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IMPORTANT SAFETY INFORMATION: Do not treat cattle with Valcor within 15 days of slaughter. Not for use in female dairy cattle 20 months of age or older, including dry dairy cows; not for use in beef calves less than 2 months of age, dairy calves, and veal calves. Safety has not been evaluated in breeding bulls. Use with caution in cattle treated with cholinesterase inhibitors. This product is likely to cause injection site swelling; tissue damage (including granulomas and necrosis) may occur. These reactions have resolved without treatment. See Brief Summary of Full Prescribing Information on the next page.
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“From this trip, I realized the opportunities we have outside of our state.”
– Allie Harrison, Washington County
“I will take the knowledge I gained from this trip back to my family’s farm.”
– Abby Newberry, Robertson County
“This trip opened my eyes to everything going on in the agricultural industry. At Deer Valley, there was a lot of discussion about cattle producers meeting the demand of a growing population. At TriGreen, there was lot discussion about urbanization. It made me realize how much of an impact agriculture has on the world.” – Alex Cunningham, Washington County
“One thing I took away from the TCA/TCYA Youth Beef Industry Tour is how different cattle operations work and all the different jobs you can have in the beef cattle industry.” – Levi Keeton, Decatur County
“One thing I am taking away from this trip is how many opportunities there are in agriculture! I enjoyed talking with the professionals that hosted our group and picking their brains about how they made it to where they are in the industry.”
- Delia Marchant, Giles County
“Trips like the TCA/TCYA Youth Beef Industry Tour push me and my peers to try new things and be open to new opportunities.” – Lila Sims, Humphreys County
“I have learned more about what goes into the reproduction side of the beef cattle industry.” - Blaire Lamon, Henry County
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YOUTH BEEF HEIFER INITIATIVE SCHOLARSHIP
The Youth Beef Heifer Initiative Scholarship is sponsored by Farm Credit Mid-America (FCMA) and the Tennessee Cattlemen’s Association (TCA). The Heifer Initiative program provides youth in TN with a scholarship to purchase a beef heifer to show or begin their own herd. TCA and FCMA partner to provide a total of 6 scholarships totaling $9,000.
TCA OUTSTANDING YOUTH AWARD
The Outstanding Youth Award competition is designed to recognize a junior (ages 1216) and senior (ages 17-21) member of Tennessee Cattlemen’s Youth Association (TCYA) for their involvement in the cattle and agriculture industries, leadership, and community service. Participants will be judged based on the magnitude of their involvement and accomplishments in the cattle industry and agriculture, leadership/participation in cattle/ agriculture related groups, and participation in their communities. Junior winner receives a trophy buckle and $250 cash award, and Senior winner receives a trophy buckle and $1000 cash award.
Four TCYA members will be selected to serve a one-year term as a TCYA Ambassador. Ambassadors will attend Association and industry events, leadership conferences, and generate involvement and interests in TCYA programs.
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There’s no way to make money planting them, I’ve yet to see one grow. We background calves, have a history in the cow/calf side, and have a finish feed yard in a GAP4 environment. For the last feeding year period, we handled 5,800 to 6,000 head through here. I just finished doing my audit back in early October and I had 27 treatment records. ENDOVAC was recommended to me by a fellow who feeds and starts quite a number of cattle. He had good luck with it in his system. His system was more high risk than ours. We adopted it into our program because of the immune boost of it. The fact that it makes the vaccines work that we give means we simply just don’t treat cattle. For us, receiving cattle is when we set the tone for the production of our farm. Everything we do from the minute that calf walks off the truck, we will reap the benefit on the other end if we do it properly, or we will be backing up the whole time. Cattle health is extremely important in this process because a treated calf is just costly for us. But if you have a known product, the immune booster, is valid. It is what it is. We also know that the most important thing to cattle when moving is water. You would see a definite difference if you provide fresh clean water or if you don’t. We do, so we don’t know what life is like without it. Same with the ENDOVAC–we use the immune booster. We can’t necessarily tell you that this exact number of calves responded better than others from it, however, we know it is an important component in what we do just as much as fresh water or fresh clean feed to that calf when it is going through a stressful time. The Immune Plus is a huge benefit and we see it from there on throughout the feeding period of that calf remaining healthy, never coming off feed, doesn’t have to be treated, doesn’t fall out of our market share, or simply just never falls behind on a sick day or feeling off. We set the cattle up the best we know how from day one to perform. We can attribute that to ENDOVAC and the process that we use in trying to cover all those bases. 100%... the responsibility where ENDOVAC is in our system, it works, and it helps the other vaccines we use work better. It’s a no brainer for us!
–Clay Alexander, –Weems Creek Cattle Co.
