The School for Successful Ranching, part of the 2019 Cattle Raisers Convention and Expo, March 29 to 31, Fort Worth Convention Center, is an essential event for ranchers and landowners who want to find real answers to their ranching questions.
Classes offered in the School centered on the leading subjects core to ranching – cattle selection and health management, improving the quality and fertility of your beef cattle herd, managing your ranch’s natural resources for sustainability and profitability and purinethol legal management of the ranching enterprise.
Dr. Rick Machen and Stan Bevers, with the King Ranch Insitute for Ranch Management, will open the 2019 School for Successful Ranching with an engaging estimate of what the world will look like in 20 years. Who will be our customers – local and abroad? What new tools will aid ranchers when they make breeding decisions? What new technologies will support ranching?
Visit www.cattleraisersconvention.com/schedule to learn more about these School for Successful Ranching presentations:
Cattle management:
Mineral Supplements: What do I Need for my Operation?
Herd Health Calendar Development
Utilizing Technologies to Enhance Beef Cattle Reproductive Efficiency
Weaning: A Few More Days May Bring More Dollars for Your Calves
Cows & Bulls: Make Informed Beef Cattle Breeding Decisions
More Cow Pregnancies, Fewer Calf Loses, Faster Genetic Improvement
Feed Those Soon-to-be-Born Calves Right for Long-Term Herd Success
Is Improving Beef Quality Free?
Business and legal management:
Understanding Landowner Liability
Keeping the Ranch in the Family and the Family in the Ranch
How Tax Reform Affects Cattle Raisers
Is Your Ranch an Investment or a Production Asset?
Ask an Ag Lawyer
Ranch Records: Save Time, Get Organized and Make Sound Decisions
Grazing Leases: Why and How
Range and resource management:
Make or Save Money with Better, Practical Pasture Management
Three Keys to Prickly Pear Control
Tips for Improving your Rangeland
High Efficiency Hay Production: Beyond “Make Hay While the Sun Shines”
Art and Science of Grazing Management
Equipment and demonstrations
Watch and learn at the ArrowQuip Chute-Out in the Cattle Raisers Expo. Leading manufacturers of cattle handling equipment will demonstrate the ease with which cattle of all sizes can be safely handled in their squeeze chutes
Two evening classes are being offered in 2019. On Thursday, March 28, 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m., and offers in-depth livestock handling instruction from stockmanship and stewardship expert Curt Pate. The second workshop will be Friday, March 29, 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. This Ranch to Retail Workshop will showcase how beef carcasses are transformed into the retail cuts valued by consumers.
This year will feature the largest Expo in the history of the Cattle Raisers Convention with more than 250 booths offering a vast array of ranching supplies, services, jewelry, clothing, local food and more.
Industry experts will also be on hand for a variety of information sessions on issues that have a direct impact on cattle raisers, landowners and consumers. Included in these sessions will be updates on federal and state legislation, international trade, an explanation of how Alexa, Siri and now “Chuck” are changing the way consumers find health and nutrition information, and efforts to reform Texas’ eminent domain laws.
Visit www.CattleRaisersConvention.com for more information and to register to attend and reserve hotel rooms at the headquarters hotels. The deadline for early registration and to reserve a room at the 2019 Cattle Raisers Convention rate is Friday, Feb. 15.
You are sure to gain a solid foundation of knowledge on which to build and grow your business at the Cattle Raisers Convention and Expo and the School for Successful Ranching.
Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association (TSCRA) hosts this annual convention, expo and educational event on behalf of the ranching and landowner community.