Kansas News

An accelerated farmland sell-off at the end of 2012 has led to continued low supplies of premium quality property, according to Farmers National Company, the largest farmland and ranchland real estate company in the country.

A record-breaking heat wave intensified drought conditions in much of the West during the past week, with 72 percent of the land area in the 10 Western states now in drought conditions, according to the latest update to the U.S. Drought Monitor.

"The acquisition price is $28,800,000.00 to be paid through a combination of cash, stock and interest in the develop ment of the wells; .

You've probably heard that a massive system of storms is currently bearing down on the Midwest and expected to reach the mid-Atlantic on Thursday.

"Tornado tourism" may sound strange or even distasteful in light of deadly twisters in the past few weeks, but it's a thriving travel niche, and business is booming.

Jennifer Giordano poses in front of a tornado in Kansas last month. She has now taken two tours that give people the chance to get close to twisters.

The members of Associated Industries of Missouri are disappointed in Wednesday's veto of House Bill 253, the broad-based tax cut of 2013.

Showery weather continued in the southeastern corner of the nation on Tuesday, while wet and stormy weather rolled through the Plains and into portions of the Midwest.

AnnaLisa is a member of The Motley Fool Blog Network -- entries represent the personal opinion of the blogger and are not formally edited.

Source: www.ktvb.com --- Friday, May 31, 2013TOKYO -- Japan has suspended certain Wheat imports from the United States after a genetically-modified crop was found growing in an Oregon field.

Representatives of flour milling and food companies in Nigeria will visit Kansas and three other states in June to view this year's winter wheat crop.

A flash flood watch will go into effect for the News 4 viewing area Thursday as the region is expected to see heavy rain and some storms through Saturday, according to News 4 Meteorologist Steve Templeton.

The Storm Prediction Center says a severe weather outbreak is possible in the Southern Plains on Wednesday as more storms take aim at the area.

Large tornadoes are possible in a sizable portion of central and western Kansas, most of western Oklahoma and parts of northern Texas, according to the Storm Prediction Center.

Severe thunderstorms will move east-southeastward into Tuesday night, producing heavy rain, gusty winds, large hail and a risk of tornadoes.

The drought that ravaged the western Corn Belt isn't done just yet. Currently, 46 percent of the contiguous United States is in moderate or worse drought with the worst areas confined primarily to the extreme western Corn Belt and Southwest, according to the latest Drought Monitor report.

Danny Neal can scratch seeing an EF5 tornado off his list. The Evergreen Park storm chaser came within a mile of the "finger of God" twister before it entered the western section of Moore, OK, on Monday afternoon.

Gov. Sam Brownback also urged Kansans to donate money and not drive down to the disaster area to help yet.

The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America has made worship resources available May 21 in response to recent severe storms across the Midwest.

Samaritan's Purse is responding to a series of vicious storms that pounded the Oklahoma City area Sunday and Monday.