MASTER CATTLE PRODUCERS TRAINING PROGRAM
Extension Education
Rickey Hudson
Regional Extension Agent
Alabama Cooperative Extension System - Auburn University
Headland
Abstract
\r\n Beef cattle producers in southeast Alabama face multiple production and management decisions critical to the viability of their operation. Continuing education is essential to update beef production practices and improve decision-making skills of beef herd managers, regardless of their age or experience level. Through this refreshment of their knowledge base, producers gain the abilities to be proactive and adaptable to an ever changing global beef industry. In 2011, a group of southeast Alabama beef cattle producers requested training to better understand current conditions and trends in beef cattle production. The Alabama Cooperative Extension System responded to this request and conducted the “Alabama Master Cattle Producers Training Program”. This training program is a comprehensive educational program with twenty-four (24) hours of classroom instruction on beef production. This 2011 program was presented during eight (8) intensive classroom sessions lasting three (3) hours each. Participants were tested in each of the eight (8) sessions with a required minimum correct score of seventy (70) percent needed to earn Master Cattle Producer certification. Seventy-nine (79) percent of program participants achieved the Master Cattle Producer status. Program testing indicates the positive transfer of production information to participants. Exit surveys indicate all participants expected to improve their beef operations as a result of this training.
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Authors: R.G. Hudson
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Hudson, R. Regional Extension Agent, Alabama Cooperative Extension System, Alabama, 36345