Livestock Wala'au

MINI-Ep.08-CTAHR Update & Feedback Fest

• Melelani Oshiro & Shannon Sand • Season 1 • Episode 8

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Aloha and thank for tuning in to the MINI Livestock Wala'au! In this mini-episode we will be discussing some brief updates for CTAHR and our Feedback Fest! We are requesting your feedback on our podcast. Your feedback helps to provide information for us to know what you want to hear in the future, how we can improve your experience and other helpful content. This survey also allows us to show our administrators the value of our podcast program and enable us to continue to bring you more content in the future. It will take no more than a few minutes to complete! Mahalo for listening & hope you will participate in providing feedback about our podcast!

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Today's episode is brought to you by the Western extension Risk Management Education Center, USDA NIFA, and the University of Hawaii College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources and the livestock extension group.

Unknown:

Aloha welcome, everyone to the livestock Walaʻau a podcast aims to provide educational support, information, guidance and outreach to our livestock stakeholders in Hawaii. We are your host, Mele Oshiro and Shannon San. And today we're going to discuss some upcoming activities and updates for you h and also would like to ask for your help, please. Yes.

Melelani Oshiro:

So, currently, CTAHR is still at our same point. So you need to have over you need to want want to come to the office for anything, and need to spend any more than 15 minutes at a time there, you need to have some additional check in policies. So just call ahead, whoever you want to visit. If you're coming on to campus, or the extension offices, reach research stations, all that type of stuff.

Shannon Sand:

Yeah, yep. All the important things are still the same at this point when we're filming this. So if it changes, we'll we'll list it in the show notes and description box. Yeah, if it changes before we publish this, but probably not. So we do want to ask for your help, basically. So we are looking for feedback on our livestock while our podcasts. So we have created a small survey evaluation of feedback form, whatever you want to call it. Hopefully, to get some additional information, though.

Melelani Oshiro:

Yeah, you know, we've been having the podcasts on now for almost a year. And you know, these surveys, I know, we always ask you for surveys, but they're very helpful for programs because it really shows us what you want. And we're putting all you know, we can know if our content we're putting out there is useful and something that you want, or is there other specific topics that you'd like, and then we can use the information that we get from this survey to go and ask for support to continue our program. It's been a it's a, it's a useful tool for everybody, you know, or right. So we want to know, is it good? Or is it bad, we want to know both. And

Shannon Sand:

we're gonna share the information with you all when we're done. So it is completely confidential. So you don't have to share any of your private information or anything like that, you know, no names will be shared when we talk about, you know, what's going to, you know, kind of our stuff, but we would like to hear, you know, feedback in terms of like, you know, some topics you'd like to hear. Yeah, there are producers you think we should contact to get in touch with, you know, all that stuff. And then also important like mele said, so that we can pass the statistical portion I'm using, I'm using air quotes, difficult portion of the food chain to our administration and the legislature. So hopefully, they can see some value in this as y'all do. So, which I think I think most people really enjoy that have listened to so.

Melelani Oshiro:

Yeah. And if you'd rather have a paper version of the survey, because you don't have electronics, call us. Yeah, or email us. And we'll be happy to get that out to you as well. Hope you and it won't take more than 10 minutes I met Shannon, I don't even think I don't

Shannon Sand:

think it's even that. Yeah, so unless you have a lot to say, and then it might be so but yeah, but we just really want to make sure that everybody who listens to this has opportunity to have their voice heard. And, you know, really, you know, it's important. Like I said, we want to do like a big feedback fist so we can kind of talk about, you know, what everybody really enjoyed and changes and things they'd like to like see in the in the future. Yeah.

