As part of National Co-op Month, Kansas Wheat will highlight farmer cooperatives throughout October. Check back each week for new stories of how farmer cooperatives are investing in the Kansas grain industry, benefiting their farmer owners and contributing to the reliability, quality and value of the Kansas wheat crop each year.
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Learn more about the cooperatives in your community during National Co-op Month
October 12, 2023
Audio file The flurry of fall fieldwork season makes October a fitting month to recognize the cooperatives that help supply Kansas wheat producers with grain stor
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Day 7, Kansas Wheat Harvest Report
June 29, 2023
Triple-digit temperatures mean it certainly feels like the right weather to harvest wheat, but producers and elevators alike are feeling behind schedule. Wheat harvest has shifted west, moving into…
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Together We Achieve More: MKC Matches Growth with Investment in Kansas Agriculture
October 27, 2015
Pooling resources to achieve better results than could be accomplished individually is the reason many cooperatives formed. That goal is one which Mid Kansas Cooperative Association (MKC), one of the…
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Past to Present, Farmers Cooperative Grain Association Adapts to Meet Changing Agricultural Needs
October 25, 2015
Kansas history is filled with stories of farmers who banded together to establish cooperatives, build communities, thrive in good times and survive in bad. Farmers Cooperative Grain Association in…
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Garden City Co-op Shares Success By Investing in Services, Infrastructure
October 22, 2015
In 1915, a group of Garden City farmers banded together to purchase a single wooden elevator with no storage, forming the Garden City Cooperative Equity Exchange. Unfortunately, the area was still in…
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Teamwork Leads to Grain Business Success for WindRiver Grain, L.L.C.
October 18, 2015
Loading the first 110-car unit train at WindRiver Grain, L.L.C. in Garden City took four days, far longer than the industry standard 15 hours. The process was plagued by rain, then snow that piled up…
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Farmway Co-op Invests, Expands to Help Farmers Succeed
October 13, 2015
In 104 years, Farmway Co-op has grown from a single petroleum cooperative to one of the largest agricultural cooperatives in the United States. Throughout that entire history, however, Farmway has…
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