Rick McNary
Rick McNary became intensely aware of hunger on a mission trip to Nicaragua when a starving girl asked him to feed her. He dedicated himself to fighting world hunger and recruiting volunteers to help. He is also a fan of farmers and understands that to combat world hunger we must all work together.
Kansas Canola
By Rick McNary on June 28, 2017
“What is that beautiful gold stuff in the field over there?” I asked my wife. “I’ve lived in Kansas all my life and have never seen a crop so vibrant and beautiful.” We ran through the checklist of...
Meet the Peirce family
By Rick McNary on June 27, 2017
From the time they were small, Connor and Hayden Peirce have risen early each morning to help their mom, Jeanne, and dad, Cameron, on their family farm. Cameron and Jeanne Peirce are the fifth...
Calling the crop doctor
By Rick McNary on May 25, 2017
Did you know that you can plant turnips from an airplane? According to Ken Bixenman, owner of Great Plains Aerial Spraying of Colby, planting turnip seeds is one of the many uses of his specially...
A Beautiful Barn (re)Born
By Rick McNary on May 12, 2017
Have you ever wondered what a barn would say if it could talk? Imagine the tales it would tell after being around for 140 years. The Lamborn Barn in Leavenworth could tell some stories, and one...
Fighting Fire
By Rick McNary on May 8, 2017
D ennis Ricke scans the Gypsum Hills near Medicine Lodge for smoke each day, a ritual he has performed for more than three decades. As a farmer and a volunteer firefighter, even the sight of smoke 18...
A Farm Family's Story
By Rick McNary on March 29, 2017
Joe Mertz couldn’t help but notice the three female college students attending Kansas State University move in the dilapidated house near his family’s farm. The year was 1978. One of those three...
How you can help with fire relief
By Rick McNary on March 13, 2017
I recently traveled the area affected by the Anderson Creek Fire of 2016 with Dennis Ricke – a local farmer/rancher/volunteer firefighter so I could write Neighbor Helping Neighbor. A year after the...
Neighbor helping neighbor
By Rick McNary on February 24, 2017
Dennis Ricke scans the Gyp Hills near Medicine Lodge for smoke each day like he has for more than three decades. As a farmer and a volunteer firefighter, even the sight of smoke 18 miles away causes...
A Business of His Own
By Rick McNary on February 3, 2017
The Griggs Brothers Farm in Augusta began after two middle-school boys, Talon and Colter Griggs, came home from school with questions about capitalism. “I explained the basics of capitalism and...
Growing a family and piggies
By Rick McNary on January 6, 2017
If you ask Christy Springer whether she refers to them as pigs or hogs, her answer is simple: bacon. “I’m writing a cookbook: I Married a Hog Farmer; Now What the Heck do I do With all This Pork?”...
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