Dr. Richard Browning Jr., Head of TSU's meat goat research program, will conduct an on hands training program at Tennessee State University Research Farm on April 18, 2009.

Program is designed to education Extension personnel and producers on reproductive and genetic evaluation to improve commercial meat goat production. The program will present criteria for culling, keeping, and purchasing breeding stock for genetic improvement in commercial or seedstock meat goat operations. By attending this Field Day, participants will learn how to select based on economically important breeding stock traits.

For more information about the research project or to register for the meeting and farm visit, please contact Dr. Richard Browning, Jr., atrbrowning@tnstate.edu, or 615-963-5837.

Richard Browning, Jr., Ph.D.
Institute of Agricultural and Environmental Research
Tennessee State University
3500 John A. Merritt Blvd.
Nashville, TN 37209-1561