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With cattle prices at record highs, margins remain tight, and good management is critical to successful cattle finishing. Join UW-Madison Division of Extension specialists for a workshop addressing timely topics, including silage management, market outlook, and tools to help decision-making.
Topics and presenters are:
- Optimizing corn silage quality: harvest to feeding. Dr. Luiz Ferraretto, Ruminant Nutrition Extension Specialist, will lead a discussion on silage management to minimize losses during storage and how poor management results in feed losses and reduces animal performance.
- Handling facilities for finishing cattle. Adam Hartfiel, Regional Livestock Educator, and Bill Halfman, State Beef Outreach Specialist, will discuss considerations for efficient and safe handling facilities for cattle finishing operations. Handling facilities don’t have to be expensive, but they do need to be functional. Learn practical tips and layout considerations to improve, remodel, or design facilities.
- Budget and decision tools for cattle feeders. Adam Hartfiel and Bill Halfman will share an overview of UW Extension livestock decision tools designed to help beef producers evaluate cattle finishing enterprises and help make informed decisions.
- 2026 market outlook for livestock and grains. Dr. Brenda Boetel, UW-Madison Extension Livestock and Grain Market Specialist.
This UW Extension Cattle Feeders Workshop contains information for producers of all sizes who are finishing beef and dairy cattle, and related allied industries. Attending the workshop will also earn people who are BQA certified one continuing ed credit towards their next recertification.
The workshop will be held from 6-8:30 p.m. on March 26 at Jordan Park Lodge, 5800 Jordan Rd. Stevens Point, WI 54482. Contact the Portage County Extension office to register at 715-346-1316. There will be a $5 per person fee collected at the door to cover materials and refreshments.
