Southwest Kansas Dairy Tour
The Kansas Department of Commerce and the western Kansas Rural Economic Development Alliance (wKREDA) are inviting dairymen, business leaders and journalists to participate in the Southwest Kansas Dairy Tour, which is designed to showcase Kansas as a prime location for dairy farming, March 25 in Finney and Gray counties.
The day-long bus tour will take participants [...]
County paves way for cheese factory
ERIC SWANSON
Dodge City Daily Globe
Step by step, local officials are working on bringing a cheese-processing plant to Dodge City.
The latest piece of the puzzle fell into place Monday, when the Ford County Commission designated the Dodge City Industrial Park on the east side of town as a recovery zone. The cheese-processing plant, which would be [...]
Kansas dairyman receives honor
From DairyBusiness.com
Carrol Campbell of Winfield, Kansas will be honored as the 2010 Outstanding Dairy Producer of the Year, by Western DairyBusiness magazine at World Ag Expo in Tulare, Calif. Feb. 10. The presentation will be held at 11:45 a.m. during Dairy Profit Seminars located in the Seminar Center between “R” and “S” streets along Expo [...]
Kansas dairy doesn’t forget one of its own
From Dairy Herd Management
At times when the milk price is in such a poor state, we’re all losing money, it is very easy to loose focus on the important things in life. The employees at Forget-Me-Not Farm in Cimarron, Kan., didn’t forget what was important earlier this year when one of their co-workers was in [...]
Researchers train Egyptians on food safety
As food safety receives more and more national attention, K-State researchers and food safety experts are working hard to train and educate beyond U.S. borders. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s foreign services has chosen K-State to be the host of instructional sessions to a group of Cochran Fellows from Egypt.
The program, which started Friday and [...]
Hay Trade Slow
In Kansas, the hay trade is slow. Demand is moderate to strong for dairy and stock cow alfalfa, moderate for alfalfa pellets, grinding alfalfa and grass hay, according to the Kansas Department of Agriculture-USDA Market News Service, July 14. Prices given on a per-ton basis, unless otherwise noted.
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Couple finds way to milk their business
CLEARWATER — Children gathered around a baby calf at the Klausmeyer Dairy Farm on a recent scorching morning as Debbie Klausmeyer said she would like help naming the animal.
The children raised hands and shouted names at the same time — mostly their own or names of their friends — but the decision came down to [...]
