Extension News & Insight

Fall harvest continues into another month on our farm. All of the dryland and irrigated corn and popcorn have been picked and either binned or delivered to the local elevator.

Sept. 21 through 25 is National Farm Safety and Health Week. To help honor this, I thought I’d share a true experience that happened to me a few years ago. I was fortunate that day, and the experience was a good reminder that there’s no such thing as being too careful around farm equipment.

National 4-H Week October 4-10 From fairgrounds to classrooms, library programs to robotics labs, 4-H youth in the Phillips-Rooks District are proving they’re not just ready for the future – they’re Beyond Ready.

Kansas gardeners may have more flexibility than they realize when it comes to planting strawberries, according to research at Kansas State University.

Fall Armyworm in Kansas The fall armyworm, Spodoptera frugiperda, can damage several important Kansas crops, as well as pasture, turf, and home landscaping. This insect does not overwinter in Kansas.

Much of what I learned about cooking came from watching my mom and grandmother prepare meals on a daily basis. It was a matter of necessity in those days. There weren’t enough restaurants in my small town to go for more than a couple of days without having to eat at the same place.

Cool-season grasses, like the tall fescue and Kentucky bluegrass lawns common to many parts of Kansas, have had about enough of summer. The state’s high temperatures – 100 degrees and higher in many parts – and sporadic rainfall often cause cool-season varieties to become thin by summer’s end.

Benefits of Early Weaning Beef Calves As we work through the hot, sultry “dog days” of summer, when perennial warm-season grasses can still look green even as their nutritional value declines, weaning calves now holds the potential to enhance the profitability and efficiency of cow-calf operations.

Powdery Mildew Affecting Landscape Plants Recent warm, humid weather conditions have been favorable for a fungal disease called powdery mildew. Powdery mildew is a fungus that can infect a wide variety of plants. The fungus develops as a white, powdery substance on the upper leaf surface of plants.

There’s no better grammatical way to say this: it’s hot! During my wife’s grandfather’s later years, he used to begin many stories with “I remember when I was a kid…”. Well, I’m gonna borrow that family favorite line to say I remember when I was a kid, it was hot during the summer.