Des Moines Register
01-14-07
Grassroots
Cattle workshop series around state
Cattle producers are asked to register by Thursday for a series of workshops in
the Mason City area about starting or expanding their cattle business.
Producers should register by Jan. 31 for the second workshop series to be held
Feb. 7, 14 and 21 at Iowa Valley Community College in Marshalltown.
Register by Feb. 28 for a third series to be held March 7, 14 and 21 at Iowa
Valley Community College, Room 805, CE Building in Tripoli.
Topics include developing a plan, cattle feeding practices and tools and a tour of
beef feedlots.
Cost is $40 a workshop or $120 for three and includes meals, a manual and tools
to help develop a cattle feeding business.
Speakers are Iowa State University Extension specialists Russ Euken,
livestock specialist; Kelvin Leibold and Robert Tigner, farm management
specialists; John Lawrence, director of the Iowa Beef Center; and Dan Loy,
beef specialist.
For more information, contact a local Extension office, call (641) 923-2856 or email reuken@iastate.edu.
Business program begins Saturday
Grow Your Small Market Farm, a business planning program for new or existing
farm and natural resource-based businesses, begins its seventh year when it
meets 9 a.m.-noon Saturday through April 21 in the Gerdin Business Building
at Iowa State University in Ames.
Cost is $425.
From May to October, site visits will be made to each business.
In the fall, participants return to Iowa State to share experiences and their future
plans and to attend a statewide networking event.
Penny Brown Huber, program manager, said the program includes writing a
business plan, financial planning and specialty marketing.
For more information, go to www.iowasbdc.org/workshops/dsm/smmark
farm.cfm. To register, call (515) 232-1344 or e-mail BrownPennyL@aol.com.