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Dates to Remember

Livestock Update, April 1997

BEEF

APRIL
4 -- VA BCIA Culpeper Junior Bull Sale, Culpeper
25-27 -- VA Beef Expo & Junior Beef Roundup, Harrisonburg

4-H

JUNE
21 -- State 4-H Livestock Judging Contest, Blacksburg
28 -- Eastern Regional Junior Angus Show, Harrisonburg

GENERAL

APRIL
12 -- 75th Little International & Department of Animal & Poultry Sciences Alumni Organization Inaugural Meeting, Virginia Tech
JULY
11 -- Animal Industry Day, Virginia Tech

HORSE

APRIL
18 - 20 -- VA Horse Festival, Lexington

POULTRY

APRIL
12 -- Northern District 4-H Poultry Judging Workshop & Qualifying Event, Culpeper,
15 - 16 -- VA Poultry Health & Management Seminar, Clarion Hotel, Roanoke Airport, Roanoke
19 -- Carolina/Virginia Pheasant & Waterfowl Society, quarterly meeting. Mel and Jackie Nunnally residence, Mechanicsville,
29-Oct 1 -- State Junior Poultry Exhibition, Judging is Sunday, September 29th.
19 -- Southside 4-H Poultry Judging Workshop & Qualifying Event, Mecklenburg,
MAY
9 -- VA Poultry Federation Youth Convention & State 4-H Judging Contest, Rockingham Co. Fairgrounds,
JUNE
18 -- State 4-H Cookery & Presentation Contests, State 4-H Congress, Virginia Tech,

SHEEP

APRIL
29 - 30 -- Beginner's Sheep Shearing School, Glade Spring
MAY
8 -- VA-NC 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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