Economic Opportunity – Wichita

Thursday, January 10, 2019

Scribe notes submitted by Gimmie Jo Jansonius

A visit and tour of Cargill, one of the top 3 privately held family-owned companies in the world, kicked off Day 2 of KARL Class XIV’s Global Leadership Seminar in Wichita, Kansas, with a tour of the Grand Hall and main floor by Meghan Mueseler.  This was one of Cargill’s first tours since their grand opening last month with the Governor after moving to their recently completed building on the old site of the Wichita Eagle. The building took just two years to construct, features themes in animals, plants, and sustainability and can house up to 950 employees.  

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Day three scribe notes and photos submitted by Tyson Anderson.

Holy Savior Catholic School in Wichita was the site of the third and final day of our Wichita seminar.

The class divided up into five groups to teach grades 4 through 8 the importance of agriculture. We discussed a various number of topics including:

• Ethanol and how it is produced and what the by-products are
• Crops, the various crops grown in Kansas
• Vegetables, we discussed vegetable farming on a larger scale and where to source fresh local produce
• Beef, the feed components and how beef is raised in Kansas
• Soybeans, how they are raised and what they are used for.

Photo gallery from day three in Wichita.