Livestock Wala'au

MINI-S2 Ep 10 Updates, Workshops & Happy New Year!

January 02, 2023 Season 2 Episode 10
Livestock Wala'au
MINI-S2 Ep 10 Updates, Workshops & Happy New Year!
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Aloha and thank you for tuning in for another MINI Livestock Wala'au! In this mini-epsiode we are talking about some upcoming CTAHR updates as campus and classes have begun, upcoming workshops and Two-lined Spittle bug application!  Also coming up this month in our full episode we will talking about Risk Management Options for Livestock Producers with Bonnie Lind and Jaqueline DaRocha! Listen in to find out more! 

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Shannon Sand:

Aloha Today's episode is brought to buy the Western extension Risk Management Education Center Raza, USDA NIFA and the University of Hawaii College of Tropical ag and human resources and the livestock extension group.

Melelani Oshiro:

Aloha, welcome to the livestock follow our a podcast aim to provide educational support information, guidance and outreach to our livestock stakeholders in Hawaii. We are your host Mele Oshiro and Shannon sand. And today in this little mini episode, we will just be giving you the updates like we normally do of little workshops and other things that will be coming up this month. Of course, always going to ask you for

Shannon Sand:

Yes, always gonna ask you for feedback. That's our continuous feedback that's going on all year, every year, hopefully infinitum into the future for a while, you know, so. So we have our survey going on, it's really important because it lets us know if you're looking for particular information, or if there's a really important topic that comes up, we really, really want to know. So as we always like to say it's important that you have your voice heard and make sure that we're on the right track so that we're providing you with information tools and stuff that's necessary to you and what you want to learn and things like that. So please, please check it out. Thank you.

Melelani Oshiro:

Yeah, that really helps us to be able to continue doing the podcasts and providing useful information for everybody. And just one workshop Update. This month, we'll have Shannon will be doing her point no sales or POS workshops. Oh, yeah. On a wahoo and Hilo, I believe she can give more information about that. A Wahoo is

Shannon Sand:

January 10. And Hilo is rescheduled because it was five days before the holiday on the 20th. So so we figured it was probably a good idea to reschedule for January. So yeah. But yeah, the number of people available are limited and a wahoo is almost full already. So yeah,

Melelani Oshiro:

yeah. Now, the workshops will be advertised on Eventbrite. So if you ever go on Eventbrite and just look up CTAHR, and White Island, usually you'll find whatever workshops, anything that myself or Shannon does, we will usually pay for that on there. So yeah, and also on our social media pages, we'll post that there as well. So and upcoming this month, our guests for this month will be talking about risk management options for livestock producers. And we'll be talking with Bonnie land of land insurance, and Jacqueline DeRosa. of pro AG, both who have worked. Well, Bonnie works here with producers here in Hawaii. And Jacqueline does a lot of work with livestock producers and risk management programs and production for them up in the state. So yeah, we had a great, great conversation with them lots of useful, useful information. For you, folks. And just a resource that if you have questions about things like that to go to so yeah, that's upcoming

Shannon Sand:

in a few days. Yeah.

Melelani Oshiro:

And just want to remind everybody also, there is the two lines bedbug application now available for your iOS and Android phones. This bug, I should say, the bug has been here. But this app was recently developed by Mark Thorne and his team, to Lanesboro bug team to help kind of mitigate those provide mitigation strategies for you if you do have two lines, but a bug in your area, a way for you to help you properly identify them, and then show them you sort of use like a geo tracking device on there. So you can input information, if you do find it on your property, take a picture, send it in and it puts it on a larger map that you can then go online and download and see sort of like the spread and whatnot of the two links. But

Shannon Sand:

a blog just provides additional tools for monitoring and like you said met. Exactly. So yeah, really, really good. It's very exciting that you all were able to come up with it and like, get it out. And like I think it's very timely.

Melelani Oshiro:

Yeah. And it's been a long time in the works, I think getting this out and a lot of beta testing, which were brought over so

Shannon Sand:

yeah, sir. Never is easy to make or develop as people think. So.

Melelani Oshiro:

Yeah, just takes a lot of testing to make sure that everything is flowing the way you want it to flow and looks the way you want it to look. So that tool is now available. So to check it out. If you got questions, you should be able to just type in in your app store whatnot, you h CTAHR. Even the two line TL TLS B and you should be able to see I can find it that way as well. But we also have the links on our website and the social media pages will

Shannon Sand:

and they'll be in our show notes if you're like on, like Apple podcasts and those where you click to see more, like a full description. It should be in there. I think. I think we include that I forgot.

