There's still time to register for 2023 Veterinarian Update at ISU McNay Farm
7/5/23
CHARITON, Iowa – The 2023 Update for Veterinarians program offers current information and education focused on beef production. Organizer Chris Clark said practitioners who work with cattle will hear from Iowa State University experts on nutrition and diet formulation, genetics, and some interesting cases from the diagnostic lab at the July 12 event.
“I think the program will include useful information that veterinarians can take home and use right away in their practices," he said. “The morning session begins with presentations from Garland Dahlke, nutritionist and research scientist with the Iowa Beef Center and ISU animal science department. He’ll focus this year on fiber in the ruminant diet and will cover the practical application of using fiber digestibility to formulate rations."
Clark, who is an ISU extension beef specialist, said Chris Siepker from the ISU Veterinary Diagnostic Lab and Veterinary Diagnostic and Production Animal Medicine department will round out the morning.
“Dr. Siepker will provide some case-based education using some interesting and challenging cases that have come through the ISU VDL,” Clark said. “After lunch we’ll hear from our new ISU extension cow-calf specialist, Randie Culbertson. She will discuss genetic evaluation of cattle using expected progeny differences and genomics as well as management of simply inherited traits and deleterious mutations. As usual, we’ll be at the ISU McNay Memorial Research Farm and attendees can talk with farm staff about projects.”
Those who preregister by July 11 will pay $50 per person which includes lunch, catered by Cater 2U, and a morning break. Those who register onsite will pay $70. Registration is handled by the Lucas County Extension Office in Chariton. Five hours of continuing education credits have been approved.
View and download the vet update brochure with complete agenda, speaker biographies and registration information.
Registration begins at 8:30 a.m. at the farm headquarters with the first speaker starting at 9 a.m. Please note that start time is just a bit earlier than in some previous years. A catered meal will be served at 12:15 p.m. and the program is expected to end around 3:30 p.m.
For more information, contact Clark by phone at 712-250-0070 or by email at caclark@iastate.edu.
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The Iowa Beef Center at Iowa State University was established in 1996 with the goal of supporting the growth and vitality of the state’s beef cattle industry. It comprises faculty and staff from Iowa State University Extension and Outreach, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and College of Veterinary Medicine, and works to develop and deliver the latest research-based information regarding the beef cattle industry. For more information about IBC, visit www.iowabeefcenter.org.
Contact:
Chris Clark, Iowa State University Extension beef specialist, 712-250-0070, caclark@iastate.edu
