Grain prices down for the week

Prices paid for grain at the Ellsworth Co-op at the end of the business day, Friday, Feb. 14, were:

Wheat, bu. — $4.27, down 2 cents from Feb. 3.

Milo, bu. — $3.08, down 1 cent.

Soybeans, bu. — $7.89, up 25 cents.

Corn, bu. — $3.43, down 1 cent.

The co-op has locations in Ellsworth, Black Wolf, Farhman, Hitschmann, Holyrood and Kanopolis.

Kansas Wetlands Center hosts event

Clovis people are widely thought to be the first human inhabitants of the Americas, arriving about 13,000 years ago at the end of the last ice age.

But, as Dr. Rolfe D. Mandel will discuss at 2 p.m. Sunday, March 1, at the Kansas Wetlands Education Center in Great Bend, geological archaeologists (geoarchaeologists) have found evidence that people not only arrived in North America but spread as far south as Chile long before 11,000 BCE.

The Center is 10 miles northeast of Great Bend at the Cheyenne Bottoms Wildlife Area. Public invited.