August 24, 2007

The eighth annual Gudmundsen Sandhills Laboratory open house is scheduled Aug. 29.

Activities are planned from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. MDT in the Wagonhammer Education Center at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln facility, which is near Whitman. The program will include presentations on various aspects of cattle and natural resource management as well as commercial exhibits. Producers can come and go throughout the day, said Jerry Volesky, range management specialist at the UNL's West Central Research and Extension Center at North Platte.

Morning activities will include presentations on fetal programming, grazing and cattle markets. Afternoon presentations will cover topics such as calving system economics, Sandhills bird and plant relationships, distillers grain supplementations, heifer development systems, beef production systems and ranch windbreak and tree management.

Registration for the free lunch can be made by calling (308) 696-6701 or (800) 657-2113, or by e-mailing eheil@unlnotes.unl.edu by Aug. 27.

Gudmundsen is part of the UNL's Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources.