Livestock Wala'au

LWP Mini S5 Ep1: Livestock News Roundup

• Season 5 • Episode 1

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Mele and Shannon provide an update on essential concerns for producers and upcoming livestock events in Hawaii and Nebraska.

• Three-day poultry basics webinar series (September 17-19) covering health, food safety, and environmental management with Dr. Gregory Archer from Texas A&M
• Small ruminant health workshop in Hilo (September 20) featuring parasite control, grazing management, and hands-on emergency care training
• Safeguarding Hawaii’s Swine: Building Biosecurity and FAD Preparedness: a program focused on biosecurity and foreign animal disease preparedness through a five-part webinar series
• Hawaii Cattlemen's Council convention on Maui (November 13-15) including hands-on workshops at Ulupalakua Ranch
• Critical reminder to re-register livestock brands between September 1 and December 31, 2025
• Alert about two-line spittlebug spread to new areas of Hawaii Island, affecting approximately 180,000 acres
• "Returning to the Ranch" workshop in Nebraska (September 12-13) to facilitate family farm transition planning with professional mediators
• Free livestock risk insurance webinars, Ag Budget Calculator, and online farm finance courses now available through the Center for Ag Profitability

Email us at walaau@hawaii.edu with questions or comments about these topics. Follow us on social media and visit the UH-CTAHR Extension website for additional resources. Stay tuned for our next episode!


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Speaker 2:

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.

Speaker 3:

Aloha, welcome to the 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, mele Oshiro and.

Speaker 2:

Shannon Sand.

Speaker 3:

And today, in this mini episode, we're going to talk a little bit about what's going on this month and some events that are coming up both here in Hawaii and in the West. So I think I'll start here with some of the Hawaii program updates. So we have a few different things going on. The first one is a poultry webinar for poultry producers. It can be for 4-H members, students, backyard flock owners, anyone that's interested in poultry management. It's going to be a three-day poultry basics webinar series starting September 17th through the 19th, from 10 to 1130 in the morning, hawaii Standard Time, 3 to 430 Central Time. It's going to be about an hour presentations with about 30 minutes of Q&A. Registration is required. It's going to be on zoom and it's really going to cover like poultry health and diseases for backyard flocks, selling eggs and food safety things, chickens in your garden and the environment.

Speaker 3:

Um our guest speaker is dr gregory archer from texas a&m university, um with myself and you know, in bustamante who is our other livestock extension agent on Oahu, that will be helping moderate the session. So we'll put the link, of course, for the registration down there. You do need to register because it's going to be on Zoom so you won't get the links for Zoom, otherwise, if you have any questions, again, of course you know how to reach me. You know how to reach me. Secondly, we're going to have a small remnant health workshop. We're going to talk a little bit.

Speaker 3:

This is going to be over on the Big Island in Hilo, at the Komohana Research and Extension Center on Saturday, september 20th, from 9 to 3.30. Again, registration is required for this one, just so that we know how much folks are coming. We will likely be offering lunch as well, uh, for that one. We're going to talk a little bit about some basic small remnant health fundamentals keeping your animals health healthy, talking about grazing, a little bit about grazing management and parasite um, particularly internal parasite control um, and some tools and tips and things that you can use to sort of evaluate the health of your animals and the parasite loads. We'll be also talking a little bit about first aid care for your animals, so basic emergency care for sheep or goats.

Speaker 3:

We may also have a few guest speakers at this one. We're still confirming, but I'm hoping to have them there as well. We'll have a hands-on portion in the afternoon so folks need to get from matcha certified um and we can talk a little bit about some of the first aid care. You know, I don't know if it's like this on your end, shannon, but here we do a lot deal with a lot with um wild dogs coming in through herds, so dog attacks um, fly strike, even animals that get bloat um, and you know just the first aid.

Speaker 3:

You know things that you you're going to need to do with them before you can actually take them to end.

Speaker 3:

Just get veterinary care and yeah some of it could be life-saving for your animals. So, um, just basic things that you could do at home and learn um with your own animals. Uh, and the third event we recently received funding through the swine extension outreach program through the National Pork Board. So one of the events that we're putting on is a webinar series looking at safeguarding Hawaii's swine and building sort of biosecurity and foreign animal disease preparedness across the islands. So we are going to have a webinar series to start off this program.

