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12.19.06
Livestock Judging Team is National Reserve Champion!
Recently, the Weld County 4-H Livestock Judging Team competed at the National 4-H Livestock Judging contest, which was held at the North American International Exposition on November 14, 2006.
Click here for the entire article (50.25 KB) 
12.11.06
It is the responsibility of every 4-H member to ensure that proper care is taken of their animal(s) according to acceptable methods of good animal husbandry.
Click here for the Guidelines for Primary Care of Youth Livestock Projects (26.53 KB)
12.05.06
2006 NAIS User Guide
The November 2006 NAIS User Guide is the most current plan for NAIS and replaces all previously published program documents, including the 2005 Draft Strategic Plan and Draft Program Standards and the 2006 Implementation Strategies.
Click here for the NAIS User Guide (1021.66 KB)
11.29.06
Youth NAIS
Click here for the Powerpoint Presentation (4.90 MB) 
11.07.06
2007 Intermountain Livestock Judges Training
Click here to view the Flyer
10.17.06
Colorado 4-H/FFA Livestock Premises ID
Protecting animal agriculture is a big job that can only be successful with full participation of all livestock producers.
Click here to view the brochure
10.16.06
National 4-H Meats Contest
Douglas County took 2nd place at the National 4-H Meats contest, by far the best showing Colorado has ever had. We had two individuals in the top five. Kelly Hutton was 2nd overall, earning a $750 scholarship, and Katie McCullough was 5th overall. The team won Pork, Retail Cut Judging and Total Placing and Reasons. They were 2nd in Reasons and Retail ID and 3rd in Beef. Congratulations!
10.10.06
Foot and Mouth Disease Project
The Center for Animal Disease Modeling and Surveillance (CADMS) at UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine is asking for your help to protect America's livestock industry from an accidental or terrorist-caused outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD). As you may know, FMD is a highly contagious disease that affects cloven-hoofed animals, including pigs, cattle, sheep, and goats.
Click here to read more
10.6.06
2006 Showring Success Seminar
Purina Mills and Colorado State University have partnered to bring you the second Showring Success Seminar. This interactive educational event will provide attendees with information about many facets of managing and exhibiting beef cattle.
Click here to read more
8.10.06
Morgan County 4-H Leads the Way in NAIS Program
In the midst of the ongoing Morgan County Fair (Colorado), routine weigh-ins of 4-H market animals were being conducted. Livestock superintendents, county extension agents, fair board members, parents, and youth exhibitors were all there to assist as usual during the process, but this year was different.
Morgan County 4-H has had impressive results integrating the NAIS program into their youth livestock programs. GOOD WORK Marlin and other Agents who had a part in this achievement!
Click here to read the entire article
7.3.2006
2006 State 4-H Judging Contest Results
Click here to access the 2006 State 4-H Livestock Judging Contest Results
If you have any questions, please let me know.
5.15.2006
Click here to access information on the Show Ring Success Seminar
The seminar will be held on November 25, 2006 at Colorado State University here in Fort Collins. Put this event on your calendar now and make plans to attend!
3.7.2006
Revised NAIS Train the Trainer Program & Online Premises Registration
Click below to access a newly revised PowerPoint presentation (347kb.) on the National Animal Identification System (NAIS) Train the Trainer Program. Below is also a new PowerPoint file (2.33 mb.) showing screen shots of the online web based Premises ID Registration. In order to maintain the intregity of these presentations, both are password protected so that information in them can't be changed, however to use the presentation, you can open it in a "read only" mode.
Due to the large file sizes I would urge you to download these presentations to your computer's hard drive by right clicking on the file link then selecting "Save Target As" (Internet Explorer) or "Save Link As" (Firefox).
3.1.2006
Youth Livestock White Papers
Click here to access information, tips, articles and other information developed by Colorado Extension Agents for Colorado Extension Agents.
Use these White Papers in newsletters or as part of your on-going youth livestock educational efforts!
Would you like to share some of your handy tips, handouts or articles related to youth livestock? If you do, please let me know.
2.21.2006
Update documents on NAIS and Premises ID
The items below provide valuable informational updates on the NAIS and Premises ID programs. Please use as you see fit.
1.31.2006
Colorado 4-H Meat Quality Assurance Programs
Use the links below to access the 2006 versions of the Colorado 4-H Meat Quality Assurance program that is recommended for use this year. Since the files are fairly large, I would suggest downloading them to your computer's hard drive. To do that, right click on the link then select "Save Target As" (Internet Explorer) or "Save Link As" (Firefox). I've also included an Adobe Acrobat version of the presentation for your use in preparing handouts if you wish. Colorado 4-H MQA PowerPoint Program
Colorado 4-H MQA Acrobat version
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