• Grain Market Update
• Pre-Harvest Soybean Dry-Down
• Kansas Agricultural Weather

 

00:01:00 – Grain Market Update: K-State grain market economist Dan O'Brien compares current grain bids at local Kansas elevators to forward contracts on 2022 production at those same locations as an indication of market direction, and he talks about the potential market impact of the new soybean crush plant to be built in southeast Kansas

 

00:12:00 – Pre-Harvest Soybean Dry-Down: K-State crop production specialist Ignacio Ciampitti talks about the pace of soybean crop dry-down before harvest, given the cooler and wetter weather many parts of Kansas have experienced over the last week...he tells what producers can expect, based on previous studies of in-field soybean drying rate

 

00:23:00 – Kansas Agricultural Weather: From the Weather Data Library at Kansas State University, meteorologist Chip Redmond reports on Kansas agricultural weather

 

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