Meet a Farmer
Meet the Kells Ranch Family
Learn about the Kells family, who are fifth-generation farmers in southwest Kansas.
Ranch Work in the Summer
A few weeks ago, we hauled our cows from our ranch to the summer grass we lease so our home pastures can rest and grow for haying. The cows will spend five months grazing on vast grass pastures while they gestate their soon-arriving baby calves. The ladies will come back to our ranch around the...
Meet the Meschberger Farm Family
Learn about the Meschbergers, who are raising their daughters, crops and cattle in Stafford County.
Wheat Harvest Signals Start of Summer in Kansas
Austin Moore’s wheat harvest ended in late June on a perfect day for cutting. A steady breeze, plenty of blue sky and low humidity meant the Woodson County farmer could roll through the last field of golden grain. The only issue Moore had was harvest closed a little early.
Robots on the Farm: Modernizing the Food Industry
Clint Brauer from Cheney is working to re-shape food. His operation, MG Honor Farms in south-central Kansas, is a mecca of vegetables and herbs. For nearly a decade, MG Honor Farms has grown food for local consumers. Brauer, along with high school students and other part-time help, has completed...
Get to know the Mueller Ranch Family
The Muellers farm and ranch while balancing a custom backgrounding and livestock marketing business, plus kids. Learn about this Kansas ranch family.
Scotty Thellman
Meet Scotty Thellman, a farmer from Lawrence, Kansas.
Growing Apples in Kansas
For Gabe Spurgeon, working at a desk wasn't his calling. When his family moved to Kansas, they saw an opportunity to grow an apple and peach orchard - which is now South Baldwin Farms.
Aquaponics at Marmaton Valley High School
These high school students took an idea for aquaponics and built a fully functioning operation in their greenhouse.
Get to know the Carpenter Ranch Family
The Carpenters run a cow/calf operation consisting of Angus/Charolais crossbreds in Jackson County, while raising their son, Calvin.
Growing Young
What’s your mental picture of a farmer? Is it an old guy in a pair of blue jeans, a flannel shirt and a little barnyard on his boots? That was mine for many years until I started writing their stories three years ago. Boy, was I wrong.
Meet the Basinger Ranch Family
Chad Basinger is a rancher in Kansas who loves what he does and says he wouldn't want to do anything else. Learn more about his ranch family.
Water Conservation on the Farm
It’s late January and the planting season is still weeks away as Kyle Deaver pulls a new nozzle from a toolbox and explains how once it is installed on an irrigation system it will deliver “big, fat uniform droplets” to crops. Switching equipment is part of a water conservation plan that will also...
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