Donning a number of hats with grace and willpower, Casey Matzke isn’t solely an advocate for beef. She can also be a decade-long group organizer and chief, mom, and function mannequin who reads avidly and finds fishing and strolling alongside the Texas coast enjoyable.
Casey works for Texas A&M AgriLife Extension as a undertaking supervisor and focuses on agricultural regulation, grazing lands, and ranch administration.
Outfitted with a Bachelor’s diploma in Animal Science and Agricultural Economics from Texas A&M College and an internship on the Texas Beef Council in 2017, she is at the moment ending up a Grasp’s diploma from Texas A&M in Animal Science.
For the final 10 years, Casey has been extremely concerned in Texas CattleWomen, an “group (at the moment with 22 native Texas chapters) by means of which girls operate collectively to defend their trade, work towards options of beef cattle issues, and to inform shoppers of the significance of the trade and of the contributions it makes to the financial system of the nation.”
“I started this journey going again to high school to complete the final two years of my diploma,” explains Casey. “My preliminary main was in Ag Economics till I ended up taking an animal science class as an elective – and found my ardour. I instantly knew I needed to double main and that led me to becoming a member of the Texas Aggie CattleWomen Collegiate Chapter. I labored my manner by means of quite a few officer positions and served as President previous to graduating.”
She has served on the Govt Board for Texas CattleWomen for the final 9 years, holding positions which have included Vice President and President. She can also be on the Board of Administrators for American National Cattle Women, at the moment serving because the Vice President.
Casey, who lives in Rosanky, a small Texas group simply south of Bastrop, has launched and supplied management (President) of the South Central CattleWomen chapter that serves Bastrop and surrounding areas.
The truth is, by means of her involvement with Texas CattleWomen during the last decade, Casey has helped begin six new native chapters all through Texas, increasing and strengthening the group’s mission.
Along with assembling and increasing this community of ladies within the beef trade, Casey actually enjoys offering grilling schooling lessons to the general public. Sharing details about the advantages of beef as a part of a nutritious diet together with sensible cooking ideas and methods are all important to the mission of Texas CattleWomen.
“As a earlier intern at Texas Beef Council, a part of my duties included serving to grill grasp Jerry McPherson with the Grilling 101 program,” Casey explains. “I realized quite a lot of hands-on expertise that semester – from cooking strategies and presentation expertise to the logistics of planning an occasion. Later, I had some extra trainings with Jerry and now, at Texas CattleWomen, we’ve our personal coach and grills and I’m going out to placed on the Grilling 101s myself for native chapters, 4H teams, faculties, companies, and different teams locally that need be taught extra about beef and grilling.”
Casey’s favourite factor concerning the beef trade is being surrounded by like-minded people.
“The ladies I’ve met alongside the way in which have been wonderful. It’s empowering to encompass your self with people who find themselves obsessed with the identical issues you might be. Since I’ve been concerned, I’ve seen curiosity within the beef trade improve with each my mom and 12-year-old daughter, Mattie,” Casey says.
“Whereas my grandparents owned cattle, it wasn’t till just lately that my mother bought some cattle of her personal. Even my daughter has one head of cattle and, together with my mother, goes out to feed them and examine on their wants. Seeing them turning into concerned in an trade that I’m obsessed with has stuffed my coronary heart with pleasure.”
With regards to placing beef on the household desk (or heading out to a restaurant), Casey says she’s undoubtedly a “steak kinda woman” together with her favourite lower being a grilled New York Strip.
“When I’m in a burger temper and close to my previous stomping grounds” she says, “nothing beats Koppe Bridge in College Station, which has the most effective burger basket round! I get mine with a facet of ranch for the burger and fries.”
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