Hi, I have filed for the National Farmers Union position of Vice President being vacated by Claudia Svarstad after serving so well for these past years. The election will be this coming March in Santa Fe at our National Farmers Union convention and elected on by the FU voting delegates of the nation. There are [...]
During last year’s legislative session, identical bills were introduced that would have made significant changes to the Agricultural Corporations Act. Hearings were held on HB2404 in the House Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources and on SB191 in the Senate Committee on Natural Resources, but neither bill made it out of committee. In May 2013, [...]
The 112th National Farmers Union convention will be held March 8-11 in Santa Fe, NM. Kansas Farmers Union members are encouraged to attend, as it will be a wonderful opportunity to meet and reconnect with National Farmers Union members from across the nation, observe the organization’s grassroots policy formation, and enjoy historic Santa Fe. KFU [...]
Below is part of an e-mail I shared with NFU president Roger Johnson about his participation at the KFU state convention and the Farm Crisis documentary. I felt this is something you-all should see, all too many of us remember those days…The young man who posted the Facebook piece is Matt Ubel from Wheaton, Ks. [...]
The sale of the Kansas Farmers Union building in McPherson went forward as planned, finalizing on Dec. 31st. Todd Whitehill took possession of the property at that time. Todd tore into the building even before the closing, remodeling the parts of the building we would be moving into, which wouldn’t be having major structural changes [...]
By Tom Parker MCPHERSON, KS - History has a way of repeating itself, which means that if military historians and strategists peer back far enough, certain precedents can be found to illustrate patterns and models useful for the prediction of the near-term future. Unfortunately, Dr. W. Chris King told members of the Kansas Farmers Union [...]
By Tom Parker MCPHERSON, KS- The early 1970s were good times for American agriculture, with expanded exports to the Soviet Union creating higher profits for producers, stimulating rural economies and revitalizing farm implement manufacturing. News from the agricultural sector was generally upbeat. Then, on June 30, 1975, Time magazine ran an expose piece entitled “Dirty [...]
MCPHERSON, KS- “Celebrating the International Year of Family Farming” was the theme of the annual Kansas Farmers Union convention, held Jan. 3-5 at the Ramada Topeka Downtown Hotel and Convention Center. Farmers and ranchers from across the state convened to discuss policy, climate change, the farm crisis of the 1980s and how its memory still [...]
