Registration Opens for Texas A & M Beef Cattle Short Course Aug. 4-6

May 22, 2025

By Kay Ledbetter

Registration is open for the 71st annual Texas A&M Beef Cattle Short Course on Aug. 4-6 in Bryan-College Station. The event is hosted by the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service and the Texas A&M College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Department of Animal Science.

The largest-attended beef cattle educational event of its type in the world attracts almost 2,000 attendees to the three-day event, said Jason Cleere, Ph.D., conference coordinator and AgriLife Extension statewide beef cattle specialist in the Department of Animal Science, Bryan-College Station.

Producers are offered more than 50 hours of training on basic ranching practices, new technologies and hot topics in beef cattle production during the Cattleman’s College, which features 20 concurrent sessions and includes live-animal and chute-side demonstrations.

Attendees can access over 150 agriculture-related businesses and trade show exhibitors. Pesticide license holders and veterinarians can also earn continuing education units during the event.

The Youth Track is also back in place for high school students to learn more about hands-on beef cattle production.

Source : tamu.edu

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