9-10 IAN Feed Seminars

 U-Idaho Extension Offers October Seminars to Help Cattle Producers Cut Winter Feeding Costs. A series of four University of Idaho Extension seminars in October will offer tips for cattle producers who are facing higher feed costs and losses of winter range to fire and drought across southern Idaho.

John B. Hall, superintendent of the Nancy M. Cummings Research, Extension and Education Center near Salmon said: “One of the things that’s really concerning producers is the lack of winter range. “The dry weather has hurt range productivity this year. So in areas where cattle producers use winter range, it will be lacking. Producers are concerned about how they’re going to get through the winter with limited feed supplies.” Wyatt Prescott, Executive Director Of the Idaho Cattlemen’s Association talked to me about limited feed on cattle ranges now: “With the drought in Idaho, we are seeing calves come in now which is sooner than normal, they are starting to enter feed yards and grow operations right now instead of October. Rangeland is just dried up,  there is no feed, they don’t have the available range conditions for their calves to thrive.”

 University of Idaho Extension will conduct Beef Cow Winter Feeding Strategies Seminars in four locations: Salmon, Oct. 23; Pocatello, Oct. 24; Burley, Oct. 29; and Caldwell, Oct. 30.