Fri, Mar 17
|McNeese State University Farm
LGLCI + Farm Bureau Profitability Workshop & Southwest Louisiana Beef Tour
Time & Location
Mar 17, 2023, 8:00 AM – 2:00 PM
McNeese State University Farm, 4205 Ryan St, Lake Charles, LA 70605, USA
About the Event
The profitability workshop, co-hosted LGLCI & LA Farm Bureau, will feature Gene Lollis as our workshop leader.
Gene has a long-standing ranching background, and is also the manager of Buck Island Ranch, a large-scale working cattle ranch owned by Archbold Biological Station in Florida. Gene gets to do all the things he is passionate about – cattle and nature - at Buck Island Ranch. In addition to raising cattle, he helps conduct agro-ecology research on all aspects of the ranching operation on behalf of Archbold.
The focus of this workshop,held at McNeese University, will be financial profitability - the business side of farming and ranching.
PROFITABILITY WORKSHOP COST: Tickets are $50, and there’s no limit to the number of participants.
(Optionally you can join on the Farm Bureau tour on adjoining days for $250-400 extra depending on your need for hotel rooms.)
Agenda:
March 17th WORKSHOP AGENDA
8:00 Check in “Economics and Profitability in Ranching” workshop, McNeese State University Farm
9:00-2:00 "Economics and Profitability in Ranching” workshop, includes lunch break.
FARM BUREAU Tour is an optional add-on to the profitability workshop. Schedule is TENTATIVE.
March 17th TOUR AGENDA
2:00 pm Tour of the McNeese Farm.
5-7 pm (approximately) Check in and dinner at Seven Clans Resort and Casino
Saturday, March 18th (times are all tentative)
8:00 a.m. Bus departure from Seven Clans Resort and Casino. Travel to Gray Ranch in
Vinton, LA.
8:30 am Arrival at Gray Ranch, Vinton, LA
12:00 (tent) Depart for Jim Paul Dupont Ranch in Ragley
3:00 (tent) Depart for Fuller Farms in Kinder.
6:30 (tent) Crawfish boil at Fuller Farms
8:30 (tent) Depart for hotel.
TOUR COSTS:
Registration for the tour is $400.00 per person maximum. The tour is limited to the first 50 people
who register.
For those attending the tour but not requiring rooms for Friday and Saturday nights, there will be a
registration fee of $250.00 per person maximum.*
The deadline for tour registration is Monday, February 13th, 2023.