FOR RELEASE:
August 28, 2007
For more information contact:
 
Scott Keith
Livestock and Forage Program Manager
Wyoming Business Council
Phone: 307.259.3274

Dr. Steve Paisley
Animal Science Dept.
University of Wyoming
Office: 307.760.1561

Wyo-Beef Shortcourse Industry Tour dates set

CHEYENNE – A three-day tour spotlighting marketing and other technology applications in the beef industry is being offered to Wyoming producers Sept. 19-21 through a partnership between the Wyoming Business Council’s Agribusiness Division, the University of Wyoming’s Animal Science Program and the Wyoming Beef Council.

The bus tour will take off from Cheyenne at noon on Sept. 19 and visit a feedyard in Oberlin, KS on Sept. 20 for a presentation of electronic identification tags and how they are used in processing, sorting and information gathering for cattle. Later that day, the tour will roll into Fort Morgan, CO, where it will tour the Excel (Cargill) plant. The tour will visit the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association in Denver, and the retail meat counter at King Soopers in Denver on Sept. 21.

“The WyoBeef Shortcourse tour is an excellent opportunity for livestock producers to see all facets of livestock marketing and the newest technologies that go along with that first hand,” said Wyoming Business Council Forage and Livestock Program Manager Scott Keith.

The industry tour acts as a follow-up course to the WyoBeef Shortcourse classroom education component of the program, offered by the University of Wyoming’s Animal Science Department. Although it is affiliated with the WyoBeef classroom course, participation in the classroom component is not a pre-requisite for the tour.

Registration is $250 per person or $350 per couple and includes two nights lodging, transportation and most meals. The deadline for registrations is Sept. 7. For more information or to reserve space on the tour, contact Keith at 307.237.4696 or scott.keith@wybusiness.org.

The mission of the Wyoming Business Council is to facilitate the economic growth of Wyoming. For more information, please visit the Web site at www.wyomingbusiness.org.

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