“Increased Production Efficiency” is the theme of the 2018 Nebraska State of Beef Conference, scheduled for Nov. 7 to 8 at the North Platte Sandhills Convention Center.
Speakers, including experts from university and industry, will focus on market outlook, industry trends, alternative enterprises, animal health,and several different approaches to finding efficiencies in animal production.
Karla Jenkins, cow-calf/stocker management specialist at the UNL Panhandle Research and Extension Center at Scottsbluff, said this year the conference will focus on increasing efficiency in the cowherd. She said the last conference had one producer panel but there are more panels this time: One will address how efficiency is increased in a traditional cow/calf production system and the other will talk about increasing income through adding additional profit centers to the operation.
The Nebraska State of Beef Conference is held every other year, on alternating years with a regional beef conference, the Range Beef Cow Symposium, which is held odd-numbered years and alternates between Nebraska, South Dakota, Wyoming and Colorado.
On-line registration is preferred. The registration site is at www.regonline.com/state-of-beef-conference-2018. Brochures and registration forms are also available by calling Joyce Stack of Nebraska Extension at 308-532-2683. You can also download a brochure and registration form from the UNL Panhandle Research and Extension Center website at panhandle.unl.edu.
The registration fee of $65 includes a paper or electronic copy of the proceedings. There is an additional fee for the Nov. 7 dinner. Walk-in registrations are welcome, but the Nov. 7 dinner can’t be guaranteed for walk-ins or registrations received after Oct. 26.
The conference is organized by University of Nebraska-Lincoln Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources. For more information, contact Karla Jenkins, cow-calf and stocker management specialist, at 308-632-1245 or [email protected]; Rick Funston, reproductive physiologist, at 308-696-6703 or [email protected]; or Randy Saner, extension educator, at 308-532-2683 or [email protected].
Conference organizers are Jenkins, Funston, Saner and Matt Spangler, beef genetics specialist.
