General Manager Terry Cotton has been with API for 31 years. He attended Kansas State University and earned a degree in animal science.

Before joining the Angus staff he worked for Glenkirk Farms, Maysville, Mo., in its bull and heifer development program.

When he started at the Association he was an Angus Journal representative in the Western United States and Canada. He then moved to the Dakotas, Minnesota and Nebraska serving as a regional manager and Angus Journal representative.

He assumed the role of general manager in September 1986.

"During these years many changes have occurred," Cotton says. "Pointing to the growth and development of the Special Services Department and increasing advertising sales in the Angus Beef Bulletin which has a current circulation of more than 60,000. The growth and acceptance of the Angus breed has increased the information needs of our readership."

Cotton lives in St. Joseph with his family - wife, Sarah, and sons, Drew and Adam.