2021Fall-Focus-Program.Pdf

DoubleTree Hotel, Denver, CO Speakers include • Scott Speidel, PhD Colorado State University • Randy Moody Chairman of the ASA Board of Trustees • Steve Williams JBS • Jonathan Wallace Denver Nuggets • Tony Bryant, PhD Five Rivers Cattle Feeding • Tim Holt, DVM Colorado State University • Randie Culbertson, PhD ASA/IGS • Milt Thomas, PhD Colorado State University • Wade Shafer, PhD ASA/IGS • Mark Enns, PhD Colorado State University • Alison Van Eenennaam, PhD University of California–Davis Thank You Fall Focus Sponsors! Platinum Silver Bronze Fred Smith Company Bill and Penny Zimmerman Gateway Simmental Mark Barnell Land and Cattle Company Nebraska Gibbs Farms GenexTM Lassle Ranch Simmentals Lehrman Family Simmentals and CM Peck Simmentals McDonald Farms Miller Simmentals Promise Land Ranch and Little Bitterroot River Ranch Russell’s Reflected R Ranch Select Sires® Inc Pledges received by 7/11/21 TNT Simmental Ranch General Schedule Friday, August 27 Saturday, August 28 National Western Stock Show Educational Symposium at the DoubleTree 4:00 – 7:00 PM 8:00 AM – 5:30 PM Colorado Simmental Association welcomes all to see the Join us for a day packed with talks featuring navigating progress of the National Western Stock Show (NWSS) change as a millennial rancher/farmer, pulmonary renovation, live demonstrations of pulmonary arterial arterial pressure (PAP), late feedlot heart disease, pressure (PAP) collection, foot/leg scoring, a cattle value added programs and perspectives from a feedlot, display from Colorado Simmental breeders, and a selecting cattle for profitability in the feedlot sector, delicious brisket dinner. and effective communication with the general public All events and dinner will be in the hill cattle stalling about animal agriculture. area of NWSS' Hall of Education. Watch for gate Evening meal and celebration of last entrance and parking information. year’s and the newest Golden Book Award Tours of the NWSS recipients, Lifetime Promoter recipients, and 4:00 – 5:00 PM outgoing ASA trustees at the DoubleTree. Guided yards tours, with construction restrictions, 6:00 PM will all begin at the hill stalling area. Sunday, August 29 Board Meeting 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM Join the ASA trustees to discuss critical issues in each of the five standing committees and hear staff reports in various areas. Live Cattle Demonstrations Breed Improvement and Activities & Events Committees meet. 4:30 – 6:00 PM Lunch is provided Live demonstrations will rotate every 30 minutes between PAP collection and feet/leg scores. PAP Collection Monday, August 30 Dr. Tim Holt, world expert Board meeting continues in PAP measuring and high 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM altitude disease, will Committee meetings continue with Simbrah, Growth demonstrate a live PAP and Development, and Policies and Procedures collection. Committee reports and presentations of Resolutions Foot/Leg scoring and Directives will follow Lane Giess will walk through Lunch is provided the three recommended scores for feet/legs and work through live cattle to help breeders feel Tuesday, August 31 more comfortable scoring Board meeting continues their own cattle. 7:00 – 10:00 AM Cattle Display Voting on resolutions and directives 4:00 – 7:00 PM Colorado Simmental Association members are gathering their finest cattle for your viewing pleasure. Fall Focus 2021 Dinner 6:00 – 7:00 PM Registration Information The breeders of the Colorado Simmental Association Pre-registration is required to plan for have arranged a mouth-watering brisket sandwich meal meals and refreshments. served in the shade. Registration deadline is August 10. www.fallfocus.org Educational Symposium Focus on You. Focus on Success. Focus on Profit. Saturday, August 28 DoubleTree Hotel, Denver, CO 8:00 – 8:15 AM 12:30 – 1:30 PM Welcome Lunch Randy Moody, Speaker, Steve Williams, JBS head of chairman, ASA Board of Trustees procurement and sponsor highlight from National Corn Growers Association 8:15 – 8:45 AM and Neogen The Millennial Rancher: Progression in the midst of cultural change 1:30 – 2:30 PM Jonathan Wallace, Value-added Programs and Denver Nuggets operations associate Opportunities for Feeder Cattle Tony Bryant, PhD, Five Rivers Cattle Feeding 9:00 – 9:45 AM Understanding Pulmonary Hypertension in 2:30 – 3:30 PM Cattle in the Context of Arterial Pressures Feed Intake vs Feed Efficiency: (PAP), Brisket Disease, and Late Term What should we be selecting for? Feedlot Death Randie Culbertson, PhD, and Wade Shafer, Tim Holt, DVM, Colorado State University PhD, American Simmental Association 9:45 – 10:15 AM 3:30 – 4:00 PM Break, and spotlight Break, and spotlight American Simmental-Simbrah Foundation Sponsor highlight from Allflex 10:15 – 11:00 AM 4:00 – 5:00 PM Feedlot Heart Disease: What we are Animal Agriculture and Alternative learning from a study funded by USDA Meats: Learning from past science Milton Thomas, PhD, communication failures Colorado State University Alison Van Eenennaam, PhD, University of California–Davis 