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Farmers trying to save the Ogallala Aquifer seeing success DAVID CONDOS , Kansas News Service May 7, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail HAYS, Kan. (AP) — A few years ago, Stuart Beckman drove 65 miles with a neighbor to attend a wedding in Saint Francis in the northwest corner of Kansas. The two farmers weren’t particularly welcome. “They found out where we were from,” Beckman said, “and they just about ran us out of there.” Not surprisingly for this part of the High Plains, the trouble started over water. “We’re these dumb (farmers) that are thinking we can get by with an acre-foot o...

The two farmers weren’t particularly welcome.  “They found out where we were from,” Beckman said, “and they just about ran us out of there.” “We’re these dumb (farmers) that are thinking we can get by with an acre-foot of water and that's crazy,” Beckman said, recalling the reception he and his neighbor got in Saint Francis. “‘You guys ought to go back home.’” Beckman farms two counties away. And there, folks had formed the state’s first local enhanced management area, or LEMA, a 99-square-mile patch of northwest Kansas prairie where farmers set strict limits on ...

HAYS, Kansas — A few years ago, Stuart Beckman drove 65 miles with a neighbor to attend a wedding in Saint Francis in the northwest corner of Kansas. The

George Frazier: The University Press of Kansas must be preserved By George Frazier In late January, I received an email from my publisher, the University Press of Kansas, that an external consultant will conduct a review of the Press and put forward a recommendation to its trustees about how or if the Press will continue to operate. As a writer and armchair academic (I have a Ph.D. in computer science but work as a software architect rather than professor), this felt like one more 2020 pandemic-year kick in the gut. Four years ago, the Press published my book “The Last Wild Places of Kan...

What was the inspiration for starting a label? Dsqise: Initially it was being friends with and knowing so many talented producers that made amazing music but weren’t putting it out or sending it out. I would be in studio sessions or collab sessions or just have friends send me over demos, and I'm like, "Why aren’t you putting this out?" Much of the time they just wanted to focus on the music. I'm a graphic artist and co-own a small creative agency with the visual artist Mynus. It was around when QR started, as well. I knew we were able to make the artwork, create the ad images, size thi...