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Dates to Remember, September 1996

Livestock Update

BEEF

SEPTEMBER
12 -- Shenandoah Valley AREC Field Day, Steeles Tavern
26 -- Southwest Virginia AREC Field Day, Glade Spring
OCTOBER
1 -- VA BCIA Wytheville Senior & Junior Bull Test Delivery, Wytheville
8 -- Second Annual Northern Piedmont Beef Conservation Field Day, Somerset Plantation, Orange
NOVEMBER
5 -- VA BCIA Culpeper Junior Bull Test Delivery, Glenmary Farm, Rapidan
DECEMBER
2 -- All Breed PT Bull & Commercial Replacement Heifer Sale, Blackstone
7 -- All Breed PT Bull & Commercial Replacement Heifer Sale, Staunton
9 -- VA Beef Seedstock Symposium, Staunton
14 -- VA BCIA Culpeper Senior Bull Sale, Culpeper

GENERAL

SEPTEMBER
25-10/6 -- State Fair, Richmond
NOVEMBER
1 -- Hokie Harvest Cattle & Horse Sale, Blacksburg
DECEMBER
6 -7 -- Second VA Tech Livestock & Poultry Youth Weekend, VA Tech (Contact: Phillip J. Clauer or Mark Wahlberg, Animal & Poultry Sciences , VA Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061-0306).

HORSE

OCTOBER
13 -- Annual Horse Yearling Sale, Middleburg Agriculture AREC 2:00 p.m. (Contact Dr. Wendell Cooper 540/687-3521)

POULTRY

SEPTEMBER
26 -- VA State Fair, Richmond, VA. Contact: Phillip J. Clauer, Animal & Poultry Sciences, VA Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061-0306
28 -- Eastern Regional Poultry Judging Contest
29-Oct 1 -- State Junior Poultry Exhibition, Judging is Sunday, September 29th.
OCTOBER
15 -- State 4-H Market Poultry Pen Show
2 -5 -- 1996 APSW Convention, Athens, Georgia. Contact: John Nuccitelli, 438 Quaker Meeting House Road, Honeoye Falls, NY 14472. Phone: (716) 624-4608 FAX: (716) 624-5175.
19 -- 1996 CVPSW Fall Meeting, Sellers, SC. Contact: Jan or E.T. Trader, 6220 Bullbegger Road, Witham, VA 23488 or Rod Cague (host) at (804) 752-7626.
NOVEMBER
19-22 -- National 4-H Poultry and Egg Conference, Louisville, KY.

SHEEP

OCTOBER
26 -- VA Bred Ewe & Ewe Lamb Sale, Harrisonburg
DECEMBER
5 -6 -- VA-NC Shepherds' Symposium, Virginia Tech

SWINE

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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