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Ag News, Crops, Editors, General, Kylene Scott, Water

Rain showers don’t dampen SWREC field day 

Kansas researchers examine water use, soil health and crop rotations in southwest Kansas. Read More

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K-State to host southwest Kansas meetings on water management, agricultural resilience

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K-State study: Slowing down pivots can improve water efficiency and yields

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Maximizing irrigation efficiency: key steps for farmers in 2025

  • March 6, 2025
  • By Kelsey Stremel │ K-State Research and Extension news service
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Wheat and more … or less  

  • December 8, 2023
  • By Vance Ehmke │ Farmer from Healy, Kansas

Crop water allocator designed to help farmers with limited water

  • November 10, 2022
  • By By Maddy Rohr, K-State Research and Extension

Joint project studies cotton’s place in the High Plains

  • May 13, 2022
  • By By Lacey Vilhauer

Irrigation’s role in agriculture cannot be overstated

  • October 9, 2021
  • By Dave Bergmeier

Your neighbor’s field is not the perfect example

  • June 17, 2020
  • By Jennifer Theurer

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  • October 14, 2019
  • By Kylene Scott

A fight in the field changed one Kansas farmer’s way of thinking and is saving the Ogallala Aquifer

  • October 15, 2018
  • By Amy Bickel

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