Get out your calendars and mark Wednesday and Thursday, Feb. 16 and 17 as the dates for the annual Farming Evolution event. Whether you look at regenerative agriculture concepts with a wary eye or fully…
A Custer speaks
Chip Custer and his wife are retired and living in Arizona. He has visited Monroe “countless” times and given public talks and has participated in Custer events. He is well aware of the most recent controversy surrounding his ancestor, Gen. George Armstrong. Chip wrote three columns for The Monroe News about his well-known name and what he thinks about the famous statue.
Today, Part I: Custer: A family of patriots
Sunday, Part II: The inconvenience of truth
Monday, Part III: Let the statue stand
My Dad would occasionally tell me stories about his fathers’ career. One day among Dad’s papers I found a short biography he documented about his father, Brice.
ESBON From No-Till on The Plains to the Kansas Grazing Lands Coalition, farmers and ranchers in Kansas are practicing and learning about soil health. The newly formed Kansas Soil Health Alliance is a non-profit organization that will serve as a digital library and education repository. We re kind of a database/library, said board member Cade Rensink, a fifth-generation rancher in Minneapolis.
Rensink, who also works for K-State Research & Extension as the director of the Central Kansas District in Saline and Ottawa counties, said board members of the newly formed non-profit will also offer knowledge and mentoring. Soil health is important for a number of reasons, Rensink said. Society, in general, is paying more attention to how food is grown.