Author name: Eskarina Handley

As anticipated, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today published a new regulation clarifying the Clean Water Act’s Waters of the United States (WOTUS). As anticipated, the definition keeps the long-standing exclusions for farming, but it reduces the exception for previously converted cropland that was included in the Navigable Waters Protection Rule of the Trump administration. […]

Over the previous 40 years, Kansas and five other Great Plains states’ wheat yields were reduced by 4% due to the combined effects of unfavourable dry, hot, and windy climate patterns, according to research from Kansas State University published in the scholarly journal Nature Communications. The study, according to agricultural climatology professor Xiaomao Lin, was

As the new year approaches, the state of Kansas remains in the grip of a severe drought. Governor Laura Kelly has issued a drought declaration covering all 105 counties of the state, based on a drought map that places 67 counties in an emergency status, 11 counties in warning status and the remaining 27 counties