Farm Wives Urged to Seek Jobs Beyond Farm Life
Kansas State University extension specialist Katey Walker says farm wives who have managed farms bring transferable skills to office work and accounting. She urges detailing farm responsibilities, volunteering, and persistence when job hunting, noting many wives balance finances, ordering supplies, and managing communications.
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Manhattan
Kansas State University
Katey Walker
Walker
High Priority Cost-Share Aid Opens for Marais des Cygnes Landowners
A new High Priority Cost-Share Program funded by the State Water Plan offers 70 percent cost coverage for diversions, grassed waterways, terraces, underground outlets and water and sediment basins. Sign-up runs through Oct 31 at the Franklin County SCS office, 20914 W. 2nd, for land draining into Richmond Lake. The program adds to existing cost-share funds. regular sign-up has just ended.
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Marais Des Cygnes Basin
New State Water Plan
State Conservation Commission
Soil Conservation Service
Franklin County
Marais Des Cygnes
SCS
Richmond Lake
CCC Loan Funds Law In Jeopardy Over CCC Shortfall
The Agriculture Department warns it will run out of money this week for price support loans to farmers as the Commodity Credit Corporation fund drains at about 70 million dollars daily. Congress must reconcile House and Senate supplemental bills before an August recess, with hopes to extend funds through Sept. 30.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Commodity Credit Corporation
House
Senate
CCC
Robert Dole
R-Kan
Congress
Agriculture
John R. Block
USDA
Mark O. Hatfield
R-Ove
Appropriations Committee
Jamie L
Department
Amstutz
Whitten
Test Poultry Before Fair By ROBERT W. BOSWORTH
County extension ag agent outlines fair health rules for poultry and notes Kansas changes. All poultry except pigeons and waterfowl must come from a clean flock or have a negative test within 90 days of the show. Franklin County has five qualified Pullorum typhoid testers who can blood test birds.
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Robert W. Bosworth
Kansas
Franklin County
Milton Sampson
Max Cartmill
Joe Walter
Ottawa
Vickie Frye
Princeton
Will Channon
Williamsburg
Checking Sorghum For Greenbugs In Kansas Fields
Kansas sorghum growers are urged to inspect crops for greenbugs as field surveys show rising cases in northeast, north central and east central Kansas. Infestations vary by field, with some seedling sorghum at Atchison and Pottawatomie counties recently affected, and older milo showing flights and isolated plant problems in several counties.
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Topeka
Kansas
Kansas State Board of Agriculture
Atchison County
Nortonville
Belvue
Pottawatomie
Douglas
Jefferson
Atchison
Riley
Marshall
Washington
Texas
Oklahoma
Morton, Stevens
Seward
Riely
Central
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Bourbon County
Fairgrounds
23Rd Street
Franklin County Fair
Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association
Women’s Professional Rodeo Association
Rumford Rodeo Company
Abbyville
Arthur Capper Cooperative Center
Capper Center
Chicago
Chicago Board of Trade
ASC
K-State
Crop Reporting Board
Uma
Pittsburg, KS
LIE Farm & Ranch
Pam
FARM
Emande
KCPL