Kentucky | Morning Ag Clips

December 18, 2018

OPINION ...

Automakers continue to ignore rural America

Electric vehicle tax credit is bad for rural America

December 18, 2018

NEXT GENERATION OF ATHLETES ...

Technology and super supplements

Athletes are now implementing super supplements

December 17, 2018

The liverwort Marchantia polymorpha thallus in the vegetative form. Liverworts were among the earliest plants to live on land. (PHOTO: Shohei Yamaoka, Kyoto University)

PLANT RESEARCH ...

Important finding in plant reproduction

Scientists trace the origins of sperm production in land plants to one protein

December 16, 2018

wheat harvest

WHEAT ...

Christian County tops Ky. wheat production

Christian County production totals 3,247,000 bushels, harvested from 46,200 acres

December 13, 2018

This fact sheet covers symptoms, cause, disease development, and management options. (Courtesy of University of Kentucky Extension)

NEEDLE BLIGHT ...

Dothistroma needle blight of pine

Dothistroma needle blight afflicts some of the pine species commonly planted in Ky.

December 12, 2018

Kentucky Commissioner of Agriculture Ryan Quarles, second from right, chats with, from left: Arkansas Secretary of Agriculture Wes Ward; Maine Commissioner of Agriculture Walter E. Whitcomb; and Bill Northey, under secretary for farm production and conservation at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, during the unveiling of the Environmental Protection Agency's new Waters of the United States rule on Tuesday in Washington. (Kentucky Department of Agriculture photo)

NEW WOTUS ...

Quarles attends new WOTUS rule unveiling at EPA

New rule is result of EPA listening to American agriculture

December 11, 2018

Kentucky farmers sing the classic Christmas tune "Jingle Bells" for the annual Kentucky Proud holiday promotion. (Courtesy of Kentucky Department of Agriculture)

KENTUCKY PROUD ...

Farmers wish you a 'Kentucky Proud' Christmas

Video features all Kentucky farmers singing 'Jingle Bells'

December 10, 2018

Kentucky soybean farmers Stephens, Tapp assume top national leadership roles. (Courtesy of Kentucky Soybean)

SOYBEAN LEADERSHIP ...

Ky. farmers named to highest offices in soy service

Davie Stephens elected President of the ASA, Keith Tapp elected Chairman of the USB

December 7, 2018

Figure 1. The 1/8-inch long rice weevil is easily recognized by its long snout and 4 orange spots on its back. They can be seen crawling through infested grain. (Photo: Lee Townsend, UK)

FEED PESTS ...

Insects in livestock feed and hay

Insect activities can reduce nutritional quality, acceptability, and palatability of feed

December 6, 2018

Edwin Ritchey, UK extension soils specialist, gets ready to seed a cover crop mixture into double-crop soybeans earlier this fall at the UK Research and Education Center in Princeton. (Photo by Steve Patton, UK agricultural communications)

STUDY ...

Cover crops following double-crop soybeans

UK researchers are studying the best way to seed cover crops into double-crop soybeans