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Tips for safe road maneuvering

Glenn Haskell Ford County Emergency Management Coordinator This latest information serves to point out the difference in driving on paved roads vs gravel-based country roads and is sent to you as a reminder from Ford County Road and Bridge Superintendent Chris O’Neil. Did you know there are nearly 1.5 million miles of country roads in the United States? Many of those roads are here in Ford County.

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Betting on the farm

The biggest bets aren’t made at a card table, racetrack or during the Super Bowl. Instead, they happen every day on farms and ranches across the country. While most bettors place their hopes (and a few dollars) on a single event, those who grow our food face a successive series of wagers with the fate of the farm in the balance.

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Clay Wallin, Heartland Game Birds

Ron Wilson Director of the Huck Boyd National Institute for Rural Development This Kansas business is for the birds – gamebirds, that is. Today we’ll meet a young ruralpreneur who has created a business of raising pheasants and guiding pheasant hunts in his home region of rural Kansas.

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