Mike John
Director of Health Track Operations, MFA
Mike John is the Director, MFA Health Track Operations. Health Track is a Vac 45, MFAverified, feeder cattle preconditioning program that has enrolled nearly 900,000 head since 2001. Calves are EID tagged ranch sourced, and the weaning and pre-conditioning processes recorded along with production and health data in an in-house database.
Stockholder/Manager, John Ranch, Inc., a commercial cow/calf, and retained ownership operation, Huntsville, Mo. 1980-Present
BS Degree, Animal Science - Kansas State University - 1980
Beef Industry Experience:
- President - Missouri Cattlemen’s Association 1996
- Chairman - Missouri Beef Industry Council 1998
- Missouri Cattlemen’s Foundation Board Member
- NCBA – (National Cattlemen’s Beef Association) President 2006
- Membership Chair
- Group Chair, Industry and Member Services
- ID Commission – Chair
- Mark of Quality Commission – Vice Chairman
- NCBA seat on Meat Export Federation Board
JBS Cow/Calf Advisory Committee
Identigen Advisory Board (DNA & Traceability Company)
BlockTrust – Working with development team on a block chain solution to enable farm to fork supply chains in the beef industry.
Family:
- Wife Dara, 3 Children; Hunter, Hayley (Huyser), and Paden
- 8 Grandchildren