Sept. 12-18 – National Cattlemen’s Beef Association Fall Legislative Conference, Liaison Capitol Hill Hotel, Washington, D.C.; 202-347-0228 or www.beefusa.org.

Sept. 15-16 – Michigan State University Grazing school, Lake City Experiment Station, Lake City; 517-974-9539.

Sept. 15-16 – National Association of Animal Breeders 64th annual convention, Wyndham Milwaukee Airport Hotel, Milwaukee, WI; 573-445-4406 or www.naab-css.org.

Sept. 15-19 – Cornell Cooperative Extension Great Plains Tour visiting ranches, feedlots, heifer developers and the U.S. Meat Animal Research Center; 607-255-5923 or [email protected].

Sept. 21-22 – 71st Minnesota Nutrition Conference, Holiday Inn, Owatonna; 800-322-0437, 320-589-1711 or www.ansci.umn.edu/mnc.html.

Sept. 23 – Beef Bash 2010 Field Day, University of Kentucky Research & Education Center, Princeton, KY; ces.ca.uky.edu/beefirm/bash/.

Sept. 30 – Kansas State University Stocker Conference, Manhattan; 785-532-1267, [email protected] or ksubeef.org.

Oct. 7 – University of Tennessee Northeast Tennessee Beef Expo, AgResearch and Education Center, Greeneville; 423-798-1710 or tobacco.tennessee.edu/.

Oct. 5-7 – 45th Pacific Northwest Annual Nutrition Conference, Sheraton Wall Centre Hotel, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; 503-226-2758 or www.pnwanc.org.

Oct. 28-29 – King Ranch Institute for Ranch Management’s Holt Cat Symposium, “Managing Risk In A Risky Business,” Texas A&M University-Kingsville; Kingsville; 361-593-5401 or krirm.tamuk.edu.