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Dec 01, 2017
Together, the Kansas Department of Agriculture and the Kansas Department of Commerce were awarded a $380,000 State Trade Expansion Program (STEP) Grant award for use in 2018. Since the grant’s inception in 2012, more than 50 Kansas small businesses have participated and achieved $17.2 million in actual export sales.
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Nov 30, 2017
The 2017 Annual Meeting of the Kansas-Colorado Arkansas River Compact Administration (ARCA) will be held on Thursday, Dec. 7, 2017, in Lamar Colorado.
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Nov 30, 2017
The Kansas Animal Health Board will meet at 7:30 a.m. on Thursday, Dec. 7, 2017, via conference call to conduct the regularly scheduled quarterly meeting of the advisory board.
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Nov 30, 2017
The Kansas Department of Agriculture held a tabletop exercise on Tuesday, Nov. 28, as the first stage of the state’s annual emergency preparedness exercise. This year’s exercise, named Phoenix, will continue Dec. 18–20, 2017, as the agency simulates a foreign animal disease event to practice the state’s agriculture emergency response plan.
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Nov 29, 2017
The Kansas Department of Agriculture’s Board of Agriculture will meet at 9:00 a.m. on Friday, Dec. 15. This is a regularly scheduled board meeting.
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Nov 14, 2017
A public hearing will be conducted at 10:00 a.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2017, to consider the adoption of proposed regulations related to the Division of Weights and Measures. The hearing will be held in room 124 on the first floor of the Kansas Department of Agriculture building at 1320 Research Park Dr. in Manhattan, Kansas.
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Nov 13, 2017
The Kansas Department of Agriculture is committed to providing an environment that enhances and encourages economic growth of the agriculture industry and the Kansas economy. The department’s interactive map of Kansas, showing the economic impact of agriculture broken down by county, has recently been updated to provide citizens with statistics adjusted for 2017.
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Nov 09, 2017
The Kansas Department of Agriculture has received a U.S. Department of Agriculture Specialty Crop Block Grant to fund the Meet Me at the Market Consumer Recruitment Campaign to provide farmers’ market managers and vendors with resources to increase awareness of specialty crops available at their markets.
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Nov 01, 2017
The Kansas Department of Agriculture’s Pet Animal Advisory Board will meet at 10:00 a.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 8. This is a regularly scheduled board meeting, and is expected to adjourn around 2:00 p.m.
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Oct 27, 2017
The State Conservation Commission will meet at 2:00 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 19, 2017. The meeting take place in the Consulate III meeting room at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Wichita Airport at 2098 Airport Road in Wichita. The meeting is open to the public.