USMEF Elects New Officers

 The U.S. Meat Export Federation’s (USMEF) annual strategic planning conference, held in Carlsbad, California, concluded Friday with the election of new USMEF officers. The newly-elected USMEF chair is Bruce Schmoll, a soybean and corn producer from Claremont, Minnesota. Schmoll discusses how he came to be involved in USMEF and his goals for the organization in the attached audio report. Other USMEF officers for 2016-2017:·       Dennis Stiffler, Ph.D., is USMEF chair-elect. Stiffler recently retired as chief executive officer of Mountain States Rosen and has more than 30 years of livestock, meat industry and international marketing experience. ·       Serving as USMEF vice chair is Iowa pork producer Conley Nelson, general manager of Smithfield Foods’ hog production division in the company’s five-state Midwest region and a past president of the National Pork Board.·       The newest USMEF officer is Idaho cattle feeder Cevin (pronounced Kevin) Jones, serving as secretary-treasurer. Jones operates Intermountain Beef, a custom feedlot. He is vice chairman of the Federation of State Beef Councils and has served on the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association board of directors.