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Causes of Crop Losses in 2025
Jenny Ifft, Lucas Haag and Tina Sullivan discuss crop insurance loss ratios and the causes of the losses in 2025. |
February 19, 2026 |
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ARC, PLC and Crop Insurance for Producers
Robin Reid, K-State Extension farm economist, and Jenny Ifft, Flinchbaugh agricultural policy chair, discuss Agricultural Risk Coverage, Price Loss Coverage and crop insurance. They explain the background for these programs and how they have recently shifted, and how producers can learn more about these risk management options. |
February 12, 2026 |
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Reducing Fertilizer Costs and Water Contamination
Micah Cameron-Harp, water economist in the department of agricultural economics, and Matt Kirk, professor of geology at K-State, explain how nitrate concentration levels in water and be used to reduce fertilizer costs and contamination of drinking water. |
February 3, 2026 |
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US Beef Retail Market and Demand
Brian Coffey explains his research looking into the U.S. beef retail market and beef demand. |
January 27, 2026 |
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Kansas Land Values
K-State Extension land and crop market specialist, Megan Hughes, discusses the 2025 Kansas Land Values book and how farmers and ranchers can use it. |
January 26, 2026 |
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Finances and the Farm Online Class
LaVell Winsor, K-State farm analyst, and Robin Reid, K-State Extension farm economist, discuss the Finances and the Farm online class. |
January 20, 2026 |
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Supplemental and Enhanced Coverage Options
Jenny Ifft, K-State Flinchbaugh agricultural policy chair, explains the supplemental coverage option and enhanced coverage option and what has changed since last year. |
January 19, 2026 |
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Women Grow the Farm Conference
LaVell Winsor and Robin Reid highlight the goals and agenda for this year's Women Grow the Farm Conference. |
January 15, 2026 |
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Africa Being the Next Grain Market for the U.S.
Two segments from Guy Allen, the senior economist at the IGP Institute, and Peter Goldsmith, director and principal investigator of the Soybean Innovation Lab at the University of Illinois, as they discuss how Africa could be the next big market for U.S. growers, as well as explaining challenges and barriers to opening the market. |
January 6, 2026 |
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Options for Using Ad Hoc Payments
Jenny Ifft, K-State Flinchbaugh agricultural policy chair, and Brady Brewer, K-State associate professor in agricultural economics, discuss ad hoc payments and what producers need to consider when receiving these one-time government payments. |
December 4, 2025 |
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Ukraine Crop Production Update
Antonina Broyaka provides an update on Ukraine crops and their production. |
November 10, 2025 |
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Reusing Waste Water
Joe Parcell, director of the Risk Management Center at K-State, explains a project that he is a part of that is working on the ability to add value to wastewater. |
November 6, 2025 |
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K-State Ag Profitability Conferences
Robin Reid, K-State farm economist, and Allen Featherstone, K-State agricultural economics department head, discuss the upcoming Ag Profitability conferences and what information will be shared. |
October 29, 2025 |
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Kansas Landowner Conference
K-State Extension farm economist, Robin Reid, and Director of the Office of Farm and Ranch Transition at K-State, Ashlee Westerhold, highlight and preview the Kansas Landowner Conference and what attendees could learn. |
October 14, 2025 |
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Beginning Farmer and Rancher Conferences
K-State Extension farm economist, Robin Reid, and Director of the Office of Farm and Ranch Transition at K-State, Ashlee Westerhold, preview the new Beginning Farmer/Rancher Conferences. |
October 3, 2025 |
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The Flinchbaugh Focus - Opinions on the Agriculture Economy
Jenny Ifft, Brad Lubben and Mark Edelman share their opinions on many economic topics on a recent "Thumbs Up, Thumbs Down on the Economy" podcast episode. |
September 25, 2025 |
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Lowering the Federal Funds Rate
Brady Brewer and Brian Briggeman discuss the recent decision from the Federal Open Market Committee and what it means for inflation, unemployment and agriculture. |
September 24, 2025 |
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Does Woody Encroachment Impact Land Values?
Jackson Lindamood, graduate research assistant in K-State's Department of Agricultural Economics, explains how woody encroachment impacts land values. |
September 18, 2025 |
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