Wheat price jump leaves many U.S. farmers unpaid
Kansas farmer Vance Ehmke watched his nearly double-sized winter wheat crop miss the price spike after Russia banned exports. The August move sent hard red winter wheat prices up 57 percent at the Kansas City Board of Trade, but much of his crop had already been sold, costing him as much as a quarter million dollars in potential profit while spring-planted wheat fares better in the northern Plains.
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Vance Ehmke
Russia
U.S
Ehmke
Plains
Healy
Kansas
Kansas City Board of Trade
Minneapolis
St. Louis
United
Kansas wheat stocks reach 23 year high in September
Kansas Agricultural Statistics Service reports 400.5 million bushels of wheat in storage, up 14 percent from last year, the largest amount for this late in the season since 1987. Trade groups note storage capacity pressure and a shift to ground pile storage for fall grains. National totals reach 2.46 billion bushels, up 11 percent nationwide.
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Wichita
Kansas
Kansas Agricultural Statistics Service
Sarah Sexton-Bowser
Kansas Grain and Feed Association
National Agricultural Statistics Service
Sexton- Bowser
Hospice memorial garden opens at St. Catherine Hospital
The hospice service at St. Catherine Hospital unveiled a seaside memorial garden at 602 N. Sixth St. during an open house. Kenne Whitson says the space offers reflection for patients families and the broader community as the four year idea finally materializes after a year of work.
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Kenne Whitson
St. Catherine Hospital
Whitson
Sixth St
Butterfly Memorial Garden Honored at Hospice Project
The Butterfly Project offers a $50 memorial butterfly to honor deceased loved ones in the Hospice Services memorial garden. Gina Cash, Hospice Volunteer Coordinator, can be contacted at 620-272-2519 for purchases. Whitson notes the ocean wall painted by Connie Winegeart of Lakin, with starfish along the mural’s base, funded by donor families. The garden features a 10-foot lighthouse and a metal tree with gold silver and copper leaves, extending from the building into sandy ground scattered with seashells.
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St. Catherine
Gina Cash
Kenne Whitson
Hospice Services
Whitson
Connie Winegeart
Oceanside
Education funding debated at Topeka seminar
Kansas educators policy experts and lawmakers gathered in Topeka to weigh education funding choices amid concerns the current formula underfunds public schools by as much as 400 million annually. Lawmakers Arlen Siegfreid and Steve Abrams outlined local control and career tech emphasis plans, but advocates doubted viability.
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Kansas
Kansas Association of School Boards
House
Arlen Siegfreid
Steve Abrams
Boards of Education
Abram
Siegfreid
R-Olathe
Abrams
Arkansas City
Weekend Weather Outlook Patchy Clouds Tonight
Tonight shows patchy clouds and a low of 47. Saturday brings partly sunny skies with a high near 74 and a low around 45. Details on page A8.
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