• Cattle Market Update
• Pork Export Concentration
• Wheat Harvest Report
• Purple Martin Housing

 

 

00:01:10—Cattle Market Update--K-State livestock economist Glynn Tonsor is featured on this week's cattle market segment...he sizes up the current cattle price trends, and he reflects on his testimony to the Senate Agriculture Committee recently on cattle market issues, particularly regarding calls for setting mandatory levels of spot-market cattle trading

 

00:12:09—Pork Export Concentration--K-State graduate researcher Jaime Luke talks about her research into the concentration of U.S. pork exports, in the wake of the dramatic rise in export business with China over the last few years...she has discovered that pork sales abroad are more diverse than what some might think

 

00:23:16—Wheat Harvest Report--Today's Kansas wheat harvest update features crop production agent Jay Wisbey of the Central Kansas Extension District, covering Ottawa and Saline counties…plus, this week’s edition of Milk Lines with K-State dairy specialist Mike Brouk

 

00:31:09—Purple Martin Housing--On this week's wildlife management segment, former K-State wildlife specialist Charlie Lee reviews a new study of what purple martins prefer in the way of man-made housing

 

 

 

 

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