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This website has been developed specifically for Kansas farmers and ranchers involved in AgriTourism, rural properties where the traveler has an opportunity to experience farm and country life far from the hustle of the city.
The site is a project of the Kansas Agritourism Advisory Council, working in cooperation with:
the Kansas Agriculture Marketing Division and the Travel and Tourism Division of the Department of Commerce
and with financial assistance from Frontier Farm Credit.
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America's Heartland
New PBS Series Includes Many Kansas Farms

America’s Heartland is a new weekly public television series, hosted by Paul Ryan, which will celebrate our nation’s agriculture. Profiling the people, places, and processes of agriculture, the series will tap in to—and strengthen—the ties that bind us all together: the love of our land and the respect for the people who live on and from it, a national fascination with food, curiosity about unfamiliar places and ways of life, and the bedrock American values of family, hard work and the spirit of independence.

Beverly Hurley, the Kansas Travel and Tourism Media Representative, worked with a PBS TV crew that came to Kansas to produce five segments for a new nationwide show.  This new series has started to air and the Kansas shows will begin any week now.

The episodes for Kansas are:

Prairie Grass - Show #109
Kansas Bison - Show #110
Emu Farm - Show #113
Kansas Fair and 4H - Show #114
Top Ag Museums (includes Ag Hall) - Show #116

The transcript of the first show #109 is posted online at www.americasheartland.org.  The others will follow.  

They also link to www.travelks.com and to the various Kansas agriculture bureaus on their web.  

You can go to www.americasheartland.org to see all of the PBS stations across the country that are airing this show.

The stations in the region are:

Kansas           
Smoky Hills Public Television  -  Fridays 8:30 p.m.       
*    Bunker Hill/KOOD Channel 9
*    Dodge City/KDCK Channel 21
*    Lakin/KSWK Channel 6
Topeka/KTWU Channel 11    -  Sundays 11 p.m.    
Wichita/KPTS Channel 8     -    Sundays 2 p.m.

Missouri           
Kansas City/KCPT Channel 19     Schedule Pending (probably January)     
Springfield/KOZK Channel 21    Sundays 6 p.m.    
Joplin/KOZJ Channel 26    Sundays 6 p.m.    

Oklahoma           
Claremore/KRSC Channel 35    Saturdays 7 p.m.     October 8

Colorado          
Rocky Mountain PBS    Schedule Pending     
*    Denver/KRMA Channel 6
*    Grand Junction/KRMJ Channel 18
*    Pueblo/KTSC Channel 8

Arkansas          
Arkansas Educational Television Network   -  Saturdays 4 p.m.
*    Arkadelphia/KETG Channel 9
*    Fayetteville/KAFT Channel 13
*    Jonesboro/KTEJ Channel 19
*    Little Rock/KETS Channel 2
*    Mountain View/KEMV Channel 6