Grain market update; using genetics to protect sorghum crops

Grain market update: corn-to-wheat price ratios in W. KS Answering sorghum pest problems with genetics Ag news Kansas weather

00:01:29 – Grain Market Update: K-State grain market economist Dan O'Brien talks about the current corn-to-wheat price ratio at western Kansas elevators, and how the market is encouraging wheat feeding to cattle. And he talks about how speculative traders are viewing the current grain price trends.

00:12:55 – Combatting Sugarcane Aphids through Genetics: The managing director of K-State's Center for Grain Sorghum Improvement, Sarah Sexton-Bowser, and the director of the Feed the Future Innovation Laboratory for Collaborative Research on Sorghum and Millet, Tim Dalton, talk about a K-State international project which has developed genetic answers to a pressing insect problem in grain sorghum production: the sugarcane aphid.

00:24:20 – Ag News: Eric Atkinson covers the day's agricultural news headlines.

00:32:42 – Kansas Weather: K-State climatologist Mary Knapp reports on Kansas agricultural weather.

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