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K-State Extension highlights cattle market updates and practical cover-crop field days for Kansas producers

K-State Agriculture Today’s latest episode focuses on what Kansas livestock producers are seeing in the market, alongside upcoming cover-crop learning opportunities. The program also stresses routine pond water-quality checks for livestock.

A rural prairie farm with a pond, cover-crop field plots, and cattle, with people walking through a field-learning demonstration.

In the show’s cattle segment, Elliott Dennis, a livestock economist with the University of Missouri-Columbia, discusses the Cattle on Feed report, “lean trimmings,” an announcement from the President, and cattle entering the U.S. from Mexico. The episode then turns to cover crops, where K-State team members Logan Simon, Augustine Obour, and Stacie Minson preview two upcoming Cover Crop Field Days and the learning opportunities they will offer.

Rounding out the program, K-State fisheries and aquatics Extension specialist Joe Gerken explains why checking farm pond water quality is valuable for livestock. Agriculture Today is hosted by Shelby Varner and distributed to radio stations throughout Kansas and as a daily podcast, with K-State Extension county offices statewide supporting its knowledge-sharing mission.