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Van Hooser recipient of LMA’s Industry Icon award
June 30, 2017
Kansas City, Mo.
Van Hooser recipient of LMA’s Industry Icon award
Ernie Van Hooser, Bowling Green, Ky., received the Livestock Marketing Association’s (LMA) Industry Icon award during the 2017 LMA Annual Convention and World Livestock Auctioneer Championship in Billings, Montana. Van Hooser joins Billy Perrin, Pat Goggins and E.H. Fowler as the only Industry Icon award recipients since the inception of LMA more than 50 years ago.
Jerry Etheredge, LMA President, presented Van Hooser with the award. Etheredge said, “Ernie’s legal knowledge, calming presence, and farm-grown straightforwardness have helped many LMA members through tough questions. Ernie is a teacher at heart, always striving to help those around him and expand their knowledge base.”
Van Hooser, a partner in Van Hooser and Eftink law firm, began his career with LMA in 1976. In addition to serving LMA members, Van Hooser has writen and presented about agriculture topics for the American Ag Law Association and Missouri Bar Association.
About the Livestock Marketing Association
The Livestock Marketing Association (LMA), headquartered in Overland Park, Kan., is North America’s leading, national trade association dedicated to serving its members in the open and competitive auction method of marketing livestock. Founded in 1947, LMA has more than 800 member businesses across the U.S. and Canada and remains invested in both the livestock and livestock marketing industries through member support, education programs, policy representation and communication efforts.
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