• Enhancing Beef Calf Value
• Ammoniating Wheat Straw
• Wheat Harvest Report
• Vegetable Fruit Set

 

 

00:01:07--Enhancing Beef Calf Value--K-State beef cattle specialist Sandy Johnson talks about production practices for adding economic value to spring-born beef calves as weaning and marketing time approaches...she draws from a recent analysis of calf buyer preferences, and the premiums paid for such practices as pre-conditioning and source-and-age verification

 

00:12:07--Ammoniating Wheat Straw--K-State beef cattle nutritionist Dale Blasi discusses the procedures for treating wheat straw with anhydrous ammonia to create an additional forage resource for cattle...part of a podcast session with K-State beef systems specialist Jaymelynn Farney on ammoniating and utilizing wheat straw for cattle feeding

 

00:23:11--Wheat Harvest Report--Today's Kansas wheat harvest update features Extension agricultural agent Shad Marston of McPherson County…plus, this week’s edition of the Kansas Soybean Update

 

00:31:08--Vegetable Fruit Set--On this week's horticulture segment, K-State horticulturist Ward Upham tackles the question of why some garden vegetable plants are so slow to set fruit this summer

 

 

 

 

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