After listening to Margot Gerritsen post Ethanol: Irrational Exuberance? I'm reflected on my own thoughts about this. One source says that one Ethanol Plant will use approximately 600,000 gallons a day, that's 219,000,000 gallons a year. Also, in comparison an acre of corn uses a million gallons a day...
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Going to the Kansas Sampler on Saturday in Garden City, Kansas. This festival is a diverse entourage of food, art, commerce, architecture, customs, geography, history and people from the small towns and rural areas of Kansas. Having all these communities from all over Kansas lets people know what business...
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My favorite News Channel KSN is finally blogging, well sort of. I wish they would of used a platform like Community Server so that we could scroll down through their blogs or leave comments to basically build a social network of news, weather and sports. This way Jim Kobe and his team could use the comments...
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A little over two hours east is Greensburg Kansas as I lean upon my car out in my driveway watching the storm Friday evening I could tell it was going to be rough. When you have lived in this part of the world long enough, you just naturally go outside and check the weather when you start seeing lighting...
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At the Haskell County fair at Sublette Kansas, both my daughters brought home some ribbons. My oldest Tiffany, age 10, won division champion for her self-determine project on weather and my youngest Ashley, age7, got third in showmanship and third for obedience for showing her dog –a Jack Russell...
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I was to graduate in 1977, in which school was hard for me. Let me go back to grade school in Satanta, Kansas, I was always having issues with reading and basic math and concentration on study was difficult. At the age of 10 or 11 (I am not sure as dates and times are still difficult even today), teachers...
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