4 months ago
The Kansas Department of Agriculture has identified highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in two game bird operations — one in Doniphan County and one in Rooks County. These mark the first commercial operations with HPAI in Kansas since early spring of 2024, although the virus has been confirmed this fall in wild birds across the ...

4 months ago
Kansas State University’s 2025 Swine Profitability Conference, which focuses on providing information to aid pork producer’s business decisions, is planned for Tuesday, Feb. 4 in Manhattan. Mike Tokach, a university distinguished professor and swine extension specialist in K-State’s Department of Animal Sciences and Industry, said the Swine Profitability Conference helps pork producers make decisions regarding their ...

4 months ago
Legislation passed Friday to continue government funding through March is good news for the agriculture community. Chandler Goule, CEO of the National Association of Wheat Growers (NAWG), provided the following statement in response to Congress passing the American Relief Act of 2025: “NAWG applauds members of both the House of Representatives and Senate for coming together to ...

4 months ago
As people anticipate cold temperatures, many choose to winterize their homes as a way of optimizing the environment and minimizing the added expense of heating. Just as people prepare for the winter months, the experts at the Kansas State University Beef Cattle Institute say there are things that ranchers can do to help the cattle get ...

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Registration is now available for a four-part workshop series aimed at helping Midwest farm families develop succession plans for passing on or leaving the business. The series, Leaving a Lasting Legacy for Midwestern Farm Women, will be available at 63 sites in three states, as well as offered online. It is being produced through a partnership between ...

4 months ago
This year, the Kansas Beef Council (KBC) is combining tradition and technology with a new digital out-of-home advertising campaign designed to connect with shoppers in grocery stores and retail locations. Digital out-of-home advertising is a rapidly growing medium. It uses dynamic, high-impact screens placed in entrances to grocery stores, at meat counters and in protein ...

4 months ago
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency’s (FSA) $2 billion Marketing Assistance for Specialty Crops (MASC) program, aimed at helping specialty crop producers expand markets and manage higher costs, is now accepting applications through Jan. 8, 2025. According to the agency, funded by the Commodity Credit Corporation, MASC was announced in November alongside the ...

4 months ago
I still have my very first pocketknife, a Henckels three-bladed stockman with a red bone handle. It’s safely stowed in a drawer now because its everyday utility was long ago surpassed by its sentimental value. It was a gift from my father, as should be the case for every child’s first pocketknife. But it was so ...

4 months ago
The Kansas Department of Agriculture and K-State Research and Extension (KSRE) will offer six regional Local Food Producer Workshops to assist farmers’ market vendors and managers, and for those wanting to sell food products directly to consumers. According to the state agriculture department, Kansas farmers’ markets not only provide a fresh food source, but also stimulate ...

4 months ago
Kansas State University wheat specialist Romulo Lollato says farmers should consider what they might be missing when choosing to leave winter wheat out of their usual crop rotations. Lollato notes that wheat acres in Kansas have been decreasing at a rate of approximately 2% every year since 2005. Nationally, that decline remains at about 1.5%. Often, ...

4 months ago
This season’s first calf arrived a little over four weeks early this year. For humans this may not seem that impossible, but calves born more than four weeks early rarely live past a day or two. The little guy weighed in at 35 pounds, half the size of a typical newborn. Our mama cows have great ...