Grain Market Update…Livestock Feed Biosecurity
• The weekly grain market update
• A look at livestock feed biosecurity
• 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 current price ratios between corn and soybeans and sorghum and corn at various delivery points around Kansas, and how that information can be useful to producers in their marketing and production plans, as part of his weekly segment on the grain market trends.
00:12:52 – Livestock Feed Biosecurity: The first of a two-part visit with feed scientist Cassie Jones and swine veterinarian Jordan Gebhardt of K-State on livestock feed biosecurity: they have been conducting extensive research trials on curbing the spread of African swine fever, with the aim of developing biosecurity protocols in feed processing and delivery that would benefit all of animal agriculture...they reported on their work at the recent K-State Swine Day.
00:24:17 – Ag News: The day's agricultural news headlines, and the latest “Kansas Wheat Scoop.”
00:32:32 – Kansas Weather: K-State climatologist Mary Knapp reports on Kansas agricultural weather.
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