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Break Out the Tote Bags: Farmers Market Season Has Arrived

By | April 15, 2022 |

Radishes, carrots, greens and leeks are piled on a table.

Kansas City area farmers markets are trying to hold the line on prices as grocery prices soar, while touting the benefits of buying fresh produce from local growers.

Opening This Spring in Kansas: A High-Tech Lab Researching Livestock Diseases

By | April 7, 2022 |

U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue, joined by Sen. Pat Roberts (R-KS) and Sen. Jerry Moran (R-KS), is briefed by National Bio and Agri-Defense Facility Site Project Manger Tim Barr about the status of the facility being built on the Kansas State University campus in Manhattan, Kansas, on May 30, 2018.

Construction is wrapping up at a new biological research lab in Manhattan, Kansas, where researchers will study vaccines and treatments for highly contagious diseases that affect livestock and humans.

How Kansas Could Lose Billions in Land Values as its Underground Water Runs Dry

By | April 1, 2022 |

Center pivot irrigation systems like this one in Finney County pump water up from the Ogallala aquifer to spray on crops. This part of southwest Kansas experienced some of the state's worst aquifer declines last year as drought pushed farmers to pump more water from underground.

The water in the Ogallala aquifer is worth billions of dollars to western Kansas, but it’s rapidly disappearing. And it’s been a challenge to find ways to slow the depletion.

As Fertilizer Pollutes Tap Water in Small Towns, Rural Kansans Pay the Price

By | March 30, 2022 |

Former Haviland mayor Robert Ellis stands between pipes inside the small town's multimillion-dollar water treatment plant.

For towns with only a few hundred residents, keeping tap water clean and safe can pose a crippling expense. The predicament is likely to become more common in western Kansas as farm chemicals seep into dwindling water supplies.