This week on Market Journal...

    Cattle markets blah -- Mike Briggs, owner of Briggs Feedlot , Seward, Nebraska, says there is a smaller supply of cattle going to slaughter, but the demand for beef is low. Briggs expects a better second quarter in 2010.
    Harvest 2009 options for taking care of a bumper crop – Market Journal presents excerpts of the Harvest 2009 videoconference presented Wednesday, November 18th. The segments deal with – the potential of two mycotoxins and their affect on livestock with Mike Carlson, University of Nebraska-Lincoln veterinary diagnostic toxicologist. Tamra Jackson, UNL Extension plant pathologist, comments on moldy grain for ethanol, scouting fields for ear rot problems, and adding a preservative to stored moldy corn. Tom Dorn, UNL Extension educator, talks about getting stored grain temperature down to 30 degrees and checking bins. Duane Reese, UNL Extension swine nutrition specialist explaining how to feed grain with mycotoxins, if absolutely necessary. The full video conference can be found at here.
    Well, not much chance of rain or snow this week – Al Dutcher, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension state climatologist, says small systems will move through the state this week with temperatures ranging from the 40s to the 60s. Dutcher says there is not much chance for precipitation until the first of December.

 Next week on Market Journal - Tina Barrett will discuss year end tax planning. There is less than six weeks to make those decisions. Paul Burgener will give us his analysis of the wheat market.