Kansas Wheat Outlook Poised Despite Price Pressures
Kansas farmers forecast 394 million bushels of wheat this year up 22 percent from 2015 with an average yield of 48 bushels per acre. Southwest Kansas yields are projected at 46 but overall production climbs to about 63.5 million bushels while planted acreage falls 500000 to 8.2 million. Prices for 2016 17 marketing year seen at 3.60 to 4.40 per bushel as growers brace for weather risks and disease threats.
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Local readers react to Kansas school funding debate
Editorial selected online comments slam lawmakers over KPERS pensions and school closures. A separate Kansas story notes heavy Monday rain affecting wheat fields near Plymell farm, quoted by Boyd Lear.
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Telegram invites signed letters to the editor
The Telegram requests letters to the editor be signed with the writer’s address and phone number. All letters will be confirmed before publication and may be edited for libel and accuracy. Letters must be 500 words or less and not include form letters poems or consumer complaints. Attn Editor Garden City Kansas 67845 Online
Yan An and the Red Army's Yan'an Command Center
The essay recalls Yan'an in 1987 as a pivotal guerrilla hub after the Long March. It highlights yaodong cave homes on the loess plateau, Chu Teh and Mao's leadership, Agnes Smedley’s biography The Great Road, and U.S. figures like Stilwell and Hurley, arguing how Yan'an shaped China’s revolutionary victory and later U.S.-China relations.
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Joe” Stilwell
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Shek
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Edgar Snow
Kansas City
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Ali and Frazier split legacies in a city’s eye
Christine Flowers reflects from Philadelphia on Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier. She honors Ali’s impact while criticizing his treatment of Frazier and the media spectacle around their famous rivalry. She recalls Frazier as humble, disciplined, and deserving of respect.
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Kansas doctors warn KanCare cuts strain care access
Wichita physician Diane Steere MD, president of the Kansas Academy of Family Physicians, argues 4 percent KanCare payment cuts starting July 2 will push providers, hospitals, and rural clinics toward losses, threaten access, and contradict 2018 privatization promises.
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