1098 – Grain Market Update … Soil Fertility Management and Testing

Published: Jan. 7, 2022, 4:10 p.m.

  • Grain Market Update
  • Soil Fertility Management and Testing
  • Kansas Agricultural Weather

 

00:01:00 – Grain Market Update: K-State grain market economist Dan O'Brien recaps the market action during this first week of the new year, and the markets' proneness toward volatility in any given trading session...he comments in particular on the downturn in the wheat market largely because of slow exports, noting that the supply fundamentals still favor healthy wheat prices

 

00:12:00 – Soil Fertility Management and Testing: K-State crop production specialist Lucas Haag looks ahead to the 2022 Cover Your Acres winter conference taking place soon in northwest Kansas, at which he will address the economics of soil fertility management and soil testing...he goes over some of the talking points on that topic that he and colleagues will be addressing at this major informational event for crop producers

 

00:23:00 – Kansas Agricultural Weather: K-State meteorologist Chip Redmond has the latest Kansas agricultural weather outlook 

 

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