Air August 9, 2000

Thank you Mark, and good morning everyone. Just a quick reminder on a couple of things this morning. Be scouting your milo fields for sorghum headworm. We’ve had a lot of problems with this the past couple of years and there was a lot of corn earworm (the same critter) earlier in the year so I truly expect a bad problem with this before the month is out. If you’re going to treat, you need to do it early. Also be scouting your wheat stubble fields so you know where you have volunteer wheat problems developing that you’ll need to control later.

This is the time of year for Field Days and meetings. Extension folks and experiment field managers figured out a long time ago that August was a chance to get a crowd. Following is a list of some of the stuff coming up. If you miss the date or time on one you are interested in, just call the office! There is an exellent Risk and Profitability conference coming up the end of next week in Manhattan on the 17th and 18th of August. This is the third or fourth year that they have done these and they’ve all been well worth the money. This year’s focus is on Ag Policy, where we are and where we’re headed. We’re not too far away from a new Federal Ag policy and what its going to look like may well be shaped by our own Barry Flinchbaugh who will have a prominent spot on this program. Got you interested yet? Stop by the office for registration information. Something a little nearer on the calendar is tomorrow nights no till plot tour in Dickinson County. This will be at the Jared and Betty Hoover farm. Go down Hiway 18 to Mink Road and then south to 2800 Avenue, look for the signs. If you are thinking about going, call the Dickinson County NRCS office for a reservation. Their number is 785-263-2787. Coming up on August 30th at Hays is a conference on value added opportunities in agriculture. May not be of interest to a lot of you, but contact me if you are interested. Jumping ahead a whole month, we have the Agronomy Farm Field Day in Manhattan. It is slated for September 7th at the KSU Agronomy Farm, just north of the K-State Football stadium. A lot of good discussions and tours, I’ll give you more details on that in another week or two. We should have some more field days coming up, I’ll pass that information along as I get it.

This is Chuck Otte, Geary County Extension Agent, with Ag Outlook 2000.

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