Pomona student earns national rodeo berth and honors
Jacia Wood of Pomona High School qualified for the National High School Rodeo in two events and earned a place at the national event July 19 to 26 in Gillette Wyoming. She also made the 1998 Wrangler High School All-Star Rodeo Team and won a saddle for her Topeka rodeo performance.
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Jacia Wood
Pomona
Wood
Topeka
Gillette
Wyo
Wrangler
National High School Rodeo Association
Stacia Wood
Scrapy
Pig farming sparks political row in Kansas race
Gary McBee and neighbors oppose Murphy Family Farms planned hog lot in Lane County over water pollution stench and political sway. McBee seeks the state House seat against Robin Jennison as debate over corporate hog farming shapes GOP and Democratic primary battles in western Kansas.
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Indennis
Kan
Gary McBee
Lane County
North Carolina
Murphy Family
McBee
House of Representatives
House
Kansas
Jennison
R-Healy
Melvin Neufeld
R-Ingalls
Gene Shore
Ulysses
John Edmonds
Great Bend
David Miller
Bill Graves
Tom Sawyer
Wichita
Graves
Race To Watch
Hodgeman
Lane
Ness
Finney
Rush
Darry Schuler
Ness City
Jerold Hubbard
Johnson
Shore
Bill Light
Rolla
124Th
Department of Health and Environment
Murphy Family Farms
Legislators Clash Over Corporate Hog Farming in Kansas
In Kansas, Edmonds proposes countywide votes on hog operations, sparking a GOP primary battle in the 112th District. Opponent Byer touts job creation, while local leaders, voters, and environmentalists weigh economic development against farm industry expansion.
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St. Peter
Pearly Gates
Barton County
Seaboard
Great Bend
Chamber ‘of Commerce
Cownpaper
Newpaper
Barton Fate
Edmonds
Byer
Kansas
Meade County
Richard Friedeman
Conservation cost share offered in Franklin County
Franklin County landowners can apply for Water Resources Cost Share and Non-Point Source funds through the Con-Pasture and Hayland Conservation District. WRCS supports practices like grassed waterways, terraces, and filter strips. NPS covers water wells, on site wastewater, livestock waste systems, fencing, tree planting, and abandoned dumps. Applications at 107 E. 23rd until June 30, 1999. contact 242-3109.
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Franklin County
Conservation District
The
Natural Resources Conservation Service
Florida to post orange records for 1997 1998 season
Florida officials forecast a record citrus year with 244 million boxes of oranges for 1997 1998, an 8 percent rise from 226.2 million last season. Each box weighs about 90 pounds and final figures may change as statisticians finalize summer totals. the forecast lowered by 4 million from June due to Valencia overestimations.
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Orlando
Fla
Florida
Valencia
Farm Heritage Days Opens With Tractor Pulls and Demos
Bonner Springs hosts Farm Heritage Days at the National Agriculture Center and Hall of Fame with antique and classic tractor pulls, threshing, displays, and living history demonstrations from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Event highlights include a 10 a.m. tractor pull on Saturday, a noon and 2:30 p.m. threshing demo, a 1 p.m. Sunday Parade of Power, plowing demos, and shop displays. A steer shown by Tiffany Kramer was named Reserve Grand Champion at the Northeast Kansas Junior Angus Show, bred by Lyle Clark.
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Bonner Springs
National Agriculture Center and Hall of Fame
Midwest
Tiffany Kramer
McLouth
Northeast Kansas
Holton
Lyle Clark
Baldwin
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