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Friday, Aug. 21, 2026

National/International

What does Tyson’s shutdown of two US beef plants mean for grocery costs?
8/21/26 The Guardian
Glynn Tonsor, an agricultural economist at Kansas State University, said the US has had excess capacity for processing and packaging beef for several years now, and beef that would have been processed in Tyson’s Iowa and Utah plants will just be rerouted. “For the majority of the last 40 years, nationally, the US has had more capacity to harvest cattle than we’ve had cattle,” he said. “Anytime you have too much capacity, or ‘too much’ supply relative to what is needed in the market, that puts downward pressure on the margins in that sector. That’s not new.”

State/Regional

Kansans without tornado shelters could soon find safety in 3D-printed structures
8/21/26 Kansas Public Radio
Reese Greenlee is an assistant professor of architecture at Kansas State University. When he moved to Kansas, he said the lack of publicly available storm shelters in the state stuck out. Greenlee said while more than 20 million people live in manufactured homes across the country, architects have sometimes ignored them. They might not devote time to building important resources, like storm shelters, in these communities because they’re often in out-of-the-way locations or are perceived as “cheap” housing. “Unfortunately, manufactured housing has really been stigmatized culturally, and so architecture has kind of overlooked it,” he said. “That's where my research starts, looking at them as a significant American housing landscape.”

Local

K-State opens L. Eldon Gideon Agronomy Research and Innovation Complex
8/21/26 KSNT
Kansas State University celebrated the opening of a new facility yesterday with the opening of the L. Eldon Gideon Agronomy Research and Innovation Complex. The complex is part of a broader $210 million public-private project and aims to improve research in agriculture, sustainable crop production and protecting natural resources.