3 years ago
During the 2022 legislative session in Topeka, water was a large topic of discussion. Kansas Farm Bureau staff testified against proposed legislation that would have consolidated the state’s water regulatory agencies because it would have increased government bureaucracy and consolidated enormous power under the control of a single political appointee, in addition to other measures that ...

3 years ago
Governor Laura Kelly toured family-owned and -operated McCarty Family Farms in Northwest Kansas to proclaim the month of June “Kansas Dairy Month.” The Governor was joined by the Kansas Department of Agriculture and other agriculture community members. "Kansas has one of the fastest-growing dairy industries in the nation," Governor Laura Kelly said. "Our dairy farmers feed the world ...

3 years ago
Garden City Community College will host the Buffalo Jones Cowboy Poetry Gathering. According to the school, the event will be on June 10th at 7 PM and June 11th at 2 PM and 7 PM inside the Pauline Joyce Fine Arts Auditorium on the GCCC Campus.  Admission is sold at the door, $5 per person per ...

3 years ago
A combination of farmers buying inputs at lower prices in late 2020 and capitalizing on strong crop yields and robust grain prices in mid-2021 has led to the highest net farm income ever recorded in Kansas, according to data from the Kansas Farm Management Association. KFMA executive director Kevin Herbel said the statewide average net farm ...

3 years ago
The 2022 Wheat Quality Council’s Hard Winter Wheat Tour across Kansas wrapped up on May 19. During the three days of wheat scouting, tour participants traveled six routes from Manhattan to Colby to Wichita and back to Manhattan. This year's tour hosted people from 24 U.S. states plus Mexico and Canada in 20 vehicles while ...

3 years ago
Enrollment opens Monday for Cargill RegenConnectTM, a voluntary market-based regenerative agriculture program offering producers a simple, flexible, and transparent way to access the growing carbon marketplace. According to Cargill, for the 2022-23 crop season Cargill has expanded grower eligibility to 15 states including: Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Missouri, Tennessee, Arkansas, Minnesota, Michigan, Wisconsin, Nebraska, Kansas, Iowa, Kentucky, ...

3 years ago
Jenny Ifft has a keen eye for the changing landscape in agricultural finance. An agricultural economist at Kansas State University, Ifft is watching as nontraditional forms of lending slowly gain market share, increasing the options available for financing agriculture. “Nontraditional doesn’t mean old or new (forms of lending),” Ifft said. “Some types of nontraditional finance are the ...

3 years ago
Last week saw much needed rainfall across the state, but areas in southwest Kansas missed out on it once again. Much of southwest Kansas has gone nearly 300 days without an inch of precipitation. Annual average rainfall is about 12” in southwest Kansas, and much of the area has seen about 1/3 of that over ...

3 years ago
Wheat specialist Romulo Lollato outlines the effects of various management strategies – including seeding rate and the application of starter fertilizer, nitrogen, sulfur, chloride and foliar fungicides – on wheat yields. “We are replicating management practices that growers are doing in their own commercial fields,” Lollato said. K-State’s trials include 14 research sites in Kansas during the ...

3 years ago
Imagine cattle ranching without traditional fencing and the costly, time-consuming fencing repairs. Two Kansas State University ecologists are working to make that vision a reality while benefiting streams and birds. It's part of a multi-partner research project using virtual electronic cattle fencing in the Flint Hills of Kansas. Virtual fencing is accomplished through special cattle collars ...

3 years ago
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is accepting more than 2 million acres in offers from agricultural producers and landowners through the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) General signup, which includes 219,000 acres in Kansas. According to the agency, this is the first of the program’s multiple signups occurring in 2022. With about 3.4 million acres expiring ...