Farm prices slump hits Kansas crops and cattle costs
Kansas farm price indices show all farm products at 88 percent of the 1990 92 base, down 10 points from December 2000. Crop prices at 91 percent, meat animals at 85 percent, with inflation and costs eroding profits. Wheat at 2.63 per bushel, down from November and December 2000, signaling weak demand despite low world stocks.
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Hutchinson
Kansas Agricultural Statistics Service
Dave Ranek
Statistics Service
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Kansas
Brett Myers
Ag secretary proposes new fee for irrigators
Kansas Secretary of Agriculture Jamie Clover-Adams proposes new and higher fees to raise nearly 2 million dollars to keep Agriculture Department programs running amid a 19 million dollar budget and ongoing cuts. The plan targets water rights oversight and stems from Gov. Graves budget reductions and slowing tax revenues.
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Topeka
Jamie Clover-Adams
Adams
Bill Graves
The
Agriculture Department
States General Tax Fund
Division of Water Resources
Afghan Taliban Chief Omar Surrounded Near Baghran
Afghan foreign minister says Mullah Mohammad Omar is surrounded by anti-Taliban forces near Baghran as U.S. troops and warplanes pursue al Qaida in eastern Afghanistan. An Army special forces soldier died and a CIA agent was wounded in fighting near Khost in the three month campaign. General Franks says Omar’s exact location is uncertain despite signs of his possible presence in Baghran.
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Kabul
Afghanistan
Mullah Mohammad Omar
Baghran
al-Qaida
Khost
U.S
CIA
Tommy Franks
Omar
Taliban
Osama bin Laden
Garden City woman to serve as torch runner in Olympic relay
Doreen McDonald, a Garden City resident, will join the Olympic torch relay to Salt Lake City as a support runner in Wichita. She plans to meet the torch bearer at Davis Moore Chevrolet at 5 25 a m Friday and drives a Ford sponsored by Chevrolet. McDonald survived a 1999 brain aneurysm and later earned an associate degree with a perfect 4 0 grade point average at Garden City Community College while working at a Presbyterian Church.
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Garden City
Doreen McDonald
McDonald
Wichita
Salt Lake City
Utah
Ford
Anita Cochran
KSN
Davis Moore Chevrolet
Chevrolet
Airborne Express
St. Catherine Hospital
Via Christi Hospital
Garden City Community College
The
Presbyterian Church
Local stores warned after spree of counterfeit twenty-dollar bills
Five reports in one week show counterfeit twenty dollar bills circulated among local outlets. Police note similar serials, with suspects possibly roaming or passing through town. Wells Fargo? No, Bank of America and Burger King are among locations cited along with Dillons and Foot Locker. Federal law labels counterfeiting a federal crime.
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Mike Utz
Finney County Sheriff’s Office
Presto
Hastings
Dillons
San Juan
Mexico
Kentucky Fried Chicken
Bank of America
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