K-State Agriculture Today: 1699 – Looking up in the Grain Market…Tar Spot

  • Positive Grain Markets
  • Tar Spot Confirmed in Kansas for 2024
  • Rainfall Across Kansas

 

00:01:05 – Positive Grain Markets: K-State grain economist, Dan O’Brien, kicks off today’s show explaining what we are seeing in the grain market and contributing international factors. 

Dan O’Brien on AgManager.info

 

00:12:05 – Tar Spot Confirmed in Kansas for 2024: Continuing the show is Rodrigo Onofre, K-State row crop plant pathology specialist, with information on the conformation of tar spot in Kansas for 2024. We are also joined by Ron Wilson, director of Huck Boyd National Institute for Rural Development, with a Kansas profile on Sunflower Summer.

Low Levels of Tar Spot have been Confirmed in Kansas

corn.ipmpipe.org/tarspot/

cropprotectionnetwork.org

Sunflowersummer.org

 

00:23:05 – Rainfall Across Kansas: Chip Redmond, K-State meteorologist, ends the show today with a weather update. He says what when Kansans can expect the weather to warm up.  

Animal Comfort on Mesonet.ksu.edu

 

 

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