Educational Seminars
Catch up on the latest in technology and industry topics at our Educational Seminars in the Voinovich Building Sale Rings on Friday and Sunday. Seminars are one hour long.
Friday, March 16 | Sale Ring 1
10:15 a.m. Interest Rates and Your Operation
By Farm Credit Services of Mid-America
With interest rates at near all-time lows, many are asking when the rate movements will reverse and start trending up. While no one has a crystal ball on what rates will do, agriculture lender Farm Credit Services of Mid-America will cover steps you can take to reduce your interest rate risk and help you analyze what impact higher interest rates will have on your farm operation.
11:30 a.m. Nutritional Preparation for the Spring Breeding Season
By Heritage Cooperative with Land O’Lakes Purina Feed
Specialists from both, Heritage Cooperative & Land O’ Lakes Purina Feed will be discussing feed and mineral programs to optimize reproductive performance for the spring breeding season.
12:45 p.m. Balancing Amino Acids In Cattle To Maximize Fiber Digestion
By Buckley Brothers
Learn about a concept used in livestock nutrition to maximize performance by improving growth, body condition, and conception rate to generate more profit.
2:00 p.m. Getting the Most Bang for Your Buck
By OSU Beef Team
Francis Fluharty will talk about improving animal performance through management options to increase forage digestibility. This presentation will discuss how forage particle size impacts digestion and performance, and will include options for both harvested and grazed forage.
3:15 p.m. What Women Want: New Research on Beef Shopping & Implications for the Food Industry
By Carrie Thomas, Merck Account Manager – Food Affairs
Combining the qualitative market research of Just Ask A Woman along with the quantitative market research of The Hartman Group, this session will give an inside look at how women feel about beef. Using video clips from staged “talk show” focus groups and home snooping, we’ll discuss women’s value systems and thought processes, how they influence choices and how they view information about beef.
Friday, March 16 | Sale Ring 2
10:45 a.m. Why keep 'em healthy
By Mike Moore, DVM
Professional Services Veterinarian, Novartis Animal Health
Discussion will be centered around respiratory disease with emphasis on consequences of a respiratory infection and ways to prevent a problem. Part of the discussion will be on NUPLURA PH and how it can fit into a preconditioning and receiving program.
12:00 p.m. Nutrition and Management Strategies to Combat Heat Stress
By Dwain Bunting, PhD, PAS, ADM Alliance Nutrition
Heat stress costs US beef and dairy producers 1 billion dollars annually. Key management and feeding strategies that are central to beef cattle comfort and subsequent performance will be discussed. In addition, the importance of optimizing rumen function will be discussed relative to the effectiveness of feed additives promoted for their heat-stress efficacy.
1:15 p.m. Increasing Ohio’s Beef Checkoff
By OCA officers and staff
The beef checkoff works to increase beef demand, but the buying power of the checkoff has eroded over the last 25 years. Today’s $1.00 checkoff purchases 47 cents of what it did in 1985 when the national program began. The checkoff simply doesn’t have the strength needed to support a robust beef promotional effort that can reach Ohio’s population of 11.5 million consumers. The OCA board has initiated an effort to increase the state checkoff by an additional $1.00. The process involves a petition and producer referendum. This seminar will focus on how checkoff dollars are used to build beef demand and how additional funds could be utilized within Ohio.
2:30 p.m. Fitting demonstration - Part I
By Purina Honor Show Chow’s Cattle Ambassadors
Purina’s ambassadors will demonstrate the correct clipping and fitting techniques as well as discuss the importance of proper selection, daily care and nutrition of show cattle. This seminar is a popular annual event at Expo.
3:45 p.m. Fitting Demonstration – Part II
By Purina Honor Show Chow’s Cattle Ambassadors
Purina’s ambassadors will demonstrate the correct clipping and fitting techniques as well as discuss the importance of proper selection, daily care and nutrition of show cattle.
10:00 a.m. Energy Briefing
By Dale Arnold, Ohio Farm Bureau Federation & Matthew Warnock, Bricker & Eckler
Wind, solar, biomass, oil and gas exploration - By 2025, twenty five percent of our nation's energy requirements will be coming from agriculture. Join us in a fast-paced briefing and discover how farmers are getting ready to address a variety of energy development issues.
11:15 a.m. We Have the Answers, It's the Questions We Don't Know Yet
By Dale Arnold, Ohio Farm Bureau Federation & Matthew Warnock, Bricker & Eckler
Oil and Gas exploration is expected to go well beyond the Marcellus and Utica shale boundaries of eastern and central Ohio, and could encompass many areas of the Buckeye State. Discover more about energy developments impacting agriculture, as well as gather a number of key questions landowners need to ask land agents, lawyers, energy developers and landowner associations as they negotiate leasing agreements that should benefit their families for several generations to come.
Discussion will be centered around respiratory disease with emphasis on consequences of a respiratory infection and ways to prevent a problem. Part of the discussion will be on NUPLURA PH and how it can fit into a preconditioning and receiving program.
12:00 p.m. Nutrition and Management Strategies to Combat Heat Stress
By Dwain Bunting, PhD, PAS, ADM Alliance Nutrition
Heat stress costs US beef and dairy producers 1 billion dollars annually. Key management and feeding strategies that are central to beef cattle comfort and subsequent performance will be discussed. In addition, the importance of optimizing rumen function will be discussed relative to the effectiveness of feed additives promoted for their heat-stress efficacy.
1:15 p.m. Increasing Ohio’s Beef Checkoff
By OCA officers and staff
The beef checkoff works to increase beef demand, but the buying power of the checkoff has eroded over the last 25 years. Today’s $1.00 checkoff purchases 47 cents of what it did in 1985 when the national program began. The checkoff simply doesn’t have the strength needed to support a robust beef promotional effort that can reach Ohio’s population of 11.5 million consumers. The OCA board has initiated an effort to increase the state checkoff by an additional $1.00. The process involves a petition and producer referendum. This seminar will focus on how checkoff dollars are used to build beef demand and how additional funds could be utilized within Ohio.
2:30 p.m. Fitting demonstration - Part I
By Purina Honor Show Chow’s Cattle Ambassadors
Purina’s ambassadors will demonstrate the correct clipping and fitting techniques as well as discuss the importance of proper selection, daily care and nutrition of show cattle. This seminar is a popular annual event at Expo.
3:45 p.m. Fitting Demonstration – Part II
By Purina Honor Show Chow’s Cattle Ambassadors
Purina’s ambassadors will demonstrate the correct clipping and fitting techniques as well as discuss the importance of proper selection, daily care and nutrition of show cattle.
Sunday, March 18 | Sale Ring 2
10:00 a.m. Energy Briefing
By Dale Arnold, Ohio Farm Bureau Federation & Matthew Warnock, Bricker & Eckler
Wind, solar, biomass, oil and gas exploration - By 2025, twenty five percent of our nation's energy requirements will be coming from agriculture. Join us in a fast-paced briefing and discover how farmers are getting ready to address a variety of energy development issues.
11:15 a.m. We Have the Answers, It's the Questions We Don't Know Yet
By Dale Arnold, Ohio Farm Bureau Federation & Matthew Warnock, Bricker & Eckler
Oil and Gas exploration is expected to go well beyond the Marcellus and Utica shale boundaries of eastern and central Ohio, and could encompass many areas of the Buckeye State. Discover more about energy developments impacting agriculture, as well as gather a number of key questions landowners need to ask land agents, lawyers, energy developers and landowner associations as they negotiate leasing agreements that should benefit their families for several generations to come.
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10600 U.S Highway 42
Marysville, OH 43040
614-873-6736
