Grain Market Update…Kansas Mesonet Update
• The weekly grain market update
• The Kansas Mesonet offers useful tools for both livestock and crop producers
• Agricultural news, and the “Kansas Wheat Scoop”
• Kansas agricultural weather…
00:01:30 – Grain Market Update: K-State grain market economist Dan O'Brien looks at the markets' reaction to the USDA's monthly grain supply-and-demand report released yesterday, and he talks about the favorable state of U.S. soybean exports, as part of his weekly discussion of the grain market trends.
00:12:59 – Kansas Mesonet Update: K-State assistant meterologist Chip Redmond highlights several of the highly-useful tools for agricultural producers at the Kansas Mesonet web site, managed by the Weather Data Library at K-State: among those are the new livestock comfort index that provides real-time localized information on potential weather stress on livestock, and the local temperature inversion data which provides guidance when making pesticide application decisions.
00:24:22 – Ag News: The day's agricultural news headlines, and the latest “Kansas Wheat Scoop.”
00:32:27 – Kansas Weather: K-State climatologist Mary Knapp reports on Kansas agricultural weather.
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