🎙️ K-State Agriculture Today: 2122 – 2025 Losses for Crop Insurance…Animal Welfare and Heavier Cattle

  • Causes of Crop Loss in 2025
  • Animal Welfare Considerations for Bigger Cattle
  • New Entomology Publications

00:01:05 – Causes of Crop Loss in 2025: Beginning today’s show is Jenny Ifft, Lucas Haag and Tina Sullivan from K-State as they chat about crop insurance ratios and the causes of the losses.

Current Kansas Crop Insurance Loss Ratios and Causes of Loss – 2025

00:12:05 – Animal Welfare Considerations for Bigger Cattle: K-State Extension beef veterinarian, A.J. Tarpoff, continues the show discussing research from a panel discussion at NCBA about what bigger cattle means for animal welfare.

00:23:05 – New Entomology Publications: Raymond Cloyd, K-State horticultural entomologist, ends today’s show highlighting two new publications he authored: Mimosa Webworm: Insect Pest of Honey Locust and Mimosa Trees and Threestriped and Ashgray Blister Beetles, which are now available in the K-State Extension Bookstore.

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

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