Q: How long have you been a wheat farmer and who helps you on the farm now? A: My husband Geoff and I are first-generation farmers, and we started the farm in 2008. I’m originally from Sterling, and I grew up on a hobby farm where we grew wheat and produced…
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Young farmer Kyler Millershaski talks about his family heritage on his three-generation farm in southwest Kansas. In what is now the kitchen of the family farmhouse, Earl Kleeman was born in 1930, the same year his parents bought their farm north of Lakin, Kan. His son-in-law Gary Millershaski…
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Wheat harvest is a stressful, rewarding and exciting time for farmers. There’s so many unknown factors that farmers have to work quickly. Wheat harvest is a very important time…
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Lynn Moore, a farmer from Pittsburg, Kansas, is one of the 25,000 plus female farmers in Kansas. She runs a fourth generation farm with three different companies where they grow corn, beans and wheat. Lynn Moore, a farmer from Pittsburg, Kansas, is one of the 25,000 plus female…
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Tony Alvarado grew up in Van Horn, Texas, a little town by the freeway, about 120 miles southeast from El Paso. He lived with his family – his father, mother and eight children: three girls, five boys – he’s…
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“When I go the grocery store and I see the Goldfish® on the shelf, I have a personal connection with that and wonder just how much of my flour might be in that particular box of Goldfish crackers.” How…
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It was a rainy day near Salina, Kansas as Justin Knopf climbed into his truck. He would be checking on fields today since the wet weather would delay fall harvest – again. “It’s days like today that kinda adds a little stress to that workload.” Farming forces you…
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Some people say that the family farm has gone extinct, that corporate farming has taken over and the traditions and farms of our grandparents are gone forever. However, at Kejr Family Farms that statement just isn’t true. The Kejr family not only cares about the land, but about…
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Just like many other high school sophomores, Amaya Ochs from Hamilton County, Kansas, likes to listen to music while cruising in the car with her friends and play with her dog at home, but most of all, she loves the her life as a young farmer. But unlike many others,…
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Michael Jordan from Beloit, Kansas, says his passion for farming began through family traditions. When he was six years old his dad let him sit on his lap and drive the combine for the first time, and from that day on he was hooked. “Being the…
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