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Released: February 06, 2008 K-State Cattlemen’s Day 2008 Set for March 7 in Manhattan MANHATTAN, Kan.—Kansas State University’s Cattlemen’s Day 2008 is set for March 7 in Weber Hall on the university’s Manhattan campus. The day will begin at 8 a.m. in Weber Arena with a commercial trade show and educational exhibits. A program with featured speakers and breakout sessions will start at 10 a.m.
Early registration for the event is $15 per person by Feb. 29. After that date and at the door, the fee is $25 per person. The registration includes both refreshments and a lunch. Other program topics and speakers will include: • Beef and the Consumer: Past, Present, and the Future – Dell Allen, vice president of technical services and food safety for Cargill Meat Solutions (retired); • DNA Marker-Assisted Selection – Dan Moser, K-State associate professor, beef genetics; • Cashing in on Ethanol Co-Products for Cow-Calf and Stocker Cattle Operations – Twig Marston, K-State Research and Extension cow-calf specialist; • Pre-conditioning for Optimum Cattle Performance and Carcass Value – K.C. Olson, associate professor of cow-calf nutrition; • Fertility Assessment in Bulls and Strategies for Improvement – John Jaeger, assistant professor, K-State Agricultural Research Center - Hays; • Controlling Brush and Sericea Lespedeza in Native Pastures – Karl Harborth, K-State Research and Extension specialist, southeast area; • Value-Added Beef Processing Technologies – Terry Houser, assistant professor of meat processing, meat selection and grading; and • Biofuels Expansion, $100 Crude, and a Weak U.S. Dollar: Implications for the U.S. Beef Industry? – Ted Schroeder and James Mintert, professors of agricultural economics. The day will end with the 3:30 p.m. K-State Legacy Bull Sale at the university’s Purebred Beef Unit. More information is available by checking the K-State Department of Animal Sciences and Industry Web site at
http://www.asi.ksu.edu (click on Cattlemen’s Day on the right side) or by calling
-30- K-State Research and Extension is a short name for the Kansas State University Agricultural Experiment Station and Cooperative Extension Service, a program designed to generate and distribute useful knowledge for the well-being of Kansans. Supported by county, state, federal and private funds, the program has county Extension offices, experiment fields, area Extension offices and regional research centers statewide. Its headquarters is on the K-State campus, Manhattan. Story by: Linda Siebold in the K-State Department of Animal Sciences and Industry is at 785-532-1281. |
Several guest and university speakers will be program highlights, including world-renowned animal behavior specialist Temple Grandin, who will present “Animal Welfare From the Consumer Perspective.” Grandin is an associate professor at Colorado State University.