Info Session at the College of Agriculture and Bioresources

	LMS Board member Alan Jackson talks to Ag Students at U of S Info Session, Sept 29th.

LMS and SCA hosted an information

 session at the University of Saskatchewan Ag Students Lounge on September 29 to talk to students about career opportunities in Saskatchewan's cattle sector. 

LMS Board member Alan Jackson, SCA's Beef Production Specialist Marianne Possberg and Saskatoon Livestock Sales Auctioneer Ryan Hurlburt spoke to 35 engaged students about careers in cattle buying, production, research, animal health, and auction markets.  Great Western Brewing donated beer and LMS/SCA supplied burgers for the ninety minute session that brought out students from all years and multiple programs. 
 

SCA representative, Marianne Possberg speaks to students at the U of S Info Session, Sept 29th.

Some comments from the students were that they do not see many job postings from auction markets and are unsure what opportunities are available during the summer. Due to the nature of the cattle industry, summer is a slow season and not conducive to student work. If your business has interest in hiring university students, a mentorship or co-op program should be explored, one that can be offered during the school year and worked into the class schedule.  

The Edwards School of Business offers a Co-op/Internship program to third year students and MBA participants. This program gives employers the opportunity to evaluate potential future employees in the Management, Accounting, Human Resources, Finance and Operations Management majors in a four or eight-month term. 

For more information click here to download their brochure.

LMS and SCA have registered a booth at the Agriculture and Bioresources Career Fair on November 2, 2016 to promote careers in the cattle industry to interested university students. We will distribute brochures that promote some of the key job opportunities in the beef sector. A big thanks to Rhett Parks of Whitewood Livestock Sales who has offered to participate on behalf of the LMS Board.

For the third year in a row, LMS is offering a series of lectures to classes in the U of S College of Agriculture & Bioresources. Expanding on last year's successful four lectures to the Grain & Livestock Marketing class offered by Stewart Stone of Heartland Livestock and Joe Jackson of JGL Cattle, we have added two more classes to this year's agenda. 

On September 28, Joe Jackson discussed strategies and tactics for making a sale to the third-year Principles of Selling course. In the January to April term, Joe will also present to the Grain & Livestock Marketing class. Ryan Hurlburt, Auctioneer from Saskatoon Livestock Sales, discussed livestock marketing methods to the Agriculture Marketing Systems class on October 6. Another lecture opportunity being considered is for SCA representative Marianne Possberg, Beef Production Specialist, to present on production and research topics. 

If you have a topic in mind and an interest in providing a lecture at the University, please contact Serra in the LMS office.

We are in the process of putting together a training series for LMS members and their customers for the 2017 year and are looking for suggestions of topics related to auction market business (accounting, regulations, human resources, etc), livestock markets, heard health, traceability, and others.
 

If you have any suggestions for topics you'd like to see covered or would be willing to host a training session, please contact the LMS Office or fill out the form below.