Livestock Wala'au

LWP Mini S4 Ep 9 - Upcoming Workshops & Updates

• Melelani Oshiro & Shannon Sand • Season 4 • Episode 11

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Dive into this episode of Livestock Wala'au, where we uncover exciting updates, workshops, and insights to support your livestock management practices. Our hosts, Mele Oshiro and Shannon Sand, will be discussing upcoming workshops focused on beef cattle management, ranging from on-farm food animal processing to grazing management strategies. 

Shannon shared about exploring the significance of succession planning, an essential element for family-operated farms. We highlight the upcoming "Returning to the Farm" workshop, designed to help families develop estate plans and management transitions. With expert guidance from attorneys and industry specialists, participants will engage in meaningful discussions aimed at confronting the challenges of inheritance and management.

We will also introduce our new livestock extension agent, Yunuen Bustamante, who is set to enrich the extension programming on Oahu. Her initiatives promise to bring fresh perspectives and energy to the community, focusing on the specific needs of livestock producers in the region.

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Shannon Sand:

Aloha. Today's episode is sponsored by the Livestock Extension Group out of the University of Hawaii Manoa College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resilience, the Center for Ag Profitability out of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and the Western Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program.

Mele Oshiro:

Aloha and welcome to Livestock Bala'au, a podcast aimed to provide educational support, information, guidance and outreach to our livestock stakeholders in Hawaii and the rest of the US. We are your hosts, melia Oshiro and Shannon Sand. Today we're just going to talk a little bit about what's going on this month and updates on some programs that will be coming up. I wanted to share a project myself and Dr Caleb Reichart, and it's to support some beef cattle management workshops that are going to be happening over the next year. It's a three-year grant. Currently we're limited on space in the first year for how many participants we can put into each of the different workshops, but it will be offered again in the next, subsequent years.

Mele Oshiro:

We're going to have an on-farm food animal processing workshops in March of this year we will be sending out more information about that and another workshop we'll have will be focused on calving and grazing management for grass-finished beef and it's going to be in Kamuela on the Big Island and that will be in April and likely the weekend of the 12th the dates are still being confirmed, but it will be in April of this year and then we'll have a workshop in the ending part of the year looking at beef cattle weaning, management and replacement heifer selection. This is all part of a grant beef cattle management workshops. We'll share the full details and dates of everything and registrations, but I just wanted to give people a heads up that these are things that are come up. So if you're interested in these workshops, send us an email, or send me an email so that at least I'll put your name on the list so that when things do come out we can share that information directly with you. And that's all I have right now.

Shannon Sand:

No, that sounds pretty exciting For Nebraska and the rest of the West. Preliminary information on the Ag Land Value Survey should be forthcoming around mid-March. I just spoke with a colleague about that. So I'm pretty sure around mid-March I just spoke with a colleague about that. So I'm pretty sure around mid-March. You can check for the Nebraska land values and at least a preliminary will be available. There is the soft launch of the ABC or Ag Budget Calculator. The livestock version will be coming out in March. I know I'm so excited. We'll have to talk to Glynis, who's one of the web developers, for it and have her on. I know I'm so excited. We will have to talk to Glenys, who's one of the web developers for it and have her on. I think it's pretty exciting.

Shannon Sand:

We will be talking about this more. Yes, I said the last two years helping develop this. We will be talking about this more.

Mele Oshiro:

Yeah, you've been talking about it for a while.

Shannon Sand:

March 7th and 8th we're having the returning to the farm workshop. It's a little bit more like a retreat than a workshop, I would say, and that you and all of your family members are supposed to come to it. So you work together as a family to begin developing that estate and transition plan. So in terms of succession, creating those timelines, in terms of management, transition plans, how that's going to work. There's also an attorney. There's all different kinds of experts that will be present so you can ask lots of questions too, and it is two days long. So it is a commitment.

Shannon Sand:

But if you're really wanting to get started on this whole estate and transition planning, it's a really good time to do it. And again, bring yourself, bring your family members, so that you guys can all start out on that same even open playing field. So it's a good opportunity. And then we have a grain marketing series starting March 11th. It's all online and it's free, so if you're interested in it, please check it out. Jessica grosskoff, our panhandle regional ag economist, is in charge of that, so that will be available online. So, no matter where you are, if you're interested in it, you can check it out oh right, and our upcoming guest this month is going to be Yunuen Bustamante.

Mele Oshiro:

She is our new livestock extension agent on Oahu, so for Oahu County, very excited to have her join extension and, yeah, look forward to seeing her program and whatnot develop. So listen in to find out a little bit more about her background and where her extension programming will be focused.

Shannon Sand:

Yeah, exciting. Make sure to follow us on our social media pages, the Livestock Bala'au and the Livestock Extension Group. If you haven't already, be sure to visit the UHC to our extension website and our YouTube channel listed in the show notes.

Mele Oshiro:

That's right. For additional information about this or other topics, please send us a comment at our email. Balao at hawaiiedu. And thanks again for listening to Livestock Balao Mini.

Shannon Sand:

Yep, yep, before we go, show some love for your favorite podcast by leaving a review wherever you listen to this, and then stay tuned for next month's episode.

Mele Oshiro:

Thanks again to our sponsors the Livestock Extension Group of the University of Hawaii, manoa College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resilience, the Center for Ag Profitability of the University of Nebraska, lincoln, and the Western Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program. Mahalo for listening, a hui hou.