Cattle demonstrations at Husker Harvest Days provide attendees an opportunity to see side-by-side comparisons of cattle chutes in motion, in addition to being entertained alongside the best way.
“Dr. Joe” Jeffrey is again for one more 12 months as emcee of the cattle demos, moderating as handlers run cattle by the varied chutes that will probably be put to the check.
Jeffrey, a veterinarian from Lexington, Neb., is able to entertain and educate throughout the cattle-handling demos. It guarantees to be simply as informative as in years previous with side-by-side chute comparisons, and simply as entertaining together with his operating commentary.
“We inform a number of tales and have some enjoyable, too,” Jeffrey says. “It has been lots of enjoyable.”
Jeffrey says attendees have taught him this: “Educate me a little bit, however I additionally need to be entertained.”
Lengthy profession brings loads of tales
Jeffrey says his prolonged veterinary profession has offered him loads of fodder for tales. “I labored for seven veterinarians, and they’d ship me on the calls that they didn’t need to go on,” he says.
Jeffrey has traveled throughout the nation taking his cattle information and homespun humor to demonstrations related to what’s seen at Husker Harvest Days.
Jeffrey enjoys teasing a number of the chute operators, however he’s fast to confess that they’re the true stars of the present and make the demonstrations profitable 12 months after 12 months, in addition to the tools itself.
“It’s way more profitable than I might have anticipated. The chutes have actually improved through the years,” he says. “The best modifications have been how sturdy the chutes are constructed in the present day, and that they’re much safer for the livestock and the handlers.”
The voice of the present’s cattle-handling demos, Dr. Joe Jeffrey entertains the viewers whereas additionally instructing them. However he says the true stars of the demos are the fellows dealing with the cattle and dealing the chutes.
Since reside cattle-handling demonstrations and side-by-side chute comparisons started with the 1988 present, they’ve turn into an viewers favourite as they sit up for seeing the most recent chutes and know-how. It additionally helps that they’re entertained by Jeffrey’s banter.
All ranchers know that issues don’t at all times go as deliberate when working with cattle, and the identical holds true on the Husker Harvest Days demonstrations, as calves have been recognized to sneak by a chute earlier than getting caught within the headgate.
That’s simply par for the course, Jeffrey says. Bringing the tools and cattle collectively on the present is an efficient means for producers to match chute options whereas seeing them in motion.
The demonstrations, positioned on the Livestock Trade Constructing on the nook of Eighth Avenue and West Avenue, happen every day at Husker Harvest Days at 10 a.m. and a pair of p.m.
The demos are sponsored this 12 months by Arrowquip and Ramsey Ranch Provide in Bartlett. They’re located in a first-rate spot amid livestock reveals, breed affiliation shows, and beef- and livestock-related tools and equipment.
