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P.J. Sneed is a nurse at a hospital in Wichita, but only until the end of the June. That’s when he’ll quit to become a hemp farmer. “I’ve not grown a...
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Thirty-eight calves, between two and four months old, moo and kick at the dirt floor in a steel barn in Brush, Colorado. One by one, a handler leads them…
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Colorado farmer Steve Kelly brushes aside a small mound of dry yellow dirt to reveal a sugar beet seed that’s no larger than a peppercorn. It seems…
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In the small city of Fort Morgan, Colorado, 33-year-old Verónica delicately stacks cans of food into her mini shopping cart, strolling the narrow aisles…
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Cannabinoid Creations founder Scott Leshman pours samples of his signature soda flavor, Cartoon Cereal Crunch, at his booth for the annual NoCo Hemp…
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Wearing a heavy smock and rubber boots, Amadedin Eganwa stands over a large conveyor belt that’s carrying unconscious lambs. He faces east, towards Mecca,…
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Western Illinois might be close to the Mississippi and Illinois rivers, but it’s the driest part of the state this year.“We really haven’t really had any…
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This is just not the kind of news Kansans want to hear, but: Four of the ten most isolated towns in the United States are in Kansas.The Washington Post,…
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Between the time a cut of steak or pound of hamburger goes from cattle farm to grocery shelf, it more than likely passes through one of three companies:…
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In the summer of 2002, water pumps in Colorado’s San Luis Valley stopped working.The center pivot sprinklers that coax shoots from the dry soil and turn…
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The online retail giant Amazon announced a deal in June that showed its latest ambition: to completely change how America gets its food.The latest step…
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New data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show a new dimension to the urban-rural divide: death rates related to cancer. Cancer death...