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Locally Sourced Turkeys Flying Off the Shelves for Thanksgiving, Despite Higher Prices

By | November 24, 2021 |

Pasture-raised turkeys at Farrar Family Farm in Adrian, Missouri.

Demand for turkeys, particularly smaller birds, is strong this Thanksgiving season, even thought prices are up about 20% over last year.

‘Highway to Hemp’: Fledgling Industry Struggles to Take Root

By | November 4, 2021 |

Early in harvest season, Luke Poindexter walked the fields to cherry pick the prettiest hemp buds to sell as smokable CBD flower.

Growing industrial hemp has proven riskier and more difficult than many farmers in Kansas and Missouri initially expected.

Great Pumpkins Keep Family Traditions Alive, Even Through A Pandemic

By | October 28, 2021 |

Sophie Blank (left) and brother Calvin pick pumpkins at Johnson Farm every year.

More than 80% of Americans plan to buy at least one pumpkin each fall. Like turkey on Thanksgiving or singing at Christmas, the pumpkin patch has become a family tradition for many.

How a Meatpacking Plant Changed One Kansas Town 40 Years Ago and Left a Colorado Community Behind

By | October 27, 2021 |

Local government officials and meatpacking executives shovel dirt at the groundbreaking of the meatpacking plant just outside Garden City in 1979.

Four decades ago, a town in Kansas and a town in Colorado competed to become home to a giant meatpacking plant that, at the time, was the largest of its kind in the world. Here’s what has happened to them since.