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Jul 22, 2021

  • Cattle Silage Production
  • Salvaging Corn as Silage
  • Agricultural News
  • Mid-summer Horticulture Diseases

 

00:01:10--Cattle Silage Production (part 1)--K-State dairy specialist Mike Brouk and K-State beef systems specialist Jaymelynn Farney discuss preparing for, and managing, silage harvest for beef cattle feeding in the coming weeks...in the first segment, they look at options for putting up silage and what needs to be considered as far as storage alternatives

 

00:12:08--Cattle Silage Production (part 2)--K-State’s Mike Brouk and Jaymelynn Farney talk about salvaging a poor-doing corn crop as silage for beef cattle, and the harvest considerations associated with that

 

00:23:16--Agricultural News--Eric Atkinson reports on the day’s top agricultural news stories, and Greg Akagi presents this week’s Kansas Soybean Update

 

00:31:08--Mid-summer Horticulture Diseases--On this week's horticulture segment, Riley County Extension horticulture agent Gregg Eyestone discusses various diseases that may now be showing up on landscape ornamentals and garden vegetable plants...he promotes cultural management as the best response to most of these pathogens

 

 

 

 

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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.