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What happens after ICE comes to Kansas towns? Communities and the massive beef industry recover (opens the original)
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Western Kansans are piecing themselves back together and the massive beef industry is trying to regain stability after a week of immigration enforcement took towns by surprise. Immigration and Customs Enforcement made traffic stops in the towns and parked near meatpacking plants that support the region’s agriculture industry and rely heavily on immigrant labor. The main targets were larger towns with meatpacking plants, and surrounding towns with feedlots and dairy farms. That caused disruptions
After ICE sweeps Kansas, schools warn families of detentions and a meatpacking plant delays shifts (opens the original)
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LIBERAL, Kansas — After a heavy presence of Immigration and Customs Enforcement swept through southwest Kansas Tuesday, schools warned that some students may have family members detained and a major meat packing plant partially delayed shifts on Wednesday. The towns of Liberal, Garden City and Dodge City house four major beef packing plants, employing over 10,000 residents — many of whom are immigrants. City officials and immigration advocates witnessed multiple unmarked vans parked on roads nea
The Kansas dairy industry is growing, and it’s on the shoulders of immigrant workers (opens the original)
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Sometimes the flat expanse of corn fields in western Kansas are momentarily interrupted by a dairy farm. Over the last couple decades, Kansas has hopped on the dairy train and those farms are becoming bigger and more common. Major companies like Hilmar have set up shop, and with all the new investment, Kansas’ dairy industry could continue to grow. But that growth requires labor, and right now, the Kansas dairy explosion is being propped up by immigrants in mostly the rural western half of the s
Just like you, Kansas dairy cows need to beat the summer heat to stay productive (opens the original)
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For a dairy cow, the perfect day would consist of lying down for 16 hours chewing cud. At least that’s what dairy farmer Kyler Ohlde near Linn, Kansas, prefers to see when scanning his herd. But the summer heat has been intense recently, driving temperatures up to 110 degrees in parts of Kansas. That’s not just hard on the state’s human residents. It can take a toll on Kansas livestock under the blazing sun. As climate change increases the intensity and duration of heat events, dairies are havin
Pasta on the Plains: A new Kansas-grown wheat could soon be in your box of noodles (opens the original)
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Kansas farmers could soon play a role in spaghetti night or be the source of macaroni salad for the community cook out. More Kansas farmers are testing out a new breed of the durum wheat species milled into semolina flour used in pasta. Kansas State University released the new variety, and it’s coming at a time when wheat farmers need it most. The state has been such a huge wheat producer that it earned the nickname “The Wheat State” since Russian immigrants brought wheat to the Plains in the 18
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