1 year ago
The Kansas Department of Agriculture welcomed a beef genetics trade team from Canada in late October. According to the agency, the diverse trade team represented progressive seedstock operations located throughout Saskatchewan and Alberta and the participants had varied cattle breed interests including Black and Red Angus, Charolais, Hereford, and Simmental breeds. The trade team’s itinerary included stops ...

1 year ago
Walk onto a modern hog farm and it is typical to find climate-controlled farrowing houses filled with hardworking sows nursing litters of 12 or more piglets. That scene, says Kansas State University swine specialist Mike Tokach, is quite different from two decades ago. Tokach notes that sizeable growth in litter sizes has elevated sow input needs ...

1 year ago
 Research detailing the genome of a wild wheat relative from a team including Michigan State University wheat geneticist Eric Olson has been published in Nature. According to the school, Olson, an associate professor in the MSU Department of Plant, Soil and Microbial Sciences, helped map out the genomics of Tausch’s goatgrass (Aegilops tauschii), an annual grass ...

1 year ago
Kansas corn growers are one step closer to creating promising new uses for their crop. According to the Kansas Corn Growers Association, during a competition in San Francisco, the Radicle Corn Value Chain Challenge Sponsored by US Corn Farmers awarded a total of $1.5 million to two companies who are developing promising new uses for corn. ...

1 year ago
Avian flu has been detected for the first time in the United States in a pig. The swine was one of five pigs tested on a small farm in Oregon after 70 birds had to be euthanized because they tested positive for the H5N1 bird flu virus. Health officials are concerned because pigs can become infected ...

1 year ago
Kansas net farm income is projected to decline in 2024, according to a report from the Rural and Farm Finance Policy Analysis Center (RaFF). The center, working with Kansas State University agricultural economists from Kansas State University, said in its Fall 2024 Kansas Farm Income Outlook that Kansas’ 2024 net farm income is estimated at $4.69 ...

1 year ago
The official results are in for quality testing for the U.S. hard red winter (HRW) crop, and Kansas Wheat is set to share the story of this past year’s growing season with global buyers by participating in the annual Crop Quality Seminars organized by U.S. Wheat Associates (USW). “The Kansas HRW crop this year is performing ...

1 year ago
When driving in Kansas, it is easy to spot big, round hay bales that are wrapped in plastic and ready to be fed to cattle. When it is time to feed the bale, some producers put the hay with the wrap on in a grinder and chop it up together, while others choose to remove ...

1 year ago
I’ve spent a lot of time in the cabs of tractors this month as we continue our marathon of fall harvest. Spending so much time operating the grain cart during fall harvest has allowed me ample time to get caught up on podcasts, opportunities to start and end new audiobooks, and hear the latest songs on ...

1 year ago
The Colby Community College equestrian team, horse production program, and ag programs are hosting the annual Halloween 'N Horses event from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 29, at the college farm three miles east and one mile north of Colby. According to the school, the free, family-friendly event is open to all ages and ...

1 year ago
K-State Research and Extension cow-calf specialist Jason Warner discusses safety considerations when making a decision to allow cows to graze sorghum residue after harvest. “The quantity and quality of (sorghum) residue is the highest it is going to be immediately following harvest,” Warner said. He said that K-State research indicates that in most situations, there should be ...