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USMEF Media Conference Call Set for Tuesday, Nov. 6

Published: Oct 29, 2012
The U.S. Meat Export Federation (USMEF) will conduct a media conference call on Tuesday, Nov. 6, from the USMEF Strategic Planning Conference in Indianapolis. The conference call will begin at 7:00 a.m. Eastern time and will feature brief comments from USMEF officers and senior staff, including regional directors from USMEF foreign office locations. Their comments will be followed by a question-and-answer session, which will conclude by 8:00 a.m. We apologize for the early time, but the conference agenda is extremely full. We plan to make an audio podcast available for reporters who are unable to attend the call.

Participants should call 1-866-519-2804 and enter passcode 770447.

If you are calling from an area that cannot access this toll-free number, please dial 1-719-234-7307 and use the same passcode.

Please note that this will not be an operator-assisted call, so please mute your phone (*6) until the question-and-answer period begins. When asking a question, please unmute your phone (also *6) and provide the panel with your name and the name of your news outlet.

Reporters are invited to attend the USMEF Strategic Planning Conference, which is set for Nov. 7-9 at the Hyatt Regency Indianapolis. If you plan to attend, please contact Joe Schuele at jschuele@usmef.org or (303) 226-7309 so we can preregister you and comp your registration fee. The full meeting agenda is available online. All meetings listed are generally open to media, but please be advised that committees may occasionally opt for a closed session.

Among the featured speakers will be Jeff Simmons, president of Elanco, and Joseph Kelsay, director of the Indiana State Department of Agriculture and a sixth-generation dairy and crop farmer.

If you have questions about the conference or the media conference call, please contact Joe Schuele or Jim Herlihy (jherlihy@usmef.org).