Cereal Rye?… Putting Up Native Grass Hay
• Could you benefit from cereal rye in your crop rotation?
• Putting up native grass hay
• Agricultural news, and the Kansas soybean update
• It’s time to plant cool-season vegetables…
00:01:30 – Cereal Rye?: K-State soil management specialist DeAnn Presley discusses a cover crop option for row crop growers to consider: planting cereal rye immediately after corn and ahead of soybeans to be planted on that field next spring...she talks about the weed control and water conservation gains that can be made with a good stand of cereal rye between the two cash crops.
00:12:51 – Putting Up Native Grass Hay: From the latest Cattle Chat podcast out of the Beef Cattle Institute at K-State, a look at the economics of putting up native grass hay, including a comparison of net-wrapped and twine-tied bales...featured are livestock economist Dustin Pendell, cow-calf specialist Bob Weaber, and veterinarians Bob Larson and Brad White.
00:24:16 – Ag News: Eric Atkinson covers the day's agricultural news headlines, including this week’s Kansas soybean update.
00:32:22 – More Cool-Season Vegetables: K-State horticulturist Ward Upham encourages home vegetable gardeners to extend their production season by planting cool-season vegetables for fall harvest, including lettuce, cabbage and radishes.
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