On The Cover
Amazing Grazing Project Director Mary Howell captured this image of two aspiring ranchers during the Look and Learn Pasture Walk: Southeast Kansas at Tim Benton’s farm east of Welda.
Mary says the youth brought a whole new dimension to the pasture walk, “They found practically all of the flowers, bugs, worms and strange weeds in the pasture we looked at. I am most certain we would not have talked about all of those species of plants, bugs and critters had they not been along with us.”
Summer 2015
Hi, lot to visit about this time… Nick Levendofsky: Nick, a great KFU staffer for the past couple of years, has moved on. He has taken a marketing position with NFO. I miss the kid. [...]
Carbon, Climate, Crops, Soil and the Mycorrhizal Connection
By Tom Parker Since the inception of the computing era, a simple acronym evolved to become an icon of visual acuity and perception: WYSIWYG. The concept works for tangible objects as well as for digital [...]
Bus Tour: Cover Crops in Action with Dale Strickler
By Mary Howell The Cover Crop Bus Tour will compliment the information covered Friday in Salina with actual examples in field of many varieties of grasses, legumes and cover crops. Various cropping and grazing practices [...]
Water Development and Electric Fencing Workshop Set for September 8 in Salina
Mark Green, NRCS specialist from Missouri, will return to Kansas to offer his popular workshop on electric fencing and livestock watering options for all species of livestock this fall. Water availability is the number one [...]
Jim Gerrish Returns to Kansas for Three Workshops, Six Days, September 21-26
Workshop 1: Economics of the Livestock Industry September 21-22, Ramada Inn, Topeka Farming and ranching can only be sustainable if it is profitable. Too many operations have been focused on production, not profit, for far too [...]
Fuller Field School 2015
Gail Fuller and Amazing Grazing bring two experts on soil health and carbon sequestration to Kansas! Gabe Brown and Dr. Christine Jones headline this summer’s Fuller Field School.
Future bleak for beef industry unless changes are made, warns economist
By Tom Parker Listening to economist Bill Helming talk forecasts and demographic changes and economic trends and growth rates and market shares and income streams and—above all—fractions and whole numbers and percentages is a lot [...]
Eastern Kansas farmers should rethink tall fescue for grazing, agronomist says
By Tom Parker Okay, so tall fescue has a bad rap. It has, shall we say, a checkered reputation. And for good reason, too. The cool-season forage could be a livestock producer’s best friend or [...]
Rethinking Trees in Kansas Agriculture
By Tom Parker In the history of Kansas agriculture, trees have something of a checkered past. From initial legislative efforts to expand tree cultivation through the payment of generous bounties to today’s wholesale eradication of [...]
Diversifying Small Farms with Niche Animal Fiber Marketing
By Tom Parker The booming popularity of goats, alpacas, sheep and other non-traditional species for livestock production has created new markets and avenues of revenue for producers willing to learn how to integrate and innovate [...]