8 months ago
South Bend Industrial Hemp is launching an apprenticeship program for two positions through Kansas Farm Bureau’s (KFB) award-winning Rural Kansas Apprenticeship Program (RKAP). "South Bend Industrial Hemp strives to be a leader in this emerging industry, while maintaining our foundation of core values we've developed in our rural community,” says Melissa Nelson-Baldwin, a co-founder of South Bend Industrial ...

8 months ago
The Kansas Association of 4-H Volunteers is hosting "Spring Into Volunteering" on Saturday, April 20 in Salina, Kansas on the K-State Campus. Registration will begin at 9 a.m. and the day will conclude at 3 p.m. Fee includes materials, snacks and lunch. Schedule Flyer Registration Link - Fee $20 - Take to your local Extension Office Deadline to Register: April 5 Volunteer Continuing ...

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Continued negotiations are urged for the stalled Farm Bill. U.S. Senator Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) spoke on the Senate Floor calling on his colleagues and leadership of the Senate Committee on Agriculture to resume negotiations on a new Farm Bill. “American agriculture is at a pressure point; there’s record volatility in the farm economy, and farm income is ...

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K-State Research and Extension wheat production specialist Romulo Lollato explains the factors involved in making a decision on when to move cattle away from grazing in a wheat field that will be harvested later. Lollato notes that winter wheat goes through dormancy in the winter before it turns productive in the spring. “During this period, we have ...

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There are fewer than 2 million farms in the United States according to the USDA Census of Agriculture released last month, down from a peak of just under 7 million in the early 1930s. Any agricultural enterprise with at least $1,000 in sales was counted as a farm, which excludes the family vegetable garden.The census, ...

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Rattan Lal, a pioneer in soil-centric agricultural management to improve food security globally and a leader in developing climate resilient agriculture, will give the 2024 Roscoe Ellis, Jr. Lecture in Soil Science at Kansas State University on March 26. Lal’s talk – Sustainable Agriculture and Soil Management for Climate and Food Security – will begin at ...

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The week of March 17-23 is National Ag Week, and National Ag Day is March 19. Kansas Farm Bureau and Kansas Living are planning  special campaigns on social media. According to the organizations, this year's theme, 'Growing a Climate for Tomorrow,' set by the Agriculture Council of America, resonates deeply with farmers' and ranchers' commitment to sustainable ...

8 months ago
Not every wheat farmer can see and handle the flour made from their harvest, let alone taste a loaf of bread made from that wheat. But that was exactly the experience of one participant in the 2024 Kansas Wheat Leadership Program recently conducted by Kansas Wheat. Neil Bekemeyer, a wheat farmer from Washington, was one of ...

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Two new wheat varieties have been released from the Kansas State University wheat breeding program and are being licensed by Kansas Wheat Alliance seed associates for farmers to plant this fall. Hard red winter (HRW) wheat KS Bill Snyder, named after the legendary football coach, will be available in limited supply this fall. The variety ...

8 months ago
Anyone who has ever had a respiratory infection knows how hard it can be to clear the body and how miserable it can make a person feel. In much the same way, beef cattle can also experience respiratory disease that may start as a virus and turn into bacterial pneumonia, said the experts at Kansas State ...

8 months ago
A trio of Kansas State University graduate students recently reported their findings regarding threats to the animals that graze the Kansas prairie – and the impact of prescribed fire on those threats. They reported their findings during K-State’s recent Cattlemen’s Day, which highlights cattle-related research being conducted at the university. The students’ multi-year research projects compared the effects ...