KLA President

Ty Breeden
Quinter

Breeden’s family has been farming and ranching in Sheridan and Gove counties since the late 1800s. While he works full time at the First State Bank in Hoxie, he also is continuing his family’s agricultural legacy by running a commercial cow-calf and hay operation with his wife, Jamie, and their two daughters, Nyla and Hazel.


Breeden graduated from Kansas State University with a degree in agricultural economics and started his career in Kansas City before moving back to western Kansas in 2005. Following his return, he began his involvement with KLA and NCBA­—first participating in the 2012 Young Stockmen’s Academy and serving as the Gove County KLA chairman, then attending the NCBA Young Cattlemen’s Conference in 2018.


Over the past several years, Breeden has become extensively involved in these organizations and others. He served as vice chairman of the Kansas Beef Council (KBC) and is a member of the KBC Executive Committee. He also holds a seat on the KLA board of directors. Breeden is a past chairman of the KLA Stockgrowers Council and has served on the KLA Executive Committee and Policy and Resolutions Committee. At the national level, he is a member of the Federation of State Beef Councils board of directors and serves on the Checkoff Research and Finance committees.

  

       

KLA President-Elect

Jeff George
Garden City

Jeff George grew up on his family’s stocker and feeder operation near Uniontown. After earning a degree in animal sciences and industry with a business minor from K-State in 1998, he managed a cow-calf operation in Olsburg. He then moved northwest to work for a larger ranch located in south central Montana and north central Wyoming. In 2002, George returned to Kansas to work for Golden Belt Feeders as manager of their Kinsley yard until 2008, when he had an opportunity to buy into Finney County Feedyard and continue his management career.


A third-generation KLA member, George has served as the Edwards County KLA chair and has been a member of the Cattle Feeders Council since 2002, serving as chair in 2021. He is a member of the KLA board of directors and the KLA Water Committee. George also sits on the NCBA Live Cattle Marketing Committee.

He and his wife, Jo, have three children: Gavin, Garrett and Josslynn.