Kansas beef producers talk genetics with Mexican trade team

May 25, 2023
May 25, 2023

Mexcio trade mission 2.jpg — Jay Young of Young Red Angus in Tribune discusses how he utilizes cover crops to raise his Red Angus cow-calf herd in arid western Kansas. Young shared his passion for regenerative agriculture and functional cattle with the trade team.
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The Kansas Department of Agriculture — together with the U.S. Livestock Genetics Export, Inc. (USLGE) and the Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food and Forestry — hosted a beef genetics trade mission from Mexico May 7-12.

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Mexcio trade mission 1.jpg — David Hubert of Hubert Charolais Ranch in Monument, Kan., hosted cattlemen from Mexico as they traveled to Kansas and Oklahoma on a beef genetics trade mission in May. Hubert shared his family’s goal of raising cattle that work through a variety of management and environmental conditions.
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