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Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2026

National/International

America’s farmers are harvesting a bounty. Why are they struggling?
11/10/26 Christian Science Monitor
As a result, “a lot of the farmers are break-even or not quite break-even on the crop side,” says Allen Featherstone, an agricultural economist at Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kansas. “The thing that saved them, though, is the amount of government program payments that have come out.”

University and pet food industry partnerships drive research, train workforce
11/10/26Pet Food Industry
Lonnie Hobbs Jr., Ph.D., an assistant professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics at Kansas State University, said companies often fund research around a specific business question, whether it involves ingredients, nutrition, processing or sustainability.

State/Regional

K-State Extension Adding Services to Aid in Nutrition Education
11/10/26 KPR
Kansas State University is training extension agents to help health care providers increase their patients’ understanding about nutrition. Harvest Public Media reports that there’s a growing push in the medical field to inform patients about how nutrition can help combat diseases. The concept is called “food is medicine.”