QA with Chuck Hibberd, Part 1

To get started, how did you get your start in a career in Extension? I was on the faculty of the animal science department at Oklahoma State University, and I didn't have an Extension appointment during that time, but a lot of the work that I was doing with cow-calf nutrition and management was of interest to cattle producers in Oklahoma and beyond. How can we really be helpful?" They talked about the kinds of decisions that they were making, and back in the '50s, '60s and '70s, we figured out all of the big things that you could do to improve cattle feeding, but they needed to be able to discern whether a 2% or 3% or 4% improvement in gain or feed efficiency was real. Barb, Ivan and I went about the process of a fundraising campaign, along with cattle feeders, industry partners, bankers, all kinds of people that were committed to the feedlot industry in western Nebraska. Ken Green [general manager at Agra Holdings LP] was in the liquid supplement business, and he helped us immensely to raise money, and was a significant donor himself.