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Three Kansans receive Wheat Advocate Awards
January 28, 2015
The National Association of Wheat Growers presented three Kansans with Wheat Advocate Awards this week. The Wheat Advocate Award is given annually to Members of Congress who have demonstrated support...
Speak for Wheat!
January 28, 2015
Share your story through the Kansas Wheat spokesperson program Do you enjoy sharing your farm story? Are you known for that special baked good in your hometown? Do you love teaching people of...
Busy mom brings home baking perspective to Kansas Wheat Test Kitchen
January 27, 2015
Julene DeRouchey has her own test panel for her baking experiments – her three children. And, in her new role as nutrition educator assistant for Kansas Wheat, Julene has many products for them to...
Commodity Commission Election Ballots Mailed to Producers
January 26, 2015
MANHATTAN, Kan. – The Kansas Department of Agriculture has announced the candidates eligible for commission in the state’s five grain commodity commissions- corn, wheat, grain sorghum, soybeans and...
Why is Kansas called the Wheat State?
January 22, 2015
On January 29th Kansas will celebrate the 154th anniversary of its statehood. When the first settlers roamed the prairies of the territory, they probably never imagined that the land they were in...
Balancing babies and bread: Melanie Eddy makes baking a family affair
January 19, 2015
For Melanie Eddy of Syracuse, wheat is more than a crop. She and her wheat farmer husband Kent have turned service to the wheat industry into a family adventure. When she first started demonstrating...
K-State conducting meetings to help answer Farm Bill questions
January 16, 2015
Note: The following article is for informational purposes only and should not be considered recommendations or advice for decisions to be made on your individual farm. Kansas farmers and landowners...
Fortified grain foods help protect babies
January 15, 2015
The most powerful tool for preventing neural tube defects is actually quite simple – enriched grains fortified with folic acid. As part of Healthy Baby Month and National Birth Defects Prevention...
Remotely capturing wheat’s potential
January 14, 2015
It's invisible to the human eye, but measured in microseconds, and helping shape the future of Kansas wheat varieties. Sounds like science fiction, but research funded by the Kansas Wheat Alliance is...
Kansas Commodity Classic to be held on February 6 in Manhattan
January 12, 2015
All Kansas farmers are invited to the Kansas Commodity Classic on Friday, February 6, 2015. The Commodity Classic is the annual convention of the Kansas Corn, Wheat and Grain Sorghum Associations,...
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