Livestock Leaders Meeting Agenda & Minutes

CALL TO ORDER 

PLEDGES

INTRODUCTIONS

MINUTES 

TREASURER’S REPORT 

CORRESPONDENCE 

REPORTS 

• Agent Report

OLD BUSINESS

• Breeding Book Interviews

   

• Standing Committee Role/Needs

  • Marketing/Sponsorship

    • Butcher/Carcass

    • Show

    • Sale

       

• Education Day Planning

  • 101 Days

    • Beef – Sept 21

    • Livestock

    • Breeding

    • Swine

    • Lamb/Goat

    • Rabbit/Poultry

NEW BUSINESS 

• Officer Elections

  • Vice President

  • Treasurer – Brittney Calvert,

• Achievement Night

UPCOMING EVENTS 

• Sept 5 – Breeding Books DUE to extension office

• Sept 9 – Rules Committee Meeting

   

• Sept 21 – Beef 101, 9a – 1p, Four Mile Creek Angus

   

• Sept 21 – Leader Appreciation

   

• Sept 23 – State Fair Steering Committee Mtg

   

• Oct 7 – Livestock Leader’s Meeting, 7p

Call to Order

Present:  Heather Lewis, Brook Gerard, Jenn Volkmar, Alena Standley, Todd Standley, Madelyn Standley, Shawn Hystead, Micheala Hystad, Liz Jennings, Michelle Leardini, Felicia Short, Jill Mackey, Reece Hastings, Brittney Calvert, Bill Ogg, Jill Skinner, Katrina Emerich, Ed Herman, Cody Loch, Farrah McGregor, Desi Roth, Chantelle Herman, Jill Rearden, Hailee Hart, Brenda Byrnes, Brett Keaster, Marie Powell

The meeting was called to order at 6:02 p.m. by Brook Gerard.

Minutes

Brittney Calvert moves to accept the minutes with the addition of Bill Ogg as an online attendee. 2nd Jill Skinner. M/S/C

Treasurer’s Report:

Checking account balance $10,102.38, DA Davidson Account balance $9,612.69. Accounts Receivable balance of $1165. Income for May-August of $26,171.31, total expenses for May-August of $29,139.47 for a negative income of $2968.16 for the period of May - August.

 

Correspondence:

 

Reports:

• Agent -
  • Finishing up the end-of-year reports. The September newsletter will be coming out. New year starts October 1. Leaders Appreciation Social 9/21 2-4pm. Achievement night October 12th time TBD.
  • State fair entries were 373 by 78 exhibitors.
  • Next Livestock Leaders meeting September 2, 2025
• Leaders Council - Last meeting was in July and the next meeting is September 9th.
• Carcass Education & Check Release - August 7th there was good attendance. Bob Patachini, Amy Hachigian-Gould and Rose Malisani spoke. Kids picked up checks
  • Checks needing picked up: Callie Corscadden, Kimber Bjornstad, Emmerson Horner, Jaxton & Jolten Marn, Oden & Savannah Morriss, Kaya Morrison, Grace O’Neil
• State Office Meeting - Presidents of each committee met with the state about financial processes. Updates will be announced when they are made.

Old Business:

• Survey Results & 2025 Show and Sale Wrap Up
• Breeding Project Interviews - Books need to be turned into the office by September 5th. Brook and Jenn will look at the calendar to pick a date for the interviews at the office.

New Business:

• Standing Committees
  • Sponsorship & Marketing - Britteny Calvert, Bill Ogg, Felicia Short, Farrah & Rial McGregor
    • Advertising
  • Show - Heather Lewis, Shawn Hystad, Jill Skinner, Brittany Calvert, Katrina Emrich
    • Dates on Backdrop, generic banners etc.
    • Weigh-in and verification of ear tags
    • Showman App training for all Division Chairs
    • Scrapies tags required for all sheep and goats
    • Breeding goat classes separated into dairy and meat
    • Adult with pig board to help load truck and keep pigs on truck
    • Ultrasound schedule/logistics/barnlayout
    • Barn set up, signs and house keeping rules
    • Jr leaders need assigned chaperones for planned events
    • Fitting contest
    • Rule enforcement at the show
    • Old goat, peewee, and dance
    • Poultry & Rabbit need to be in the same barn as large animals
    • Show order
    • Family Potluck
    • Assigned times for weigh in - appointments
    • Supreme showman
    • Multiple Species
    • Place 1-5th in market and showmanship with banners
    • Water down barn to reduce dust
    • Set up of scale is prohibitive to lamb pens
    • Consider assigning club duties to help run show
  • Sale - Brook Gerard, Jill Skinner,
    • Current Market Prices for buyback program
    • Auction Company & Online Bidding
    • Online butcher forms
    • Catalog, Sale order for Grand & Reserve
    • Sale Improvements - earlier, Saturday?
    • Auctioneer announcing the correct lot number & being more organized
    • Sale order based upon ribbon color
  • Carcass & Butcher - Aimee Hachigan-Gould
    • Loading & Unloading Volunteers
    • Slaughter plan for local butchers
    • Ultrasound data collection and manning
    • Pickup and delivery of carcasses preferred on Thursday & Friday by transporter
    • Kill & Chill options
    • Physical vs Ultrasound Carcass contest
    • Look into Producer Partnership / Montana City Meats
  • Short Term Committee
    • Rules & By Laws - Felicia & Tristan Short, Katrina Emrich, Shawn Hystad, Cody Loch, Alena Standley
      • Livestock Quotas
      • Replacement Animals & Showmanship
      • Showmanship part of showing & selling, not optional
      • Sale order for Grand & Reserve, sale order based on ribbon color
      • Club leaders?
      • Preshow clinic to verify that animals are tame enough to show. wild & unruly animals.
      • Alcohol
      • Rate of Gain
      • Minimum & Maximum weights
      • Selling steer & pig by same kids

• Education Day Planning - for next Meeting
  • 101 Days - Conducted by Division chairs, can be held offsite with COI from Extension
    • Beef - September 21
    • Livestock
    • Breeding
    • Swine
    • Lamb
    • Goat
    • Rabbit/Poultry
  • State Fair Exploratory Committee - Brook Gerard, Cody Loch, Heather Lewis, Brenda Byrnes, Bill Ogg, Jill Mackey, Michaela Hystad, Desiree Roth
    • Considerations to move our show to combine with the State Fair. We need to generate our idea of how that would look and what we need to have in order to do it.

Committees that will meet in September are Rules & Bylaws and the State Fair Exploratory Committee.

