CALF_News_October_November_2021

21 CALF News • October | November 2021 • www.calfnews.net spending. However, inflation is a concern down the road. Bottom line: The supply outlook is friendly. The demand outlook is friendly. The price outlook is friendly. Is it friendly enough? Time will tell. But leverage is returning to the cattle feeder and that works its way through the whole cattle market. According to Good, “We see profit in the system for cow-calf producers moving forward if Mother Nature will cooperate from a feed standpoint.” Stay tuned.  CATTLE FEEDERS HALL OF FAME Continued from page 19 George Eckert started working at Green Plains Cattle Company in 1984. He mastered the art of running rolls, probing trucks by hand, sample testing and running boilers. As the feedyard management has changed over the years, he has remained maintenance supervisor. He oversees operation of more than 200 pieces of equipment. Eckert and Martinez are examples of the men and women who make feedyards succeed. CFHOF developed the Arturo Armendariz Distinguished Service Award to recognize feedyard employees like them, those who go above and beyond the call of duty to help improve the cattle feeding indus- try. Arturo Armendariz was a longtime devoted employee of Poky Feeders. He exemplified the true feedyard employee. Nominees for the 2022 CFHOF achieved their status thanks to team players like Eckert and Martinez. The nominees include the late Dallas Horton, a Colorado cattle feeder and veterinarian who served on the CFHOF board; Tom Jones of Hy-Plains Feedyard LEFT: Gary Smith, Ph.D., Colorado State University, CFHOF Leadership Award winner. MIDDLE: Gaspar Martinez, Harris Beef, Arturo Armendariz Distinguished Service Award winner. RIGHT: George Eckert, Green Plains Cattle Company, Arturo Armendariz Distinguished Service Award winner. in Montezuma, Kan.; Robert Rebholtz Jr., president and CEO of Agri Beef in Boise, Idaho; Jack Reeve of Reeve Cattle Company in Garden City, Kan; and Norm Timmerman, a cattle feeder and agribusiness leader from Omaha, Neb. Nominees for the Leadership Award are Bill Pullen, feed mixing and other equipment innovator from Lincoln, Neb.; Bill Pratt, founder of Micro Chemical Inc., Amarillo, Texas; and Dee Likes, former head of the Kansas Livestock Association.  Visit http://cattlefeeders.org/vote-hof/ to vote for the 2022 nominees. RIGHT: CattleFax CEO Randy Blach Photo courtesy National Cattlemen's Beef Association