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Friday, June 10, 2005
Helena News:

Cattle groups trade views

By JOHN HARRINGTON - IR Business Editor - 06/10/05

A standing-room-only crowd of several hundred ranchers from across Montana packed a conference room at the Red Lion Colonial Hotel Thursday to hear the presidents of two national cattle organizations outline their different views on the future of the industry.

Sharing a stage for the first time, Jim McAdams, president of the National Cattlemen's Beef Association, and Leo McDonnell, president of Ranchers-Cattlemen Action Legal Fund, offered differing opinions on several key issues confronting the industry to members of the Montana Stockgrowers Association, in town for their mid-year meeting.

Both men admitted that they have more similarities than differences and the same goal â€â€