4-H Animal Science Needs Assessment Priorities The 4-H Youth
Animal Science Livestock Team has established priorities base on
a priority setting model that divides issues into Low
Difficulty, High Difficulty, Low Impact, and High Impact. The
team will focus for the next year on the High Impact, Low
Difficulty programming issues that follow. High Impact, Low
Difficulty Programming: - Basic Production Livestock Practices:
- Basic Education for first time families and leaders including
an activity for parents and youth that address the issue that
the market animal is going to be processed for meat and that the
animal will die. - Helping leaders focus on life skills - Focus
showmanship as a life skills activity taught by teens. - Quality
Assurance…simplified version. - Ownership and knowledge of real
life animal prices - Youth leaning marketing skills (and life
skills) though their livestock project. - Finishing techniques
and feeds and feeding - Fact sheet for junior livestock auctions
about market floor prices,