Competition Details:

• Students must belong to a Masters or PhD Program at an accredited university at the time of abstract submission.
• Research must relate to a challenge that the industry is facing within the four pillars of the National Beef Strategy: connectivity, productivity, beef demand, or competitiveness. Posters will be presented to a beef producer audience and relatability and comprehension of the content will be part of the judging criteria.
• Students are restricted to ONE submission per student.
• Participating students must be listed as the presenting author. Presenting author substitutions will only be considered if due to extenuating circumstances.
• Abstracts can be submitted online until 11:59PM MT on May 19th, 2023
• Selected abstracts will be notified by June 12th, 2023 and will be required to register for the CBIC, with poster presentations occurring between August 15th and 16th, 2023.
• ALL students will receive a reduced student registration rate.
• Winners will be selected at the CBIC with prize money for 1^st, 2^nd, and 3^rd

Abstract Guidelines:

An abstract is a short communication that allows readers to evaluate the contributions of a scientific study, method, industry solution, extension program, or research technique. As such, an abstract must contain clearly stated, simple sentences to ensure clarity.

Abstract Requirements

• Abstract text (not including title) limit is 350 words.
• Titles must be concise and relevant to a producer audience.
• Proposed title limit is 25 words.
• Please provided 5 keywords that relate to your abstract content.
• Include the name(s) and affiliation(s) of authors and the email of the corresponding/presenting author.
• A clearly stated objective in the first sentence.
• Experimental methodology (such as population, experimental design, housing, data collection and statistical analysis).
• Results related to the objective must be stated with the appropriate statistical inferences. One table or figure can be included if this is the most appropriate method for result presentation.
• A clear conclusion that defines the effectiveness and/or application of the results.