January 19, 2006

47th Annual Sheep and Beef Day Set for Feb. 8

North Dakota State University’s Hettinger Research Extension Center is hosting the 47th annual Sheep and Beef Day program at the Hettinger Armory on Feb. 8.

“Sheep and Beef Day provides livestock producers and rangeland managers of the region an opportunity to review research from the Hettinger Research Extension Center and other research stations within NDSU,” says Christopher Schauer, animal and range scientist at the center. “The variety of research topics addressed will appeal to a broad selection of livestock producers in southwestern North Dakota.”

The event starts with tours of the center at 8:30 a.m. The armory opens at 9:30. An early-bird door prize drawing will be at 10. Other scheduled activities include:

• 10:05 a.m. – Reports on research in protein supplementation for cattle and sheep, winter grazing, calf backgrounding, multispecies leafy spurge grazing, scrapie and feeding dried distillers grains to lambs
• 11:50 a.m. – An update from the American Sheep Industry Association
• Noon lunch featuring American lamb and beef
• 1 p.m. - Welcome from Ken Grafton, dean of the NDSU College of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Natural Resources and director of the North Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station
• 1:10 p.m. – Kim Vonnahme, assistant professor in the NDSU Animal and Range Sciences Department, will discuss estrous synchronization techniques for beef cattle and sheep
• 2:10 p.m. – An update on the national animal identification system for sheep and beef cattle from Jim Clement, animal identification coordinator for the North Dakota Department of Agriculture
• 3:15 p.m. Tim Faller, Hettinger center director, will discuss the future of the center

The Sheep and Beef Day program is free of charge. No registration is required. For more information, contact Schauer at (701) 567-4323 or christopher.schauer@ndsu.edu.

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Source: Christopher Schauer, (701) 567-4323, christopher.schauer@ndsu.edu
Editor: Ellen Crawford, (701) 231-5391, ecrawfor@ndsuext.nodak.edu

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