By Scout Nelson
Kansas State University beef extension specialists and agents will host two cow-calf production clinics Dec. 7 and 14.
The clinics are scheduled from 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. and will focus on “Navigating Opportunities and Risks: Production and Forage Considerations,” with discussion on local conditions encountered by cow-calf producers.
“Many producers are working with short pastures and high-priced harvested forages, which may be atypical or contain high levels of nitrates,” said K-State Research and Extension cow-calf specialist Jason Warner. “Producers are balancing feedstuff challenges with high calf and female prices, so potential risks and economic reward are quite high.”
The clinics will also include interactive polls, forage sampling in a drought year, implications of forage sampling and presentation by K-State agricultural economist Jenny Ifft, who will discuss making dollars and cents of risk management tools.
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