• The weekly cattle market update

• A look at direct marketing of beef

• A wheat harvest report

• Kansas 4-H shooting sports update…

 

00:01:30 – Cattle Market Update:  Livestock economist Lee Schulz of Iowa State University provides this week's cattle market commentary: he takes a look at the current struggles in the cash fed cattle market, and talks about how last week's USDA report on corn acreage might influence decisions on early-weaning calves.

00:12:57 – Direct-Marketing of Beef:  From the latest Cattle Chat podcast out of the Beef Cattle Institute at K-State, the panel offers considerations for cattle producers thinking about direct-marketing beef to local or regional customers, and they talk about making decisions on pulling bulls from the breeding herd...featured at K-State veterinarians Brad White and Bob Larson, cow-cals specialist Bob Weaber and livestock economist Dustin Pendell.

00:24:18 – Wheat Harvest Report:  Today's Kansas wheat harvest update features Extension agricultural agent Rebecca Zach of the River Valley Extension District in north-central Kansas, which includes Clay, Cloud, Republic and Washington counties.

00:32:48 – 4-H Shooting Sports Update:  K-State 4-H specialist Aliah Mestrovich Seay discusses a new program called “Visual Thinking Strategies”, a collaboration in which Kansas 4-H is a partner. K-State 4-H specialist Anissa Jepsen talks about activities that have taken place recently in the 4-H Shooting Sports program.

 

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