Carrington Research Extension Center plans a seminar for livestock feeders in January. Written By: John Steiner | ×
The Feedlot School will help identify areas for improvement, including feed bunk management, health, business planning and marketing. (NDSU photo)
Cattle producers, feeders, backgrounders, feed industry personnel, animal health-care suppliers and others will have an opportunity to learn more about during the annual North Dakota State University Feedlot School set for Jan. 20-21, 2021, at NDSU’s Carrington Research Extension Center.
“Feeding cattle is a decades-old business with lots of new techniques,” says Karl Hoppe, Extension livestock systems specialist at the center. “Making cattle feeding profitable is usually a result of doing many things right, not just one thing better. The Feedlot School helps identify the areas for improvement, ranging from feed bunk management to health to business planning to marketing.”
Students will gain clinical experience in SRUC’s new VN Skills Centre A NEW Veterinary Nursing degree at Scotland s Rural College in Aberdeen will help improve access to training and progression within the sector. The three-year BSc degree – with the option of a fourth year to gain an honours qualification – will allow students to achieve an RCVS Veterinary Nursing registration and a licence to practice. The course, which will start in September 2021 at SRUC’s Craibstone campus, is being offered in addition to the Veterinary Care Assistant course introduced by the Veterinary and Animal Science Department this year. From April 2021, a Professional Development Award will also be offered via distance learning. This three-unit bridging programme, which will cover communications, veterinary terminology and animal biology, is aimed at VCA students, or those with alternative appropriate qualifications, wishing to progress on to degree level.
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The school also will include a tour of a commercial feedlot and the Research Extension Center’s livestock facilities. Faculty from NDSU’s Animal Sciences Department, and the Carrington, Hettinger and Central Grasslands Research Extension Centers, as well as others who have extensive experience working with northern Plains feedlots, are instructors for the school.
“The regional cattle experts who teach at the school provide a good overview of management for North Dakota feeders, and the outreach or interaction with the participants continues for years after the school,” says Mary Keena, Extension livestock environmental management specialist at the center.
UF students lead Hurricane Eta relief efforts for Honduras
Residents affected by Hurricane Eta stand in a line to receive donated food in Planeta, Honduras, Friday, Nov. 6, 2020. As the remnants of Eta moved back over Caribbean waters, governments in Central America worked to tally the displaced and dead, and recover bodies from landslides and flooding that claimed dozens of lives from Guatemala to Panama.
UF students banded together to provide relief to Honduras in the aftermath of Hurricane Eta. UF Eta Relief, a student-led donation drive with four locations including in Gainesville and Tampa, began last week and will be collecting water, toiletries, clothes and more until Nov. 20.