Pre-Registration cost is
$75.00 per person, or
$125 per couple and includes
prime rib
lunch. At-the-door price will
be $10.00 more
per person and does not
include lunch.
*** $20.00 Student Special
***
FFA/4--H /STUDENT H /STUDENT
PRE REGISTRATION
Pre-Registration cost is
$20.00 per student, and
includes prime rib lunch.
At-the-door price will be
$5..00 more per student and
does not include lunch.
*** $20.00 Student Special
***
RSVP and Send
Pre-Registration Fee To:
WSU Skagit County Extension
Attn: 2006 Winterschool
306 S. 1st Street
Mount Vernon, WA 98273
Make checks payable to:
WSU Livestock Master
Foundation
Join Us!
Progressive beef and
livestock producers in
Western Washington will be at
SVC on
March 11th for this premier
educational
event. The "2006 Livestock
and Cattlemen's
Winterschool: Profit
Generating Strategies"
will provide the $ and Cents
of raising and
marketing beef, sheep, and
poultry products
in Western Washington.
The Winterschool features
state-of-the-art,
take-home, practical,
economical, humane,
and work-saving production
and
management applications to
save and/or
make you $. The instructors
include
successful, respected
producers, veterinarians,
WSU faculty and private
specialists.
Commercial exhibitors,
agencies and breed
organizations will be on hand
to answer your
questions about new products
and programs
designed to make you a well
informed and
equipped producer. Resource
materials from
the instructors will be
printed in the 2006
Winterschool Proceedings to
help you recall
and apply the "golden
nuggets" of wisdom.
8:00 Check-In, Registration,
Vendors
8:30 Joel Huesby
Why Sustainable Agriculture?
9:30 Dr. Greg Ingman
Emerging Beef Disease Threats
10:30 BREAK, Vendors
11:00 Joel Huesby
Poultry Production
,Processing and
Marketing
12:00 LUNCH
Catered prime rib lunch
complete with all
the fixings! Yum!
Speaker: Linda Neunzig
Writing Your Own Farm Plan
for
Profitability
1:00 Joel Huesby
Beef Production, Processing &
Marketing
2:30 BREAK, Vendors
3:00 Dave Pehling
Reducing Your Risk of
Hantavirus
4:00 Joel Huesby
Putting it all together-
Attitudes
& Discipline
4:45 Prize Drawing!
5:00 Happy Trails!
2006 Speakers:
Joel Huesby, a
fourth-generation farmer with the family
farm, Thundering Hooves in
Walla Walla, is the 2005
recipient of the Vim Wright
Stewardship Award and has
created sustainability
through marketing and alternative farming practices.
Dr. Greg Ingman, DVM,
graduate of the Washington State University Veterinary Program, started
the Chuckanut Valley Veterinary Clinic in 1988 as a mobile large animal
practice, now located at 896 N. Burlington Blvd and also treats small
animals.
Linda Neunzig, owner of
Ninety Farms in Arlington, has
been farming for 15 years and
marketing produce and meat to local area restaurants. Linda is also a
WSU Extension Farm Business Planner.
Dave Pehling is a zoologist
who has been studying and
teaching about insects and
vertebrate pest management for Washington State University Extension in
Snohomish County since 1978.
Driving Directions:
Skagit Valley College is
located at 2405 East College Way in Mount Vernon, WA. From the North,
take I-5 to exit 227 and turn left onto East College Way; follow until
reaching the college campus on the left. From the South, take I-5 to
exit 227 and turn right onto East College Way; follow until reaching the
college campus on the left.
2006 Event Sponsors:
* WSU/Skagit & Snohomish
County Extension Offices
* Skagit Cattlemen's
Association
* Skagit Valley College
Washington State University
Extension
"World Class, Face to Face"
Washington State University
Extension helps people develop leadership
skills and use research-based
knowledge to improve economic
status and quality of life. Cooperating
agencies: Washington
State University, U.S.
Department of Agriculture, and Skagit County.
Extension programs and
policies are available to all
without discrimination. To request
disability accommodation
contact the
ADA Coordinator, Human
Relations and Diversity, 509-335-8888 at least ten
days in advance.
Skagit County Extension
306 S. 1st St.
Mount Vernon, WA 98273
