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Virginia Cattlemen's Association Feeder Cattle Marketing Workshop
Livestock Update, January 1997
Bill McKinnon, Animal and Poultry Sciences
| VCA Feeder Cattle Marketing Workshop Friday, January 10, 1997 Natural Bridge Hotel | ||
|---|---|---|
| 9:15 am | Registration (Coffee) | |
| 9:30 am | Welcome and Purpose | Reggie Reynolds |
| 9:45 am | The Fall of '96 in Virginia in Review Trends, Impacts of grades, breeds, trucking, etc. | Reggie Reynolds and Bill McKinnon |
| 10:00 am | Where is the Industry Headed? | Chuck Lambert, NCBA |
| 10:45 am | The Pennsylvania Cattle Feeding Industry | Ron Ranck |
| 11:15 am | My Experience with VCA Feeder Cattle Sales | Todd Porth, Rock Island |
| 11:45 am | Panel of Morning Speakers, Question and Answer | |
| 12:15 pm | Lunch | |
| 1:15 pm | How Do We Better Serve Our Customers and Ourselves?
Marketing by Breed - Jim Johnson Local Load Lot Marketing - Jim Myers Producing/Marketing Blacks vs. Colored Cattle - Bill McKinnon | Jim Johnson |
| "Point - Counter Point"
Cattle penning options Packaging L&M2's Serving two markets Contract sales "Blue Sky" ideas | Reggie Reynolds and Bill McKinnon | |
| 2:15 pm | Break | |
| 2:30 pm | An Introduction to Virginia Quality Assured Feeder Cattle
The Concept - Reggie Reynolds Health Guidelines - Allen Strecker Genetic Guidelines - Norm Vincel Other States Experiences - Bill McKinnon Buyer Reactions - Todd Porth How to Implement? - Discussion | |
| 4:00 pm | Adjourn | |
This should be a thoroughly educational program for anyone marketing feeder cattle. The program will examine challenges and opportunities we have in Virginia in feeder cattle marketing. Extension agents, local feeder cattle association directors and market operators are enthusiastically encouraged to attend.