DULUTH, Georgia, March 13 -- AGCO, a designer, manufacturer and distributor of agricultural equipment, issued the following news release: AGCO Corporation (NYSE: AGCO), a global leader in the design, manufacture and distribution of agricultural machinery and precision ag technology, named Nick Nelson its 2023 Technician of the Year on March 1 in Hesston, Kansas. The award recognizes North American AGCO dealer technicians for their diagnostic and maintenance abilities, dedication to continuous l  more

MANHATTAN, Kansas, March 13 -- Kansas State University issued the following news release: A Kansas State University Carl R. Ice College of Engineering researcher aims to ensure the sustainability of Kansas water resources in crop production by creating a tool that can generate future climate scenarios and allow producers the knowledge and insight needed to adjust toward climate-smart practices. Vaishali Sharda, assistant professor in the Carl and Melinda Helwig Department of Biological and Agr  more

TOPEKA, Kansas, March 13 -- The Kansas Corporation Commission announced the following dockets on March 11, 2024: * * * 24-CONS-3248-CEXC Docket Type: CEXC - Exception To Rules And Regulations Docket Description: Berexco Application Date Filed: 03/11/2024 * * * 24-TRAM-616-OOS Docket Type: OOS - Out of Service Docket Description: In the Matter of the Emergency Suspension of Operating Authority of Sunshine Transport Group Inc Date Filed: 03/11/2024 * * * 24-TRAM-617-OOS Docket Type: O  more

TOPEKA, Kansas, March 13 -- The Kansas Corporation Commission announced the following dockets on March 12, 2024: * * * 24-TRAM-5062-TRA Docket Type: TRA - Transportation Order Docket Description: Transportation Orders Date Filed: 03/12/2024 * * * 24-CONS-3234-CPEN Docket Type: CPEN - Penalty Docket Description: Penalty Order - Apollo Energies, Inc. Date Filed: 03/12/2024 * * * 24-DSOE-620-COC Docket Type: COC - Certificate of Convenience Docket Description: Application for DS&O Ele  more

TOPEKA, Kansas, March 12 -- The Kansas Department of Transportation issued the following news release on March 11, 2024: The Kansas Department of Transportation encourages counties, cities, towns, transit agencies, metropolitan planning organizations and federally recognized Tribal governments to apply for the U.S. DOT Safe Streets and Roads for All (SS4A) discretionary grant program. The SS4A program provides an opportunity to leverage federal and state funding to support planning, infrastruct  more

LAWRENCE, Kansas, March 13 -- The University of Kansas issued the following news: The University of Kansas debate team of junior Jacob Wilkus, Lawrence, and Owen Williams, Lee's Summit, Missouri, have qualified for the National Debate Tournament in Atlanta from April 5-8. Wilkus and Williams were selected as at-large qualifiers for the National Debate Tournament (NDT) by the tournament's selection committee based on their record over the course of the season. They are the third KU pair to qual  more

LAWRENCE, Kansas, March 13 -- The University of Kansas issued the following news: A prestigious Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundation will help a University of Kansas Department of Physics & Astronomy professor continue her groundbreaking research on supermassive black holes. Elisabeth Mills, assistant professor of physics & astronomy, received the five-year, $821,724 grant from the NSF for her research on how supermassive black holes grow. Every  more

LAWRENCE, Kansas, March 13 -- The University of Kansas issued the following news: A fresh round of digital scholarship has revealed new information about the family and London network of late-medieval poet Thomas Hoccleve (1367-1426). Misty Schieberle, University of Kansas professor of English, recently published "Thomas Hoccleve of London: New Evidence of Hoccleve's Family and Finances" in Studies in the Age of Chaucer, a journal of the New Chaucer Society. Schieberle cites evidence she piec  more

LAWRENCE, Kansas, March 13 (TNSres) -- The University of Kansas issued the following news: A University of Kansas study of rice paddy snakes in Southeast Asia gives key details to their diversification and natural history, adding molecular evidence that the rise of the Khorat Plateau and subsequent environmental shifts in Thailand may have altered the course of the snakes' evolution some 2.5 million years ago. The findings were published today in the journal Scientific Reports. Researchers say  more