USMEF to Honor Wortham and Bomer Lauritsen with 2020 Awards

The U.S. Meat Export Federation (USMEF) will honor a longtime state beef council executive and a key agricultural trade negotiator at its upcoming Strategic Planning Conference, which will be held virtually Nov. 10-13.

Texas Beef Council Executive Vice President Richard Wortham will receive the USMEF Distinguished Service Award, which recognizes an individual for leadership and lifetime contributions toward the achievement of USMEF's mission to enhance demand for U.S. red meat exports.

Former assistant U.S. trade representative Sharon Bomer Lauritsen is the recipient of the Michael J. Mansfield Award, which USMEF established in recognition of the U.S. Senate majority leader, whose decades of government service advanced U.S. trade relations throughout the world.

In the attached audio report, Wortham and Bomer Lauritsen comment on these awards and on their history of working to enhance international marketing opportunities for U.S. red meat. Additional remarks, photos and other details are also available in this USMEF press release.

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The U.S. Meat Export Federation (www.USMEF.org) is the trade association responsible for developing international markets for the U.S. red meat industry. It is funded by USDA; the beef, pork, lamb, corn and soybean checkoff programs, as well as its members representing nine industry sectors: beef/veal producing & feeding, pork producing & feeding, lamb producing & feeding, packing & processing, purveying & trading, oilseeds producing, feedgrains producing, farm organizations and supply & service organizations. USMEF complies with all equal opportunity, non-discrimination and affirmative action measures applicable to it by contract, government rule or regulation or as otherwise provided by law. USMEF is an equal opportunity employer and provider.