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Over the last few years, small Kansas towns have been offering free rural land, lots and cheap fixer-uppers to newcomers. As the nationwide housing shortage continues and city living becomes...
As of April 2016, the state's unemployment rate was 4.2%. [113] The State of Kansas had a $350 million budget shortfall in February 2017. [114] In February 2017, S&P downgraded Kansas's credit rating to AA−. [115] Nearly 90% of Kansas's land is devoted to agriculture. [73]
The land rush climaxed in the 1870s in Minnesota, Dakota, Nebraska, and Kansas, as the population more than doubled from 1.0 million in 1870 to 2.4 million in 1880, while the number of farms tripled from 99,000 to 302,000, and the improved acreage quintupled from 5.0 million acres to 24.6 million. [16]
The Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) is a cost-share and rental payment program of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Under the program, the government pays farmers to take certain agriculturally used croplands out of production and convert them to vegetative cover, such as cultivated or native bunchgrasses and grasslands, wildlife and pollinators food and shelter plantings ...
In Kansas City or even Salina, 40 miles southeast of Lincoln, a builder who spends $150,000 to construct a new home can safely assume it will sell for far more than $150,000, ensuring a profit.
Site No. JF00-072 is a survey monument located at the quadripoint of Republic and Washington counties in Kansas and Jefferson and Thayer counties in Nebraska. The monument marks the intersection of the sixth principal meridian and its baseline, the 40th parallel north; it serves as the initial point of all land surveys in Kansas and Nebraska, as well as most of Wyoming and Colorado, and part ...
Landforms of Wyandotte County, Kansas (1 C) This page was last edited on 4 July 2014, at 16:54 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
Commodity prices have been seesawing since February, in part because of the Russia-Ukraine war. Food prices have been the worst affected so far, with average grocery prices up 12.2% year-over-year ...