Kansas farmers plan record soybean plantings amid bulging grain stocks
USDA data show Kansas growers to plant 2.6 million acres of soybeans as part of a nationwide peak 73.1 million acres. Kansas shifts also boost corn to 3.1 million and sorghum to 3.6 million, while barley sunflowers dry beans and cotton rise. Massive grain stocks threaten storage space despite milder winter and rising feed demand.
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Ohio pickling fight spans farms and unions
Baldemar Velasquez leads Farm Labor Organizing Committee in a broad boycott against Mount Olive Pickle Co. as migrant workers face unsafe housing and low pay. The union seeks contracts with cucumber pickers, warns non union South may lure growers, threatening Ohio and Michigan cucumber output valued at over 12 million dollars. Mount Olive defends its hiring practices while urging fair treatment of workers.
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Annual Flint Hills prescribed burn signals spring in Kansas
Each spring the Flint Hills of central Kansas burn to renew grass for cattle pastures. The rite, mid April to mid May, creates smoke and fire hazards prompting warnings to ranchers and motorists on the Kansas Turnpike. In 1994 heavy smoke contributed to a fatal multi-car crash, leading to posted warnings and stricter county rules in Butler and others.
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Dust Bowl reappears threat eyed from space by CU field team
Alexander Goetz, director of CU’s Center for the Study of Earth from Space, seeks Landsat imagery to prevent a Dust Bowl repeat on the High Plains. Monitoring soils since 1972, he warns climate shifts and farming practices could revive dunes over about 10 percent of the region, but a dust bowl can be avoided with timely adjustments.
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