Since healthy soil is vital to flourishing crops, Kansas no-till growers took time to come out of their fields to deliver presentations about …
It's #FarmSafetyWeek. These kids learned how to handle stress at a spring Ag Safety Day in Nebraska.
Stacy McClintock did not always picture a career in banking, but she was positive cattle would be a part of her life. It was a happy coinciden…
Hands-on experience is arguably the most valuable way to learn, just ask the four young people who all interned this summer with the Talon Int…
Some Kansas farms will be connected with high speed internet in exchange for a promise to use soil health principles as part of a new pilot program.
The emotional devastation after receiving a 30-day notice that their old organic milk buyer was going to stop their route mentally pummeled a …
“My mind wandered, and suddenly my rear wheel dropped off into a ravine.” One farmer shared his ATV safety story with kids for #FarmSafetyWeek.
These past two weeks, like always, have been crazy busy! It has been full of changing seasons. We've had a lot of "lasts." We have chopped our…
“At the time an heir received property, that’s when the tax gets triggered, and they won’t care if the heir keeps farming the land or not.”
This writing finds us standing on the bridge between summer and fall. Days are warm and sunny, nights are refreshingly cool. Irrigation pipe h…
With harvest rapidly approaching, farmers can increase their opportunity for a smooth harvest by checking their grain carts for any required m…
It was literally “full steam ahead” when massive steam engines and crawlers plowed with an antique plow, historic construction equipment moved…
Stomping and squashing grapes while saluting the grape and farm wine industries in Kansas was an enjoyable tradition and spectacular sight to …
"We started banding earlier in the season so we wanted to eliminate any problems with flies and also, we are able to do this ourselves and not…
Livestock producers can get help with innovative livestock marketing plans and strategies during a series of free webinars offered for five we…
“We are on the cutting edge of being able to track how water moves through soil.”
U.S. farmers are growing more sorghum than they have in any year since 2015.
Barred rocks are easy to raise and self-sustaining. Jeremy Woeppel characterizes them as a “get down to business, I’m going to do my own thing…
Youth have entered 2,001 animals in the 89th Kansas Junior Livestock Show (KJLS), which will take place Oct. 1-3 at the Kansas State Fairgroun…
Six families will be honored at the Kansas State Fair with the Master Farmers and Master Farm Homemakers Award. Meet them here.
"It’s always a challenge to find the right balance of time for home projects versus having a fat enough wallet!"
Meet the Messenger’s newest Producer Progress Reporter, Carla Post.
The hands of a veterinarian hold the life cycle of an animal in their care. The mind, however, directs the hands.
For many hearing the term anthrax immediately brings to mind stories of people being poisoned via biological warfare. However, this disease oc…
The Masters of Beef Advocacy program managed by National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, a contractor to the Beef Checkoff, launched updated adv…
After morphing into a virtual program last year during the COVID-19 pandemic, organizers are re-energized about hosing the Husker Harvest Days…
Here's the latest update from our youth Producer Progress Reporter, Erin Oldemeyer: