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How to track the Kansas wheat crop
March 30, 2015
The sun is shining, the wind is blowing and everyone wants to know how the wheat is doing after breaking dormancy. Throughout the growing and harvest season, these USDA resources provide a glimpse…
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Before You Give a Mouse a Loaf of Bread on Bake and Take Day!
March 26, 2015
Bake and Take Day is celebrated annually on the fourth Saturday in March. Help celebrate this year on March 28, 2015, by preparing gifts of freshly baked wheat foods with family, friends, neighbors…
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Farmers talk trade in Colombia
March 25, 2015
Ask what is the price of wheat and most farmers will have a pretty good answer. Ask who is buying wheat – and why – and the question is a little harder. That is why the Kansas Wheat Commission works…
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Kansas Wheat Commissioners Re-Elected
March 23, 2015
The Kansas Department of Agriculture announced the results of the elections held for the five grain commodity commissions—corn, grain sorghum, soybeans, sunflowers and wheat in districts One, Two and…
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Testing soils to improve yields
March 20, 2015
Even before Florida Georgia Line saluted it in song, Kansas wheat farmers knew the importance of their soil, particularly to their bottom line. But while “you bet your life on it,” too many farmers…
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Darn Good Pancakes, Even Better Advocacy
March 19, 2015
Kansas Commodity Groups Host 20th Annual Legislative Pancake Feed Members of the Kansas State Legislature ventured out in the early, drizzly day on March 19 to enjoy pancakes and sausage with Kansas…
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U.S. Wheat Organizations Join Renewed Call for End to Cuban Embargo
March 17, 2015
Kansas Wheat Commissioner Doug Keesling and USW Assistant Director of Policy Ben Conner represented the U.S. wheat industry on a "learning journey" to Cuba on March 1-4.
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Find Your Kansas Farm Food Connection on National Ag Day
March 15, 2015
Author Virginia Woolfe quipped, “One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.” And American families, who spend just 11.4 percent of their disposable income on food…
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Bake and Take a Pie for Pi Day
March 13, 2015
Geeks, farmers and bakers unite! March 14 is National Pi Day. What better way to celebrate mathematics favorite number during Bake and Take Month then by sharing a home-baked pie with family, friends…
