For sale: Tanner’s, shopping center

Tanner’s Bar & Grill is still for sale, but the shopping center it calls home may not be for much longer.

Tanner’s, at 1540 Wakarusa Drive, has been on the market for months. Tom Hayes, who co-owns the business with his wife, Cindy, accepted a job in February as an assistant football coach at Stanford University in Stanford, Calif.

“Nothing has happened yet that we know of – that’s anything final,” Cindy Hayes said Monday. “It’s on the market.”

Jayhawk Equities LLC, which owns the shopping center at the southwest corner of Wakarusa Drive and Bob Billings Parkway, has offered to sell the 35,000-square-foot center.

Pat Talbott, a Jayhawk Equities partner, said he could not comment on talk in real estate circles that he had a contract to sell the center to an out-of-town buyer.

But Talbott did acknowledge that there could be a sale in the coming weeks.

“Potentially,” he said. “Nothing’s finalized.”

Agriculture

State wheat harvest off to soggy start

Muddy fields and wet wheat stalled the wheat harvest in much of southern Kansas but combines were running Monday in places bypassed by the weekend rains.

Harvest activity picked up in Kiowa, and should be in full swing in the next day or two, said Alan Meyers, general manager for the OK Co-op Grain Co.

In its daily harvest bulletin, the Kansas Department of Commerce reported Monday that grain elevators in Harper County reported they took in 212,000 bushels of grain.

About 63 percent of the wheat in Kansas is turning color, Kansas Agricultural Statistics Service reported Monday. By this time last year, 81 percent was at this stage.

The service’s condition reports for crops:

¢ Wheat: 5 percent excellent, 32 percent good, 40 percent fair, 17 percent poor and 6 percent very poor.

¢ Corn: 5 percent excellent, 55 percent good, 36 percent fair, 3 percent poor and 1 percent very poor.

¢ Soybeans: 3 percent excellent, 57 percent good, 39 percent fair and 1 percent poor.

¢ Milo: 4 percent excellent, 61 percent good and 35 percent fair.