K-State in the news today
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Tuesday, May 14, 2024
National/International
Solar storm crashes GPS systems used by some US farmers, stalling planting
05/14/24 The Star Online
Terry Griffin, an associate professor in agricultural economics at Kansas State University, spoke on the powerful geomagnetic storm that cast the northern lights’ vivid colors across the Northern Hemisphere over the weekend that also caused some navigational systems in tractors and other farming equipment to break down at the height of planting season.
State/Regional
K-State lands $6M grant led by Feed the Future Innovation Lab on Sustainable Intensification
05/14/24 Sunflower State Radio
Kansas State University officials have cited a Manhattan-based innovation lab’s “decade of success” in providing global food security as key to a $6 million award announced recently by the U.S. Agency for International Development. Officials with USAID announced that K-State’s Feed the Future Sustainable Intensification Innovation Lab, or SIIL, will receive the grant to strengthen existing agricultural research, education and outreach entities in Guatemala.
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