A feature report on the UK Dairy Judging team which recently took first place honors in the collegiate division of the All-American Dairy Show contest in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.  Feldhaus visits with Matthew Borchers a grad student and coach of the team about the importance of the skills involved for the future careers of these outstanding students.

Feldhaus has one more feature with Marge Klindera of the Butterball Turkey Talkline, who today, even on Thanksgiving Day will be manning the phones to help out panicky turkey day cooks with problems they face in getting the big bird to the dinner table.  Klindera says it’s so much fun to do she doesn’t even mind working on the holiday.

Feldhaus provides a preview of the Ky Farm Bureau’s annual meeting next week in Louisville.  Farm group president, Mark Haney of Pulaski County is featured. He says farmers from one end of the state to the other have a say in the issues that will receive attention from the organization’s voting delegates. He focuses on the recent creation of the Kentucky Water Resources Board, a direct result of one of the group’s policy decisions.

Farmers in counties across the state will be voting over the next two weeks for member of their county Farm Service Administration (FSA) committees. These volunteer community leaders are instrumental in determining who qualifies for eligibility for a number of USDA programs from conservation to the farm bill safety net. Mitch Dunn, program administrator for the state FSA office is featured.

A feature report with one of the supervisors of the Butterball Turkey Talkline with planning and cooking tips for this Thursday.  Butterball veteran, Marge Klindera, talks about how much turkey to buy, how to treat it safely in cooking preparation, and says their operators at the talk line are standing by to help anyone with tips on turkey.   

?CBOT futures closed higher and in the upper range as futures rallied throughout the day. A significant factor was a very strong persistent rally in crude oil futures.  Live Cattle futures closed higher in the April 2017 and beyond contracts. The nearby December LC closed steady as traders wait for cash markets to develop. 

Corn and soybean futures closed higher but way below the day’s highs which came around midnight.  That’s when the soy complex soared on bullish palm oil production news.  Cattle futures closed higher as traders remain hopeful of higher cash markets.

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