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Oct 6, 2021

  • County ARC Payment Rates Determined
  • ARC-PLC Payments To Be Delivered Soon
  • Stop, Look and Listen

 

00:01:00 – County ARC Payment Rates Determined: K-State agricultural economist Robin Reid discusses the USDA Agricultural Risk Coverage program payments soon to be disbursed to crop producers for 2020 crop production...she reports that the county ARC payment rates have now been determined, and are posted by way of an interactive map that can be found at www.agmanager.info

 

00:09:00 – ARC-PLC Payments To Be Delivered Soon: K-State's Robin Reid talks about the ARC-PLC market price projections for 2022 crop production, and how that information can be useful to producers as they plan for the ARC-PLC sign up next spring...and the acting state director of the Farm Service Agency, Chuck Pettijohn, reports that those 2020 ARC-PLC payments will indeed be delivered to producers very soon, now that Congress has extended federal funding availability

 

00:16:00 – Stop, Look and Listen: K-State's Gus van Der Hoeven provides his weekly commentary on life in rural Kansas

 

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Agriculture Today is a daily program featuring Kansas State University agricultural specialists and other experts examining ag issues facing Kansas and the nation. It is hosted by Eric Atkinson and distributed to radio stations throughout Kansas and as a daily podcast.

 

K‑State Research and Extension is a short name for the Kansas State University Agricultural Experiment Station and Cooperative Extension Service, a program designed to generate and distribute useful knowledge for the well‑being of Kansans. Supported by county, state, federal and private funds, the program has county Extension offices, experiment fields, area Extension offices and regional research centers statewide. Its headquarters is on the K‑State campus in Manhattan.