Beef Webinar Focuses on Calving Management and Neonatal Calf

Dr. Jeff Ondrak from the Great Plains Veterinary Education Center at the University of Nebraska will be the featured speaker for the third Beef Webinar sponsored by Cooperative Extension and scheduled for 6:30 p.m., Thursday, February 18th. Dr. Ondrak is a Beef Cattle Clinical Veterinarian whose duties include teaching veterinary students, supporting ongoing research projects and veterinary care at the Meat Animal Research Center in Clay Center. Dr. Ondrak will be providing a discussion of calving management and neonatal calf care. Participants in the on-line meeting will have the opportunity to ask questions through an on-line chat box or over the telephone using a number provided during the program. Producers with high speed internet service can access the meeting at home. The web address to join the meeting is http://connect.extension.iastate.edu/beefcattlewebinar/ Alternatively, webinar information and meeting links are also available on the Virginia Tech Beef Extension webpage http://www.vtbeef.apsc.vt.edu/ From the Beef Extension site, you can click on the meeting link and go directly to the meeting. A recording of the December webinar on Winter Cow Nutrition and the January webinar on Beef Industry Outlook can be accessed through the Beef Extension page at the same URL as in the paragraph above. In addition to the February 18th meeting, the final winter webinar is scheduled for March 18th. For more information or help please feel free to contact Dewey Lienemann at the Webster County UNL Extension Office in Red Cloud at 402-746-3417 or via email at dlienemann2@unl.edu