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K-State livestock market economist Glynn Tonsor is featured on this week's cattle market segment:  he goes over last week's rally in the cash and futures cattle markets, which rebounded back to levels higher than prices just before the Tyson beef plant fire, and he goes over a much-improved outlook for Kansas cattle feedlot returns rounding out 2019 and heading into 2020.

K-State agricultural economists Gregg Ibendahl and Terry Griffin review their new analysis of what makes a top farm economically in Kansas, based on 10 years of Kansas Farm Management Association data from actual grain production farms across the state:  they ranked several hundred farms for their economic performance, and then evaluated the importance of five factors to those rankings. In this first segment, they look at farm size, and level of debt.

K-State livestock economist Glynn Tonsor talks about his new economic analysis of how beef and pork demand have changed in the aftermath of mandatory county-of-origin labeling being rescinded three years ago...this is a follow-up to previous K-State research indicating that M-COOL did not boost demand for domestic beef and pork.

K-State agricultural economist Nathan Hendricks talks about his work with Joe Janzen on projected payments to producers from this year's USDA Market Facilitation Program, and how those would compare to payments made under the 2018 MFP...they matched up the numbers for every county in Kansas, and shared their findings at the recent K-State Risk and Profit Conference.

The keynote speaker at the Risk and Profit Conference yesterday:  the president of Agri-Pulse Communications, Sara Wyant, shares her latest take on agricultural trade and policy issues, based on her information sources in Washington D.C. ... she comments specifically on the China trade situation and the outlook for farm program policy following the 2020 election.

K-State agricultural economist Joe Janzen talks about his analysis of the USDA's latest round of Market Facilitation Program payments, attempting to explain the variations in MFP payment rates from county to county...he will be presenting his findings at the K-State Risk and Profit Conference coming up later this week on the campus.

K-State agricultural economists Gregg Ibendahl and Terry Griffin talk about their latest effort in a series of economics analyses which looks at the generational differences in farm and ranch management:  this time, they've focused on how spending tendencies and debt load differ among the various generations.

The director of the Arthur Capper Cooperative Center at K-State, Brian Briggeman, and the chief executive officer of the Kansas Cooperative Council, Brandi Miller, look ahead to two informational meetings that will be held consecutively in August:  the K-State Symposium on Cooperative Issues and the K-C-C Leadership Roundtable...these are designed for farmers in cooperative leadership positions and agricultural cooperative managers and employees.