Jul 22, 2021
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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