LWP Mini S5 Ep 4: January Updates For Livestock Producers

A fast January briefing on what matters now: PQA training in Honolulu, Nebraska land lease workshops, a weaned calf risk webinar, and a preview of silvopasture with our Oahu livestock agent. We share links, dates, and how each step builds animal care, market trust, and resilience.

• PQA training on Oahu with date, time, and location
• why pork quality assurance strengthens consumer trust and market access
• Nebraska land lease workshops and what good clauses look like
• weaned calf risk protection webinar and core tools to manage price risk
• preview of silvopasture benefits and design considerations
• links, email, and social accounts for updates
• request for listener topic ideas and feedback

Resource Links: 

• Pork Quality Assurance Training - January 23, 2026 - Oahu Island 
• Center for Ag Profitability - University of Nebraska 

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Transcript

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Sponsors And New Year Greetings

SPEAKER_00 0:15

Aloha. Today's episode is sponsored by the Livestock Extension Group of the University of Hawaii, Manoa College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resilience, the Center for Ag Profitability out of the University of Nebraska.

SPEAKER_01 0:27

Aloha and welcome to the Livestock Follow Out, a podcast aimed to provide educational support, information, guidance, and outreach to our livestock stakeholders in Hawaii and the rest of the U.S. We are your host, Meleo Shiro and Shannon Sand. And today we are just gonna give you a quick update about what's going on this month. Before we do that, I just want to say happy new year to everybody. Happy New Year to everyone who's listening to our episodes that we've had. Apologies for the late posting on some of them, but it just goes that way sometimes with just the two of us doing the recording, the editing, and everything else. So but happy new year to everyone. And I want to just say again, you know, please send us any um content that you wish to hear about using our email and whatnot that we share. And we'll have all those links for you in the description box as always.

January Pork Quality Assurance Training

SPEAKER_01 1:20

Uh, but for this little mini episode, just want to start with uh just one little update for programs that are currently going to be going on uh in the month of January. So, yes, 2026, but our one opportunity for pork quality assurance training is gonna be on Oahu Island. And this is gonna be in-person training January 23rd from 1:30 to 4:30 um over at the UH Manoa campus in the Agriculture Science building. They'll share the link uh for you to get more information and details about this, and as well as the um instructor or coordinator that's doing the training is Yunam Bostamanti, who's our Oahu Livestock Extension agent. Um, if you're not familiar with pork quality assurance, um, it's just a program that you can get certified in to just kind of learn more about sort of best practices for maintaining pork quality assurance and the quality of the pork that you're producing, as well as the different practices that uh used to produce those animals, right? And it just builds on consumer trust and the quality of the product that you put out at the end. So learn more about that at the links that we'll share. Um, and that's January 23rd.

SPEAKER_00 2:33

That sounds pretty exciting. Yeah. Yeah.

Nebraska Workshops And Risk Webinar

SPEAKER_00 2:37

So for Nebraska and and the rest of West, I was like, we have some land lease workshops in Nebraska. You can visit cap.unl.edu to find out where those are at. There are far too many for me to actually list in this program. Um, January 22nd, we have Understanding Weaned Calf Risk Protection webinar. Again, you can check out cap.unl.edu. Then we have a new upcoming guest. Well, not really new, but it counts. I was like newish. Newish. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 3:10

I want to say congratulations to you and too. If I don't know if she's listening to this or will listen to this, but she made a year um with us and CTAR extension as our livestock agent Oahu. So happy to have her um continue on

Welcoming Guest On Silvopasture

SPEAKER_01 3:23

with us in program. Yeah, and yeah, yeah, and happy to have her as our next guest. She's gonna be for this month's episode sharing about civil pasture for grazing your grazing livestock, um, and talk about some things about that. So I'm not gonna give away too much details because then you can go and listen to the episode.

SPEAKER_00 3:41

That's right, that's right. So happy new year's again. Make sure to follow us on our social media pages, the Livestock Vala Al and the Livestock Extension Group. If you haven't already, be sure to visit the UHC Tar Extension website and our YouTube channel listed in the show notes.

SPEAKER_01 3:57

That's right. For additional information about this or other topics, or leaving us a comment, send us an email at Valao at Hawaii.edu.

Social Links, Email, And Reviews

SPEAKER_01 4:04

And thanks again to listening to the Livestock Vala Al.

SPEAKER_00 4:07

Yep. Before we go, show some love for your favorite podcast, that's us, um, by leaving us a review wherever you're listening to this. And then stay tuned for the next episode.

Closing Thanks And Mahalo

SPEAKER_01 4:17

Thanks again to our sponsors, the Livestock Extension Group of the University of Hawaii Manoa College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resilience, the Center for Ag Profitability of the University of Nebraska, and Western Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program. Happy New Year, everyone. Mahalo for listening. Awuiho.

SPEAKER_00 4:36

Awuiho.