Oregon Cattlemen's Association

What Does It Do For You?

Here are a few of the things the Oregon Cattlemen’s Association has been doing to help ALL cattle & livestock producers:   

• Staff and officers attended numerous county cattlemen’s meetings to provide updates and discuss current OCA efforts and successes

• Promote and sponsor educational opportunities for producers such as Cattlemen’s College and Ranch Succession Planning Workshops

• Worked to get the date of eligibility for disaster payments for livestock and livestock feed losses extended to include losses through Dec. 31, 2007

• Offers grant packaging services to members applying for the USDA Value Added Producer Grant

• Participates in OR Dept. of Ag. CAFO meetings to discuss air and water quality issues and informs members about what to do during EPA inspections

• Working to increase funding for Wildlife Services predator control and maintain the availability of tools such as the M-44 and Livestock Protection Collars that assist in mitigating damage

• Promotes producer image through projects to inform the public about cattle production and how ranchers are enriching our environment by being good stewards of the land

• Nominates Oregon producers for state and national board appointments and Oregon ranches for national awards

• Sponsoring a young rancher (ages of 25-50) to represent Oregon at the 2008 Young Cattlemen’s Conference & Tour.  The tour promotes leadership and includes a comprehensive overview of the beef industry with stops in several states between Denver and Washington, D.C.

• Supports a competitive college scholarship fund available to all members and their families

• Established Oregon Cattle PAC to provide endorsements exclusively from Oregon cattle producers

•  Have a political advocate working daily at the Oregon State Legislature promoting and protecting the interests of cattle producers

•  Working to expand the Land Owner Preference Program to help compensate for wildlife damage on private property

• Works diligently to protect Oregon’s water laws and the rights of property owners

• Working to ensure the Oregon Sustainable Agriculture Resource Center does not become a regulatory program with enforcement by the government

• Sponsored legislation to allow the killing of a wolf harassing livestock (before it bites into the flesh of livestock)
• Promoting 1010 planning with real science & water monitoring program for members
• Created the Sustainable Ranching Program
• Fighting to protecting water rights and Constitutional property rights
• Lobbied for funding Extension Service & Experiment Stations
• Water rights working group participant
• Deeply involved with the Sage Grouse and every other issue affecting grazing on public lands
• Supporting the intervention by permittees in several different lawsuits concerning the elimination of grazing on public lands in Oregon

As you can see OCA is NOT a "one or two" issue organization. It is dedicated to deal with a multitude of issue simultaneously in order to allow producers - large & small -East & West - to produce. OCA can only do this with memberships and leadership. We pull together or we pull apart!  Please consider supporting our efforts by joining today.