Upcoming Events:

9/2 - Livestock Leaders meeting 7pm

9/21 - Beef 101 9am - 1pm at 4 Mile Creek Angus, Shawn & Michaela Hystad.

9/21 - 4-H Leader Appreciation

Adjournment

Aleana moved to adjourn the meeting. 2^nd by Ginger.  M/S/C Meeting adjourned at 7:37 pm.

 

Respectfully submitted,

 

Heather Lewis

Cascade County 4-H Livestock Leaders Secretary

Call To Order

Present: Michelle Leardini, Brook Gerard, Brett Keaster, Katrina Emrich, Shawn Hystad, Liz Jennings, Sandy Harshaw, Brittany Calvert, Felicia Short, Todd Standley, Brenda Byrnes, Jill Skinner, Desiree Roth, Jenn Volkmar, Emma Edmundson, Reagan Jassen, Alena Standley, Tre Butcher, Shealyn Berner, Tristen Short

 

The meeting was called to order at 6:10PM by Brook Gerard followed by both Pledges.

Minutes

Misspellings were noted in April minutes. Liz Jennings moves to accept the minutes with noted misspelling corrections. 2^nd by Katrina Emrich. M/S/C

Treasurers Report: 

Checking account balance $14304.35, DAD balance $9513.18. Received $500 sponsorship, Intent fees, leg bands. Expenses postage, buckles, showman, buyer education and ear tags.

Correspondence:

Hartford Insurance Application for 2025 Show and Sale. 

Reports

Agent Report: Summer is gearing up to be busy with 4-H Camp, Livestock Show, State Fair, Horse Show. She met with Susan Shannon about fair schedules and has written contract for Livestock Show and Sale is out for MSU signature. 

Leaders Council: Allocated more money for camp due to higher groceries and Camp Rotary charging more per camper.

May Project Day: Aimee had 7-8 kids present for Meats ID, she was not able to report.

Sponsorship Committee: Total of $12,050 has been received. There is more coming that will be coming

Marketing Committee: Brett Keaser reported. Buyer Education videos are complete. The Chamber Ag Committee did pay the $1000.00 directly to Legacy Studios. They are looking for a freezer to give away at the sale.  He has looked at Eklunds, Home Depot and Sams. Desiree Roth said she would be willing to get the 10% discount for military members if that is helpful. Brenda Byrnes moved to spend up to $500 to purchase the freezer. 2^nd by Desiree Roth. M/S/C.

Jr. Leaders Meeting: None, next meeting is in June. 

Catalog Committee: Catalog is in production. Brook showed progress so far. Front matter is being edited. Catalog entries are due June 1 so Brook has time to hunt down stragglers.

Small Animal Weigh In: Shawn Hystad reported that it went well. Was discovered that scale weighed in 5lb increments so he arranged with Western Ranch to have it be 1 lb increments for next year.

LQA Makeup: Two reports are included in packet. This is last of the kids who need LQA for this year.

Old Business

Showman.app Web Registration:  Brook showed the registration for the show and asked for input.

                Shavings – change limit 5 bags to per project not exhibitor

                Rabbit/Poultry – change check in to Thursday

                Catalog – change Animal description to Catalog description

                Market – change Unique ID to Ear Tag

Exhibitors should put both primary and secondary animal in the entries because check in will eliminate the spare if it doesn’t stay.

Carcass Contest Update: Bob Patacini will be there all day on Thursday to complete carcass ultrasounds in addition to scheduled times at the show. His data will be inputted into official contest worksheets and results will be given out at the carcass/check release parties the first week of August.

There will be a carcass ultrasound clinic held in conjunction with the Golden on June 7. Watch for details to come.

Rabbit and Poultry Vote: We voted online to rent the rabbit/poultry barn for 1 day and to hire a separate judge for poultry. 

New Business

Fitting Clinics:  Beef fitting clinic being May 31 at Great Falls Saddle Club is being moved to 8a-11a due to hot weather concerns. Brook will update zsuites and let members know. Hailee Hart is hosting a small animal (swine, goat,sheep, dairy)  fitting and showmanship clinic will be held June 22, location and times to be determined based on answer from ExpoPark. Registration will be on zsuites.

Photographer: We need to hire a photographer for Grand/Reserve Winner and ringside pics. Please let Brook know if you have any suggestions. Would prefer it not be a parent so they can concentrate on their own kids. Reminder that we will NOT provide buyer photos as we have in the past. Will post a buyer photo backdrop for kids to use with their own pics. 

Auction Update: Sale committee met to discuss using Showman or our same setup from last year. Recommendation is to use same process as last year. We will refine the process. Lisa will preload previous buyers so we make it easy to check in/out. Also will connect butcher choices to buyer checkout. Need to have 3 laptops and at least two printers. We will scan the checks, prep deposit, and receipt all monies received at the sale before Monday. Brend Byrnes moved to have Lisa buy a toner printer or 2 specifially for livestock to use at the sale for up to $250. Desi 2^nd. M/S/C 

Kyle Shobe may arrive late for sale but has Cole Martin coming as partner with all equipment that is needed for sale. Frontier Livestock Sales will host our online sale free of charge again this year.

Shavings: Brook reported that she received quotes for shavings from Western Feed Corral and Western Ranch Supply. Justin Okes is willing to give us shavings at his cost versus a donation to the show. Cost is $6.40 a bag. Western Ranch cost of $8.25 or $9.25 depending on distributor. Liz Jennings moved to buy 420 bags of shavings from Western Feed Corral and put ad in the catalog as thank you. Total is $2688.00. Sandy 2^nd. M/S/C

Cost to members is $7.00 to members to make it easy to make change at show. 

Adjournment

Felicia Short motioned to adjourn. Tre Butcher 2nd M/S/C Meeting Adjourned 7:33PM

Call to Order

Present: 

Heather Lewis, Brook Gerard, Jenn Volkmar,  Brenda Byrnes, Tristen Short, Alena Standley, Todd Standley, Sandy Harshaw-Irvin, Shawn Hystead, Michelle Leardini, Kylee Finn, Felicia Short, Jill Mackey, Reece Hastings, Brittney Calvert, Bill Ogg, Jill Skinner

 

The meeting was called to order at 6:07 p.m. by Brook Gerard.

Minutes

Sandy moves to accept the minutes. 2nd Reece. M/S/C

Treasurer’s Report:

Checking: $22,831.77. DAD: $9,448.80. $82.96 was spent on swine and goat ear tags, $7,700 received in sponsorships, $800.15 received for intent to enter fees.

