Greg Doering
How SurePoint Ag Systems Became a Rural Economic Engine in Rawlins County
By Greg Doering on August 5, 2025
Most corporate mission statements make a vague reference to community building that falls far short of Atwood-based SurePoint Ag Systems’ explicit mandate to “be a long-term economic engine for...
Ottawa County Woman Uses LandTrust to Monetize Her Farm’s Outdoor Access
By Greg Doering on August 5, 2025
Rosalee Tibbits says she’s “kind of retired,” but the octogenarian doesn’t seem like it when she slyly checks a text message on her smartwatch. A few moments later, she receives a business call. It’s...
Hutchinson man creates day honoring antique tractors
By Greg Doering on July 3, 2025
Like a lot of people who grew up in rural Kansas, Michael Hinton spent a portion of his summer watching wheat harvest around his family’s home on a five-acre hobby farm outside of Newton. For most,...
What is Regenerative Agriculture
By Greg Doering on June 9, 2025
Joe Newland is president of Kansas Farm Bureau. He and his wife, Dana, farm wheat, corn, soybeans and hay, in addition to managing a 450-head cow-calf beef cattle herd. This feature was originally...
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...
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