Crews fight hay fire for nearly six hours in Trego County
By JONATHAN ZWEYGARDT Hays Post Dozens of hay bales were destroyed in an early morning fire in rural Trego County on Wednesday morning. According to Trego County Rural Fire Chief Larry Eberle,...
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Yesterday’s papers
John Schlageck writes for the Kansas Farm Bureau. When I was a youngster my dad used to read two newspapers daily. His newspapers of choice were the Kansas City Star and Denver Post. Both arrived on...
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Deadline nears for Kansas Wheat Commission applications
Kansas Wheat Western Kansas wheat farmers have a unique opportunity to provide direction for one of Kansas’ most important industries, through the 2015 Kansas commodity commission elections. Growers...
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Extension will offer webinar update on 2014 Farm Bill
With the completion of the 2014 Farm Bill and given the complexity and decisions that will eventually have to be made by farmers, Art Barnaby, K-State Risk Management specialist, will give a webinar...
View ArticleOakley gears up for annual Kansas State Cornhusking Contest
Submitted OAKLEY — The Buffalo Bill Cultural Center invites all of Kansas to come out and enjoy Oakley’s 43rd annual cornhusking contest and festival and be part of a public television program about...
View ArticleEmporia farmer with NW Kan. ties will lead livestock association
WICHITA – Kansas Livestock Association members have elected Emporia rancher Jaret Moyer as president for the coming year. Matt Perrier, a seedstock cattle producer from Eureka, was chosen as the new...
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Fire remains a vital management tool
John Schlageck writes for the Kansas Farm Bureau. Every spring, the ritual continues. Farmers, stockmen and landowners continue to use fire as a range management tool while maintaining the economic...
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Agriculture can do the job
John Schlageck writes for the Kansas Farm Bureau. Agriculture is losing producers.No one will argue that point, but larger, more efficient producers are replacing those lost in this highly competitive...
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CHS takes over operation of northwest Kansas grain elevators
OBERLIN — CHS Inc., a leading farmer-owned cooperative, officially assumed operation of elevators formerly run by Hansen-Mueller in Oberlin and Cedar Bluffs in early May 2015. The CHS operation will be...
View ArticleFive Tigers earn Preseason All-America recognition
FHSU Athletics NEW YORK, N.Y. – Fort Hays State Football had five student-athletes named to the 2015 USA College Football Division II Preseason All-America Watch List, released on Wednesday (June 17)....
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Changes to corporate ag laws in Kansas off the table this year
By PHIL CAUTHON KHI News Service GREELEY COUNTY — Western Kansas farmer Danny Peter committed what some in rural Kansas consider a cardinal sin: He sold his land to a big corporation so it could build...
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Ag association announces grant funding available to farmers
The Kansas Ag Research and Technology Association announced late last month they will be making up to $11,000 available for research funding in 2014. The announcement was made during the 17th annual...
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K-State’s Cattlemen’s Day scheduled for March 7
MANHATTAN — Kansas State University will host the 101st annual Cattlemen’s Day on March 7 in Manhattan. The day starts at 8 a.m. in Weber Arena with a commercial trade show and educational exhibits,...
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View ArticleFarm Bill: Big choices loom for U.S. farmers
K-State Research and Extension MANHATTAN – As a professor in Kansas State University’s Department of Agricultural Economics, Art Barnaby has given countless presentations and fielded even more...
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Farmland – art is life
As the lights dimmed and the images flickered on the screen, the movie audience stepped into the lives of young farmers and ranchers as they took on the tasks of running their families’ operations. No...
View ArticleNational Water Quality Initiative applications available
SALINA — Farmers and forest landowners in three Kansas watersheds can apply for help to improve water quality in their watershed from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation...
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Event designed to demystify changing times in agriculture
Farmers and ranchers today are faced with challenges the previous generation never encountered, from epic drought to ever-rising input costs to volatile domestic and foreign market prices. With each...
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Kansas Farm Bureau delivers water vision to Brownback
Kansas Farm Bureau president Steve Baccus MANHATTAN — In a news release today, the Kansas Farm Bureau said it has delivered a water vision statement to Gov. Sam Brownback in response to Brownback’s...
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Reach out and teach someone
Each day, farmers and ranchers pull on their boots, roll up their sleeves and go to work outside rural communities across Kansas. They perform a litany of chores – feeding and doctoring livestock,...
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Wheat cutters ‘gearing up for a marathon’
By Kansas Wheat On Wednesday, harvest has commenced in nearly all of southern Kansas, from Hamilton to Cherokee counties. In the central part of the state it even progressed northward to just shy of...
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Remembering that old red barn
When I was a youngster, one of my favorite places to play on a cold winter day was my Uncle Joe and Aunt Anna’s faded red barn. Uncle Bernie had one too and it was also a must stop when we went to see...
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Hays agent: Herbicide-resistent kochia a threat to no-till farming
K-State Research and Extension Known by the name tumbleweed, it’s been romanticized in story and song. And when it’s called summer-cypress, it sounds downright exotic. No matter what you call it, the...
View ArticleUSDA: Kansas pastures greening up after rains
HUTCHINSON — With recent rains, the condition of Kansas pasture land is improving. The rainfall is leaving land green, and hay fields are looking better than in recent years. Steve Hessman with the...
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Plainville farmer wins Kansas Wheat yield contest
Gov. Sam Brownback announced Doug Keas as the Kansas Wheat Yield Quality Initiative Winner at the Kansas State Fair. From left, Brownback, Doug Keas and Kansas Wheat Commissioner Mike McClellan. Kansas...
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Hays-based Cedar Ridge Supply teams with Pinnacle Ag
Story courtesy Ag Professional Pinnacle Agriculture Holdings, LLC has acquired Cedar Ridge Supply, LLC. Cedar Ridge Supply will operate as part of Pinnacle’s Performance Agriculture brand. Located in...
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New tool allows area farmers to check the cattle comfort index online
K-State Research and Extension MANHATTAN, Kan. — The harsh conditions in Kansas this past winter have prompted one of the state’s leading weather agencies to develop a tool that will help cattle...
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