News release issued November 20, 2000, effective immediately.
For media inquiries, contact Caroline Booth Lara, Communications Specialist, (580) 224-6379.
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Popular Noble Foundation CattleLog Goes Electronic

ARDMORE, Okla. — Livestock producers and pasture owners will find a familiar friend with a new face this year, as the Noble Foundation’s annual CattleLog goes electronic, creating the new-format eCattleLog.

The free, popular publication can now be found on the foundation’s Web site at www.noble.org/ag/CattleLog. As did former print editions, eCattleLog consists of several sections: 1) breeding and replacement cattle, 2) stocker/feeder cattle and club calves, 3) preconditioned calves, 4) cattle available for contract grazing, 5) pasture available for contract grazing, 6) preconditioning/backgrounding operations, and 7) cattle sales, such as bull sales, and auctions.

Listing in the eCattleLog is simple and free according to Shan Ingram, NF education and special projects manager. Anyone wanting to list in eCattleLog must first register as a user and make the listing(s) by following the on-line instructions. Listings are good for 90 days or until the person making the listing removes it.

Listings updated before the 90-day deadline will be left in the eCattleLog. All listings are first reviewed by a Noble Foundation staff person before inclusion in the eCattleLog, which may take a few days, Ingram said. People who have entered their own listings can review and change them themselves.

"Of course, the whole idea behind the eCattleLog is to get buyers and sellers together, so that the listings are available for potential customers to view," Ingram said.

Livestock producers can list cattle for sale in the first three categories, offer cattle to place on someone else’s rented pasture in the fourth category, rent or lease a pasture in the fifth, make producers operating preconditioning or backgrounding operations known to potential customers in the sixth, and list upcoming cattle sales or auctions in the seventh.

The publication can be viewed via Internet access without registering as a user. Listings are searchable by words or phrases. Listings in the eCattleLog also can be printed from the Web site, or the NF Ag Division publication distribution office can print out a copy and mail it. The publication distribution office can be reached by calling (580) 224-7502. Printed forms also are available from the Ag Division and can be mailed out, completed, and returned to have someone at the foundation enter it into the publication.

"We feel that this electronic version will be a much more useful publication, and we are excited about this new format," Ingram said. "Information will be kept current, and when changes occur, the eCattleLog can be corrected easily. A big bonus is that listings are available to a new and much larger audience."

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The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation, headquartered in Ardmore, Okla., is a non-profit organization conducting agricultural, forage biotechnological, and plant biology research; providing grants to numerous non-profit charitable, educational and health organizations; and assisting farmers and ranchers through educational and consultative agricultural programs.

To learn more, check out the Noble Foundation Web site at http://www.noble.org.

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