Calen Moore
Western Kansas reporter for the Kansas News ServiceCalen Moore covers the people, places and issues of western Kansas for the Kansas News Service.
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Western Kansas has the potential to capitalize on our region’s growing energy demands even as rural populations shrink. There’s plenty of land, wind and sun to be a center for renewable energy production. But skepticism is bringing these projects to a halt. -
From the Dakotas to Texas, wheat acres have been on the decline, due to higher temperatures, drought and farmers shifting to more profitable crops. New innovations could rejuvenate the state of wheat production. -
Kansas farms have expanded their operations and are now bigger than ever, which has led to an economic boom. But that also means fewer farmers, and that has contributed to depopulation in rural parts of the state that were socially isolated to begin with. -
Kansas has three carbon dioxide pipelines. Next, it could get two carbon sequestration wells, linked to ethanol plants. Here’s what we know. -
The Kansas Supreme Court has revived a challenge to a law that caused voter advocacy groups to cancel registration drives. -
Kansas State University will be sharing sorghum-growing strategies with farmers in Madagascar with help from a federal grant.
