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Cattle feeding short course offered
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[DEC.
18, 2004]
URBANA --
Cattle feeders can keep abreast of industry changes to
enhance their management and marketing practices by attending the
2005 Great Lakes Professional Cattle Feeding and Marketing Short
Course on Jan. 24 and Feb. 7, 2005, from 6 to 10 p.m. both evenings,
at the DeKalb County Farm Bureau Building.
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"Offering a short course like this one allows us to bring in
out-of-state speakers to get a different perspective," said Richard
Knipe, University of Illinois Extension educator in animal systems
and beef. "The two-session format also allows for more in-depth
discussion of a topic. In this case, the first one is management and
nutrition, and the second is marketing." During the Jan. 24
session, Dan Loy of Iowa State University will focus on managing
feed bunks to optimize feed intake and "Management Strategies to
Reduce Nitrogen and Phosphorus in Manure. Additional topics will
include managing "shipping fever" and "What We have Learned about
Bovine Viral Diarrhea and Mycoplasma?" presented by Ricardo
Rosenbusch, also of Iowa State University.
The Feb. 7 session will be more marketing-oriented, starting with
a discussion of cattle price outlook by Jim Hilker of Michigan State
University. He will be followed by Dale Blasi of Kansas State
University, who will give a talk entitled, "National ID, What's in
it for me?"
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Additional topics will include "Is Livestock Risk Protection a
better risk management tool than options?" and the mechanics of
purchasing the protection.
The registration fee is $30 for the two sessions and is due by
Jan. 17. For more information on the short course or a brochure with
the complete program, contact Steven Rust at Michigan State
University, (517) 432-1390); the DeKalb County Extension office
(815) 758-8194); or Rich Knipe, (309) 792-2500,
rknipe@uiuc.edu.
The Great Lakes Professional Cattle Feeding and Marketing Short
Course is part of the Five State Beef Initiative, a cooperative
effort to strengthen economic opportunities for the eastern Corn
Belt's beef industry by providing added consumer value through a
responsive production, marketing and information system. Additional
sponsors include the University of Illinois Extension and the
Illinois Beef Association.
[University
of Illinois news release]
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