1114—Paraquat Use Guidelines for Crop Weed Control…Promoting On-Farm Research

<ul> <li><strong>Updated Paraquat Regulations</strong></li> <li><strong>On-Farm Experimentation Push</strong></li> <li><strong>Milk Consumption Trends</strong></li> </ul> <p><strong> </strong></p> <p> </p> <p><strong>00:01:10—Updated Paraquat Regulations--</strong>K-State weed management specialist Sarah Lancaster talks about the role that paraquat herbicide could play this crop production season as a burndown alternative to glyphosate, which may be in short supply this spring...she reviews the very latest regulations on paraquat applications which producers and commercial applicators need to be familiar with before committing to this herbicide option</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p><strong>00:12:11—On-Farm Experimentation Push--</strong>K-State precision agricultural economist Terry Griffin talks about a new initiative on the part of a global network of leading precision agriculture scientists, promoting on-farm crop production research...he says this approach will lean on the mass of production data that producers have been accumulating, leading to information that will benefit producers at the individual field level</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p><strong>00:23:06—Milk Consumption Trends--</strong>On this week's edition of Milk Lines, K-State dairy specialist Mike Brouk looks at the latest report on milk consumption in the U.S. and what that's signaling to the dairy industry</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p>Send comments, questions or requests for copies of past programs to <a href="mailto:ksrenews@ksu.edu">ksrenews@ksu.edu</a>.</p> <p>Agriculture Today is a daily program featuring Kansas State University agricultural specialists and other experts examining ag issues facing Kansas and the nation. It is hosted by Eric Atkinson and distributed to radio stations throughout Kansas and as a daily podcast.</p> <p> </p> <p>K‑State Research and Extension is a short name for the Kansas State University Agricultural Experiment Station and Cooperative Extension Service, a program designed to generate and distribute useful knowledge f