Latest News From Kansas

The Missouri Legislature is sending a tax credit for cattle ranchers and slaughterhouses to the governor for approval.

Regional economic development officials thought it was the perfect spot for a chicken processing plant that would liven up the 400-person town with 1,100 jobs, more than it had ever seen. When plans leaked out, though, there was no celebration.

The derailment of an Amtrak passenger train last month in Kansas that injured more than two dozen people occurred at a site where there had been damage to the track that has been traced to a grain truck, federal authorities said Thursday.

More than $170,000 has been donated to help ranchers in Kansas and Oklahoma who were affected by the Anderson Creek Fire. In addition to the monetary donations, there have been convoys of hay, pallets of T-posts and lots of labor donated to assist fellow cattle producers.

Efforts are underway by industry groups to assist those livestock producers who are in need of help after the devastating Anderson Creek Fire.

The devastating fire caused evacuations of several communities, herds of cattle have been corralled for safety and a state of disaster emergency has been put in place for Kansas.

When Mark Gardiner looks across his pastures here on the southern Kansas plains, he doesn't see the average bull. These animals are superstars.

A truck used to deliver feed to a business where cattle are fattened hit a train track and shifted it at least a foot before an Amtrak train derailed in southwest Kansas and injured at least 32 people, an investigator said Tuesday.

Native bluestem pasture in Kansas has fallen in price the last two years for many producers renting grass, but the rates are still significantly higher than six years ago.

Kansas Gov. Brownback performs ceremonial ribbon cutting for the nearly $50 million investment.

Public access to nearly 2,500 acres of the Cimarron National Grassland has been halted after seven cattle were found dead last year.

A Greenwood County seedstock cattle producer and a Clark County rancher and farmer have been elected to serve as officers for the Kansas Livestock Association (KLA). 

Rancher Bill Edwards is fighting an enemy that threatens to overrun his Flint Hills pastures, robbing his cattle of nutritious grasses and leaving the meadowlarks, box turtles, bobwhite quail and other wildlife in the same native prairies without suitable habitat.

Health-conscious consumers might be persuaded to eat more beef if it was fortified with heart-healthy omega-3 fatty acids naturally found in salmon and walnuts, according to researchers and some ranchers who are feeding cattle flaxseed — even marine algae — with an eye to offering another wholesome dinner choice.

Kansas cropland values are slipping, but pasture values up nearly 7 percent.

In less than a month feedlot cowboys from across the country will be gathering in Wichita, Kan. to learn about best management practices and animal welfare.

Kansas State University in cooperation with Merck Animal Health recognized Roy Browning of Deseret Cattle Feeders as the recipient of the “Top Hand” award at the 2015 K-State Cattle Feeders College held May 14 in Scott City, Kansas.

Taking a unique approach to creating a collaborative, low-stress, and high-performance workplace environment, the Beef Cattle Institute (BCI) at Kansas State University brought together beef industry leaders for training focused on the performance mindset.

Drenching rains that recently soaked the Great Plains have brought welcomed moisture to areas still recovering from droughts, greening pastures as ranchers begin the annual rite of moving cattle to the nation's summer grazing lands.

Consumers should understand marketing claims on meat products to make informed purchasing decisions.

Renowned Texas horseman Joe Wolter will be the featured speaker.

It's the night before an auction, and cattle are beginning to arrive. Manhattan Commission Company in Manhattan, Kan., already smells like livestock - it always does - but the back lot is also about to get loud.

This wide-open grassland is still a cowboy tradition, just like it was during settlement more than 130 years ago.

The possible national designation of two Kansas cattle trails is a step closer to reality.

The first year of the Sunflower Supreme Replacement Heifer program was a success.

Calling in cattle for a little feeding and counting can be done in many ways, but Kansas cattle producer Derek Klingenberg has one of the more unique cattle calls.

Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt and the Kansas Department of Agriculture have entered into a joint agreement to increase the state’s efforts to combat cattle theft, the agencies announced Monday.

A Kansas livestock expert is urging farmers and ranchers to take precautions against rustlers as historically high cattle prices make the animals a prime target for thieves.

Life is good again — or at least far better — for those cattle producers who survived the long, devastating drought that decimated the nation's beef cow herd and shriveled pastures across a wide swath of the country.

A deal has been reached in the lawsuit against National Beef by workers at its Liberal, Kansas, packing plant.

One would hardly know from Republican Sen. Pat Roberts' campaign speech that he is revered as a champion of Kansas' all-important farm economy.

Kansas Department of Agriculture seeks participants for South American beef genetics trade mission trip.

Kansas Department of Agriculture joins with Costa Rican cattlemen to increase exports and build industry.

A shuttered Kansas processing plant that produced a treated ground beef product critics dubbed "pink slime" plans to reopen next week with limited operations amid rebounding sales.

The conference will take place in six meetings at various locations across Kansas.

Irrigation transformed this region known by early explorers as the Great American Desert into an oasis of sorts. In an area of limited rainfall and surface water availability, the Ogallala allowed farmers to grow corn, which attracted cattle feedlots, then meatpacking plants, ethanol plants and dairies. Now the nation's largest freshwater aquifer is starting to run dry.

A new report shows the number of cattle in Kansas feedlots is down 2 percent for the lowest June inventory since 1999.

A nonprofit group that supports small and family farms in Kansas is trying to build support for a meat processing facility and food hub project in the eastern part of the state.

Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback announced Tuesday that he is pushing the federal government to assume some costs for protecting the lesser prairie chicken.