Celebrate 4-H And Pork - Plus Big Losses In CA Dairy With HPAI

MID-WEST FARM REPORT - MADISON

It's National 4-H Week! Pam Jahnke finds out how membership and activities are trending in the state from Jessica Jens, WI State 4-H Program Manager.Hurricane Milton made landfall last night in Florida. We get an update on the path of destruction from Stu Muck, ag meteorologist.
October is Pork Month, but why. Christina Meylor, president of the WI Pork Association and a producer herself in Darlington, tells Pam Jahnke about seasonal productivity and why October was selected as an emphasis month. Paid for by WI Pork Association.
There's another migration of birds coming over Wisconsin on Friday night, meanwhile a poultry processor in Minnesota's declaring bankruptcy and relinquishing control of about 1.3 million birds. Now the Iowa Dept. of Agriculture's been given an emergency order to try and find shelter, food and care for the birds.Zach Bowers, dairy market analyst with EverAg joins Pam Jahnke to discuss influences on the dairy complex. New developments this week on the toll HPAI in California dairy is taking on production. Bowers says milk supply and consumer demand aren't correlating with cheese prices right now, but an adjustment is probably coming.

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