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Rural high-speed Internet gets a boost

BY RICK PLUMLEE, The Wichita Eagle | July 4 at 1:33 a.m.

Dial-up is Jim and Brenda Dooley's only access to the Internet on their farm two miles outside the tiny town of Jewell in north-central Kansas.

  • Sun sets on family farm

    BY RICK PLUMLEE, The Wichita Eagle | July 2 at 6:40 a.m.

    PAWNEE ROCK — Mosquitoes and a hot summer day didn't keep Maxine Foster from going out to the fields this week to check on the wheat harvest at her farm in central Kansas.

  • Drought-tolerant seed could boost corn crop

    BY RICK PLUMLEE, The Wichita Eagle | June 25 at 1:34 a.m.

    A first-generation, drought-tolerant corn seed that Monsanto recently helped develop could increase yield in Kansas up to 50 percent, according to a Kansas State University crop ecologist.

  • Quality of wheat holding up

    BY RICK PLUMLEE, The Wichita Eagle | June 25 at 1:34 a.m.

    With harvested wheat pouring into grain elevators this week across Kansas' southern regions, the yields and quality are getting mixed reviews.

  • 2 deaths spur neighbors to help family cut wheat

    BY RICK PLUMLEE, The Wichita Eagle | June 24 at 8:32 a.m.

    Sometimes the best you can do for those hurting is cut their wheat.

  • Groups fight to contain 'cow tax'

    BY DINA CAPPIELLO, Associated Press | June 21 at 1:42 a.m.

    One contributor to global warming -- bigger than coal mines, landfills and sewage treatment plants -- is being left out of efforts by the Obama administration and House Democrats to limit greenhouse gas emissions.

  • Hessian flies sought for K-State research

    BY RICK PLUMLEE, The Wichita Eagle | June 20 at 3:32 a.m.

    Hessian flies, those pesky critters that can wreak havoc on wheat, are in demand. But not the way you might think. Jeff Whitworth, a Kansas State University crop entomologist, says research on the flies badly needs to be updated, and he wants farmers to get in touch with him if they detect an infestation in their fields.

  • Kansas crop better than expected

    Associated Press | June 19 at 1:41 a.m.

    Early loads of winter wheat coming into southern Kansas grain elevators show the spring freeze damage might not have been as bad as feared.

  • Custom cutters hurt by low wheat yields

    BY RICK PLUMLEE, The Wichita Eagle | June 19 at 1:41 a.m.

    Freeze, drought cause damage in Okla., Texas As custom wheat harvesters move into the southern edge of Kansas this week, they are feeling a financial pinch. Most have lost 20 to 25 percent of their work after drought and freezes wiped out much of the wheat crop in Oklahoma and Texas.

  • Rain, hail and wind are tough on wheat

    BY RICK PLUMLEE, The Wichita Eagle | June 17 at 1:39 a.m.

    With Kansas' wheat on the verge of being harvested, the weather gave the crop one last whack. Farmers were busy surveying their wheat Tuesday after Monday night's storm hammered the state's central areas with rain, hail, straight winds up to 90 mph and some tornadoes.

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