Looking ahead to the next few days through Tuesday, low temperatures approaching the freezing point have Kansas farmers keeping a close eye on their crops.
A group opposed to the formation of a heritage area in north central Kansas and south central Nebraska on Thursday, April 15, wrapped up a series of town hall meetings.
Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt reaches out to the U.S. Justice Department to look into beef prices, specifically "to investigate significant price swings in the cattle and beef markets to determine whether any illegal market manipulation has occurred."
U.S. Senators Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) and Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) Thursday introduced legislation aimed at helping small meatpacking plants operating longer hours during the COVID-19 pandemic "to keep our supply chain moving.)
Meat-processing giants like Tyson, Smithfield Foods and JBS USA have already shut down some of their plants and others have scaled back production due to employees testing positive for COVID-19.
Dr. Roger Marshall, congressman representing much of Kansas's western half in the U.S. House of Representatives was in Ford County Monday, helping healthcare workers continue to administer tests for COVID-19.
The United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) International Union held a Thursday-afternoon press call in Washington, D.C., announcing new estimates of meatpacking-worker infections and deaths from COVID-19, the impact on the national food supply and to highlight a letter to demand action form the USDA and White House Task Force to strengthen safety standards.
Farmer Cy Cokely who grows wheat, corn and soybeans and raises 100 head of cattle on land near Haven says producing all of that is getting expensive, even though oil prices have dropped.
A disease that's spread throughout Asia and has killed about half of China's pig population brings concern to pork producers in the U.S., including Kansas.
Hemp production in Kansas is proving to be a new frontier. With that, farmers growing the crop, as well as facilities that turn the hemp into oils, materials and grains say they have a lot to learn.
Every year about this time, farmers anticipate the possibility of the first freeze, but knowing it's coming doesn't eliminate challenges associated with the turn.
Kansas farmers are harvesting hemp fields for the first time in nearly 80 years. The state selected farmers across the state for a hemp research program earlier in 2019. Now, farmers are ready to harvest.
By The agriculture community responds to the latest action in the trade war with China as the country announced Monday it's halting the purchase of all commodities from the United States.
The agriculture community responds to the latest action in the trade war with China as the country announced Monday it's halting the purchase of all commodities from the United States.
Heavy rains have delayed the process, but farmers are again busy cutting wheat, managing to get the work done even though some are doing so with parts of their fields still muddy.
Free trade and the overall struggle of many farmers was at the heart of the meeting, hosted by Cargill in downtown Wichita. The company says its involvement in agriculture keeps it close to issues farmers face and says changes to help them need to happen.
The government's latest Census of Agriculture for Kansas shows the number of farms in the state has dropped 5% from the count taken five years earlier.
Republican senators report Senator Pat Roberts and other ag committee members gathered at the White House Thursday afternoon as President Donald Trump signs the farm bill.
The impact of the U.S.-China trade war can be felt in Kansas. There's already been a sharp price decrease for certain products and soybean farmers are one group impacted.