Speaker 3:

We eventually are going to have in-person workshops as well workshops as well but the webinar series is going to be a five part series where we can kind of start off by talking about the industry and the project itself and then talking about other things as far as, like premise ID numbers and how you get those. We're going to have sessions online so we can directly help and support people in applying and submitting the forms and all those things. We'll also talk about the secure pork supply plans, how you can develop that for your operations, other programs such as AgView for traceability, which is run through the National Pork Board and it really looks at movement records and how you can use that as a part of your biosecurity plan and not just movement of your animals directly on your farm but where it's going from there and how you can use that as a part of your biosecurity plan and not just movement of your animals directly on your farm but where it's going from there and how you can provide support for traceability if we do have foreign animal disease outbreaks. And then the last part of the webinar series is going to look at the US Swine Health Improvement Plan or US SHIP, and really these series kind of interconnect with each other because in developing these secure pork supply plans and biosecurity for your farms, all all of these webinar series kind of connect to each other and it's the steps that you need to sort of follow.

Speaker 3:

You know and we have seen. You know, yes, we are isolated sort of here in Hawaii. Know sort of ish um, but with um, anything, yeah, anything can come here. You know, and we have such an environment where um it flourishes everything wants to survive, so yeah

Speaker 3:

everything. You know. Um, we recently got um highly pathogenic avian influenza here in the islands, you know. So looking at these foreign animal disease outbreaks and how we can improve our flocks, our herds to be prepared, our producers to be prepared, is really, I think, an important part of our risk management and just safeguarding our livestock industry here in Hawaii, you know. So that's really sort of the goal of that one. I'll put more information and, of course, the links for that registration down there. We're just literally covering all the species here today. You are, you've got so much I know, there's so much going on, and so, and then also I wanted to share, you know, hawaii Cattlemen's Council is having their annual convention and meeting.

Speaker 3:

It's taking place on the island of Maui this year, november 13th to the 15th. They will also be holding a hands-on workshop at Ulupalakua Ranch as part of their convention and annual meeting. This is going to involve some live demonstrations and there's room for some participants to actually actively participate in there, as well as having observers. So need to check their webs, their their links for this registration to get on there in order to do that, to be part of that event as well, as well as the Cadman's College. That happens on the first day of convention. So very good information, I think, there.

Speaker 3:

And lastly, I just wanted to share and remind everyone Department of Agriculture and Biosecurity again is reminding livestock owners they must re-register their brands between September 1 and December 31 of 2025. In order to protect the rights to their brands and your brands that you're currently using, make sure you guys get your brands re-registered um, for here in the state they're used to identify livestock and their owners and they must be registered every five years. So I'll put the link down below regarding that as well and how you can get more information and how to do all of that. And then, lastly, geez, I had six things on my list here, shannon. So lastly, unfortunately we've seen two lines bit of bug. We've talked about it a lot um here in hawaii um, and it's mostly on the north kona side of the island. It recently got confirmed down in the kahuku and glenwood area, hawaii Island. Um so they're wanting.

Speaker 3:

Just want to remind people. You know it's a sort of isolated populations right now, um, but it's, you know, spittle bug and things is likely going to be moved from one location to another, um, from with the eggs right, it's typically going to start from that egg population or egg stage of the of the insect, um, so being careful about moving uh materials, whether it be plants or soil or green materials of some sort some type of vegetation is you know?

Speaker 3:

it's potential for them to get around in there. I mean, we've seen it with the coconut rhinoceros beetle getting from one spot to another in compost and um.

Speaker 3:

So be aware, if you're doing that, you know, removing the mud debris, try not to move material from two-line spittlebug areas um that are going into areas that don't have it. You know, um, it's been pretty devastating. I think the last report I read is almost 180,000 acres that it's impacted, you know. So it can have a very bad impact in your grazing operations. So you know, get I'll put more links to talk a little bit about how you can prevent the spread of two line spittlebugs to other parts of the islands. Um, it really is. Um, you know, our responsibility as um land stewards, right to ensure that what we're, we're we're doing the right things by um you know, everyone around us.

