5 months ago
An irrigation system on wheels that can operate in irregularly shaped farm fields will be featured during a demonstration day planned Aug. 1 at the Flickner Innovation Farm near Moundridge. The farm’s owner and operator, Ray Flickner, said the 360 RAIN irrigation system is the newest technology in place at the farm. The system is unique ...

5 months ago
According to the National Children’s Center for Rural and Agricultural Health and safety, 33 serious injuries involving children occur on a farm or ranch in the United States every day. To prevent these incidents, only youth with proper training and experience should be allowed to drive large equipment (the leading cause of injury and death for ...

5 months ago
The bird flu outbreak in Colorado is spreading. The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment is now reporting a total of five human cases of avian influenza in workers responding to the avian flu outbreak at a commercial egg layer operation. CDC has confirmed four of the cases, and one additional case is presumptive positive ...

6 months ago
Kansas farmers seem to be positioned for a bounce-back in net farm income as 2024 rolls along, according to a report from Kansas State University farm management economist Gregg Ibendahl. And while, technically, that is good news, it is tempered by the fact that Kansas farmers are coming off one of the toughest years in about ...

6 months ago
An in-person workshop, “Intro to Organic: How Organic Grain Works in Kansas – Agronomy and Marketing,” will be hosted July 30 at Kansas Wesleyan University by the KWU’s Community Resilience Hub (CRH) and the Organic Agronomy Training Service (OATS). As interest in organic grains grows, farmers often seek guidance from their ag advisors. This workshop will ...

6 months ago
Kansas wheat harvest is down to the final few days. Rain delays continue to stretch out the season, but producers welcome the moisture as they turn their attention to planting fall crops and managing the weeds coming up rapidly in wheat stubble. Moisture over the weekend continues to prevent harvest from wrapping up in northwest Kansas, ...

6 months ago
Drought notoriously impacts many facets of wheat production. Growers deal with reduced yields and shortened plant heights while facing other issues that cloud a crop's success. Little moisture also influences the result of a post-wheat harvest herbicide application, said Kansas State University weed specialist Sarah Lancaster. “After-harvest weeds can be particularly challenging in dry growing seasons because ...

6 months ago
The Kansas State University Helwig Farms Quarter-Scale Tractor Team took second place out of 21 teams at the 27th annual American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers' International Quarter-Scale Tractor Student Design Competition. The event — held May 30-June 2 at the Expo Gardens Fairgrounds in Peoria, Illinois — challenges teams to design and build a quarter-scale tractor capable of ...

6 months ago
Kansas State University researchers have found that grazing cover crops can improve soil health in no-till dryland cropping systems, addressing a key concern for producers in water-limited environments like the central Great Plains. The study, conducted from 2018 to 2021 across three producer fields in central and western Kansas, found that grazing cover crops with beef ...

6 months ago
The stalemate over the current farm bill may be solidifying a new era in farm politics as it joins the last three farm bills in a trend of delays and partisan division — a contrast from the legislation’s history of bipartisanship. Every five years, Congress is tasked with drafting a new federal farm bill. The omnibus ...

6 months ago
Public health officials have diagnosed a Colorado farm worker with the country’s fourth human case of highly pathogenic avian influenza, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the state’s department of health reported Wednesday. The Colorado case, the state’s first this year related to spread from dairy cattle to humans, was reported after an adult ...