Online BQA Certification

What is this?

This online tutorial is intended to accompany the written materials for the Montana Beef Quality Assurance program. 

The written materials may be obtained by calling your local Montana County Extension Office.  Designated Extension County Agents provide training and certification for Beef Quality Assurance.

This online tutorial is also available on CD.  Contact your local Montana County Extension Office to obtain a copy.

Taking the online course is an easy two-step process:

First Step:
	Load the Macromedia's Authorware Web Player onto your computer.  The software is free.  Click here to initiate download:
Second Step:
	Select a section from the tutorial:
	Food Safety
	Injections
	Animal Health
	Beef Quality
	Carcass Quality
	Care & Husbandry Practices
	Source & Process Verification
	Recordkeeping
	Feedstuffs
	Pesticides
	Cows and Bulls
	Final Exam

If every part of the beef production chain can work together and listen to the demands of each other, we have a much better chance of producing something the consumer will keep buying.

Dr. Gary Smith, CSU Montana Stockgrowers Magazine, November 1998