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Each year Kansas Farm Bureau’s (KFB) Foundation for Agriculture awards scholarships to college students studying in fields that benefit agriculture and rural Kansas. Forty-five recipients were awarded $26,500 in scholarships for the 2024-25 school year. Over the past decade, the foundation has awarded more than $250,000 in scholarships. “We’re investing in students today to ensure they become ...

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A Kansas college will host an event for youth interested in rode at the end of the week. The Colby Community College rodeo team is offering a youth day camp from 1 to 5 p.m. this Sunday, April 21, 2024, at the Thomas County Fairgrounds. According to the school, campers between the ages of  7 and 18 ...

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The Garden City Community College Board of Trustees have approved pathways for the new Crop Production Technology program. According to the school, the Board of Trustees has approved expanding GCCC's agriculture offerings by adding new pathways in the Crop Production Technology program, which is part of the Title III STEM grant that GCCC received in 2021. ...

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A late March freeze, blustery days of blowing dust and predicted 80-degree afternoons — the dramatic springtime weather in Kansas can leave everyone wondering what exactly is coming next, especially wheat producers watching their stands green up after the winter. Kansas Wheat caught up with farmer leaders from across the state to check on how ...

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The American Farm Bureau Federation, in partnership with Farm Credit, is seeking entrepreneurs to apply online by June 15 for the 2025 Farm Bureau Ag Innovation Challenge. Now in its 11th year, this national business competition showcases U.S. startup companies developing innovative solutions to challenges faced by America’s farmers, ranchers and rural communities. The overall winner of ...

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The State Conservation Commission will hold its regular meeting via Zoom on Tuesday, April 16th. According to the Kansas Department of Agriculture, anyone interested in the meeting can participate using Zoom video conferencing. The SCC consists of five elected commissioners; two ex officio members representing the Kansas State University Agriculture Experiment Station and Cooperative Extension Service; and two ...

2 years ago
We adopted him from a nearby city animal shelter’s barn cat adoption program. They adopted him out to us because he was deemed “too bite-y” to be a house cat. An expert mouser with some serious cattitude, he rotated his time between our shop, farm office and barn. He viciously clawed my office chair one afternoon when I turned ...

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The wheat streak mosaic virus, transmitted by wheat curl mites that reside in volunteer wheat, poses problems for producers and requires thorough management, according to Kansas State University wheat disease specialist Kelsey Andersen Onofre. “They kind of are this family of viruses that are vectored by a tiny mite that we call the wheat curl mite. ...

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Kansas State University extension agents and watershed specialists will host a livestock water systems tour on April 11-12 at several sites in northeast Kansas. Officials say the free event will offer expert advice to producers about various livestock watering options to safeguard water quality. These projects will include a hands-on tire tank installation, solar panel pumping ...

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An historic $1.5 billion is available in fiscal year 2024 to invest in partner-driven conservation and climate solutions through the Regional Conservation Partnership Program (RCPP).  The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is accepting project proposals now through July 2, 2024, that will help farmers, ranchers, and forest landowners adopt and expand conservation strategies to enhance ...

2 years ago
Working in agriculture often involves a series of decisions, including which crops should be planted in a rotation, what inputs are most economical, and -- in the case of rebuilding the cow herd -- should replacement females that were born to first-calf heifers be retained? This was the question that the Kansas State University Beef Cattle ...