In this episode of the podcast we visit with Dan Meyerhoff, Executive Director of the Kansas Association of Conservation Districts about the role the association plays in helping Kansas farmers and ranchers protect the state's natural resources.  We also discuss the ongoing drought and their new Kansas Climate Smart Ag initiative that helps producers undertake soil health practices on their land. 

Last week we had the chance to again sit down with Victor Murphy at the National Weather Service in Ft. Worth, Texas and discuss the current conditions in Oklahoma and Texas as well as the outlook for weather in the region over the next few weeks and months.  You can listen to the discussion here in our latest podcast episode.

In this episode we visit with Jacob Shaffer, the NRCS District Conservationist in Weatherford, Texas about the rainwater harvesting system Parker County installed at their county fairgrounds and how these types of systems can help producers better prepare for droughts while potentially lowering their input costs.

In this special episode of the podcast we again visit with Victor Murphy with the National Weather Service in Fort Worth, Texas about the current conditions in Oklahoma and Texas and the weather outlook for the weeks and months ahead.  

In this special episode of the podcast we again visit with Victor Murphy with the National Weather Service in Ft. Worth, Texas about the current weather conditions in the Southern plains and the outlook for the coming months.

In this episode of the Southern Plains Podcast we visit with Dr. Karen Hickman, Director of the Environmental Science Program at Oklahoma State University and the Past-President of the Oklahoma Invasive Species Council.  

We talk with Dr. Hickman about some of the challenges ag producers in the Southern Plains are facing from invasive plants in our changing climate.

In this episode of the podcast we visit with Earl Lewis, Chief Water Engineer with the Kansas Department of Agriculture about the drought emergency in his state and the challenges the region is facing in dealing with the current dry conditions.

In this episode of the podcast we talk to Dr. A.J. Tarpoff, Extension Veterinarian at Kansas State University about the weather conditions that caused the massive loss of cattle in Kansas feedlots last month and how cattle producers can better prepare for extreme weather events.

In this episode we again visit with Victor Murphy with the National Weather Service in Ft. Worth about the outlook for Oklahoma and Texas. 

In this episode we visit with the team of researchers at Oklahoma State University involved in the Prairie Project (a research, teaching and extension collaboration between Oklahoma State, Texas A&M and the University of Nebraska) about their work on grazing cattle and goats in a multi-species system, combined with patch burning, to help control woody invasive plants while increasing productivity and building extreme weather resilience.