Representatives from the Kansas Department of Agriculture celebrated Kansas Ag Day at the Kansas State Capitol on March 18. (Courtesy photo.).

KDA celebrates Kansas Ag Day

Wichita State Professor Darren DeFrain has been awarded $150,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities to further develop Vizling, a smartphone app that allows visually impaired people to read materials rich in visual content. (Courtesy photo.)

App unlocks new frontier in storytelling

Journal photo by Dave Bergmeier.

Cattle herd shrinks, prices go higher

Manual planting of potatoes in the ground. Early spring preparation for the garden season. (iStock │ #1459660565 - OLEKSANDR KOZACHOK)

Time to plant potatoes in Kansas

A bull takes in the western Nebraska snowy landscape. (Photo by Hannah Smith.)

Winter’s bite certainly felt in February

The U.S. Drought Monitor is jointly produced by the National Drought Mitigation Center at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration. (Map courtesy of NDMC.)

Limited swaths of precipitation hit Plains

Konza Prairie Fires (Photo: K-State Research and Extension)

Prescribed fire season starts in Flint Hills

Man walk in park outdoors. (iStock │ #1144757222 - VTT Studio)

Walk Kansas registration opens March 4

  • By Pat Melgares │ K-State Research and Extension news service