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Bridger Feuz

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Date: April 9, 2007

 

Master Cattleman program available to Wyoming counties

 

            Every participant in a course that provided cattle producers information on production strategies and helped them make decisions about production practices said they would recommend the course to others.

            The pilot Wyoming Master Cattleman program finished in March in Evanston, and its curriculum will now be made available to other counties for offering the course next winter, said Bridger Feuz, University of Wyoming Cooperative Extension Service (UW CES) educator for Sweetwater and Uinta counties.

            There were eight three-hour sessions from January to March in the Evanston program.

            Session topics in the Master Cattleman program are goals and risk management, enterprise analysis, cull cow management, retained ownership, alternative calving strategies, niche marketing, bull buying and estate planning.

            Producers learn about their risk tolerances and how to analyze goals. In the tools sessions, they are provided information on how and what to analyze to determine if an enterprise will be financially successful. Programs also focus on production strategies.

            The key to the success of the program is that, at the end of each of the production strategy sessions, producers work through an example using strategies from earlier tools sessions, said Feuz.

            The goal is not only to help producers determine if the production strategies, presented as part of the Master Cattleman program, will work but also help them be better able to make that determination at other meetings and seminars they may attend.

            “The ability to evaluate new production opportunities is important to the long-term success of ranchers,” said Feuz. “This course not only provides tools and strategies for evaluating opportunities but also training on production and marketing strategies.”

            Cattle producers interested in taking the course should contact their local office of the UW CES. Telephone numbers are under County in the Government Listings of the white pages. Information is also available at http://ces.uwyo.edu/Counties.asp.

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