The director of the Livestock Marketing Information Center, Jim Robb,
provides this week's cattle market analysis: he goes back over the
USDA's monthly cattle-on-feed report numbers released last
Friday...he also looks ahead to this week's USDA hogs-and-pigs report
and its possible spillover impact on the cattle trade

The administrator of the Kansas Agriculture in the Classroom program,
Cathy Musick, gives an update on the program's activities as the new
scholastic year is well underway, including the new series of lesson
plans that the program has put together for public school teachers

And for this week's Kansas 4-H feature, K-State 4-H specialist
Jim Adams previews the 2012 State 4-H Dog Conference and Quiz Bowl
coming up in mid-October

Agriculture Today is broadcast each weekday morning at 10:00 on KFRM
Radio, Clay Center (550 AM) and KLOE Radio, Goodland (730 AM), which
collectively reach 75 counties in Kansas, parts of southern Nebraska,
eastern Colorado and northern Oklahoma...the broadcast can also be
heard over the K-State Radio Network website. Also see the Agriculture
Today archives.


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Story by: Eric Atkinson
agguy@ksu.edu
K-State Research & Extension News