Carrington Research Extension Center to Hold Livestock Tour
US - Feedlot research, cow-calf studies and manure nutrient management are among the topics for the beef production tour at North Dakota State University’s Carrington Research Extension Center on July 16.
25 June 2013
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The tour is one of the center’s annual field tours to be held that day.
The beef production programme will begin at 9 a.m. with registration, coffee and a welcome. The livestock tour will depart at 9:30 and run until noon. Agronomy, horticulture and sustainability tours also will be held in the morning and afternoon.
Topics and speakers for this year’s beef production program are:
- Research on the value of fat in distillers grains - Vern Anderson, animal scientist, Carrington Research Extension Center
- Adding enzymes in feedlot rations - Chanda Engel, research specialist, Carrington Research Extension Center
- Forage levels in finishing yearling steer rations - Kate Sorenson, graduate student, NDSU Animal Sciences Department
- Capturing nutrients in manure with more bedding and more protein - Shafiqur Rahman, waste management engineer, NDSU Agriculture and Biosystems Engineering Department
- Comparing dry lot with pasture for summer feeding cow-calf pairs - Anderson
- Corn stover and distillers grains for lactating cows - Engel
- Feed costs for cows: are they at a plateau? - Jory Hanson, farm business management program instructor, Carrington
- Composting mortality demonstration - Mary Berg, livestock environmental management specialist, Carrington Research Extension Center
- Value and management of manure - Emily Kline, livestock environmental management specialist, Carrington Research Extension Center
- Livestock and cropping effect on surface water quality - Katie Gussiaas, 319 watershed coordinator, Foster County
- Sugar beets for saline soils and feed - Anderson
