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…
By Charity Horinek We often hear how Kansas farmers feed the world, but for Ellen Mohler, that cliché wasn’t enough. “They always say, ‘We feed the world, we feed 155 people,’ but we aren’t even feeding our neighbors. We don’t…
By Charity Horinek Visit a Mexican restaurant in Southwest Kansas, and you will most likely eat tortilla chips that were grown and produced nearby, thanks to the Winfrey family of Plains. Since 2001, Leon and Nancy Winfrey and son Dustin…
Photo above: The Janssens rely on right-sized equipment for their smaller, urban vegetable plots, including a sprayer wagon for pesticide applications and a trailer for harvesting and hauling pumpkins and melons. Third in a series of five farmer feature profiles…
Second in a series of five farmer feature profiles distributed by the Kansas Rural Center By Jennifer Kongs Frank Gieringer was raised in Edgerton, Kansas, and started farming outside of town when he graduated from high school. “I started with…
