1 year ago
Soft red winter (SRW) wheat has been a bright spot in Kansas’ otherwise challenging wheat harvest this year. According to USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service in the 2023 Wheat Varieties Report, SRW makes up only about 4% of the state’s wheat acreage, with hard red winter making up the majority of the balance. In pockets of ...

1 year ago
Kansas Farm Bureau and Kansas 4-H are sponsoring a photography contest for 4-H members to showcase agriculture and youth photography skills throughout Kansas. We're looking for great, high-resolution photos (at least 300 DPI) taken by 4-H members featuring summer images of livestock, crops, natural resources, people in agriculture (can also feature images from livestock shows at ...

1 year ago
The Kansas wheat harvest is 21 percent complete, well behind 54 percent last year and 38 percent for the five-year average, according to the official statistics provided by the USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service crop progress report for the week ending June 25, 2023. Maturity was rated at 58 percent, also behind 84 percent last ...

1 year ago
If you're considering running for state legislature, school board, county commission or other public office, Kansas Farm Bureau's Campaign School Mini Sessions can teach you the nuts and bolts of campaigning and help you execute a winning campaign. According to the organization, the mini sessions are based on the two-day Campaign School, which is nonpartisan, unbiased ...

1 year ago
At any other time of the year, rain would be more than welcome. But for farmers with combines ready to roll, harvest delays due to rain add insult to injury for a crop stricken by drought. For some, however, rains arrived just in time to fill grain heads, resulting in better-than-expected final results. Near Americus, America, ...

1 year ago
Combines are kicking into gear across a wider swath of central and eastern Kansas. Officially, the Kansas wheat harvest is now eight percent complete, according to the USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service crop progress report for the week ending June 18, 2023. Winter wheat conditions were rated at 54 percent very poor to poor, 30 percent ...

1 year ago
In rural America, talk about horsetails in a field conjures thoughts of farmhands in saddles, working cattle or checking on emerging crops. When Kansas State University weed management specialist Sarah Lancaster gets questions about horsetails, however, the inquiry is probably not about four-legged farm animals. “I like to call horsetails the dinosaurs of the plant world,” Lancaster ...

1 year ago
Wheat harvest has been marching on for nearly two weeks in Cowley County, with numerous interruptions from rain, reported Kevin Kelly, general manager of Two Rivers Coop in Arkansas City. Harvest started in the area around June 7 and quality appears to be good with proteins in the 14 percent range. Kelly said test weights are ...

1 year ago
 Despite a serious last-minute challenge, the Kansas State University Helwig Farms Quarter-Scale Tractor Team took second place out of 22 teams from other universities at the 26th annual American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers' International Quarter-Scale Tractor Student Design Competition in Peoria, Illinois. K-State's team has finished among the top two in this competition 18 times out ...

1 year ago
 Summer’s hottest days are likely still ahead in Kansas, but Tawnie Larson knows that “farm and ranch work won’t stop during hot weather.” So, Larson -- a project consultant for agriculture health and safety in Kansas State University’s Carl and Melinda Helwig Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering – is putting in some sound advice for farmers this ...

1 year ago
Wheat harvest in Kansas is starting off slow, with some farmers test cutting in south central Kansas as early as June 7. The outlook of rain in the forecast really got combines rolling on June 13, but storms moved through the area again Tuesday evening and sent farmers out of the fields. Rainfall amounts ranged ...