The Folks Behind Your Food
Here in Kansas, you probably don’t have to shake your family tree too hard before a farmer falls out. Today’s farmers mesh traditional values with college degrees and high-tech tools. Meet the soccer moms and mini-van-driving dads of 21st century Kansas ag, and find out what “locally grown” really means, from the people who know best. Get the scoop on why they farm, why they farm the way they do, and why they’re so proud of it!
Meet Brandon Heier from Western Kansas
In this exclusive with Brandon Heier of Heier Farms in Grainfield, Brandon talks about where corn goes after it leaves the field and provides insight on working with his father and twin brother. #FunFact Much like Heier Farms, most of the corn grown in Kansas stays in our state!
Wheat as We Grow It
From the way it is grown, harvested and processed into flour, and the way it’s entwined in the lives of the families who produce it, wheat’s journey is an emotional one. In a time where agricultural practices are questioned at every turn, it’s important to look at what’s being done to...
Meet John Fellers
Many years ago, just like Tom Cruise in the film "Far and Away," a Fellers family ancestor left his tobacco farm in Ohio, saddled up his horse and boarded a train west to claim land offered in the land run of 1893. And the rest is history. Over one hundred years later, a wheat farm...
Meet Melissa Clark
Melissa and her husband Rick mainly farm wheat with Rick’s grandparents on the family farm. Wheat may be one of their main sources of income, but it contains gluten, the one thing Melissa can’t have.
Meet Jenny Burgess
Geoff and Jenny Burgess of Burgess Hill Farms may have grown up more than 4,000 miles apart, but their passions for agriculture closed the distance. Geoff came to Sterling, Kansas from England in 2000 on an agricultural exchange program and ended up doing custom harvest for about three...
How Farmers Gather Eggs
At Synergistic Acres in Kansas City, they raise "pasture" chicken. See how the chickens are cared for and how they gather the eggs with help from one of the cutest farm guides we've ever seen. It’s egg-mazing!
Spotlight on Hog Barns
Many people think that raising pigs indoors inevitably has an overall negative impact on the animals’ health and comfort. In fact, by virtually every measure, this is untrue. Farmers who raise pigs in states with extreme weather often choose to raise pigs indoors in buildings where they...
Meet Kent Condray
Kent started in the pig business through the FFA program in 1968. He was in seventh grade when he purchased his first pigs. After graduating high school, he returned home and took over the small farm his family owned. Today, Kent raises both pigs and crops. His farm is a farrow-to-finish...
Meet Michael and Christy Springer
The Springer family started raising hogs in the late 1940s with Michael’s grandparents, Lee and Dorothy. Today, Michael’s parents, Chuck and Debbie, and aunt and uncle, Dale and Judy, also farm. In 2008, the four families joined together in a partnership to make Springer Family Foods.
Bacon Farming Is a Family Affair
Meet Kelly Wondra and his family. Together, they run a pig farm in Central Kansas. Take a look inside their farm.
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