kansas: Kansas Farmers and Ranchers can opt for local FSA updates via email - 05/24/12 12:46 PM
Farmers and Ranchers in Kansas now have a more efficient timely option for receiving important Farm Service Agency (FSA) program eligibility requirements, deadlines and related information. We are now offering free online communications through our GovDelivery electronic news service. News will now be sent via e-mail right to your home or farm office or to your Smartphone – affording you immediate notification of farm program news pertinent to your agricultural operation.
QUESTIONS? – Contact your local FSA Kansas County office if you need help. Click here to access a Kansas FSA directory.
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kansas: Kansas Farmland Index update - 05/18/12 12:43 PM
Agricultural land values continue to inflate but at a more moderate pace. Low interest rates help as well as liquid farmers. Belief that above-average crop prices will persist helps fuel the rising land prices too. Creighton University’s latest Farmland-Price Index¹ eased a second straight month to 64.6 in May, from 69.4 in April. The May reading extends the land price expansion to 28 consecutive months. A reading above 50 suggests prices are rising. Bankers in the Creighton survey say land appreciation rates rose in Kansas again. The Confidence Index, which tracks bankers’ expectations for the rural economy six months out, eased slightly to 60.2 in May, from … (1 comments)
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kansas: Kearney County Farm Service Agency News Updates - 05/16/12 07:16 AM
Kearney County Kansas FSA (Farm Service Agency) Newsletter has several updates for farmers in the areas of Deerfield and Lakin Kansas. The following information is from their email newsletter for Kearney County farmers and from other USDA press releases and information sources. Contact the County USDA / FSA office with questions and to sign up for the newsletters.
Kearney County FSA Office 212 W. Santa Fe Trail Blvd. Lakin, KS, 67860 Phone: 620-355-7911 Fax: 620-355-6484 Hours: 8:00AM - 4:30PM Emergency Conservation Program (ECP) ECP is approved in Edwards, Ellsworth, Rice and Stafford counties for eligible damage cased by tornadoes and high winds occuring … (0 comments)
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kansas: Grant County Farm Service Agency News Updates - 05/16/12 07:13 AM
Grant County Kansas FSA (Farm Service Agency) Newsletter has several updates for farmers in the areas of Ulysses Kansas. The following information is from their email newsletter for Grant County farmers and from other USDA press releases and information sources. Contact the County USDA / FSA office with questions and to sign up for the newsletters.
Grant County FSA Office 524 S Main St Ulysses, KS 67880 Phone: 620-356-1744 Fax: 620-356-4157 Hours: 8:00AM - 4:30PM MILK INCOME LOSS CONTRACT (MILC) PAYMENTS MILC payments are availble for commercial milk marketings for February and March 2012. The production limitation for fiscal year 2012 is … (0 comments)
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kansas: Kingman County Farm Service Agency News Updates - 05/16/12 07:09 AM
Kingman County Kansas FSA (Farm Service Agency) Newsletter has several updates for farmers in the areas and towns of Kingman, Belmont, Cunninghma, Murdock, Nashville, Norwich, Penalosa, Rago, Spivey, and Zenda Kansas. The following information is from their email newsletter for Kingman County farmers and from other USDA press releases and information sources. Contact the County USDA / FSA office with questions and to sign up for the newsletters.
Kingman County FSA Office 1137 E 54 Hwy Kingman, Ks, 67068-1820 Phone: 620-532-3116 Fax: 620-532-1068 Hours: 8:00AM - 4:30PM FARM STORED FACILITY LOANS Farm Stored Facility Loans (FSFL) allow producers of eligilble commodities to obtain … (0 comments)
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kansas: Norton County Farm Service Agency News Updates - 05/15/12 05:41 PM
Norton County Kansas FSA (Farm Service Agency) Newsletter has several updates for farmers in Norton County. The following information is from their email newsletter for Norton County farmers and from other USDA press releases and information sources. Contact the Norton County USDA / FSA office with questions and to sign up for the newsletters.
Norton County FSA Office 11506 Pineview Dr Norton, KS 67654-3001 Phone: 785-877-5156 Fax: 785-877-2286 Hours: 8:00AM - 4:30PM ACREAGE REPORTING DATES May 31, 2012 – Deadline to Report All Small Grain Crops July 15, 2012 – Deadline to Report Spring Seeded Crops and CRP December 15, 2012 – Deadline to Report 2013 … (0 comments)
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kansas: Recent Kansas Land Values - 05/14/12 03:01 PM
A recent issue of LandOwner Newsletter magazine reports some values for Kansas land sales. In April a section of land in Kearny County Kansas that was under CRP at $40/acre sold for about $1,562 per acre. In May some dryland cropland sold at auction for $4,000 per acre with was a new county record for Thomas County and the land was located southease of Colby.
Many land values are not reported especially private-treaty lands sales. Kansas Land Brokers tracks the land market in Kansas and if you are looking for land values in a particular county then give us a … (0 comments)
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kansas: Bobwhite Quail Initiative in Kansas - 05/14/12 02:54 PM
Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism has a new initative that will help with decling bobwhite quail populations in Kansas.
Certain areas are designated including parts of Lyon, Wabaunsee, Coffey and Osage counties around areas like the Melvern Wildlife Area and the Lyone State Fishing Lake and Wildlife Area. Another area includes Labette and Neosho counties and also the Grand Osage Wildlife Area (formerly the Kansas Army Ammunition Plant in Johnson County Kansas).
The program helps landowners with enrollment cost-shares and assistance with the program. For more information go to
http://bringbackbobwhites.org/
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kansas: Wichita County Kansas Farm News - 05/11/12 02:55 PM
The May edition of the Wichita County Farm Service Agency Newsletter had news for area farmers including the following:
Feed Grain Maps Available for Pick Up - Producers please stop by our office and pick up maps to record feed grain acreages.
