University of Kentucky Beef Bash Field Day

Commercial exhibits. A large tent in the staging area will house commercial exhibits and serve as the focal point of all activities. You can visit with various company representatives as you please. Those planning to exhibit include:

ABS Global, Inc.
Alltech, Inc.
Biozyme Inc - Vita Ferm
Caudill Seed
CPC Commodities
Crop Production Services/Purina Feeds
Dow Agro Sciences
Ellegood Farm Products w/ For-Most
Fencing By Frank
Gallagher Animal Management Systems
Governor's Office of Agricultural Policy
H&R Agri-Power
Hubbard Feeds/Crystalyx
Kentucky Beef Council Beef Mobile
Kentucky Cattleman's Association
Kentucky Dept. of Ag. Hay Testing Van

Kentucky Farm Bureau
McBurney's Livestock & Equipment
Merial, Inc.
Miles Farm Supply - Forage Pro
Novartis Animal Health
Pfizer Animal Health
Quick Cover Buildings
Smartlic/New Generation Feeds
Southern States Cooperative
Span-Tech Buildings
The Beef Connection, LLC
Turner Seed, Inc.
UK College of Agriculture
University of Kentucky Beef IRM
Whayne Supply Company – Agri-Business Division

* These exhibitors have indicated that they plan to participate, but exhibits are subject to change

Demonstrations and/or Exhibits

Rotational Grazing -
Temporary Fencing, Temporary Water Systems & Strategic Grazing Systems
Forage Quality/Hay Storage, Ration Balancing/Using Hay Test Results
Reproductive Management - Estrus Synchronization, Using CIDRS, AI,
University of Kentucky Current Research
Bull Selection Workshop - Visual Selection, Using DNA Technology, Evaluating
Carcass Quality w/ Ultrasound
Alternative Nitrogen Fertilizers
ID Workshop - Freeze Branding Technique, EID Demonstration
Pasture Weed Management

Cattle. See the cattle operation which provides animals for beef research. Research data will be provided comparing fall and spring calving. We keep about 150 cows which are evenly split between fall and spring calving. We should have new fall calves and spring calves getting ready to be weaned. Commercial cows are Angus breeding with some Brangus-influence. We maintain some registered Angus and Brangus animals to provide our own herd bulls. All animals are raised on the farm under a strict herd health program. The cows have one round of timed-AI utilizing CIDR’s and then clean-up bulls are used for a short time. We’ll have several cattle exhibits to illustrate various management practices.

Social: Visit with the leadership of the Kentucky Cattlemen’s Association and the University of Kentucky. The Dean and Associate Deans of the UK College of Agriculture are planning to attend and look forward to visiting with you. Bring any prospective agriculture students, especially those interested in Animal and Food Sciences with you. The beef Extension specialists and researchers will, of course, be available to visit and answer questions.

Dave Maples, Pres. Billy Glenn Turpin and their staff will be there to visit with you. Come and visit with other cattlemen from across the state.

Research Results. Participants will learn about research which is being conducted to improve the beef herds of Kentucky and beyond. Feeding trials are being conducted with modified or dried distillers grains, corn gluten feed and soyhulls for growing calves. Different forage systems for spring or fall-calving cows has been studied for 3 years. Cutting-edge research has been conducted in the area of mineral supplementation of cattle – especially selenium. Other research has been conducted to extend the productive life of cows and to alleviate the effects of fescue toxicosis. We’ll have a separate tour to focus on this work.

All heifers which are produced at the station are trained to Calan® (electronic) individual feeding gates and are used in supplementation trials. The goal is to have an entire beef herd trained to the gates so research can be conducted on various supplements to mature cows on the same pasture.