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!
Spotlight on Winter Wheat
Wheat is wheat, right? Unless we’re gluten-intolerant, we tend not to think too much about this common grain. But here in Kansas, ‘tis the season for winter wheat. Winter wheat—wheat that is planted in the fall and harvested in the early summer—makes up about two-thirds of the wheat...
Fun Facts About Harvest in Kansas
Chances are you’re familiar with common harvest terms like “combining” and “picking.” But you may be a little fuzzy on the particulars of what goes into harvest, which is simply the process of gathering crops from the fields. With so many farmers harvesting this time of year, we want to...
Showing Livestock Is about More Than a Blue Ribbon
Ribbons, awards and scholarships are nice perks, but showing livestock isn’t all about winning in the show ring. Youth learn many life lessons when raising livestock.
Meet Terry Vinduska from Central Kansas
Experience harvest from the combine as we check in with Terry Vinduska in Marion County during corn harvest. Learn more about yields, moisture and ideal conditions for harvesting as Terry talks about this year’s harvest.
Meet Lowell Neitzel from Eastern Kansas
Never taken part in corn harvest? Get a first-hand view from the tractor and learn about what happens during harvest at Nunemaker-Ross and Bismarck Farms.
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...
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