Correspondence:

Reminder for pork checkoffs, Letter from Project Graduation looking for donations, resume received from a Texas livestock judge, Jacob Diezi.

Reports:

• Agent - Planning the last project day, there have been budget cuts that will require the committees to become responsible for their own office supplies and postage, Shooting Sports and Leaders Council are having raffles.
• Leaders Council - did not meet this month
• Makeup LQA - Held on April 12th, five kids attended. Brook proposes we use the project guide as makeup for the kids (10) that have missed LQA. Reece moves to have a makeup LQA report with 2 pages required for juniors and 5 pages for seniors based on LQA curriculum and due to the extension office May 19th, 2025. 2nd by Tristan, M/S/C
• Swine Clinic - 12-13 kids came to the hands on clinic at the Clavert house, most of them were first year kids. Brittney has received feedback from parents that kids are already more comfortable with working with their projects at home.
• Sponsorship - Follow Up calls are being made there are checks on the way from Celtic Cowboy and Farm Bureau. Brittney needs help finishing follow up phone calls.
• Marketing Committee - We watched the final version of the marketing video created by Legacy Tech Studio. There are two versions, a longer version covering the total process and a shorter video just covering Brenda’s portion about becoming a buyer. The Chamber Ag Committee $1,000 towards this project.
• Junior Leaders - Proofs for the buckles were received and reviewed by the Jr. Leaders (Reece, Vivian, Rial, Bridger) on Wednesday April 16th via Zoom. We approved the buckle proofs. Heather and Brook verified the buckles ordered matched the kids entered in the projects and made three changes before submitting the proof approval and paying for the buckles. Our total cost for 85 buckles was $7836. Tristan moves to create a $200 budget to allow the Jr. Leaders to decorate the backdrop and barn. 2nd by Reece. M/S/C
• Catalog Committee - Ulm Pishkun doesn't want to change the sale order to allow Grand and Reserve of each species to sell outside of their normal sale order. Other clubs have not discussed. We will ask that clubs discuss at their May meetings moving the Grand and Reserve of each species at a specific spot (front or middle) of sale order and sell them all together in the sale.

Old Business:

• Buyer Letter Mailing - Mailed 4/22 Todd moves to buy stamps to reimburse the office for the postage we used to mail the buyer letters. 2nd Felicia M/S/C
• App - Heather, Brook, and Alena met with Jody and Jenn to demo the backside of the App. It will work well for the office so we will go forward with the purchase. The sale committee will meet the week of May 5-9 for a demo to determine if it is feasible for our show.
• Logo Materials - Presented and links were sent to the extension office to share.
• Buyers Dinner - Carlson's Q is the caterer.. Jr. Leaders will have a meeting to figure out how to host a decorated cookie contest between the clubs.
• Barn Layout - April 29th, Brook and Jenn are meeting with Susan at Expo to agree on barn layout.

New Business:

• Small Animal Weigh In - WRS has a feed seminar on May 9th 5-7pm and 10th 10-2pm the scale will be available for weigh in. WRS has already advertised that the official weigh-in is Saturday May 10th. Shawn and Tristan will volunteer to work the weigh in and other volunteers are needed.
• Show Registration Date - June 1st live date for Showman.App
• Catalog Registration Date - closes June 1st.
• Record Book Review - Alena moves record book review is held on June 24th in place of the Livestock Leaders meeting. 2nd Sandy. M/S/C Absentee books will be due to the office on June 23rd. Judges will meet at 5pm and book review will start at 5:30pm
• Yeager Accommodation - Kyona Yeager has been selected for a State FFA Office position and is asking for an accommodation that her brother be allowed to show and sell her projects in the sale. Kylee Finn has also been selected as a State FFA Officer and has declined the trip because she needs to sell her project and does not have siblings old enough to show her animals. Brenda moves that we allow a private treaty sale in the barn but not to show & sell the projects by her sibling. 2nd Brittney M/S/C

 

Note made that Alena Standley was at the March Meeting and Bill Ogg was not.

Adjornment

Alena moved to adjourn the meeting. 2^nd by Reece  M/S/C Meeting adjourned at 8:55 pm.

 

Respectfully submitted,

 

Heather Lewis

Cascade County 4-H Livestock Leaders Secretary

 

Call to Order

Present: 

Heather Lewis, Brook Gerard, Katrina Emrich,  Brittney Calvert,  Jenn Volkmar, Cody Loch,  Brenda Byrnes, Desi Roth, Tristen Short, Bill Ogg, Todd Standley, Sandy Harshaw-Irvin, Liz Jennings, Shawn Hystead, Michelle Leardini, Aimee Hachigan-Gould, Kendra Turnbull, Jill Skinner, Hailee Hart

 

The meeting was called to order at 6:02 p.m. by Brook Gerard.

Minutes

Todd moves to accept the minutes with the note changes. 2nd Cody. M/S/C

Treasurer’s Report:

Checking: $22,964.73. DAD: $9,448.80. Intent fees have been collected as well as interest - $559.11.

Correspondence:

 

Reports:

• Agent - Jenn reported on the happenings of the office. Office is down to 1 copier/printer so big complicated jobs will have to be outsourced vice being done in office.
• Leaders Council - Jill Skinner and Brook attended, plans are in the works for a raffle fundraiser.
• Sheep & Goat Project Day - Hailee, Michelle, and Heather presented. They brought goats and sheep. It was well attended. Western Feed Coral talked about feed. A few swine kids attended that needed to fulfil the LQA standard.
• Sponsorship - $8525 has been received. Brittney and Kory are still making calls. Liz Edmundson is also going to start making calls.
• Marketing - Tabled
• Carcass - Brenda, Heather, Brett met with Bob over the phone. He wants to come do a presentation to the group, discussion to have him at the May Leaders meeting. Heather will check with him.
• Leaders - will meet in April. All buckles except the poultry and rabbit are in the cart. Will work with Mollys to get the figurines correct.
• Catalog - Brook got an estimate for the additional pages needed for the catalog. $1,818.96, there will be 52 Black and white pages and the color cover.
• Ambassadors - looking to do a meet and greet for the livestock kids to meet the ambassador team on April 12th project day. Sign up on ZSuites.

