Max Armstrong shares some insights on the recent Kansas fires that scorched four counties in the state. Her reports on comments made by Mike Beam, secretary of agriculture, Kansas. Beam notes that many of the ranchers turned to focus on livestock and their neighbors' needs ahead of their own. Max offers comments from one rancher who saw 2,500 acres destroyed but plans to go on.

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