3 years ago
The 2023 Garden City Community College Meat Judging Team started their fall campaign in a big way, winning the Beef Empire Days Contest by an impressive 128 points. The team also won last year, making this the first back-to-back contest win for Beef Empire Days in program history. This year's competition featured 40 individuals from ...

3 years ago
This has been a tough year, there is no way around it. Rain did not come at the right times and our crops reflect that. Couple that with declining crop prices, rising interest rates and the increasing cost of inputs, things sure are tough on the farm. Without crop insurance, this year would have been ...

3 years ago
In less than a decade, there has been a shift in land ownership trends in Kansas. “There is a growing demographic of landowners in Kansas that are becoming more geographically and generationally removed from agriculture,” said Robin Reid, an agricultural economist at Kansas State University. Reid cites data from 2015 indicating that 85% of Kansas land was ...

3 years ago
Kansas State University is setting the stage as a national leader in digital agriculture with the launch of the interdisciplinary Institute for Digital Agriculture and Advanced Analytics. The institute is a people-centered interdisciplinary collective transforming learning, research and outreach around digital technologies and advanced analytical methods to enhance agricultural, environmental and socioeconomic decision making. Work done at the ...

3 years ago
 The U.S. Department of Agriculture  is announcing a second round of payments for dairy producers through the Organic Dairy Marketing Assistance Program (ODMAP), providing an additional $5 million to help dairy producers mitigate market volatility, higher input and transportation costs, and unstable feed supply and prices that have created unique hardships in the organic dairy ...

3 years ago
The wheat industry is supporting proposed farm legislation. U.S. Wheat Associates and the National Association of Wheat Growers (NAWG) today thank Sen. Mike Braun (R-IN), Sen. Jon Tester (D-MT), Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS) and Sen. Pete Rickets (R-NE) for the introduction of the American Farmers Feed the World Act of 2023 in the U.S. Senate. The ...

3 years ago
The Kansas Grain Sorghum Commission (the KGSC) will invest approximately $1.79 million into programs of sorghum promotion, research, information, industry information, foreign and domestic marketing, and producer communications during fiscal year 2024, subject to USDA approval. According to the organization, in action at its September budget board meeting in Manhattan, the KGSC approved a budget and ...

3 years ago
When making an important decision, many people prefer to gather as much information as they can to make the most informed choice possible. For cow-calf producers, knowing the pregnancy status of the cows is important information to have as they decide which animals they are going to keep and which ones they are going to sell, ...

3 years ago
Grain growers in western Kansas who plan to campaign for a seat on one of the state’s five grain commodity commissions — corn, grain sorghum, soybeans, wheat or sunflowers — should be gathering petition signatures now to meet the November 30, 2023, filing deadline. According to the Kansas Department of Agriculture, the 2024 election will cover ...

3 years ago
The Kansas Farm Bureau Natural Resources Award program honors members who use time-honored and cutting-edge conservation practices to protect and improve our state’s natural resources. According to the organization, winners are chosen by their peers serving on the KFB Environmental and Natural Resources Committee. These good stewards will serve as mentors for KFB members and nonmembers alike ...

3 years ago
Kansas State University’s College of Agriculture has again been recognized as a top 10 college by Niche.com in its annual Best Colleges for Agricultural Sciences ranking. Of the 253 agriculture colleges and programs Niche.com compared for their 2024 list, K-State ranks No. 6. The Niche.com ranking is based on an analysis of academic, admissions, financial and student life data collected ...