Posted 09/20/2024

For immediate release:

Sept. 20, 2024

For more information, contact:

Randy Schmitt, NDSA president: (701) 537-3440 • schmittranch@hotmail.com

Julie Ellingson, NDSA executive vice president: (701) 223-2522 • jellingson@ndstockmen.org

Elizabeth Hasenwinkel, NDSA communications director: (701) 833-1162 • ehasenwinkel@ndstockmen.org

Stockmen’s Association employees acknowledged for dedicated service

The North Dakota Stockmen’s Association (NDSA) acknowledged four employees for their long-time service to the state’s livestock industry during a special awards ceremony at the NDSA’s 95^th Annual Convention & Trade Show in Bismarck, N.D., this evening.

Arly Schumacher of Mandan, N.D., was honored for 25 years of service to the NDSA as a brand inspector. He is the inspector in charge at Napoleon Livestock in Napoleon, N.D. He was also previously assigned to Herreid Livestock Market in Herreid, S.D. He and his wife Cara have three children, Matthew, Austin and Rachel. Together, they run a cow-calf and farming operation.

Willy Sevland of Granville, N.D., was also recognized for a quarter-century of service to the NDSA as a brand inspector. Sevland began his career at Northern Livestock in Minot, N.D., and, after its closure, was reassigned to Kist Livestock in Mandan, N.D., and the Turtle Lake Scale. He has most recently worked at Jamestown Livestock in Jamestown, N.D., Lake Region Livestock in Devils Lake, N.D., Rugby Livestock in Rugby, N.D., and the Towner Scale in Towner, N.D., among other auction barns. Sevland is a third-generation rancher and has a cow-calf operation. He has six children, Jeanie, Jonathan, Jerry, Jeffrey, Jacob and Jackie.

Joe Roshau of Dickinson, N.D., was honored for 30 years of service to the NDSA, but his time as a part-time and local brand inspector dates back much further than that – all the way to 1974. Roshau was named the inspector in charge of the Dickinson-area markets, Stockmen’s Livestock Exchange and what is now Stockmen’s Livestock West, in 2006. He and his wife Mary have two children, Allen, who is also an NDSA inspector, and Vicki.

Rodney Lutz of Hettinger, N.D., was also recognized for 30 years of service to the NDSA as a brand inspector. Lutz is in charge of Bowman Livestock Marketing, formerly known as Bowman Auction Market, and Home Base and Uecker Yards Scales. He and his wife Lee Ann have one daughter, Chelsee, and operate a cow-calf operation with yearling, backgrounding and farming enterprises.

“The NDSA has a solid brand inspection team dedicated to the organization and the industry,” said NDSA President Randy Schmitt of Rugby N.D. “We are grateful for these inspectors’ more than a century’s worth of full-time brand inspection efforts.”

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