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Agriculture YAHOO! Business videos Wheat farmers to focus on next year Hanaba Munn welch Times Record News Saturday, July 4, 2009 If farmers have a mantra, it's "There's always next year." After a disappointing harvest this spring, Texas wheat growers have already shifted their attention to next year's crop.

Hanaba Munn Welch/Courtesy Healthy heads of grain like this one were the exception rather than the rule across the North Texas wheat belt this season.

HAYS a ' Come fiscal year 2010, Fort Hays State University students will see a 7.5 percent tuition hike across the board.

PURPLE sweet potatoes could be the next cancer-fighting superfood, experts said yesterday.

A month or so ago, they were bright, shiny faces walking across a stage to get diplomas.

Faced with a struggling economy and a scatching athletic department financial audit, Kansas State University is re-evaluating a planned $70 million upgrade of athletic facilities.

A son of Sen. Sam Brownback didna t expect he would be watching a coup unfold when he signed up for an educational exchange program this summer in Honduras.

Harry Puett was reading a letter to the editor in The Topeka Capital-Journal on Sunday from Daniel Thompson about the theft of his bicycle when something struck a chord, Puett said Monday.

A Kansas State University researcher is studying the potential health benefits of a specially bred purple sweet potato because its dominant purple color results in an increased amount of anti-cancer components.

Dr. Louis L. Sherman of Lake Camelot was named recipient of Bethany College's first Lifetime Achievement Award.

Bob Haselwood inputs information into a computer before starting to spray his corn field in Berryton.

The news from Kansas State University reads like a Shakespearean tragedy. Two men, said to be "best friends, alter-egos, closer than brothers," came to a separation when it was found one of them for some obscure reasons, presumably unknown to the other, had been playing fast and loose with money from entities associated with the university - most ...

Girls typically are less physically active than boys, but a Kansas State University researcher has found that organizations like Girl Scouts provide an ideal setting to get girls moving early in life and to develop lifelong healthy habits.

Wheat harvest across Kansas has commenced. The Grain Science and Industry Department at Kansas State University has a new program that will allow interested parties the ability to track harvest and wheat quality as soon as the data is available.

Heres an idea for a science-fiction thriller: A virulent, mutating fungus capable of killing most of the worlds wheat crop begins to spread, threatening famine and economic havoc.

Robert Krause wore many hats at Kansas State University. The veteran vice president for advancement at various times ran everything from the athletics department to corporate spinoffs.

Call it a meeting of the minds - minds from universities, farming operations and agribusiness who will come together to learn and share about growing canola on the southern Great Plains.

Former Kansas State athletic director Tim Weiser said an audit released by the Kansas State Board of Regents is mostly accurate, but contended that no improper payments were made to him.

University leaders a ' especially the accomplished ones a ' enjoy enviable independence.

Dianna Wara of Washington, IL, has won the grand prize in the first-ever National Festival of Breads bread-baking competition, sponsored by King Arthur Flour and Kansas Wheat .