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Paul Frederick Burmeister – a notable educator, farmer, public speaker and agriculturist – has engaged in fieldwork on Paul Burmeister Farm since 1952. Tending to 800-acre farmland and planting and producing such crops as winter wheat, grain sorghum, spring oats, smooth bromegrass and sweet clover seeds, he is well-regarded in his community of Claflin, Kansas, for his harvests, which are used for both human consumption and feeding local livestock. Adjacent to his primary responsibilities, Mr. Burmeister has taught junior high school and freshman and sophomore Sunday school classes and is locally revered for his advocacy regarding clean energy solutions and nature preservation. Impressively, he was honored with the Annual Bankers Award for soil conservation from the banks of Barton County, Kansas, in 1989. The recipient of a Bachelor of Arts in chemistry and agriculture from Fort Hays State University, where he also completed the “Can Man Survive?” course, Mr. Burmeister volunteered with the American Peace Corps in Ludhiana, India, from 1961 to 1963. Following this tenure, he enlisted with the Kansas Army National Guard between 1963 and 1969. He is a life member of the Kansas State Historical Society, the American Solar Energy Society and the National Wildlife Federation.