Podcasts about rural kansas

Welcome to BCI Cattle Chat! The show kicks off with Dr. Bob Larson updating listeners on a recent visit taken to rural practices by Veterinary Training Program for Rural Kansas participants. Dr. Dustin Pendell continues the show by asking the other hosts economic questions about cover crops in cattle production. The episode winds down with… Continue reading VTPRK, Economic Questions, Monitoring Cows

The Workplace Minute powered by H3 HR Advisors Sponsored by Paychex - one of the leading providers of HR, payroll, retirement, and software solutions for businesses of all sizes - learn more at www.paychex.com/awia. Hosts: Steve Boese Welcome to the Workplace Minute powered by H3 HR Advisors. A short, quick version of the popular HR Happy Hour Podcast, where Steve Boese takes on topics on Human Resources, HR technology, work, and the workplace. And more. In this episode Steve discusses how a rural community in Kansas is using incentives to entice remote workers to relocate to their community, continuiing a trend of remote worker recruitment by small towns and rural areas that began in the pandemic era. To listen to the Workplace Minute powered by H3 HR Advisors - add the Workplace Minute by H3 HR Advisors skill to your Amazon Echo device's Flash Briefing or Daily News Update. Learn more at www.h3hr.com and www.hrhappyhour.net

Western Kansas is projected to see large population declines in the coming years, but immigration may be the key to stemming the losses. The communities that have embraced their diversity have seen their population stabilize and the local culture shift. Plus: To stay open, rural nursing homes across the Midwest are prioritizing nurses.

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This week Russell interviews Dr. Nolan Andrews.  Nolan owns Main Street Implant and Family Dentistry in El Dorado, KS right outside of Wichita.  He talks about his initial dreams of moving down from Nebraska and starting up a DSO, but that quickly fell apart as he realized that he just wanted to own one office.  He worked with Mr. Dan Giroux for negotating his contract to buy his current office.   Russ met Nolan last year at Pathways and both share a love of technology.  Nolan shares how he's implemented August D'Oliveria's course from Pathway into his office for his All on X cases.  While August doesn't teach that specific course anymore, you can find out more about his course at the MOD institute which are fantastic as well.  Finally we talk about the fun of owning a dental office and how Nolan trying to shoo away a meth head lead to him discovering embezzlement in his office.

When the emergency room in Fort Scott, Kansas, closes next month, the next closest in-state facility will be 40 minutes away — and some patients may not make it that far. Mayor Matthew Wells says the closure shows the need for the Kansas Legislature to pass Medicaid expansion.

Fort Hays State University, North Central Kansas Technical College and Northwest Kansas Technical College have decided to face the challenges of declining rural population and businesses struggling to find workers — all at the same time. The regional university and two tech colleges have joined forces with a strategic affiliation initiative that aims to not only strengthen the institutions, but revitalize whole regions of the state.

Veterinary Training Program for Rural Kansas VTPRK and Soybean Herbicides Not for Livestock Feed Cool-season Lawns   00:01:05 – Veterinary Training Program for Rural Kansas: Beginning today's show is Tera Barnhardt and K-State's Brad White to discuss the Veterinary Training Program for Rural Kansas. They talk about the impact of the program for veterinarians and rural Kansas. Veterinary Training Program for Rural Kansas Kansas Living Magazine - Fighting the Vet Shortage in Rural Kansas   00:12:05 – VTPRK and Soybean Herbicides Not for Livestock Feed: Brad and Tera continue their conversation about VTPRK with how it can contribute to rural communities. We are then joined by K-State weed management specialist, Sarah Lancaster, and beef specialist, Sandy Johnson, with information about herbicides on soybeans and livestock. Check Herbicide Labels Before Using Soybeans for Livestock Feed Nitrate Toxicity in Drought-stressed Corn and Sorghum   00:23:05 – Cool-season Lawns: K-State Research and Extension horticulture agent for Johnson County, Dennis Patton, ends today's show with how to plant or overseed cool-season lawns.   A group of undergraduate students in the College of Agriculture here at K-State are collecting listener data from Agriculture Today for a class project. If you have time and are willing please feel free to take the survey at the link below.  Link to undergraduate survey on Agriculture Today    Send comments, questions or requests for copies of past programs to ksrenews@ksu.edu.   Agriculture Today is a daily program featuring Kansas State University agricultural specialists and other experts examining ag issues facing Kansas and the nation. It is hosted by Shelby Varner and distributed to radio stations throughout Kansas and as a daily podcast.   K‑State Research and Extension is a short name for the Kansas State University Agricultural Experiment Station and Cooperative Extension Service, a program designed to generate and distribute useful knowledge for the well‑being of Kansans. Supported by county, state, federal and private funds, the program has county Extension offices, experiment fields, area Extension offices and regional research centers statewide. Its headquarters is on the K‑State campus in Manhattan

