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Sights of Western Star Global Grain and Food Center opening

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Payton Lee, Staff Photographer
September 20, 2026
People fill the foyer of the Western Star Global Grain and Food Center following the ribbon cutting ceremony to open the facility.
People fill the foyer of the Western Star Global Grain and Food Center following the ribbon cutting ceremony to open the facility.
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A professor and student work on one of the grain processing machines in the Western Star Global Grain and Food Center on September 18. The facility is one of three additions to the College of Agriculture under the Next Gen K-State Plan to further agricultural sciences.
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