🎙️ K-State Agriculture Today: 2014 – Is a Citizen’s Arrest Legal in Kansas?…Seed Treatments

  • New Case Involving Administrative Enforcement
  • Insecticide Wheat Seed Treatments
  • Getting the Correct Sample for Testing

00:01:05 – New Case Involving Administrative Enforcement: Beginning today’s show is Roger McEowen, K-State and Washburn law professor, as he covers a couple of topics that include administrative enforcement and citizen arrests.

Making a Citizen’s Arrest – Is it Permissible? If so, is it a Good Idea?

A Shift in Administrative Enforcement for Agriculture

Washburnlaw.edu/WALTR

Roger on AgManager.info

00:12:05 – Insecticide Wheat Seed Treatments: K-State crop entomologist, Jeff Whitworth, moves the show forward discussing insecticide seed treatments and if he sees them as a worthwhile option for growers.

00:23:05 – Getting the Correct Sample for Testing: The Beef Cattle Institute’s Cattle Chat podcast with Brad White, Scott Fritz, Bob Larson, Phillip Lancaster and Dustin Pendell ends the show as they talk about their recent topic of the Bovine Science podcast.

BCI Cattle Chat Podcast

Bovine Science with BCI Podcast

Email BCI at bci@ksu.edu

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

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