Senior citizens who want to live in the same rural towns where they grew up face a growing problem ... how to get around. Unreliable transportation means many seniors have trouble shopping for groceries, visiting family and getting to medical care. However, there might be one solution.

Archbishop Naumann interviews Fr. Jaime Zarse, the former pastor of Sacred Heart in Sabetha, St. Augustine in Fidelity and St. James in Wetmor, and his team Annie Deters, Greta Heinman, and Gina Salman about their experience in cultivating an Amazing Parish. Amazing Parish is a movement in the Church that gives busy pastors coaching to form effecting leadership teams and improve the organization health of the parish, and then provides pastors and their teams the tools they need to transform their parishes—moving from maintenance mode to mission communities that are truly alive.    

Photographer Jeremiah Ariaz embarked on a journey across Kansas, capturing the newspaper offices that serve rural communities, and speaking to what their shrinking staffs mean for democracy in America.

Joel Leftwich, Kansas Farm Bureau's chief strategy officer, discusses the Rural Kansas Apprenticeship Program (RKAP) and how it could impact rural communities.

The Keystone Pipeline had to be shutdown, after an oil spill in northeast Kansas. AP correspondent Jackie Quinn reports.

Kansas is known for sunflowers, bison, farms and rural communities. But as our country and state grow ever more closely connected and urbanized, what does that mean for small towns and communities across the Sunflower State? Christy Davis, the Kansas director for USDA Rural Development, helps us answer that question.

Co-host Keith Mark lives in rural Kansas and a nearby consolidated school district is planning to meet tonight to debate transgender rules and policies. Many good parents are afraid to attend and voice their concerns. Uncle Ted has encouragement and advice for them and you! The Nightly Nuge featuring Ted Nugent S01-E235 - A Rural Kansas School District Is Set To Debate Transgenderism - 221010

Being a foster parent is hard enough, but being one in rural Kansas presents its own struggles. Plus, the wind energy industry is now facing a new challenge: what to do with old wind turbine blades when it's time to replace them.

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High housing prices aren't just for the cities: Rural Midwest towns are now dealing with a surge of new residents and higher real estate costs as a result. Plus, how Kansas City playgrounds are making the city more inclusive for kids with disabilities.

Homelessness in urban areas is often visible on city sidewalks or public encampments. In rural Kansas and Missouri, unhoused people often go unseen — and unhelped. Plus, Missourians voted to expand Medicaid in 2020, making government-provided health insurance available to tens of thousands of low-income residents. But the change could also mean more layers of bureaucracy for hospitals.

In Episode 15 of Lickety History, David Allan Rohrer details the extraordinary life of Gordon Parks. As a famed photographer among many other things, Parks ascended to brilliance from not so humble beginnings. Tune in and discover the life, trials and achievements of the legendary Gordon Parks.

Rural Kansas communities contribute greatly to the state’s economy and its identity. However, many smaller communities are struggling to thrive and survive. Researchers from 19 different states, including K-State Research and Extension child development specialist Bradford Wiles, are part of a project to work with rural communities to improve their health and sustainability. Sound Living is a weekly public affairs program addressing issues related to families and consumers. It is hosted by Jeff Wichman. Each episode shares the expertise of K-State specialists in fields such as child nutrition, food safety, adult development and aging, youth development, family resource management, physical fitness and more. Send comments, questions or requests for copies of past programs to ksrenews@ksu.edu. K‑State Research and Extension is a short name for the Kansas State University Agricultural Experiment Station and Cooperative Extension Service, a program designed to generate and distribute useful knowledge for the well‑being of Kansans. Supported by county, state, federal and private funds, the program has county Extension offices, experiment fields, area Extension offices and regional research centers statewide. Its headquarters is on the K‑State campus in Manhattan.  

