Though YCC has changed considerably from that first trip in 1980, in many ways it has remained the same. Many other stops are along the way, including touring a meat plant, a cow-calf operation and a feedyard, and listening to case studies on the beef industry presented by Continental Grain. From sunrise to sundown and beyond, the tour keeps them hopping. The NCBA president-elect also attends, along with other NCBA staff members and IBP and Continental Grain employees. Each class elects a person from their year to serve as chairman for the next year.
Graduates also receive green lapel pins, which are as sentimentally valuable as a class ring.
YCC provides this kind of experience. Calif. They manage more than 100 head of Angus females and 200 head of commercial cows along with some stockers. He is a senior sales representative for Roche Vitamins and travels throughout the West and Southwest visiting pockets of clients for the company. He says that, though the second trip was the same in terms of locations, it was a completely different experience due to the dynamics of different people involved. The Montana Stockgrowers Association partly funded the trip, and it was worth money out of my pocket to go.