Old Business:

• Supply Purchase - stools for the crows nest needs to have shipping added to the total $300. Aimee moves, Katrina 2nd. MSC
• Show Agenda - added the carcass judging to the agenda for Friday and Saturday. Brenda moves to approve the agenda as presented with one change to sale starting at 6:30. Alena 2nd. MSC
• Award - Artwork is in progress and Brook will call the bank to ensure the appropriate limits are there for ordering.
• Buyer Letter - Brenda, Brook, and Cody drafted a letter to let buyers know about the decision to only use a USDA butcher and the requirements to ship the lamb, goats, and sheep wrapped in a reefer trailer and the beef will be butchered, wrapped, etc. at Glacier Coop in Columbia Falls. Brittney moves to approve the letter as presented. 2nd Desi. MSC

New Business:

• Barn Layout - Addition of sheep and goat breeding project pens. Moving rabbits and poultry to the corner where a practice ring was previously and surround the area with panels to protect them from rogue hogs. The preference is to have rabbits and poultry in the barn and not in a separate building. Looking at options for the backdrop because the lighting was not good where it was last year. Please review the plans with your clubs and bring any ideas/issues to the April meeting.
• Alena - can we think about moving the grand and reserve market winners to the first lots of the sale to highlight the winning animals. We could also add them to the middle of the sale when the buyers are warmed up. Brook can block off the lot numbers in the sale catalog to highlight Grand and Reserve Champions.
• Logo Approval - Add Christmas in July to the barn, and 4-H to the end of Cascade County
• Buyers Meal - Giffen Coulee 4-H Club will host. They have provided us with catering options that are $11-$16 per plate. Please take to your clubs and rank with preference so we can vote at the April meeting.
• Poultry Age Date Concern - Kindra Turnbull has a concern about the age of turkey projects. Because of the bird flu the hatch dates were pushed back and the actual age of the turkey will be 5-7 days younger than required by the rule book. Desi moves to allow the extra time needed for the turkey to hatch to be at the livestock show. Katrina 2nd. MSC
• ZSuites - Livestock and Club Leaders have the ability to post/schedule project announcements to ZSuites.
• App - Alena Standley presentation of both exhibitor side and back end of running a show. Registration, weigh in, class breaks, giving premiums to kids, etc. There is an additional feature that can be used to run the sale. Cost to use Showman.App is $599 annual fee and it covers all species. Additional $399 fee to run the sale. It is very user friendly and has real time updates. Can update the schedule live. They have real time tech help that is dedicated to your show so if there are any issues they are available. Most Jackpot shows in Montana use this app and it takes about 5 minutes to enter a show. Brenda moves that we purchase the base package at $599 for the 2025 Cascade County Livestock Show and Sale and the sale portion of the package can be decided by the sale committee. 2nd Hailee. MSC

Upcoming Events

April 12th Makeup LQA

April 13th Swine Workshop

April 21st Swine Intent

Adjornment

Alena moved to adjourn the meeting. 2^nd by Bill  M/S/C Meeting adjourned at 7:36 pm.

 

Respectfully submitted,

 

Heather Lewis

Cascade County 4-H Livestock Leaders Secretary

 

Call To Order

Present:

Michelle Leardini, Brook Gerard, Brett Keaster, Katrina Emrich, Shawn Hystad, Michaela Hystad, Liz Jennings, Sandy Harshaw, Brittany Calvert, Felicia Short, Todd Standley, Brenda Byrnes, Brenda Canine, Jill Skinner, Desiree Roth, Reece Hastings, Aimee Hachigan-Gould, Jenn Volkmar, Becca Gerard, Marie Powell, Jill Mackey

The meeting was called to order at 6:12PM by Brook Gerard followed by both Pledges. 

Minutes

Misspellings were noted in January mintues. Brenda Byrnes moves to accept the minutes with noted misspelling corrections. 2nd by Brenda Kinane. M/S/C

Treasurers Report:

Checking account balance $22,439, DAD balance $9414.84. Received $4,600 in sponsorships and $143.16 in expenses for ear tags and legbands.

Correspondence:

DAD Our Vote counts for the Vanguard funds. Foundation will take care of this for us. 

Reports

Agent Report:

Project Day is March 8th. The baby blanket community service project will last until 2pm. There will be a communications contest portion, where 4-Hers can come to learn about communications. There will be a communications contest the following month. Camp will be June 4th? State fair July 25 - August 2nd. Z-Suites calendar is being used for project days, meeting times, etc. Please use this calendar for reference of all 4-H events. New equipment has arrived, walkie talkies, speakers, etc. These are available for leaders to use. 

Rabbit and Poultry 101:

A lot of information for kids but it was good and well attended. Lots of new kids for poultry. Rabbit went well. We need to have more Rabbit project days to get all the new kids involved. There was an additional project day the following weekend for poultry hosted by Western Feed Corral. Marie is working with Western Feed Corral to host a showmanship day. Project days can be held other dates and places as long as a COI is obtained from the Extension Office, with a date and time noted. 

Sponsorship Committee:

7050 have been received. There is more coming that will be coming

Marketing Committee:

No update

Show Judge:

Can be here and ready to Judge at 2pm on Thursday for 1/2 day fee. 

Carcass Judge:

The time frame for Saturday will be pushing the time needed. 

Butcher Committee:

Cody talked to all local butchers about the beef being butchered in Columbia Falls and not coming to Great Falls in halves. Brook and Jenn are drafting a letter to the butchers as well. Brook talked to Brain and he was understanding and said he would work towards 

Jr. Leaders Meeting:

None, next meeting is in March. 

Old Business:

Beef Weigh In:

We used two days at Western Livestock and Liz made a motion to give a $50 North 40 Gift Card to North 40 to Kristen for helping us. Brenda 2nd M/S/C

Meats ID:

Aimee would like to reinstate. Kids need to work on their own as well as with a coach. This is a multiyear project to be successful. Aimee is willing to help kids with the education part. There used to be a carcass meeting in August that kids needed to attend before getting their check. It was used to help educate kids on the meaning of contents of the carcass results. First meeting should be in October with materials handed out. Ag Expo is in November and KMON is January. Host project day in May to introduce, then begin hosting practices in August or September. Maybe tag on to the end of Ulm Pishkun meeting and hold at the Ulm Community Center. Montana Meat Processors has a $1500 scholarship for kids that do meats ID that can be applied to trade school or college. Aimee will send a description to Jenn for the April newsletter for a May project day.

Show Agenda: 

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Todd suggested using Showman App to run the show. Approx $300/show and would make it super easy. He will bring more information to the next meeting. 

Proposal:

Carcass Results Party first week of August and pick up your check early if you come. Checks available the 2nd week of August otherwise.

