Sept. 26, 2014
Writer: Steve Byrns, 325-653-4576, s-byrns@tamu.edu
Contact: Greg Jones, 806-495-4400, gw-jones@tamu.edu
POST – The Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service will conduct a multi-county Beef Cattle and Range Tour from 9 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Oct. 7 at Post.
The program will convene at the Post Community Center for the morning session, then travel to the range site at 10:45 a.m. for the tour on the UU Ranch, said Greg Jones, AgriLife Extension agent in Garza County.
Cooperating on the event are the AgriLife Extension offices in Garza, Scurry, Borden, Lynn and Mitchell counties.
“Compared to recent years, we’ve had a pretty fair grass-growing summer, and we’re now enjoying at least the possibility of a normal fall, moisture-wise, so the whole goal of this workshop will be to conserve the good pasture recovery we have started here while optimizing these continuing great cattle prices,” said Jones.
“We’ll have two great speakers with some fresh ideas, a tasty lunch, a tour of a good ranch operation and continuing education units offered, so all in all, this is shaping up to be a good program if you are in the cattle business grazing native range in our region.”
The key guest speakers will be Dr. Morgan Russell, AgriLife Extension range specialist at San Angelo, and Dr. Ted McCollum, AgriLife Extension beef cattle specialist at Amarillo.
Russell’s topics will include Range Recovery, Pasture Restocking and Weed Management, Range Site Forage Sampling and Evaluating Range, and Pasture/Range Inventory-Determining Stocking Rates/Cow Size.
McCollum’s topics will include: Beef Demand vs. Supply-Short and Long Term Outlook; Will a $3,000 Cow Work on Your Operation? and Balancing Nutritional Requirements Through the Year.
Jones will conclude the workshop with a presentation entitled Smart Phone Applications for Range and Wildlife.
Three Texas Department of Agriculture continuing education units will be available.
Individual registration, which includes lunch, is $25.
RSVP no later than noon Oct. 6 by calling the AgriLife Extension office in Garza County at 806-495-4400.
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