1 year ago
It is the season of canning from apples to cauliflower, pears, peaches and beets. And if you’re concerned about why a canned food has changed color, Kansas State University food scientist Karen Blakeslee said it can be for a variety of reasons. “In canning, if there is an unexpected color change, that can be a signal ...

1 year ago
There are times in life when tough decisions have to be made, and in the beef business that can come when feed resources are limited or a time of generational transition, said the experts at Kansas State University’s Beef Cattle Institute during a recent Cattle Chat podcast. “Cows that are not bred are often the first ones to ...

1 year ago
Fall harvest is in full swing on our central Kansas farm. Our dryland and irrigated field corn has all been picked and all that’s left in those fields are corn stalks and a lot of dry organic material that was kicked out the back end of a combine. The only corn remaining in the middle of one ...

1 year ago
The public will have the ability to offer input on proposed seed law regulations. According to the Kansas Department of Agriculture, a public hearing will be conducted at 10:00 a.m. on Thursday, October 19, 2023, to consider the adoption of proposed regulations that govern the administration of the Kansas Seed Law. The hearing will be held ...

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 ...