Melelani Oshiro:

Yeah, so that'll be coming out. We'll have the link for that in our show notes of this, of this podcast, and probably the next few for the next couple of months. Yep. Yeah. And so and then next month, we will be talking about backyard poultry specifically raising pullets or layer hens for your backyard. Yeah, yeah, just be Shannon and I kind of discussing things and whatnot. So tune into that if you're, you know, February's so sort of the chick season, I think. Yeah. So if you're thinking about getting some laying hens tune in for next month's podcast,

Shannon Sand:

and then we have of you mean, this month's podcast, I mean, this month, right, because the days are blending together at this point, and the year has just begun, y'all so I

Melelani Oshiro:

think we're all Yeah, we're through. We're through the first month of the year already. And this is gonna be hard to believe it's gonna have Yeah, it's just gonna fly by so yeah, so and then, of course, of course, we have our National Livestock days in February, or days associated with products from your livestock, right. So that's also what we talked about. Yeah.

Shannon Sand:

So I'm very excited because February 9 is one of my favorite days. Actually, a lot of these days are my favorite some of my favorite days. So February 9 is pizza day. So I air get some pizza with some like cheese and meat and all the good things that you know, come from livestock. So my older son that his absolute favorite food is pizza. So is his favorite pizza. Yeah. See, so

Unknown:

you know, that was here. And we're like Indian, and he's like, Oh, yeah.

Melelani Oshiro:

February 13. Is cheddar day and pork rind Good day. So

Shannon Sand:

I just love pork rinds. My dad and I make our own fresh pork. When I go visit peanut oil, some pork skin pellets, almost like it's delicious. Let me tell you ever cheddar is also one of my favorite foods.

Unknown:

Yeah, you can't go wrong with fresh pork rinds? I

Shannon Sand:

tell you that so good. People who haven't had them have no idea. They're just especially if they're right out the fryer, and they're warm and big and puffy.

Melelani Oshiro:

Yeah. So good. And so February 17, is not a livestock day. But we really thought we should put this in here, because it's the national Random Acts of Kindness Day. And I think you know, what's so many different things going on in our situation in our, in our country, in the nation world and our colony in the world everywhere. Yeah, we need to we need to have a random act of kindness. You know, every once in a while we'll go through Starbucks, or something or some other restaurant and we'll just pay for the cars behind us or something, you know, just has, you know, you

Unknown:

don't know who it is, but you don't know what their situation is. And some small little act of kindness like that could probably make a real big difference for somebody's you know, you know, it may make a big difference for that person's day. So Exactly, yeah. Showing a random act of kindness for our producers, you know, that are doing their job every day out there. Yeah,

Shannon Sand:

thank you provide, right. So provide for all of us. So yeah, exactly. And so we've always done a livestock day, but it's still very important that yes, that's February 17. Right. February 17. And then February 19, is National Arabian horse day. Yeah.

Melelani Oshiro:

So another, you know, the Arabs used to be they used to have a lot of them here, because they're very endurance horses. And they so you're telling me? Yeah, and so to see some of the plantations and whatnot, are bred into another breed as just because they would go, you could just those horses would I swear and did not run out of energy. And they're used for a lot of endurance races. Yeah. All over the places. So just a few livestock days in February, and one additional day, random act of kindness day that wanted to share.

Shannon Sand:

So yeah, my like eyes like and I agree. I was like, I was like, oh, yeah, that's a good one. We need to Yeah, thank you for listening to our little updates and stuff. And please, please, please participate in the feedback fest, we would greatly appreciate it. Like I said, it helps you inform us what you want to hear in the future and, and things like that. And yeah, it's just really helpful for us. So make sure to join our Facebook page, the livestock extension group. If

Unknown:

you haven't already, be sure to visit the U H. CTAHR. Extension website and YouTube channel listed in the show notes. Yeah, for additional information about this or any of the other topics, you can send us an email at Wala'au at hawaii.edu. And like Shannon said, When you see the survey, you know, have you listened to the podcast, give us some feedback. We'd love to hear from you guys. Or you know, just what you liked what you didn't like. And then Thanks again for listening to our livestock Wala'au Mini and for next month.

Shannon Sand:

Before we go show some love for your favorite podcasts by leaving us a review on Apple podcasts. Then stay tuned for next month's podcast. And thanks again to our sponsors the Western extension Risk Management Education Center, USDA NIFA, the livestock extension group and CTAHR Yes, thanks, everybody for tuning in. See people Oh,