Ag Law Seminar Series Across Kansas This March
Kansas State University Extension will host a series of ag law seminars March 10 to 14 across eastern Kansas. Topics include fence laws bankruptcy farm leases and tax implications with instructors Sam Brownback Doug Beech and John Stauffer. Seminars in Seneca March 13 at 9 30 a.m. and Independence March 14 at 9 a.m. Registration is $5 per person.
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Topeka
Seneca Community
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KAWG Pushes For Grading Changes in Wheat
Kansas wheat growers urge federal grading reforms to avoid millions in losses as new hard-soft crossbred wheat varieties defy visual inspection. A KAWG task force in Manhattan cites potential misclassification and notes FGIS has tested a mechanical hardness device.
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Manhattan
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Kansas Association of Wheat Growers
Kansas
U.S
Federal Grain Inspection Service
Arkan
KAWG
FGIS
Ron Jenkins
Accent speaking computer soothes pigs in Iowa farm stunt
In Fairfield, Iowa, Doug Johnson let a Swedish accented Babble 123 program talk to his 55 pound pigs for an hour. Panelists observed calm behavior and curiosity from the crossbred herd as reporters and photographers covered the event. Johnson said the experiment could lift mood in agriculture, though he would not deploy it widely.
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Fairfield
Iowa
Doug Johnson
Johnson
Fairfield Software
Dan Webb
Dave Reiff
Reiff
Voice
Naylor sees hopeful signs for farm economy this year
Acting Agriculture Secretary Frank W. Naylor Jr told Kansas Farm Bureau leaders in Washington that real estate and credit look near bottom and may improve this summer. He noted recent USDA projections of a bottoming rural mood as land values fall slows and farm income stabilizes, and urged farmers to join new conservation reserves with guaranteed payments.
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Washington
Frank W. Naylor Jr
Kansas Farm Bureau
Naylor
Kansas
Agriculture Department
USDA
Senate
Richard Lyng
Reagan
John Block
Kansan
Peter C. Meyers
Natural Resources and Environment
Meyers
February Farm Prices Lower in Kansas Slump
Slippage across most commodities pushed Kansas farm prices down again in January. The Crop and Livestock Reporting Service shows the all-farm prices index at 142 percent of the 1977 base, with declines in all crops. Wheat fell to 2.87 a bushel, corn to 2.36, soybeans 4.91, and sorghum 3.48 per hundredweight, while cattle and hog prices also slipped from January levels.
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Topeka
Kan
Kansas
State Crop and Livestock Reporting Service
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