1813 - Cattle Market Prices...Winterizing Pivots

Agriculture Today

• Why Cattle Placements are Difficult, But Important
• Preparing Pivots Systems for Winter
• Faces in Agriculture: Amanda Clausen

00:01:05 – Why Cattle Placements are Difficult, But Important: A cattle market update with Lee Schulz, chief economist of the livestock division at Ever.Ag, begins today’s show. He discusses the current market, retail beef prices, hay production and prices and why placements are difficult to project.

Placements: Most Important, Yet Most Elusive, Cattle on Feed Report Number

00:12:05 – Preparing Pivots Systems for Winter: Continuing the show is K-State water resource engineer, Jonathan Aguilar, as he provides a checklist of things people with pivot irrigation systems should work on checking off before it gets below freezing.

Checklist for Irrigation System Winterization

00:23:05 – Faces in Agriculture: Amanda Clausen: Another segment of Faces in Agriculture ends today’s show with Amanda Clausen from Jackson County. She describes her poultry operation and how they have grown in the past few years.

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