H Calf Program 3: Dr. Jason Cleere / Scarmardo Cattle Company

We will meet at the NRG Center in Room 604 for a presentation beginning at 9 am, Saturday, October 27th. Breakfast will be provided along with coffee, soda, and water. Lecturing on the topic of Animal Health/Injection Sites will be Dr. Jason Cleere of Texas A&M University. Immediately following the lecture, we will depart for our field trip to Scarmardo Cattle Company. We will be traveling by bus from NRG to the site. Everyone participating in the field trip must ride the bus. Lunch will be provided to all field trip attendees.

About Dr. Jason Cleere

Dr. Jason Cleere is an associate professor and Texas AgriLife Extension beef cattle specialist, stationed at Texas A&M University in College Station, where he develops and implements Extension educational programs to increase production efficiency and profitability of Texas beef cattle producers. He also serves as coordinator of the Texas A&M Beef Cattle Short Course, which attracts more than 1,400 participants to campus each August. He is also a faculty member of the beef cattle section in the Department of Animal Science.

He received his bachelor’s degree in agricultural science from Texas A&M University in 1997, his master’s in animal science with an emphasis in beef cattle production from Texas A&M University in 1998, and his doctorate in animal science with an emphasis in beef cattle genetics and management from Texas Tech University in August 2002. From September 2002 to May 2005, he served as extension beef cattle specialist for East Texas based at the Texas AgriLife Research and Extension Center in Overton, Texas.

Cleere received the Vice Chancellor’s Award in Excellence on two separate occasions for his performance as a member of an Extension Team, which developed and implemented the Texas A&M Pasture and Livestock Management Workshop, and as a member of Systemic Academic Partnership, which conducted Stress Physiology Research. The Texas County Agricultural Agents Association has also recognized Cleere as the Specialist of the Year.

Cleere is a member of the American Society of Animal Science, National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, the Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association, Independent Cattlemen’s Association, and owns a purebred cattle operation in Madisonville, Texas.

Source: https://animalscience.tamu.edu/people/cleere-jason/

Scarmardo Cattle Company, Caldwell, Texas

Monday through Saturday, their cattle buyers attend local cattle auctions, bidding on stockers and feeders to fill specific orders for as many as 20 customers a day from the southern states to the Midwest. They visit more than 80 livestock auctions a week throughout Central and Southwest Texas. They’ll work cattle sales in Louisiana and Arkansas, too, if it means filling a specific order. Scarmardo’s niche is locating the right cattle for the right customer.

They do a good job understanding what their customer wants and that make sure they send them cattle that will work for their needs. The cattle have to fit their program; what might work for one person will not work for another. They have customers they buy for daily, weekly and seasonally. They buy everything from little calves to packer cows and are as diversified as anybody in the business.