agriculture

Kansas crop progress and condition summary from the USDA for the week endig April 10, 2022.

Native grasslands in the U.S., especially those east of the Great Plains, which once covered millions of acres, have almost completely disappeared.

Wyoming crop progress and condition report for the week ending April 10, 2022, from the USDA.

Colorado crop progress and condition report for the week ending April 10, 2022, from the USDA.

Agriculture news and information from the Eads USDA Service Center in Kiowa County, Colorado.

Lamar-based Golden Plains Insurance Agency, Inc. has announced another expansion with the acquisition of Baxter Agency in Eads. The purchase was completed April 5, 2022.

Marilyn Baxter established Baxter Agency in 1989 to successfully serve clients across southeast Colorado from her office at 101 East 15^th Street in Eads. Golden Plains is also acquiring that building, and has hired Haley Reedy to continue providing exceptional service in Kiowa County.

Financial relief is coming to North Dakota farmers who were affected by last year's feed transportation costs.

The number of commercial and backyard flocks with confirmed avian flu increased by 36 percent in the past week.

At least two dozen states are seeing the bird flu virus quickly spread through commercial flocks on poultry-producing farms.

Artificially providing animals with food can affect the spread of diseases in two ways: It can dilute them or amplify them.