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A selection of fully produced segments are made available weekly on the "For Radio Stations" page at the K-State Research and Extension news page.

Captioned episodes are available on our Agriculture Today YouTube page.

Sep 29, 2020

•A new study links climate change to crop insurance premiums

• A wheat disease specialist urges producers to use a seed treatment;

• Agricultural news, and the latest “Milk Lines”

• Choosing and deploying cameras to track wildlife…

00:01:30 – Climate Change and Crop Insurance:  K-State agricultural economist Jisang Yu and Ed Perry talk about their recent study, which linked increases in growing-season temperature to yield risk for corn and soybeans, and then tied that to the potential impact on crop insurance premium rates...they used local crop insurance "cause of loss" data to arrive at their findings.

00:12:45 – Wheat Seed Treatment Urged:  K-State wheat disease specialist Kelsey Andersen advises growers who have yet to seed their wheat this fall to employ a seed treatment product...this, coming off a growing season where two costly head-borne wheat diseases were prominent in Kansas:  loose smut and common bunt.

00:24:09 – Ag News:  Eric Atkinson covers the day's agricultural news headlines, along with this week's edition of "Milk Lines."

00:32:13 – Setting a Tracking Cameras:  K-State wildlife specialist Charlie Lee offers some guidelines on choosing and deploying a trail camera to monitor wildlife activity for management purposes.

 

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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.