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KZNA-FM 90.5 serving northwest Kansas is operating at just 10% power using a back up transmitter while work continues to install a new transmitter. It expected that this work will completed by midweek with KZNA back to its full 100,000 watts of power with a state of the art transmitter to serve the area for many years to come.
KTOT- FM 89.5 serving the Oklahoma and northeast Texas panhandles is currently off air. Repairs are underway.
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HPPR News

At this Texas pecan orchard, bats handle most of the bug control

Bats love to munch on insects like stink bugs and moths. Some farmers are now relying on the mammals for pest control – and ditching chemicals.
HPPR News

Texas Pecan Growers report good crop just in time for the holidays

Brian Kirkpatrick

The Texas Pecan Growers Association reports the state's pecan crop is looking good this harvest time.
HPPR Environment

Growing on the High Plains: Pecan Trees on My Mind

Skip Mancini

Happy Thanksgiving to all of our HPPR listeners!To mark the holiday, I'm shaking free a few loose memories from beneath the pecan trees of my past. They…
HPPR Economy and Enterprise

Don't Call It a Comeback: Pecan Industry Looks to Knock Out the Mighty Almond

Texas’s state nut is looking to make a comeback. Pecans were all the rage in the 60s, but then the almond took over. Since then, the US almond crop has…