• Using Your FSA Program to Help After the Wildfires
• Farmers Defrauding Crop Insurance
• Answering Quick Cattle Questions

 

00:01:05 – Using Your FSA Program to Help After the Wildfires: Beginning the show today is Tonya Ackerman, Kansas FSA conservation and price support division chief, with how farmers and ranchers can help others dealing with loss from wildfire. She also provides an update on programs currently taking place.

Farmers.gov

 

00:12:05 – Farmers Defrauding Crop Insurance: Roger McEowen and Jenny Ifft continue today’s show by explaining a recent legal issue farmers got into by tampering with rain gauges on federal property.

Press Release

Washburnlaw.edu/WALTR

AgManager.info

 

00:23:05 – Answering Quick Cattle Questions: K-State’s Brad White, Bob Larson, Phillip Lancaster and Brian Lubbers with the Beef Cattle Institute’s Cattle Chat podcast round out the show by discussing rapid fire questions involving breeding cattle.

BCI Cattle Chat Podcast

Bovine Science with BCI Podcast

Email BCI at bci@ksu.edu

 

 

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Agriculture Today is a daily program featuring Kansas State University agricultural specialists and other experts examining ag issues facing Kansas and the nation. It is hosted by Shelby Varner and distributed to radio stations throughout Kansas and as a daily podcast.

 

K‑State Research and Extension is a short name for the Kansas State University Agricultural Experiment Station and Cooperative Extension Service, a program designed to generate and distribute useful knowledge for the well‑being of Kansans. Supported by county, state, federal and private funds, the program has county Extension offices, experiment fields, area Extension offices and regional research centers statewide. Its headquarters is on the K‑State campus in Manhattan