Beef Symposium Set for Dec. 2-3 in Williston

Stocking density, forage management, livestock marketing opportunities and genetics will be among the topics at a beef symposium in Williston on Dec. 2-3.

Bovine Connection to Profit will be held at the Airport International Inn.

North Dakota and Montana Extension Service agents, area ranchers and businesspeople, and District 9 CattleWomen organized the event.

“The goal of Bovine Connection is to bring research results, state-of-the art practices and thought-provoking ideas to cattlemen,” says Warren Froelich, a Williams County Extension agent and one of the seminar’s organizers. “This is an effort to increase profitability for area beef producers.”

The featured speaker Dec. 2 will be Jim Gerrish, co-owner of American GrazingLands Services, May, Idaho. He gained more than 20 years of experience in beef forage systems research and outreach while on the University of Missouri faculty. He also has 20 years of experience as a commercial cattle and sheep producer.

Other speakers will include Kevin Sedivec, NDSU Extension rangeland specialist; Greg Lardy, head of NDSU’s Animal Sciences Department; David Buchanan, NDSU animal scientist; Josh Dukart, technical coordinator for the North Dakota Grazing Lands Coalition; North Dakota and Montana ranchers; Burton Eller, senior vice president of government affairs for the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, Washington, D.C.; and livestock experts from Oklahoma State University, the University of Nebraska, Kansas State University, Montana State University and the U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service’s Fort Keogh Livestock and Range Research Laboratory.

The cost of the symposium is $40 per person or $60 per couple. The registration fee includes meals, refreshments and a proceedings handbook.

For more information, contact Froelich at (701) 577-4595 or warren.froelich@ndsu, or visit http://www.ag.ndsu.edu/williamscountyextension/events/bovine-connection.

NDSU Agriculture Communication