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Ag Blogs -
Bill Spiegel
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Thursday, 16 August 2012 09:04 |
 I love mowing the yard at the farm. It gives
me my mind a chance to wander, to think about things: the farm, the
family, work. Some folks think of mowing as drudgery; I look at it as
opportunity: the more I have to mow, the more it has rained and thus,
increased potential for spring-planted crops to thrive. |
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Ag Blogs -
Bill Spiegel
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Wednesday, 23 May 2012 08:12 |
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For the state’s wheat famers, Pay Day is just about here. |
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Ag Blogs -
Bill Spiegel
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Wednesday, 09 May 2012 07:52 |
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The Kansas wheat crop is marching
backwards in productivity, thanks in part to the impact of long-term
drought in southwest Kansas. |
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Ag Blogs -
Bill Spiegel
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Tuesday, 24 April 2012 15:16 |
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Soon, custom harvest crews will
descend upon Texas to begin a four- to five-month trek of moving north
across The Wheat Belt, harvesting the wheat that feeds this nation and
many others. |
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Ag Blogs -
Bill Spiegel
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Wednesday, 04 April 2012 14:07 |
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Wheat looks good, doesn’t it?
It’s still a long way until harvest, but… |
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Ag Blogs -
Bill Spiegel
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Thursday, 12 May 2011 09:05 |
 Two recently completed tours of the Kansas wheat crop confirm what farmers have suspected for some time: the 2011 crop could be one of the worst in many years.
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Ag Blogs -
Bill Spiegel
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Friday, 11 March 2011 12:40 |
Not more than a mile from where thousands of wheat, corn, soybean and sorghum farmers have gathered for the annual Commodity Classic in downtown Tampa, Florida, another segment of America's food industry was represented at Tampa's Downtown Market.
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Ag Blogs -
Bill Spiegel
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Friday, 03 September 2010 07:58 |
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On behalf of the wheat farmers of Kansas, I would like to point a dramatic error in the Associated Press article entitled "Scientists: We've cracked wheat's genetic code," which appeared in many Kansas newspapers. The article states that a British team of scientists has "decoded the genetic sequence of wheat" and implies that this information is equivalent to the genome sequences available for the rice, maize, soybean, and the human genomes. |
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