K-State agricultural economist Dan O'Brien comments on the USDA's
crop acreage and grain stocks reports released this morning, as the
centerpiece of this week's grain market analysis


K-State agricultural economist Kevin Dhuyvetter tells of a useful
spreadsheet he has created for producers to determine the market
value of corn or grain sorghum harvested as silage, rather than for
grain...as more producers are expressing an interest in selling their
crop as silage, given the anticipated forage shortage heading into
the fall and winter


The director of Kansas Agricultural Statistics, Jason Lamprecht, goes
over the Kansas numbers from this morning's USDA crop acreage report


And state climatologist Mary Knapp talks about the worsening drought,
as she covers Kansas agricultural weather


Agriculture Today is broadcast each weekday morning at 10:00 on KFRM
Radio, Clay Center (550 AM) and KLOE Radio, Goodland (730 AM), which
collectively reach 75 counties in Kansas, parts of southern Nebraska,
eastern Colorado and northern Oklahoma...the broadcast can also be
heard over the K-State Radio Network website. Also see Agriculture Today
Radio archives.


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Story by: Eric Atkinson
agguy@ksu.edu
K-State Research & Extension News