Tag: farming

Gene Meiwes can?t help but keep a sunny disposition, regardless of the weather. When one of the wettest springs in recent memory threatened to derail much of the farm work for scores of area producers,…

The headline from the Hutchinson News brought good news for Kansas: This year’s wheat crop looks promising, even though its development has been slowed by cool weather this spring. The wheat crop and agriculture in…

PITTSBURG — The “Mall of Agriculture” is in Pittsburg this weekend as part of the 45th annual Four State Farm Show. The farm show has been pushed up in the calendar this year, organizers noted…

Iolan Stanley E. Dreher Jr., 92, a titan in the Allen County farming community for nearly half a century, died Christmas Day at his home. In addition to the multiple boards, committees and councils on…

Five or six inches of rain — in places more — over the last several days have swelled the Neosho River and its tributaries over their banks. For farmers, even those hardened by years of…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Farmers across the United States will soon begin receiving government checks as part of a billion-dollar bailout to buoy growers experiencing financial strain from President Donald Trump’s trade disputes with China. But…

Mid-afternoon Thursday Shawn Geffert looked over 80 acres of corn, some harvested but most still standing. He wrenched the husk from an ear, broke it in two, plucked a kernel and plopped it in his…