Beef Empire Days ranch rodeo highlights hard life of cowboys
Cole Bennett of Kan-Sun Feeders in Seou speaks of the tough reality of cowboy life as he and fellow riders join three horsemen from Kan-San Feeders at the Beef Empire Days Ranch Rodeo at Finney County Fairgrounds in a feature on the event and its demanding hours.
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Cole Bennett
Kan-Sun
Seou
Bennett
Syracuse
Beef Empire
the Finney
County Fairgrounds
Kansas
Kan-San
Rusty Tooley
Gene Jett
Jeremy King
Scott City
Double C Cattle Co
Finney County Fairgrounds
Zane Gerstberger
Southwest Kansas schools limit jeans in class rooms
Officials surveyed in southwest Kansas schools and Garden City Community College report most teachers dress appropriately for classrooms and functions. Administrators discourage jeans for regular classes with exceptions for agriculture and shop instructors. When dress issues arise, supervisors intervene, require change or issue warnings. None of those surveyed could identify widespread problems.
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Southwest
Kansas
Garden City Community College
Highways to get four-lane expressways in 2014 to 2020
Area officials welcomed Gov Brownback’s plan to build two new four-lane expressways between 2014 and 2020. One is a 10 mile $59 million USS 54 stretch from Liberal northward, with preliminary engineering to extend toward the Seward Meade county line. Liberal Chamber director Rozelle Webb called the move exciting.
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Chamber of Commerce
Ford
Seward
Sam Brownback
Liberal
Kansas Department of Transportation
Seward-Meade County
Liberal Chamber of Commerce
Rozelle Webb
Kansas farmers test cutting winter wheat amid high prices
In south central Kansas the winter wheat harvest looms as overall yields look poor yet prices hold strong at Kiowa elevators with cash at 8.55 per bushel. Early samples are moisture heavy and farmers brace for a rough season, aided by crop insurance for losses and high futures for remaining stock.
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Wichita
Kansas
OK Co-op Grain Co
Kiowa
Kansas, Oklahoma
Dennis Carroll
Carroll
Pam Schmidt
U.S
Texas
Oklahoma
Schmidt
Aaron Harries
Kansas Wheat
Weather outlook for tonight and Saturday
Tonight partly cloudy with a chance of thunderstorms and a low of 62. Saturday mostly sunny with a high of 90 and a low of 63. Details on page A8.
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Laurie Sisk
Tearres
Isabel
Schwieterman Inc
Chicago
Annie's
Garden City Co-op
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