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May 20, 2022

  • Reaction to the Findings from the Hard Winter Wheat Tour
  • An Economic Analysis of a Family Farm’s Crop Production Enterprises
  • Kansas Agricultural Weather

 

00:01:00 – Reaction to the Findings from the Hard Winter Wheat Tour: K-State grain market economist Dan O'Brien comments on the wheat market's response to the findings from this week's Hard Winter Wheat Tour of Kansas and adjacent states, and he discusses the markets' overall reactiveness to new-crop planting progress here in the U.S., during his weekly segment on the grain market trends

 

00:12:00 – An Economic Analysis of a Family Farm’s Crop Production Enterprises: K-State precision agricultural economist Terry Griffin is joined by agricultural engineer Cory Friedli, who recently graduated from K-State's Masters in Agribusiness distance education program...he talks about the benefits of that experience, which included a detailed economic analysis he ran for his family farm's crop production enterprises in Dickinson County, determining the net revenue performance of various crops over a five-year time span

 

00:23:00 – Kansas Agricultural Weather: K-State meteorologist Chip Redmond reports on Kansas agricultural weather

 

 

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