1) Women Supporting Women:  Women Only Tour Focus on Conservation and Farming Practices, by Mary Fund

2) KRC Launches Three-Year Farm to Fork Initiative

3) Where Food and Farming Meet, by Julie Mettenburg

4) KRC Launches New Website

5) Farm and Food Policy: Deja Vu for a Farm Bill Again This September, by Mary Fund

6) SNAP and Food Stamps – Why all the fuss about dividing it from the farm bill?

7) Federal Food Safety Comment Period Extended

8) Outside Voices Weigh In Re-draft of Cottage Food Regulations, by Cole Cottin

9) Feeding Hungry Kansas:  Our State’s Rising “Food Hub Movement”, by Cole Cottin

10) Finding Your Niche:  A Marketing Guide for Kansas Farms now available on KRC’s website

11) KS Corporate Farm Law to Undergo Judicial Review

12) Thank you to “retiring” staff, Dale Kirkham and Mary Howell

13) Women Supporting Women:  Tour Focuses on Women’s Info Needs, by Jamie Dysart

14) New Statewide Farm-to-Fork Hub to Support the Growth of Kansas Ag, by Cole Cottin

15) Briefs:

– Farm Subsidies Lead to More Water Use

– USDA Conservation Program Enrollment at 25-Year Low

– Cover Crops Boosted Soybean and Corn Yields in 2012 Drought

– Pesticide Use Spikes in Midwest

16) On Fishing and the Federal Reserve, by Mary Fund