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Houston reflects on year as NCBA president

Looking back at her year as president of the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, Tennessee cattle producer Jennifer Houston says she’s most proud of the big trade wins.  “It was just one hit after the other,” she says.  “We started off with the US beef only quota to the European Union and then we were there for the signing of the bilateral trade agreement with Japan,” she says.  And then Houston was back to the White House for the signing of the Phase One trade deal with China and the US-Mexico-Canada (USMCA) agreement.

She tells Brownfield they also had some regulatory wins, too.  And the biggest of those, she says, was a rollback of WOTUS. “Being at EPA for the announcement of the new WOTUS rules,” she says.  “And finally the old 2015 WOTUS is dead.”

And Houston says NCBA isn’t finished talking trade.  “We’ve already started talks with Great Britain as Brexit happened last week,” she says.  “That will be our next goal on trade.  As will making sure the ones that we have signed keep on moving forward.”

Houston spoke to Brownfield at the 2020 Cattle Industry Convention in San Antonio’s, Texas.  

AUDIO: Jennifer Houston, 2019 NCBA president