Jun 30, 2021
- Double-Cropping Following Harvested Wheat
- Insect Pests in Soybeans, Sunflowers and Corn
- Kansas Wheat Harvest Report
- Stop, Look and Listen
00:01:00 – Double-Cropping Following Harvested Wheat: K-State crop production specialist Ignacio Ciampitti offers several agronomic considerations when double-cropping soybeans or grain sorghum following harvested wheat: he centers on variety and hybrid selection based on maturity rating, as well as seeding rate and row spacing in each case
00:11:55 – Insect Pests in Soybeans, Sunflowers and Corn: K-State crop entomologist Jeff Whitworth reports on a pair of insect pests, one now showing up in soybeans and sunflowers, the other in soybeans and corn: Dectes stem borer and Japanese beetles...he talks about the merits of treating fields for these
00:22:58 – Kansas Wheat Harvest Report: Today's Kansas wheat harvest update features Extension agriculture agents Elly Sneath of Meade County and Marty Gleason of Edwards County.
00:30:54 – Stop, Look and Listen: K-State's Gus van der Hoeven provides his weekly commentary on life in rural Kansas
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