Get Ready for Fall with the Noble Foundation’s Livestock School

ARDMORE, Okla. — Autumn is fast approaching, and the Noble Foundation is offering a public Livestock School to help cow-calf producers prepare for fall and winter management of their herds. The school is set for Thursday, Oct. 7, from 4 to 8:15 p.m. in the Kruse Auditorium on the Foundation’s campus. The registration fee is $10 per person, and supper is included.

"We have presented this program to our cooperators [producers who work with the Noble Foundation] in October for the last several years," said Clay Wright, a livestock specialist in the Foundation's Agricultural Division. "Since the information has basic application to virtually all cow-calf producers in our service area, we are targeting that larger group this year."

The school will focus on a broad range of subjects related to managing the cowherd into and through the winter, including: fall considerations for the cowherd, Wright; winter nutrition of the cowherd, Evan Whitley, Foundation livestock specialist; ration-balancing exercise, Ryan Reuter, Foundation livestock specialist; hay management, Billy Cook, Foundation livestock specialist; herd health considerations, D.L. Step, DVM; limit-grazing winter pasture, Hugh Aljoe, Foundation forage specialist; and a market outlook, Dan Childs, Foundation agricultural economics specialist.

For more information, or to sign up for the school, call the Foundation at (580) 223-5810.

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The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation, headquartered in Ardmore, Okla., is a non-profit organization conducting agricultural, forage improvement, and plant biology research; providing grants to numerous non-profit charitable, educational and health organizations; and assisting farmers and ranchers through educational and consultative agricultural programs.

To learn more, visit the Noble Foundation Web site at http://www.noble.org.

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