1468 - Wheat Harvest...Weather Impacts Plants

<ul> <li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst"><strong>Kansas Wheat Harvest</strong></li> <li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst"><strong>Chinch Bugs and Dectes Soybean Stem Borer</strong></li> <li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst"><strong>Kansas Weather Impacts Plants</strong></li> </ul> <p> </p> <p><strong>00:01:06 – Kansas Wheat Harvest:</strong> <span style= "font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; color: #242424;"> Starting today’s show is Marsha Boswell, vice president of communications for Kansas Wheat, with how wheat harvest in Kansas is going. Parts of the state are done while others haven’t started. </span></p> <p><a href="https://kswheat.com/" target="_blank" rel= "noopener"><span style= "font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; color: #242424;"> Kswheat.com</span></a></p> <p> </p> <p><strong>00:12:05 – Chinch Bugs and Dectes Soybean Stem Borer</strong><strong>:</strong> <span style= "font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; color: #242424;"> K-State Extension crop entomologist Jeff Whitworth continues today’s show with an update about chinch bugs and information on <span class="spelle">dectes</span> soybean stem borer. He says this is the worst chinch bugs have been since the 1980s.</span></p> <p> </p> <p class="contentpasted01"><strong>00:23:05 –</strong> <strong>Kansas</strong> <strong>Weather Impacts Plants</strong><strong>:</strong> <span style= "font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif;">Finishing the show is the director of the K-State Plant Disease Diagnostic Lab, Judy O’Mara, as she discusses the impact Kansas weather can have on trees, shrubs and plants and how the lab and Extension agents can help homeowners identify and solve plant problems.</span></p> <p class="contentpasted01"> </p> <p> </p> <p class="MsoNormal">Send comments, questions or requests for copies of past programs to <span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href= "mailto:ksrenews@ksu.edu">ksrenews@ksu.edu</a></span>.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal">Agriculture Today is