Nov 18, 2021
- Limit-feeding Beef Calves
- Wheat Insect Update
- Dormant Oil Treatments
00:01:08—Limit-feeding Beef Calves--K-State beef cattle nutritionist Dale Blasi talks about the merits of a limit-feeding program for backgrounding beef calves...he reports on several years of K-State research on feedstuffs that make this approach work and the feeding efficiencies that can be gained... the consistency in gain performance...and he tells of the most recent study of the bunk space required for a limit-feeding setup
00:12:08—Wheat Insect Update-- K-State crop entomologist Jeff Whitworth talks about the appearance of winter grain mites in Kansas winter wheat stands...he also notes a few reports of army cutworms showing up in wheat, and whether either of these pests require a treatment response at this stage of the growing season
00:23:06—Dormant Oil Treatments-- On this week's horticulture segment, K-State horticultural entomologist Raymond Cloyd advises on applying dormant oil insecticides to landscape ornamental and fruit trees now, and he talks about keeping landscape insects from entering the home as the weather has turned colder
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