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1997 Beef Cow-Calf Conference Program
Livestock Update, November 1997
John Hall, Animal and Poultry Sciences, Virginia Tech
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| 8:00 - 9:00 AM | REGISTRATION & VIEWING EXHIBITS - Registration fee $25.00/person (includes lunch and proceedings)
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| MORNING SESSION - John Hall, Chairman | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 9:00 AM | THE ECONOMIC CLIMATE FOR CATTLE PRODUCERS AND FUTURE IMPLICATIONS - Casey Kelley, Cattle-Fax, Greenwood Village, Colorado | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 9:40 AM | THE ELEMENTS OF PROFITABILITY IN FEEDING & MARKETING PRODUCERS CATTLE - Warren Weibert, Decatur Co. Feedyard, Oberlin, Kansas | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 10:20 AM | BREAK - REFRESHMENTS
| 10:35 AM | | AN OVERVIEW OF ALLIANCES AND PACKERS INTEREST IN GENETIC CONTROL - | Larry Corah, NCBA, Manhattan, Kansas 11:15 AM | | OUR EXPERIENCE IN MAKING PRACTICAL ALLIANCES WORK- | Dave Nichols, Nichols Farms, Bridgewater, Iowa 12:00 Noon | | BUFFET LUNCH - VICTORIAN & MAIN DINING ROOMS- |
AFTERNOON SESSION - Bill Beal, Chairman
| 1:00 PM | | WHAT WE HAVE LEARNED THROUGH PRODUCER RETAINED-OWNERSHIP FEED-OUT PROGRAMS - | Bill McKinnon, Extension Animal Scientist, Virginia Tech 1:30 PM | | CURRENT & NEW ALLIANCE APPROACHES IN VIRGINIA - | Reggie Reynolds, Executive Secretary, Virginia Cattlemen's Association 2:00 PM | | PANEL - "EXPERIENCE WITH ALLIANCES""- | Reggie Reynolds, In Charge Jim Myers - The Buckingham Program James Bennett - Working with Small Producers John Mitchell - Retained Ownership & Partnering with Feeders Jerry Burner - We Feed Them or Have Them Fed 3:00 PM | | ANSWER PANEL - | Parting shots from conference speakers. Each will pick one or two things they consider most recommendable to seedstock and commercial cow-calf producers. 3:30 PM | | ADJOURN & VIEW EXHIBITS
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