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Kendra Velasquez-Munro

Kendra Velasquez-Munro

2023, 2024 General Research Assistant

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Kendra is a business agriculture student at Kansas Wesleyan University in Salina.

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Our goal is a future in which diverse, perennial crops—like grains, legumes, and oilseeds—cover our farmlands, building healthy soil, restoring waterways, and creating abundant food and economic growth for farmers and their communities.

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