The Texas Section-Society for Range Management meeting scheduled for October 7-9 at the Holiday Inn in Stephenville will celebrate the organization's 50th year.

A series of sessions will discuss changes over the last 50 years in Texas ranching, technology, university range education, range research, and educational programs directed at landowners and urban audiences on proper natural resource management.

The ranching heritage session will feature four long-time Texas ranchers who will explain how life on the ranch has changed. In the technological session such tools as fecal analysis and near infrared spectroscopy, remote sensing and the application of geographical information systems will be discussed.

More information may be obtained by calling Roger Wittie at (254) 968-9931.

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The third annual Oklahoma Cattle Conference is set for Oct. 16 at the Murray County Fairgrounds in Sulphur, Okla. The program begins at 9 a.m. and ends at 3:30 p.m.

Sessions include discussions on injection sites; stocker cattle and cow-calf tips, and best marketing practices and times as well as the use of implants.

The afternoon will be devoted to a ranch horse demonstration and a replacement heifer sale.

More information may be obtained by contacting TSCRA field inspector Joe Ramer at (580) 622-2506.

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Marc S. Tucker has been named the new agricultural assistant county Extension agent for Tom Green County.

The new agent graduated from Texas Tech University at Lubbock earlier this year with a B.S. degree in agricultural education.

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The Texas A&M Extension Service is sponsoring a Big Country Beef Cattle Conference at the Abilene Auction on October 7. Registration begins at 8:30 a.m.

The program's aim is to help cattle producers identify management practices and cattle genetics that will produce beef which fits the industry.

Participants are urged to pre-register by Oct. 1 by calling the Texas Agricultural Extension Service offices in Callahan, Shackelford or Taylor counties.

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Three outstanding alumni were recently named to the Hall of Honor in the Texas A&M College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. Honorees were: Nathan Boardman of Crosbyton, a seed industry leader; John Hagaman of Whitestown, Ind., who has had a distinguished career with Dow Chemical Company; and Dr. Richard McDonald of Amarillo, whose long-time leadership of the Texas Cattle Feeders Association has led to major growth in the cattle feeding industry in Texas.

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A wildlife management field day is set for Oct. 12 on the Gary Foster Ranch at Broome, 13 miles south of Sterling City on U.S. Hwy. 87. Participants will meet at the site of the old Broome Store on the south side of the highway.

Those interested in attending must preregister by Oct. 4 by calling the Sterling County Extension office at (915) 378-3181.

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