Kansas News

Manhattan, Kansas - Ranchers continue to recover from wildfires that began March 6 and swept through an estimated 1.5 million acres in Texas, Kansas, Oklahoma...

Wichita, Kan. - (March 13, 2017) -- Sand County Foundation, the Kansas Association of Conservation Districts (KACD) and the Ranchland Trust of Kansas (RTK)...

MANHATTAN, Kan. ­­— In February 2017, the Kansas Department of Agriculture sponsored seven Kansans in an agricultural trade mission to AgroFarm Russia to expand...

Manhattan: Kansas Farm Bureau’s VOTE FBF (Voters Organized To Elect Farm Bureau Friends) has received overwhelming recommendations from counties in the Kansas 4th Congressional District...

​Organic matter is a good way to improve garden soil as it improves a heavy soil by bettering tilth, aeration and how quickly the...

Before you begin spring landscaping, here are some tips on planting trees. 1. Select the right tree for the site. To avoid serious problems, choose...

Turfgrasses differ in their capacity to grow in shade. Among Kansas turfgrasses, tall fescue is the best adapted to shade though it isn’t all...

Growers of apricots and peaches often wonder at what temperature fruit buds are killed especially in years where we have an early spring.  These...

If you haven’t removed last year’s growth from asparagus plants, now is the time. Asparagus comes up around the first of April in Manhattan...

The best time to control weeds in asparagus is early spring before the asparagus emerges. A light tilling (or hoeing) that is shallow enough...