The 2007 Yearbook of the Northern Territory Cattlemen's Association

PRESIDENT'S WELCOME AT THE AGM 2007

Welcome to our 23rd Annual Conference and after 12 months as president, I am happy to report that the Northern Territory Cattlemen’s Association is in excellent shape and getting stronger, more proactive and more prominent with every year.

Members are optimistic as they position themselves for predicted future expansion in both our domestic and export markets. The NTCA remains strong, vibrant and vocal in lobbying for the rights of its members and it also maintains its unique position of having over 95% of the Territory’s cattle herd represented through its membership books.

I mistakenly believed that the past year would have sailed through without too much going wrong.

We’ve been challenged on many fronts in the past 12 months and NTCA has initiated meetings with governments at all levels, both at home and in Canberra, to make sure the issues of greatest concern and importance to our members are kept at the forefront of influential minds.

Read the the complete speech here...

ROY CHISHOLM
President
March 2007