The Southwest Beef Symposium jointly hosted by the New Mexico State University Cooperative Extension Service and Texas AgriLife Extension Service is scheduled for Tuesday and Wednesday, January 17-18 at the Roswell Convention Center located at 912 N. Main Street.
The educational forum, is tailored for beef producers and was established seven years ago to provide timely information annually about current industry issues and practical management. The event alternates locations in New Mexico and Texas. Texas AgriLife hosted the event last year in Amarillo.
"There were numerous lessons learned in 2011 across multiple avenues of the industry," said Manny Encinias, NMSU Extension beef cattle specialist stationed at NMSU's Clayton Livestock Research Center. "This year's symposium will give attendees an optimistic insight of opportunities that lie ahead in the industry, as well as provide management framework to minimize risk back at the ranch."
Guest speaker Doug Southgate, an agricultural economist at Ohio State University will open the symposium with a discussion on the challenge of meeting global demand for livestock products and other food.
"Even though population numbers and per capita consumption of food are not growing as fast as they used to do, global demands for edible goods, especially beef and other livestock products, will be much higher in 2050 than today," said Southgate.
