Oct 2, 2019
• Key steps to health management of high-risk beef calves
• An agricultural law update
• Agricultural news headlines
• Gus van der Hoeven’s “Stop, Look and Listen…”
00:01:30 – High-Risk Beef Calves: K-State veterinarian Dan Thomson talks about the key steps to health management of high-risk beef calves, from disease prevention to low-stress handling of calves to providing adequate pen and bunk space...he addressed this topic at the 2019 K-State Beef Stocker Field Day recently.
00:13:00 – Agricultural Law Update: Washburn University professor of agricultural law and taxation Roger McEowen covers two recent decisions by the Kansas Supreme Court with relevance for agricultural interests: a ruling on a contentious family dispute over whom would inherit a homestead upon the death of the remaining parent, and a ruling on a case of natural gas migration from one property to the other.
00:24:30 – Ag News: Eric Atkinson covers the day's agricultural news headlines.
00:32:55 – "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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University agricultural specialists and other experts examining ag
issues facing Kansas and the nation. It is hosted by Eric Atkinson
and distributed to radio stations throughout Kansas and as a daily
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