Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 4,1972
Beef Cattle
Conference
Scheduled
at Penn St.
A comprehensive Beef Cattle
Conference will be held March 21,
22 and 23 at Pennsylvania State
University.
Although the conference will
emphasize purebred and com
mercial brood cow production
systems, information will also
pertain to finishing beef cattle
systems. The conference will be
held in the Meats Laboratory and
the Beef-Sheep Center at
University Park.
The program will include
discussion of practices involved
in establishing and maintaining
pastures for profitable pasture
and forage production. Methods
of storing forages for wintering
beef cows and calves will be
discussed.
Other important topics will
include maintaining herd health,
calculating rations for different
types of beef cattle, constructing
and maintaining low cost and
effective equipment and
facilities, and a demonstration of
certain beef cattle production
skills.
Another section of the program
will go into detailed discussions
of methods of improving the
inherited ability of cattle, and
record keeping methods.
A special feature will be an in
depth discussion of the merits of
jsome of the new breeds recently
introduced into the United States.
Another “special” will be a
consideration of the controversial
“optimum cow body size”
question that recently has
become extremely important in
producing cattle.
According to Dr. Lowell L.
Wilson, professor of animal
science and chairman of the
program, “This conference ties
together many of the essentials of
modernizing cow-calf production
systems. The beef cattle business
is changing rapidly. To ef
ficiently use land through beef
cattle, the producer must in
corporate as many modern
production practices as he
possibly can.
“In Pennsylvania, a state
producing only approximately 25
per cent of the total beef con
sumed in the state, there is an
opportunity to raise more beef
cows. We hope that by providing
this program, we can help
develop this potential,” he af
firms.
For further information
regarding the program, contact
the Agricultural Conference
Coordinator, 410 J. 0. Keller
Building, University Park, Pa.
16802. County agents in Penn
sylvania will also have in
formation.
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