Alex Millershaski stands next to a seed planter used for crops like wheat, corn and sorghum. In dry western Kansas, the sound of artificial rain spraying from center pivot irrigation sprinklers fills ...

Cotton isn’t king in Kansas, but it’s a fine prince for many Jayhawk growers. When Kent Dunn first planted cotton seed in his Moscow, Kan., sandy loam soil in 2002, 2-bale cotton at loan was $500 per ...

While experts recommend planting cotton from May 1 to June 5, Kansas State University extension agronomist Logan Simon said variables like germination rate, soil and air temperatures more ...

Several tractors with push blades work to shape a 50-foot-tall, 4 million-bushel, pile of freshly harvested corn that was being hauled in Hoxie, Kansas. The corn will be ground and mixed with other ...

While a few Southwest cotton fields flourished with yields to brag about at the gin, the majority of the region’s production suffered, from one weather extreme to another. From drought to start the ...

A handful of bullish Kansas senators bugged by a proposal intended to prevent beetle infestations that could devastate cotton crops bogged down a boll weevil bill late into the night. The bill, which ...

Western Kansas is running out of the water needed to fuel irrigated agriculture. Why is it so hard for farmers to switch to alternative crops? GRAY COUNTY, Kansas — In dry western Kansas, the sound of ...

GRAY COUNTY, Kansas — In dry western Kansas, the sound of artificial rain spraying from center pivot irrigation sprinklers fills the spaces between the small towns. Irrigation has turned this region ...

In dry western Kansas, the sound of artificial rain spraying from center pivot irrigation sprinklers fills the spaces between the small towns. Irrigation has turned this region into a productive ...