AGP Executive Report
Last update: 2 hours agoMeat Processing: USDA awarded nearly $4 million to 10 Kansas processors to expand capacity and improve market access, supporting ranchers and local food supply chains. Data Centers & Power: Unofficial advance totals in Lyon County favored Emporia proposals to prohibit high-impact data centers and large battery-storage systems; Americus voters were nearly evenly split on a data-center ban. The votes add to growing debate over the energy demands and local effects of new facilities. Farm Outlook: Kansas State cow-calf specialist Jason Warner urged producers to protect cows’ body condition through winter, warning that poor nutrition can hurt breeding results. Kansas growers can also get research and market updates at the Sorghum Connection meetings in El Dorado, Great Bend and Liberal in early December. Transportation: The $237 million Improve I-70 Kansas City project is replacing aging bridges and interchanges along a busy five-mile corridor, with completion expected in 2028.
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