Use of Forages in Beef Finishing
Project Objectives
- Encourage keeping more feeder calves in the Peace Region
- Maximize the use of forage rations
- Contract a person to compile existing info, interact with other feedlots & meat packers, promote idea with producers & financers
- Organized a conference in Jan. 1999 with the theme: “Keeping our calves at home and grazing and marketing our lush forage resources”
- Feedlot and Forage Tour in Westlock area in June 1999.
- Brenda Schoepp spoke at the 2002 AGM on "Opportunities in Grazing Management and Beef Cattle Marketing"
- Partnered with Kiwanis Enterprise Center in the follow up from Rural Leadership Conference of March 2002
- Establish a steering committee to pursue next steps
- South Peace Feeders Association
- South Peace Bred Heifers Association
- North Peace Feeders Association
- North Peace Bred Heifers Association
- Peace Value Added Association
- Kiwanis Enterprise Center
- Ernest Nimitz
- Pat Gerlinsky
- John Kendrew
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