By Blair Fannin
A 2017 cattle market outlook will be one of the featured topics at the 55th Blackland Income Growth Conference set for Dec. 13 at the at the Extraco Events Center, 4601 Bosque Blvd. in Waco.
The conference is sponsored by the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service and the Waco Chamber of Commerce.
Dr. Jason Johnson, Texas A&M AgriLife Extension economist, Stephenville, will share both short- and long-term forecasts for beef cattle prices and trends going into 2017.
Other topics and speakers include Nutritional Economics, Dr. Ron Gill, AgriLife Extension livestock specialist, College Station; Public Policy and How it Affects the Cattle Business and Landowners, Jason Skaggs, Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association, Austin.
Agricultural Sustainability in a Challenging Marketplace will be the keynote luncheon theme by Julie Borlaug, associate director of external relations at the Borlaug Institute for International Agriculture at Texas A&M University in College Station.
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