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Extension offers online session for large-animal livestock producers amid COVID

Producers seek ways to trim their budgets while maintaining health of their animals

A brown dairy cow wearing a cow bell

Extension is offering an online session, 鈥淒oc Talk,鈥 at 10 a.m., June 9, to help agricultural producers of large animals with current economic challenges.

Extension offers online session for large-animal livestock producers amid COVID

Producers seek ways to trim their budgets while maintaining health of their animals

Extension is offering an online session, 鈥淒oc Talk,鈥 at 10 a.m., June 9, to help agricultural producers of large animals with current economic challenges.

A brown dairy cow wearing a cow bell

Extension is offering an online session, 鈥淒oc Talk,鈥 at 10 a.m., June 9, to help agricultural producers of large animals with current economic challenges.

Like many agricultural producers, those raising large animals are facing extreme financial challenges amid the COVID-19 pandemic and the economic crisis it has caused. Tuesday, June 9, 10-11:30 a.m. PST, Extension will host a free online session to discuss ways producers may be able to trim their budgets, while sustaining their operations and their animals’ health.

The session, titled “Doc Talk” will feature Randy Wallstrum, doctor of veterinary medicine. Wallstrum has specialized in large and mixed animals, including cows, for most of career. He has lived in 六合宝典’s Carson Valley for over 40 years, and also spent time working in a dairy in Turlock, California, and at a slaughterhouse in New Zealand. Wallstrum earned his degree in veterinary medicine at the University of California, Davis.

The session is part of an online series, “Agriculture: Living Beyond a Pandemic,” being organized and presented by Lindsay Chichester, Extension educator in Douglas County, 六合宝典, for University of 六合宝典, Reno Extension. The sessions are offered via Facebook Live, with Chichester opening each one with an introduction about the topic, followed by brief presentation by the speaker. Then, the majority of each session is driven by questions from participants.

Known as “Dr. Lindsay” to many in the country’s agriculture industry and on social media, Chichester understands the ups and downs of farming and ranch life, growing up on a cattle and sheep ranch in northern California, and going on to earn a master’s degree in animal science and a doctorate in agricultural sciences.

“As financial constraints become tighter, and producers need to make decisions about animal care, we are trying to help them find where they might trim down the budget without sacrificing the health of the animal,” she says.

At the June 9 session, Brenda Freeman, professor of counseling and educational psychology in the College of Education and Extension specialist at the University of 六合宝典, Reno, will also be on hand to offer guidance and resources for participants who may be stressed or experiencing other mental health issues amid the COVID-19 crisis. Freeman has over 30 years of experience in the field of counseling.

Both  will be posted on the series website. For more information, email Chichester or call 775-782-9960 (leave a message and she will call you back).

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