Lawmakers, businesses and producers attending this year’s Kansas Ag Growth Summit are trying to tackle two of the state’s top issues: water and workforce.
Ag Secretary Mike Beam says the urgency to improve the state’s water crisis is still high despite summer rainfall. “Maybe we bought a year or something that. We’ve been putting off for 25 years. It’ll help economically for sure, for those and of course, not everybody has experienced those rains.”
He tells Brownfield he’s trying to develop an economic analysis of water depletion from the Ogalla Aquifer.
