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Date: April 19, 2006
 

Feedlot results, best way to market calves topics at association’s field day

 

            Beef producers can see where their operation fits into today’s cattle market and discuss the best way to market their calves during the Wyoming Beef Cattle Improvement Association (WBCIA) Feedlot Test Field Day April 27 in Wheatland.

            Producers will learn about their cattle’s feedlot performance and carcass quality at “The Ever Changing Cattle Market” program. The event is 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Platte Valley National Bank in Wheatland and at Bill and Dale Klein’s feedlot, site of the WBCIA test. Producers placed cattle in the feedlot last fall.

            The program evaluates a producers’ genetic program to see how their cattle perform in the feedlot and on the rail, said WBCIA President Wayne Tatman, who is also a University of Wyoming Cooperative Extension Service (UWCES) educator in Goshen County.

            “A lot of times ranchers sell calves and not know how they perform in the feedlot or rail,” said Tatman. “It’s also an opportunity to evaluate retained ownership. The thing I think is neat is that it gives people a chance to get together and talk about retained ownership.”

            Speakers will also address marketing, animal identification issues, source and age verification programs and feeder and producer perspectives on what makes profitable calves.

             The WBCIA began in 1984 when CES personnel and a group of Wyoming beef producers formed the association. The association’s aim is to help producers better position themselves in the marketplace by offering a product consumers want and are willing to buy.

            For more information, contact Tatman at (307) 532-2436, Dallas Mount, CES educator in the Platte County CES office, at (307) 322-3667, or Steve Paisley, UW animal science assistant professor and beef cattle extension specialist, at (307) 766-5541.

            Information is also available at http://www.wbcia.org/index.htm by accessing the feedlot test field day link.

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