Tim Unruh

Michael Johnson, executive producer and producer, left, was impressed by Wes Jackson’s physical abilities during the filming of “Prairie Prophecy” near Salina, Kansas. (Courtesy photo.)
Central Region, Crops, Kansas, Other Crops, Soil Health

‘Prairie Prophecy’ places Jackson on perennial pedestal

For the ’whatisness’ of things is one of descriptions Land Institute founder Wes Jackson takes to heart, Tim Unruh writes. Read More

Hazel provides a soft backrest for one of her human pals, Colton Jacobson, at the family farm near Hope, Kansas. (Courtesy photo.)
Beef

Farm pets aren’t just dogs and cats

Credit is Nemanja Otic, Adobe Stock
Corn

Diseases cause worry ahead of corn planting season



Attorneys Kyler Knobbe, left, of Cimarron, and Paige Harding, of Dodge City, are practicing law together. (Courtesy photo.)

Kansas ‘built’ attorneys come home

Win Biologics sales representative Raeann Magill, left, and company owner Carolyn Wingate pose with the hot pink urea they sell to farmers. (Journal photo by Tim Unruh.)

Hot Pink fits for regenerative farming firm

This pail of irrigated corn from a north-central Kansas field, should produce a pleasing yield, but the price is so far disappointing. (Journal photo by Tim Unruh.)

‘Outside forces’ imperative for profit in good corn yields

A drone aerial photo of the Klosterman Feedlot Innovation Center. (Photo courtesy of Emily Hanson, of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.)

UNL delves deeply into cattle feedlot studies

An autonomous tractor/grain cart, controlled by a computer program, pulls alongside a combine that needs to be unloaded in a wheat field during a demonstration last month at AGCO Tech Day southeast of Salina, Kansas. The equipment is designed to fill labor shortages, save time and add to the bottom lines of farmers. (Photo by Tim Unruh.)

Media, investors see space age farm tech at AGCO expo

Improving soil health is a major focus of American agriculture these days, for its benefits in everything from growing food to sequestering carbon, and possibly playing a role in saving the planet. (Journal photo by Tim Unruh.)

Uptick evident in adoption of soil health enhancements

Lifespans of PTO shaft shields are among the issues with safety features on farm equipment, said Craig Stertz, co-owner of Lincoln (Kansas) Farm Supply. (Photo by Tim Unruh.)

Safety hazards still loom large on the farm

Lush wheat basks in the evening sun April 28 just north of Salina, Kansas. Local farmers say the crop needs more rain to yield well. (Photo by Tim Unruh.)

After spotty April rains, Kansas wheat still has the blues