Greg Doering
Drone Technology Takes Agriculture to New Heights
By Greg Doering on May 8, 2025
One day in the near future multiple crop management decisions will be driven from the top down, literally. Unmanned aircraft are already being used to monitor crop health, pull field samples and...
Kansas Territory Brewing Company growing community in rural Kansas
By Greg Doering on April 26, 2025
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...
From Scrap to Sculpture: The Artistic Vision of Miami County’s Guinotte Wise
By Greg Doering on March 31, 2025
Guinotte Wise doesn’t stroll by the junk piled around his rural homestead in Miami County. Rather he scans the heaps of metal and waits for a road sign to catch his eye. Or a scrap of angle iron. Or...
Kansas County Farm Bureaus help train, equip and support rural firefighters
By Greg Doering on January 30, 2025
The Big Blue River stretches through farm fields from central Nebraska until just shortly before it empties into the Kansas River east of Manhattan. The river valley carves a meandering path through...
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 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...
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