3 months ago
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, ...

3 months 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 ...

3 months ago
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 ...

3 months 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 ...

3 months 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 ...

3 months 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 ...

3 months 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 ...

3 months 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 – ...

3 months ago
No matter where they live, every Kansas resident has at least one thing in common: They all eat. And because of that, an official with the Kansas Local Food Systems program at Kansas State University says all Kansans share a similar challenge. “When we think about access to food, it’s an issue across the state,” said Amanda Lindahl, the ...

3 months ago
As Kansas farmers pour over field trial data to select which varieties to plant this fall, new guidance is available for those considering adding or expanding fall grazing on wheat acres. K-State Research and Extension recently released the results of trials for 16 wheat varieties for performance in dual-purpose systems where wheat is grown for ...

3 months ago
The Kansas Department of Agriculture is sharing notice that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has ordered the emergency suspension of all registrations of pesticide products containing the active ingredient dimethyl tetrachloroterephthalate (DCPA). EPA previously approved registrations for pesticide products containing DCPA to control weeds in both agricultural and non-agricultural sites, including non-residential turf sites, nursery ...