• Cattle Marketing and Price Discovery
• Agricultural News Headlines
• Coyote Social Behavior

 

00:01:07--Cattle Marketing and Price Discovery (part 1)--K-State agricultural economists Ted Schroeder, Brian Coffey and Glynn Tonsor discuss their just-released analysis of price discovery in the cattle markets, which was commissioned by the USDA: this in-depth study looked at the impacts of formula marketing agreements as they have evolved over the past two decades, as compared to the cash negotiated cattle trade

 

 

00:12:10--Cattle Marketing and Price Discovery (part 2)--K-State’s Ted Schroeder, Brian Coffey and Glynn Tonsor talk more about their new study of cattle marketing approaches and how those affect price discovery…they came up with a set of recommendations on improving the flow of price information to cattle producers and throughout the beef production and marketing chain

 

00:23:14--Agricultural News--Eric Atkinson covers the day’s agricultural news headlines, and dairy specialist Mike Brouk of K-State presents this week’s edition of Milk Lines

 

00:31:10--Coyote Social Behavior--On this week's wildlife management segment, former K-State wildlife specialist Charlie Lee takes another look at coyote behavior, and how that influences attempts to control coyote damage

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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