New web site to help Kansans dealing with ag-related stress
MANHATTAN – Agriculture producers have confronted important challenges lately, together with market uncertainties, pure disasters, ongoing commerce wars and different setbacks. These annoying conditions have led to a heightened give attention to psychological well being points within the agricultural group.
In response, the Kansas Division of Agriculture, together with a number of Kansas ag companions, has unveiled a brand new web site to supply sources and assist to these coping with ag-related stress. The web site might be discovered at KansasAgStress.org.
The web site addresses the challenges that Kansas farmers, ranchers and their households face in in the present day’s ag trade. Current pure disasters, depressed commodity costs and different points weigh closely on farm households and might take a toll that results in psychological and emotional misery, substance abuse, nervousness, melancholy and even suicide.
Guests to the web site will have the ability to discover native and nationwide sources for these points, in addition to assist in areas starting from stress administration to monetary and authorized challenges.
KansasAgStress.org options sources and assist for each member of the household, from teenagers to ageing adults. Distinctive sources are additionally out there to help our farmer veterans, who face the problems that include farming, together with the potential challenges of being a army veteran.
Skyland Grain donates to wheat analysis
Skyland Grain pledged $50,000 to the Kansas Wheat Fee Analysis Basis, for the second time, in assist of impactful wheat analysis.
This donation is a part of KWCRF’s Fields Ahead marketing campaign for a sustainable wheat future. The marketing campaign goals to fund analysis initiatives that enhance yield and high quality, develop and keep applied sciences and services essential for future wheat analysis and domesticate new expertise within the wheat breeding and genetics trade.
“This present is an unimaginable gesture to Kansas wheat farmers and researchers,” mentioned Aaron Harries, vp of analysis and operations at Kansas Wheat. “It’s going to permit us to correctly keep and enhance the Kansas Wheat Innovation Middle, a facility that marks the most important funding by farmers in wheat analysis up to now.”
“This facility has hosted tens of hundreds of tourists from across the globe over the past seven years, and it comprises the way forward for wheat genetics in its laboratories and greenhouses,” Harries said.”This donation provides our stakeholders peace-of-mind, understanding that the hub they’ve created for worldwide wheat analysis can be maintained for years to come back.”
Skyland Grain was a founding supporter of the Kansas Wheat Innovation Middle opened in Manhattan in 2012. They proceed to assist the white wheat trade in Kansas by means of their community of farmer prospects and have been instrumental in supplying laborious white wheat to home and worldwide prospects.
For extra details about the KWCRF, go to fieldsforward.org.
Regional Farmers’ Market Workshops in February
MANHATTAN – The Kansas Division of Agriculture and Ok-State Analysis and Extension will host a number of regional workshops in February to help farmers’ market distributors and managers.
Workshop matters will range barely by location, however fundamental matters embrace: Double Up Meals Bucks Program and accepting EBT; meals security and rules on promoting meat, eggs and poultry; Kansas Senior Farmers Market Vitamin Program licensed coaching; advertising and marketing suggestions; and a produce grower panel.
KDA’s weights and measures program may even supply free scale certification on the workshops for attendees.
Workshops in The Information protection space embrace Wichita, Feb. eight, Sedgwick County Extension Workplace; and Leoti, Feb. 29, Wichita County Group Constructing
Registration is now open. The fee is $20. Lunch will solely be assured to those that register earlier than the respective workshop date. Register at FromtheLandofKansas.com/FMworkshop or native extension places of work.
The Wichita workshop will start onsite registration at eight:15 a.m., with the workshop beginning at eight:45 a.m. and concluding at four:30 p.m. Onsite registration for Leoit opens at eight:30 a.m., with the workshop at 9 a.m. and concluding by three p.m.
For extra data, contact Robin Blume, KDA’s training and occasions coordinator, at (785) 564-6756 or robin.blume@ks.gov.
Steak Cookoff on the 3i SHOW
DODGE CITY – The 66th Annual 3i SHOW is beefing up its annual farm present with the addition of a steak cookoff on March 20.
In partnership with the Steak Cookoff Affiliation, 20 groups will compete in a sanctioned cookoff for winnings together with money and trophies. The 3i SHOW cookoff will function a $1000 first-place prize with the highest ten placements receiving a payout.
individuals can enroll at steakcookoffs.com. Steaks for the occasion graciously supplied by Cargill Meat Options in Dodge Metropolis, KS. Any exhibitors trying to assist sponsor the cookoff ought to contact WKMA instantly.
For data on extra occasions or find out how to safe exhibit area on the 2020 3i SHOW being held March 19-21 in Dodge Metropolis, go to www.3ishow.com or contact the Western Kansas Producers Affiliation workplace at (877) 405-2883 or (620) 227-8082.
FSIS proclaims Meals Inspector recruitment occasion
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Division of Agriculture’s Meals Security and Inspection Service (FSIS) is holding recruitment occasions to rent meals security inspectors in Wichita in December.
FSIS is the company answerable for defending the general public’s well being by making certain the protection of the nation’s industrial provide of meat, poultry and processed egg merchandise. Inspectors comprise the most important class of staff within the company, with over 7,500 nationwide, and so they play a important position in defending public well being by inspecting all FSIS-regulated merchandise earlier than they are often offered to customers.
On the recruitment occasions, potential candidates could have a chance to use and obtain help with the USAJOBS utility course of. The Kansas occasion is about for 9 a.m. to four p.m., Wednesday, on the Wichita Division for Kids & Households, 2601 S. Oliver St., Room D100.
KDA re-opens Kansas Sediment and Nutrient Discount Initiative
MANHATTAN – The Kansas Division of Agriculture Division of Conservation proclaims the re-opening of the Kansas Sediment and Nutrient Discount Initiative.
This initiative supplies a one-time incentive cost for Steady Conservation Reserve Program (CCRP) contracts for the next practices: grassed waterways, shallow water areas for wildlife, filter strips, riparian buffers, wetland restorations, and enhancements to farmable wetland and farmable wetland buffers
The 2018 Kansas Legislature allotted $281,312 to the KDA Division of Conservation to assist promote the discount of vitamins and sediment by means of the CCRP program.
The initiative has been open since June 2019 to focused watersheds specified for sediment and nutrient impairment, however funds stay, which has allowed KDA–DOC to re-open the initiative to certified candidates.
Incentive funds vary from $162.50 to $225 per acre, relying on the extent of the impairment as recognized by the Kansas Division of Well being and Surroundings.
Space counties have watersheds that fall inside these focused areas embrace Ellis, Harvey, Marion, McPherson, and Reno.
Contact your native Conservation District for extra data. A listing of native Conservation Districts might be discovered at agriculture.ks.gov/ConservationDistricts.