Kansas lawmakers are nearing decisions on two big issues — Medicaid expansion and a constitutional amendment on abortion. They’re also talking about how to raise more money without increasing taxes. One idea is to legalize wagering on sporting events. We talk about all that and with Republican state Rep. Adam Smith, chair of the House Committee on Rural Revitalization, on this edition of Statehouse Blend Kansas.

Rural Kansas has a storied past. But as once-thriving towns continue to shrink — does it have a future? That depends on who you ask. In season two of My Fellow Kansans, host Jim McLean explores rural Kansas to discover what the future holds for rural communities across the state.

Rural Kansas has a storied past. But as once-thriving towns continue to shrink — does it have a future? That depends on who you ask. In season two of My Fellow Kansans, host Jim McLean explores rural Kansas to discover what the future holds for rural communities across the state. Our conversation begins October 18. Subscribe now.

Friday, November 5th, 1999.  Rural Kansas. At 4:20 PM, Camille Arfmann, 14 years old, steps off her school bus. She walks to the trailer where she lives with her older sister and her family. About 5:00 PM, a friend, Rose Meyer, stops by. She goes in the trailer and sees the teenager’s jacket and book bag inside the house. Not finding anyone home, Rose leaves. At 6:30 PM, friends stop by to take Camille to an activity at nearby Countryside Baptist Church. When there is no answer at the door, they leave. At 12:50 AM Saturday morning, the Jefferson County Sheriff receives a call reporting the teenager missing. https://www.thepitchkc.com/news/article/20615896/brothers-keeper https://law.justia.com/cases/kansas/supreme-court/2007/95396.html https://caselaw.findlaw.com/ks-supreme-court/1329300.html https://www.kscourts.org/cases-and-opinions/opinions/supct/2002/20020201/85735.htm https://www.innocenceproject.org/cases/floyd-bledsoe https://www.newspapers.com/https://newspaperarchive.com/ https://www.ancestry.com/ https://www.genealogybank.com/ https://www.findagrave.com/ https://www.kansascity.com/ https://www.atchisonglobenow.com https://www.jeffcountynews.com https://www2.ljworld.com

Correction: In the podcast episode, I  state Garoleen is producing 7,000 broilers. That was an error in my interpretation of her numbers. She's actually on track to produce 3,500 broilers on pasture in her fourth year. That still a fantastic trajectory and that growth is the point, as the numbers will fluctuate from year to year.  Pasture-raised broilers make a great side hustle, but when you're farming a niche product in a rural community, sometimes you need to think creatively and efficiently to make the business work. That's what Garoleen Wilson from Jhawk Farm in Kansas discusses on episode 89 of the Pastured Poultry Talk podcast. I first met Garoleen through my work with APPPA in 2016 as I was planning a cross-country seminar series. We had talked about potential seminar locations in Kansas. As luck would have it, we did not go to Kansas during that tour, but Garoleen did get involved with pasture-raised broilers. Her start in pastured poultry was heavily influence by a bout with uterine cancer. Cancer caused her to focus on clean eating and made her seriously evaluate what she was eating. Garoleen's story is one we see play out regularly through the pastured poultry producer community; as people seek better food, they often times turn to producing it for themselves and others. During her research, she found the Pastured Poultry Talk podcast and binge listened. She's since sought the comfort and wisdom of the pastured poultry community through APPPA has been steadily growing her pastured poultry side hustle ever since. Garoleen went from a few family hens to thousands of broilers by the end of her third year. By her fourth year, she's adapted the pastured model to fit her farm circumstances and create some of her own efficiencies. For example, Garoleen day ranges broilers inside a electric netting with regular flock moves to keep them on fresh grass. The day range model suits her time constraints and labor requirements. Mobile Brooder To reduce stress on the chicks when moving from the brooder to the pasture, Garoleen and husband Joe use a round, mobile brooder that can be drug from the brooder barn to the pasture. This eliminates the handling stress of crating, transporting, and unhandling. The brooder has a door that allows the hens to unload themselves. Check out this video from Jhawk Farm to see the mobile brooder in action. Handling Full Chicken Crates with Ease In the podcast episode, Garoleen made a few things clear. This is a pastured poultry side hustle, so she didn't have time to waste, and she's not getting any younger. These two points really punctuate the loading and handling of crates full of market-weight broilers. The practical solution? Use to rollers to move the weight onto the trailer instead of the legs, backs, and arms of the farmers. Garoleen and her chicken catch crew can load chickens into a stack of crates. Normally, each loaded crate needs to be lifted and carried onto the trailer. The physical exertion and wear on the body from moving chickens is a real health concern. To make the handling of full crates less work, Garoleen and Joe repurposed roller conveyors to easily move the stack of crates from the pasture shelter onto a stock trailer. Two tracks sit on the floor of the trailer beside each other. Another set of rollers connect the trailer floor to the ground. Crates are stacked on a piece of plywood to make rolling the stack even easier. After the stack is loaded onto the stock trailer, short blocks of wood are placed between the bottom crates to maintain air flow around all sides of the crates. At the processor, unloading crates is a one person job. Garoleen can roll each stack off the stock trailer and onto the processors unloading area in a matter of minutes. Watch the Wilsons load crates in this video: [video width="1280" height="720" mp4="https://pasturedpoultrytalk.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Crate-Handling-at-Jhawk-Farm.mp4"][/video] Advice for Future Pastured Poultry Farmers Garoleen encourages people to start small if they think pastured poultry is something they're interesting in pursuing. She's taking that advice in 2019 by raising just a couple dozen turkeys for Thanksgiving. Resources Contact Jhawk Farm - Facebook | Instagram | Website Named Resources: American Pastured Poultry Producers Association (APPPA) Crowd Cow High Plains Food Coop SWOT Analysis

