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Stopping COVID-19 in Meat Processing Facilities … Agricultural Law Update

Sep 16, 2020

Controlling the spread of COVID-19 in the nation's meat and poultry processing facilities; an agricultural law update; agricultural news; Gus van der Hoeven’s “Stop, Look and Listen…”

00:01:30 – Stopping COVID-19 in Meat Processing Facilities:  K-State veterinary pathologist Sally Davis and K-State food safety scientist Randy Phebus discuss the new research initiative they'll be leading, which will study how to effectively control the spread of COVID-19 in the nation's meat and poultry processing facilities...this work is supported by a new $1 million dollar grant from the USDA, and it will employ the advanced security research facilities at K-State to develop improved COVID-19 control strategies.

00:12:55 – Agricultural Law Update:  Agricultural law professor Roger McEowen of the Washburn University School of Law talks about weed control laws, and how the courts have interpreted those over the years...he highlights the extent of requirements on landowners under noxious weed control statutes.

00:24:16 – Ag News:  A look at the day's agricultural news headlines.

00:32:33 – "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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