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 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.
Life on a Kansas Pig Farm
Join Mike Bellar to see inside his Kansas pig farm and learn what pigs eat.
Where Beef Production All Begins
The beef community works every day to produce high-quality beef for Americans. So, where does it all begin?
Meet Kevin and Vera Schultz, Sandhill Farms
Sandhill Farms is a family owned and operated Hereford cattle business located in south central Kansas near Haviland. Originally homesteaded in 1869, each generation of the Schultz family has made its living on the resources provided by the land. Learn what this sixth-generation family...
How Beef Gets from the Pasture to Your Plate
The beef lifecycle is one of the most unique and complex lifecycles of any food. Follow the journey as farmers and ranchers throughout the process share how beef get from pasture to plate, and how they are committed to raising beef responsibly.
Meet Jim Sipes
Jim Sipes is the fifth generation to continue his family’s farm legacy. The Sipes family lives in Morton County and the farm corporation includes Jim’s parents, Bob and Kaye Sipes; an Aunt and Uncle, Nina and Ron Sipes; and Jim’s family.
Meet Clint and Amy France
Clint and Amy France farm and ranch in western Kansas. Along with their children, they are third-generation operators of their family farm and ranch. They grow wheat, grain sorghum, corn, soybeans and have black angus cattle. Over the past five years they’ve added chickens, bees, a...
Meet Orville and Mary Jane Miller
Miller Dairy milks 180 cows and raises a similar number of young calves and heifers. Most of their farm is focused on growing feed for the dairy. The farm has six to eight employees, and also operates a forage chopping business, manure hauling business and an ag equipment and auto repair...
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