nation’s top cattle operations for implementing practices that make them true stewards of land, air and water resources. The following operations were honored with the organiza- tion’s Regional Environmental Stewardship Award: Region I – SK Herefords , New York; Region II – Southern Cross Farms , Mississippi; Region III – Euken-Myers Family , Iowa; Region IV – Double C Cattle Company , Oklahoma; Region V – Beatty Canyon Ranch , Colorado; Region VI – Boies Ranch , Nevada; Region VII – Johnson Farms , South Dakota. The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association has hired Jill Johnson as senior director, organizational communications. Johnson has served as the Illinois Beef Association executive vice president for the for the past three years and was the asso- ciation’s director of communications for five years prior to that. Texas The Texas Cattle Feeders Association elected the follow- ing 2021 slate of officers at their recent annual convention: Scott Anderson , co-owner of CRI Feeders , Guymon, Okla., chairman; Kevin Buse , Hereford, chairman-elect; and Michael Bezner , Dalhart, vice chairman. The U.S. Meat Export Federation (USMEF) honored a longtime state beef council executive and a key agricultural trade negotiator at its Strategic Planning Conference. Texas Beef Council Executive Vice President Richard Wortham received the USMEF Distinguished Service Award , which recognizes an individual for leadership and lifetime contributions toward the achievement of USMEF’s mission to enhance demand for U.S. red meat exports. Former assistant U.S. trade representa- tive Sharon Bomer Lauritsen received the Michael J. Mansfield Award , which USMEF established in recognition of the U.S. Senate majority leader, whose decades of government service advanced U.S. trade relations throughout the world. Company Lallemand Animal Nutrition announces the addition of Gregg Koerner to the North American team as territory business manager supporting the Midwest United States. Koerner comes to Lallemand with 25 years of agriculture experience, primarily in the feed industry. Prior to joining Lallemand, he worked for Land O’ Lakes , CHS Nutrition and POET Nutrition . Polygon Company , a producer of composite tubing, bearings and pneumatic cylinders, has collaborated with partner and distributor Kuhne Industries to supply composite bearings to a major feeding technology company for use in a mixer cart application. The result of this collaboration was a cus- tom-designed composite bearing that eliminates prior issues of excessive noise and uneven wear. Vets Plus, Inc. , has hired Adam Yankowsky as director of sales. Mr. Yankowsky will oversee sales and marketing activities for the Merrick’s Blue Ribbon® line of livestock health products, the Pets Prefer® line of companion animal products and the Probios® line of probiotics. He will also supervise private label and other business development initiatives.  Trail’s End JACQUELINE “JACKIE” LEE WINTERS , 82, of Hereford, Texas, passed away Sept. 25. Jackie grew up in Merced, Calif. After graduating from high school, she moved to Hereford in 1983 and immediately went to work for Bar G Feedyard. She went on and became the office manager and voice of Bar G for the next 37 years. Jackie was an avid team roper and loved to ride and show mules. She enjoyed fishing, wine tasting and was known coast to coast in the horse racing industry. She will be remembered as a friend, second mother, advisor and counselor to everyone she met. Jackie never met a stranger.  DALLAS HORTON, 81, well-known cattle feeder and veterinarian, passed away at his home Sept. 29, after a year-long battle with cancer. Armed with a veterinary degree and a master’s in ruminant nutrition, Dallas launched his dream of running his own business of feeding cattle, veterinary consult- ing for the cattle industry, researching feed additives and medicines for cattle, and improving the overall performance of cattle production through nutrition and genetic improvement. Thus, Horton Feedlots and Research Center was established inWellington, Colo., in 1978. From there Dallas expanded the Horton feeding operation to the Greeley area. Dallas’s love of the cattle industry and people led him into many amazing partnerships and adventures from feeding cattle for Japan, sending breeding stock to the Ukraine, working with embryo transfer techniques to improve genetics, to building profitable composite bulls to enhance feedlot performance. Dallas served as the President of the Colorado Cattle Feed- ers Association from 1990-1991. Dallas’s vision was always toward the future and improving the cattle industry.  Beef industry pioneer, inventor, and entrepreneur, WILLIAM CLINE “BILL” PRATT , 77, of rural Canyon, Texas, passed away Oct. 21. In 1971, Bill Pratt founded Micro Chemical, Inc., with his wife, Linda, in Amarillo, Texas.“Micro” was based on Bill’s new invention, a revolutionary, patented, highly precise system for measuring and delivering the critical, highly concentrated micro feed ingredients necessary for feedyard cattle health, nutrition and gain. He innovated many patented, computer- ized systems revolutionizing the beef industry in nutrition, health, information and marketing. Micro’s reach expanded into the ranching, packing and retailing sectors. The com- pany became Micro Beef Technologies in 1999. By 2011, it Dallas Horton Bill Pratt