Presentation prepared by Stephen Komar & Bob Mickel (NJ) and Martha Thomas (FL)

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

2. 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 !

3. Tour Route

4. PerforMix Nutrition SystemNampa, Idaho

5. PerforMix Nutrition SystemNampa, Idaho Liquid supplement plant 40 years Domestic and world wide distribution 300,000 Kobe beef annually 1,200 employees

6. PerforMix Nutrition SystemNampa, Idaho

7. Back in the Bus

8. Harrell Hereford Ranch and Mackenzie Quarter HorsesBaker City, OR

9. 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

10. Harrell Hereford Ranch and Mackenzie Quarter HorsesBaker City, OR

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

12. Thomas Angus RanchBaker City, OR

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

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

15. Gilstrap Brothers Winery

16. Gilstrap Brothers Winery

17. Pendleton Woolen Mills

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

21. Thank You ! Morrow County Livestock Growers and 4-H

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

23. Threemile Canyon FarmsBoardman, OR

24. Multnomah Falls

26. 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