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Saturday Night Live Club Lamb Sale, Tyler P. Wilkerson
Saturday Night Live Club Lamb Sale, Tyler P. Wilkerson
Agricultural Education and Communication
“Competition is said to be the backbone of the stock show industry,” (Davis, 1998). A statement spoken in a 1998 thesis paper on the junior livestock industry still holds water in today’s world. Youth livestock exhibition, especially in California, continues to grow in the number of youth participants and the number of livestock entries at shows (Switzer, 2019).
It is the responsibility of livestock breeders to breed, raise, and sell their livestock to maximize the opportunity for youth to acquire livestock to show. In his research, Wendt discusses the capabilities of purchasing livestock through online platforms. He speaks to the …
Natural Disaster Animal Evacuation, Nicole Amanda Booten
Natural Disaster Animal Evacuation, Nicole Amanda Booten
Agricultural Education and Communication
In the past 20 years there have been massive natural disasters that have devastated communities and states across America. In Southern California and on the Central Coast, there have been widespread fires with the largest fires being: in 2003, the Cedar Fire affected San Diego, in 2007, the Zaca Fire impacted Santa Barbara, and the Witch Fire devasted San Diego, and in 2017, the Thomas Fire affected Ventura County (Cal Fire, 2018).
Although Cal Fire has information on helping lower the impact of a fire on your animals and property, there is currently no protocol or general plan of action …