Extension Communications
3614 Administrative Services Building
Ames, Iowa 50011-3614
(515) 294-9915
6/7/02
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contacts:
John Kennicker, Extension Crop Specialist, (515) 382-6551, jkenn@iastate.edu
Jean McGuire, Continuing Education and Communication Services, (515) 294-7033,
jmcguire@iastate.edu
ISU Rhodes Research Farm Field Day Planned
The annual Iowa State University (ISU) Rhodes Research and Demonstration
Farm Field Day will be held Tuesday, July 9 from 4:30-8:30 p.m. This event
gives farmers, ranchers and other ag professionals a firsthand view of
current research and demonstration projects.
Barry Dunn, range livestock production specialist, South Dakota State
University, is the keynote speaker. He will present “Factors that
Make a Difference in Cow-Calf Profits.”
Attendees will choose to attend three of seven breakout sessions. The
breakout session topics include:
- Selecting Cattle for Quality or Retail Product - Managing Fat
- Carcass vs. Ultrasound -- Measures to Predict Percent Retail Product
- Grazing Effects on Erosion and Phosphorous Losses in Pasture Run-off
- Update on Hoop Swine Production and Nutrient Losses and Gas Emissions
from Swine Hoop Structures
- Forage Variety Grazing Trials and Forage Species for Beef Cattle:
Questions and Answers
- Breeding for Grain Quality (Feeding Value) in Corn
- Culling Decisions for First Calf Heifers
The event will be held rain or shine. Registration starts promptly at
4:30 p.m. Dinner will be served at 5 p.m., courtesy of the Marshall County
Cattlemen. Door prizes will be awarded at the end of the event.
Animal disease control is vital for successful livestock production.
The threat of animal disease, both foreign and domestic, mandates that
we address issues of bio-security for field days. If you have traveled
to a foreign country or an area of the United States that was diagnosed
or quarantined with an outbreak of animal disease within the last 7 days,
please do not attend this event.
Directions to the farm from the town of Rhodes: Go 2 miles south on Canfield
Avenue, 1 mile west on 320th Street and 1/2 mile South to the farm office
area. From Highway 330: Go 1/2 mile north on Binford Avenue or 1 mile
west on 320th Street and 1/2 mile south to the farm office.
For more field day information, you may contact your local ISU Extension county office, John Kennicker, crops field specialist, at (515) 382-6551, or Ron Sealock, superintendent, Rhodes Research and Demonstration Farm, at (641) 493-2653, or see Web sites: http://www.ag.iastate.edu/farms/fielddays.html or http://www.ag.iastate.edu/farms/rhodes.html
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