Two KLA/K-State Field Days are set for this coming August. The first will be on August 21 at the Larson Ranch, in Wichita County with registration starting at 3:30 p.m. The second will be on August 28, at the Wells Ranch, Woodson County with registration again beginning at 3:30 p.m. Both events are free and will conclude with fellowship and a beef dinner. More information will be posted here as it becomes available.

Each event will include presentations on the history of the host ranch and tours of their cattle handling facilities. At Larson Ranch, we will be joined by Dale Woerner with Texas Tech University, who will share his research on yield grading technology, as well as Brian Vander Ley with the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and Michael Heaton with the USDA, who will discuss bovine congestive heart failure in feedlot cattle.

At the Wells Ranch, presentations will be by A.J. Tarpoff, DVM, with Kansas State University, who will share information on the Asian longhorned tick and the transmission of Theileria orientalis, as well as Wade Newland of Newland Ag Drones and a representative from the Kansas Grazing Lands Coalition who will highlight resources available for controlling noxious weeds in grazing lands and provide a spray drone demonstration.