COOL and Calendars!

With our involvement in Montana Farmers Union, and by extension, National Farmers Union, increasing over the past year, we have had the wonderful opportunity to meet many new people and to learn A LOT about how the organizations work for the farmers and ranchers they represent. This is especially true of our recent trip to Washington D.C.  One of the people we met was the Communications Director for National Farmers Union. He proposed working with us on an Op-Ed piece on the subject of COOL, or Country of Origin Labeling, with regards to meat. This was a great topic for us as ranchers, so we were happy to help.

Our collaborative effort was picked up by the Billings Gazette and ran in today's paper. You can also find the article and accompanying photo of me and Jeff at this online link to the article: http://billingsgazette.com/news/opinion/guest/guest-view-of-course-we-want-to-know-where-our/article_595e057e-2bb0-5721-ae4c-867325165924.html. Do any of my blog readers live in Billings? I am hopeful to receive a few hard copies of the paper, as we don't subscribe ourselves.

Another effort I personally have been involved with over the past year, is the Montana Farmers Union Women in Agriculture Calendar. The Education Director of Montana Farmers Union, and a photographer came out to our ranch last March and took some photos of me working with our herd during calving. Since then, they've had eleven other photo shoots with other Montana ag women, and I hear the calendars are coming together quite nicely! They are to be unveiled at the MFU Fall Convention coming up in a few weeks!!! Let me know in advance if you'd like to purchase a calendar. The proceeds from sales will go to fund women's education programs within Farmers Union.

Or, if you'd like to ATTEND THE MFU CONVENTION, CLICK HERE to be re-routed to their website and sign up.