Greg Doering
Farming Fowl
By Greg Doering on October 24, 2024
Like a lot of people, Travis Sipe’s career started in college. However, unlike most, he found his calling by his desire to avoid working during a school break. That planted the seed for what...
El Dorado’s Walnut River Brewing Company serves up great beer and good times
By Greg Doering on July 31, 2024
Walnut River Brewing Company started a little over a decade ago with Rick Goehring and B.J. Hunt enjoying a couple of beers beneath a brothel, well a former brothel. But that beer helped launch an...
Kansas Territory Brewing Company growing community in rural Kansas
By Greg Doering on June 4, 2024
People generally don’t look to the drink in their hand for advice about life but if they happen to be drinking Life Coach Lager they’ll receive some worldly wisdom. The tagline for Kansas Territory...
Kansas Farm Invites Innovative Experiments
By Greg Doering on May 6, 2024
Ray Flickner knows the usual risks farmers take with weather, price volatility and personal safety. He’s also become quite comfortable facing the risks inherent in being an early adopter of unproven...
Kansas makes Historic Investment in Preserving the Ogallala Aquifer
By Greg Doering on May 5, 2024
An appropriation of $35 million by the Kansas Legislature in 2023 was supported by several agricultural groups, including Kansas Farm Bureau (KFB). This was arguably the most significant investment...
Processing Kansas grown meat in Alta Vista
By Greg Doering on March 12, 2024
Running any business takes relentless effort and determination to pursue a vision for making things work out. Amie Brunkow invested countless hours into a business plan for a meat processing plant...
Rural Kansas Apprenticeship Program Aims to Shrink Labor Shortage
By Greg Doering on February 1, 2024
Like a lot of rural businesses, Moundridge-based Mid-Kansas Cooperative (MKC) struggles to find enough people to meet the demand of its 11,000-plus members and customers across Kansas. With more than...
Kansas Farm Bureau helps bridge the gap in shortage of rural lawyers
By Greg Doering on November 8, 2023
The list of reasons why farmers and ranchers may need to consult with a lawyer is long. Farms and ranches are businesses that must comply with myriad local, state and federal regulations. They also...
How Kansas is helping solve the childcare dilemma in rural communities
By Greg Doering on November 8, 2023
Cooking dinner, washing dishes and doing laundry are often referred to as “invisible work” because the labor isn’t tracked by any metrics outside an individual household. While it’s not uncommon for...
Conservation on the Farm
By Greg Doering on August 3, 2023
Michael Thompson wasn’t having a good Wednesday in early May. Just as he was getting ready to begin planting corn, a hydraulic hose broke and sprayed the planter with oil. After a quick repair, he...
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