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Jon Szajnuk, who sells bread on weekends at the Brookside Farmers Market, is quickly outgrowing his Kansas City home and looking to move into a full bakery. Szajnuk sources his flours from West Bottoms business Marion Milling, which works directly with local farms.

Plus, instances of freeze damage, disease

Estimates reflect northern and western areas appraised by scouts.

Oklahoma farm shifts focuses on end product and the grower is encouraged by the result, which took creative planning.

25 years ago this week — 1999

As founder and owner of Willow Creek Farms Pantry, DeWitt sells 3-pound bags of stoneground flour made from two Oklahoma State University wheat varieties, Butler’s Gold and Big Country, a

William Johnson’s big Suburban bumps along the gray dirt road winding through his farm at 7161 US 521 in Salters. He points out the two Tennessee Walker horses grazing in

Bernard Warkentin couldn’t have known that when he planted wheat in central Kansas in 1874 he was sowing Kansas’ legacy as the Wheat State. Allegedly, Warkentin was the first to plant Turkey Red wheat, a hard winter variety that was well conditioned to the Kansas climate and soils. Born in 1847 in what’s now Crimea, Warkentin came to the United States in 1871 with other German- Mennonites fleeing Russian persecution. He chose to settle in Halstead, which in many important ways, like temper...

Joe Peeper gets a gleam in his eye whenever he sees the distinctive color combination of flambeau red, desert sunset and battleship gray or the metal insignia of Old Abe, the American eagle mascot that embellished every Case tractor in the early days before the company merged with International Harvester. 

When Target is completely sold out of Christmas lights, and a little dusting of snow tickles the flatirons, one can deduce that it’s officially the season of giving. Which essentially means – for all of the procrastinators out there, at least – that it’s the season of last-minute holiday shopping. If shopping for presents stresses […]