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The appearance of stripe rust adds insult to injury to this year’s wheat crop, but Kansas growers should scout fields and have their management strategy ready for this yield- and quality-limiting disease. Stripe rust has now been detected in 35 Kansas counties, according to Wheat Ag Pest Monitor. While most of these observations have been at low ...

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Kansas Farm Bureau is continuing in 2024 its recognition for “Sesquicentennial Farms” in conjunction with its annual “Century Farm” program. According to the agency, the Century Farm Program honors Farm Bureau members who own farms of at least 80 acres within the same family for 100 years or more. The Sesquicentennial Farm recognition goes to farms ...

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Colorado health officials are monitoring 70 dairy farm workers who may have been exposed to the bird flu. Agriculture and health officials spoke about the growing number of cattle being affected by bird flu during a virtual town hall earlier this week. The farm workers have shown no signs of avian flu so far and they ...

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The Kansas State University crops judging team continued a successful run at the North American Colleges and Teachers of Agriculture judging conference recently, capturing its 15th title in the past 26 years of the spring competition.The team also posted a first: They placed first in the knowledge bowl competition, marking its first-ever win in that ...

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Kansas  Rep. Tracey Mann took to the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives Wednesday to stress the importance of adequately investing in animal health research in the upcoming Farm Bill. According to his office, Rep. Mann argued that these investments position the U.S. to allocate more resources to outbreak prevention rather than outbreak control, ...

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The commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said at a congressional hearing Wednesday the agency is preparing for the possibility the strain of avian influenza affecting dairy cattle could jump to humans, though he cautioned the probability is low. Robert Califf told senators on the panel in charge of his agency’s funding that top officials from ...

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 Kansas State University today announced that ADM, a global leader in human and animal nutrition, has pledged $1 million to the university's Global Center for Grain and Food Innovation, one of four new or renovated facilities included in the university's visionary Agriculture Innovation Initiative led by the College of Agriculture. The ADM investment will support advances in food product development, food safety ...

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is advising state health officials to make personal protection equipment available to workers on dairy farms, poultry farms, and in slaughterhouses, because of bird flu. Officials say bird flu is widespread in wild birds worldwide and is causing outbreaks in poultry and U.S. dairy cows with one recent human ...

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Anyone who’s ever lived in a house with newborn twins knows they can be a lot of work to take care of. When twin births happen in the beef herd, it often brings about special management considerations, say the experts at Kansas State University’s Beef Cattle Institute. Speaking on a recent Cattle Chat podcast, K-State assistant professor of ...

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May is Mental Health Month, and in addition to Kansas Farm Bureau’s (KFB) resources available to farmers and ranchers who are experiencing stress at www.kfb.org/ruralmindsmatter, KFB is rolling out two mental health advocate awards to honor the important work of individuals who are dedicated to advocating for mental health in rural Kansas communities. Through the inaugural Rural ...

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The Kansas Delegation  in Washing DC, and 67 of their congressional colleagues authored a letter to U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, Tom Vilsack, urging him to reverse the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) decision to cancel or discontinue several National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) reports. The reports provide American farmers, ranchers, and agricultural producers with transparent livestock, ...