Success StoryBeef Field Day Creates Management Changes
Beef Field Day Creates Management Changes
Author: Andy Mills
Planning Unit: Meade County CES
Major Program: Beef
Plan of Work: Improved Management Practices, Animal Science, Grain & Forage Crops
Outcome: Intermediate Outcome
Meade County's most commonly raise agriculture product is beef. Most full time and part time farmers own beef cattle and rely on cattle as a source of income. Beef cattle management is a big part of the educational programming through the Extension Service. Every 2 years the Meade County Agriculture and Natural Resource agent collaborates with the Meade County Cattlemen's Association to plan and implement an evening Beef Field Day. Four different tour stops were planned - heavy use area forages, hay feeding structures, mineral guidelines and parasite prevention and control. All tour stops are topics that the committee felt were of interest to our producers. Topics were taught by UK beef specialist and a industry well respected leader. Seventy eight producers attended. All evaluations were positive with 96% attending writing they would be implementing what they had learned into their operation. Since then 3 producers have implemented new fenceline hay feeders and 6 producers have used crabgrass on their sacrifice feeding areas.
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