Schedule
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| Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2011 | |
| 7:00 a.m. | Registration |
| 8:45 a.m. | Welcome |
| 9:00 a.m. | Policy affecting the cattle industry, U.S. Senator Mike Johanns, Nebraska |
| 9:45 a.m. | Public issues, Trent Loos, a sixth-generation U.S. farmer and author of Loos Tales, a multimedia column dedicated to exploring the interesting people and places of rural America |
| 10:30 a.m. | Break |
| 11:00 a.m. | Introduction, Ivan Rush, professor emeritus, University of Nebraska |
| 11:15 a.m. | How will the cattle industry compete with the crop and ethanol industry, Andrew Gottschalk, senior vice president of R.J. O’Brien & Associates and owner of HedgersEdge.com LLC |
| Noon | Lunch |
| 1:30 p.m. | Current inventory — causes and effects, and where are we headed? Jim Robb, ag economist, Livestock Marketing Information Center |
| 2:00 p.m. | Calculating your unit cost of production, Aaron Berger, extension educator, University of Nebraska |
| 2:30 p.m. | The future structure of beef production: calf-feds, yearlings, stockers, Tom Brink, chief risk officer and senior vice president, JBS Five Rivers Cattle Feeding LLC |
| 3:00 p.m. | Break |
| 3:30 p.m. | What are subtheraputic antibiotics and can we do without them? Mike Apley, production medicine, clinical pharmacology, Kansas State University |
| 4:00 p.m. | Weaned calf growing options: How do we economically produce a 1,000-lb. steer for feedlot entry, Terry Klopfenstein, ruminant nutrition, University of Nebraska |
| 4:30 p.m. | The cow side of producing a 1,000-lb. feeder: cow size and expenses, Ken Olson, beef specialist, South Dakota State University; Justin Waggoner, beef systems specialist, Kansas State University; John Jaeger, beef systems specialist, Kansas State University |
| 5:00 p.m. | Adjourn, return to Gering for supper and Bull Pen Sessions |
| 6:00 p.m. | Optional Dinner, Gering Civic Center |
| 7:30 p.m. | Bull Pen Sessions, Gering Civic Center |
| 7:30 a.m. | Registration |
| 8:30 a.m. | Determing who makes land use decisions, land ownership or land control, and what decision options exist, Dave Goeller, assistant director/TAA specialist, University of Nebraska North Central Risk Management Education Center |
| 9:15 a.m. | Land/enterprise and ownership transfer, producer panel: • Meyring • Blair • Marcy |
| 10:00 am. | Break |
| 10:30 a.m. | Genomics for the rancher: How does it work and what does it mean? Jack Whittier, beef specialist, Colorado State University |
| 11:00 a.m. | Implementation of marker-assisted EPDs, Matt Spangler, beef geneticist, University of Nebraska |
| 11:30 a.m. | Feed efficiency: How should it be used for the cow herd? Andy Roberts, research scientist, U.S. Department of Agriculture – Agricultural Research Service |
| Noon | Lunch |
| 1:30 p.m. | Importance of steak origin to restaurant customers, Chris Calkins, meat scientist, University of Nebraska Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources |
| 2:00 p.m. | How to capture added value for the calves produced, Troy Marshall, Marshall Cattle Co., Burlington, Colo. |
| 2:30 p.m. | Break |
| 3:00 p.m. | Adding value to calves: How to get age- and source-verified and how to capitalize on it, Todd Thrift, associate professor, beef cattle management, University of Florida |
| 3:30 p.m. | Cutting through the myths to feed a growing global population, Travis Choat, director of beef technical consulting, Elanco Animal Health |
| 4:00 p.m. | Activities and benefits from exporting beef, Paul Clayton, senior vice president, export services, U.S. Meat Export Federation |
| 4:30 p.m. | 50 years of beef reproduction through my eyes: past, present and future, George Seidel, distinguished professor, biomedical sciences, Colorado State University |
| 5:00 p.m. | Adjourn, return to Gering for supper and Bull Pen Sessions |
| 6:00 p.m. | Optional dinner, Gering Civic Center |
| 7:30 p.m. | Bull Pen Sessions, Gering Civic Center |
| 7:00 a.m. | Registration |
| 8:00 a.m. | How do we achieve proper vaccination immunity? Jerry Stokka, Pfizer Animal Health |
| 8:35 a.m. | Labor solutions for ranch operations: How to find and retain quality employees, Harry Knobbe, Knobbe Cattle Co., West Point, Neb. |
| 9:10 a.m. | Economic model for multiple land use, John Ritten, agricultural and applied economics, University of Wyoming |
| 9:45 a.m. | Break |
| 10:15 a.m. | Optimizing range management for game bird habitat, Ben Geaumont, wildlife biologist, North Dakota State University |
| 10:40 a.m. | Planning ahead to save AUMs and the cow herd in times of forage shortage, Jerry Volesky, range and forage specialist, University of Nebraska |
| 11:15 a.m. | Market outlook, Cattle-Fax |
| Adjourn | |
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