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Nominations for the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA) Environmental Stewardship Award Program (ESAP) are due March 8, 2024. This award program recognizes outstanding stewardship practices and conservation achievements of cattle producers across the nation each year.
Any individual, group or organization is eligible to nominate one individual or business raising or feeding cattle. Individuals and families may not nominate themselves, although nominees may be involved in the preparation of the application.
Along with a typed application, one nomination letter and three letters of recommendation highlighting the nominee’s leadership in conservation are required. Nominees do not have to be members of NCBA but should support the objectives of their state and national organization.
Regional winners will be recognized at CattleCon25 in San Antonio, Texas, in February 2025, and the national winner will be announced at the Celebration of America’s Land Stewards Event in Washington, D.C., in spring 2025.
For more information and to download the nomination packet, click here.
2024 ESAP Application Packet – Subject to change ahead of the call for 2025 nominations.
If you would like assistance or to request a hard copy of the nomination packet, contact esap@beef.org.