Welcome to BCI Cattle Chat!  Please click on the links below to be taken to any sources mentioned in the podcast. Keep an eye out for news about our exciting upcoming guests on both Twitter and Facebook. 1:15 – Veterinary Training Program for Rural Kansas Scholars 5:28 – Cow/Calf Profitability 9:05 – Kansas Extension Master… Continue reading Veterinary Training Program for Rural Kansas Scholars, Cow/Calf Profitability, Kansas Extension Master Food Volunteers, In the News

I am in Furley Kansas, a two street town with a grain elevator and a church. The church is owned by Todd Matson, a successful artist who lives and works there. He grew up in the area and came back and bought the church building for a studio. We talked about his work, Furley, and a little about politics.

Rural Kansas, 1983

Rural Kansas, 1983

Rep. Don Hineman got a new assignment this session to figure out how to sustain rural Kansas. The three things the chairman of the Rural Revitalization Committee says rural communities need most: broadband, housing, and, of course, health care.

Lt. Gov. Lynn Rogers talks about  the Office of Rural Prosperity, which intends to grapple with housing shortages, financially struggling hospitals and shuttered businesses on main street. Priorities include boosting access to broadband services, expanding manufacturing jobs and driving tourism.

Welcome to Episode 38 of BCI Cattle Chat!  Please click on the links below to be taken to any sources mentioned in the podcast. Keep an eye out for news about our exciting upcoming guests on both Twitter and Facebook. 3:22 – VTPRK Alumni Meeting (Veterinary Training Program for Rural Kansas) 8:20 – Plastic Disease… Continue reading Veterinary Training Program for Rural Kansas, Plastic Disease is a Concern, Top 7 Records You Should Keep on a Cow-Calf Operation,When to Call a Vet During Calving, Agriculture Stories in the News

Deanna Scherer of Atchinson County Community High School Topics Discussed: -Serving a Rural Kansas community -Ag influence in the community and job outlook for kids -Keeping Rural Values -Ambassador Program (student leadership) -What Deeanna Is NOT good at! **Follow Deanna's Journey: @acctigers

