🎙️ K-State Agriculture Today: 2094 – Cash, Futures and Demand for Cattle…Herbicide Resistance in Kansas

  • Cattle Market and Meat Demand Monitor Update
  • 50 Years of Herbicide Resistance, Part 1
  • 50 Years of Herbicide Resistance, Part 2

00:01:05 – Cattle Market and Meat Demand Monitor Update: Glynn Tonsor, K-State livestock economist, starts today’s show recapping the recent cattle market and highlighting the last Meat Demand Monitor of 2025.

December Meat Demand Monitor

Brian Coffey – A Microeconomic Assessment of the U.S. Retail Beef Market

00:12:05 – 50 Years of Herbicide Resistance, Part 1: The show continues with K-State weed scientist, Pat Geier, as he discusses the anniversary of 50 years of herbicide resistance in Kansas. He explains the first weed that had resistance.

Fifty Years of Herbicide Resistance in Kansas

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00:23:05 – 50 Years of Herbicide Resistance, Part 2: K-State’s Pat Geier also ends the show as he talks about how to help reduce additional herbicide resistance for growers.

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