K-State Agriculture Today: 1646 – Cattle Market Outlook…Smoke Emissions from Prescribed Fire

  • Cattle Market Update
  • Smoke Emissions from Prescribed Fire in the Flint Hills
  • Commodity Futures Conference

 

00:01:05 – Cattle Market Update: A cattle market update with Katelyn McCullock, director of the Livestock Marketing Information Center, begins today’s show. She discusses current market conditions as well as a part of it that is growing fast this year.

LMIC.info

 

00:12:05 – Smoke Emissions from Prescribed Fire in the Flint Hills: Keeping the show rolling is Jayson Prentice with the Kansas Bureau of Air as he explains a recent study he contributed to that looked into smoke emissions from prescribed burning in the Flint Hills.

Measuring Smoke Emissions in The Flint Hills

ksfire.org

 

00:23:05 – Commodity Futures Conference: Joe Parcell, director of the Center for Risk Management at K-State, finishes today’s show with a preview of the upcoming Agricultural Commodity Futures Conference.

AgCon 2024

 

 

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