Despite all the directions families are pulled today, parents are still the biggest influence on the food and meal habits of their children. Regular family meals offer not only nutritious and healthy food choices for family members, but also offers the benefit of quality time spent together.
We have had quite a wet year with rain falling so many times it all blurs together.
Most days I get to gush about books and suggest titles to eager readers but every so often I’m on the receiving end of recommendations.
While it is four weeks away, it’s not too early to start thinking about buying tickets for the inaugural Citizens Bank Bowl.
Even though we do not have a military base in our community, military families are in our own backyards. Every day, you may encounter a member of a Kansas military family. This person could be a member of your church, a student in your school, or your neighbor.
The antlers of one wild deer, as he aged. At 18 months he had three points, at age 2 1/2, he had four points. His third year, he sported five points on each antler. His fourth winter, he had larger antler beams than ever before but only three points on each antler.
The Kansas Forest Service and Kansas State Extension Service will once again be offering many species of trees and shrubs for sale for planting for conservation purposes. These conservation purposes includes windbreaks, woodlots, riparian planting, wildlife habitat and Christmas trees. Deciduous trees come as bare root trees only. However, evergreen trees come in bundles of 25 in both bare root trees and container grown trees. Prices for this year have not been determined but will not be much different than last year when bare root trees cost $17 per bundle and the containerized evergreens cost $45 per bundle of 25.
Awesome. Excellent. Wonderful.
With dry-land soybeans yielding nearly 80 bushels per acre and corn averaging from 150-210 bushels per acre, 2009 is a fall harvest destined to go down in the annals of farming history.
It’s funny, write a travel and tourism column every week for four years, seldom a word is said about.
The use of poultry litter as a substitute for commercial fertilizer is becoming more and more common.
Over the years I have often talked about the importance of correcting soil pH problems to maximize crop yields.
It took much patience, a lot of grinding of teeth, some hair pulling and several pounds of a fist to the table, but I finally graduated.
If the low temperatures materialize this weekend as predicted, there will be some serious reduction in yield in a large percentage of the soybeans in the county.
This is one of the weekend’s that no matter who you are, or what your interest is, chances are within 30 minutes of Pittsburg or Crawford County, you can find something fun to do.
It takes a community to prevent bullying of children. The fourth Annual National Bullying Prevention Awareness Week, Oct. 4-10 encourages communities nationwide to work together to increase awareness of the prevalence and impact of bullying on all children.
With the Kansas Tourism Conference just around the corner, there is still time to register online if local members of the travel and tourism industry are interested in attending.
Every year I get a lot of calls about controlling weeds in fescue pastures and this year is no exception.
