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Monday, April 21, 2025

National/International

Noble Research Institute Partners with Kansas State University and Hy-Plains Feedyard to Preserve Tallgrass Prairie Through Region-Specific Rancher Education
4/18/2025 AP
Noble Research Institute (Noble), a trusted educational resource for farmers and ranchers since 1945, Kansas State University and Hy-Plains Feedyard have partnered to launch a three-year educational program designed to promote sustainable grazing practices in the Flint Hills region of Kansas and Oklahoma. In this partnership, led by Kansas State University, Noble will develop educational programming and a grazing support tool with regional knowledge and expertise from the Kansas Grazing Lands Coalition.

Sorghum research gets funding boost
4/18/2025 World-Grain.com
Efforts by the Collaborative Sorghum Investment Program (CSIP) to develop a more sustainable, resilient and valuable crop have resulted in a $1 million public commitment from the state of Kansas that will secure significant additional matching funds. Launched in 2016, CSIP is the US sorghum industry’s cornerstone sorghum improvement platform housed at Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kansas, and in collaboration with the Kansas Department of Agriculture.

Could Last Year's Gannon Space Storm and GNSS Outage Impact Farmers Again?
4/18/2025 Morning AgClips
A powerful geomagnetic weather event known as the Gannon Storm caused mass global navigation satellite system outages the weekend of May 10, 2024, leading to an assumed $565 million in losses for midwestern crop producers. Kansas State University precision agricultural economist Terry Griffin said what seemed like a once-in-a-lifetime space weather storm may become more of an expectation for growers in the future.