1. American Simmental Association and Montana State University A Partnership in Science and Progress
Teaming technology with tradition
Parisien, the first Simmental to be registered in both the ASA and Canadian handbooks.
Donald D Vaniman. The Association’s first full-time Executive
Simmental Angus Cross at
MT Northern Ag Research
Center in Havre

2. Its an honor to be here, but-
8 years at the U.S. Sheep Experiment Station, Dubois, ID
20 years of sheep production research and teaching at MSU
3 years as interim and permanent Department Head
You have invited an over-educated sheepherder that has gone into administration to talk with you this morning?
Dr. Don Clanton University of Nebraska my major professor
Board of Trustees at American Simmental from 1985 to and an early advocate for science in selection

3. Half a century of partnership in science and selection
Record keeping for cattle breeding
Sire evaluation
Calving ease
Carcass traits
Crossbreeding
Multi-herd large contemporary group comparisons
Growth
Sire and production environment
Teaching – Calving class
Robert Woodward
Havre and Miles City
Butch Whitman
Pete Burfening
Mike Tess
When we talk about tradition, Montana State Unveristy’s department of animal and range sciences has a proud and productive past. Starting with Dr. Woodward who began his career at the Northern MAES in Havre before WWII and continued after the war with his pivotal work with record keeping and the line 1 herford at Mile City Fort Keogh. This work continued into the 70’s with work on calving ease, carcass traits, and cross breeding by Burfening and Kress and others you see here. But of real relevance to Montana’s grazing livestock industry is the work on sire and production environment by men like Mike Tess and the ultimate incorporation of this work into our teaching program lead by Mike and John Paterson
Dr. Ray Roberts Woodward received an honorary doctorate from MSU and he funded a scholarship in  Animal and Range Science Department. He worked at the Northern Montana Research Station in Havre from After the war he went work at the Fort Keogh Research Station. He was a founding trustee of the American Simmental and American Tarentaise Associations.
He received a Doctorate in Animal Genetics at the University of Minnesota in When he returned to Fort Keogh, where he became internationally renowned as a pioneer in record keeping for cattle breeding and the development of Line One Herefords. He began work for American Breeders Service in 1960, where he was responsible for introducing several exotic cattle breeds to this country, including Simmental, Tarentaise and Maine Anjou. He later returned to Fort Keogh and retired as Director in He died in 2005 in Miles City.
Ray Ansotegui
Don Kress
John Paterson

4. Hands-On Beef Cattle Courses
ANSC 215 Calving Management
ANSC 234 Beef Practicum
ANSC 308 Livestock Evaluation
ANSC 421 Assisted Reproduction Technologies
ANSC 434 Beef Cattle Management
Professional Development in Beef Feedlot Systems
Internships
DNA Testing
Implanting
Cattle Evaluation
Calving Class
Carcass Ultrasound

5. MSU’s Beef Cattle Research, Extension and Teaching Team
Range, Sheep, Wool, and Equine Science
Jane Ann Boles
Meat Science
Jan Bowman
Ruminant Nutrition
Jim Berardinelli
Reproductive Physiology
Carl Yeoman
Rumen Microbiology
Rachel Endecott
Extension Beef Cattle
The current faculty who have continued this tradition and commitment to Agriculture are: read the names
Tim DelCurto
Nancy Cameron Endowed chair in Range Beef Cattle Production
Jennifer Thomson
Breeding and Genetics
Megan Van Emon
Extension Beef Cattle
Hannah DelCurto
Livestock Coach & Instructor

6. Beef cattle temperament production efficiency
plasma lactate and rectal temperature are two objective measurements with potential to predict animal temperament
Impacts of sugar beets on steer backgrounding performance
shredded sugar beets can replace barley on a DM basis up to 45% without negatively affecting performance
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (NMR) and metabolic profiling: a “new” way to understand reproduction and metabolism
cattle entering winter which are not fed hay during winter, but just graze, lower their metabolic rates to conserve energy
Some of the research I would to briefly highlight this morning is listed in this and the following slide

7. Growth rate affects tenderness of Simmental x Angus steers
Rumensin vs calcium propionate impacts on growth, puberty and reproductive performance
Year 1 (2016) used Simmental-influence heifers at the Bair Ranch
Temperament affects growth rate and tenderness of Simmental x Angus steers
Growth rate affects tenderness of Simmental x Angus steers
The Metabolome (the total number of metabolites present within an organism, cell, or tissuelogical sample) and reproductive processes in beef cattle
Work in progress – there is more

8. A Record of Achievement, The American Simmental Association, Mullen
50 years ago, “Don Vaniman thought that Bozeman was a good place to locate ASA because of Montana State University’s Animal Science Department and beef performance office.”
“It is because of the leadership in the College of Agriculture in bringing the Simmental to this country, that the national headquarters of the American Simmental Association is located in Bozeman”
A Record of Achievement, The American Simmental Association, Mullen
That commitment to the Land Grant Mission Continues today with MSU’s Leadership and passion for the Ag Industry
Charles Boyer Dean of the College of AG
And Vice President for Agriculture
President Waded Cruzado

9. The Department of Animal and Range Sciences and the College of Ag Look Forward to a Continuing Future of Cooperation between Forward Thinking Ag Industries led by Organizations like the American Simmental Association