Pictured from left are Matt Teagarden, Kansas Livestock Association CEO; Gary Beachner, Beachner Bros. Livestock, Parsons; and Philip Weltmer, 2024 KLA president. Thirty-five members of the KLA were honored during the group’s convention Nov. 20 for decades of loyalty to the association. The total number of members who have remained loyal to KLA for five decades now stands at 181. Those who joined KLA in 1974 and reached the half-century mark this year were Beachner Bros. Livestock, Parsons; William Brethour, Maple Hill; Burkdoll Brothers Inc., Rantoul; Tom Carr, Medicine Lodge; Dave Casement, Sedan; Mike and Pam Collinge, Hamilton; Larry Corah, Manhattan; David Cross, Lewis; Stephen Donley, Ellsworth; Henry Eggers, Yates Center; Five Rivers Cattle Feeding/Grant County Feeders, Ulysses; Grabbe Farms, Hays; Jerry Grout, Mankato, Terry and Paul Handke, Muscotah; Tony Imm, Phillipsburg; Kansas State Bank of Overbrook and Scranton; Kueser Brothers Farms, Richmond; James “Tony” Meseke, Alma; Thomas Perrier, Eureka; Jerald Riemann, Dighton; Loyd Schoen, Lenora; Rex Schultze, Osborne; George Teagarden, La Cygne; Lafe Wilson, Uniontown; and James Zwonitzer, Horton. Brad Tate of Welch, Oklahoma, reached the 60-year membership mark.
