Aug 14, 2019
• More on the generational differences in farm and ranch management
• The latest Cattle Chat podcast
• The day's agricultural news headlines
• Gus van der Hoeven’s “Stop, Look and Listen…”
00:01:30 – Generations, Spending and Debt: K-State agricultural economists Gregg Ibendahl and Terry Griffin talk about their latest effort in a series of economics analyses which looks at the generational differences in farm and ranch management: this time, they've focused on how spending tendencies and debt load differ among the various generations.
00:13:00 – Cattle Chat Podcast: The managing director of the Center for Sorghum Improvement at K-State, Sarah Sexton-Bowser, is the featured guest on this week's Cattle Chat podcast from the Beef Cattle Institute at K-State: she visits with veterinarians Brad White and Bob Larson and cow-calf specialist Bob Weaber about research initiatives to further improve and refine grain sorghum as a beef cattle feedstuff.
00:24:30 – Ag News: Eric Atkinson covers the day's agricultural news headlines.
00:32:46 – "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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Agriculture Today is a daily program featuring Kansas State
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
podcast.
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