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Wicked witches and yellow-brick roads, pitched battles over slavery and tornadoes powerful enough to pulverize entire towns are some of the more vivid images of Kansas. But the common image – amber waves of grain from north to south and east to west – is closer to modern reality.

A vast shelf cloud from a prairie thunderstorm looms over wind-blown green wheat and ploughed fields in Kansas

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