Show r. r 5 students u n made tour four of ranches Snow College agriculture students students stu stu- dents Steve Fitzgerald Kamas Craig Lundell and Randy Carter Carter Carter Car Car- ter Payson toured livestock ranches in California and Nevada and attended the California Call Cali i fornia Livestock Symposium this past month Agriculture j instructor Robert Hartman I 1 accompanied the students on the j f week-long week trip The highlight of the trip was the California I Livestock Symposium held in Fresno The two-day two program I brought together man many of the J nations nation's livestock leaders and j stressed problems related to toi 1 i production efficiency profitability profitability profit profit- i ability product quality and the J 1 improvement of ot judging standI standards stand stand- I ards aids for all classes of live live- stock The scope of the symposium symposium symposium sym sym- 1 Included beef and dairy cattle sheep and swine Livestock Livestock Livestock Live Live- stock producers feed lot operators operators operators oper oper- packers and processors wholesalers retailers and consumers were all represented represent represent- ed on the program In addition to the livestock symposium the group made I visits to the Double Diamond j Angus ranch In Reno the United States Department of Agriculture Agriculture Agriculture ture Wool Research lab in Al Albany Albany Albany Al- Al bany California Armour and Company Meat Packing Plant j in Dixon and numerous beef L and hog operations in the San ry 8 Joaquin Valley The latest types r of hog facilities were shown i Y the group by Bob Miller Tulare Tulare Tulare Tu- Tu lare Company extension livestock live live- li livestock ve- ve stock specialist Students were shown the versatility of hog enterprises by viewing production production tion systems ranging from pasture pasture pas pas- ture rearing to complete con con- r Stops at two large cattle feed lots enabled students students students stu stu- dents to view a wide variety of cattle and to learn about t the problems of pollution prevention pre pre- and environmental control control control con con- faced by today's feedlot t operator Randy Steve and Craig have recently completed a livestock selection course at Snow This trip was designed to further 1 their knowledge of the many aspects of livestock production and marketing and to give them the necessary background ex experience ex- ex r to prepare for intercollegIate intercollegiate intercollegiate inter inter- p collegiate livestock judging next fall The Snow livestock Judging team plans to compete at the Grand National livestock judging judging judg judg- judging ing contest in San Francisco and at an intercollegiate contest contest contest con con- test In Pullman Washington |