CANTON -- A webcast on in-utero nutrition of calves will be offered by the Cornell Cooperative Extension Nov. 7 at 7 p.m.

Ted Perry, a marketing beef nutritionist and beef technical services manager with Land O’Lakes Purina Feed, will explain how a human health study of war survivors led to a new beef cattle feeding program.

“A study by the University of Idaho of the long-term health issues of children born to mothers suffering starvation in the Nazi concentration camps during World War II and during the period known as the Dutch “hunger winter” late in the war has been applied to how we raise livestock with phenomenal results,” Perry said.

Perry will share the results of the Idaho study, which showed a doubling of the quality grade of the calves fed under the new program.

To attend the webcast in person or to watch from a home computer register with the extension at 379-9192.