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For Immediate Release

 

 

Contact: Steven L. Miller, Senior Editor

Phone: (307) 766-6342

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Date: Sept. 19, 2006
 

Southeast Wyoming convention features livestock profitability workshops

 

            A southeast Wyoming and western Nebraska Beef Production Convention featuring workshops about profitability issues is Tuesday, Nov. 21, at the Rendezvous Center in Torrington.

            The workshops, from 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m., are sponsored by the University of Wyoming Cooperative Extension Service (UW CES) and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension.

            “We are attracting top speakers for this,” said Dallas Mount, a UW CES educator for Platte, Goshen and Laramie counties and a coordinator of the convention. “When we put this together, we looked at immediate issues livestock producers in the region are facing and also issues we see as ways to increase profitability on a ranch.”

            Workshop subjects include crossbreeding, windrow grazing annual forages, a producer panel on late spring and summer calving, avoiding insidious effects of errant grazing on rangeland, natural and organic beef, practical application of feeding by-product feeds, animal handling, using a systems approach to ranch management decisions, Wyoming cow-calf record management system, an animal ID program update, effects of diet selection and grazing on animal behavior, a producer perspective on implementing a grazing system, embryonic loss and fetal programming, and what in the industry has made an impact and what has not the past 30 years.

            Pre-registration is requested for a meal count. The registration fee of $15, which includes lunch, can be paid at the door. Registration can be done online at www.plattecountyextension.com  or by calling Mount at (307) 322-3667, Wayne Tatman, UW CES educator for Platte, Goshen, and Laramie counties, at (307) 532-2436, or Aaron Berger, assistant extension educator at the UN-L Panhandle Research and Extension Center, (308) 235-3122.

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