In this week’s Strong Towns Podcast, Chuck Marohn interviews Corie Brown, the co-founder of Zester Media. Brown writes about food and the food system, and is a former staff writer for the Los Angeles Times, Newsweek, Premiere Magazine, and BusinessWeek. Earlier this year, Brown wrote a story for The New Food Economy entitled “Rural Kansas is dying. I drove 1,800 miles to find out why.” Brown is from Kansas originally, and was aware of the state’s long, steady depopulation, but was struck by a report that rural Kansas had become a food desert: an area in which residents do not have adequate access to affordable and healthy food.  “How can this breadbasket be a food desert?” she asks: Kansas, after all, is a state that devotes an overwhelming percentage of its land to agriculture. And yet much of the state is dotted with towns that have lost one-third, half, or more of their population in the last generation. It’s to the point that basic amenities like fresh groceries can be hard to come by. “There are no people here. Not enough to justify a delivery truck.”  The apparent paradox, Brown says, reflects the fact that Kansas has always had a commodity-based agricultural economy, not a subsistence one. The origins of Kansas’s settlement are not in family farms serving an immediate household and community, but in export agriculture, originally promoted by the federal government through grants of free land under the 19th century Homestead Acts. The carving up of the semi-arid Great Plains for intensive agriculture led to a slow-rolling environmental disaster that culminated in the Dust Bowl of the 1930s. The problem with commodity agriculture is that small farmers cannot compete with industrial-scale operations by making a higher-quality product. Says Brown, “A thousand-acre farmer in Ellis County, Kansas, is very specifically, directly competing with the government of China. Or the government of Brazil.” And the price that farmer can sell their wheat for is the price that the global commodity wheat market will bear. The result has been a relentless pressure to mechanize agriculture and improve efficiency, using less and less labor over time. Modern technology allows one farmer to manage a vast number of acres. The cost, however, is depopulation: fewer classmates for your children at school, and less access to culture and amenities. Thirty years ago, Brown, reflects, she was at a wedding in Downs, and it was a “quintessential small Kansas town”—there were people on the street, stocked shelves in the stores, a local newspaper. It was small, but active. “When I came back, it had lost a third of its population in 30 years. A lot of the store windows were blank.” Those business owners who were still around had moved their businesses out of store fronts and into their homes. Compounding rural Kansas’s suffering, says Brown, is that the state has a culture of bootstrapping—Kansas attracted people with nothing to lose. In a great game of musical chairs, “they all believe they won’t be the one left without a chair,” and pride can prevent people from acknowledging that they need help. Resistance is still strong in Kansas’s shrinking towns to the idea of dependence on government subsidies and assistance, or to the notion that the $1 billion a year that Kansas farmers already receive in federal farm aid even constitutes a subsidy. People work long, hard hours—“They’ve never worked harder”—and farmers who help feed the world don’t even grow vegetable gardens at home anymore, because they don’t have time. Marohn muses on the commonalities between this situation and inner city poverty: the food desert aspect, the long work for little income just to stay afloat, the isolation and lack of opportunity, and often the inability to leave if you wanted to—how can you sell your house in a place in the process of being abandoned? Who would buy it? And yet, most rural Kansans, both Marohn and Brown agree, would not see themselves as having anything in common with the urban poor. And while wealthier urban residents often look at the urban poor with empathy, they may not have the same degree of empathy for those left behind in depopulating small towns. Playing into this is Kansas’s own rural-urban political divide, in which the residents of the Kansas City suburbs who make up a large share of the state’s population are less attuned to rural priorities and needs, and may see rural Kansas’s politics as holding the state back. There are also the politics of immigration to consider. The only rural areas in Kansas to be gaining population are in the state’s southwest, where the meatpacking and food processing industries produce a lot of demand for low-wage labor, much of it provided by immigrants.  What can Kansas do? There are no easy answers. Marohn asks Brown about the possibility of getting out of the commodity-wheat game and into something like organic produce. But this not only requires learning to do something new, but entails high up-front costs in equipment and infrastructure, and proximity to a major market for such produce. “It’s not that they’re unwilling to task a risk,” Brown says of Kansas farmers who might go organic; it’s that they can’t afford to take that risk. Given the lack of an economic raison d’etre for many of these small towns, perhaps the question that remains is whether they should continue to exist. Do we try to pour in outside resources, Marohn wonders, to save places that can’t be saved? Or do we do the economic-development equivalent of hospice care for a dying town—make the quality of life a little better for those who are still there? Brown says that in areas where the towns are too small to provide services, the people living there need to regionalize their local economies. Where five towns are no longer viable, one larger town might be: it might have the critical mass to provide a school, a pharmacy, and other basic amenities. But there’s a huge amount of work and cooperation and sacrifice involved in doing this. “In a lot of these towns where people have left,” says Brown, “the people that remain mow the lawns of the abandoned houses and maintain the look, because they have pride in their town and they don’t want people to know.” This pride of place can be a uniquely human strength, but in the end, it may also be a uniquely human failing.