010 Beef
The beef project teaches members to select, manage, produce and market cattle.
Focus:
- Selection, production, management and health of beef cattle
- Financing, purchasing and marketing beef cattle
- Live animal evaluation and end product evaluation
- Establishing and managing breeding herd
- Caring for beef animals and exhibiting steers and heifers
- Exploring career opportunities and developing leadership abilities
What members can do: (Beginner level)
- Identify the major beef beeds
- Identify the major parts of a beef animal and a beef carcass
- Care for beef animals and exhibit steers and heifers
- Learn to identify and classify feeds
- Present illustrated talks and demonstrations on beef topics
What members can do: (Intermediate level)
- Maintain and use production, performance and financial records
- Select and develop a heifer for the breeding herd
- Become familiar with carcass quality and yield grades
- Develop a good herd health program
- Learn about growth implants for market animals
- Present talks and demonstrations on beef topics
What members can do: (Advanced level)
- Establish and manage a breeding herd
- Feed, manage, and market stocker cattle and pens of slaughter cattle
- Learn the general principles, advantages, and disadvantages of artificial insemination and embryo transfer
- Develop a working knowledge of performance terms
- Serve as a teen leader and teach younger members
- Explore career opportunities in the beef industry
Depending on interest, experience and abilities of a 4-H member, skills and literature can be applied across levels.
