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Soil Health Project … Agricultural Law Update

Sep 18, 2019

• A new USDA-funded project will focus on improving soil health

• An agricultural law update

• A preview of Friday’s Agronomy Fall Field Day

• Gus van der Hoeven’s “Stop, Look and Listen…”

00:01:30 – Soil Health Project:  K-State soil scientist Chuck Rice tells about a new USDA-funded project that will focus on improving water and nitrogen-use efficiencies in southern Great Plains cropping systems...K-State and Oklahoma State University will team up to implement on-farm cropping trials in Kansas and Oklahoma over the next five years to explore ways of enhancing both agricultural production and soil health.

00:13:00 – Agricultural Law Update:  Washburn University professor of agricultural law Roger McEowen talks about a new court ruling that he says should have crop irrigators' attention...it brings into question the Clean Water Act point source pollution exemption for runoff water discharge from irrigated fields.

00:24:30 – Agronomy Fall Field Day:  K-State crop nutrient specialist Dorivar Ruiz-Diaz previews the 2019 Agronomy Fall Field Day at K-State coming up this Friday.

00:31:06 – "Stop, Look and Listen":  K-State's Gus van der Hoeven presents "Stop, Look and Listen", his weekly commentary on rural Kansas.

 

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