Youth Animal Care Training Program

Welcome to Open Range, I’m KayDee Gilkey. Stay tuned because after the break I’ll check in with our field reporter, Greg Martin for the AgriBeef Minute.

I’m Greg Martin with today’s AgriBeef Minute. Teaching youth about the cattle industry can be a challenge but Dan Thomson, Director of the Beef Cattle Institute, a part of Kansas State University has developed the online Youth Animal Care Training program.

THOMSON: The Youth Animal Care Training website is a website that allows youth in America, high school age and younger to go on the website and they can learn at their own pace or their own time about beef quality assurance. And it’s parlayed from beef quality assurance into humane equine management and into dairy beef quality assurance and so it’s really an educational tool

The program is in Spanish and English and it’s completely free of charge for youth.

THOMSON: We started the Beef Cattle Institute at Kansas State in 2007. This tool was developed by farmers and ranchers and veterinarians across the U.S. for farmers and ranchers and veterinarians across the United States that are working with beef cattle.

These web-based training modules focus on animal husbandry and welfare, food safety and environmental stewardship. You can find them on line at animalcaretraining.org. I’m Greg Martin and that’s today’s AgriBeef Minute.

Thanks Greg. Don’t forget Greg will be back each Wednesday with the AgriBeef Minute. Agri Beef Co - Real Families, Great People, Exceptional Beef. I’m KayDee Gilkey.