K-State risk management specialist Art Barnaby talks about the latest
episode of commodity futures trading fraud, which has further shaken
grain producer confidence in the futures markets as a risk-management
tool: he urges producers not to give up on advance-pricing grains,
despite the concern over margin fund losses


K-State crop entomologist Jeff Whitworth cautions Kansas farmers
about an unprecedented breakout of cow pea aphids in alfalfa stands
this summer, and at what point they become damaging enough to merit
treatment


The coordinator of the Kansas Environmental Leadership Program out of
K-State, Brandi Nelson, talks about the mission of the program in
developing water policy leaders, saying that applications are now
being taken for the next KELP class


And for this week's horticuture segment, Riley County Extension
horticultural agent Gregg Eyestone talks about planning, and
preparing for, fall vegetable gardening


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