Attend an Upcoming Event to Learn about Raising and Marketing Beef x Dairy Crossbred Animals

Over the past three and a half years, Vermont Cattlemen has led a team of dairy farms producing beef x dairy crossbred terminal beef animals to learn about the economic potential for growing a Northeast-based beef supply chain. Kevin Channell and Roger Osinchuk are the managing partners of Vermont Cattlemen.

Vermont Cattlemen has raised and finished several hundred crossbred animals to determine best practices, identify marketing opportunities, and discover costing and pricing through multiple market channels. The findings include breed differences and market changes for wholesale livestock, wholesale beef, and direct-to-consumer beef.  

Join an upcoming educational event where Vermont Cattlemen will share learning from this research to help farmers find or refine their place in the beef supply chain during this unprecedented time.  

Register to participate in one of the events listed below. These events are free, and lunch will be provided at the in-person events.

• Wednesday, June 10th,10-11am: Live webinar  
• Thursday, June 25th,10:30am-1:00pm: In-person workshop at Bovinity Farm in Chester, VT which specializes in custom boarding. This farm is home to a USDA beef x dairy research project studying feed efficiency in sire selection. 

• Friday, June 26th,10:30am-1:00pm: In-person workshop at Daona Farm in Shoreham, VT.   

   

The in-person workshops will begin in the barns with an overview of the host farm’s beef x dairy activities, a look at beef x dairy animals, and a brief production and marketing overview. After lunch, Vermont Cattlemen will share data highlights and tools developed for farmers, such as:

• Cost of production and marketing tools to inform farmer decision making: 
  • Marketing calculator that can be customized to an operation and current market prices to help determine hold/sell strategies 
  • Beginning data set with average daily gains by age intervals and cost per pounds of gain by growth stage 
• Results and comparative analysis of the breeding and feed protocols tested 

• Understanding and navigating wholesale beef, direct-to-consumer, and live cattle markets  

   

For more information, please contact Elizabeth Sipple, Program Lead Working Lands Enterprise Initiative: 802-917-1134