TUCUMCARI, N.M. — The annual Southwest Beef Symposium, jointly hosted by the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service and the New Mexico State University Cooperative Extension Service, NMSU, is set for March 11-12 at the Quay County Fairgrounds, 1500 W. Route 66 Blvd., Tucumcari, New Mexico.
The two-day program rotates between Texas and New Mexico each year, said Bruce Carpenter, Ph.D., AgriLife Extension livestock specialist, Ft. Stockton. It is designed to provide producers an opportunity to catch up on the latest issues and innovations to help them better navigate the ever-changing beef industry and keep up to date on information that can help with day-to-day operations management.
Markets, the economy and property rights issues, and dealing with ongoing drought will be some of the topics covered this year, Carpenter said. The program will also precede the NMSU Tucumcari bull test sale on March 12.
Registration will be $75 per person if received by March 1, or $95 at the door. Checks should be made payable to NMSU and mailed to Marcy Ward, NMSU-ACES Extension Animal Sciences and Natural Resources, MSC 3AE, Box 30003, Las Cruces, N.M. 88000. Full registration details and more information can be found at https://tx.ag/RegisterSBS.
The program will start March 11 at 9 a.m. MST with a concurrent trade show and dinner that evening and will run from 7:30 a.m. to noon MST on March 12.
March 11
— Cattle Market Issues and Outlook, Kristin Marshall, research analyst and broker, New Frontier Capital Markets, Robstown.
— Controlling Input Costs, Tom Davis, Cibolo Creek Ranch, Presidio County.
— 30 x 30, Land and Private Property Issues, Margret Byfield, executive director, American Stewards of Liberty, Georgetown.
— Value of Pregnancy Testing and New Technologies, Ky Pohler, Ph.D., Department of Animal Science associate professor and chair of the Pregnancy and Developmental Programming Area of Excellence at the Texas A&M College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.
— Weather Outlook 2022, Dave Dubois, Ph.D., state climatologist, NMSU, Las Cruces.
— La Nina and Range Management Technologies, Casey Spackman, Ph.D., NMSU Extension range specialist, Las Cruces.
— Testing Forage Quality in West Texas and New Mexico, Kent Mills, Hi-Pro Animal Nutrition, Lubbock.
March 12
— Determining Bull Fertility: Past, Present and Future, George Perry, Ph.D., Texas A&M AgriLife Research cattle physiologist and associate professor, Overton.
— The Paternal Influence on Pregnancy Loss in the Female, Pohler.
— Heterosis: As Valuable as Ever, Craig Gifford, Ph.D., NMSU Extension beef cattle specialist, Las Cruces.
— Generations with the Tucumcari Bull Test, Houston McKenzie, McKenzie Land and Livestock, Ft. Stockton, and Santa Rosa, New Mexico.
For more information, contact Carpenter at bruce.carpenter@ag.tamu.edu or call 432-336-8585 or contact Marcy Ward, NMSU Extension livestock specialist, at maward@nmsu.edu or 575-644-3379.
–Kay Ledbetter
Texas A&M AgriLife Today
