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Cattle, teachers and students converge in downtown Phoenix during the Cattle Industry Convention Cattlemen’s College. Always well attended, the popular school draws top-end instructors and engaged students from across the nation. Photo by Patti Wilson Around the Convention Our friend Jean Barton proudly posed with her granddaughter, Callie Borrow, California CattleWomen first vice president. The CCW has 1,900 members, from San Diego to the Oregon border. Photo by Betty Jo Gigot CALF News welcomed many new and long-time readers to our trade show booth. Great to visit with everyone. We look forward to seeing you at the 2019 trade show in New Orleans. Photo by Kathie Bedolli Dee Likes, KLA chief executive emeritus, Topper Thorpe, CattleFax CEO from 1970-2000, Lee Borck, chairman at Innovative Livestock Services, and Randy Blach, CattleFax CEO, at the CattleFax 50 th Anniversary celebration. Photo by Lisa Bard RIGHT: Dallas Horton with Carol and Jack Maddux at the CattleFax 50 th Anniversary celebration. Photo by Lisa Bard Joan Ruskamp (center), chairman of the Cattlemen’s Beef Board, and Kevin Kester (right), NCBA president, address the second general session. Photo by Lisa Bard Greg Ibach, under secretary of USDA marketing and regulatory programs, gives a D.C. issues update. Photo by Lisa Bard LEFT: Jason Kraft, Robbin and Ben Miller, Bryan Vasseur and RD Farr attend the CattleFax 50th Anniversary celebration. Photo by Lisa Bard 9 CALF News • April | May 2018 • www.calfnews.net