Melelani Oshiro:

Yeah, no, I think it's there. Okay. So that'll be all there. And it looks

Shannon Sand:

like there's also a some US USDA NASS stats and survey survey statistics stuff has come out. So the NASS has recently sent out the hog and pig updates for Hawaii. It looks like the numbers are pretty steady from what I can see knowing.

Melelani Oshiro:

Yeah, seems like it so far. And if you're not familiar USD, NASS, is there a National Agricultural Statistics? Service? Yes. You got it? What was the other asked? Yeah. So they do these statistics across all states. And it gives you an idea of sort of what the inventory is across the state. So when that so they recently started doing surveys. And so they are coming out with a survey for cattle, specifically for get gathering information for here in Hawaii, which is pretty rare, like they don't always pinpoint a specific state, especially because we are a little bit smaller numbers and whatnot. So this is an opportunity for people to kind of put their information in there, if you're raising beef cattle, or dairy cattle or cattle period, and you want to be add your information in there anything really helps. It's completely anonymous. And the you know, it's just basically to get more of that information. That's really it. And the reason, it's important that it helps us for one as like an extension, we use these surveys a lot when we are applying for grants for probe to support our programs, and support producers here for different programs that we want to try and put

Shannon Sand:

across the board for you as producers, because it's so certain as, as an example, just like Hawaii's increase from 2021 to 2022, in terms of your pig, the pig crop here, right? It's up 136% by I think, is that 1500 or 2000? Head, I'm probably reading that wrong, because when it's in 1000 head, it's sometimes it's hard to map it out for a second there. But like, I mean, that's a huge increase. And so that gives you as producers of those specific commodities, some additional power, you know, what I mean, in terms of speaking to your representatives, and things like that, and being you know, helping with food security in the state, those are, those are really important things. And those numbers are, are really, really, really powerful and very valuable to to you all as well.

Melelani Oshiro:

Yeah, and even if we're lobbying for other infrastructure to help support our livestock producers here, you know, as far as like, yeah, slaughter facilities or things like that, you know, we use these numbers and NATO in order for us to kind of gauge and justify the need for those types of things. So this cattle survey is coming out beginning of January. So it should I believe, within the next day or so it should be out. And the report is planned to be released. The end of January. The reports are all online so anybody can access them. We'll put the links for the addresses for everything in our show notes, but it's pretty much Nast that USDA usda.gov. I would guess,

Shannon Sand:

February one we might do if it comes out, you know, on well, it should come out on time NASA is pretty good about it was like we could we can include some of that in our mini for February Bravo.

Melelani Oshiro:

Yeah. So and so that's it other than the livestock days, right. Other than the livestock days. Yeah. And I guess our first day right is happy. Yeah, bigger. One, right. It's a new year. So I hope you all had to have or had a very good New Year's Eve. And first day of the new year. Yeah.

Shannon Sand:

January 4 is a national spaghetti day. So yeah, I really liked spaghetti and meatballs.

Melelani Oshiro:

My kids love that. On January 7, National tempura day I feel like that should have been like January 1, because I feel like a lot of local families here do tend to draw. I know we do. I was like it's

Shannon Sand:

so good. It's one of my favorite things. Yeah. January 10 is national Oysters Rockefeller today I honestly had to look that up. It's apparently very fancy dish. So it is a very fancy dish.

Melelani Oshiro:

I'm not a big oyster fan, but I know about the dish because somebody else I know like sadboys Oh, that's January 12. National curry chicken date curry chicken. That is like the thing here katsu curry, everybody knows that. Right, so

Shannon Sand:

So and then last but not least January 20. Is national cheese lovers Day, which I feel like is a day for me. Yeah.

Melelani Oshiro:

I love cheese, January 20. This is also my husband's birthday. Happy birthday.

Shannon Sand:

Have you ever good day after his birthday, right,

Melelani Oshiro:

I know. So, all right. So I think that's it right. I think that's all we have for this little mini episode.

Shannon Sand:

Yeah, so make sure you follow us on our social media pages, the livestock Wala'au and the livestock extension group if you haven't already, and be sure to visit the U H. CTAHR. Extension website and our YouTube channel listed in the show notes.

Melelani Oshiro:

That's right. For additional information about this and any other topics or comments send us an email at walaau@hawaii.edu. That's W A L A u at hawaii.edu Thanks for listening to livestock.

Shannon Sand:

Wala'au Oh, before we go show some love for your favorite podcast. That's us by the way. And leave us a review anywhere you listen to this podcast and then stay tuned for next month.

Melelani Oshiro:

Yeah, thanks again to our sponsors. The western extension Risk Management Education Center, wraps up USDA NEPA the livestock extension group and CTAHR How Ollie Makahiki Hello everyone. Hope you have a happy and healthy New Year.

Shannon Sand:

Oh hey, oh

Melelani Oshiro:

really seen