Feb 5, 2020
• Controlling and preventing diseases in hog production
• Agricultural law update
• Agricultural news headlines
• Gus van der Hoeven’s “Stop, Look and Listen…”
00:01:30 – Controlling and Preventing Hog Diseases: A featured speaker at the 2020 K-State Swine Profitability Conference yesterday: Iowa State University swine veterinarian Daniel Linhares talks about field-level strategies for controlling and preventing diseases in hog production...he highlights a still-new concept called population-based sampling as an effective way of identifying a disease issue in a hog herd.
00:12:56 – Agricultural Law Update: Washburn University professor of agricultural law Roger McEowen reviews three recent Kansas court rulings relevant to agricultural producers, including a major decision on the constitutionality of a Kansas law that protects livestock production operations from undercover attempts to gather information and images on production practices without the producer's consent.
00:24:23 – Ag News: A look at the day's agricultural news headlines.
00:32:37 – "Stop, Look and Listen": K-State's Gus van der Hoeven presents "Stop, Look and Listen", his weekly commentary on rural Kansas.
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