2020 Row Crop Season Overview … Trapping and Relocating Nuisance Wildlife
• A look back at the 2020 row crop growing season
• Agricultural news, and the latest “Milk Lines”
• Trapping and relocating nuisance wildlife…
00:01:30 – 2020 Row Crop Season Overview: K-State crop production and cropping systems specialist Ignacio Ciampitti offers an overview of the just-finished row crop production season in Kansas, and what producers might have picked up from the assorted challenges that corn, grain sorghum and soybeans faced this past summer and early fall: he looks in particular at the difference that planting date made in eventual yield performance, in view of the sudden change from moist conditions in June and July to prolonged dry weather in late August and September.
00:12:56 – 2020 Row Crop Season Overview (Part 2): Continued discussion with K-State crop production and cropping systems specialist Ignacio Ciampitti; here, he considers how this season’s lessons might figure into crop risk management heading into the 2021 growing season. Also, a look ahead to upcoming K-State Research and Extension crop production schools.
00:24:19 – Ag News: Eric Atkinson covers the day's agricultural news headlines, along with this week's edition of "Milk Lines."
00:32:23 – Trapping and Relocating Nuisance Wildlife: Former K-State wildlife specialist Charlie Lee revisits the issues associated with live-trapping and relocation of nuisance wildlife...he urges homeowners and landowners to think about several things before employing this practice.
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