Seating has been expanded for the award-winning and renamed David McKnight ’73 Ranch Management University, which is scheduled for April 8-12 at Texas A&M University in Bryan-College Station.
The workshop is a collaboration of the Texas A&M College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Department of Soil and Crop Sciences, Department of Animal Science, Department of Agricultural Economics and the Department of Rangeland, Wildlife and Fisheries Management. It also involves the Natural Resources Institute, NRI, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture Natural Resources Conservation Service.
Larry Redmon, Ph.D., Department of Soil and Crop Sciences associate department head and Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service program leader, Bryan-College Station, said the Ranch Management University is designed to give new or inexperienced ranchers and landowners a crash course on a lot of different subjects.
Each spring and fall, participants spend five days learning about a variety of ranch management topics ranging from soil fertility to forage and weed management to livestock and wildlife management.
The cost is $625. Register online, or for more information, contact Linda Francis at linda.francis@ag.tamu.edu.
Workshop attendees will meet at the Scotts Miracle-Gro Turf Facility, located at 3100 F&B Road, College Station. The program will begin at 11 a.m. on April 8 and run from 7:15 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily until its conclusion at noon on April 12.
Meals and break refreshments will be provided as well as a resource flash drive containing over 250 publications addressing ranch resource management and a workbook of all presentations.
AgriLife Extension experts from across the state will lead the instruction. Three general Texas Department of Agriculture continuing education units will be offered to attendees.
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