K-State beef cattle specialist Dale Blasi offers more considerations
for cow-calf producers on alternate feed resources into the fall and
winter, as the drought has put a major dent in conventional
feedstuffs
The state conservationist with the Natural Resources Conservation
Service, Eric Banks, announces that the NRCS is now taking
applications for emergency haying and grazing of Wetlands Reserve
Program acreage...he also talks of new allowances for EQIP and WHIP
contract holders in the face of the drought
For this week's segment on the lesser prairie chicken issue in
Kansas, Jim Pittman of the Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and
Tourism discusses the major progress in this state in lesser prairie
chicken recovery and conservation
And K-State wildlife specialist Charlie Lee looks at commercial
production of tilapia as a food fish
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
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