Dave Bergmeier

3 days ago | hpj.com | Dave Bergmeier

Central Region, Hunting, Kansas, Outdoors, Regional Roundup With one of the world’s largest collections of white-tailed deer, more than 1,500 guests have already visited the Whitetails & Wildlife Museum since opening Jan. 8 in Humboldt, Kansas. A new white-tailed deer bust by an internationally renowned sculptor is expected to draw even more attention to this museum. The bust is 1.5 times larger than a real white-tailed deer and it is more than 5-feet tall.

3 days ago | hpj.com | Dave Bergmeier

Central Region, Education, Kansas, Regional Roundup, Youth The Edwards County Conservation District in Kinsley, Kansas, is holding a scholarship contest to honor a former board member. The Clarence Michaelis Memorial Scholarship is a $1,000 scholarship awarded in two $500 payments (one per semester). Post-secondary students (college, university, or post-graduate) are eligible.

3 days ago | hpj.com | Dave Bergmeier

The first Four-State Dairy Nutrition and Management Conference webinar will feature Mike Hutjens going over the reason high solid’s milk is more profitable and then interviewing Kevin Siewert, the winner of the new Four-State Dairy Nutrition and Management Conference 7-Pound contest from noon to 1 p.m. June 30. The Four-State Dairy Nutrition and Management conference is a consortium of dairy specialists in Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, and Wisconsin.

4 days ago | hpj.com | Dave Bergmeier

Ingram Marine Group, the largest barge operator on the inland waterways, announced plans to invest $50 million in upgrading its barge-loading and grain-handling facilities in the St. Louis area. The company focuses on moving bulk and break-bulk commodities, including fertilizer, steel and grain exports, to the Gulf of America. With its acquisition of SCF in February 2024, Ingram also picked up fleeting and barge maintenance services, expanding its workforce in the St. Louis region to about 200.

5 days ago | hpj.com | Dave Bergmeier

Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick has been vowing to “revamp” the $42.45 billion Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment Program—a federal-state partnership established by Congress in the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act to provide for rural broadband construction—to remove what he called “burdensome regulations” and “woke mandates” imposed by the Biden administration on states and bidding internet service providers.