The Association of Equipment Manufacturers reports that retail sales of farm tractors and combines have grown in January in the United States.

President Otto Molina Perez also has ordered the release of more than $14 million to aid coffee growers.

The Kansas Geological Surveys says water levels in the Ogallala aquifer have dropped significantly in sections of Kansas since last year.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is holding a public meeting in southwest Kansas on the proposal process for listing the lesser prairie chicken as a threatened species.

A program begun in 2011 to persuade people to live in rural Kansas is having some success.

A public meeting is scheduled Monday to discuss ways to protect the lesser prairie chicken.

Officials anticipate that repairs to it and other levees along the 2,341-mile river will wrap up this spring.

Kansas congressman Kevin Yoder is the new vice chairman of the U.S. House Appropriations subcommittee on agriculture.

A new report says January's limited moisture across most of Kansas has caused the winter wheat crop to deteriorate.

The Kansas Water Authority is expected to hear an update on the drought at its meeting this week.

The Douglas County Food Policy Council says a "food hub" would link farmers to institutions like schools, hospitals and restaurants.

The Kansas Department of Agriculture says the laws create barriers to growth in agriculture.

The company says workers at the Plainview plant will be laid off February 1.

Each theft causes about $10,000 in damage.

Gov. Sam Brownback's administration appears ready to ask Kansas legislators to repeal state laws that restrict the involvement of corporations in farming.

A new owner plans to reopen an ethanol plant in Pratt that's been closed since 2008.

Kansas farmers planted 9.3 million acres of wheat last fall for harvest in 2013. That is down 2 percent from the 9.5 million acres planted in the state the previous year.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has declared drought disasters in all but one Kansas county.

Doniphan County is the only Kansas county that did not receive a federal disaster declaration.

The accident happened at the Dillwyn Elevator in St. John around 1 p.m. Thursday.

Holiday storms that pounded much of the nation with snow and rain did little to ease the overall grip of the worst U.S. drought in decades.

The fate of the Farm Bill after its one-year extension by Congress will be examined this month at a gathering of the major farm commodity groups in Kansas.

The storms that recently covered parts of the U.S. with snow won't be enough to ease the nation's drought.

Department of Homeland Security officials have signed a land transfer agreement that will allow for the construction of a new federal animal research lab near Kansas State University in Manhattan.

The condition of the Kansas winter wheat crop has deteriorated in the wake of December's limited rain and snow.