🎙️ K-State Agriculture Today: 1917 – Using a 401(k) as Start-up Capital…Is There Stripe Rust in Kansas?

  • Can Retirement Accounts be Used for Farming and Ranching?
  • Stripe Rust and Other Wheat Diseases
  • Cattle Prolapses

00:01:05 – Can Retirement Accounts be Used for Farming and Ranching?: Roger McEowen, K-State and Washburn law professor, starts off today’s show discussing using an IRA for farmland, using a 401(k) retirement account for startup capital and gifting property that still has debt.

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00:12:05 – Stripe Rust and Other Wheat Diseases: Keeping the show rolling is K-State wheat pathologist Kelsey Andersen Onofre as she explains if wheat growers need to be concerned about stripe rust. She also touches on other diseases wheat growers could see.

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Wheat Stripe Rust

Wheat Disease Identification

00:23:05 – Cattle Prolapses: The Beef Cattle Institute’s Brad White, Bob Larson, Phillip Lancaster, Dustin Pendell and Brian Lubbers end the show as they share thoughts on prolapses in cattle.

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Email BCI at bci@ksu.edu

Send comments, questions or requests for copies of past programs to ksrenews@ksu.edu.

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