Marquette’s Hills of Wheat

By LINDA MOWERY-DENNING

The two white hills at the end of Marquette’s main street are a symptom of today’s farm economy.

In two piles, under two huge white tarps, are almost 800,000 bushels of wheat. The west pile is from the 2016 crop; the east pile was delivered to the Mid-Kansas Coop Association in 2015.

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