Author: Leann Martin
Planning Unit: Logan County CES
Major Program: Beef
Plan of Work: Unrelated to a specified County Plan of Work
Outcome: Intermediate Outcome
Simpson, Allen, Warren, and Logan counties hosted the Master Cattlemen Program. Beef cattle operations are economic drivers for local farms and communities with just shy of 60,000 beef cattle represented in this area. The goal of the Master Cattlemen Program is to increase the overall profitability of beef producers through the highly intensive educational training.
One year follow up evaluations indicated that many of the participants have implemented practice changes as a direct result of the information presented during the Master Cattlemen Program. The results of those practice changes have increased profitability by:
All producers indicated practice changes and were encouraged that they would implement more changes within the next year.
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