2008 GSL Open House (Tentative Agenda)
Time |
Wagonhammer Education Center & Ray Bohy Conference Room |
8:00 AM (MDT) |
Registration |
All day |
View exhibits |
9:00 |
Welcome – Don Adams |
9:20 |
Water and Nebraska - Jim Goeke |
9:45 |
Grazing Systems in the Sandhills – Walter Schacht and Jerry Volesky |
10:05 |
Fetal Programming: Considerations for Range Cow Management – Rick Funston |
10:25 |
Cattle Markets: Situation, Outlook and Issues – Jim Robb |
11:10 |
John Owens, NU Vice President and IANR Harlan Vice Chancellor |
11:30 |
TBA |
11:45 |
Lunch (furnished by co-sponsors and exhibitors, browse exhibits) |
* For the afternoon program, participants will have the choice of attending the following presentations at the designated times and locations.
Time (MDT) |
Ray Bohy Conference Room |
Animal Teaching Facility |
Calving Barn |
Meadow Field Site |
1:00 PM |
Economics of Calving Systems –
Matt Stockton |
Rumen Function – Aaron Stalker |
Ethanol Co-products on the Ranch – Terry Klopfenstein, Brent Plugge, & Troy Walz |
Meadow Hydrology – Jim Goeke |
1:40 |
View Commercial Exhibits |
Beef Quality Assurance –
Richard Randle |
Beef Production Systems – Rick Funston & Will Griffin |
Meadow Vegetation and Management – Jerry Volesky |
2:20 |
e-Extension –
TBA |
Range Cattle Diets – Aaron Stalker |
Ethanol Co-products on the Ranch – Terry Klopfenstein, Brent Plugge, & TroyWalz |
View Commercial Exhibits |
3:00 |
Adjourn – Thanks for coming! |
Location of and Directions to GSL
Please join us at the University of Nebraska Gudmundsen Sandhills Laboratory's 9th Annual Open House. Presentations will be given throughout the day on various aspects of cattle and natural resource management. Businesses, services and associations that support the beef cattle industry will be participating. Activities, demonstrations and commercial exhibits are planned so our guests can come and go as they please throughout the day. Please RSVP to 308-696-6701, 800-657-2113 or eheil@unlnotes.unl.edu by August 25 for the complimentary lunch.
Co-Sponsors and Exhibitors
If you are interested in exhibiting or sponsoring the GSL Open House,
please contact Ellen Heil, eheil@unlnotes.unl.edu
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Display of products or participation by businesses in the Open House
does not constitute an endorsement by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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