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Making More Good Days
by Lacey Altwegg
Dara Dix will tell you there’s no secret
to her success, though she may balk at taking credit for it. “I follow all the rules,” she says, adding with a laugh, “while killing trees for a living.”
You could call her “the secretary” at McPherson County Feeders Inc., a Certified Angus Beef LLC (CAB)-licensed feedlot near Marquette, Kan. But neither that nor her paper-focused job description are enough to justify her selection as 2009 CAB Quality Assurance (QA) Officer of the Year.
Dix’s attention to detail and friendly demeanor help the central Kansas yard enroll more than 6,500 cattle per year in CAB’s Feedlot-Licensing Program (FLP) — with an 84% data capture rate. That’s the ratio of how much information actually gets through the process from start to finish, and it’s one of the highest among 65 CAB feedlots nationwide. ...
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