Junior Leader Events:

Games Friday night, Dance Saturday night, 

New Business:

Awards:

Additional sponsorship was received from Jimmie Flipowitz and the Jr leaders would like to propose the additional $3000 added to the current budget so we can buy buckles for grand and reserve. Brenda moves to increase the prize budget to $9000 because of the additional donation by Jimmie 2nd by Felicia. M/S/C

60% requirement rule:

Clubs remind your members of the requirement and the additional meetings that can be used for the requirement. Jr. Leaders, Livestock Leaders, and project day. 

LQA Requirement Update:

Make-up date will be on April 12th for generic LQA. After the March Lamb and Goat Day, Brook will email the leaders who is has not met the requirement. There will be certificates made for the kids that have already attended and we will continue doing certificates for LQA going forward. 

Barn Layout:

tabled until we know if we can use the poultry barn. Division chairs bring ideas or changes needed to March meeting. 

Sale Committee:

Lisa Jassen, Aaron Morris, Brook Gerard, Jenn Volkmar
Special Projects Committee: Senior Recognition, Herdsmanship and Pen Judging. Liz Jennings & Jill Skinner

Buyer Dinner Committee:

Katie Chartier & Giffen Coulee 4-H will being ideas to the March or April Livestock Leaders Meeting

Small Animal Rate of Gain vs Carcass:

There may be additional money donated towards rate of gain and should we used towards carcass contest. We should think about how we are teaching the kids the importance of the correlation. Todd will look at the data carcass vs rate of gain and bring it to the next meeting.

Swine 101:

Hands on clinic with Brittney April 

Announcements

Western Feed will be hosting their monthly weigh in on the third Saturday of the month.

Aimee is working with the Col. Johnson to reinstate 4-H at Malmstrom. The youth at the base are not engaged. Youth Programs at the Force Support Squadron is where the Rocket Riders club was previously housed. 

Aimee and Liz have been working with the Foundation to set up permeant funding for the 7 Bar Heart memorial scholarship. 

Adjournment

Aimee motioned to adjourn. Brittney 2nd M/S/C Meeting Adjourned 7:38PM

APPROVED

Call to Order

Present:  Heather Lewis, Brook Gerard, Katrina Emmrich,  Brittney Calvert,  Jenn Volkmar, Cody Loch, Lisa Jassen, Ginger Murphy,  Brenda Byrnes, Desi Roth, Tristen Short, Bill Ogg, Todd Standley, Sandy Harshaw-Irvin, Reece Hastings, Jenn Volkmar, Shea Berner, Liz Jennings, Brenda Canine, Brett Keaster, Shawn Hystead, Michaela Hystead. Regan Jassen, Michelle Leardini, Farrah McGregor, Aimee Hachigan-Gould, Falicia Short

The meeting was called to order at 6:05 p.m. by Brook Gerard. Introductions of everyone in attendance. Name, Club and livestock project specialty.

Minutes

Amendments to the minutes - Cody Loch, Lisa Jassen, and Liz Jennings were noted twice. Liz moves to accept the minutes with the note changes. 2nd Brittney. M/S/C

Treasurer’s Report:

Correspondence:

Stockmans Bank Checking $17,893.75, DAD $9,379.47, total assets $27,273.22. P&L received sponsorships for $3100, reissued livestock checks for a 4-H kid that didn’t deposit their check, intent to enter fees received for $275. Bookkeeping services and beef breeding award expenses were also note for $ 967 total expenses. Sponsorship check received at Foundation that will be transferred this week. 

Reports: 

• Agent Report: MAGGIE finished. Tristan and Tayor were 2nd place in Poultry judging. Citizenship was attended by several kids in Helena. Organizational leaders need to remind members they have to choose both a level for their project and the name of the project. Leaders need to make sure to do the Clover Academies. Website is updated with committee bylaws, newsletters, Z-Suites, expenditure forms, and travel authorizations. Z-Suite calendar is being used to keep 4-H events up for all to see. Project day February 8th. JD applications are available online. 
•  Leaders Council: Full slate of officers and by law reviews. Brook reported on livestock project days.
• Breeding Project 101: Very well attended and there were lots of questions. Please continue to ask questions about our new book. 
• Swine 101: There were about 40 kids. Western Feed Corrall helped cover the feed portion.
• Beef Weigh In: Held on 2 days due to weather. About 17 were not weighed. 
• Junior Livestock Leaders: Meet last Sunday and selected buckles for all categories
• KMON/Winter Fair: Tristan participated in poultry judging at KMON. There were not any 4-H kids for meats id and there were 50 FFA kids. Getting attendance for 4-H is difficult due to being during the week. We need to offer education days. A project day at the Extension office might generate more interest. The Winter Fair was cold. Beef show was about half of normal. Inside shows had low attendance as well. 

Old Business:

• Marketing Committee Report: Met with Tim Lee and reviewed the 10 minute and did some cropping. It will now be 7-8 minutes. Tim will look to add some meat cutting videos to add for the butcher portion and create an additional video of the interview with Brenda about the ins and outs of purchasing projects. Adding a slide at the end with contact info so that interest people can contact the committee or office for more information. Need to add more open and closing information to make it complete. We’ve spent about $1100 of the $2300 so he will come back this year to take more footage. There will be chapters to the video so buyers can watch a specific part of the video they are interested in. Do we need a show and sale website? To use for marketing, posting QR codes, registrations, and other sale info to provide an additional touch point with buyers. We will have to loop MSU, John Holly, into the website conversation  to ensure we meet all the requirements. The Great Falls Chamber Ag Committee voted to give us $1000 sponsorship. Cascade County 4-H Facebook page is currently under review by MSU so it is archived at the moment. We need to put a QR code in the catalog that goes to the marketing video.
• Show Judge Committee Report: Met and discussed all judges that were presented. Jarred and Wendy Boardman from Wyoming are being recommended. Their fee is approximately $1000 plus hotel. One will judge the market and the other will judge showmanship. Todd moves to approve the recommendation of the committee Felicia 2nd. M/S/C
• Carcass Judge Committee Report: Reviewed the collective names and data provided by the carcass ultrasound technicians. Bob Patacini is our recommendation, his cost is $1500 plus two nights in a hotel. Brenda makes a motion to approve Bob Patacini from Missoula and obtain a contract before our next meeting. Todd 2nd. M/S/C
• Butcher Committee Report: Cody talked to Mark. Beef can come on the same day as the beef. The beef will be dry lotted and charge us $250 to feed all of them. He will process the beef as soon as they are finished with small animals. Kill fee $130 and processing fee $1.25/lb. We need to be very specific with the buyers that we will not transport beef if the processing fees have not been paid to the butchers. In order to be in compliance with the USDA, carcasses need to be wrapped in plastic to be moved back to Great Falls. There will be an additional $125 charge for the beef to be wrapped to transport. The committee is recommending the beef be completely processed in Columbia Falls at Glacier Processing Co-Op. The committee will talk to beef buyers and butchers to have full transparency in the reason for this decision. We will transport the beef to Great Falls in boxes and have a meeting point for buyers to pick up their beef. Brenda moves that we slaughter, cut and wrap all beef at the Glacier Processing Co-Op for this year. Brittney 2nd. M/S/C

