• Crop weed management shift
• Kansas FFA Star Awardees
• Ag news
• Promising rat control product

 

 

00:01:07 – Weed Management Adjustments: K-State weed management specialist Sarah Lancaster talks about how delayed corn and soybean planting, or replanting, impacts a grower's weed control program, and what adjustments might be necessary...she also reminds soybean growers of an application deadline for over-the-top dicamba treatments which also might have been complicated by the wet field conditions

 

 

00:12:06 – Kansas FFA Stars: Remarks from the three Kansas FFA members who earned the distinction of Stars over Kansas during the 2021 Kansas FFA State Convention last week:  Star Farmer Wesley Denton of the Valley Heights FFA, Star in Agribusiness Jay McClure of the Hugoton FFA, and Star in Agricultural Placement Nicole Haase of the Ellsworth FFA

 

 

00:23:15 – Ag News:  Eric Atkinson covers the day's agricultural news headlines, plus this week's edition of Milk Lines with K-State dairy specialist Mike Brouk

 

00:31:16 – Rat Control Option: On this week's wildlife management segment, former K-State wildlife specialist Charlie Lee reports on a promising rat control product which is generally harmless to off-target species

 

 

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