Mark your calendar for the first annual Southeast Kansas Specialty Crops Workshop scheduled for Saturday February 15, 2020. Both experienced and beginning specialty crop producers from across Kansas are invited to attend. The workshop will cover production, marketing, and management…
About 20 people, including a couple crop insurance agents and RMA regional staff and area farmers, attended KRC’s farm tour at Scot Thelman’s Juniper Hill Farms north of Lawrence, Ks. on September 18. Thelman is a that rare bird—a first…
This fall and winter the Kansas Rural Center will offer the opportunity for to ten specialty crop growers to work with Kansas Farm Management Analysts to conduct and detailed financial analysis of their operations. Using the Finpak software, analysts will…
On September 18, K-State Research and Extension Douglas County, in cooperation with the Kansas Rural Center, will hold a farm tour and discussion at Juniper Hill Farms, 1547 N. 2000 Road, Lawrence, KS, 66044, from 3:00 pm to 4:30 pm. …
Over 100 specialty crop growers attended the six workshops held by KRC between November 2018 and March 2019. Training focused primarily on record keeping for business planning and managing financial risk. Additional workshops are on break until this coming fall…
The Kansas Rural Center (KRC) and K-State Research and Extension-Sedgwick County are hosting a specialty crop farm tour in the Wichita area on Monday June 24 from 1:30 p.m. to 4:45 p.m. on two area farms. The tour will start…
The Kansas Rural Center (KRC) announces the availability of its latest report, Lessons Learned from Specialty Crop Growers Across Kansas. The 42-page report is a compilation of five previously published profiles of successful Kansas specialty crop growers, plus the proceedings…
The need for more information and sharing successes spurred KRC to develop the “Linking Experienced and Beginning Kansas Specialty Crop Farmers to Share Information for Establishing Successful Enterprises” Project. In February 2018, KRC hosted a one-day learning circle of five…
Final in a series of five farmer feature profiles distributed by the Kansas Rural Center. By Jennifer Kongs Nina and Jeter Isely manage 1,100 acres in the Northwest corner of Kansas, where they run a diversified operation that comprises heritage-breed…
Fourth in a series of five farmer feature profiles distributed by the Kansas Rural Center By Jennifer Kongs Most specialty crop operations in Kansas rely heavily on direct-to-consumer sales. While several farmers are specializing and scaling to provide to institutional…
