Aug 24, 2021
00:01:10—Wheat Weed Control--K-State weed management specialist Sarah Lancaster goes over the herbicide choices for pre-plant weed control in advance of fall wheat planting, encouraging producers to employ a pre-plant program...and she offers added thoughts on contending with a specific and highly troublesome weed problem for wheat growers, field bindweed
00:12:09—Wheat Disease Ratings--K-State wheat disease specialist Kelsey Andersen Onofre announces that K-State 2021 Wheat Variety Disease and Insect Ratings report is now available to wheat producers...this is a comprehensive reference on variety pest tolerance, which includes the data from this year's resistance field trials
00:23:10—CRP Sign-Up Results--On the latest edition of FSA Coffee Talk, conservation program specialist Nicole Welborn of the Farm Service Agency reports that acceptance into the latest general Conservation Reserve Program has been announced, and that emergency haying and grazing of CRP grass is now allowed in qualifying drought-stricken counties
00:31:09—Prairie Chicken Listing--On this week's wildlife management segment, former K-State wildlife management specialist Charlie Lee talks about the new proposal by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to list the lesser prairie chicken as a threatened and endangered species
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