Speaker 3:

So yeah um, okay, I'll get off my soapbox.

Speaker 2:

That's all I got for hawaii nice, I feel like mine won't be nearly as long as yours. So so we have returning to the ranch, september 12th through the 13th. It's a workshop series where the whole family comes together, ideally. So it does have a. If you register before the I want to say the fourth, it's 75, and after that it's 85 per person and what it is is basically it's a, a workshop, retreat, conference series, whatever you want to call it where basically you bring the whole family and you actually sit down and over the two-day period you start the actual kind of transition planning of the operation. So if you're looking to pass your operation on to your kids or whatever, it's an in-person one. It's happening in north platte, here in ne, and it's, like I said, it's a two day thing and it's right now, before before September 4th, it's 75. But after it will be $85 per person. Generally we have four to like eight member families kind of come. So ideally you know at least the husband and wife and then the child that's coming back and his spouse, if they have one, I say his child, his spouse, it could be her spouse. So whoever's coming back and I have also again, I've seen it where ideally you want to involve as many people as you can in this discussion. The other thing is is there are professional mediators there, there's attorneys there over that two day period and it's it's a guided workshop. So it's a lot of time to plan and have these discussions and if your family tends to be a little rowdy, it's actually not a bad idea because it is done in public, in a neutral location. So, and it does again, there are mediators there that can help you know, kind of guide you as you go through this, because some of these are very, you know, taboo discussions amongst family. A lot of times nobody wants to think about anybody dying. Nobody wants to talk about it, do they? Your face says it all. You're like no, so but it is an important thing to talk about because you know we want to make sure that everything is passed on, that legacy remains and stuff. So, and if that's not what you want to do again, have those discussions and talk about it.

Speaker 2:

So the livestock risk insurance webinars are now available free on CAP. It's a series of three so you can go to capunledu and rewatch those, but it has the intros and the basics and examples of all the different livestock risk insurance options that are currently available. So PRF, af, lrp, and then the new weaned cap, risk protection, wcrp. So the Ag Budget Calculator livestock version we need to remember to get Glenys on here is now available for free for the public to use. Um, you do have to create your own like username and login and stuff, but your data is your own. Uh, no one has access to that so and it is uh free to use for anyone anywhere, cause I believe that is being used all over. But yeah, so it launched.

Speaker 2:

And then the online farm finance and record keeping program is now open to the public and it is an asynchronous online class for anyone who kind of wants to get a better understanding of their farm financial records, basically, and kind of understand what they are, how they work. So if you have questions about balance sheets, cash flows, income statements or P&Fs, it's a good one to look at. And then the webinar that is available for replay so it's already happened on the one big beautiful bill discussing specifically ag related topics and how they affect producers is also available at capunledu, because I've had a lot of people ask questions about things. So we actually have like a policy specialist that came in and spoke about that, and Dr Brad Lubin is the specialist, so he is really good and knows what he's talking about, has been doing this for many, many decades, so, again, an excellent one to re-watch, because I feel like I I don't know that you've gotten a lot of questions about it, but I've gotten enough that I'm like I just keep referring them to that webinar.

Speaker 2:

so yeah, yeah, I don't think it's something that's um talked about enough and you know until you have to right kind of a thing as far as, yeah, um succession planning and um whatnot, so make sure to follow us on our social media pages the livestock, vala al and livestock extension group, if you haven't already, be sure to visit the uhC star extension website and our youtube channel listed in the show notes yeah, thanks for listening to the livestock valao mini.

Speaker 3:

For any additional information about this or any other topics or comments, send us an email at valao at hawaiiedu.

Speaker 2:

Thanks again for listening yep, before we go, show some love for your favorite podcast by leaving us a review anywhere you listen to this and then, like melissa, stay tuned for the next episode yeah, 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 nebraskaLincoln and the Western Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program.

Speaker 3:

Mahalo for listening A hui hou, a hui hou.