New Business

• Division Chairs
  • Beef: Lisa Jassen & Shawn Hystead
  • Swine: Brittney Calvert & Sandy Harshaw-Irvin
  • Meat Goat: Heather Lewis
  • Dairy: Michelle Leardini
  • Sheep: Heather Lewis & Hailee Hart??
  • Rabbit: Desi Roth & Katrina Emmerich
  • Poultry: Felicia Short & Marie Powell
  • Breeding: Brenda Byrns & Jill Mackey

• Sponsorship Drive: Brittany Calvert and Kory Hastings called everyone from last year's list and have commitments for $5300. They will keep working on new sponsors.
• Show Purchases: We need different stools for the crows nest. Uline has 4 stools for $250, they will be stored at the Extension office and available for use for other livestock events. Buy permanent banners for the buyers table, we will need to purchase $75 each.  Bill moves to purchase stools for $250 for the crows nest and up to $100 for banners. Liz 2nd. M/S/C
• Catalog Committee: Volunteers for the committee: Brittney, Farrah, Lisa.
• Show Agenda: 
  • Wednesday July 9th Expo Park available at noon. 
    • noon-6pm - Set up
    • 6pm - 10pm - animal move in
  • Thursday July 10th
    • 8am Carcass Ultrasound (tentative vs after the market show) Or Weigh In
    • 8am Dairy
    • 10am Breeding Classes 
    • 12pm Weigh In
    • 4pm - 8pm Small Animal Show
    • 8pm-10pm Weigh In
  •  Friday July 11th
    • 8am Judges Meeting
    • 9am Market (proposal pig, beef, sheep, goat)
    • 2pm-4pm Sale Set up
    • 4:30pm Buyer Preview
    • 4:30pm Buyer Meal
    • 5:30pm Family Meal
    • 6pm-10pm Sale
  • Saturday July 12th
    • 8am - 2pm Showmanship (tentative carcass after each species finishes)
    • Additional Awards
    • Round Robin 
    • Peewee & Old Goat Showmanship
  • Sunday July 13th
    • 6am load out 

• Additional show notes: Buyer photos are the responsibility of the families. We will have a photographer available for Grand and Reserve Photos. Award prizes after each class instead of at the end of the show.  Jr Leaders will plan games and dance

Upcoming Events

February 8: Small Animal 101

February 25: Cascade County 4-H Livestock Leader Meeting

March 8: Dairy/Goat/Sheep 101

Adjournment

Desi moved to adjourn the meeting. 2nd by Reece  M/S/C Meeting adjourned at 8:09 pm.

 

Respectfully submitted,

Heather Lewis

Cascade County 4-H Livestock Leaders Secretary

APPROVED

Call to Order

Present:  Heather Lewis, Brook Gerard, Katrina Emmrich, Michelle Leardini,  Jill Mackey, Brittney Calvert, Falicia Short, Hailee Hart, Jenn Volkmar, Aimee Hachigian-Gould, Cody Loch, Lisa Jassen, Ginger Murphy, Cody Lock, Leah Mackey, Marie Powell, Liz Jennings, Brenda Byrnes, Desi Roth, Leann Murphy, Tristen Short, Bill Ogg, Brett Keaster, Farrah McGregor, Liz Jennings, Reagan Jassen, Avery Leardini, Sandy Harshaw-Irvin, Reece Hastings, Kinlee Loch, Anabelle Calvert, Kendra (online), Michaela Hystead, Lisa Jassen, Alena Standley

The meeting was called to order at 6:03 p.m. by Brook Gerard.

Minutes

Jill  motioned to approve the meeting minutes with the addition of Liz to the budget meeting and . Page 1 7 Bar Heart award was clarified later as only being completion of the book and interview.  2nd by Liz. M/S/C

Treasurer’s Report:

as of dad bank total assets

P/L sponsorships were received from foundation $3100, investments, transfer of funds fo

income xxx, payments xxxx Total 4999.21

Correspondence:

One returned thank you note from Stockmans Bank

Reports:

• Agent Report: Jenn Volkmar – Shooting Sports is very active. 365 members in Z-Suites with 800 projects. Project day is December 14th. Ambassadors will start in January along with fair meetings. Fair of lights , Citizenship signup
• Leaders Council: Jill represented Livestock leaders. Two officers were elected, and they are still looking for a Vice President.
• Beef 101: Reece thought we did good for our first one. Day one was books and day two live animals. Need to develop a rotation system to keep the kids more engaged instead of just talking. There were a lot of new kids. Hold earlier in the year because there were kids asking where to get steers. Jill's biggest take away from both days is that whatever you do in the project needs to fit the family needs and we need to continue to reinforce that so families understand there isn’t just one way to do it. Heather, we need to develop a resource list of places to buy steers for new families to the project. Kids are buying steers before 4-H enrollment is open for the project. Lisa - need to have more adults to present and advise on the project.
• Rule Book & Breeding Project Book: Rule book and Breeding Project books are published and will be available online.
• Junior Livestock Leaders: Met on Sunday at Timeless Seeds, Christmas in July was decided and worked on a catalog cover. Next is Sunday January 26th 2:30pm Timeless Seeds in Ulm. We will be deciding on prizes and buckles. Getting everything aligned to order by Feb 15th

Old Business:

• Marketing Update: Brook is connecting Brett and Farrah with the video editor to continue working on the marketing video.

