September 28, 2007

On this week's Market Journal Mike Carlson, UNL diagnostic toxicologist, and Tamra Jackson, extension plant pathologist, discuss the potential for aflatoxin. Carlson said the black light test for aflatoxins can give false positive results and recommends that a positive test can be confirmed with a lab test. He recommends livestock producers, especially poultry and dairy farmers, have corn tested if it comes from non-irrigated fields and there is some indication aflatoxins are in the corn.

Also on the program:

• Beef Markets with Mike Briggs, Briggs Feedlot
• Stalk Rot with Tamra Jackson, UNL Plant Pathologist
• Farm and Ranch Management with Rob King, professor of Applied Economics
• Weather - Al Dutcher, Nebraska state climatologist

Coming up next week: U.S. beef exports are gradually regaining some of the markets they lost due to BSE problems. Meanwhile pork exports, which benefited from the beef problems, are still strong but are slipping slightly. Hog prices are in an autumn decline, but prospects for 2008 are bright.

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