Description

Richard, Tina, and Eunice will be putting on a 4-day school in Nebraska!

Hours—

Marketing School: August 4, 8 am to 5 pm and August 5, 8 am to 12 noon

Stockmanship School: August 5, 1 pm to 5 pm, August 6-7 1, 8 am to 5 pm (depending on the weather, we might go to a nearby ranch and work some sheep in the 7th, or we might do more classroom)

Meeting Location—

Best Western Hotel, 645 Cabela Dr, Sidney, NE 69162, 308-254-0100

Marketing School Outline—

Using lecture, questions/answers, current market data, and actual math calculations (bring a calculator), we will cover—

• Know and understand yourself
• The only price that matters (hint, there won’t be any crystal ball involved)
• Know your resources (money, feed, livestock, and time) and how to manage them
• Sell/Buy compared to Buy/Sell
• Find relationships and determine what to sell and what to buy
• Marketing for the cow/calf producer (another hint, every cow/calf producer becomes a stocker manager when their calves get to about 300 pounds!)
• Determine the value of breeding stock
• How to eliminate guesswork, hoping, and doubt
• How to use the provided excel spreadsheets
• Make a profit and stay in business!

Stockmanship School Outline—

Using lecture, questions/answers, and movies, we will cover—

• Research Benefits
• Pressure and Release
• How we Communicate with our Livestock
• Instincts of Humans and Livestock
• Predator/Prey Relationship
• Positioning
• Movement
• Training the Herd
• At the Gate
• Working in the Corral
• Sorting Livestock
• Weaning and Receiving Livestock
• Loading Livestock
• Our Attitude