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Tuesday, June 10, 2025

National/International

The Farmers Harmed by the Trump Administration
06/09/25 The New Yorker
Scientists at Kansas State University, working with colleagues at Cornell and in Haiti, acquired a resistant variety of sorghum from partners in Ethiopia, and tested it against strains susceptible to the sugarcane aphid, or Melanaphis sacchari, an insect barely one-sixteenth of an inch long, the thickness of a penny. Its coloring ranges from beige to yellow, and it has tiny black antennas and tiny black feet. Its life span is only a few weeks, but in that time one female can produce nearly a hundred offspring, peppering sorghum plants with larvae that look like sawdust and suck nutrients from the leaves, stunting the plants.

K-State Lab Remains Vigilant Toward Protecting Food Systems
06/09/25 Morning Ag Clips
Americans trust the safety and security of their food. Kansas State University plant pathologist Jim Stack says our trust is well-founded, pointing to a series of checks and balances that help to ensure that the food we eat arrives safely and on time at the dinner table.

K-State Applied Swine Nutrition Team to Receive Don L. Good Impact Award
06/09/25 Farms.com
A team of current and former Kansas State University faculty members and students that has driven progress in swine nutrition and management for more than three decades has been named the 2025 recipient of the Don L. Good Impact Award. The K-State applied swine nutrition team will be recognized at the K-State Department of Animal Science and Industry’s Family & Friends Reunion on Saturday, Oct. 18 at the Stanley Stout Center in Manhattan.

State/Regional

Using Drones to Aid Feedyard Sustainability
06/10/25 KSAL.com
Kansas State University researchers are working on a project to analyze the opportunities available by using drone thermal imaging in cattle feed yards. In a recent episode of Cattle Chat, guest Haley Larson, assistant professor in animal nutrition and health at K-State Olathe, described their project and findings. “To start off, we needed to determine the type of samples in these feedlot pens that could better detect pen management, especially as you have different environmental conditions, different manure outputs, moisture content,” Larson said. “Then, we wanted to find out if we could capture that same pen management findings in a thermal image from a drone.”