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Posts Tagged ‘Rural Affairs’

Harvesting Change | Making Local Food Connections in the Heartland  

By | June 20, 2024 | 0
A woman looks at a bundle of drying flowers on a lettuce stalk in a hoop house.

Meet the people who are making Kansas City’s increasingly interconnected local food system more sustainable on multiple fronts.

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Parched in the Panhandle: Town Frets About Water

By | June 11, 2024 | 0
A water tower in Guymon, Oklahoma, which relies on the Ogallala Aquifer for drinking water.

How Seaboard Foods rebuilt the Oklahoma panhandle’s economy, which ushered in a new era of groundwater depletion from the Ogallala Aquifer.

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Do We Have a Bid? Auctions Sell Produce by the Lot 

By | June 6, 2024 | 0
A crowd of people gather in the background of an image, taken down a row of boxes, low to the ground. The boxes are full of yellow and red tomatoes and read "Missouri Grown" and "Fresh Missouri Produce"

Produce auctions in Missouri and Kansas allow wholesale buyers to shop local, offering a key link in the food distribution chain.

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Report: Rural America Produces Greenhouse Gasses on Behalf of Urban and Suburban Areas

By | June 4, 2024 | 0
Evergy's Lawrence Energy Center.

At least 36% of greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S. come from rural America, but they’re mostly used to produce energy and food for urban and suburban areas. 

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Insects Don’t Get Love Like Other Animals. But Kansas Can’t Survive Without Them

By | June 3, 2024 | 0
Entomologist Mary Liz Jameson, right, shows Luz Horton which kinds of dung beetles likely live on the land where she and her husband, Jamin Horton, own a bison ranch.

Scientists are trying to figure out why insects are struggling, what it means for ecosystems and how it will ultimately affect people.

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