Montana PBS announces Montana Ag Live guests for fall program
From MSU News Service
Montana PBS has announced the schedule of the agricultural call-in program Montana Ag Live for the fall season. The program is in its 25th year of hosting panels composed of agricultural and natural resource experts with MSU Extension, the Montana Agricultural Experiment Station and MSU’s College of Agriculture.
Jack Riesselman, MSU College of Agriculture professor emeritus, and Chris Seifert, director of educational services at MontanaPBS, both produce Montana Ag Live. Every Sunday at 6pm on MontanaPBS, Riesselman and Seifert bring together MSU faculty guests, state agencies, grower representatives and Montana producers to participate on panels addressing pertinent topics related to Montana agriculture, gardening and natural resource industries. Public viewers are invited to call in with questions. The program airs for eight weeks in the fall and 10 weeks in the spring and repeats almost every Sunday throughout the year at 11am.
“The heart of MSU’s land-grant institution is the relationship between the university and the citizens of the state,” Seifert said. “Montana Ag Live is a bridge between those who have questions and those who have answers.”
The fall Montana Ag Live program runs through Sunday, Oct. 28th. Panel guests for the fall season include:
– Sunday, Sept. 16th: Tracy Ross, equine facility manager and specialist in the Department of Animal and Range Sciences, will discuss tips on training ponies in addition to sharing program updates on MSU’s equine science program.
– Sunday, Sept. 27th: Wendy Stock, professor of economics and co-chair of MSU’s Initiative for Regulation and Applied Economic Analysis in the Department of Agricultural Economics and Economics, will discuss labor issues affecting Montana agriculture, in addition to sharing insights on Montana’s current economy.
– Sunday, Sept. 30th: Tom Woolf, bureau chief with Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks, will talk about the impacts of aquatic invasive species on Montana’s agricultural and natural resource economies.
– Sunday, Oct. 7th: Anton Bekkerman, associate director of the Montana Agricultural Experiment Station and associate professor of economics, will discuss research pertaining to the economic value of public research and development with the Department of Research Centers in MSU’s College of Agriculture and MAES.
– Sunday, Oct. 14th: Emily Meccage, MSU Extension forage specialist in the Department of Animal and Range Sciences, will discuss highlights of forage production and challenges farmers and ranchers have in feeding two-and-half million cows in Montana.
– Sunday, Oct. 21st: MSU President Waded Cruzado will discuss MSU’s 125th anniversary and the role agriculture has played in the university’s history.
– Sunday, Oct. 28th: the panel will discuss potato production in Montana with producers and researchers, from planting to french fries.
For more information on Montana Ag Live, visit www.montanapbs.org/programs/MontanaAgLive. •
