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New K-State research complex to drive innovation for the future of agriculture
K-State is expanding its capacity to develop crops, technologies and management strategies to support producers from Kansas...
Cooking up great research
What do you get when you put an entomologist, journalist, engineer, statistician and graphic artist around the same table?...
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New K-State research complex to drive innovation for the future of agriculture
Aug. 20, 2026K-State is expanding its capacity to develop crops, technologies and management strategies to support producers from Kansas to the world with the opening of the L. Eldon Gideon Agronomy...
Cooking up great research
Aug. 18, 2026What do you get when you put an entomologist, journalist, engineer, statistician and graphic artist around the same table? At K-State, you get a recipe for new solutions to Kansas’...
K-State field days connect deep roots of western Kansas research to modern solutions for producers
Aug. 4, 2026Upcoming field days in Garden City, Hays and Tribune will bring local community members, producers and agricultural industry partners together with K-State experts to discuss solutions...
Spinning sustainable food packaging
July 8, 2026Elif Peker, a spring 2026 master's graduate in food sciences, is developing methods that can electrospin sorghum byproducts into useful, biodegradable packaging that can extend the...
K-State conducts regenerative agriculture research alongside Kansas farmers
July 2, 2026As K-State works to advance agriculture, it leverages a network of Kansas farmers, known as the Kansas Soil Health Network, to conduct soil research at seven farms across the state....
Songs of the Konza
June 10, 2026Through research on birdsong and natural soundscapes at Konza Prairie Biological Station, doctoral student Katharina Bremser is investigating how listening more closely to nature can...
Why burn?
May 20, 2026At Konza Prairie Biological Station, K-State researchers use prescribed burns to study and preserve one of the last remaining tallgrass prairie ecosystems in North America.
Sedimentary sleuths
May 15, 2026K-State biological and agricultural engineer Trisha Moore is leading a project to test the effect of water injection dredging on sediment levels in the Big Blue and Kansas Rivers.
The science of spring burning
May 7, 2026Prescribed burns may look dramatic, but they're a critical tool for Flint Hills ranchers working to sustain grasslands and improve cattle grazing.
A farm for the future
April 20, 2026At Flickner Innovation Farm, K-State researchers collaborate to develop practical solutions for Kansas agriculture’s biggest challenges.