A new program tech has been hired.
Details about a down payment loan assistance program for new farmers is available.
Contact the Wichita County FSA office for more info or you can also sign to receive the newsletter digitally at http://fsa.usda.gov/ks or the Wichita County Farm Service Agency office at 612 W. Broadway Leoti, KS 67861-0340 Phone 620-375-2332
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kansas: Kansas Farm Service Agency help available if affected by tornadoes - 05/10/12 08:33 AM
USDA’s Farm Service Agency in Kansas announced that assistance is available for Kansas farmers that were affected by tornadoes and high winds in Edwards, Ellsworth, Rice and Stafford counties. The storms occurred on April 14 and 15, 2012.
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Cost-share assistance for farmers and ranchers to rehabilitate farmland damaged by natural disasters is available. The damage must be of such magnitude that it would be too costly for the producer to rehabilitate without Federal assistance. Practices approved in these counties include: removing debris from farmland; grading, shaping, and re-leveling measures; restoring permanent fences; restoring conservation structures or other installations; and … (0 comments)
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kansas: Bureau of Land Management Wild Horse Pasture Tour near Wichita Kansas - 05/10/12 08:04 AM
Kansas BLM is hosting a free tour on Saturday, June 9, 2012, of two wild horse long-term holding pastures in El Dorado, Kansas, located about 30 miles east of Wichita. This gives the public an opportunity to observe wild horses roaming in a pasture setting on thousands of acres.
Reservations must be made by June 1.
RSVP phone number: 866-468-7826
Pick-up location:
Walmart, 301 S. Village Rd, El Dorado, KS 67042
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kansas: Buying at Auction - 05/03/12 08:18 AM
Buying at Auction
This is totally off-topic for our usual posts relating to Kansas land. However, we recently finished a long-term project with a client and helped them sell many items in addition to their land. They had three self-storage units full of stuff where they paid for storage at self-storage business locations plus they had storage boxes on the land. We worked with them to sell their items on eBay and clean out the storage boxes on the land so they could be removed and the land would present better to potential buyers. In the course of this project which … (2 comments)
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kansas: Evaluate the market before your List your Land - 05/03/12 08:04 AM
I am sure everyone has heard over and over the saying location, location, location when it comes to real estate. That may hold especially true for residential and commercial markets but I think it less important for the land market particularly the rural, farmland, and hunting land sectors. Usefulness, Use, & Best Use are my replacements for location, location, location when it comes to rural land.
Before you list your land there are many factors to consider and Robert King’s recent post on LandThink covers preparation of the land in detail but one thing that is usually overlooked by sellers … (0 comments)
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kansas: Land Conservation: Buffers, CCRP - 05/03/12 07:49 AM
Considering conservation buffers on your land? The USDA has 250,000 or more buffer contracts with about 160,000 farms and ranches. They may be a good choice for your land and for the environment. They are also economically viable for most operations. The Continuous Conservation Reserve Program (CCRP) is one of the programs that provide financial incentives for farmers and ranchers.
Conservation buffers are areas or strips of permanent vegetation established around and in cropland. They are placed between surface water areas and agricultural fields. The buffers range in width from 40 feet to 150 feet.
What do Buffers do?
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kansas: Recreational Hunting Land for Sale in NE Kansas - 04/19/12 06:56 PM
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kansas: Sales Tax Rates in Kansas - 04/11/12 09:11 AM
The Tax Foundation relased a report with the Sales Tax Rates in Major United States Cities and Wichita Kansas came in on the list as number 66 on the ranks. The state rate in Kansas 6.3% and the local rate is 1% for a total tax rate in Wichita, Kansas of 7.3%
Anchorage Alaska came in at the lowest as zero percent and the highest was Montgomery and Brimingham Alabama at 10% total rates. Seattle, Washington and Glendale Arizona and Chicago Illinois were the next higest at 9.5% and Kansas City Missouri came in at 7.85%
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kansas: Dairy in Kansas - 04/07/12 12:23 PM
Kansas may be more well known for sunflowers and wheat but we do have a solid dairy industry.
There are about 400 dairy farms in Kansas. Each dary cow produces about 8 gallons of milk a day or about 3,000 gallons a year Kansas dairy farms proudce about 290 million gallson of milk every year Dairy is the 4th largest agriculture business in Kansas Nearly all Kansas dairy farms are family owned
Currently, the following are licensed or permitted in Kansas:
Dairy farms 410Milk haulers 177Milk tankers 84Tanker wash stations 2Dairy processing plants 12Milk transfer stations 8Single service manufacturers 8Milk and dairy distributors 68
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kansas: Farmland: No Marketing Quota for 2013 Wheat Crop - 04/06/12 10:33 AM
In a 1938 Act it required a marketing quota for the 2013 wheat crop if the total supply of the crop would likely be excessive without the quota, so the Secretary of Agriculture decides by April 15, 2012, whether a quota is needed. Based on projected supply and demand, no quota is required.
For more information visit
http://content.govdelivery.com/bulletins/gd/USFSA-38f3e0
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kansas: USDA update from Neosho County Kansas Farm Service Agency - 04/06/12 09:58 AM
Many deadlines for CRP enrollment and other programs are coming up across the state of Kansas. The deadline calendar for Neosho County is below.
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kansas: Kansas Farmland Index - 04/03/12 10:50 AM
The Kansas Farmland Index has slowed somewhat in 2012 compared to 2011 as shown in our chart. Blue bars are 2011 and 2012 is red bars. Will be interested to see how 2012 pans out for farmland values across the state.
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