Greg Doering
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...
Farming Fowl
By Greg Doering on January 29, 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...
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...
El Dorado’s Walnut River Brewing Company serves up great beer and good times
By Greg Doering on October 2, 2023
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...
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...
Fighting the Vet Shortage in Rural Kansas
By Greg Doering on August 3, 2023
Labor shortages in rural Kansas are not new, and they’re not limited to any sector. The lack of workers in careers requiring advanced degrees is well documented for professionals like lawyers and...
Pours on the Prairie
By Greg Doering on July 17, 2023
The MET&L Prairie Pour Tour isn’t a Heartland-based rock band rolling through Northeast Kansas, but that doesn’t mean there’s no merch. The tour is a showcase of beverage-based businesses in...
Soil Health Principles Are Applied on Kansas Farm
By Greg Doering on May 15, 2023
Jay Young thought he was going to a friend’s house to play cards in 2016, but the Greeley County farmer hadn’t even picked up a deck before he got pulled into a discussion about cover crops. While he...
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