The stocker/yearling sector of the cattle trade provides flexibility and a chance for brand new producers to get began within the enterprise.
Nebraska Extension beef programs crew is providing an opportunity to study from producers with established stocker/yearling operations July 11 in the course of the fifth annual Summer season Stocker/Yearling Tour close to Bassett, Nebraska.
“A stocker/yearling part in a cattle manufacturing system can enhance profitability and provides some choices that permit for fast adjustment in drought conditions,” mentioned Hannah Smith, Nebraska Extension beef educator and one of many organizers of the occasion.
The annual Stocker/Yearling Tour has been fashionable with each starting and established producers because it offers them a chance to see how different producers have included the stocker/yearling part into their programs, and so they can study from their friends.
“We construct in time for attendees to ask questions and talk about the sensible parts of stocker/yearling administration,” mentioned Erin Laborie, Nebraska Extension Beef educator and occasion organizer. “We wish to hear from producers about what they should know from a analysis standpoint, so we will form UNL’s priorities round that, however this sort of dialogue the place they study from one another has been beneficial to each attendees and tour hosts.”
This 12 months’s tour and program are centered on the advertising side of yearling cattle, which was a subject that many earlier attendees requested to deal with extra in-depth.
Registration begins at 9:30 a.m. CDT outdoors of the Bassett Livestock Public sale, 105 W. 4th Avenue, Bassett, Nebraska. Two native cattle operations are opening their pastures to the group to go to. Lunch will likely be served at Bassett Livestock Public sale, adopted by a producer panel to debate the intricacies of selling within the stocker/yearling area and the way worth might be captured by the assorted eventualities.
“We deliberate this to coincide with the annual Barbecue Yearling and Fall Calf sale at Bassett Livestock Public sale, which is all the time a preferred occasion that brings individuals to the realm,” Smith mentioned. “Individuals who come to city for the sale can keep another day and find out about choices that might have main implications for the best way they do enterprise.”
The associated fee is $20 per individual, which incorporates lunch. Please register by July 1 at go.unl.edu/stockertour24 or contact the BKR Extension Workplace at 402-387-2213. For extra info, contact Hannah Smith (402-387-2213, [email protected]) or Erin Laborie (308-268-3105, [email protected]).
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