Polls mark Kansas State Fair with humor and questions
The Kansas Secretary of State poll at the State Fair asks about capital punishment, taxes, secession, and favorite entertainers, with daily ballots through Sept. 17. The Hutch News Straw Poll uses a Newton Apple device for five days of questions on concealed carry, the state car, and more. The Cosmosphere and Christian Churches booths host additional polls on the Great American Flag and the women’s conference in China.
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Hutchinson
Local Angus breeders honored for national bull recognition
Princeton couple Leo and Mary Wiederholt own a bull listed in the 1995 Fall Size Evaluation Report released by the American Angus Association. The report, based on EPDs, covers traits from birth to carcass measures. Farmland values in seven Midwest states were flat midyear, with Illinois down 1 percent while Indiana and Michigan show varied year over year gains, and Iowa steady.
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Graves Frahm tour highlights value added farming in Kansas
Gov Bill Graves and Lt Gov Sheila Frahm toured Russell and Ellis counties with farm groups to learn how value-added production and agribusiness tech boost rural Kansas. The Heartland Wheat Growers gluten plant aims to begin gluten and starch production Oct 16, with lawmakers considering how to support ongoing research and tax reforms.
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Robin Jennison
Rhealy
Kansas House Appropriations Committee
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Farm Bureau
Paul Fleener
Byist
Warren Parker
David Reisig
Reisig Leeds
Reisig
Wheat growers urge rail oversight in ICC repeal push
Growers warn that abolishing the Interstate Commerce Commission could leave farmers financially exposed as railroads lose price regulation for grain shipments. National Association of Wheat Growers cites rail as main grain carrier and urges lawmakers to preserve some controls amid Republican push to end railroad regulation.
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Grain prices drift in closing markets soybeans slip nickel
In the closing grain markets ANCO News Service reports soybeans fell five cents to 5.90 per bushel while grain sorghum and corn each dropped three cents to 4.56 and 2.73. Wheat edged up one cent to 4.51.
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