Southwestern Colorado Beef Symposium highlights forages, climate change

The Southwestern Colorado Beef Cattle Symposium, hosted by Colorado State University Extension - Montezuma County, covered economics of the cattle and hay markets, best practices for calving, management of forages, tools for tracking and predicting the weather, and an update from the USDA Farm Service Agency. I especially enjoyed the talk on forage management by retired forage specialist Dr. Joe Brummer, who I’ve known for twenty years.

I also enjoyed the talk on using weather information for management decisions, by a freshly minted PhD in atmospheric science.