Loose Ends

How to maximize bull power is the key topic at this year’s Lampasas County Beef Symposium set for October 16 in the Lampasas County Youth Livestock Center. Registration and exhibit viewing starts at 7:30 a.m. The program starts at 8:15 a.m.

Other topics to be discussed include chute-side management, calf marketing, how to use EPD’s to enhance profit, and utilization of ultrasound for carcass value.

More information is available from Mike Mallett, Lampasas County Extension agent, at (512)556-8271.

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Jeffrey Wayne Osbourn is the new county Extension agent for Coleman County. Osbourn comes to Coleman from Randall County, where he has served as the assistant county Extension agent since October 1996.

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The Texas Agricultural Extension Service offices in Brown and Comanche counties have scheduled a fall beef cattle program for West Central Texas cattle producers on October 19 at the Dudley Brothers Sale Arena located west of Comanche on Hwy. 377.

Topics include winter feeding, economics, and managing fall cattle works. The evening program will conclude with feedlot results from a set of steers that were evaluated and fed out following a similar program last April.

The program and meal is free to the public. Information is available from Bob Whitney, Comanche County Extension agent, at (915)356-2539 or Scott Anderson, Brown County Extension agent, at (915)646-0386.

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The Texas Animal Health Commission reports that 174,795 cattle entered Texas from other states, while 90,834 cattle were shipped out. Also 40,843 sheep were exported to other states and 6186 sheep entered Texas from other states.

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John L. Pemberton has been appointed associate director of environmental issues for the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association.

Pemberton comes to NCBA from the Washington Legal Foundation, a public interest litigation and public policy group supporting free enterprise, where he has been the Chief Policy Counsel since 1995.