Larry Dreiling

It was the late 1990s, and the page roared from the office PA system, jangling the nerves of all who heard it. I was washing my hands in a work area sink at High Plains Journal when the five bells cascaded over me. The voice following was none too pleasant sounding. “Larry Dreiling to Editorial. Larry Dreiling to Editorial, please.” I made my Jackie Gleason style dash back to my desk. There, Associate Editor Holly Martin had the handle of a phone we shared in her hand.

By Larry Dreiling, Special to The Hays Daily News Saturday Jul 13, 2019 at 4:16 PM Jul 13, 2019 at 4:16 PM The 2019 wheat harvest is progressing nicely due to favorable dry conditions and warmer weather over the past week, according to multiple reports. “Actually, it’s been pretty fantastic, considering all the wheat’s been through,” said Jerry McReynolds, a former president of the National Association of Wheat Growers, who farms near Woodston in Rooks County. “We just finished Friday night.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s reduction of sodium limitations and whole-grain requirements in public school meals has been challenged recently in two separate lawsuits. The first pits USDA versus a coalition of six states—New York, California, Illinois, Minnesota, New Mexico and Vermont—as well as Washington, D.C., in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.