85R31147 KSM-D
By: Smithee H.C.R. No. 144
CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
WHEREAS, Proud members of the Texas Cattle Feeders
Association are celebrating the organization's 50th anniversary in
2017; and
WHEREAS, A national leader in animal care and health, food
safety, environmental stewardship, and trade policy, TCFA works to
advance the economic, political, and social interests of the cattle
feeding industry in Texas, Oklahoma, and New Mexico; and
WHEREAS, The area served by TCFA is the largest
cattle-feeding region in the United States, feeding and marketing
approximately 6 million head of cattle each year and producing 28
percent of the nation's fed-cattle supply; and
WHEREAS, In the past 50 years, TCFA-area feed yards have fed
and marketed some 275 million head of cattle, which produced
roughly 125 billion pounds of beef, or the equivalent of 500 billion
quarter-pound hamburgers; and
WHEREAS, Beef from TCFA feed yards is highly sought after
across the country and around the world, and the annual economic
impact of cattle feeding on the State of Texas alone is in the
billions of dollars; and
WHEREAS, The Texas Cattle Feeders Association plays a dynamic
and vital role in the prosperity of the Lone Star State, and the
association's members may indeed take great pride in their half
century of achievement; now, therefore, be it
RESOLVED, That the 85th Legislature of the State of Texas
hereby commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Texas Cattle Feeders
Association and extend to all those involved with the organization
sincere best wishes for the future; and, be it further
RESOLVED, That an official copy of this resolution be
prepared for the Texas Cattle Feeders Association as an expression
of high regard by the Texas House of Representatives and Senate.