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Precision Agriculture Conference

Precision agricultural engineer Ajay Sharda and precision agricultural economist Terry Griffin of K-State look ahead to the 2018 Kansas Agricultural Technologies Conference being co-hosted by K-State in two weeks. They'll visit about several of the up-and-coming technologies that will be discussed in full at this conference, encouraging all interested producers to attend.

January 5, 2018
Sustainable Cooperative Growth

The director of the Arthur Capper Cooperative Center at K-State, Brian Briggeman, talks about a new K-State study of what allows agricultural cooperatives to attain a sustainable growth rate...and how cooperative boards and managers can use that information to analyze their cooperatives' economic status and plan for growth.

January 2, 2018
Extension Program Update

The associate director of Extension at K-State, Gregg Hadley, reflects on Extension activities and accomplishments in Kansas over this past year, and he talks about what stakeholders around the state have been telling him at local listening sessions about Extension education objectives in 2018. 

December 21, 2017
K-State College of Agriculture Year in Review

The dean of the College of Agriculture at K-State, John Floros, offers his review of the college's activities and achievements in 2017:  he discusses the areas of research that K-State continues to lead on a national and international level and the great success the college continues to have in career placement of graduates. He also talks about the ability of the Cooperative Extension Service in Kansas to remain viable as Extension in other parts of the country has struggled, and he offers an outlook for the college's opportunities and challenges in 2018. 

December 19, 2017
Farm Financial Workshops

K-State agricultural economist Robin Reid talks about a series of workshops coming up early in 2018, at which farm families looking for advice on managing their way through the current economic challenges can work directly with the Farm Analyst program out of K-State...these workshop will feature private, one-on-one appointments with program specialists to work through the possible management alternatives. 

December 13, 2017
Commodity Futures Conference

K-State agricultural economist Ted Schroeder talks about a major, first-of-its-kind conference coming up next spring that will be co-hosted by K-State's Center for Risk Management Education and Research and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission:  it will take place in Overland Park, and will tackle pressing current issues affecting U.S. agriculture futures markets via a number of high-profile presentations and in-depth discussions. 

December 12, 2017
Late-Year Tax Management

The administrators of the Kansas Farm Management Association at K-State, Kevin Herbel and Mark Dikeman, offer up several things for producers to think about here at year's end regarding overall farm management planning and tax management...one objective being to take steps to avoid reporting a net operating loss for 2017. 

December 8, 2017
Tax Basis Tool

K-State agricultural economist Terry Griffin and Texas A&M agricultural law specialist Tiffany Lashmet talk about the new on-line aid that they have created for agricultural producers to use when determining the capital gains tax liability of a land sale, especially when the value of that land upon inheritance is unknown. They developed a series of tables for each of the continental 48 states that producers can use to calculate an estimate of the stepped-up basis for their property.

December 7, 2017
Interest Rate Outlook

K-State agricultural economist Brian Briggeman offers his latest observations on the state of the macro-economy and interest rate trends as they would affect the agricultural economy. That's the topic of his presentation at the upcoming Farming for the Future programs that will be put on by K-State at four locations in Kansas in the coming weeks. 

December 7, 2017
Crop Insurance Analysis

K-State agricultural economists Dustin Pendell and Jisang Yu discuss their new study of crop insurance and its influence on farm survival in tough economic times. They used Kansas Farm Management Association data to determine if crop insurance allows an operation to stay in business longer, and found that it, in fact, does. 

December 4, 2017
Farm Income Report

K-State farm management economist Gregg Ibendahl shares his interpretation of the USDA's net farm income report released yesterday...what it says about the economic stability of production agriculture heading into 2018, and how the trends noted in that report relate to the economic state of Kansas farmers and ranchers currently. 

November 30, 2017
Precision Technology Adoption

K-State precision technology economist Terry Griffin shares the findings of his latest study of farmer adoption of precision cropping technologies...this time, his work concentrated on the technology "bundles" that producers gravitate toward, and how that relates to the frequency that producers transition to variable-rate technologies. 

November 28, 2017
Kansas Custom Rates

K-State agricultural economist Gregg Ibendahl discusses the brand-new report on Kansas custom rates for farm operations that K-State has just completed and posted on line, for producers and custom hire providers to use as guidelines for setting rates for various field operations.

November 28, 2017
Farming For the Future

Mykel Taylor and Robin Reid discuss the upcoming K-State Farming for the Future programs to be held in December and January at four locations around Kansas. These will offer a variety of outlook talks to aid producers in planning for the economic challenges of 2018 and beyond.

November 17, 2017
Farm Analyst Program

The director of the Farm Analyst program out of K-State, Duane Hund, talks about the assistance his program offers to family farm operations which are seeking ways of navigating the current economic challenges in production agriculture. He also tells of a series of special workshops coming up in early 2018 where farm families can meet directly with Farm Analyst personnel and work with the FINPACK farm financial software. 

November 15, 2017
Global Food Security

K-State agricultural economist Tim Dalton discusses the findings of a new report on global food security and nutrition, issued by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations:  he talks about the three principal factors that are contributing to food availability concerns around the world. He also talks about how the Feed the Future Innovation Laboratory initiative is responding to these food security challenges, with K-State serving as a major contributor by way of the four Feed The Future labs housed at the university.

October 26, 2017
Agribusiness and Community

K-State agricultural economist Vincent Amanor-Boadu offers several key considerations incumbent upon local communities as they attempt to attract a large-scale enterprise, such as the proposed Tyson poultry production and processing complex for which three Kansas communities are currently in the running. He draws on his extensive experience as a Kansas community development adviser.

October 20, 2017
Crop Insurance Workshops

K-State risk management specialist Art Barnaby has more details on the series of Crop Insurance Workshops that K-State will be co-sponsoring soon. 

October 20, 2017

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