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Recapping the "Healthy Farms, Healthy People" Summit in Topeka


A barn on a central Kansas farm. (Photo by J. Schafer)

The way in which we raise livestock and crops matters -- because it  affects our health. But just having that conversation can be difficult in a farm state like Kansas. Even so, a small coalition of agriculture and health organizations is attempting to do just that. Jim McLean, of the KHI News Service, attended the group's recent "Healthy Farms, Healthy People" summit in Topeka and filed this report.


Learn more about this story -- and other stories affecting your health at the KHI News website. Juct click on the logo below.

Bryan Thompson has been KPR's Health Reporter since 2000. He's a lifelong Kansan, and a graduate of Wichita State University. He's been involved in radio news longer than he'd care to admit, serving as news director at stations in El Dorado, Liberal, and Salina before joining KPR. He and his wife, Cindy, are the parents of six outstanding children--one of whom now looks down on them from above. In his spare time, Bryan enjoys music and sports.