Jul 19, 2021
00:01:00 – Livestock Market Update: The director of the Livestock Marketing Information Center, Katelyn McCullock, is featured on this week's cattle market segment: she offers her preview of the USDA's cattle inventory report due out this Friday, and she talks about the support that the cattle markets are currently getting from the good demand for by-products
00:12:00 – Risk and Profit
Conference: K-State agricultural
economist Rich Llewlyn has the details on the 2021 K-State Risk and
Profit Conference, set for mid-August on the campus...he talks
about the numerous contemporary topics that will be covered there,
for the benefit of producers and others who attend
00:22:56 – Agricultural News: K-State youth livestock coordinator Lexie Hayes looks ahead to the Kansas 4-H Livestock Sweepstakes coming up in August...it includes the state 4-H livestock judging contest, meat judging contest, livestock skillathon and quiz bowl
00:30:53 – Kansas 4-H Update: K-State 4-H
specialist for Community Vitality, Aliah Mestrovich Seay, discusses
the national search for three youth development positions at
K-State in the project areas of STEM, healthy living and
agricultural sciences
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