TRI-STATE BEEF CONFERENCE

 

TRI-STATE BEEF CONFERENCE TO BE HELD AUGUST 4^th IN BLOUNTVILLE, TN

The fourteenth Annual Tri-State Beef Cattle conference will be held at the Ron Ramsey Regional Ag Center in Blountville, Tennessee on Thursday, August 4, 2022. This year’s conference will address topics of interest to both stocker and cow-calf producers. The conference will be a one-day event and will include educational sessions covering such topics as stocker health, finished cattle price transparency legislation, beef cattle outlook, knowing where you stand on profitability, and antibiotic prescription requirements. There will once again be virtual tours of operations from each of the three states and then a time of questions and answers with the producers themselves.

 

A trade show will be open during the conference, with many of the organizations involved in the region’s beef industry there for participants to meet and learn more about their products and services.

The conference will begin with registration at 8:00 a.m. and the program beginning at 9:20 a.m. The trade show will open at 8:00 a.m.

 

The meeting is being sponsored by the University of Tennessee Extension, Virginia Cooperative Extension, and North Carolina Cooperative Extension. Registration information and complete details will be available through your county Extension Office. Registration for the conference is $20 through July 22^nd and $25 after July 22^nd. Additional information can be obtained from Dr. Scott Greiner, Extension Beef Specialist, Virginia Tech, phone 540-231-9159, email sgreiner@vt.edu, through your local Extension office, or on the web at https://www.apsc.vt.edu/extensionandoutreach/beef-extension.html

 

PROGRAM

8:00 a.m.             Registration and Visit Trade Show

9:00 a.m.             Welcome

9:10 a.m.             Finished Cattle Price Transparency and Legislation

                                Dr. Charley Martinez

                                Assistant Professor and Extension Specialist, University of Tennessee

9:50 a.m.             Stocker Cattle Receiving Simulation

                                Dr. John Groves, DVM

                                Livestock Veterinary Service, Eldon, Missouri

10:30 a.m.           Knowing Where You Stand: 5 Standards to Profitability

                                Mr. David Bilderback

                                Area Farm Management Specialist, University of Tennessee

11:00 a.m.           Break and Visit Trade Show

11:30 a.m.           Market Outlook

                                Dr. James Mitchell

                                Livestock Economist, University of Arkansas

12:10 p.m.          Steak Lunch and Visit Trade Show

1:20 p.m.             Antibiotic Prescription Requirements, Asian Long-Horn Tick and Theileria

                                Dr. John Currin, DVM, DABVP

                                Clinical Associate Professor, Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine

2:00 p.m.             Virtual Tours and Panel Discussion

3:00 p.m.             Wrap-up

Coming Beef Classes

 

This June, Virginia Cooperative Extension is offering three trainings to help you plan and establish your cattle herd. June 3, learn how to choose, size, adjust production, and market your herd. June 17th, join us at a hands-on workshop for producers considering artificial insemination as a means to improve their herd. Join us at the Virginia Tech MARE Center! Register at bit.ly/VCEBeef22

 

Description of workshops:

 

• 3 June AM.  Choosing, Sizing, and Marketing the Right Herd for You.  A classroom program for start-up producers and those early in their beef operations.  Topics include operations types, breed characteristics, herd expansion alternatives, and marketing model considerations.

 

• 3 June PM.  Adjusting Current Production and Marketing Models.  A classroom program for experienced beef producers thinking critically about herd efficiencies, breeding methods, and marketing strategies.

 

• 17 June AM & PM. Assisted Reproduction Workshop.  A hands-on workshop for producers considering artificial insemination as a means to improve their herd.  This program entails working with cattle reproduction tracts and observing the insemination of heifers.

 

Virginia Farmer Mentoring Programs

 

Virginia Farmer Mentoring Programs

The Virginia Soil Health Coalition, one of our Virginia Beginning Farmer and Rancher Coalition Partners, has compiled a list of Farmer Mentoring Programs across the state including the regions they serve and key points of contact in case you or anyone you know is interested in farming mentorship. You can find more information on their Virginia Farmer Mentor Network webpage or you can directly contact the coordinators for each region. Please help spread the word to your networks!

 

Program Name	Geographic Area	Producer Emphasis	Contact
Virginia Forage and Grassland Council	Chesapeake Bay Watershed	Livestock and Forage Production	Becky Szarzynski beckyszar@yahoo.com 540-461-0969
Virginia No-Till Alliance	Shenandoah Valley	Crop Production	Doug Horn doughorn@vt.edu 540-245-5750
Eastern Shore	Eastern Shore	Crop and Vegetable Production	Mark Reiter mreiter@vt.edu 757-807-6576
Soil Health + Integrated Conservation Agronomy	Southside, Eastern, and Central Virginia	Crop and Livestock Production	Lydia Fitzgerald Lydia.fitzgerald@usda.gov 540-414-4089

 

 

Upcoming Equine Programs

 

Va Beef Expo

 

Virginia Cattle Outlook

 

Equine Bio-security

 Equine Owners

Colorado State University has put together this outstanding user friendly site on Equine ANIMAL BIOSECURITY

Topics include:

About Animal Biosecurity

Horse Owners

Horse Barn Managers

Horses grazing in a pasture

About Animal Biosecurity

CSU’s Animal biosecurity resources have been developed to assist animal owners, and farm managers on how to prevent infectious disease among animals housed together. Like any shared residential arrangement – such as apartment buildings, school dormitories, and hotels – boarding stables, livestock pens and open pastures are not closed systems. Even with careful protocols to prevent disease, there is an opportunity for animals to be exposed to organisms while off the farm and to potentially expose the other animals upon return.

Keeping your animals free from infectious disease, the kind of disease that can be spread between animals. The first topics on this site focus on horses at boarding stables where the horses are owned by different people but live together at one farm. More developments will focus on other animals and will be added.

Go to: https://animalbiosecurity.colostate.edu/#