New Business

• Carcass Contest Ultrasound vs Physical: How do we pay for the increase in fees? $800 cost right now for the rail carcass contest plus the cost of gas and hotel to Kalispell.
  • Pros & Cons Aimee: ultrasounds are difficult to orient and not as easy to interpret as it sounds. Playing field is leveled by doing them all at the same time by the same technician. Beef is trickier to determine the size of the ribeye because every beef is different. What if we did both to see how they would compare.
  • What is our ultimate goal of the Carcass Contest? Judith Basin & Madison County clip animals and give data to buyers for the sale. Ultrasound would allow us to have all 40 beef in the sale.
  • Ginger ultrasound in the home county had results that were less than expected for grand champion carcasses. There is a risk of a machine going down and not getting complete results.
  • Farrah risk is either way with rail or ultrasound is not perfect but it does help solve a problem that we are looking to allow 8 more beef. Offer another learning experience for carcass grading.
  • Brittney: Sidney ultrasound their beef and it goes fast, clipping does not affect showmanship or show. Buyer decides where the animals go for the butcher and the leaders are not responsible for finding butchers.
  • Tristen: The carcass facility was chaotic this year. He didn’t get enough time to look at the specifics of the carcass. It would be better to have a project day where there was time to discuss what they are looking at.
  • Beef of Merit does apply to Carcass
  • We do not have any kids going to carcass judging.
  • We need to develop a committee to interview the three available judges.
  • Bill Ogg: if we want to do a trial hybrid we should start with smaller animals. Better to ultrasound than nothing and with the right equipment and technician the results will be very accurate.
  • Judges Available:
    • Megan Vaanmen Hotel room, mileage, $50-100 supplies + cost per animal
    • Ellen Kittleman mileage, lodging plus per animal feel - has done hill county.
    • Bob Patacini 509-378-8014. $1500 plus the cost of the hotel.
  • Brenda moved we move the 2025 carcass contest to ultrasound only. Farrah 2nd One Nay. Motion Carries Heather, Brenda, Brett, Brook will form the committee.

 

• Slaughter Facility
  • Glacier Processing: Brook spoke with Mark, they are willing to work in the additional beef if we can give them hard numbers so they can have adequate staff. They are completely only USDA inspected facility and they have concerns about how we haul carcasses back to Great Falls being in compliance with USDA standards. They are working on a better way to load out carcasses. He recommended we have all beef slaughtered and packaged at the same facility because Mark & Ron are uncomfortable with the way Cascade County has hauled carcasses in the past. We have a reservation with Glacier Processing for all small animals and 32 + beef.
  • Bear Paw Meats: Carla can take 20 steers and would slaughter, cut, and wrap. She could just kill and chill. Down the road maybe could take up to 40.
  • Jill: We need to consider what the buyers and families are wanting. If we are not going to choose a processor today, per the rule book we will need a motion to extend the deadline to choose a processing facility.
  • Aimee: We only chose a USDA slaughter facility due to the rail carcasses. Why can’t we allow the buyers to pick the slaughter facility and the butcher.
  • Farrah: We don’t want to open the door to families transporting meat to buyers for the liability.
  • Ginger: Butchers are not great at communication
  • Brittney: If we solve the issue of carcass transport will Glacier take all of the Beef? Brook: Yes
  • Brenda: Are there extra costs associated with USDA mandatory transport? Brook will verify with Mark and Glacier Co-Op will be responsible
  • Lisa: We will disappoint local butchers if we suddenly take away the option for them to process for our county sale.
  • Brittney makes a motion to extend the date to select a slaughter facility to the next leaders meeting on January 28th. Felicia 2nd. M/S/C
  • Cody, Michaela, Farrah, Heather, Tristen - committee to speak with local processors
• Beef Carcass Reparations: Two buyers are looking for reparations after the carcass issues from last year. Kindred Plumbing has asked for replacement of 6 packages of two rib eye steaks. The Fox family asked for $3311 for missing beef and fees paid. MSU legal is ok with us moving forward with the amends as long as we are ok with offering it to everyone. Brooks' proposal is that we refund the Fox family’s 2.5% processing fee and replace the ribeyes for Kindred Plumbing. We offer each of the buyers 2.5% back from 2024 or pay for $225 kill fee at 2025 livestock show and sale.

<INSERT LETTER WRITTEN BY BROOK>

• Farrah asked to add a 3rd option to do nothing. Along with disclaimer that no response is considered an understanding of no further action is needed. and no further compensation will be considered.
• Discussion: Insurance policy for general liability doesn’t exist to cover this issue? MSU legal is willing to allow us to finalize with the buyers because the letter MSU legal sent the buyers did not have a deadline. We are trying to give good will and good faith with the letter to the buyers and would bring an end to an unfortunate situation. We have a good sale and extending the letter to all buyers is goodwill on the part of the leaders. Tracy Mosley and Cody Stone said we can move forward with reparations.
• Aimee moved to request a letter Cody Stone, CEO of MSU Extension, a letter to allow us to move forward. 2nd Lisa. Favor 7, opposed 8. Motion fails.
• Brittney accept the letter with the amendments as listed legal disclaimer, doing nothing and heavy on thankfulness and light on apologetic with approval by msu legal. 2nd Sandy. M/S/C
• County Show Judge; Send to committee Ginger, Heather, Michaela, Brook. May need to be voted via email so we can get one booked before the next meeting.
• Beef Weigh In: January 12th, with the backup date of the 19th 1-5pm at Western Livestock Auction.
• Breeding Project 101: Breeding project rewrite to be presented
• Swine 101: Will be organized by Brittney Calvert, she will try to make it hands on with a live portion in April when hogs available.

Upcoming Events

December 14th Breeding Project 101

January 11th Swine 101

January 12th Beef Weigh In, 19th backup day

January 28th Cascade County Livestock Leaders Meeting

Adjournment

Brenda moved to adjourn the meeting. 2^nd by Brittney M/S/C Meeting adjourned at 8:00 pm.

 

Respectfully submitted,

Heather Lewis

Cascade County 4-H Livestock Leaders Secretary

APPROVED

Call to Order

Present:  Heather Lewis, Brook Gerard, Katrina Emmrich, Michelle Leardini,  Jill Rearden, Brittney Calvert, Falicia Short, Hailee Hart, Jenn Volkmar, Aimee Hachigian-Gould, Cody Loch, Jill Skinner, Lisa Jassen, Ginger Murphy, Cody Lock, Leann Murphy, Leah Mackey, Marie Powell, Liz Jennings 

 

The meeting was called to order at 6:03 p.m. by Brook Gerard. 

