For the first time ever, the Block & Bridle Convention will be held in conjunction with the 2012 Cattle Industry Convention & NCBA Trade Show. 

The Cattle Industry Convention will be held in Nashville at the Gaylord Opryland Convention Center. We will be spending one full day at the Cattle Industry Convention, and you will have the option to attend additional events on Friday, Feb. 3 for an additional fee. 

The host hotel for the Block & Bridle Convention is the Embassy Suites in Murfreesboro, TN. The room block will be available until January 10, 2012. Please make your reservations as soon as possible.  Members will enjoy exciting tours to various locations around middle Tennessee ranging from livestock operations to distilleries. We are busy raising funds so that we can make this a great convention.

We are excited to have Trent Loos, a well-known speaker, writer and radio/television personality in the agriculture world, as our 92nd Block and Bridle Convention keynote speaker. In 2001, Loos began to share his knowledge and experience of production agriculture with the world, when he launched "Loos Tales", a radio talk show on KMZU in Missouri. Loos travels the country to unearth stories about the people involved in the many different facets of agriculture and to spread the word about food producers in the United States. Loos emphasizes bridging the gap between food producers and consumers. His presentations may be moving and motivational or designed to teach farmers, ranchers and commodity groups how to deal with the media. 

For more information, visit http://mtweb.mtsu.edu/bandb/nationalconvention.html