Junior Fed Beef Career and Leadership Program

Each summer, the Texas Cattle Feeders Association (TCFA) hosts a Junior Fed Beef Career and Leadership Program in conjunction with West Texas A&M University (WTAMU) and Texas A&M Agrilife Extension Service. This year’s program will be held June 29 – July 1 on the campus of WTAMU.

Participants will receive hands-on instruction about feedyard operations, as well as career opportunities in the fed beef industry. Students will participate in operation problem solving and leadership activities. Activities will include tours of commercial cattle feeding operations, a tour of a beef processing facility, the opportunity to learn the anatomy of a beef carcass and fabricate a beef half, and participate in a consumer beef taste panel. Students will also spend a day learning day-to-day operations of a feedyard and have the opportunity to participate in a job shadow program at a local feedyard following the conclusion of the program.

The program is open to incoming high school juniors in seniors residing in Texas, Oklahoma, or New Mexico. The deadline is fast approaching, but I thought a program like this may really be of interest to some of the youth in your association.

Click the following link to find a brochure about the program and an application http://www.tcfa.org/news-events/feedyard-camp.html. Please feel free to pass this along to anyone who may be interested.