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PDF DOWNLOADS

Clean Water Farms Project

• Introduction
• Purpose
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Clean Water Farms Participant Profiles: (<500K file size each)

Kansas Rural Center Publications

Rural Papers

• Aug-Oct 2006
• Nov-Dec 2006
• Jan-Feb 2007 (2.3 megs)
• Mar-May 2007
• June-July 2007 (1.7 megs)
• Aug-Sep 2007 (4.9 megs)
• Oct-Nov 2007 (6.3 megs)
• Dec 2007 (4.5 megs)
• Jan-Feb-March 2008 (1.6 megs)
• April-May-June 2008  (4.7 megs)
• July/August/September 2008  (2.2 megs)
• October/November 2008  (3.4 megs)
• December 2008  (2.1 megs)

Sustainable Agriculture Guides (<900K file size each, unless otherwise marked)

• Alfalfa
• Austrian Winter Peas
• Birdsfoot Trefoil
• Brassicas
• Buckwheat
• Cover crops
• Cowpeas
• Cooking Demonstrations at Farmers Markets
• Crabgrass
• Crop Rotation
• Developing a Mission Statement for Your Farm Management Guide
• Direct Marketing Lamb
• Direct Marketing Pasture Poultry Products
• Family Business Meetings
• Family Farm Business Management Guide
• Farmer Clusters
• Game Bird Release Hunting Enterprise Budget
• Marketing Grass-fed Beef
• Hairy Vetch
• Lespedeza
• Management Intensive Grazing Resources
• Marketing Organic Grain
• Marketing the Market
• Organic Cropping
• Pasture Farrow-to-Finish Hogs Enterprise Budget
• Pasture Poultry Enterprise Budget
• Preparing to Pass On the Farm to the Kids
• Red Clover
• Risk Management
• Romance vs. Reality - Hard Lessons Learned in a Grass-Fed Beef Marketing Cooperative  (1,038K)
• Rules, Regulations and Resources for Farmers Markets in Kansas (1,390K)
• Rye
• Sweet Clover
• Weed Management

Other Publications

PowerPoint presentation of Rhonda Janke at May 31, 2008 conference on "The Future of Food in the Kansas River Valley" in Lawrence, Ks. 3.1 meg pdf file

PowerPoint presentation of Scott Allegrucci at May 31, 2008 conference on "The Future of Food in the Kansas River Valley" in Lawrence, KS. 5.7 meg pdf file

Presentation outline of Ken Meter at May 31, 2008 conference on "The Future of Food in the Kansas River Valley" in Lawrence, Ks. (160K)

  For Ken Meter's complete PowerPoint presentation, please click the icon,
but beware, the file size is 17.4 megs.  Even on a DSL or cable connection, this can take awhile to download.  For best results, right-click the link (on a PC, or Command+Click on a Mac) and choose the "save as" option to download a copy to your hard drive.

Comments of KRC, the Eastern Kansas Chapter of the Organic Crop Improvement Association, and the Farmer to Farmer Campaign on Genetic Engineering re: Ventria's proposal to grow pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (81K)

Midwest Sustainable Agriculture Working Group and Sustainable Agriculture Coalition member directory - May 2003 (96K)

Kansas Country Living Guidelines (845K)

River Friendly Farm Environmental Assessment Tool (749K)

2007 Virtual Farm Tour of Value Added Enterprises in Northeast Kansas (1.1 megs)

Virtual Farm Tour of the Oren Long Farm (1.9 meg)

2006 Virtual Farm Tour of Value Added Enterprises in Northeast Kansas (4.2 megs)

Subscribing to Change - Starting and Sustaining a Vegetable Subscription Service
(8.7 megs)

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