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Farm & Ranch Transition Conference - March 8th!
Feb. 23, 2024This graphic from an Oklahoma State publication paints a good picture of the challenges a small business has when it comes to making transitions.
Cool Season Grass N Sources/ARC & PLC Resources/KSU Community Visit
Feb. 2, 2024A conversation earlier this week caused me to research brome nitrogen sources. Two things came from that research:
ARC/PLC Decisions - 2024-2025 Marketing Year
Jan. 26, 2024The basic program concepts haven’t changed. ARC is a revenue-based program, combining five years of both marketing year average prices and county level yields...
Fall Armyworm Scouting Results - 2023
Jan. 26, 2024On August 11, 2021, an observant local agronomist found armyworm feeding injury in a brome stand in the Meadowlark Extension District. It would be the first...
Perennial Forage Season of Use
Jan. 26, 2024The success of cool season grasses in our Northeast Kansas forage systems has made it easy to be comfortable and satisfied with what we have and look no further....
Biological Soybean Seed Treatments
Jan. 5, 2024The number of biological soybean seed treatments are numerous. Products are typically a fungi, amino acid, bacteria, or combination thereof applied (on seed,...
A First Look At Row Crop Soil Health Practices
Dec. 22, 2023The term ‘soil health’ gets used lots of ways, to the point it can be difficult to define. None of the uses are necessarily wrong, but they might add confusion...
Poultry Litter Considerations
Dec. 15, 2023Kansas isn’t necessarily known for its commercial poultry production, but states around us are. The litter produced by those operations can be significant,...
Woody Encroachment Continues…
Dec. 14, 2023The 2024 version of the KSU Chemical Weed Control Guide went live this week One of its sections I reference frequently is the one on weed and brush control...
Broomsedge Bluestem - Fertility Management Considerations
Dec. 1, 2023There’s a statement in a USDA Plant Fact Sheet on broomsedge bluestem stating: On infertile soils, broomsedge is a long-lived competitor. If your end of year...