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Dates to Remember

Livestock Update, March 1997

BEEF

MARCH
8 -- Central Virginia Beef Cattle Field Day, Morven Farm, Charlottesville
22 -- Virginia BCIA Wytheville Bull Sale, Southwest Bull Test Station, Wytheville

APRIL
4 -- Virginia BCIA Culpeper Junior Bull Sale, Culpeper
25 - 27 -- Virginia Beef Expo and Junior Beef Roundup, Harrisonburg

4-H

MARCH
9 -- Open House, Southwest Bull Test Station, Wytheville
14 -- Block and Bridle Club Stockman's Contest and Meats Judging Contest, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg
15 -- Block & Bridle Club Livestock Judging Contest, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg
22 -- Block & Bridle Club Horse Judging Contest, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg

GENERAL

MARCH
3 - 7 -- Animal Science Specialty In-Service Training, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg
8 -- Southern Piedmont Forage Conference, Cumberland Elementary School
APRIL
12 -- 75th Little International and Department of Animal and Poultry Sciences Alumni Organization Inaugural Meeting, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg
JULY
11 -- Animal Industry Day, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg

HORSE

APRIL
18 - 20 -- Virginia Horse Festival, Lexington

POULTRY

APRIL
12 -- Northern District 4-H Poultry Judging Workshop & Qualifying Event, Culpeper, Contact: Betsy Campbell, (540) 825-2233
19 -- Carolina/Virginia Pheasant and Waterfowl Society quarterly meeting, Mechanicsville, Contact: Jan Trader, (804) 824-5828
19 -- Southside 4-H Poultry Judging Workshop and Qualifying Event, Mecklenburg, Contact Leonard Elam, (804) 738-6191

MAY
9 -- Virginia Poultry Federation Youth Convention and State 4-H Judging Contest, Rockingham County Fairgrounds, Contact: Phillip J. Clauer, (540) 231-9185

SHEEP

MARCH
1 -- Virginia Commercial Bred Ewe and Ram Sale, New River Valley Fairgrounds, Dublin
19 -- Carolina/Virginia Pheasant and Waterfowl Society quarterly meeting, Mechanicsville, Contact: Jan Trader, (804) 824-5828
19 -- Southside 4-H Poultry Judging Workshop and Qualifying Event, Mecklenburg, Contact Leonard Elam, (804) 738-6191

APRIL
29 - 30 -- Beginner's Sheep Shearing School, Glade Spring

MAY
8 -- Virginia-North Carolina Wool Sale, Dublin

JUNE
13 - 14 -- Eastern Stud Ram Sale, Augusta Expoland, Fishersville

SWINE

JUNE
5 - 7 -- World Pork Expo, State Fairgrounds, Indianapolis, Ind.

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