KSU honors Janna Dunbar for 1997 98 achievements
Janna Dunbar was among the students honored by Kansas State University School of Agriculture for outstanding performance in the 1997 98 year. She was named one of the outstanding sophomore students in animal sciences and industry at the 34th annual awards ceremony and was initiated into Alpha Zeta, the college’s national agriculture honor society.
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Janna Dunbar
Kansas State University School of Agriculture
Dunbar
Alpha Zeta
College of Agriculture
Elevators Fight New CKRY Rail Surcharge Across Kansas
Grain elevators along CKRY lines face a 750 per car surcharge raising shipping to 23 cents per bushel. Managers say trucking becomes cheaper and rail service may remain unreliable, risking closure of tracks and higher farmer costs. Kansas officials seek mediation to resolve the dispute.
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Central Kansas Railway
Wichita
Bruce Krehbiel
Iuka
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Pratt
Duquoin
Harper County
Rage
Kingman County
Burdett
Jetmore
Kansas
Charlie Swayze
Isabel Farmers Co-op
Barber County
Ron Bagby
OmniTrax
Denver
William Frederick
John McGinnis
Swayze
Sunflower Shippers Association
Dale Parsons
Cairo Co-op
CERY
Kansas Secretary of Agriculture
Allie Devine
Devine
Small hog farmers face bleak future amid megafarms
Small hog farmers like Roger Larson fear the shift to large industrial operations will erase income sources and local wealth. As hogs consolidate, the nation moves from family farms toward contracted and owned facilities, with two thirds of hogs now on farms over 1,000 animals. Legislation in over a dozen states seeks to slow megafarm growth.
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Roger Larson
Larson
Ode
Iowa
Don Hoogestrat
Lennox
S.D
Hoogestrat
Agriculture Department
Minnesota
Zebra mussels eyed as feedlot manure cleaner
Dick Steffen of Southern Illinois University proposes using zebra mussels to filter manure in large Midwest feedlots. Millions of mussels could remove contaminants, produce calcium rich feed, and their waste could fertilizer fields. A full scale prototype is 1 to 2 years away.
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Dick Steffen
Midwest
Steffen
Southern Illinois University
Carbondale
Ill
Illinois
United States
Ohio River
Great Lakes
Mississippi River
Water flows 90 percent of year in Arkansas River
In southwest Kansas the Arkansas River flowed continuously 90 percent of the time during fiscal 1997, a USGS report shows. From Oct 1, 1996, to Sept 30, 1997 water was present along the river from the Colorado border near Garden City to the Oklahoma border south of Wichita on 331 of 365 days, the most since the early 1970s. The Garden City gauge was dry in 1992 but had water on 331 days in 1997.
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Kan
Arkansas
Kansas
U.S. Geological Survey
Colorado
Garden City
Oklahoma
Wichita
USGS
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