NACAA 2009 PRE AM/PIC Animal Science Seminar & Tour

NACAA 2009 PRE AM/PIC ANIMAL SCIENCE SEMINAR AND TOURPresentation prepared by Stephen Komar & Bob Mickel (NJ) and Martha Thomas (FL)

PARTICIPANTS
26 agents and guests
14 states represented
NJ
NY
MD
GA
PA
FLA
MO
WY
KS
KY
NC
ND
OK
Oh yeah, and Oregon !

Tour Route

PerforMix Nutrition SystemNampa, Idaho

Liquid supplement plant
40 years
Domestic and world wide distribution
300,000 Kobe beef annually
1,200 employees

Back in the Bus

Harrell Hereford Ranch and Mackenzie Quarter HorsesBaker City, OR

10,000 acres
300 Horned Herefords
400 commercial cattle
50 Quarter Horses
800 head feedlot
2009 BIF Seedstock Producer
Founding ranch, Country Natural Beef

Thomas Angus RanchBaker City, OR
1,000 Angus
Partner with Harrell
Northwest Premium Genetic Alliance
Intensive irrigation management
1997 BIF Seedstock Producer

Thomas Angus RanchBaker City, OR

Oregon State University Eastern Oregon Research Center
Oldest in OR (1901)
Grazing diversity impacts on raptors
Various experiments on beef cattle

Starkey Experimental Forest
Largest research enclosure
25,000 acres fenced
Interaction between elk, deer, cattle, logging and recreational use
Marty Vaura made presentation

Gilstrap Brothers Winery

Pendleton Woolen Mills

Lorenzen RanchesPendleton, OR
2008 Red Angus Breeder of the year
30,000 acres
Beef Northwest

Thank You ! Morrow County Livestock Growers and 4-H

Threemile Canyon FarmsBoardman, OR
Ron D. Ouffott
90,000 acres
30,000 irrigated
16,000 dairy cows
Beef Northwest feedlots

Threemile Canyon FarmsBoardman, OR

Multnomah Falls

Thank You!
Randy Mills
Cory Parsons
Tour Sponsors
PerforMix
Farm Credit services
Umatilla Cattlemen’s Assn.
Owyhee Cattlemen’s Assn.
Thomas Angus Ranch
Morrow County Livestock Producer’s
Oregon Extension