It was a full house Tuesday afternoon at the Western Beef Development Centre's last summer field day.

The Termuende Research Ranch near Lanigan will be re-located next spring.

Senior Research Scientist, Bart Lardner talked about what he is most excited about when it comes to joining forces with the new Livestock and Forage Centre of Excellence at Clavet.

"To be part of creating a new facility, looking at the resources that are coming together, not only the facility's to utilize cattle handling but also the grazing capacity of establishing new perennial species out there, annual forage species, land that has not really seen a cow in many many decades so a chance to actually measure salt, water, plant, interface impacts of a grazing animal," he explained.

Lardner was a keynote speaker at the 19th annual event where he went over two decades of research highlights.

The LFCE is bringing together research across the province into one centre which involves the University of Saskatchewan, the Province, and the WBDC along with the industry as a whole. 

Dorothy Murrell is the LFCE Project Manager said project talks began over 15 years ago and is now being made a reality in April of 2018.

The land for the new centre was purchased in 2012, and then further planning went into the development of the facility.

Murrell said construction began in 2016 and the centre is almost ready to go, "we're looking forward to research studies begin on some of the pasture land in the Clavet area as early as the summer/fall of 2018 and there will also be some research at the research feedlot as well starting 2018."

She added that depending on the research move from Lanigan to Clavet will dictate the move of the herd and the move of the staff as well.

More from Lardner in his full interview with Bolt Fm's Angie Dukart below.

More from Murrell in her full interview with Bolt FM's Angie Dukart below.