Spring Field Day at KSU Southwest Research Center
The Kansas State University Southwest Research Extension Center schedules a Spring Field Day Monday with 2 p.m. introductions at 4500 E. Mary St. A supper follows at 7 p.m. Presentations include Wheat Yields at 2:15 p.m. Canola Varieties at 4:15 p.m. Integrating Wheat Diseases at 5:15 p.m. and a wheat variety tour at 6:15 p.m. Hosted by Ingersoll Tillage.
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Kansas State University Southwest Research Extension Center
E. Mary St
Ingersoll Tillage
John Holman
DeAnn Presley
KSU
Ingersoll
Mike Stamm
Erick DeWolf
Jim Shroyer
Wheat condition worsens in Kansas report says
Kansas Agricultural Statistics Service reports the winter wheat crop in poor to very poor condition at 55 percent, with about 38 percent in fair and only 14 percent good or 1 percent excellent. Moisture shortage drives decline. last week’s rain was insufficient to reverse the trend as about 64 percent of wheat has headed. Spring planting is underway with 84 percent of corn and 30 percent of soybeans seeded, plus 9 percent sorghum and 10 percent cotton.
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Wichita
Kansas Agricultural Statistics Service
Kansas
Brownback to unveil Kansas road projects
Gov. Sam Brownback will launch a statewide tour after Memorial Day to announce the next round of major highway projects. Stops include Wichita, McPherson, Dodge City, Fort Scott, and Kansas City as details are released. The 8.2 billion 10 year program, approved in 2010, aims to spur construction jobs and unlock regional economic potential.
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Topeka
Sam Brownback
Kansas
Brownback
Wichita
McPherson
Dodge City
Fort Scott
Kansas City
Kansas lawman in court on murder charge
Kansas police instructor Brett Seacat appeared in Kingman County District Court on a $1 million bond facing charges of murdering his wife Vashti Seacat, setting their home ablaze, and endangering their two young sons. The body was found in the burned residence after she filed for divorce. Seacat, a former Sedgwick County deputy who teaches basic police training, requested a court-appointed attorney.
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Kingman
Kansas
Brett Seacat
Kingman County
Seacat
Vashti Seacat
Kwch-Tv
Sedgwick County
Defense begins case in Kobagaya genocide citizenship trial
In Wichita AP coverage, Lazare Kobagaya’s defense starts presenting its case as the 84 year old Topeka man faces charges of unlawfully obtaining US citizenship in 2006 along with fraud and misuse of an alien registration card. The trial includes testimony from Kobagaya’s son about life as Burundian refugees and questions over his English proficiency and documents.
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Wichita
Kansas
Rwanda
Lazare Kobagaya
Topeka
Jean Claude Kandagaye
United Nations Commission
Kandagaye
Kabagaya
University of
Wind line move in Kansas could cost utility customers millions
Kansas regulators hear testimony on moving a wind energy transmission line from a Dodge City area route to a revised path eastward, a plan supported by Westar Energy and wildlife agencies but opposed by Chermac Energy which projects costs rising to $567 million over the line’s life and potential harm to the lesser prairie chicken and whooping cranes. The decision, due by June 28, hinges on habitat impact and overall project costs across Kansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma.
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Topeka
Kansas
Kansas Corporation Commission
Dodge City
Westar Energy
Kansas Wildlife
Missouri
Oklahoma
Chermac Energy
James Zakoura
Chermac
Clark County
Pratt
Medicine Lodge
KCC
Jaime
McAlpine
Westar
Eric Johnson
Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks
Chris Tymeson
The
Wildlife Agency
Paul Kerlinger
New Jersey Audubon Society
Cape May
EPA warns Midwestern feedlots to fix waste discharges
The EPA ordered seven feedlots across Iowa Kansas Nebraska to halt violations of the Clean Water Act. Discharges risk contaminating streams and wetlands. Administrative compliance orders target facilities including Crossroads Cattle Co Neola Feedlot Services Harlan Northrup Feedlot Petersen Bubke Mapleton KM Feeders McPherson County Feeders Knox County Feeders with penalties possible if noncompliance continues.
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Omaha, Neb
Nebraska
Kansas
Iowa
Environmental Protection Agency
EPA
Region 7
Kansas City
Kan
Chris Whitley
Crossroads Cattle Co
Woodbine
Associated Press
Feedlot Services Co
Neola
John Roane
Feedlot Services
Iowa Department of Natural Resources
Roane
Harlan Northrup
Griswold
Petersen-Bubke LLP
Mapleton
McPherson County
Marquette
Knox County
Bloomfield
Don Stange
Knox County Feeders
Stange
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Christina Giffin
United States
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Jeryl Bean
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Jake Kizzar
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Garden City Community College
Kansas City Star
Midwestern
Whitley
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