Piedmont Regional Beef Webinar Series

Evaluation of Carcass Quality in Live Cattle, Speaker: Dr. Ty Lawrence

Register for one or all four sessions (FREE). All sessions start at 7:00 p.m.

How do you determine when cattle are finished? What affects their carcass quality and thus their yield grade? How can you use visual evaluation to estimate what is under the hide as it pertains to carcass quality?

Other webinars in the Piedmont Regional Beef Webinar Series

March 4: Advanced Reproductive Technologies , Speaker: Dr. Brent Scarlett

Exploring the use of Artificial Insemination and Embryo Transfer in your beef herd. A discussion of technologies, resources, and value in our herds.

March 11: Finishing Beef Cattle on Forages, Speaker: Josh Baker

This topic will focus on what it takes to produce finishing forages as many days of the year as possible. The primary focus will be on selecting forages that have the potential to provide finish-forage in addition to tips on managing these forages throughout the growing season.

March 25: Warm-Season Forage Options & Research Update, Speaker: Dr. Deidre Harmon

Summer annual forages such as millets, forage sorghum, sorghum x sudangrass hybrids and crabgrass are great alternatives for beef cattle producers who are looking to renovate pasture land, increase forage quality and yield, or simply fill the “summer slump” gap in their grazing system. This session will take a dive into agronomic practices, varieties, and grazing and harvesting management of summer annuals and will include an update on the crabgrass research in North Carolina.