Dates to Remember, March 1997

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Dates to Remember

Livestock Update, March 1997

BEEF

MARCH: 8 -- Central Virginia Beef Cattle Field Day, Morven Farm, Charlottesville; 22 -- Virginia BCIA Wytheville Bull Sale, Southwest Bull Test Station, Wytheville
APRIL: 4 -- Virginia BCIA Culpeper Junior Bull Sale, Culpeper; 25 - 27 -- Virginia Beef Expo and Junior Beef Roundup, Harrisonburg

4-H

MARCH: 9 -- Open House, Southwest Bull Test Station, Wytheville; 14 -- Block and Bridle Club Stockman's Contest and Meats Judging Contest, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg; 15 -- Block & Bridle Club Livestock Judging Contest, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg; 22 -- Block & Bridle Club Horse Judging Contest, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg

GENERAL

MARCH: 3 - 7 -- Animal Science Specialty In-Service Training, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg; 8 -- Southern Piedmont Forage Conference, Cumberland Elementary School
APRIL: 12 -- 75th Little International and Department of Animal and Poultry Sciences Alumni Organization Inaugural Meeting, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg
JULY: 11 -- Animal Industry Day, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg

HORSE

APRIL: 18 - 20 -- Virginia Horse Festival, Lexington

POULTRY

APRIL: 12 -- Northern District 4-H Poultry Judging Workshop & Qualifying Event, Culpeper, Contact: Betsy Campbell, (540) 825-2233; 19 -- Carolina/Virginia Pheasant and Waterfowl Society quarterly meeting, Mechanicsville, Contact: Jan Trader, (804) 824-5828; 19 -- Southside 4-H Poultry Judging Workshop and Qualifying Event, Mecklenburg, Contact Leonard Elam, (804) 738-6191
MAY: 9 -- Virginia Poultry Federation Youth Convention and State 4-H Judging Contest, Rockingham County Fairgrounds, Contact: Phillip J. Clauer, (540) 231-9185

SHEEP

MARCH: 1 -- Virginia Commercial Bred Ewe and Ram Sale, New River Valley Fairgrounds, Dublin; 19 -- Carolina/Virginia Pheasant and Waterfowl Society quarterly meeting, Mechanicsville, Contact: Jan Trader, (804) 824-5828; 19 -- Southside 4-H Poultry Judging Workshop and Qualifying Event, Mecklenburg, Contact Leonard Elam, (804) 738-6191
APRIL: 29 - 30 -- Beginner's Sheep Shearing School, Glade Spring
MAY: 8 -- Virginia-North Carolina Wool Sale, Dublin
JUNE: 13 - 14 -- Eastern Stud Ram Sale, Augusta Expoland, Fishersville

SWINE

JUNE: 5 - 7 -- World Pork Expo, State Fairgrounds, Indianapolis, Ind.

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