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 the field day 6 producers have implemented the suggested summer annual crabgrasses into their heavy use areas after the hay feeding season concludes.