The Southwind Extension District has announced that Sandy Haggard will join their team as the new nutrition, food safety and health extension agent. In her role, Haggard will develop and deliver programs related to nutrition…

Editor’s note: An earlier version of this article referenced the Southwind Extension District instead of the Allen County 4-H Council as the partner in the digital sign project. We regret the error. Iola City Council…

The Southwind Extension District has recognized Southeast Kansas Area Agency on Aging (SEKAAA) for its outstanding support of the mission of K-State Research & Extension. SEKAAA has partnered with the local Extension District to implement…

The Kansas Forest Service is offering low-cost conservation tree and shrub seedlings for purchase.  These seedlings are to be used in conservation plantings, such as home/livestock windbreaks, living snow fences, Christmas tree plantations, firewood lots,…

MANHATTAN — Southwind Extension District 4-H members were named state champions at the Kansas Livestock Sweepstakes competition Aug. 17-18 at Kansas State University. The youths came out on top of each of the four contests…

Every summer ranchers cut and bale hay for the winter and don’t think much about it. But the nutritive value of hay is highly variable and not always represented by the visual appraisal of the…

The fickle nature that is Kansas weather will certainly play a role in how happy Kansas farmers are this fall, Southwind Extension agent Lonnie Mengarelli said Thursday. It already has in many cases, noted Mengarelli,…

It’s sometimes difficult to discern who is learning more from this summer’s Extension District programs: The teachers or the students. That’s the benefit of life lessons. We’re never too old to learn. As a recent…

American cows are just built different. That’s one of the lessons Iolans Kyser Nemecek and Carly Dreher learned during an international livestock tour from June 19 to July 3. The Southwind Extension District 4-H Livestock…

Southwind Extension District Intern Abigail Meiwes, above teaches Mackenzie Richards, foreground, the basics of sewing with Molly Trego in back during a class Wednesday afternoon at the Extension meeting room, 1006 N. State St. The…