1 year ago
Not all Kansas wildfires make headline news, so it may come as a surprise to many that the Sunflower State reported more than 8,000 wildfires in 2022. Eight…thousand…fires. As in, about 3,000 more than the state’s yearly average. Drought in much of Kansas is partly to blame for 2022’s bump in wildfires, but Kansas Forest Service fire ...

1 year ago
The Kansas Corn Corps young farmer program is a professional development program that helps participants build leadership and business skills to positively impact their farms and local communities. According to the Kansas Corn organization,Kansas Corn Corps was established in 2016. It is the organization's young farmer business development program. Participants engage in networking, learn more about the ...

1 year 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 ...

1 year 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 ...

1 year 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 ...

1 year 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 ...

1 year 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 ...

1 year 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 ...

1 year 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 ...

1 year 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, ...

1 year 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 ...