11:00 – 11:45 AM Developing a Phenotype 5:00 – 5:30 PM for Feedlot Heart Disease. Wrap up Scott Speidel, PhD, Colorado State University 6:00 PM Evening Social and dinner at the 11:45 – 12:30 PM DoubleTree PAP EPD Development Honoring the Golden Book and and Appropriate Use Lifetime Promoter Award recipients Mark Enns, PhD, Colorado State University and 2020 retiring ASA trustees Meet Your Speakers Randy Moody Jonathan Wallace Little Mountain Farm Basketball Operations Associate Chairman of ASA Board of Trustees Denver Nuggets Randy Moody’s Little Mountain Farm, Jonathan Wallace grew up on the established in 1984, is a Simmental, family farm in Harvest, Alabama, where SimAngusTM, and Angus seedstock he was introduced to skills that would operation of 60 mature females. His set the foundation for his career. breeding program is exclusively by Wallace accepted an offer to attend AI and ET, and utilizes cooperator herds Princeton University until his path was to produce 25–30 additional ET calves rerouted to follow Coach John Thomp- annually. Females are marketed through son III to Georgetown University as a the Genetic Connection Sale and bulls are mainly sold at walk-on for the men’s basketball team. Wallace earned the North Alabama Bull Evaluation Sale. a full scholarship by the third game of his freshman During his tenure on the ASA board he has also served year and started every game of his career, was part as treasurer, two years as chairman of the Policies and of four teams that went to the postseason (including Procedures Committee as well as serving as chairman three straight NCAA Tournament appearances), won of the Simbrah Committee one year. Moody has served back-to-back Big East Regular Season titles, and a Big as president of the Alabama Simmental Association and East Tournament Championship. He set the record for was co-chair of the Regional AJSA Classic held in 3-point makes and ranks third all-time in career starts Huntsville in 2008. A member of NCBA, he served at Georgetown. as president of the Alabama Beef Cattle Improvement Following his graduation, Wallace embarked on Association in 2009 and again in 2018. He holds a BS a professional career that took him from the NBA from the University of Montevallo and is the owner of Developmental League to Slovenia, Germany, Belgium, Randy Moody Associates, a marketing company that and Africa. When Wallace returned to Georgetown, he specializes in industrial and agriculture spray pumps, served as special assistant to the head coach for both controls, and hydraulics. John Thompson III and Patrick Ewing. In 2019, he completed the executive master’s in leadership program through Gerogetown’s McDonough School of Business. He is currently in his second year as operations associate Milton Thomas, PhD for the Denver Nuggets, where his focus involves player development, NBA draft prep, in-season trades, and Professor and John E. Rouse Chair organizational management. Colorado State University Wallace also runs Capshaw Ridge Cattle Company, Dr. Milt Thomas was raised on farms a cow-calf beef cattle operation using SimGenetics in and ranches in Texas and Missouri and Harvest, Alabama. received animal science degrees from University of Missouri and Texas A&M University. Dr. Thomas joined Colorado State University in December of 2012 Scott Speidel, PhD as professor and John E. Rouse Chair of Beef Cattle Breeding and Genetics Associate Professor in the Department of Animal Sciences. Prior to this Colorado State University position, Dr. Thomas worked in the Department of Ani- Scott Speidel is an associate professor mal and Range Sciences at New Mexico State University of beef cattle breeding and genetics in (1997–2011), where he was involved in breeding Angus, the Department of Animal Sciences at Brangus, and Brahman cattle for the Chihuahuan Desert, Colorado State University. Dr. Speidel, which was great experience to prepare for breeding a native of southern California, received Angus cattle for tolerance to high altitude in Colorado his undergraduate degree in animal and Wyoming. sciences from California State Univer- Dr. Thomas has published over 500 professional arti- sity–Fresno, where he spent much of his cles as abstracts, experiment station reports, extension time working with swine and dairy programs. In 2001, articles, and more. Over 100 of these papers were pub- he completed his MS in animal sciences at the University lished in peer-reviewed journals. Dr. Thomas has trained of Arizona, specializing in diary molecular genetics. He more than 30 graduate students and helped more than received his PhD in breeding and genetics from Colorado 30 undergraduate students with honors projects. Dr. State University in 2011. Thomas has held several leadership positions within the Dr. Speidel’s research interests include the develop- American Society of Animal Sciences and also completed ment of models for genetic evaluation of efficiency and sabbatical studies in livestock genomics at UC–Davis and adaptability traits in beef cattle.

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