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Meet the Candidate: Craig Beran

Meet the Candidate: Craig Beran

September 12, 2018

Over the next month we will be highlighting all six of our senior board candidates. Three new board members will be elected from the pool of candidates at the AHA Educational Forum and Annual Meeting …


Over the next month we will be highlighting all six of our senior board candidates. Three new board members will be elected from the pool of candidates at the AHA Educational Forum and Annual Meeting at the end of October.

Along with his three brothers, Craig owns and operates B&D Herefords and Angus, which consists of 800 cows. B&D Herefords and Angus has been raising registered Hereford cattle for 50 years and holds two annual sales. The Season Opener sale in March is in its 32nd year, and the Fall Classic Sale began in 2018. Between the two sales, B&D Herefords and Angus markets approximately 200 bulls with a focus on performance and a highly efficient cow herd.

Craig has been an active member of the AHA for more than 30 years and has served as a delegate for Kansas for the past 20 years. He has also served on the nominating committee for the AHA Board. Within the Kansas Hereford Association, he has served as president and as a board member. In support of Hereford youth, Craig and B&D Herefords and Angus have been a sponsor for the Kansas Junior Hereford Show and the JNHE. As a representative of Kansas and American agriculture, Craig travelled with the Kansas Department of Agriculture on a beef genetics trade mission to Uruguay and Argentina to visit Hereford and Angus ranches.

On a local level, Craig has served on the Barton County Farm Bureau board, the Barton County Farm Service Agency board, the Beaver Grain Corporation board and the finance board for Holy Family Parish. He is also a founding member of the Claflin Recreation Commission.

Craig is married to Michelle Beran, and they have two children — John, who is pursuing a graduate degree in archeology at Eastern New Mexico University, and Bridget, who works as an agriculture journalist and was an active member of the National Junior Hereford Association (NJHA). Michelle has served on the National Hereford Women board of directors and was secretary for most of her tenure in addition to serving as parliamentarian and chairman of the queen committee.