2023 Rural Economic Outlook Conference & Mobile Markets
Saturday, October 14, 2023
This week on SUNUP:
- Bart Fischer, Texas A&M agricultural and food policy center co-director, discusses his recent Farm Bill presentation at the 2023 Rural Economic Outlook Conference. He also tells us about Southern Ag Today, which is a website that provides daily peer-reviewed articles that focus on issues producers face.
- Wes Lee, OSU Mesonet agricultural coordinator, looks at the average first freeze dates in the state. State climatologist Gary McManus says drought is expanding.
- Derrell Peel, OSU Extension livestock marketing, explains why herd rebuilding is at a standstill.
- Kim Anderson, OSU Extension grain marketing specialist, discusses his recent talk at the Rural Economic Outlook Conference about benchmarks in the grain markets.
- Mark Johnson, OSU Extension beef cattle breeding specialist, explains why manure scoring is so important to a cattle operation.
- SUNUP previews the upcoming OK-Fire workshops.
- Finally, SUNUP travels to Muskogee County to shop at a mobile market organized by OSU Extension and other state agency partners.
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