2 years ago
The Republican River Compact Administration (RRCA) will hold its 2024 annual meeting at 10:00 a.m. Central Time on Wednesday, August 28, at the Colby Event Center at 1200 South Franklin Street in Colby, Kansas. A livestream of the meeting can be accessed at the Kansas Department of Agriculture Division of Water Resources website: agriculture.ks.gov/RRCA. The RRCA meeting ...

2 years ago
The congregation is in place as the pastor says a prayer. But there are no pews or stained glass windows in sight. In fact, this service doesn’t take place inside a church building - it takes place in a cornfield. This congregation is saying a blessing over a plot of farm ground from which the proceeds ...

2 years ago
Cereal rye grain possesses many uses within crop and livestock production. Growers make rye part of their corn-soybean crop rotation to boost yields, while ranchers needing an alternative feed might hay it for their livestock. Recently, a listener who plants rye as a cover crop asked the hosts of K-State’s Cattle Chat podcast if rye grain can be ...

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Three Kansans have been appointed by Secretary of Agriculture Mike Beam to serve on the Kansas Department of Agriculture’s Marketing Advisory Board. Board service will begin on September 12. According to the agency, the Marketing Advisory Board provides constituent observation and comment for a variety of industry sector strategies supporting agriculture business development, international agricultural development/trade, ...

2 years ago
To get to be a farmer, Brian Martin first has to be a decider. What to grow. How much of it to grow. What seed to use. Where to grow it. When to plant it — both in time of day, and in time of season. How far apart (and deep) to plant it. When to ...

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The U.S. Department of Agriculture is making some changes to the Farm Service Agency’s (FSA) Farm Loan Programs, effective Sept. 25th. The agency says the changes are intended to increase opportunities for farmers and ranchers to be financially viable. These improvements, part of the Enhancing Program Access and Delivery for Farm Loans rule, demonstrate USDA’s commitment ...

2 years ago
The Kansas Corn Commission’s education program, Kansas Corn STEM, is celebrating a milestone reaching 104,645 Kansas students and supporting 3,844 Kansas educators in the 2023-24 school year. Kansas Corn STEM was created to increase agriculture education in the K-12 classroom through STEM-based classroom resources and training focusing on corn, ethanol, biotechnology, soil and water. “It has ...

2 years ago
A collaborative effort between the Kansas Grain Sorghum Commission , Kansas State University Department of Plant Pathology, and K-State Research and Extension is bringing forth the Sorghum Connection field day series. This program will provide producers with information on stalk rot management, hybrid selection, fertility, and other cropping systems practices to improve producer productivity and ...

2 years ago
The USDA will expand testing for bird flu in beef entering the nation's food supply. The U.S. Department of Agriculture plans to embark on a year-long study beginning next month that will test samples for evidence of highly pathogenic avian influenza from former dairy cattle moved into meat production. Emilio Esteban, the under secretary for food safety ...

2 years ago
The State Conservation Commission will hold its regular meeting on Tuesday, August 20, 2024, at 9:00 a.m. at the Kansas Department of Agriculture office at 1320 Research Park Drive in Manhattan. The SCC consists of five elected commissioners; two ex officio members representing the Kansas State University Agriculture Experiment Station and Cooperative Extension Service; and two appointed ...

2 years ago
With most of the nation’s fall-calving cowherd entering late gestation, Kansas State University beef cattle experts reminded producers of the causes and prevention methods associated with weak calf syndrome, or dummy calf, on a recent episode of the Cattle Chat podcast. “Think of (what we call dummy calf) as contrasting everything a calf should do at birth – ...