Thursday, March 26, 2026

Agriculture

Calving schools planned

With the new year, beef producers are eager for the 2017 calf crop. In anticipation of calving season, Kansas State University Department of Animal...

Fall application of Anhydrous

Soils in parts of Kansas are now cool enough to allow producers to apply anhydrous ammonia for their 2017 corn crop, and have been...

Whole Farm Revenue Protection

Center for Rural Affairs is conducting free webinars on Whole Farm Revenue Protection (WFRP), a crop insurance option that requires crop and livestock diversity...

Winter wheat cold hardiness

In general, temperatures have been unusually mild in Kansas so far this fall. Some record high temperatures have even been recorded during Nov. 14-16....

Kansas State University recieves $1M to protect food from pests, diseases

Kansas State University has received more than $1 million from National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) to continue work that protects food from...

Wheat research provides improved resistance to viruses

By Hannah Schlapp, Kansas Wheat Communications Intern If farmers could plant wheat without the constant worry of Wheat Streak Mosaic Virus (WSMV) spreading when the...

Program designed to help producers deal with historic agricultural downturn

Program designed to help producers deal with historic agricultural downturn From grain growers to cattlemen, plummeting farm income across the country has agricultural producers...

Researchers make breakthrough in controlling soybean cyst nematode

Scientists hope to take the traits and move them to Kansas-adapted cultivars. A microscopic worm that has been a giant pain for U.S. soybean farmers...