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Once again, we’ll be hosting two workshops during the upcoming Texas A&M Beef Cattle Short Course in College Station, Texas.  Both workshops are free and open to anyone, so bring any friends or company you might have tagging along for the weekend with you.

For those not familiar with the Beef Cattle Short Course, it is a 2.5 day course covering a wide variety of cattle management topics. Highlights of this year’s seminar include sessions on responding to rising input costs, forage and nutrition management and cattle handling demonstrations. For a complete schedule and registration information, visit http://animalscience.tamu.edu/bcsc.

Workshop 1: Sunday, August 3rd at 5:00pm
We’ll meet at the Holiday Inn Express on University Drive at 5 pm for a hands-on, interactive workshop with customers who are familiar with the software or looking to learn more about the advanced features. We’ll be working at a faster pace, so you’re encouraged to bring a laptop to work along as we go, and lots of questions for us.

Workshop 2: Wednesday, August 6th a 12:30pm
Hang around a bit on Wednesday after the conclusion of the seminars, and join us in MSC Room 292 at 12:30 pm, and we’ll start out with a basic introduction to the software, and then work through any questions you may have. If you’re just getting started with CattleMax, or maybe even still evaluating your record keeping options, this workshop is for you.

A complimentary light meal will be provided at both sessions.

Both workshops are free and no need to RSVP - be sure to attend to meet us in person and to also see CattleMax in action!

TAMU Beef Cattle Short Course

If you are attending the Texas A&M Beef Cattle Short Course, you will not want to miss the Beef Cattle Business Management Workshop on Wednesday morning being presented by Dr Larry Falconer. As the only business-oriented workshop at the Short Course, this session provides a great opportunity to build your foundation of decision making from a business view.

For the past 9 years, we have spoken on current topics related to cattle record keeping.  This year, we will focus on creating a good record keeping system to generate managerial information for decision making to help operate during times of high input costs.

Again this year, several of the CPAs from Seidel, Schroeder & Company, an accounting firm that specializes in farm & ranch accounting,  will be proving updates on tax and accounting information.  They are always entertaining and very informative - we learn something new from them every year!

Immediately following this session, we will be holding a hands-on CattleMax training workshop and Q&A.   We will begin serving light snacks immediately and start the session at 12:30 so that those in other sessions have time to make it over.