Three jam-packed weekends of rodeo activities are set for February at Kansas State University.
According to Brooke Wallace, K-State Rodeo Club publicity chair, the Kansas State Iron Woman competition kicks off the action on Saturday, Feb. 6, with a bull riding school on February 12-13, and the annual Kansas State University Rodeo is February 19-20-21. Continue reading →
What is the weather going to be like this spring, summer and fall?
How are the farm commodity prices going to react to those growing conditions, market demands in this country and export sales? Continue reading →
Concise, fast-paced, accurate outlook for agriculture will be presented at the four Farm Profit Conferences planned this year by 580 WIBW, according to Kelly Lenz, longtime 580 WIBW farm director who has coordinated the programs. Continue reading →
“There’s something about the outside of a horse that is good for the inside of a man.”
Although there’s controversy about where the philosophical comment originated, it’s been repeated often, and it is the general consensus of most who’ve had even little affiliation with horses. Continue reading →
“Oh, if those saddles could talk, the stories they would tell.”
More than four decades of accumulation literally stuffed the tack room, such we could hardly get in the door. Despite plenty of damaged and unworkable horse equipment, nothing had been thrown away, always thinking “we’ll need it someday.”
“There’s something about the outside of a horse that is good for the inside of a man.”
Although there’s controversy about where the philosophical comment originated, it’s been repeated often, and it is the general consensus of most who’ve had even little affiliation with horses. Continue reading →
“Tall in the saddle.”
An accurate family description came to mind during an athletic competition where our 6-foot-four, eighth-grade grandson was one of the tallest there. Continue reading →
“I’ve been farming forever; that’s all I’ve ever wanted to do.”
It’s in the genes certainly, as he’s followed family into the agriculture profession. His wife, her family and their children are an intimate part of operations. Now, best of all, likely, their son’s a fulltime farmer, partnering to keep Phelon Farms progressing further. Continue reading →
“He’s been a ride of a lifetime.”
In Texas playing with a grandchild, enthusiasm for her horse back home in Abilene, Kansas, was apparent through the phone lines. Continue reading →