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Tuesday, June 30, 2026

National/International

Vigilance, Not Panic: 5 Hard Realities of Managing the Asian Longhorned Tick
06/29/26 AgWeb
As Asian Longhorned tick (ALHT) infestations and theileriosis cases climb across the U.S., the message from veterinary and entomology experts is clear: stay vigilant, but don’t panic. During a Drovers exclusive round table on Farm Journal TV, Cassandra Olds, Kansas State University Extension entomologist, and Dr. John Currin, Virginia Tech extension veterinarian, provide a management blueprint for producers, using a real-time Tennessee outbreak to illustrate how to handle a worst-case scenario.

State/Regional

In the fight to save prairies, some Great Plains ranchers embrace a new landscape – with goats
06/29/26 KMUW-FM
In many parts of the Midwest and Great Plains, shrubs and trees are taking over age-old grasslands, with repercussions for the ranchers and the wildlife alike. "In areas that have transitioned into a shrubland or a woodland," said Jesse Nippert, a grassland ecologist at Kansas State University, "you're probably never going to get it back to this idealized pre-colonial landscape painting." Nippert is lead author on a recent paper in the journal BioScience that calls for protecting intact grasslands where they still exist — but also rethinking goals wherever the transformation is too far advanced for landowners to handle.

Kansas wheat farmers among those facing crisis as drought hits harvest
06/30/26 The Topeka Capital-Journal
Across the 18 states that produce winter wheat, 45% of the crop is in poor or very poor condition, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s latest crop report. That’s following drought, wildfires and record-breaking high temperatures in the winter and early spring across much of the Great Plains. Logan Simon, an agronomist for Kansas State University, said 20% of the wheat crop has been abandoned entirely. Simon said conditions during planting season showed a lot of promise, but then it stopped raining, and the wheat just could not push through.