LWP Mini S4 Ep 10 -Livestock Updates: What's Happening This Month

We share exciting updates from Hawaii and Nebraska in this quick mini-episode covering upcoming workshops, tax information, and educational opportunities for livestock stakeholders.

• April 12: Calving Management and Grazing Management Field Workshop at Mealani Research Station in Kamuela, Big Island
• All-day hands-on outdoor field workshop with no PowerPoint presentations 
• Registration required - email for more information or follow on Eventbrite
• Preliminary information on the Ag Land Survey now available for Nebraska
• Nebraska Department of Agriculture tax credit course available online through UNL
• Grain marketing webinar series continuing through April and May
• Dr. Lida Garcia from Ohio State University speaking next month about meat quality

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 2 (00:15):
Aloha.
Today's episode is sponsored bythe Livestock Extension Group
out of the University of HawaiiManoa College of Tropical
Agriculture and Human Resilienceand the Center for Egg
Profitability out of theUniversity of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Speaker 3 (00:27):
Aloha, welcome to the Livestock Bala'au, a podcast
aimed to provide educationalsupport, information, guidance
and outreach to our livestockstakeholders in Hawaii and the
rest of the US.
We are your hosts, mele Oshiroand Shannon Sand, and today
we're going to talk a little bitabout what's going on this
month in this mini episode.
So, as usual, we'll start withsome Hawaii program updates.

(00:50):
We do have a workshop we wantto share.
That's going to happen in Aprilit's on April 12th this year
and it will be having a calvingmanagement and grazing
management field workshop at theMaloney Research Station in
Kamuela on the Big Island.
So this is a event that we'reputting on through one of the
grants that we got to look atbeef cattle management and our

(01:14):
sort of first workshop thatwe're kind of conducting through
this grant.
So, looking forward to it, it'sgoing to be pretty much all day.
We haven't determined the exacttimes for everything, but it
will be an all-day workshop thatwe're doing, a field workshop,
so we're going to be outside.
There's not going to be aclassroom thing.
We will have some informationand sort of you know um that

(01:34):
we'll have printed out, butwe're not going to be sitting
down in front of a PowerPointpresentation which is going to
be out in the field getting somehands on and, um, you know,
looking at things that way.
So there'll be sort of twosections.
We'll do calving management inthe one half of the day and then
grazing management with Dr MarkThorne in the second half of

(01:56):
the workshop, and myself and DrCaleb Reichart will be doing the
calving management section.
So, yeah, I'm kind of veryexcited.
I'm looking forward to this, um, as well as some students with
us for this one too.
So, um, yeah, look forward tothat.
We'll have a registration willbe required, um, we're don't
know if there's going to be afee.
As as of right now, we don'thave a fee for this workshop, um

(02:19):
, but it will be happening April12th, um, so if you want more
information or make sure you getthose uh registrations for this
, please send me an email.
It will be posted on oureventbrite, um, so if you search
me up on eventbrite, you'llfind my page and you can follow.
So when things are postedyou'll get the notification.
So, yeah, so april 12th calvingmanagement and grazing

(02:41):
management field workshop at mayalani on the Big Island.

Speaker 2 (02:44):
That sounds like so much fun.

Speaker 3 (02:46):
Yeah, I'm excited.

Speaker 2 (02:49):
Yeah, nice, nice, my turn, now your turn.
Okay, I didn't know.
Sorry, that's all I got rightnow.
Okay, so some updates forNebraska and the West.
Preliminary information on theAg Land Survey is out now for
Nebraska NDA, which is theNebraska Department of Ag tax

(03:12):
credit.
Words, words in me today, meand words of Agriculture tax
credit course is availableonline now.
So if you need to do the NDAtax credit course in order to
get your Nebraska Department ofAgriculture tax credit which you
know we all want, if we can getit, that course is available

(03:35):
online through UNL and we willhave that linked below in the
show notes.
There's also a grain marketingseries that started in March and
is continuing through April andMay, and that's very exciting.
It's a webinar so you can catchthe older ones on the replay if
you need to.
And then this next month wehave Dr Lida Garcia with the

(03:57):
Ohio State University talking tous about meat quality and all
kinds of good stuff.

Speaker 3 (04:02):
Yeah, anything else, millie?
Yeah, that's an exciting one,so tune in to listen more about
that.
No, I think that's all I gotfor this month.

Speaker 2 (04:13):
Yeah Well, make sure to follow us on our social media
pages the Livestock Follow Outand the Livestock Extension
Group.
If you haven't already, be sureto visit the UHC TAR Extension
website and our YouTube channel,listed in the show notes that's
right.

Speaker 3 (04:27):
For additional information about this or other
topics or comments, send us anemail at valaohawaiiedu.

Speaker 2 (04:33):
Thanks again for listening to our livestock valao
mini yes, yes, before we go,show some love for your favorite
podcast by leaving us a reviewwherever you listen to this, and
then stay tuned for nextmonth's episode.

Speaker 3 (04:50):
Thanks again to our sponsors the livestock extension
group of the university of hoimanoa, college of tropical
agriculture and human resilienceand the center for ag
profitability of the universityof nebraska, lincoln mahalo for
listening.
Thank you.