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enter pivot irrigation sprinklers water a wheat field in Finney County. 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 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 of water and that's crazy,” Beckman said, recalling the...

/ Center pivot irrigation sprinklers water a wheat field in Finney County, 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 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 of water and that's crazy,” Beckman said, recalling the receptio...

David Condos, Kansas News Service 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 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 of water and that’s crazy,” Beckman said, recalling the reception he and his neighbor got in ...

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