Updated: 10:36 AM Part of a grain elevator has collapsed in Oakley, closing roads in the area.

Posted: 5:34 AM The government's weekly snapshot of Kansas crops shows nearly a quarter of the emerging winter wheat faring poorly.

Posted: 5:15 AM The emerging winter wheat crop is now blanketing fields across Kansas.

Posted: 5:24 AM Republican strategist Karl Rove heads to Wichita later this month to address the 100th annual convention of the Kansas Livestock Association.

Posted: 9:53 AM A new report predicts that Kansas farmers will harvest a better soybean crop than previously expected.

Updated: 10:43 AM The nation's worst drought in decades has worsened in parts of the nation's midsection, further frustrating ranchers and growers of winter wheat in Kansas and Oklahoma.

Posted: 4:03 PM Winter wheat planting in Kansas is nearly complete with 98 of the crop seeded as of Sunday.

Posted: 1:03 AM Maynard Krehbiel has been working to keep a nearly lost art alive in central Kansas.

Posted: 9:16 AM Drought-plagued Midwest farming states got little benefit from the massive storm that pounded the Eastern Seaboard this week, although the nation's worst drought in decades appears to be easing in some areas.

Posted: 8:46 AM The extended drought is prompting cattle farmers across Kansas to sell some or all of their herds.

Posted: 10:30 AM The worst U.S. drought in decades is showing little signs of easing as farmers close out their corn harvests and pivot toward growing winter wheat that's now struggling in the dry conditions.

Posted: 10:23 AM Two years of inadequate rainfall has Kansas dairy farmers in survival mode as high feed and fuel costs continue to push many operations to the brink of bankruptcy.

Posted: 8:33 AM A five-state effort is under way to develop a conservation plan to address the decline of the lesser prairie chicken.

Updated: 7:20 PM The candy is for their cows. The drought is making it tough to find enough of what the livestock normally eat.

Posted: 4:44 PM In its weekly crop report Monday, Kansas Agricultural Statistics Service also said about 62 percent of the wheat has emerged.

Posted: 8:21 AM Kansas Food Day takes place this week, and state Agriculture Secretary Dale Rodman will spend part of it touring the garden, orchard and culinary arts facility at a high school.

Posted: 10:07 AM Recent storms have eased drought conditions in several key Midwest farming states where the corn harvest is wrapping up.

Posted: 8:56 AM The owners of the Hay Feeders say the feed lot will close when the cattle are liquidated after Jan. 1.

Posted: 3:58 PM Most of the new wheat crop is considered in fair or good condition.

Posted: 10:04 AM The corn harvest is in the homestretch in several key Midwest farming states where the nation's worst drought in decades is now clouding the prospects for the winter wheat crop.

Posted: 10:02 AM Kansas Agricultural Statistics Service has revised upwards its estimate for the size of this year's soybean crop.

Updated: 7:01 AM Pumpkin farmers say they expect their crop to be one of a few bright spots in a year when most farms have been hit hard by a severe drought that stretches across much of the U.S.

Posted: 7:02 AM Kansas Agricultural Statistics Service says growers have seeded 65 percent of the 2013 winter wheat crop in the state.

Posted: 4:20 PM The agribusiness giant won a patent lawsuit against an Indiana farmer.

Posted: 8:49 AM A weekly drought report shows that conditions have worsened in some key Midwest farming states where the corn harvest is more than halfway completed.