🎙️ K-State Agriculture Today: 1864 – Grain Market Outlook…More Days-on-Feeds Economics

  • Increased Grain Futures Prices
  • Extending Days-On-Feed, Economic Considerations
  • Here Comes More Snow

00:01:05 – Increased Grain Futures Prices: Dan O’Brien, K-State grain economist, kickstarts today’s show with his grain market outlook. He discusses the higher futures prices and if they influenced cash prices.

Dan O’Brien on AgManager.info

00:12:05 – Extending Days-On-Feed, Economic Considerations: Continuing the show is research associate for the Center for Outcomes Research and Epidemiology at K-State Lucas Horton as he explains recent research that looked into extending days on feed of feedlot steers.

lhorton@ksu.edu

Extending Days-on-Feed of Feedlot Steers – AgManager.info

00:23:05 – Here Comes More Snow: K-State meteorologist Chip Redmond concludes the show with a weather forecast. He says where in Kansas is likely to see snow in the next week.

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