SAN ANTONIO – Texas AgriLife Extension Service and Bexar Beef Cattle Committee will present the free 2011 South Texas Beef Cattle Short Course at Palo Alto Community College, 1400 W. Villaret St., in San Antonio during three consecutive Thursday evenings in January.
All program sessions will be held in Room 109 of the college’s Performing Arts Building.
Course sessions will be from 6:30-8:30 p.m. on Jan. 13, 20 and 27, said Bryan Davis, AgriLife Extension agent for agriculture and natural resources in Bexar County.
Registration will be at 6 p.m. each evening, and sessions will begin promptly at 6:30 p.m. The sessions will consist of either two or three presentations.
“People are welcome to attend any or all of these sessions,” Davis said. “This short course is designed to present cattle producers and others in the beef cattle industry a comprehensive overview on issues affecting the production and management of beef cattle.”
Presenters will include experts from AgriLife Extension and the U.S. Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service, a certified public accountant, a meteorologist and others.
The first session presentation on Jan. 13 will address the research or control of fever ticks and their effect in Texas, and the second will address beef cattle nutrition.
There will be three presentations during the Jan. 20 session. The first will be a one-hour presentation on livestock tax advantages, including the importance of new tax codes to cattle producers. The second presentation, “Marketing Grass-Fed Beef,” as well as the third, “Saving for a Rainy Day,” will be half-hour presentations.
The Jan. 27 session will include a weather outlook for Central and South Texas and presentation on common brush management mistakes.
Two continuing education units for Texas Department of Agriculture private applicator license holders will be offered for attending all of each evening’s sessions, and the unit category will vary depending on the topic covered.
An RSVP is required for each of these sessions. For more information and to RSVP for any or all sessions, contact Angel Torres at 210-467-6575 or matorres@ag.tamu.edu .
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