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1396 – Grain Market Update: Low Prices and a lack of Volatility … The Human-Animal Bond Leads to Greater Health Outcomes

Mar 24, 2023

  •         Grain Market Update: Low Prices and a Lack of Volatility
  •         The Human-Animal Bond Leads to Greater Health Outcomes
  •         La Niña Finally Ends

00:01:00 – Grain Market Update: Low Prices and a lack of Volatility: Today's show begins with a grain market update where low prices and a lack of volatility plague the majority of the markets. K-State grain economist, Dan O'Brien, also shares information on increasing interest rates' potential to impact agriculture and current world supply and demand balances minus China. 

The latest from Dan on AgManager


00:12:00 – The Human-Animal Bond Leads to Greater Health Outcomes: A One Health centered program is benefiting both Kansas community members and K-State veterinary students in impactful ways. Joining us today to discuss the community outreach course offered to 4th year veterinary students is community outreach and shelter medicine fellow, Ron Orchard. He highlights how the human-animal bond allows for this program to flourish in building trust and leading to greater overall health outcomes for these community members.

 More information about the community outreach program's impact in Topeka 

The KSU shelter medicine Instagram page

 

00:23:00 – La Niña Finally Ends: K-State meteorologist Chip Redmond discusses 80 degree temperatures experienced by some this past week, somewhat slow to rise soil temperatures, and the end of the La Niña weather patterns experienced the last three years. 

 

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