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Canton's Cornell Cooperative Extension to host Spring Beef Week program Thursday

Posted 3/24/15

CANTON -- Cornell Cooperative Extension, 2043B State Highway 68, will hold its Spring Beef Week program to help farmers better understand what beef buyers want and how to produce consistent supplies …

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Canton's Cornell Cooperative Extension to host Spring Beef Week program Thursday

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CANTON -- Cornell Cooperative Extension, 2043B State Highway 68, will hold its Spring Beef Week program to help farmers better understand what beef buyers want and how to produce consistent supplies of cattle to meet their demand.

The program is set for Thursday, March 26, at 6:30 p.m.

The programs will talk about a statewide project underway to begin pooling feeder calves into groups. The goal of the project is to increase feeder calf price by 10 to 15 cents over the sale barn price for cattle sold the same day.

Beef Week organizer Betsy Hodge, a livestock specialist with CCE St. Lawrence County, says, “Cattle prices are high right now and regional producers want to know if there are things they can do to better capture and sustain a viable market into the future.”

Hodge says the regional project will work with up to five producers interested in improving sales prices by adjusting some farm practices to commingle their beef animals to provide the quality and number of animals buyers want in one sales lot.

An example of farm practices that influence the successful pooling of animals are grouping by size and grade with all participating producers following the same weaning and vaccination protocols.

The program will help farmers understand and identify the different grades of cattle. Participants will learn what grades buyers want and have the opportunity to see different grades and try their eye at grading calves in a video presentation.

Register with Betsy Hodge, 379-9192, bmf9@cornell.edu