2022 Flint Hills Beef Fest activities commenced Friday.
Following the annual livestocker show at the Emporia Sale Barn, attention shifted to the Lyon County Fairgrounds and the Bowyer Community Building for the Beef Producer’s Seminar. This year’s seminar featured five speakers covering a range of topics including insurance, the focus of speaker Jennifer Ift.
Ift, an associate professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics at Kansas State University, says insurance knowledge is important for cattle producers given their field is full of “risk.”
Ift focused on two insurance options for producers Friday which she says have been around for “a while” but are now more favorable to producers.
Kansas State University Professor of Agriculture and Economics Glynn Tonsor’s remarks focused on the beef and cattle markets and industry as a whole.
Overall, Tonsor says industry “supplies are down.”
With that in mind, Tonsor says “not all is broken.”
Friday’s activities concluded with a ranch feed and the Ranch Rodeo. Beef Fest continues Saturday with a cornhole tournament at the Bowyer Building beginning at 9 am and free hamburger feed at 11 am.
The evening’s activities include the annual awards banquet and steak dinner followed by live entertainment from comedian Etta May. Beef Fest will conclude Sunday with a golf tournament at the Emporia Municipal Golf Course.
For more information visit beeffestdotcom.wordpress.com. Beef Fest is an annual celebration of the Flint Hills grass cattle industry.
