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Dates To Remember, July 1996

Livestock Update

Beef

July
8 -- Steeles Tavern Twilight Meeting - Mid-Summer Calf Management, Steeles Tavern
23 -- VA BCIA Culpeper Senior Bull Test Delivery, Nixon Farm, Rapidan
26-27 -- VA Angus Breeders Show, Harrisonburg
August
7 -- VA BCIA Red House Senior Bull Test Delivery, RHBEC, Red House
10 -- VA Cattlemen's Association Summer Roundup, Buckingham & Campbell Counties
10 -- VA Angus State Field Day, Wehrmann Angus, New Market

Horse

August
1 - 4 -- Southern Regional Horse Championships, Lexington

General

July
12 -- Animal Industry Day, Blacksburg
22-26 -- American Society of Animal Science Meetings, Rapid City, SD
August
7 -- VA Food Festival, State Fairgrounds, Richmond
22 -- Tidewater AREC Field Day, Holland
September
25-10/6 --State Fair, Richmond

Sheep

August
24 -- VA Performance Tested Ram Lamb Sale, Steeles Tavern

Swine

August
12 -- Rockingham County Junior Hog Show, Harrisonburg
20 -- Regional Swine Environmental Assurance Certification Seminar, Carson
October
5- 6 -- State Fair Open and Junior Market Hog Shows, Richmond
January
23-24 -- Virginia Pork Industry Conference, Airfield 4-H Center, Wakefield

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