Important Dates and Random facts

Question 1

1862 Moral act

Answer 1

Land Grant University’s

Question 2

1887 Hatch act

Answer 2

Established Ag experiment stations (Connect with Moral act)

Question 3

1914 Smith Lever Act

Answer 3

Approaited funding for extension agents

Question 4

1934 Taylor Grazing Act

Answer 4

Helped manage the land and manage grazing

Question 5

1942 Feed lot era begins

Answer 5

Helped gain weight faster and utilize forage

Question 6

1946 Bureau of Land Management established

Answer 6

People rely on resource; they can tell you what to do such as overgrazing = less cattle

Question 7

1965

Answer 7

importation of continental european cattle begins

Question 8

1968

Answer 8

Beef Improvement Federation established

Question 9

1977

Answer 9

National Cattlemen’s Association established

Question 10

Earliest fossil found

Answer 10

4 million years ago

Question 11

Most recent ancestors

Answer 11

Bos Primigenius (died in 1627 in Poland)

Question 12

When did domestication occur and when

Answer 12

About 8000 BC in the Middle East, fertile Crecent (Denmark, Switzerland)