Precision Crop Planters…Row Crop Disease Management
• Performance capabilities of precision crop planters
• Row crop disease management for 2021 crops
• Agricultural news, and the Kansas soybean update
• Farmers market workshops scheduled for mid-February…
00:01:30 – Precision Crop Planters: K-State precision agricultural engineer Ajay Sharda talks about his research on the performance capabilities of precision crop planters...specifically, how individual-row seed metering can be operated for more uniform stand establishment on irregular-shaped or contoured fields, and how variable planter downforce allows producers to cross fields at higher speeds.
00:12:50 – Row Crop Disease Management: K-State plant pathologist Rodrigo Onofre looks back at the leading row crop disease issues in Kansas this past growing season, and how those might figure into disease management for 2021 crops...he also advises soybean producers that K-State is now taking field samples for soybean cyst nematode testing.
00:24:14 – Ag News: Eric Atkinson covers the day's agricultural news headlines; also, this week’s Kansas soybean update.
00:32:19 – Farmers Market Workshops: K-State food safety specialist Londa Nwadike previews a series of Farmers Market Workshops coming up in mid-February, designed for current and future farmers market vendors or anyone wishing to market farm products directly to consumers.
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