By Jennifer Dorsett
Field Editor
The newly-elected board of directors for Texas Beef Council (TBC) includes a face familiar to Texas Farm Bureau (TFB) members. Michael White of Wilbarger County was recently elected vice chairman of TBC. He also will serve another term on the executive committee.
White, who grows wheat, cotton and raises commercial cattle, has served on TBC’s board since 2016. During that time, he has also served on the domestic marketing committee.
TBC is the producer-funded marketing program for Texas beef and beef products. A state fee of $1 per head is collected at each point of transfer of ownership on cattle in Texas to fund beef checkoff programs.
The 18-member TBC board controls and directs all Texas beef checkoff activities. Directors may serve up to six consecutive one-year terms on the TBC board.
Steven Lastovica of Salado is an at-large member and the newly elected chairman of the board.
White was the TFB District 3 state director from 2011-2017. He was elected TFB vice president in 2015, and he served in that role for two years.
A fourth-generation farmer and rancher, White is also the chair of TFB’s Vision 2020 Committee. He was also appointed to the Cattlemen’s Beef Promotion and Research board last year by U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue.
White is a board member for the Wilbarger County Junior Livestock Show and is a deacon of the First Baptist Church. He and his wife, Susan, have two married daughters.