Minutes

Lisa motioned to approve the meeting minutes with the addition of Ginger Murphy being in attendance, 2nd by Cody. M/S/C 

Treasurer’s Report: by Lisa

As of 09/24/24 Checking balance $17,456.66, DAD $9,278.55. Total assets of $26,735.21. P&L from October 2023-October 2024, net income of $7,745. Budget Meeting: Lisa, Brittney, Brook met to review the budget. The amount of scholarship was reduced to meet the actuals being received, poultry leg bands were moved to supplies with ear tags, intent to enter was move to under program category. Increased the cost of awards to account for the addition of breeding project awards. Motion to approve the meeting with the change of moving the two project days line items together, Britteny, second by Falicia. MSC 

Correspondence:

None 

Reports:  

• Agent Report: Jenn Volkmar – Achievement night was Sunday. Mountain View Co-Op asked us to remind kids that they have a 4-H program. Project day will be November 9th new family, clover buds, and livestock. Z-suites registration will go out November 1st. Ear tags are on order. Western Feed Corral will be donation them this year so we will not have that expense.  

Old Business: 

• Achievement night: The MC was very good and it flowed well. The slide show was nice to be able to read and listen. Attendance could have been better. There were not a lot of livestock awards to accept awards. The seating was tight. Display the awards and not give them in boxes to be able to see what awards are being received. Poultry and Rabbit were not included showmanship awards. The dinner was nice. How do we get more kids there. Maybe explore another evening besides Sunday. 

• Breeding Project Rewrite Update: Jill made additions based upon the comments received. We will provide a link to the P&L for kids to explore as part of their project. Over the next year we can develop addendums based upon species to help with the more species-specificproject parts. Jill is working on a grant for a couple Chrome Books so we can support kids that do not have computers at home to complete their projects digitally. Jill motioned to pick option one or option two with keeping 7 Bar Heart award separate from all. 

• • Option 1: Book, Interview, and Video & keep county show the same as previous years. 

• • Option 2: Book, Interview, Supreme Female or Video, Pen, Poster for High Point Awards. 

• • 7 Bar Heart Award: Book, Interview, Video – independent award 

• • Anonymous voting: 12 for option 2 and 2 for option 1. We will change the breeding projects to High Point for this year and will keep the 7 Bar Heart award separate with own criteria.  

• Rule Change Update: 

• • Jill Reardon went through the rule book to fix duplications and formatting issues. Rule change forms have been completed for any issues that were not duplications of information or formatting. 

 

1.	Aimee Hachigian Gould Carcass Contest & Butchers	Add to page 14 to replace bullet points 1-3.	Aimee moves to approve this rule as presented. Cody 2nd. M/S/C
2.	Rabbits page 14 # 3	Rabbits intended to show must be tattooed in the left ear.	Katrina moves to accept the rabbit changes as presented.   Marie 2nd. M/S/C
3.	Intent Date	Creating generic intent to enter dates  1st Monday January: Beef  3rd Monday April: Swine  2nd Monday May: Sheep and Goats  70 days prior to show Meat pens	Brittney moves to accept the generic intent to enter dates as written.  Jill 2nd M/S/C
4.	Rabbit weigh change to rule 9	Each animal must weight 3.-6 lbs	Katrina moves to approve Falicia 2nd. M/S/C
5.	Page 8 Beef, replacement animal.	Removal of the last paragraph that a beef can later be intented.	Marie motion to approve as written. Brittney 2nd. M/S/C
6.	Poultry page 8	Page 10 #4, remove mandatory veterinary inspection and add that a vet will be consulted at check-in if an animal seems to be ill.	Marie moves to approve as written. Falicia 2nd. M/S/C
7.	Pag 6 Ear tags	Page 6 – remove all small animal details under small animals and move to the poultry & rabbit section	Marie moves to approve as written. Brittney 2nd. M/S/C
8.	Addition to Poultry Meat Pen	Meat Pen section:   Clarification to add two meat pens are permitted to be sold if no other livestock animals are being sold	Marie moves to approve as written. 2nd Ginger M/S/C
9.	Page 13 # 1	Page 13 #1 move to 14  All poultry must be owned or in possession by May 1st with the exception of meat peans intended for the livestock show and sale.	Marie moves to approve as written. Katrina 2nd. M/S/C
10		Page 14 #2  Add: leg bands required to show at county show.	Mariemoves to approved as written. Katrina 2nd. M/S/C
11	Maximum Limits of:  Beef: 30  Sheep: 30  Swine: 70  Goats: 30	The processing facilities limit the number of animals they can handle due to space and staff. Livestock leaders will work every year to accommodate all members projects through the butchering process. If accommodations can’t be made by November 30 of the 4-H year then kids with tow animals will be asked to pick their sale project or choose another option.	Brook moves to approve as written. Brittney 2nd    One Nay    Motion Passes
12.	Hip Height	Weight will replace hip height for market judging	Liz moves to approve as written. Cody 2nd.  1 nay  Motion passes
13.	Jr Leaders	Addition of Jr Leader to the rule book .     Jr. Leaders are available to all 4-H youth age 13 and above. The purpose of this committee is to provide leadership opportunities within the Livestock Leaders Committee. The Jr. Leaders assist with project days, help plan the livestock show in relation to themes, prizes and additional activities. They are also available as mentors to younger 4-H members and their families for livestock projects throughout the year.      Meetings are in the months of November, January, March, May, June    Jr. Leaders are welcome to attend the regularly scheduled Livestock Leaders meetings.	Heather moves to approve with the change that meetings will be in the designate months with date decided upon with Jr. Leader Availability. 2nd Brittney  M/S/C

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Buyer Video: Brett Kester and Farrah McGregor on committee. There was a comment about the butcher featured that we should remove from the video. 

Livestock Judging: We don’t have anyone at our county level currently that is consistent. We are looking for a mentor to lead this. We have an annual subscription to LivestockJudging.com but are looking for a parent or person to help lead.  

Beef 101: November 9th: 9-noon will cover Record Books, & Budgets, Activities needed, costs, interview requirements, show examples, Project Book Activities, Healthy Animals and Medications, Marketing tips, Recording health records & Invite to Sunday Activities at the Hastings Ranch, Marketing tip sheet from McGregor Boys. Sunday Hastings Ranch 12:30-?? Will be covering animal selection, shelter/pen space, feed program/watering, halter breaking, livestock judging 

Education Days: 

November 9th & 10th Beef 101 

December Breeding Project 101 

January Swine 101 

February Small Animal 101 

March Lamb & Goat 101 

April Fitting and Showmanship 

May 

 

There is Leaders training on November 16th and is in Shelby. Registration is on Z-Suites.  

Rose is putting on a series of seminars about calving and nutrition.  

Adjournment

Brittney moved to adjourn the meeting. 2nd by Ginger M/S/C Meeting adjourned at 8:03 pm. 

 

Respectfully submitted, 

 

Heather Lewis 

Cascade County 4-H Livestock Leaders Secretary