SOW THE SEEDS OF INNOVATION

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On today’s show, host Brent Ragsdale will speak Dr. Jennifer Ifft, Agricultural Economics Department Associate Professor, Flinchbaugh Agricultural Policy Chair at Kansas State University.  She has an integrated research and extension program that covers policy and regulatory issues that affect the viability of U.S. and Kansas agriculture. Her current projects are in the areas of nontraditional finance, crop insurance, farmland markets and farm labor. She has published on how farm programs and regulations are capitalized into farmland values, farmland value determinants and measurement, farm labor and management, and crop insurance and farm debt. She also regularly publishes in the farm press and works with farm sector policymakers and stakeholders.

https://www.ageconomics.k-state.edu/directory/faculty_directory/ifft/index.html

Their topic will be Extreme Heat and Kansas Farm Income.  We are aware that climate crisis is caused by global energy increase.  Increased warming and dramatic weather events have a financial impact on the business of farming.   Moderate or severe drought is prevailing through much of the Cornbelt and many areas of Kansas, Missouri, and Nebraska are experiencing extreme drought.

While Kansas farmers are no strangers to adverse weather, extreme heat has been increasing in Kansas over the last few decades. Research shows Kansas farm income is very sensitive to extreme heat. However, both farm practices and crop insurance have partially mitigated the impacts of extreme heat historically.

This will be a great radio hour!

 

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