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• Are We Preparing for a Recession? \\xa0
• How Agriculture Is Impacted by the Current Economic Environment
• Controlling Grasses Around Trees

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00:01:04 \\xa0\\u2014 Are We Preparing for a Recession?: Today\\u2019s show begins with a two-part series on the current U.S. economic environment with K-State professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics and the Director of the Arthur Capper Cooperative Center, Brian Briggeman. In our first segment we discuss the history of rapidly raising interest rates to combat inflation, the current labor market, and consumer demand.

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00:12:04 \\u2014 How Agriculture Is Impacted by the Current Economic Environment: \\xa0In part-two Brian continues the conversation, but this time focusing on the impact everything we discussed previously will have on agricultural producers. He shares optimism with land values and gives advice on what producers can actually control right now.

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00:23:07 \\u2014 Controlling Grasses Around Trees: For this week\\u2019s horticulture segment, K-State horticulturist Ward Upham looks at past research from K-State\\u2019s John C. Pair Horticultural Center on the effect of controlling grasses around newly planted trees to get the best possible growth.

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Send comments, questions, or requests for copies of past programs to\\xa0ksrenews@ksu.edu.

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 Samantha Bennett and distributed to radio stations throughout Kansas and as a daily podcast.

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K\\u2011State 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\\u2011being 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\\u2011State campus in Manhattan.