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Educational Program
The program structure and educational intervention of each element are:
| Program Component: The
participating producers develop production and marketing criteria that all
members can first agree upon and then implement. These criteria include
similar genetics, health and husbandry practices. |
| Education Intervention/Impact:
Producers learn the value of uniformity, including the impacts of health,
genetics, and body condition for which larger producers can be more easily
rewarded. |
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Program Component: Performance information is collected and
developed into a marketing package for distribution to potential
value- added-buyers and bids are collected from potential buyers. |
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Education Intervention/Impact: Producers learn how to explore
alternative marketing opportunities and negotiate prices. |
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| Program Component: Animals
are commingled for a short growing phase to help prepare the animals for the
next marketing stage. Individual animal health and growth data are generated
for the producers’ use in making information based management decisions. |
| Education
Intervention/Impact: Producers learn the impact of their genetic,
nutrition, and health decisions on animal growth performance after the time
at which they normally would have sold the animals. Information is used to
improve uniformity in the current marketing group and to make management
decisions for future generations. |
| Education
Intervention/Impact: Producers are exposed to a alternative beef
production enterprises – a short feeding/stocker period following weaning in
which they can learn to diversify and manage their risk. |
| Program Component: Animals are transferred to feedlots where finishing performance and health information is collected. |
| Education
Intervention/Impact: Producers receive further feedback on growth potential and efficiency of the calves that they produce, enabling them to evaluate their management programs. |
| Education
Intervention/Impact: Producers are exposed to alternative beef production
enterprises – confinement in a feedlot for finishing in which they can learn to diversify and
manage their risk. |
| Program Component: Animals are processed and marketed through the value-based grid marketing system and carcass quality information is returned to producers. |
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Intervention/Impact: Producers learn how to interpret feedlot gain and efficiency data as well as carcass information (yield, yield grade, and quality grade) and
explore the potential impact of making changes in their operation on future profits. They
learn the value of this information in marketing future generations of animals. |
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