Kansas: Wheat Researchers Turn Up the Heat

🕔Jun 12, 2018Kansas State University researchers are turning up the heat on wheat to prove the point that higher nighttime temperatures may be to blame for significant yield and quality losses in […]

Palmer Pigweed: Researchers Make Breakthrough in Understanding Glyphosate Resistance

🕔Mar 12, 2018Kansas State University researchers have discovered how weeds develop resistance to the popular herbicide glyphosate, a finding that could have broad future implications in agriculture and many other industries.

Wheat: Kansas Researchers Use Gene-Editing Technology for Improved Varieties

🕔Feb 27, 2018Kansas State University researchers say their work to improve genes in wheat varieties using a gene-editing technology is another positive step toward global food security. “Food security and the food […]

Farm Business: Financial Anxiety Rising? Talk to Your Ag Lender Sooner than Later.

🕔Dec 22, 2017Falling commodity prices and sliding farmland values over the past three years are pushing some farmers into troubling financial territory. It’s tough to think about the future when you’re worried […]

Grain Sorghum: Ramping Up Genetics, Yield and Marketing of a Workhorse Crop – DTN

🕔Oct 3, 2017Grain sorghum producers often lament its inferiority complex to comparable row crops. But, that’s about to change. In 2016, industry leaders enthusiastically set in motion an initiative to explore and […]

Kansas State University Joins Project to Develop Heat Tolerant Crops

🕔Aug 3, 2017Kansas State University researchers have received nearly $1.8 million to begin studying the impact of high night-time temperatures on the yield and quality of wheat. Their work will be done […]

Soybeans and Nitrogen:The Right Situation at the Right Time with the Right Product – DTN

🕔Jul 7, 2017We have heard a lot about applying nitrogen (N) on soybeans over the past few years. It comes with mixed reviews because supplemental N application only provides a yield benefit […]

Soybean Cyst Nematode: New Technology Will Significantly Reduce Populations

🕔Nov 25, 2016A microscopic worm that has been a giant pain for U.S. soybean farmers may soon find farm fields unpleasant places to be. Kansas State University researchers recently announced a […]

Farm Business: 5 Tips for Overcoming the Isolation of Hard Times – DTN

🕔Oct 14, 2016Recent calls to the Kansas Agricultural Mediation Services hotline have taken a more emotional turn this year. There are more tears and more silences as some Plains farmers face wheat […]

Wheat: Market Moves Sideways to Lower

🕔Dec 3, 2015Overview Since USDA’s World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) and Crop Production reports on November 10th, U.S. and World wheat market prices have moved sideways-to-lower. For the “new crop” […]