COLUMBIA, Mo. – Learn how to trim goat hooves, control parasites and manage a small-ruminant herd at the annual University of Missouri Extension Women in Agriculture event, Nov. 6-7.
Charlotte Clifford-Rathert, small-ruminant specialist at Lincoln University Cooperative Extension and Research in Jefferson City, returns to Pearls of Production to teach one of the hands-on workshops. Events take place at MU’s Animal Sciences Research Center in Columbia.
Leading MU specialists offer workshops and breakout sessions on beef, swine, business, economics, meat sciences, ergonomics, forages and pasture management, said Marcia Shannon, MU Extension swine specialist and an organizer of the event.
Shannon says keynote speaker Lorenza Pasetti will give an inside look at the Volpi Foods operation, which makes more than 300 different types of Italian cured meat products in the iconic Italian-American neighborhood of St. Louis known as The Hill.
MU Extension and MU College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources sponsor the event. The program provides leadership and hands-on training opportunities for women involved in livestock production in Missouri.
Go to http://muconf.missouri.edu/womenandagriculture/ to see a complete agenda.
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