Agriculture

One Step Forward, Two Steps Back For K-State Animal Lab?

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Critics say rural America could be devastated by an outbreak of Foot and Mouth Disease, which the NBAF would research.

By Laura Ziegler

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The National Academies of Science issued a set of 10 conclusions today on the future of the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility in Manhattan, Kansas.

The report says while there is a critical need for a so-called BSL4 lab that will research the most dangerous emerging diseases to affect particularly livestock, it said the current NBAF proposal might be too big and too costly.

9:02 am

Thu July 12, 2012

Another New Report To Shed Light On NBAF's Future

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The proposed NBAF lab at in Manhattan, Kan., would study ways to guard the nation's food supply against diseases like bird flu and Mad Cow disease.

By Laura Ziegler

The future of the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility in Manhattan is under the microscope this week for the second time in just over a month.

1:33 pm

Wed July 11, 2012

Farming Means Family

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Kate Edwards shows off her small 1-acre vegetable plot near Solon, Iowa.

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Edwards walks through rows of planted vegetables. Her CSA program feeds about 30 families.

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Edwards grew up helping her grandfather on his farm. Those memories are part of what spurred her to start her own farm.

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Edwards grows all kinds of vegetables on her plot and delivers whatever is ripe to the participants in her Community Supported Agriculture program.

By Jeremy Bernfeld

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Kate Edwards hasn’t always been a farmer. No, she came back to the farm after college, grad school and a stint as an environmental engineer.

11:38 am

Mon July 9, 2012

'My Farm Roots' Collects Stories From The Land

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Nan Gardiner told her story to My Farm Roots.

By Sylvia Maria Gross

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Many people in the Kansas City area have close ties to agriculture, whether they currently work on a farm, or grew up on one and left. Or maybe their ancestors settled in the region to work the land.

10:35 am

Mon July 2, 2012

Importers Get The Whole Wheat Tour

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The view of the Kansas City Board of Trade’s trading floor from the observation deck

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Tunde Adebayo, an executive with a Nigerian flour mill, traced the path of U.S. wheat exports on a recent tour of the Midwest.

By Camille Phillips

Kansas wheat farmers may be tied to the land, but their crop isn’t. About half of the wheat grown in the United States each year is exported.

8:43 am

Thu June 28, 2012

Farmers + Engineers = Farm Hack

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Carolyn Scherf, a farmhand from the Iowa City-area; Troy Washam, co-owner of a small farm near DeWitt, Iowa; and Grant Schultz, co-director of Farm Hack Iowa, stand in the University of Iowa Garden at the conclusion of the first Midwestern Farm Hack.

By Clare Roth

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“Hack” isn’t a word usually associated with agriculture, but that might be starting to change.

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