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GreenField Robotics started in 2018 and recently received an investment from Chipotle’s $100 million venture capital fund.
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City councilmembers now will consider whether to make the chicken rules permanent and whether to reduce or drop the minimum land requirement. Overland Park's animal control department noted there have been no documented complaints on properties with chicken permits since the pilot began in March 2022.
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The United Nations has declared 2023 the International Year of Millets — a type of small grain mostly grown in parts of Asia and Africa. The highly resilient and cost-friendly grains could make them the next crop for U.S. farmers in the midst of climate change.
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The Land Institute’s annual Prairie Festival has been described as an Earth Celebration and an intellectual hootenanny. Lu Anne Stephens attended this year and reports for this month’s Hidden Kansas.
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Drought is taking its toll on western Kansas cornfields this year. And all that dead corn could mean higher prices for products that depend on the state's grain supply, such as ethanol-infused gasoline and corn-fed beef.
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For decades, corn detasseling was a customary summer job for teenagers in Nebraska and the rest of the Corn Belt. In recent years, however, agriculture companies are relying more on migrant labor to do this work through a visa program meant to supplement the local workforce.
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The water in the Ogallala aquifer is worth billions of dollars to western Kansas, but it’s rapidly disappearing. And it's been a challenge to find ways to slow the depletion.
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Rising cropland values could both hurt and help Kansas farmers as general inflation already adds uncertainty to 2022.
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The state's Farm to School initiative pairs Kansas family farms with school districts that want to buy food for student meals. But pandemic-related uncertainty about the coming school year makes it harder to form those connections.
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A task force is asking Kansas ranchers to take an online survey to find out where the shortage is most severe.