Cattle Handling Sessions
Bringing the ranch to you in the comfort of your home!
You get access to all 4 sessions with 5 instructors!
- Temple Grandin - Cattle Handling Expert-Improving Cattle Stockmanship
- W. Travis Meteer - University of Illinois- All Things Cattle Handling
- Stephen Boyles - Ohio State University and Lydia Garcia- Cattle Transportation & Bruising
- Curt Pate and John Rose- Low Stress Cattle Handling
You will have access to the videos along with the option to download the audio in podcast form! Learn more about the experts
Dr. Temple Grandin is a designer of livestock handling facilities and a Professor of Animal Science at Colorado State University. Facilities she has designed are located in the United States, Canada, Europe, Mexico, Australia, New Zealand, and other countries. In North America, almost half of the cattle are handled in a center track restrainer system that she designed for meat plants. Curved chute and race systems she has designed for cattle are used worldwide and her writings on the flight zone and other principles of grazing animal behavior have helped many people to reduce stress on their animals during handling.
She has also developed an objective scoring system for assessing handling of cattle and pigs at meat plants. This scoring system is being used by many large corporations to improve animal welfare. Other areas of research are: cattle temperament, environmental enrichment for pigs, reducing dark cutters and bruises, bull fertility, training procedures, horse perception of novel objects, and effective stunning methods for cattle and pigs at meat plants.Travis Meteer is a Beef Extension Educator for the University of Illinois. His Extension programming involves nutrition, genetics, reproduction, grazing, and marketing in the areas of cow-calf, stocker, and feedlot production. He is also involved in planning and executing applied research at the University of Illinois off-campus research stations.
Meteer grew up on a diversified livestock farm in central Illinois. He attended Lake Land College and University of Illinois, being a member of the livestock judging team at both institutions. While getting a master’s degree in ruminant nutrition, he coached two national champion 4-H livestock judging teams.
Meteer continues to be involved in the family farm where they raise purebred Hereford seedstock and also run black and black-baldy commercial cows. He has also has custom-grazed bred heifers and commercial cow/calf pairs.
Steve Boyles grew up on farms in West Virginia and Ohio. He received his B.S. degree from Virginia Tech in animal science, a M.S. from The Ohio State University in reproductive physiology and a Ph.D. in ruminant nutrition from Kansas State University. Upon graduation, Dr. Boyles worked at North Dakota State University as a livestock extension specialist. His OSU on-campus teaching involves a course dealing with animal welfare. His current area of focus in extension programming is Beef Quality Assurance, Animal Handling and Facility Design. His research program involves forage systems. He received the Ohio Cattlemen’s Association – Industry Service Award and the Excellence in Extension Award from OSU Extension and The OSU Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching. Besides serving as a beef extension specialist to Ohio’s beef producers, Dr. Boyles has worked as a beef cattle nutrition consultant in Mexico, Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Slovakia, Russia and Mongolia. Dr. Boyles is also involved in conducting environmental assessments and animal welfare audits of livestock operations in the U.S.For more than a decade, Curt Pate has conducted demonstrations and clinics on stockmanship, colt starting and ranch horsemanship throughout North America and Europe. A nationally recognized stockmanship instructor, Pate teaches techniques on how to put the proper pressure on cattle at a different angle and at varying amounts to help move them comfortably and without a negative experience – for the stockman or the livestock. An avid environmentalist, Pate is passionate about grazing animals to improve the environment as well as for a profitable farm business.John Rose is owner and manager of Rose Cattle Company. He grew up in Jerome, Idaho on a pure bred ranch. This is where his lovefor cattle and the industry started. John is a graduate of Cal Poly University with a degree in animal science. He moved to Three Forks, MT where he started Rose Cattle Company. John has a greateye for cattle and always strives to buy the best of the best. His buyers and sellers have become his friends over the past fewyears and he looks forward to working with you in the future. In his spare time (which is very limited) he spends time watching his children in their activities and working his stock dogs.