Great Plains Dirt Pros

08/13/2026

We have been crazy busy with a variety of projects lately from lawn grading to a new concrete driveway drainage culvert. We are currently putting the finishing touches on an erosion/ drainage correction project which includes a new 80’ long castle- style Retaining Wall! We will reveal the full pictures of that very soon! As always we appreciate all of our customers and your patience as we progress through the summer!

07/18/2026

With Bermuda seeding season in full swing and fescue seeding for new lawns coming into season soon be sure to get on our fall schedule to get you all leveled out with a lush new lawn! Something that makes us stand out from the rest of the competition is our ability to deliver and our dedication to putting the correct operators and equipment to work. We utilized Conrad property solutions last week while our beloved CAT skid steer was in the shop to take care of some skid steer work to get this customer down the road with their seeding plans. We utilized our CMP attachments hydra bucket which is a soil conditioning attachment used to finely pulverize and prep soil for seed or sod. It gives us a perfectly loose and leveled surface to work with to make the perfect lawn for you!

06/30/2026

06/25/2026

Cedar and brush management to control ticks! 🌱 give us a shout and we can assist you with your cedar forest, timber, and brush clearing needs! (316)-258-2924

Tick Abundance is Higher in Cedar Encroached Areas

Lone star tick was by far the most abundant species across sampling sites.

Two tick species were more abundant in cedar encroached areas than grasslands. The greatest increases were in the earliest stage of encroachment.

Total Count of Two Species
Lone Star Tick
- Open Grassland: 772
- Early Encroachment: 26,960
- Moderate Encroachment: 8,556
- Mature Encroachment: 8,008

American Dog Tick
- Open Grassland: 15
- Early Encroachment: 110
- Moderate Encroachment: 129
- Mature Encroachment: 106

Cedar Height & Cover
- Open grassland: Height 0ft, Cover 0%
- Early Encroachment: Height 12ft, Cover 30%
- Moderate Encroachment: Height 17ft, Cover 55%
- Mature Encroachment: Height 24ft, Cover 89%

Researchers collected 11,452 lone star ticks from a single trap in just 1.5 hours from one tree in an early encroachment site. (abnormal & excluded from analysis)

Propst et al. 2025 Effects of woody plant encroachment on abundance of multiple tick species in the U.S. Great Plains https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0332832

Tick Images: Tick Images: Susan Ellis USDA APHIS PPQ, Bugwood.org used and edited under CC BY-NC 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/deed.en

06/22/2026

Scoop, drop, rake, repeat. 😮‍💨

06/12/2026

We excavated and hauled off an estimated 50- 60 tons of topsoil from this lawn. It had about 6” of build up from erosion, moles, and gophers working underground. It now has a smooth and seed prepped surface and will get seeded with Bermuda.

06/11/2026

Mulching some fallen trees and brush.

06/11/2026

Got to clear some trees and brush from this wooded drainage ditch with some various mulching equipment today!

06/11/2026

Utilizing a multi directional skid steer tree saw to clear trees in this drainage ditch and cleaning them up with a mulcher! It doesn’t get much better than that in the skid steer world!