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Impact Report
| For plan | Profitable Livestock Production (Union County) |
| Date | September 26, 2008, 3:52 pm |
| For Objective | Short-term Show short-term objectives |
| Impact Report | A very tough year: Livestock producers have been subjected to many sudden changes this year. A total of 12 workshops and demonstrations saw a participation rate of 80% of the county producers. Topics ranged from overall management, record keeping, nutritional requirements and feed alternatives as well as marketing stratagies, reduction of overhead and financial alternatives. 75% of the producers stated that they were going to adopt some or all of the suggested management changes and 100% were receptive to change in standard supplemental feeding practices. 10% were receptive in addition to management practices to include agritourism and hunting enterprises. To date there I have not seen any acutal change as producers still waiting on rule changes in hunting and changed in feed prices. The drought caused a 45% reduction in livestock numbers therefore many management plans changed drastically with now a strong impulse to develop a re-stocking stratagy. |