Kansas farmers, ranchers and rural communities are dealing with challenging conditions these days. Stress is high and uncertainty abounds. Farming has never been easy, but there are a lot of variables at play now that…

When the pandemic first hit, Maureen Schletzbaum had to figure out how to sell her produce while avoiding human contact. Normally, she’d set up a booth at two different farmers markets near Pleasantville, Iowa, where…

When Phil Jarred was young, his father, the late Dorrall Jarred, often offered a bit of advice: don’t ever farm ground without a terrace. The lesson stuck, and proved true once again after Jarred bought…

Imagine yourself in a blizzard so thick and cold and blinding that you could not see your hands right in front of you. Such blizzards were common 150 years ago on the upper great plains.…

The calendar has turned to fall, and the weather is slowly following suit. Harvest is underway with combines rolling through fields and semis hauling grain to elevators and on-farm bins. There’s more of those bins…

It is not too late to get some cover crops on wheat stubble or any fallow ground from flooded or failed crops this summer. Cover crops are one of the most versatile tools a farmer…

LAWRENCE — The most cost-effective method of responding to chemical and sediment runoff from intense agriculture production is development of large-scale wetlands in watersheds feeding rivers and large streams, a University of Kansas researcher said…

TORONTO — Chari “Adelaide” Bauman is zany for zebus. And to showcase her passion, she’s just published a children’s book, “Zara the Zebu.” Zara, a miniature zebu, belongs to a young girl named Zeni, but…

Let’s talk pastures. According to Dale Strickler, agronomist at Green Cover Seed, “the standard level of pasture management, I hate to be insulting, but it’s miserable. … We just simply do not manage pastures here.”…

While most kids are preparing to relax and enjoy their summer break, 4-H livestock project members in the Southwind District will be learning more about their livestock projects through a new national program aimed at…