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By Steve Dwyer
 Like most of its neighboring Plains States, Kansas places a lot of stock in its rich, productive farmlands. Greenfields are supposed to remain pristine, and in Kansas the encroachment on farmland for redevelopment has two options: Slim and none.
A precursor to this ability to mobilize might actually occurred starting in the spring of 2007 when Greensburg (population 1,574) located in the southwest part of the state, saw the worst devastation a city could imagine on May 4, 2007 when an EF5 tornado leveled at least 95 percent of the city, killing 11 people.
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