April 18, 2003
Range, Ranching Strategies for Drought Featured on April 25 'Market Journal'
LINCOLN, Neb. — The next 30 days will be crucial for cattle ranchers in drought-stricken areas of Nebraska. Without enough rain during the period, their choices will be limited for the rest of the year. In an effort to help cattle producers sort through and prepare for those choices, the April 25 edition of the University of Nebraska's "Market Journal" program will focus on drought-year ranch and range management strategies.
Produced by NU Cooperative Extension, "Market Journal" is an hour-long television program focusing on agricultural risk management and marketing issues.
Topics to be discussed on the program include grasshopper control, grazing and feed management, range condition evaluation, soil moisture testing, early weaning and culling strategies, financial management, marketing and disaster program availability.
NU West Central Research and Extension Center experts scheduled to appear on the April 25 "Market Journal" include Don Adams, beef specialist; Dick Clark, farm management specialist; Jack Campbell, entomologist; and Jerry Volesky, extension range specialist. Harry Younkin, foreman of the Abbott Unit of the Rex Ranch in the Nebraska Sandhills, will talk about how his operation made it through 2002 and discuss how he plans to make it through 2003.
Regular contributors to the program include Al Dutcher, Nebraska state climatologist; Al Prosch, NU Pork Central director; Mike Briggs, Seward cattle producer; and Roy Frederick, NU extension policy specialist.
"Market Journal" can be seen at noon Central Time April 25 on the Dish Network's University House Channel (NAUHS) 9411. It also will be broadcast via satellite (NEB*sat channel 102), and the public can view the program at Cooperative Extension offices in the following Nebraska counties: Boone, Cass, Holt, Madison, Saunders, Sioux, Valley, Washington and York. In Lincoln, "Market Journal" also can be seen on Time-Warner Cable channel 21. Audio and video clips from the program will be available on the Web at "Market Journal".
"Market Journal" is presented by the NU Cooperative Extension and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Department of Agricultural Economics.
4/18/03-BG/DM
James K. Randall
Communications & Information Technology
Professor
(402) 472-3035
Dan Moser IANR News & Photography Coordinator (402) 472-3007
Department: Agricultural Economics
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