Schlageck, John

   Think of farmers and ranchers and this old, often forgotten tribute comes to mind. It fits farmers like seed in the soil or...

By John Schlageck, Kansas Farm Bureau      It’s holiday time with Thanksgiving this Thursday and Christmas and New Year’s Day just around the corner. This...

By John Schlageck, Kansas Farm Bureau Quotations are like rare stones in rings of gold. They provide insight that can move, illustrate and entertain. They...

By John Schlageck, Kansas Farm Bureau   In a month the Kansas fields, hills and woods will awaken to the sound of booming shotguns and barking...

By John Schlageck, Kansas Farm Bureau One hundred forty-bushel dryland corn in Norton County? Impossible. Won't ever happen. Can't be done. Any Kansas grain farmer will never...

By John Schlageck, Kansas Farm Bureau Corn, bean and milo fields attract deer and other hooved animals like moths to a flame. Feedlots do the...

By John Schlageck, Kansas Farm Bureau It seems like only yesterday when I raced my buddies down the red-carpeted ramp of the Pix Theater in...

By John Schlageck, Kansas Farm Bureau My dermatologist recently shared with me a list of five ways to die on a golf course. The five...

By John Schlageck, Kansas Farm Bureau In case you hadn’t noticed, much of the state is mired in the “dog days” of summer. Excessive heat...

By John Schlageck, Kansas Farm Bureau “When you tell a landlord the wheat made 80 bushels-per-acre and you’re going to double crop beans on his...