MT VERNON, Mo. — The 2019-20 Missouri Steer Feedout weigh-in and feeder cattle grading clinic will begin at 6 p.m., Nov. 5 at the Joplin Regional Stockyards.
Eighty steers from nine different farms will be processed and sent to Kennedy Cattle Co., Atlantic, Iowa where they will fed until harvest next April and May. The lot is part of the Iowa Tri-County Steer Carcass Futurity. Complete feedlot and carcass data is collected by the TCSCF and provided to our Missouri Cattle owners.
At the processing, steer will be weighed, tagged and a feeder grade including muscle thickness, frame size and condition score placed on them by Missouri Department of Agriculture Market News.
The public is invited to the program which is held jointly with the Southwest Missouri Cattlemen’s Association, University of Missouri Extension and Joplin Regional Stockyards.
Following supper each group of steers will come through the ring and be evaluated for marketability by a panel of three persons representing different parts of the cattle industry.
For more information, contact any of the MU Extension livestock field specialists in southwest Missouri: Eldon Cole in Lawrence County, (417) 466-3102; Andy McCorkill in Dallas County at (417) 345-7551; Elizabeth Picking in Howell County at (417) 256-2391 or Dr. Patrick Davis in Cedar County at (417) 276-3313.
— Eldon Cole, University of Missouri Extension
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