Extension News & Insight

Pine Tip Blight – Is it happening in a tree near you? Pine tip blight is a fungal disease that can affect Austrian, Scots, ponderosa, and mugo pines. The disease is most severe on mature trees (20 years or older).

June 21 is Important Date for Chicken Egg Production Most everybody knows that June 21 is the longest day of the year. In Kansas, this means we have sun for 14 hours and 55 minutes on that day.

Harvest is a farmer’s Super Bowl. It’s the culmination of a year’s work and his way to measure success.

Riches of Agriculture Greg Doering Kansas Farm Bureau It’s easy to forget today that agriculture is the foundation of civilization. It’s the process that ended our ceaseless following of food and allowed us to settle into cities.

Repairing Ornamental Plants and Trees from Storm Damage Summer waves of storms that sweep through the area often leave plants and trees bent and broken; others are just jagged stumps. Much of this is temporary, but some damage is permanent.

Shortgrass rangelands at the Kansas State University Agricultural Research Center–Hays, have been used for grazing research since the 1940s.

Memorial Day serves in my mind as the unofficial start of the summer, Independence Day the middle, and Labor Day the end. I am aware that this timeframe has inaccuracies, but this engrained set of time landmarks can’t be changed in my mind. And I don’t think I am alone.