4/13/01 Initiative Team Meeting

• "Sustainable, Efficient Livestock Forage Systems"
• Will have a cattle emphasis, starting with young female.
• Audience
• Commercial producers
• Agencies
• Allied industries
• Task force/inter-discipline format
• Adaptable to various counties/districts

• Check for existing packages/models - Doug Hixon.
• Inventory departments for applicable information and resources - Department heads chaired by Ed Bradley.
• Build a cohesive program.
• Possibilities:
• Website
• Cross state borders
• List resources
• Provide materials
• Compressed video
• Contact multi-county winter ag programs - Bill Taylor.
• Incorporate with producer group programs - Bill Taylor
• Stock Growers, Farm Bureau, NRCS
• Survey CES - Wayne Tatman, Jim Krall

• Possibly be able to provide to Wyoming Stock Growers Association meeting December, 2001.

Title change to: "Sustainable, Efficient Forage-Based Livestock Systems"

To more accurately reflect livestock systems rather than forage systems

• Kansas, Oklahoma, Elanco
• "Beef Info Base" CD-ROM
• Our vision is broader than most

• College of Ag Departments
• Vet Department
• Woodard - immunization
                            Health for heifers
• Jolley - parasite control
• Animal Science Department
• Genetics, sire selection
• Reproduction
• Avoiding calving difficulty
• Estrous synchronization
• Nutrition
• Econ Department
• Bastian - risk management, marketing
• Hewlett, Foulke - livestock budgets
• Freeburn
• Renewable Resources Department
• CRP
• Management of native types of range or pastures
• Cool seasons vs. warm seasons
• Performance comparisons
• Intensive grazing systems (negligible)
• Plant Sciences Department
• Koch - forages to extend grazing season
•             Wyoming forage quality data
•             Grazing annuals
• Gray - irrigated pastures
                     Mosely (MSU) would do better according to Gray
• Whitson - weeds
• Krall - alternative forages
                              Crop residues
• CSU
• Schultz - grazing annuals
• Univ. of Neb. - Scottsbluff
• Fort Keogh

• Health
• Parasites
• Immunization
• Animals
• Genetics
• Reproduction
• Nutrition
• Economics
• Risk management
• Budgets
• Forage
• Forage alternatives
• Crop residue
• Special use pastures
• Weed & pest management
• Drought management
• Human resource management

• Website with components of the program & related materials
• Personal response capability to questions
• Schools, workshops
• Location - districts, multiple
• CD-ROM
• Printed handbook
• Only if needed after CD-ROM is available

• Charge fee
• Establish endowment
• Alumni, private sources
• Grants
• 4-H Foundation (programs are to have a youth component)
• Ag Experiment Station
• SARE
• Risk Management Grants (John Hewlett has applied)
• CES budget request
• Private and commodity groups
• Fund for Rural America
• Doubtful

• State specialists
• Time, program share, travel
• Web master
• Materials and supplies
• Publicity
• Planning expenses

• Initiative team members

• Wayne Tatman - co-chair
• Jim Gill - co-chair
• Doug Hixon
• Brett Moline
• Possible specialists, expertise to invite to assist
• Mike Smith
• Jim Waggoner
• John Hewlett
• Jim Freeburn
• Tom Foulke
• Dave Koch
• Alan Gray
• Tom Whitson
• Lynn Woodard
• Chris Bastian will contribute if given specific requests
• Jim Magagna
• Bryce Reece
• Agencies - BLM, USFS, WACD, NRCS