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35 CALF News • October | November 2018 • www.calfnews.net CST Central States Testing TEST BETTER. FASTER. SMARTER. 620.675.8640 www.cstbvd.com dustin@cstbvd.com Over 10 years experience in BVD-PI Testing Innovation Since 2005 Central States Testing has provided testing services nationwide to stocker, backgrounder, feedyard, cow/calf ranchers an veterinarians. facturers,“we frequently get audited by a third party. There are customer audits, federal audits and many more.” In addition, he says the Caviness and CS Beef Packers facilities follow a documented quality control program. This ensures that all cattle and beef products comply with these written programs: Domestic Origin, Humane Handling, Non-Ambulatory/Disabled Cattle, Spinal Cord Removal, Pathogen Intervention Steps (multi-step system) and Carcass/Product Testing. Giving back The Caviness family recognizes how much the Panhandle area community has helped their plant become and remain a vibrant agribusiness operation, and they have long been active in giving back to the regional community. On Sept. 7, the Caviness Beef Packers Meat Science and Innovation Center was opened inside the new Paul Engler College of Agriculture and Natural Sci- ences Complex on the campus of West Texas A&M University in Canyon (see separate story in this issue of CALF News). The lab contains the nation’s most advanced university meat process- ing facilities to help educate students on beef and beef by-product processing, testing and research. On Sept. 11, Caviness made a sub- stantial contribution toward the pro- posed Texas Tech University veterinary school at the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center in Amarillo. “We are behind education initiatives because we know how important ag edu- cation is to our region,”Trevor says.“It’s important to the sustainability of dairies, feedyards and cattle ranchers, as well as other species that deal with produc- tion issues. They all need more support in order to have an efficient, sustainable business. “If we can grow talent here, and when kids come into the region, the more the talent stays in the region, the more vibrant the region becomes.” Of course, Hereford, Texas, is rightly branded as the Beef Capital of the Terry Caviness and Dr. Kevin Pond, incoming dean of the WTAMU Department of Agriculture, beside the Caviness-sponsored meat lab at the Paul Engler College of Agriculture and Natural Sciences World. With the major contributions by Caviness to serve as a major market for cattle, as a major employer and a major food distributor, and its efforts to support area agriculture to the limit, the family-owned company is vital to keeping that “beef capital” title chiseled in stone.  CAVINESS BEEF PACKERS Continued from page 33