Keeping up with Kentucky Beef Network Becky Thompson Director, Kentucky Beef Network
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KBN has been busy the last few months hosting webinars on marketing and profitability for your operations, below is an outline of some you may have missed. Please visit www.kybeefnetwork. com/webinar or click the QR code for a link to each session recording.
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• May 10, 2022 AFS Beef Research Update – TBD • June 14, 2022 Shooting the Bull: Answering all your beef related questions! Roundtable discussion with UK Beef Specialists
Backgrounding/Stocker Profitability Conference
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• Session 1: Key Concepts for Margin Operations – understanding the current market environment, cost of gain vs value of gain, and using futures to estimate sale prices
A good resource of Kentucky forages videos is the UK Forages YouTube Channel, feel free to scan the QR code above to visit all of their forage related content.
• Session 2: Budgeting for Profit – stocker and backgrounding budget scenarios, estimating target purchase prices, and key marketing concepts
Kentucky Livestock Marketing Association Webinar Series:*
• Session 3: Managing and Protecting Your Profits – tax and financial management, Livestock Risk Protection Insurance, and revisiting the current market environment (focus on feed cost implications) 2022 Beef Efficiency Conference Adapting Production Decisions to Fit Available Resources • “Minimum Wage Cows” Dr. David Lalman, Oklahoma State University • “Putting it All Together to optimize Farm Resources” Don Schiefelbein, Schiefelbein Farms • “One Beef Industry: We can sell more Beef ” Dr. Dan Thomson, Iowa State University UK Beef Management Webinar Series If you haven’t had a chance to catch one of the University of Kentucky Beef Extension Team’s webinars from Beef Management webinar series there are three left, please contact your local county extension agent for details on how to join. • April 12, 2022 Simple Tools to Improve Management Decisions – Katie VanValin, Assistant Professor and Les Anderson, Professor
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2021 WEBINARS: New ways to market cattle or understanding more about how cattlemen can influence the price of their calves are always an interest for cattlemen. For with this webinar series, KBN partnered with the Kentucky Livestock Marketing Association to bring you a 3-part series on the evolution of auction markets, creating the foundation of a marketing structure, future of auction markets, and what is true price discovery. • Who is the Livestock Marketing Association and why should you sell at auctions? • Questions to the Sale Block (Q&A Session with Stockyard Managers) • Value Added Marketing Opportunities through your auction. Cow Calf Profitability Conference:* Did you have a chance to catch the Cow Calf Profitability Conference in 2019 and 2020 prior to COVID? Good News! KBN along with our UK partners have reformatted the conference into a 3-day webinar series including topics on, key profit drivers, managing for profit, bale grazing, controlling hay costs, and profitable stocking rates.
*These webinars are funded by the Kentucky Agricultural Development Fund through the Kentucky Beef Network.
