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Dec 8, 2021

  • Pre-Calving Season Management Steps
  • Legal Risks of Deferring Payments on Commodity Sales
  • Stop, Look and Listen

 

00:01:00 – Pre-Calving Season Management Steps: K-State veterinarian Gregg Hanzlicek walks through a checklist of pre-calving season management steps for cow-calf producers as the herd females enter their final trimester…starting with assuring cows and heifers are at an appropriate body condition score through feeding management, and administering scours prevention vaccines in a timely fashion, as well as preparing intervention tools for responding to calving difficulties 

 

00:12:00 – Legal Risks of Deferring Payments on Commodity Sales: From the Washburn University School of Law, professor of agricultural law and taxation Roger McEowen, talks about the legal risks producers take when they defer payments on commodity sales to a buyer, in the event that buyer encounters financial difficulties…he offers recommendations on how the producer can protect their financial interest in those situations

 

00:23:00 – Stop, Look and Listen: K-State's Gus van Der Hoeven provides his weekly commentary on life in rural Kansas

 

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