Jul 8, 2020
• The 2020 Kansas Custom Rates report is out
• An agricultural law update
• Today’s wheat harvest report
• Gus van der Hoeven’s “Stop, Look and Listen…”
00:01:30 – 2020 Kansas Custom Rates Report: The director of the Land Use Survey Center at K-State, Leah Tsoodle, talks about the just-released 2020 Kansas Custom Rates report, which provides survey-based information on the going rates for a wide variety of custom agricultural operations, including grain harvesting, pesticide spraying, haying and a host of others.
00:12:47 – Agricultural Law Update: Washburn University professor of agricultural law Roger McEowen talks about putting a value on farm personal property and marketing rights for estate tax purposes...he says that those values become quite important in farm estate transactions.
00:24:13 – Wheat Harvest Report: The final Kansas wheat harvest report for this year features multi-county agronomist Jeanne Falk Jones of the Sunflower Extension District in far northwest Kansas, which consists of Cheyenne, Sherman and Wallace counties.
00:32:21 – "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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