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Stripe Rust Endangers Wheat Crops

Wheat is a major crop across the United States although farmers planted less acreage in the winter months. Stripe Rust, a seeded wheat disease, is causing problems across major wheat growing states....

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Kansas Counties Hit With Harsh Weather Now Eligible for Funding

Following excessive rain, heat and drought from April 23 through Nov. 1, 2010, select Kansas counties are eligible for disaster assistance through the United States Department of Agriculture. The main...

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Three Kansas Counties Declared Disasters

Three Kansas counties are eligible for emergency loans through the Farm Service Agency. Chautauqua, Cowley and Elk county producers who experienced crop or livestock losses from excessive rain,...

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Kansas Counties on Disaster List

Kansas Governor Mark Parkinson has asked USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack to declare three Kansas counties disaster areas. Cheyenne, Rice and Sherman counties suffered extreme summer storms caused damage...

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Disaster Loans Available

Jack Salava, acting State Executive Director for Kansas’ Farm Service Agency, announced the FSA has emergency loans available for producers who suffered loss from natural disasters. From May 8-16,...

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The Livstock Indemnity Program

Livestock producers now qualify for a USDA program that pays producers for the livestock killed because of the weather. The Livestock Indemnity Program went into effect July 13 and any producers who...

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Kansas Looking for Organic Producers

$1.5 million is available for organic farming in Kansas. The money comes as part of the $50 million made available from the 2008 Farm Bill. Money was set aside for Kansas’ Environmental Quality...

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Farmland Values Increased

According to the Federal Reserve farmland values appear to have stabilize in the first quarter of 2009. The increase is promising after a the decline at the end of 2008. The report released numbers for...

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Irrigation Draining Plains Aquifers

Increased farm production and increased use of irrigation may be boosting farmers’ incomes across the Great Plains, but it is coming at the cost of increased strain on aquifers in the region. According...

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Former Ag Secretaries Gather in Kansas

Six former US secretaries of agriculture met at Kansas State University to discuss the challenges facing the farm sector and to address their own experiences as the chief agricultural official in the...

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Livestock Tax is Hardly a Priority.

One of the latest debates in congress- a tax on animals that pollute the air. Many farmers, and the public, find it completely absurd that the government wants to put a tax on gaseous animals that...

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Dairy Production Increased

Although many are worried about the drop in dairy prices, a USDA report announced that milk production is up by 1 percent compared to last year. These numbers are based on the production of the 23...

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Shopping For Land to Set Up Trial Wind Farm

T. Boone Pickens, a Texas oil billionaire, had plans to build one of the largest wind farms in Texas. However, now he has put a halt on those plans and is looking for the perfect location for a...

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Acres Removed From Program

3 million acres of farmland are being taken out of the federal conservation program and may be tilled. The change has many environmentalists concerned about wildlife habitat, water quality and soil...

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Kansas Loans Reach Nearly $150 Million in 2009

During the 2009 Fiscal Year, family farmers in Kansas received $147,683,765 in direct and guaranteed loans according to USDA state executive director, Adrian J. Polansky. “This has been a record year...

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